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Re: 10 Really Great Email Newsletters

Frank Angelone — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:21:13 -0000

Tim Ferriss has a great newsletter called Five Bullet Friday which I always look forward to reading. It's given me some great suggestions on new TV shows to check out like Mr. Robot or a movie to watch called The Man Who Knew Infinity. Both of which, I still need to check out.

Re: What You Need to Know to Launch a Successful Podcast

Frank Angelone — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:49:17 -0000

I highly recommend when starting off that you interview guests on your show that already have an audience. This will help bring credibility to your podcast and bring the possibility to have some of your guests' audience become subscribers to your podcast.

Re: Analyzing Your Content With Google Analytics: How to Know What Works

Frank Angelone — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:05:28 -0000

If you're referring to how he's capturing his screen, there are both paid and free screen recording solutions out there. A free option, I definitely would recommend is called Screencast-O-Matic. Is there something you're looking to do in particular?

Re: What to do about a fearful dog

Frank Angelone — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:45:42 -0000

I suggest putting the leash on your dog when he's in a calm state and practicing the exercise with somebody entering the room. When he starts barking, you can correct him without any sound. The brain needs to be snapped out of its current state and by you remaining calm throughout this exercise, you can redirect the dog's behavior, but only with practice will it improve, and most importantly...you have to remain calm and feel that what you're expecting to happen will happen to transfer that energy to your dog. Dog's have the ability to learn. However, if you're in a nervous state of mind and you always have that feeling that he's going to bark, you're going to transfer that energy to him. Cesar has said that there's no need to use sound and by telling him to "hush", that's going to create the exact opposite behavior you want. Telling the dog to "hush" doesn't mean anything to them and when they are in that panic state of mind, they won't hear you. All they're doing is associating your frustration with their frustration and thus mimicking your state of mind. Also, consider how everyone is feeling when your husband enters the room. Is your husband entering in an excited manner or calm manner? Using the leash is a great tool for redirecting and removing unwanted behavior. Just don't tense up on the leash and only use a correction when the dog starts the unwanted behavior. Once the barking stops, you remove any tension from the leash so the dog learns that how they're currently behaving is what you want. Hope it all works out for you.

Re: 7 Surprising Reasons That Reddit Is A Waste Of Time

Frank Angelone — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:20:14 -0000

Well said! I don't even waste my time with that site. It's definitely interesting to see that a decent number of other people feel the same way I do.

Re: Dear Vince . . . Maybe If We Just Eliminated Monday As a Day of the Week

Frank Angelone — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:06:34 -0000

I agree 100% with you, Vince. I was watching an old episode of Smackdown on the WWE Network, when Smackdown was a relevant show and when the WWE had two impactful shows to tune into. Now Smackdown is irrelevant and RAW is beyond awful and boring. However, back to my original point, while watching this old episode of Smackdown, the very first match was between the Dudley Boys and the Hardy Boys. For something that took place about 15 years ago and to see the story they told in the ring and how everything they did had a purpose...they had me caring about the match. I was entertained. Now, I don't see any of that. There's not one wrestler I care about on that roster...not one. It's a shame it's come down to this, but I truly believe Vince needs another product to compete with him at some level to initiate or I should rather say force him to make a more compelling TV show. For someone who is 26 years old and has been watching wrestling since I was 8, I feel like I'll never see entertaining wrestling again. CM Punk was for me a flash from the past and when he left, it certainly seem to hurt WWE. They just seem like they can't recover. One guy isn't going to change the business, but they need more people from creative to care, the talent to stand out and not be predictable, but most importantly, Vince McMahon needs to care.

Re: 200 Episodes of #AskPat Later: Revenue and My Top 5 All-Time Favorites!

Frank Angelone — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:47:56 -0000

Glad to help, Warren! I would be happy to answer any other questions you may have. Feel free to email me frank@socialtechzone.com

Re: 200 Episodes of #AskPat Later: Revenue and My Top 5 All-Time Favorites!

Frank Angelone — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:03:53 -0000

The best way to find advertisers is to listen to podcasts who have advertisers on it and visit the contact page of those companies and reach out to them. That's what I've always done. However, they are looking for shows with consistency and tens of thousands of downloads an episode for it to be worth their while. I hope that helps!

Re: 200 Episodes of #AskPat Later: Revenue and My Top 5 All-Time Favorites!

Frank Angelone — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:00:49 -0000

It's a sticky sidebar. Here's a WordPress plugin that does the effect you're looking for https://wordpress.org/plugi.... There is another option I found, but that solution costs money. If you wanted to know more about the paid solution as well, just let me know!

Re: 200 Episodes of #AskPat Later: Revenue and My Top 5 All-Time Favorites!

Frank Angelone — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:54:53 -0000

From my experiences with reaching out to sponsors for my shows and talking directly to their marketing department, companies like Squarespace or Stamps.com are looking for a minimum of 10,000 downloads an episode. They're looking for larger audiences to know that their return on investment is going to be worth their time. Essentially, those promo codes you see advertised are the tracking methods.

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:22:56 -0000

There seems to be a lot of debate on this topic, but I have been podcasting since 2008 and have my podcast with my hosting provider and not a separate media hosting company. My personal opinion is that neither is wrong, but personal preference. Some recommend a media hosting service because they specialize in that field. However, sometimes people can forget that not everyone can afford two separate hosting accounts. I have not had a problem with the way I do things and have recently upgraded my server as well. A dedicated server is a very effective solution as you mentioned interest in doing. I have spoken with my hosting company before about uploading media and any issues with that and I have not had any problems reported. Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:25:52 -0000

Products like the Yeti made by Blue Microphones are good products. I've used their Blue snowflake and it still provides solid quality at more of an intermediate level. When you want to move to a more professional level, I'd either recommend going with a Heil microphone, which requires a mixer...or to say yourself time, what I do is use a $100 USB microphone, the Audio Technica AT2020 USB Microphone. I still use it to this day and it's phenomenal.

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:23:48 -0000

The best way to address the excess noise is to record audio on separate tracks when podcasting with a guest. When recording a show by yourself (and with a guest) always utilize headphones to reduce echo and it's best when those headphones are noise cancelling. Were you currently running into these issues?

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:21:04 -0000

The platforms the majority of people tend to publish their podcast on are iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. These platforms have the most engaged users and these platforms are how the majority of listeners are consuming podcasts. Since most people either have an iPhone or Android device, the utilization of Blackberry and Zune are outdated and will not provide you the same potential user base to reach as the mainstream options I listed. What platforms have you submitted your podcast to thus far?

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:17:12 -0000

Most people do create their show notes themselves. There are some who do have their podcast episodes transcribed, but most require money. Was this something you were willing to spend a little money on? If you prefer to do it yourself, what I do is I listed back to each episode I record and write down the bullet points on each topic covered so I can just use that as my show notes and this makes things a lot easier. Does that answer your question? If not, just let me know :-)

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:01:19 -0000

Hey Larry,

For recording my podcast I use an Audio Technica AT2020 USB microhone. It is $100 on Amazon and produces great quality and and I couldn't be happier with it. It is plug n' play too, which was a huge selling point for me.

Let me know if you have any questions.

-Frank

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:55:41 -0000

Hi Kara,

In terms of your first question, you mention PowerPress will not validate. Are you referring to the WordPress plugin? Is your site over HTTPS?

I personally host my podcast with my hosting provider, but I have heard great things about Libsyn too. I would make Soundcloud as secondary for sure.

For your second question, yes, you would need to upload episodes manually. iTunes reads the RSS feed to update automatically. However, it seems like your Soundcloud feed is on iTunes and in order for iTunes to know a new episode exists, you would havd to upload the episode to Soundcloud so that when iTunes hits your feed they will know to update it. You can have multiple feeds in iTunes, but if you don't want duplicates, you will want to remove the old feed.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

-Frank

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:39:46 -0000

Can you send me an email to frank@socialtechzone.com, please? I have some resources I can email you to make custom templates easier.

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:34:14 -0000

Hi JC. The first question I have is, is your site currently running on WordPress? I see your podcast episodes are a list of links which link off to posts with your show notes. From what I understand, you would like what Pat has where there's a post preview, with the opportunity to click through to view the show notes, correct?

I've created custom page templates within WordPress before and it is technical and I wasn't sure if you were familiar with coding, so I wanted to check with you on that too.

Once I receive your responses on those questions, I'll be better able to direct you down the right path that works for your current situation.

Re: Niche Site UPGRADE: Security Guard Training Headquarters

Frank Angelone — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:59:06 -0000

When it comes to spacing around the ad, you will want to use padding, not margin. Where you trying to enter the code yourself along with the AdSense snippet? Do you have an example of what you were trying to do with that plugin? I could take a look for you.

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:41:25 -0000

That's completely your call and what your budget is like. Personally, I wanted good quality audio, which can make or break a podcast. Getting equipment early on is what I prefer.

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:34:47 -0000

Have you tried removing the corresponding post related to the episode? iTunes simply reads the feed of the post and looks for the audio reference. By removing the post that the episode is connected to, you would be updating your feed for iTunes.

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:31:14 -0000

In terms of up and running...were you asking in terms of getting your first episode published in iTunes?

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:29:27 -0000

On what platform were you looking to have people "pre-subscribe" - iTunes or the website?

Re: How to Start a Podcast: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial

Frank Angelone — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:27:09 -0000

You need to publish a post each time you produce a new episode. The post itself doesn't have to be long, but does need the link to your MP3 file included using a plugin like the free Blubrry Podcasting Plugin. The reason you need to publish a post each time you release an episode is because iTunes for example reads the audio file via an RSS feed which it pulls from your blog. To create that RSS feed most people use Feedburner, which I use as well.