The Two Minute Guide to Creating a Podcast Series

I get asked a bit about how do you create podcast series from scratch. Here is the two minute guide

1. Download and install iTunes and research your competition of what you do and don’t like about them.
2. Define your niche, the purpose of your podcast and the keywords you need to include in your title, description etc.
3. Plan and Document the Outline of your series in detail
4. Plan and Document your first episode in detail eg. dot points
5. Have a go at recording your first episode and add intro music, outro music etc.
6. Listen to your content through headphones to ensure it sounds good.
7. Save it as an MP3 file and set your ID3 tags.
8. Setup your wordpress blog and use the podpress and feeburner feedsmith plugins (or equivalent plugins of your choosing)
9. Burn your feed through feedburner
10. Ensure feedburner can recognise the media (mp3) files
11. Submit your podcast to itunes (or make multiple show entries then submit it to iTunes)
12. Promote your podcast according the the steps outlined in Jason Van Orden’s ‘Promote your Podcast’ book.