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067 This is the Bare Minimum You Need to Reach in Podcasting
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - November 27, 2018 18:37 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI love to talk to people about podcasting, and people love to tell me about their favorite podcasts. They also love to tell me what they hate about podcasting - which I also love because it gives me insight into the listener experience. You remember… the listener the whole reason you podcast? ...
066 What to do About the Dreaded Podcast Burnout
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - November 13, 2018 15:35 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsCome up with another topic. Line up a guest. Make sure they know what they’re talking about. Schedule a time to record. Do some more research. Reschedule the recording session. Record an episode. Troubleshoot technical issues. Edit an episode. Write show notes. Publish. Promote. Promote some mor...
065 How to Get the Most out of Your Podcast Guest
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - October 30, 2018 10:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsConfession time. Are you a podcast cowboy who just wings it with every guest? Is every interview you do the podcast equivalent of a blind date. Not cool. I don’t care if you can pull it off nine times out of ten. By taking that chance you’re potentially wasting your time, your guests time and,...
064 How to Decrease Connection Fails when Recording Podcasts
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - October 16, 2018 15:37 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAre you still there? Oh, uh you cut out there for a second. Can you say that again? If you interview guests over the internet for your podcast, I'll bet you six bucks you've had this conversation. And, that's if you catch it! How many times have you finished up a recording session and patted ...
063 How to Save Your Podcast from Hijackers
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - October 02, 2018 10:30 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHave you ever let your podcast get hijacked? You know - when a guest comes on and completely takes over and you slink away to the quiet shadows of your podcast? Have you heard this happen to other podcasters? I have. It hurts me deep in my podcasting heart. And, I can hear it as it’s happening...
062 Is Poor Time Management Upsetting Your Podcast Audience?
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - September 18, 2018 10:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDo you like having an audience? Do you want them to keep coming back, episode after episode? Then why are you constantly telling them you don’t have time for them? Rant warning! Time reference is one of my biggest pet peeves. I hate it when radio hosts and DJs reference time (or the lack of it...
061 Why in the World are You a Podcaster?
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - September 05, 2018 10:30 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWhy do you podcast? Seriously, why? I’m not being smug (for a change). I want you to seriously think about this question. There’s a good chance that you knew the answer to this question when you started your podcast. Hopefully, you took the time when you started to figure out why in the world ...
060 How to Warm Up Your Podcast Guest
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - July 31, 2018 17:09 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHave you ever had a dud of an interview? You know, your guest is dry as dust and half way through the interview you’re wonder why you ever thought they’d be good for your show? Do you watch late night talk shows and wonder why every guest (even the not so famous ones) are so good at being inte...
059 How to Keep Listeners When you Take a Podcast Break
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - July 18, 2018 03:15 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWhether you’re tired, out of ideas, or suddenly super busy - there are plenty of reasons to take a break from your podcast. But, if you do it wrong - you could kill your podcast stats and alienate your listeners. The first question most podcasters ask is whether they should take a break or not...
058 Help! I Hate the Sound of My Voice
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - July 04, 2018 14:48 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHave you ever listened to your recorded voice and thought, ‘I don’t really sound like that’? Or, worse, considered quitting podcasting because you can’t stand the sound of your own voice (and you can’t imagine anyone wanting it beamed directly into their earballs)? You are not alone! A lot o...
057 What's an Energy Mirror and How Can it Help Your Podcast?
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - June 19, 2018 10:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAre you using the energy mirror technique to make sure your podcasts are consistent, engaging and on-brand? No? Then you better take a good look at yourself and your podcast. The energy mirror technique is not a random word jumble as you may have guessed if you heard my last episode. (There re...
056 How to Brainstorm your Podcast Ideas
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - June 05, 2018 15:03 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHave you ever had an amazing podcast episode idea, promptly written it down on a sticky note for safe keeping only to find the incomprehensible scribble months later? Put an end to forgotten and mislayed ideas! In this episode, I’m going to share a trick that every podcaster should be using s...
055 How to Break the Podcast Rules and Get Away with It
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - May 15, 2018 10:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsIs your show starting to get a bit predictable (and boring)? Maybe it’s time to break a few rules and shake things up a bit. Breaking the rules (self-imposed or industry wide) can be risky business but it can also add some needed spark to your show. But - be warned - you can do it wrong. The...
054 Why Your Podcast Needs More Feeling
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - May 01, 2018 10:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHow does your podcast make your listener feel? If you just shrugged your shoulders, we have a problem. Here’s a newsflash - your audience wants to have an emotional reaction to your show. They want to feel something. If they get to the end of your podcast and nothing… well, don’t count on the...
053 Warning: You Might be a Lazy Podcaster
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - April 17, 2018 10:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsTime for a reality check - have you become a lazy podcaster? Are you phoning it in? Are you making bad decisions and blaming it on your busy-ness or (even worse) justifying it under the guise of ‘efficiency’. It happens to the best of us. We get busy, our ambitious podcasting schedule suddenly...
052 How to Build a Better Relationship with your Listener
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - April 03, 2018 10:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHey you. Yeah, you. I’m talking to you. If you’ve listened to my podcast before then you know that I’m always talking to you. Just you. Wanna know why? If you want to build a better relationship with your listener, you need to be talking to them individually. I’ve talked about this before (gi...
051 Are You Focusing on the Wrong Podcast Stats?
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - March 20, 2018 10:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAre you guilty of checking your download stats on the daily just to see how popular you are? Are you obsessed with where iTunes ranks your podcast in your niche category? Confess, have you ever checked more than once a day? I’ve got news for you… you might be looking at the wrong numbers! In...
050 How Greed Can Hurt Your Podcast
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - March 06, 2018 11:30 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDon’t be a sell out! No, I’m not talking about never accepting money from a sponsor or selling ads on your podcast. I’m talking about treating your audience like a commodity. I get it. You worked hard to build your audience and you’re a starving podcaster making pennies (if you’re lucky). Bu...
049 How Much Time Should You Budget for Podcasting?
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - February 20, 2018 01:21 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsIs podcasting a giant time-suck? It certainly feels like that for a lot of podcasters. So, are they doing it wrong? Are you doing it wrong? Probably not. In this episode, I breakdown where all that podcasting time goes and what kind of time you should be budgeting for each episode. Warning ...
048 How Perfectionism is a Problem for your Podcast
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - February 06, 2018 11:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHands up if your podcast is perfect. If your hand is up then you are either being a smart ass, totally delusional or both. Nobody’s podcast is perfect - me included. And, that’s okay. In this episode of the Just the Tip, I talk about how perfectionism can get in your way and that sometimes, ...
047 How to Use SFX to Make Your Podcast Better
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - January 23, 2018 11:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWhoop, whoop, re-er, re-er, re-er… sound effects in your podcast can be annoying or effective. It all depends on whether you’re doing it right. SFX can be fun but they can also derail a podcast, piss off your listener or just sound cheesy (which might be fine, if it’s intentional or ironic). T...
046 Should You Ignore iTunes Podcast Analytics?
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - January 09, 2018 11:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHave you seen your itunes podcast analytics yet? It’s exciting to get to know your listener’s habits but be careful. In case you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s an amazing new tool to help podcasters learn their listeners behavior. You can use it to find out how long your fans are listening, ...
045 How to Set Killer Goals for Your Podcast
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - December 12, 2017 11:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWhat has your podcast done for you lately? Measuring success can be difficult without realistic goals. Like driving without a map, having a podcast without goals can have you podcasting in circles. Fun for a while but then a bit pointless. So let me ask you - do you remember why you started ...
044 How to Create a 'Best Of' Podcast
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - November 28, 2017 11:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDo you have any ‘best of’ albums? They’re great, right? So, why not give your listeners nothing but the hits by creating a ‘Best Of’ episode? A ‘best of’ episode is pretty self explanatory - you take the most impactful or magical moments of your podcast and slap them together for a show chock ...
043 Why You Need to Designate a Podcast Bus Driver
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - November 14, 2017 11:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsImagine a car with two steering wheels and two sets of pedals. Wouldn't that be fun? The answer is no. You’d be dead. If you host a podcast with more than one person or you have guests on your show then your podcast is in danger of being out of control. You need a Captain Kirk. In this epi...
042 Getting the Most From Your Podcast Mic
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - October 30, 2017 02:22 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsSo, you didn’t spend $500 on a microphone when you started your podcast. That’s okay. Neither did I. There are a million things I’d rather spend my money on. Let me name a few. Beer, whisky, tequila, ribs, Saskatchewan Roughrider memorabilia and traveling around the world. But, that doesn’t ...
041 Maximum Listener Engagement
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - October 15, 2017 21:06 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI just got engaged. No silly...to my podcast listener. I’ve been married for years to the most wonderful woman in the world. She’s the best thing that ever happened to me. She’s smart, she’s beautiful...and oh yeah, she sometimes helps me edit my podcast show notes. BUSTED!!!! Let’s see if sh...
040 How to Properly Introduce Your Podcast Guest
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - October 03, 2017 10:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDon’t you hate it when someone get’s your name wrong? Introductions can ruin a first impression not only for the introducer but also for the introducee. And when you’re hosting a podcast, introducing your guest wrong doesn’t look good on you and it certainly isn’t going to set you up to knock ...
039 Get Out! How to End Your Podcast Right
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - September 17, 2017 17:39 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAwkward good-byes are the worst. Am I going in for a hug? How about a kiss? Or my fist-bump hits your high-five and suddenly you’re gear-shifting me like you’re driving a big rig. Don’t let your goodbyes be awkward especially when it comes to your podcast. Finish the listener experience by h...
038 How to Make Your Podcast Convert Better
Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach - September 05, 2017 10:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsPodcasters who are trying to build their brand or grow their sales through their podcast can learn a lot from traditional radio. Radio stations work endlessly to attract listeners. Once they have them, they work tirelessly to keep them and turn them into loyal listeners. They know that once th...
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