Summary: Episode Number: 311<br> Show notes can be found at:<br> <a href="http://onceuponatimepodcast.com/311" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://onceuponatimepodcast.com/311</a><br> Podcasting Lessons Learned are the most important part of the process.<br> We all start podcasting somewhere, but I decided to share my podcasting lessons learned along my podcasting journey.<br> A bit of a disclaimer first, this is not a Podcasting 101 course, so some items I will mention, but not go into complete depth. I will leave that to the Podcasting Gurus; Daniel J. Lewis (<a href="https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Audacity to Podcast</a>), Dave Jackson (<a href="http://schoolofpodcasting.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">School of Podcasting</a>) Ray Ortega (<a href="http://podcastersroundtable.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Podcasting Roundtable</a>) and others to discuss those subjects in more depth.<br> Oh, one more disclaimer, as time marches forward, Social Media platforms will come and go, so I will try to talk more general in themes (that hopefully) will be applicable on any new platforms that we haven’t even seen at the time of this Blog post.<br> Last time a podcast was posted was 3/6/16<br> Before we begin, I want to say something important.<br> If you are a current podcaster, I want these points to encourage you.<br> If you have never been a podcaster, I want to share something with you right now.<br> So, to all you non-podcasters – look at your thumb. Go ahead, look at it. Your thumb-print is unique and so are you. Your life path, experiences and your point of view is different than anyone else’s, and we need to hear from you.<br> If you need a reason to podcast it’s this – you are unique and special. As we go through this list and you’ve never thought about podcasting, I hope you will get some more intermediate and advanced tips and ideas to help you along the way.<br> And now, here are my Podcasting Lessons Learned;<br> 1. Count the Podcast Cost<br> A podcast takes a lot of work. Read that again. Read it one more time. Lots of popular podcasters make it look easy, but it’s not.<br> Now, I’m not trying to squash your podcasting dreams. I’m trying to give you the truths I learned (much later) – up front, so you know what to expect ahead of time.<br> You’ll thank me later.<br> Podcasting is a tough gig. It takes more time, energy, money, emotional investment than anything you can think of.<br> We’ll leave that here for now, but if you stop reading (or listening to this podcast episode) before the end, at least you’ll know this fact.<br> 2. Solo Host or Co-Host(s)<br> There are lots of factors that lead to someone that listens to it consider it to be something they’d like to continue to listen to;<br> – Quality of the audio of the finished product,<br> – Quality of the speaker(s) voice,<br> – Editing (limiting of extraneous information, filler words, etc),<br> – Brevity (staying on point and limiting “<a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rabbit%20trail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rabbit trails</a>“),<br> – Likability of the speaker(s)’s speech pattern,<br> – Speaker(s) knowledge of the subject,<br> and much more.<br> When I thought it might be fun to launch the OUAT Fan podcast, I asked my wife to join me as a co-host. There were many reasons;<br> 1. Was that I was the sort of funny banter guy and she was the well-read, well-studied Disney, Fairy Tale, etc fan, 2. I figured the listeners would appreciate 2 different voices discussing the show, 3. She would save me when I (often) forgot a name of an actor that came up in an off-the-cuff comment (Note: Always prep well before recording.
