Podcast Marketing – How to Promote Your Business Using Podcasts

[ZekeLL]

Podcasting is blogging with audio instead of text. Essentially, you post an MP3 file instead of an article.

5 Reasons Why Podcasts Are Great
1. An increasing number of people are downloading new podcasts every day.
2. Unlike TV, podcast can be played whenever the listener wants.
3. People can listen to them in their cars on their way to work or when they go for a run. You will get their full attention.
4. There is a lot less competition in the podcast market than there is in the article market.
5. Podcasting is a lot easier and less time-consuming than blogging and getting your articles published.

5 Steps to Producing a Podcast
1. Download Audacity at Audacity: Download or any other audio editing tool.
2. Get a good microphone.
3. Write the script (so the podcast doesn’t sound improvised and amateurish).
4. Record it in a noise-free environment.
5. Apply the noise-reduction filter in your audio editing software and save the podcast file.

Where You Can Submit Your Podcast
PodOMatic - podOmatic - Create, Find, Share Podcasts!
Podcast Alley - PodcastAlley.com -- The place to find Podcasts
iTunes - Apple - iTunes
Yahoo Podcasts - http://podcasts.yahoo.com/
Digg Podcasts - http://digg.com/podcasts
Podcast Directory - PodcastDirectory.com | The big directory
Podcast Pickle - Podcast Pickle
PodFeed - Podcast directory, podcast reviews and podcasting resource : Podfeed.net
Odeo - Odeo: Search, Discover and Share Digital Media from Millions of Audio and Video Clips
Digital Podcast - Digital Podcast | Best Podcast Directory | Get Free Podcasts
Podcast.net - http://www.podcast.net/
Singing Fish - Video - AOL Video
Blog Universe - Blog Directory - Human Edited*:: Blog - Video Blog - Podcast
All Podcasts - AllPodcasts :: Every Podcast, Indexed and Searchable
Big Contact - Big Contact : Professional Audio & Video Distribution Tools
Collectik - http://collectik.net/collectik/
PodNova - PodNova | The best way to find, subscribe to, share, play and download your podcasts and vodcasts.
PodTech - PodTech.net

How to Save a Lot of Time When You Submit Your Podcast
I absolutely love these two tools because they submit your podcasts to the major podcast directories for free and they save you a lot of time.

PodPusher - Podcast submission service. Fast tagging and posting of podcasts to all major podcast directories - PodPusher.com
Pod Submitter - PodSubmitter - bringing podcasting together!