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Podcasting, and not just on iPods Anymore

What is podcasting?

Podcasting is broadcasting on iPods and other MP3 players. Created by former MTV host Adam Curry, Podcasting is a new method of communication Internet – is still limited to your PC. But thanks to companies like Apple, maker of the iPod, podcasts can be downloaded to the camera and personal media access at any time. His faithful mp3 player can become a real player in the media – this handy companion not just for music ever again.

Apple iPod is in development that can play videos, handle live streaming, make phone calls, television, etc. popular series like "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" are the main attractions. Film editors are busy transforming stories of long hours six minutes, VCAST format to play on your iPod. This raises troubling questions about the future television – may be as short attention span of the average viewer?

However, people like to watch his favorite television show on a screen of 2.5 inches? IPod itself is continually going through changes. The original model was the ability to save three thousand songs, however, current versions have more than one thousand. Note that podcasts do not need an Apple iPod. Any device personal media probably these requirements are met, including your regular PC.

Pickup Podcast

The podcast is based on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology. RSS is a family of XML file formats used for web syndication. The RSS has been chosen by Apple and can handle attachments and facilitate the description of multimedia content, search and syndication.

PodShow own contained in an XML file. To retrieve this information is necessary to have a software podcaster. The purpose of this software is to constantly monitor and update the PodShow subscribed automatically. This reinforces the simple character of the podcast – Once you connect to your computer your favorite models are ready. Just add to your media player and go, or listen on the computer.

Podcaster software was originally manufactured and sold by independent companies and offered as "independent code" compatible with the Most media players. In June 2005, Apple has followed suit and has released iTunes 4.9 which provided native support for podcasting.

There are several ways to search for content online, passwords to sites that offer a rating system. Unfortunately, even with all the suppliers of these Progress has not yet created a system of recommendation. Members of the public to subscribe to podcasts – a "selection" intelligent "and the register should be just around the corner. Voice search is another tool under development, an intelligent search engine analyzes the vocal tracks more accurate data.

iTunes 4.9 is designed with the iPod in mind and with the support of Apple computers. Currently, all new Macintosh computers come with the same standard, but if you have an older model, you can go to www.download-it-free.com/itunes/.

iTunes is not exclusive to Apple iPod, everyone with a window media player can take advantage of this free technology. It is easy to use, the podcasts are free. To subscribe to podcasts that you simply refer to the context menu and click podcasts. You'll find a list of broad support for iTunes content.

Other resources available for recovery RSS feeds are:

• www.newsgator.com: This site supports RSS Forbes Rolling Stone and everything else. Currently, using the feeding station as its data recovery software and the software is available free by registering with newsgator.com.

  Newsgator is practical and is currently supported by several web sites that have a podcast or a blog. Simply sign up for food Newsgator sites they support.

• my.yahoo.com: Already a Yahoo e-mail? If you already familiar with the process of adding a podcast to your personal content. Otherwise, I assure it is very simple. Go to My Yahoo and click "Add content". Then select "Multimedia". Then it's as simple as clicking and add what you want most. As Newsgator, My Yahoo, with the support of several independent blogs or podcasts.
• www.enewsblog.com: not currently support podcasts, but you can register to receive automatic updates on blogs with eNewsBlog and create your own. To add a page blog, click the Support tab eNewsBlog indicated in the corresponding blog site.

The former are not necessarily the best examples, but are most often found in the podcasts and blogs support sites.

A list of the Top 10 podcasts, as voted by visitors can be found in www.podcastalley.com.

Creating your own Podcast

Having had a podcast that could call their own. If you not particularly useful, It is not easy. You will need the following hardware and software:

1. Headphones
2. Microphone
3. Computer
4. A program that Media Player audio recording that is, the window, or a more advanced program like ePodcast Creator. An alternative would be more affordable Audacity ePodcast Creator 1.2.3, free download of the cases, audacity.sourceforge.net /, especially, is both PC and Mac compatible

   It is important to take into account the quality of the recording, nobody wants to hear any distortion in those days – to try to keep unwanted background noise to a minimum.

5. A site where you can download the podcast
6. RSS. To complement the content available to the public must be published in many support networks such as iTunes podcasts. But first, you must create an RSS feed.
7. There are two ways to do it manually using, www.rss-specifications.com/, Download FeedForAll software or in places like www.feedforall.com. If the option is below easy, keep in mind that the software is FeedForAll not free.
8. Finally, it is necessary to take into account:
   Bandwidth costs money, this cost depends on factors such as hearing and file size. Once your podcast is deleted can be seen that the cost increases the bandwidth depending on the amount of people – like most producers is almost certainly very little control over the number of downloads of its media receives communication.

   In addition, it is almost impossible to "know" their audience. Some hosting providers will provide a register of members of the public but it is much more complex for the average user to understand. It is therefore difficult to manage their content to the audience, a little more used successfully by professional podcasters to translate the information, but it raises the cost of courses.

These are just the basics. For those who are already familiar with digital recording to absorb the information much easier for those who start from scratch. Unfortunately, because it is still a relatively new technology, there is nothing easier … yet.

Once you've played with the software, and have a basic idea of how to be creative in this environment, you can start thinking in developing your own podcast success.

1. Choose a topic you know much about, it is always better if your item is 100% original, because there is no competition. If the material is not only spend time thinking for fresh angles, hooks and tricks to make that stand out in the crowd!
2. Who is your target market? What age demographic is what most want to achieve? The fair is dedicated to an ethnic group or gender? All these issues have answers, because all the content should be addressed to a specific market to ensure maximum penetration.
3. When the first episode will air needs to have an impact! Tom Green is stupid jokes on people he met in a television season Local cable – and it has exploded worldwide. He had no fancy graphics or sophisticated equipment, it has been, and it worked.

   There is an evolution of "display format" is passed to a standard radio into something more elegant and dynamic. If in the past fade a musical introduction to allow the voice of an announcer … Now is the content, content, content, and music often swells in the synthesis of compounds that is equally informative and entertaining way.

   Note that only 10% of music content must be slow and new songs or artists, unless it is at the heart of the premise of the show.

4. Jump on it! Make your content organized and ready to go. Avoid scripts that many words sound repeated. Write what you want to address in the form of points, large print, on paper or on your computer and "Just Do It." Subjects should be carefully studied; narrators must be well informed hearing or lose interest.
5. If you plan to do interviews on your program, it is important to keep the questions short and to the point. At one point, the matter may be lost or overwhelmed by too much text and the client may be confused and not respond or respond incorrectly. The question should be simple and simply written.

Start small, keep it short, and broadcast once a week. If your audience grows, you can increase the content accordingly. However, the timetable should be set in stone and easy for audiences to follow.

Marketing and promotion podcasts

Affiliate Marketing is a great resource for beginners. Visit sites sites that have content that relates to format of your show, or local companies looking to increase traffic, ie which allows the creation of a program called "Cooking with Stacey, which implies that there is also a popular local butcher to buy meat. If he (or she) has a website, you can go to the butcher and provide advertising for your cooking demonstrations at your site. In return, you do not forget to mention the cut of meat is great for the show at Vinny, etc.

When you create your own podcast and made available to the world, have to tell everyone and animates an audience listening.

Marketing maximizes the potential audience. With podcasting, there is always the possibility of generating income, but only if people are aware, and / or affected his performance. Successful podcasters understand the importance of awareness. If work does not shine in a crowded market, the product is invisible in the middle.

If now you are a podcaster with what could only be a popular show … Now you're wondering how to make sufficient profits to cover the cost of production. In my travels, I found some information on different ways of earning income from PodShow.

SMS or by telephone – This is equivalent to request a fee for each submission. Although very simple, is not the most reliable method. Think about it, why would anyone pay for something you can get free elsewhere? There are two versions of Micropayment employees in today's market.

1. Pay-Per View: think of movies on demand on your TV cable
2. Monthly subscription: your electricity bill

Google Adsense ads – your method of payment is based on the volume of traffic from your podcast.

Current income – often considered the most profitable, producers sell part of their podcast to a promoter recognized. Advertising is at the heart of the fair. Advertisers can pay a monthly fee basis to determine by the size of your hearing. The problem with this is that most viewers perceive this as a shameful betrayal.

Because the Internet is open to piracy, to ensure that its program is not there, free for anyone to access free, providers need one way of security to protect your work. Systems such as ticket-master and music stores have used images of checks to authenticate online downloads – and they have proved very effective.

Podcasting Benefits to use for your marketing campaign

Podcasting is an ideal way for relations public advertising for young audiences. So far, it is hardly regulated and visa rules usually focus Human Rights Copyright – blasphemy and sexuality are ****.

This is why podcasting is a medium of choice for companies such as Durex condoms – are able to reach your target market and not be censored. At the first use Durex podcasting as an advertising medium increased their traffic over the site three times the advertising in the "Dawn and Drew Show," only.

Another advantage of podcasting is an inherent ability to measure the return investors' investments (ROI). The return on investment can be determined analyzing sales performance in reference to the number of listeners who visit the website.

It has been demonstrated that advertising on television or radio does not have the same influence it has in the past. Not only do people become blind to the messages, but it is difficult to motivate people of non-action by action. When people are vegetating on the couch watching the tube, the odds they jump and go to their website because of a TV spot, is less likely if they are online, it is only the beginning and the consumer is surfing your site.

The advantages of using podcasting for its public relations campaign is multi-dimensional. All content is available, including newspaper articles and magazines, press releases, news, media communication and marketing can all be translated into podcasts and organized and circulated to all users Internet. Each customer must have new online resource that integrates all the website and public relations stories in a search engine ready. Remember that the personality of a brand "is the secret of the secrets of successful entertainment audio and video podcasting is no different, people should want to listen. Successful podcasters meet the need for information and promotion of vehicles turn in the form of stories attract the public with short attention spans.

No podcast is complete without a text blog detailing the problem. Attack on times means that search engines have more data to select and produce more favorable results.

There many ways the free flow of information to public relations experts. pioneer innovative ways to exploit new technologies in the transmission Messages from his client – Podcasting is just one of them. Remember, news agencies, websites, blogs, chats, discussion forums, viral buzz now and promotions can be easily converted podcasts.

Sharing reduces the cost of media advertising and increases its effect. Exchange Distribution By peers is a concept made familiar by Napster. People share more files using special software. In the recent past has been efforts to hack p2p music. But this is still a valid process that you can use in their own efforts to distribute your podcast. To function properly, both public and producers must embrace the P2P. Members of the public need a P2P software and bandwidth to help increase the efficiency network.

Is there a downside to P2P networks? Firewalls, slow connections and members of the public to turn their computers would reduce its effectiveness. It is also necessary there is an incentive for subscribers to participate. Thanks to a regular network is fewer steps, many users prefer other ways, more simple …

But now, say that members of the public PodShow embrace your new P2P network, PodShow all producer members must ensure that they are compatible and have p2p software support the increase. If producers are easy to understand the transfer of a new public use. This leads to a reduction in costs band.

Fresh medium

Podcasting is a way again. It was a complete marketing plan developed to ensure positive results of advertising in podcasts. Because the medium is still in its infancy, many advertisers do not know how to maximize their potential – the pioneers are still experimenting.

More sellers are gradually looking information hybrid entertainment / or what they call "programming oriented to enable them to deliver a strong message through traditional channels podcast. challenge "podcasting" is similar to including video on demand – What makes a brand must inform consumers on an ongoing basis beyond a message of buy me now? Mark as content producer is a trend that is unlikely to reduce short-term.

You can see the role of podcasting two ways: advertising to an audience early adoption and development of marketing podcasts created to deepen relationships with customers or prospects on their sites. A good example of this is "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" podcasts (www.bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Guy/Podcasts/) and published in HipTips episodes earlier. This is interesting on several levels, allowing the network to deepen the relationship between audience and characters, and is a quasi-free way build for the audience share between episodes.

Many networks sell advertising on their sites. To give a reason for others to visit the sites can increase traffic and maximize revenues. For more information on the above article go to: www.clickz.com/experts/brand/cmo/article.php/3520536

In the recent past, many sellers have become e-mail as a means appeal to consumers. This form of the market is losing its status as successful as consumers become increasingly intolerant of SPAM. Pheedo reports by integrating online advertising into an RSS feed, an online advertising technique that has achieved measurable results better than e-mail to your customer.

The online campaign for a free evaluation of IT has been conducted by www.infoworld.com specialized publication, which could provide direct access to IT professionals.

Pheedo says the effort has surpassed six weeks the highest rate of clicks on the e-mail for more than 26% compared to industry average CTR of 8.7% reported in Q4 2004 compared DoubleClick Email Trend. In addition, they were able to reduce CMP effective three times more this email, saving their clients thousands of dollars.

Pheedo client was the crisis email marketing campaign was due in part to the user experience Send unpleasant. A the benefits of placing ads in RSS son is that they are competing in a crowded open, SPAM and viruses from your inbox e-mail. In Furthermore, the marketing messages are becoming more victims of filters e-mail or on the Delete button.

RSS ads are many advantages over e-mails gaps. RSS is 100% opt-in. It has a flow rate of 100% and when it comes to a news aggregator of two panels, the supply a rate of 100% open.

The measures taken to ensure positive results:

1. Sign feeds read by professionals who meet the requirements of its clients target markets.
2. Understand complexities rather messy aggregators for the environment to ensure that ads are displayed properly, or appear with relevant content.
3. Pheedo technology specially developed to monitor RSS feeds for advertising purposes.

Podcasts are powerful weapons that can maximize the visibility of the brand, but control of their success is important. Currently, there are a variety of means to control relevant information – numbers, levels of satisfaction and even minute preferences.

www.feedburner.com is an editor of the most popular services available. It helps to control your food, the movement of the track and implement income-generating programs. Currently there are approximately 90,000 publishers benefit from the services of FeedBurner.

www.syndicateiq.com is another resource to help maximize the potential of podcasters. Syndicate IQ allows users to control their feed.

Although podcasting is proving to be a new and promising marketing tool, their deficiencies include the inability to target specific audiences.

1. "Publication of RSS is still facing many obstacles: traffic measurement (the customer) is almost impossible to do, which relegate RSS as a marketing tool to spread short term. "
2. "RSS is not in line with supply based promotional content, because it offers no guidance and the ability to customize e-mail.

Looking for resources?

For a free consultation services on podcasting and other e-marketing for your business Contact LCI 416-408-4669, info@lifecaptureinteractive.com , or visit www.lifecaptureinteractive.com .

Sources:

www.pheedo.com

www.howtopodcastforprofit.com

www.jupiterresearch.com / bin / item.pl / home

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