Tips and Tricks for Starting Your Own Podcast

I recently wrote about the 7 steps it takes Garret and I each week to publish an episode of our podcast, I Know Dino. If you’re considering starting your own podcast, here are a few more resources to help you get going:

Promoting Your Podcast and Growing Your Audience

• “11 Clever Ways to Promote Your Podcast to the World” on Entrepreneur
• “11 Ways To Promote Your Podcast Free (Or Dirt Cheap)” on Steve Bremner
• “How To Grow Your Audience And Market Your Podcast! Facebook Interest Lists And More!” on Podcast Answer Man
• “8 Unique Marketing Strategies To Grow A Podcast To the Top of iTunes” on LinkedIn
• “8 Ways to Market Your Podcast” on ProPodder
• “Get People to Listen to Your Podcast” on Entrepreneur
• “How to get your podcast featured as “Another Great Podcast”” on Podcast Land
• “How to Grow Your Podcast Audience From 100s to 1000s” on Podcasters’ Roundtable
• “How To Market Your Podcast Online” on Search Engine Journal
• “How to Maximize Reach of Your Podcast via Syndication through iTunes and Social Networks” on Mobile Cast Media
• “One Click Subscribe On Android” on PowerPress Podcast
• “Planning Your Podcast Marketing Strategy” on Sarke Media
• “Reaching your target audience and the top 5 ways to promote your podcast” on EO Fire
• “Sharing Without Reading” on Self Publishing Review
• “Your Content, Everywhere: The 17 Best Tools to Get Your Content Its Largest Audience” on Buffer
• “Unique Strategies to Promote Your Podcast and Grow Your Audience” on Basic Blog Tips
• “What is the Podcast of the Month?” on PodcastLand
• “Why Podcasting Interviews Are Essential For Authors” on BookBaby

Launching a Podcast

• “Starting a Podcast: 7 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Published My First Episode” on Ryan Hanley
• “Before You Start a Podcast: 4 Tips for Authors” on Jane Friedman
• “4 Steps to Create a Blog or Podcast That You and Your Readers Will Love” on Digital Book World
• “How I created my first podcast” on Small Blue Dog
• “How to Build Your Platform and Sell More Books with Podcasting” on The Book Designer
• “How to Get Your Podcast to No.1 in iTunes! (My Personal Launch Strategy)” on Chris Ducker
• “How to Launch and Grow a Podcast to 1,000,000 Downloads” on Fizzle
• “How to Podcast” on How to Podcast Tutorial
• “How to Start and Market Your Podcast” on Blogworld
• “Podcasting and Indie Authors: Is Podcasting Right for You?” on The Book Designer
• “The Definitive Guide to Setting Up and Marketing a Podcast to Help Grow Your Blog” on ProBlogger

Platforms for Podcasts

• “Amazon’s Audible Introduces Podcast Subscription Service” on Adage
• “Amazon’s Audible Goes Long on Short-Form Audio” on New York Times
• “Audible Unveils Short Form Audio Streaming Service” on Publisher’s Weekly
• iTunes
• “How to add your Podcasts in NPR One” on NPR
• Howl
• “Howl the Netflix of Podcasts” on FastCompany
• PodOmatic

Hosting

• “Everything You Wanted to Know About iTunes, Hosting, Libsyn Vs Blubrry” on School of Podcasting
• “Is Soundcloud A Legitimate Option for Podcasting? 8 Podcast Media Hosting Companies Compared” on School of Podcasting
• Soundcloud
• “SoundCloud vs. Libsyn” on Podcasting Hacks
• Amazon S3
• “Blubrry Announces Collaboration with Reactor by AppPresser for Mobile Podcast Apps” on PRWeb
• “Tips on Using Libsyn from its VP of Podcaster Relations” on Gigaverse
• “Libsyn Joins Forces With iHeartMedia for Podcast Distribution Deal to Reach More Than 85 Million iHeart Radio Listeners” on Market Wired
• “Libsyn vs Podomatic vs SoundCloud, who provides the best podcasting service?” on Quora
• “Say Hello to Libsyn’s New WordPress Plugin” on Libsyn
• Shout Engine

Editing Your Podcast

• “How to Make a Tinny Voice Sound Fuller in Audacity” on Techwalla
• “How to Produce a Podcast” on Slideshare
• “How To Remove Ambient Noise From Your Audio Files Using Audacity” on Make Use Of
• “How to Remove White Noise from Audio in Audacity” on Make Tech Easier
• “Increase audio level without Re-render?” on Apple
• We Edit Podcasts
• Reaper
• “Remove white noise from your audio and video projects” on Macgasm
• “Tinny Voice Effect – Adobe Audition CS6 Drop Off Below 250Hz” on Youtube

Podcast Metrics

• “3 Things Every Podcaster Should Understand About Their Stats” on PowerPress Podcast
• “Evolution of Podcast Metrics” on IAB Tech Lab
• “How are podcast downloads tracked and tallied?” on Feedburner
• “How to get analytics for my podcast” on Apple
• Podcast Metrics on IAB Tech Lab
• Low Pass Filter on Audacity
• “8 important podcast statistics” on WPCurve
• “Statistics and Analytics for Your Podcast and Website” on Podcasters’ Studio
• “The Naked Truth About Your Podcasting Stats and Why You Should Host Your Show on Libsyn” on Basic Blog Tips
• Podbay
• “Why podcast episode titles matter, 6 ways to fix them” on The Audacity to Podcast

Monetizing Podcasts

• “Podcasting As An Occupation? How Long Before My Podcast Will Start Generating Income? My Thoughts On This And More!” on Podcast Answer Man
• “9 Successful Techniques for Making Money from Podcasting” on Mashable
• Audible
• “Everything You Need to Know About Podcast Advertising” on Cleverism
• “How to Get Podcast Advertisers (The Complete Guide)” on Income School
• “How to Make Money Podcasting” on Podcastfast
• “Is It Possible To Generate Income Directly From Podcasting?” on Podcast Answer Man
• Podcasters Studio Affiliate Program
• “Making Money With Podcasts No Longer Just About The Ads” on Forbes
• Midroll
• “Supercharge your podcast” on Midroll
• Midroll Podcasters
• “Podcast Advertising Opportunities” on PowerPress Podcast
• “Podcast Sponsorship Contract Templete” on Reddit
• Sponsorship Agreement
• “Podcast Sponsorship: What are podcast sponsorship agreements like, and when does the sponsor pay for their advertising spot?” on Quora
• “Podcast Sponsorships” on EOFire
• “Why So Many Podcasts Are Brought to You by Squarespace” on The Atlantic
• “Podcasts Ready for the Bigtime, Except for One Thing: Revenue” on Forbes
• Example of supporting a podcast
• “What is your favorite podcast with a paid subscription?” on Reddit

Podcasts to Listen to

• “3 Fiction Podcasts to Satisfy Your Love of Stories” on BookRiot
• Dan Carlin
• “From the Ear to the Page, the ‘Night Vale’ Podcast Becomes a Novel” on New York Times

Podcasting Tips

• Be a Better Podcaster
• Writing Podcast Show Notes
• “Keep It Simple: Why Multiple RSS Feeds Are A Bad Prospect For Most Podcasters” on PowerPress Podcast

Additional Resources

• “3 Copyright Myths That Will Sink Your Podcast” on PowerPress Podcast
• Sound gym
• “Is Operating a Podcast Network Right for You? With Daniel J Lewis” on Cash Flow Podcasting
• “Is Podcasting Your Novel Worth It?” on Lovelyn Bettison
• Podcast Movement conference
• “Podcasting is getting huge. Here’s why.” on Vox
• “Podcasting: Fact Sheet” on Journalism & Media
• Midroll Podcast Survey
• “RawVoice / Blubrry responds to the public radio podcast measurement guidelines” on PowerPress Podcast
• “The Business of Podcasts” on Transom
• “The New York Times gets serious about podcasting” on Politico
• “The second coming of podcasts, in 4 charts” on Quibb
• Transom
• VidCon

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in March 2017.