As a business, artist, freelancer, entrepreneur or whatever! Do you do/make podcasts?

As a business, artist, freelancer, entrepreneur or whatever! Do you do/make podcasts?

Podcasts are basically audio files.

Usually of someone talking. Or reading something out.

They are getting much more popular than ever before.

Yet still, not many businesses, business owners, webmasters, bloggers, affiliate marketers, SEO's etc use them.

Why do we overlook podcasts?

Wait, are podcasts not worth looking at then?

How can podcasts help me / my business?

Podcasts are neat little audio files that contain information.

Usually in spoken format.

For example, a spoken (read out) version of one of your blog posts.

Including, any Call To Actions in it..

They are much more personable: You will connect with the speaker much more than you would words on a page.

They are much more influential: Hearing someone say "go and buy it now" is twice as effective as reading that on a page.

They are generally trusted more: People will naturally trust a real spoken voice than reading something on a website.

They have viralability: New word alert!? "viralability: how viral something is. Example, they can be easily shared/reshared downloaded,transmitted, bluetoothed, attached, emailed etc.

They get the job done: Podcasts are generally more effective at converting listeners than articles are for readers.

They're easy to make: All you got to do is record yourself speaking your article (or even get someone with a sexier voice to do it for you).

They can be repurposed over and over: Like MP3 files, you can rename them and send them out via syndication and distribution methods.

They can be useful for SEO: Like any media, you can insert META data into them such as descriptions, keywords, locations, website URLs, brand names etc

Some questions to ponder:

• Do you make podcasts?
  
• What is your process?
  
• How / what do you use to do so?
  
• What do you do with them?
  
• Where do you upload them?
  
• How do you promote them or use them to promote yourself?
  
• What's some good podcasting tips advice pointers etc?
  
• Are podcasts dead?
  
• How long will people use podcasts for?
  
• Will people ever stop using them?
  
• What could "replace" the podcast?
  
• Are podcasts an endangered species?
  
• Are podcasts highly underrated or highly overrated?
  

What I was thinking, was getting someone to do voice overs for my services and that,

Do it all in a pitch / tv ad kind of way. You know, add a bit of life into it, maybe add a little jingle

Just read them out though basically.

Then put that in a podcast,

Up it to Soundcloud and the like,

Share it on my social channels and promote it yadda yadda and what not.

Do all of that fair game stuff!

Could even make videos out of it too I suppose.

Who's a good speaker / voice over seller on here for that you can word of mouth recommend?

Anyway yeah, podcasts, yes or no? If yes why yes if no why no?

How to make it happen and actually make a podcast...

Sometimes, all it takes is the word. Or words.

Words like, "challenge" and "steps".

Something like, I challenge you to complete these 3 steps.

1. Step 1: Find an article you want to convert into a podcast.
   
2. Step 2: Convert it yourself or hire someone as the voice over for it.
   
3. Step 3: Upload and share the podcast to your site, social media sites etc. 
   

Step 1 and even step 3 are the easy steps. It's step 2 that could be a bit tricky for a first timer. Especially if you don't want to do it yourself for whatever reason. Like not liking the sound of your own voice! I hate the sound of my voice when I hear myself played back loll... And honestly, I'd much rather here a sexy female voice say it someone with a nice accent, especially if she was talking in a really sultry tone I guess that would get me a lot of listeners right!? But I'd probably more opt for something general and said professionally whether it's a males voice or not as long as the English was good and the voice was nice.

Could you imagine listening to an hour long podcast spoken by someone who had a voice like Bianca Jackson from Eastenders? Rickkyyyy!!!! XD

A big cheers and blessings to all the SEOClerk community!

Your boy 

Ideal Mike