Product Description

• How do I interact with listeners and get them to come back next week?
• How do I conduct a great interview over the phone?
• How do I attract sponsors?
• How do I stay motivated?

The authors share their experiences with the 'casts they've produced regularly since podcasting began, including "podCast411" and "Geek Fu Action Grip," and draw from more than 100 interviews with podcasting's stars. With this book, you will be able to take your craft to the next level and create a business around your podcasts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #165051 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author

Mur Lafferty currently produces several podcasts including Geek Fu Action Grip, and is on the planning committee for the upcoming PodcasterCon. She's a member of the Sci-Fi Podcasting Network and presented at the Duke Podcasting Symposium.

Rob Walch is Host of podCast411, where he has interviewed more than 100 leading podcasters and media experts, and is a consultant to former Presidential candidate John Edwards. He's on the planning committee for PodcasterCon, is a member of the Podcasting Specification Working Group, and has helped more than 100 people start their own podcasts.

Customer Reviews

Good tips and information on how promote your podcast
I enjoyed this book it provided great tips and information on how promote your podcast and some technical advice for producing your podcast. This book is geared for readers who already have a podcast it's not for those who want to learn how to podcast. If you don't know how to podcast check out the "Podcast Solutions" book by Michael Geoghegan and Dan Klass. I picked up some pretty cool tricks from this book and the Pocasting masters since I'm a new podcaster. My Podcast is at: [...].

Excellent next step for new podcasters
If you've dived in to podcasting, and you've created your own content, the next obvious step is to attract a wider audience. This book does a superlative job in providing practical advice for new podcasters in search of more listeners. If you're looking for a basic "how to" podcasting book, first read "Podcast Solutions" or "Podcasting for Dummies" (both are, in fact, very good elementary guides), but then make this the next book you buy. There are a number of very useful ideas here for building a community of fans, finding new potential listeners, and expanding your audience -- most of which are inexpensive and simple to execute. Rob and Mur are relative veterans of the podcasting phenomenon, and they know how to write in clear, concise prose. This book is as easy to read as it is useful. I've begin applying many of these concepts to my own podcasts, and am starting to see real results. Highly recommended.

New to podcasting? Start here.
What do you get when you cross Charlie Rose and Robert X. Cringely? You get Rob Walch from Podcast 411. Faithfully chronicling the ever expanding universe of podcasts and podcasting on his show Podcast411. In this book Rob and Mur Lafferty take a snapshot of a new universe seconds after its Big Bang. They enumerate the key players, explain the science, and offer a little timely advice to the hot particles as they speed off into this universe to form stars and planets and clog the tubes of the internets. OK, enough of the Big Bang analogy, this really is a very good book. In a plain and simple way, this book describes all you need to know to get started podcasting, and where to go once you have. The book breaks down the technical hurdles in an easy to understand fashion and allows the voices that are shaping the medium to offer up some sage advice from their experiences thus far. From soup to nuts, this book explains everything you need to know to get started in the nascent podcasting universe.