How can Snapchat help grow your podcast? If you don’t know what snapchat is where have you been? Do you know how it works? Here’s a simple overview of snapchat from the people at Mashable. It is a beginners guide. Time Magazines Adults Guide to Snapchat – a Fun read. It seems a superb tool to…
Grow your podcast audience with love. How to “Love your listeners and be loved in return” and build a loyal community. A bit of escapism at first to set this up – Nat King Cole first recorded the song Nature Boy in 1948. It’s a great song, I really like David Bowie’s version for the film…
Podcasters – Ten things that will help podcasters create content… Have you ever come to the point where you just can’t find the inspiration for content in your next episode? You feel like you’ve exhausted your options. Perhaps you just haven’t had time to research your next topic. You have the podcasters block. Let me introduce…
Podcasters – Don’t fear the competition understand them. I used to find it interesting when a programme controller would frown upon me mentioning the competition. “Don’t mention the competitors ever Kevin”. “Oh, Ok boss…” Why, I thought – what are you afraid of? Are you scared that they might switch over? I felt as if…
Never give up on your dream and don’t be afraid to fail. Chris Coleman is the manager of the Welsh national football team. They’ve had an incredible tournament in Euro 2016. After their unexpected win over Belgium something he said struck a chord with me. In the video above Chris said “Don’t be afraid to…
Podcasters – You don’t need ‘Big Name’ Influencers in Interviews to build your audience. The current trend and copious amounts of copycat advice is that you should get the influencer ‘big name’ on your podcast because it will help you grow your podcast. The other way around maybe – You may get in front of…
Why you should always provide content in context. Content is king but context is key – always. It’s the first thing I learnt in radio. Always have more material than you need, but make sure this is material served up with super value to the listener. The key though is your content is delivered with…
Series One Episode 09: Defamation Staying Safe with Libel and Slander and keeping what you say legal from Radio Skills for Podcasters. Kevin looks at Defamation, libel and slander with advice of how to keep the right side of civil law with your podcast content. In this episode Kevin shares his knowledge around civil law…
Series One: Episode 8 of Radio Skills for Podcasters – Learn To Edit Interviews Like A Pro For Your Podcast. In this episode Kevin talks through the key points of creating wining interviews within your podcast episodes. Key Points Always edit you interview, change it, make it flow – never put it out as it was recorded…
This is a special recording of the podcast created especially for the New Media Europe Conference taking place in Manchester England on the 12th, 13th September 2015. Radio Skills for Podcasters is a media sponsor for #NMEU. So far leading up to the event @radio_skills has been tweeting top tips for podcasters. However, Kevin pondered…