Learn how to podcast and blog to to establish thought leadership, extend your brand and engage your target market

The first module of the Professional Podcasting Course 2007 was all about the basic of blogs, podcasting and RSS. It contains very non-techie explanations and serves as a foundation for the rest of the course.

For 2008 I’m adding lots of new information to the course and have decided to remove the previous first module and provide it here on the blog for free. Below is the first installment of this entitled, What is a Blog?

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Distracted by Fulfillment Factors

Last week I introduced the idea of identifying your fulfillment factors to help you be a better content creator, business owner and even liver of life.

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Survey Says

A while back I sent out a survey to the community to find out what podcast producers wanted to learn about most. I was intrigued by how things had changed since 2005 when I first started podcast consulting. The results also offer some very important insights for your own podcast.

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Here’s a quick audio message with some important updates about:

• The Podcasting Underground podcast
• The Professional Podcasting Course
• Upcoming content on this blog
• Other courses and services to be launched later this year

A lot of people have been emailing me about The Professional Podcasting course asking when they can enroll. The latest on that is in the audio.

This post begins a series of posts that goes to the basis of everything I do as a podcaster and business owner. At first glance you may wonder why I’m sharing them on a blog about online content creation, but I guarantee they will help you produce better content, connect more effectively with your audience, make more money and have more fun!

Let’s talk about something that too many business owners either have too much of, have to little of or are controlled by when they don’t have any of it at all… Continue reading »

I’ve tried to post something new to this blog multiple times over the past couple weeks, but each time I struggled to come up with something worth publishing. The truth is I’ve felt stuck.

Sure, I could just post a new technique, tool or tutorial (and I plan to continue doing so), but every time I sat down to write there was a mental block. I finally found the source of the problem. Continue reading »

I’ve had podcast monetization buzzing around in my head this week and I’ve come to a conclusion. If you want to start making real money, then stop being a podcaster.

Is there deliberate shock value in that statement? Sure. But it’s incredibly important to understand what I mean if you’re podcasting and have financial aspirations.

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FeedBurner just announced a new feature that I’ve been wanting for quite awhile. Now you can transfer a feed from one account/login to another. If you’ve been using separate logins for different feeds, you know that it can be a pain to deal with. (Or maybe you were smarting than me and just used one account to begin with.) The process, however, is not as straight forward as outlined on their site.

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Does your WordPress theme keep changing back to the boring default theme?

Over on my Podcasting Underground I’m dealing with this ongoing frustration and I just learned other bloggers are faced with it as well. I go back into my WordPress admin and change back to my chosen theme, but then sometimes a soon as one day later it reverts to the default.

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Recently Fred Castaneda interviewed me on his podcast for entrepreneurs and grilled me about how I went from being a software engineer, to an internet marketer to a podcaster to a resident of Argentina.

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