Podcast Training Products
Video Training Tutorials:
Since, 2005, I’ve personally produced well over 2,700 podcast episodes on my own at gspn.tv and I have helped hundreds of podcasters through one on one consulting. After spending a few years answering the same questions over and over and teaching people how to do exact same thing week after week, I decided to produce some high quality Video Training Tutorials.
These training products allow me to help an even larger number of people at a lower cost to the individual. These tutorials have the added benefits of immediate access and the ability for you to review the training materials over again, as needed. I continue to enjoy working with my clients one on one. However, I encourage everyone to first browse through the list of training materials below to see if there is a tutorial that will help you immediately.
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Cost = FREE!
Learn How To Podcast 101 is a video tutorial with more than 90 minutes of instruction that will help you lay a solid foundation for setting up a podcast for future success. This tutorial will give you all the building blocks to get you up and running.
As an added bonus, this tutorial includes clear step by step instructions on how to launch a podcast from scratch, using 100% free online services. This is perfect for those who simply want to test the waters of podcasting, as a hobby, before they make a big investment in equipment and web hosting!
Note: This tutorial was initially recorded as a free webinar on Saturday, September 3rd. The HD Video Tutorial can be viewed at http://LearnHowToPodcast.com.
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $100.00
In this video training tutorial, I take someone who had no domain name and no web hosting account and set them up with both, installed WordPress, explained required plugins for podcasting, installed them, and configured them. Also, I configured all the other necessary settings within WordPress as well as set up the rss feed with FeedBurner. I demonstrated how to upload the a podcast episode and release it as a podcast within WordPress. I even used the placeholder audio recording to submit the podcast successfully to iTunes. All of this took place within 90 minutes and was captured in full glory with both high quality audio and video so that you can follow along and do the same thing. I’ve been told by many people that I should at least double the cost of this training product.
Thesis Theme Tutorial
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $39.00
There are so many reasons that would explain why I prefer to create all of my websites using WordPress. One of my favorite reasons is the fact that it is so easy to use themes that allow you to make amazing looking websites without the need to know any sort of programming code. My favorite theme is the Thesis Theme.
Now the Thesis theme is a “premium theme” that you have to purchase. I’ve created a video tutorial series that is made up of eight videos (Totaling two hours of training). This video training series will explain why I would rather pay for Thesis than to use any of the free themes that are available.
This tutorial series will also give you exact, step by step, instructions on how to purchase and install the Thesis theme and how to then configure the theme so that you can make any standard WordPress site look like what you see here at PodcastAnswerMan.com or gspn.tv.
To give you an idea of the level of quality put into this video tutorial series, I’ve shared the first two of the eight total videos here on this site. Please take some time to review the preview videos BY CLICKING HERE!
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $75.00
When it comes to podcasting equipment and actual podcast production, I’ve come a long way. Back in December of 2005, I started podcasting, as a hobby, with a cheap (less than $40) Logitech headset with microphone off to the side and free recording software running on my laptop computer. Back then it took me hours to produce a single podcast.
More often than not, I was plagued by improper audio levels, hums and hisses in the background, or hours of lost content due to software issues.
Today, I’ve produced well over 2,400 of my own podcast episodes and I am happy to announce that out of the last 2,300, I’ve only lost one single episode. Not only that, but I’ve learned how to get perfect audio levels 100% of the time.
Every Thursday, I record and release 8 podcast episodes back to back. I do this live, for all but one of my shows, at http://gspn.tv/live between the hours of 8:30am and 4pm. These podcasts are a mixture of solo shows that just include myself as the host, co-hosted shows where some co-hosts may be in the studio, and many that include co-hosts that are not only in another state, but also one show where my co-host is actually in The Netherlands!
With any of my shows, I have the full ability to do live telephone interviews and even take live calls from my audience if I desire. The best part is that I’m able have every single one of these shows posted to my website(s) before I even sit down at the dinner table on Thursday evening. These files are then consumed by more than 60,000 people around the world.
How do I do it? This tutorial answers that question! If you would to know what equipment I use, why I use it, how I hook it up to accomplish everything mentioned above and a step by step walk through of my podcast production workflow, from beginning to end, then you should get this video tutorial!
I have well over 10,000 hours of my life that I have invested in getting all this down to a science so that I can do the most important stuff like building relationships with my community! Hundreds of my clients have paid me $150/hr to teach them this exact information. I’m so excited to finally announce that I have taken the time to put all this information into this two hour video tutorial series. I’m now able to offer this training at a fraction of the cost (Only $75) which allows me to help even more one on one consulting clients during my work week.
Want To See A Sample?
To give you an idea of the level of quality put into this video tutorial series, I’ve shared the one of the seven videos here on this site. Please take some time to review the preview video and other studio photos BY CLICKING HERE!
Adobe Audition 101
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $100.00
This is the program I use to do all my audio editing. There are a few features that this software has that is found in no other alternative software. Also, there is a certain “process” that you can run on your audio files that turns your recordings into something that sounds like they come from the best of radio broadcasting stations. In this video training product, I walk you through EVERYTHING you would need to know as a podcaster and even share my “Secret Sauce” for the settings of the “Multi-Band Compressor.” This course will take what appears to be a very intimidating software and make it as easy to use as a Fisher Price child’s toy.
Update: Due to the pre-release of Adobe Audition version 4.0 I’ve added a bonus video that shows the “minor” tool placement differences between version 3.0 and version 4.0 of Adobe Audition. This tutorial would be helpful to those using either version of the software.
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Audacity 101
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $100.00
This is a video training tutorial on everything you need to know to produce an audio podcast using Audacity, which is available to download for free for Windows, Mac, & Linux . This is not the program I personally use to do all my own audio editing. However, this is software I used when I first started to podcast and is a great place for most people to get started with podcasting. In this series, you’ll learn all the basic editing techniques, including how to insert audio into the front and end of your podcast.
GarageBand 101
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $100.00
This is a video training tutorial on everything you need to know to produce an audio podcast using GarageBand, which is included on all new Apple Mac computers. This is not the program I personally use to do all my own audio editing. However, for free software that is already installed on a Mac, it is full featured enough to produce some great sounding audio. In this series, you’ll learn all the basic editing techniques, including how to insert audio into the front and end of your podcast.
Passive Income Strategies For Podcasters
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $75.00
I am very excited to offer the Passive Income Strategies For Podcasters Training Series. In this video series, I teamed up with Internet Marketing Strategist, Pat Flynn. Pat is a 27 year old guy from Southern California who makes a living on the internet. Best of all, the income that Pat generates online is all passive income.
Check out his blog and podcast at SmartPassiveIncome.com.
My favorite thing about Pat is that he does not consider himself to be an online marketing guru. He will openly tell you that his techniques are not secrets and what he teaches is not a “get rich quick” scheme. If you’re looking to get rich quick – then Pat’s message and this training series is not for you! Earning a passive income online takes hard work, some patience and a little bit of luck too – but if you’re determined to change your life and you work hard at what you want to accomplish, you WILL get paid for it. The cool thing is that the average podcaster has already done a great deal of this hard work.
Pat and I actually performed this video presentation live in fron of an online class in October of 2010. Since then, most everyone that attended this session has reported that they are already starting to see an income coming in after implementing the steps that we laid out in the series.
While I have been running my own online business for several years now, the material that Pat shared inspired me to implement a few things differently and my income just half way through the month of November 2010 was already DOUBLE the income that I had earned from the entire month of October 2010.
Every podcaster that has already attracted their first 50 podcast subscribers should get this training series if they have any interest at all in monetizing their podcast!
Webinar And Digital Products Workflow Video Series
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $100.00
If you’ve been following my story (WikiPedia Article Here), you may already know that have had quite an enjoyable journey of turning what was once a hobby into my full-time career. The question that I’m most often asked is “How do you make money doing that?”
The answer is that I have found several streams of income that have caused me to earn more money doing what I love for a living than I’ve ever made before in my life. That’s including the 11 years I spent as a successful property, casualty, life, and health independent insurance agent.
Recently, I had notice that a larger number of folks than usual had hired me to teach them the process that I go through to do all webinars that I have been hosting. I’m excited to announce that I have created a video tutorial series where I share, not only my step by step process for hosting a successful webinar, but also my step by step workflow on how I turn the recordings into high quality digital products for sale on my website, just like this page here.
In this video series, I cover all the following topics.
- How I choose the topics that I cover.
- The online tool that I use to outline my thoughts that I want to share.
- A step by step guide on how I use EventBrite for webinar registrations
- A step by step guide on how I set up my GoToWebinar session
- All Other Software that I use to put together amazing presentations!
- My complete Pre-Webinar & Post Webinar Checklists
- How I record HD Quality video and audio of my webinar session
- My step by step process of how I turn my webinar recording into a high quality digital product for sale on my website.
- And much, much more!
I’ve had a tremendous amount of success with these online training sessions. I am now ready to teach you everything I’ve learned!
The videos series in broken up into a total of 9 videos that cover a full two hours. As I mentioned earlier, many clients have hired me at a cost of $300 to teach them this valuable information. Now you can get this same information at one third of the cost, only $100.
To give you an idea of the level of quality put into this video tutorial series, I’m sharing two of the nine total videos here for free. Please take some time to review the material BY CLICKING HERE!
Behringer MDX-4600 Setup Tutorial
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $39.00
The Behringer MDX-4600 Compressor/Limiter/Gate is the only piece of equipment that I had purchased and did not put to immediate use. I was immediately overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to set this unit properly. As someone who hates to read owner’s manuals, I simply allowed this to sit and gather dust for months.
When I finally learned how this one piece of equipment could eliminate 100% of the static in the background of my my telephone interviews when my interviewee was not talking, as well as help keep my audio levels from peaking, and make my voice sound a little more “powerful,” I decided I would finally dig in and figure this thing out. After a few hours of reading the description of every function of the unit and how every knob and button on the device affected the audio signal, I finally found the perfect settings that allowed me to do everything that I wanted to do with this unit.
While there are many other Compressor/Limiter/Gate options out there. This is the only one that I’ve taken the time to learn out to set up. As a result, many of my clients end up purchasing this exact unit just so they can copy wiring setup as well as all my knob and button settings. Now, instead of hiring me for my minimum hour of consulting to help you set this up, you can simply buy this video tutorial that I put together that walks you through the entire setup process.
Evaluating Your Podcast:
People often hire me to review and evaluate their podcast. When I do this, I typically review two or three episodes of their podcast, I review their entire website, their iTunes listing page, and more. In this digital training product, I share with you everything I look at when I do a podcast evaluation. I have had podcasters who have been podcasting for years tell me that I had helped them become aware of many items that they had overlooked and that have helped them take their own podcasts to the next level. Whether you are just starting out or have been podcasting for years, I believe that you would benefit from knowing these nearly 100 items that I look at. The cost of this training product is $100 which is 1/3 the cost of what I charge for one on one podcast evaluations.(Cost = $100)
Social Media 101
Now Available For Purchase!
Only $100.00
This is a two hour video training product broken up into five, 20 to 30 minutes video sessions. In this training, I share how I have used social media to build my brand and to build a community with those who listen to my podcasts. There are far too many items covered in this product for me to list here. However, the following will give you just a hint as to what is included:
* How did I build my audience?
* How did I promote my brand online?
* What is community and how do we build it?
* The importance of owning your own “Home On The Web.”
* Why I choose WordPress for my home one the web.
* Why I do audio podcasting v/s video podcasting.
* How I build relationships with the use of email and a voicemail hotline.
* How live shows with a chat room help foster community.
* When to add an online discussion forum, and when not to.
* The value of comments on your blog.
* How I “join the conversation.”
* How and why I use Twitter.
* How I stay connected with those on Facebook, even though I only log on once a week.
* How I promote my social media profiles online!
* I’m not kidding when I say AND SO MUCH MORE!!!
Edirol R-09HR Video Tutorial – Click Here For Video Preview
The Edirol R-09HR Tutorial is a four part video series that runs a total of 54 minutes in length. In this video, I share everything a podcaster needs to know to get perfect audio levels 100% of the time. I’ve recorded well over 2,000 of my own podcast episodes onto this device and have never had an issue with my audio levels and I’ve never lost any recordings to crashed software.
The tutorial, recorded in HD, will walk you through every button and menu setting on the unit. The best part is that you will be able view these videos from my website or download them to your computer for reference anytime in the future at a fraction of what it costs to hire me for one on one consulting/coaching to teach you the same information.
(Cost= $39)
Quotes From Just A Few Satisfied Clients
Thanks again!! That was probably the best 2 hours I’ve spent in a long time! Thank you so much for both climbing the learning curve before me and imparting such great knowledge – really helpful!!
-Nicole H
Thank you for the great webinar last night. You spent more time and provided more information than I expected. Worth so much more than you charged!
-Stephen C
I’ve paid hundreds of dollars, even closer to $1,000 for certification classes at the local tech school and they were not as good as last nights webinar. Don’t get a big head but seeing the stuff on my on screen, hearing and having you show us why you liked or didn’t like something made all the difference.
-Patrick G
THANK YOU for putting this together – I really loved the session and found it to be worth the money and more!… Thank you so much Cliff for taking the time to do this – Not only do I feel like I can do this, I am EXCITED to do this and I credit you for instilling that passion in me about it. You really are doing great things for so many – I am very thankful to have found you, Steph and GSPN!!!
-Alison L
Thank you so much for the webinar yesterday. Apart from all the specific knowledge I gained about podcasting, the experience helped rekindle my desire to start podcasting and to share my experience with the world.
-Seth W
Thank you so much for the feedback! So glad you found the tutorial helpful!
Brian, thank you so much for the encouraging feedback. I am so thankful that my information has been so valuable to you.
Hi Cliff - will you be updating the Webinar Workflow videos to include Aweber into the workflow?
Thanks!
Adam
Adam, my previous email marketing provider, MailChimp, was not in my workflow process. At least, I don't recall it being there. Please let me know if I'm forgetting something.
We talk about Mailing Lists pretty extensively in the Passive Income Strategies For Podcasters tutorial found at http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/help.
In that tutorial, Pat Flynn mentions that he uses AWeber and I mention that I use MailChimp. I may include an update, just by post on that product's page, that I have moved to AWeber and provide a PDF of my http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/aweber blog post.
Hey Cliff! I was looking for a product that has some advanced techniques to podcast with Garageband. If you offer that I would love to buy it. Here are some pointers to what this product could have:
>> Eliminating the hiss sound
>> Right levels of pre-amplifications
>> Importing a skype recording and splitting tracks
>> Ducking of the music track while speaking or on certain portions of a recorded voice track
Keep doing the great work! Enjoyed your 200th episode! You are my inspiration to be starting a new podcast soooon! :)
BA Coach. First off, thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words about my podcast. I am thankful to have you as a listener.
Please note: This GarageBand Tutorial "IS NOT" what you are looking for the following reasons.
1) I don't spend any time talking about his removal. My process has been to eliminate hiss sounds in the production process rather than post production. I don't even teach out to record in GarageBand, only how to use it for post production editing.
2) I do not show how to import Skype recording and how to split a track. My preferred method for Skype conversations has been to record on the same track as my own using a Mixer MixMinus technique recording into a digital recorder.
3) The tutorial totally lives up to the "101" Just the BASICS that a brand new podcaster would need to be able to edit their podcast audio recordings. I show how to include music at the front and end of the show and to fad music in and out. I'm not a fan of the "ducking" feature that is built in.
If you are looking for advanced techniques, this isn't the product. It's very basic. :)
Hi Cliff,
I just discovered your podcast a few weeks ago and have been consuming them rapidly, it is a pleasure to listen to you info packed podcasts... you really do a great job. I want to mention that I found you via the Internet Business Mastery Academy, well, indirectly from searching on itunes... so cheers to Sterling and Jay for that!
My question is in trying to grasp why you only use 30 hours a month for VA's, I realize you are very passionate about your work and put in a lot of time yourself, but that one particular episode where you mention the whiteboards with 30+ passive income ideas, my head just started spinning....and I, of course had to compare that with guys like John Jonas or Sterling and Jay who use several full time VA's , then I have recently heard of this guy, James Schramko, who has I think 12 different businesses and makes over 300K a year, just a thought!
Hey , thanks again, I am so excited to listen to you and all the other great podcasters out there that really spark my imagination.
Thanks for the comment Jason. I share my full VA Journey over at http://VirtualAssistantPodcast.com. The reason I don't do more is because I'm in a special phase of building up to something. I plan to have a full-time VA or two in the future. Won't be too far off. ;)
Thank you so much Carolyn. I am blessed to get to do what I do.
Thanks Brent. Glad you found value in your purchase of all the products!
I own all these and am very pleased with them. Special thanks to Cliff for helping us get our business set up at www.PursuingMeaningfulWork.com. Thanks Cliff!
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Purchased the MDX4600 training product and found it helpful in improving my podcast at www.tsquareg.net. Thanks a million Cliff !
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