How-Tos How to Convince Your Boss a Podcast Is Right for You We aim to give you all the tools to convince your boss to let your inner Marc Maron go wild.
Podcast Help 6 Free Ways to Grow Your Podcast Audience With a few small steps, you can start to see your numbers grow pretty quickly.
How-Tos How To Source Episode Content So You're Not a Burned-Out Husk By Episode Ten How do you put an end to burnout? Lots of brainstorming and staying in touch with the latest news and culture will keep your mind full of great episode ideas.
Podcast Help Getting to One Million Listeners Lex Rofeberg of the popular podcast Judaism Unbound recently surpassed the million-listen milestone with the help of Simplecast. To celebrate this awesome achievement, we spent some time chatting with Lex about his podcasting journey.
Podcast Help Five Podcasting Classes to Get Your Show Off the Ground and to Your Listeners Sure, you can test-and-learn your way to a great show, but you can also cut down on the time that process takes by stealing some tips from the pros.
Interviews When’s the Right Time to Sell Merch? Q&A with Cotton Bureau’s Co-Founder, Nate Peretic We get a lot of questions from podcasters about merch–when's the right time to start making it? how do you handle shipping it? can you actually make money?–so we chatted with Nate Peretic, co-founder of Cotton Bureau.
Podcast Help Smart Recirculation: Making the Most of Older Content You've got a huge back catalogue of episodes–how can you make them work for you?
Podcast Help How to Host the Perfect Listening Party One great way to gently ease your nascent podcast out of its cocoon–and probably pick up a few loyal fans in the process–is to host an in-person listening party.
Podcast Help How to Make First-Time Podcast Guests (or Any Guests!) Feel Comfortable on Your Show What can you do to help your podcast guests feel comfortable? Take a few lessons from Jeanine after her first time guesting on a show!
Podcast Help 6 Ways To Know Your Podcast Marketing Is Working–Besides Downloads How do you know all the time you're spending on marketing is paying off? Downloads are a great place to start, but they're not the be-all, end-all.
DIYs How To Build A $20k Podcast Studio For $2k A few weeks back, when Rob Arturi popped into the Simplecast Members Forum to say he had built a modular, custom recording booth that also worked for video, and had done it for $2k instead of $20-30k, we sat up and took notice.
Podcast Help 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting–That Aren't Sponsorship! So, you want to start monetizing your podcast, but you think you're not quite ready to go out there and pitch sponsors? We happen to disagree but, we pulled together a few monetization options for you anyways.
Podcast Help How (and Why!) To Find The Best Guests For Your Show What do Law & Order: SVU, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and, maybe, your podcast have in common? They've all got guest appearances!
Podcast Help 6 Steps to Get Started with Podcast Sponsorships There are a lot of ways to monetize, but for today, we’re going to focus on one of the big ones: sponsorships.
Podcast Help Our Favorite Facebook Groups for Podcast Creators As much as we love going to conferences and meetups, we also know that some locations don't have a large base of podcast creators–and travel is expensive!
How-Tos So You Got Your First Bad Review. Now What? It happens to everyone eventually (really!)–your first negative review. That sinking feeling in your stomach? Totally normal, don't worry!
Podcast Help All the Gear You Need to Get Started Podcasting Low-quality podcast gear or equipment that’s just ill-suited for your environment can really hold you back. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend a million dollars just to get decent sound, either.
Podcast Help 14 Ways to Show Your Audience Love We'll leave the greeting cards and chocolate and stick to podcasting. Namely, how to show your audience how much you love them!
Podcast Help Small (But Important!) Podcasting Benchmarks to Celebrate Podcast benchmarking and taking the time to celebrate small successes is just as important as acknowledging failures.
Podcast Help A Master Class in Episode Art From Scotty Russell We were absolutely obsessed when we saw Scotty Russell's amazing artwork for each of his episodes, so we asked him a little bit about his process, what he's learned making unique art for his show, and if other podcasters can leverage making striking artwork for their show.
Podcast Help Absolutely Everything You Need To Start Your Podcast: Sharing Once you have all the elements of your podcast (such as the audio file, artwork, episode title, and show notes), it’s time to learn how to make it available for your audience.
Answers from an Actual Lawyer Answers from an Actual Lawyer: Do I own my podcast? Don’t be fooled by the “don’t worry, you own your content” lingo some vendors like to tout.
Podcast Help How Can You Use YouTube To Benefit Your Podcast? If you’ve been asking “should I put my podcast on YouTube?” the answer is… kinda.
