Okay right, let’s get to it. Today, my aim is to try and cover:

- Podcasting (this will be applicable to non-podcasters too)
- Engagement
- Building your audience

& more. How does that sound?

So let’s start with Podcasting. This is the

📌Podcasting thread
In addition to being an avid podcast listener, I also co-host @girlinskies with @XolieNc.

I also conceptualised @Wamagaisa’s #BSRPodcast & lead on the post-production of it.
Just a mention of some of my experience in this space.

As I go along, feel free to ask any questions
🎧So you want to start a podcast?

If you’ve been thinking about starting a podcast, this is the question you should ask yourself?

💭Would I do it if no-one listened and I never made money from it?💭

If the answer is yes! Then yes, go ahead.
🎧 Plan, plan, plan

Start with being clear about what your objective is and how you’re going to get there.

What do you want to talk about?
Why does it matter?

I’m a fan of POP model when starting anything. This will act as your guide in your journey of content creation
🎧 POP is

Purpose (Why?)
Outcome (What?)
Process (How?)

As creatives, this is the “boring” bit but a roadmap is very important. These are models used in corporate settings but you can adopt it too.

This is relevant for any content creation

rjweanfdn.org/wp-content/upl…
🎧 📌Making a podcast

If you can afford to, do try and find a good studio or community radio station that will let you use their equipment to record.

If that’s not an option you can record at home or on your phone. This video has helpful pointers

🎧 📌 Sound

Your sound is very important. We don’t necessarily pay attention to “good sound” but we know what bad sound is.

Sound is definitely one of the most important things to get right with your podcast. For at home recording, this is one I use but see link for full video
There’s so much on YouTube with regards to good microphones. Check out this video from @buzzsprout
🎧📌 “I’ve recorded an episode - I’m ready for the world to listen. What next?”

You can consider a podcast hosting site to distribute your podcast. There are hosting sites such as @anchor @buzzsprout @podbean etc. Most of these sites will then get your podcast on Spotify, Apple
🚨 However, please do your research with these as most of the free hosting sites have limitations. These include incomplete analytics - if you opt for them to submit your podcast then you are reliant on their analytics.
🚨 Some of the terms & conditions suggest they have greater control over how they use, manipulate your content. This means little if podcasting is a hobby only.

thepodcasthost.com/planning/using…
🎧If you prefer greater control of your content. You can use sites like @SoundCloud.

There’s a cost as soundcloud only allows 3 hours free content then you’ll have to pay. When you upload your podcast, you’ll get an RSS feed link.
🎧The RSS feed is what you’ll use to submit your podcast to popular podcast platforms such as @Spotify @ApplePodcasts Google Podcast
🎧 Getting your podcast on @ApplePodcasts
🎧How to submit your podcast to Spotify

podcasters.spotify.com
🎧Add your podcast to Google Podcast

support.google.com/googleplay/pod…
📌So now you have your podcast up & running. How do you build it?

Just some of my suggestions

1. Sound
2. Be yourself
3. Be consistent
4. Engage, engage, engage
📌 This covered some of “Making a podcast”

Remember, there’s a wealth of information online.

There are many other ways you can go about putting your podcast out but I hope that this was helpful.

Any questions? Also, if you’re a podcaster- please reply with your pod & links
📌 Next thread, we’re going to talk about Creating Engaging Content!
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💡

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💡Be consistent

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