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Some podcasting colleagues and I have put together a collection of the best “how to” content for podcasters to be syndicated as an ongoing podcast station on Podango called the Podcast Mastery Network (this link won’t be active until Mar 5th). I’ve asked some of my favorite podcasters to participate in the station and share their best podcasting tips and tricks.

The station will include content from Paul Colligan (Podcast Tools & Profitable Podcasting), John Havens (About.com Guide to Podcasting), Charles Stricklin (Podcast Planning), Leesa Barnes (Podonomics) and myself. The station launches on March 5th.

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In an interesting bit of news, a press release has been put out announcing that Libsyn (a pioneer in podcast hosting) will be acquired by Wizzard Software (who specialize in speech software). This doesn’t strike me as the most obvious of match ups, but it sounds like they have some things planned. From the press release:

The acquisition combines the world’s largest and fastest growing podcast network with Wizzard’s expertise in speech technology integration, creating a powerful new service for podcasters worldwide.

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Viral marketing is an effective and economical way to spread the work about your podcast. The first thing you have to do to instigate viral marketing is to offer quality content. Then invite your listeners to share your podcast with other people who would find it interesting. Invite them to forward your podcast to their friends and colleagues.

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One of my podcasts, Internet Business Mastery, has started to surpass it’s daily bandwidth limit. Of course, in the end, this is a good thing. It means our audience is growing. We’ve had a couple months where the subscriber numbers have doubled. But it also means our host keeps shutting down the site.

After being shut down twice for having too much traffic, we decided it was time to change something. We signed up for a Libsyn account.

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If you’re looking for a host for your podcast, it’s important to find a one that offers these four things:

1. Plenty of Bandwidth

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