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Daniel J. Lewis.

Dave Jackson

Ray Ortega

Discussing the issues that face podcast producers and podcasting. Each Roundtable features a new podcaster from the community of viewers listeners. We talk less about the 'how-to' and more about the 'why.' You'll learn how to improve your podcast through the shared experience of other podcasters.

Podcasters' Roundtable

How much of your podcast do you own? Join Ray Ortega, Dave Jackson, Daniel J. Lewis and Mike Dell to discuss taking as much control over your show as possible whether you're using WordPress, Libsyn, Feedburner, or any one of the many third party options for building and hosting your podcast.

PR001 – Control and Ownership of Your Podcast

A live discussion about processing your podcast's audio with hardware and/or software. We discuss if this is a necessary step or just something audiophiles enjoy. Roundtable guests for round two: David Jackson, Mike Phillips, Adam Tinkoff and Mike Russell.

PR002 – Processing Your Podcast’s Audio

Rob Greenlee, Steven Lee, Daniel J. Lewis and Ray Ortega discuss where podcasting has been, is now and where it's headed in the future.

PR003 – The Future of Podcasting

Over the last year several changes have been made to Feedburner including twitter feed shut downs, deprecation of API's, the loss of the .jp domain and a failure of the statistics system. All of this led to a perfect storm of fear that the core service was also shutting down. On this Round we discuss the facts and fiction of what's going on with Feedburner and ways to move forward using the service or how to get rid of it all together. Panelist on this Round: Ray Ortega from The Podcasters Studio Daniel J. Lewis from The Audacity to Podcast Dave Jackson from School of Podcasting Cliff Ravenscraft from Podcast Answer Man

PR004 – What’s Going on with FeedBurner?

On this Round, I talk to six podcasters (the largest Roundtable to date) about their podcasting pet peeves. Those things they see other podcasters doing that frustrate them. We also talk about things we've done wrong with our own podcasts and how we fixed those errors. Learn about the most common mistakes we see podcasters making on a daily basis and how to avoid those in your own show. Joining me for this Round was Daniel J. Lewis, Nick Seuberling, Daniel M. Clark, Martine Ellis, Jason Nagy and Cory Tibbits.

PR005 – Podcasting Pet Peeves

We discuss the concept of "competition" as is applies to podcasters podcasting in the same niche. How much do you share with podcasts in your niche? Do you cross promote their shows? Do you have them as guests on your show or even co-host shows together? Is it possible to share audiences? Do you fear losing your audience to another show in your niche? What steps do you take to prevent this from happening? Do you think it's even necessary to compete or can working together actually benefit you? Are there any situations where it might actually be better to be a little competitive or even actively working against another show? Daniel J. Lewis, David Jackson, Corey Fineran and Nick Seuberling join me to discuss these issues and share our experiences with being part of a strong collective of podcasters in the same niche as well as our experience with competition or the competitive feeling.

PR006 – Competition in Your Niche

How do find balance when it comes to producing content and then having to promote it via any number of ways (social networks, blogs, forums, etc.)? Have you ever been overwhelmed trying to keep up? Has the need to always be promoting your show in order to grow left you feeling burnt out on podcasting? We'll be discussing podcast promotion and how much is too much? How do you know if what you're doing is actually working and is it really worth your time? The discussion will be focused less on which new social platform is best for podcast promotion and instead will take a deeper look at why or why not to promote, how much and is it necessary to always jump on the next big thing (ex: Pinterest)? Roundtablers for this session will include +Daniel J. Lewis +Rob Walch +Daniel Hayes +Mike Russell, and myself (Ray Ortega). Join us in the chat along with your fellow podcasters to share your experiences with balancing content creation with the challenges of promotion. Links mentioned: Dircetory of podcast directories

PR007 – Podcast Promotion Challenges

As a podcaster, what do you owe your audience? Whether someone subscribes to your show or listens only once, what obligation do you feel to that person? Do you feel like you should always bring your best content, be well organized, entertaining or never miss an episode? Perhaps you don't owe them anything at all? Join +David Jackson, +Daniel J. Lewis, +Allan Newsome, +Jeffrey Powers and Ray Ortega as we discuss a podcaster's obligation to their audience.

PR008 – What Do Podcasters Owe Their Audience?

How do you know when it's time to add another podcast to your lineup? We discuss some of the things to consider when thinking about starting another show as well as our opinions about when is the right time for adding a new podcast. You'll hear from experienced podcaster +Daniel J. Lewis about having multiple podcasts, podcaster +Mike Howard who has one show but has considered starting another, and +Chris Christensen, +Jim Collison and myself who all run successful multi-podcast brands. We'll also find out when starting a new podcast was a bad idea (the failures), the concerns a podcaster might have about starting another show, and feedback from the live audience about the good and bad of adding more than one show to your podcast workflow.

PR009 – When to Start Another Podcast?

What defines success in podcasting? Is it subscribers, downloads, website traffic, money or something else? Watch/listen to +Pat Flynn from the Smart Passive Income blog and podcast along with +Daniel J. Lewis +David Jackson and myself (Ray Ortega) discuss the concept of success as it applies to podcasting. Pat was a very successful blogger (numbers, money, recognition, etc.) before he ever started a podcast. We'll find out how starting a podcast has increased his own measure of success and learn how each podcaster on the Roundtable defines success in podcasting differently.

PR010 – Podcasting “Success” with Pat Flynn

Does your podcast pay for itself? Do you get some kind of monetary compensation that helps you pay for web and media hosting, gear upgrades, premium plugins, etc? There is an in between world that most podcasts fall into somewhere between pure hobbyist and "professional." In the middle is a whole bunch of shows that make enough money to pay their operating costs (media and web hosting, domains, etc.). Join +Ray Ortega, +David Jackson,+Daniel J. Lewis, +Stephen Grasso and +Gary Pearce to discuss the ways in which you might be able to get your podcast to cover the podcasting bills... or not (nothing's easy). You can subscribe to the podcast only RSS mailing list to get new Rounds delivered to your inbox automatically. Sign up to appear on a future Podcasters' Roundtable! Thanks and I can't wait to see you on a future Roundtable! Subscribe to Podcasters' Roundtable

PR064: The Podcast that Pays… for Itself

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