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UPDATE: On February 6th, 2014, I announced that I had shut down the Podcast Mastermind after two years. I have left this post here, to serve as an archive of how I announced this organization that I led for two years. If you would like to hear why I shut down the Podcast Mastermind, even […] The post 246 Podcast Answer Man – The Podcast Mastermind appeared first on The Cliff Ravenscraft Show .

How Do I Get Rid of This Hiss Sound? Tom called in and told us that he had a hiss sound when he talks into his microphone. While I didn't have enough information to diagnose his problem, I did share how I typically go about troubleshooting such issues. The key is going through, step by […] The post 245 Podcast Answer Man – PDF Files In Your Feed – Are Facebook Fan Pages A Thing of The Past? – Inte...

Building Community From From The Hospital I started this episode off by sharing that I spent this past weekend in the hospital. I mentioned that if you wanted to know why I was in the hospital, you could read all about it in my blog post found at http://gspn.tv/hospital2012. I made the decision to share […] The post 244 Podcast Answer Man – Streaming On The iPad – Building Community From From The...

Producing Less For The Purpose of Greater Production During the open of last week's episode of Podcast Answer Man, I hinted that I was considering the thought of producing less shows moving forward. As I share in this episode, the reason is that I want to maximize the value of any of the work that […] The post 243 Podcast Answer Man – Producing Less Good Content To Focus On Producing More Great Co...

Less Shows Moving Forward? One of the thing that puzzles me is the number of people who seem to want to follow in my footsteps of creating a large number of podcasts. Since I started podcasting in December of 2005, I have launched at least 24 of my very own podcasts. At one point, I […] The post 242 Podcast Answer Man – Less Shows Moving Forward? Facebook Like Button Info – Get Glue – Stitcher – I...

Not A Fan of FeedValidator.org Gordon called to say that when he ran his rss feed through FeedValidator.org, he found that it was reporting errors with his rss feed. He wanted to know if I had any thoughts on what might be causing some of these issues. In response to Gordon, I pretty much shared […] The post 241 Podcast Answer Man – Not A Fan of Feed Validator – More Than One Podcast With A Single...

Celebrating Six Years of Podcasting! It was December 16th, 2005 when I published my very first audio podcast to the web. Little did I know that this event would radically transform my life. I started off this week's episode of Podcast Answer Man with my thoughts from six years of creating audio content for the […] The post 240 Podcast Answer Man – LiveFire Review – Embedded Tweets – Static Vs Dyna...

Please Spread The Word! This week, I started the episode off by talking about my good friends Barry and Lynne Morgan, from SimpleGoodLifeNetwork.com. Many of you may recall that I interviewed Barry and Lynne back in episode 208 of Podcast Answer Man. Barry emailed me a few weeks ago to let me know that he […] The post 239 Podcast Answer Man – God Is Bigger Than Cancer – Wooden Boats – And More app...

The Canon HF G10 Camera This week, I started the episode off by talking about how and why I have been dabbling with video more and more lately. Those who know me, know that I am a strong believer that there is more power in audio podcasting than there is in video podcasting. However, I […] The post 238 Podcast Answer Man – Audio Levels – Apple Fixes Artwork Preview with iTunes 10-5-1 – And Much Mo...

A Video Blog Style Update: Every now and then, I like to sit and think about all the wonderful things I have experienced on my journey in pursuing the work that I love and feel called to. If I were to talk about all the blessings that have come my way in 2011, the video […] The post 237 Podcast Answer Man – Video Blog Update – November 2011 appeared first on The Cliff Ravenscraft Show .

My Interview With Leo Laporte Folks, I am so excited to share this interview with with you. There is no doubt that this will forever be one of my all time favorite episodes of Podcast Answer Man. I'd encourage you to watch the interview via the video that I have embedded below. At the same […] The post 236 Podcast Answer Man – Leo Laporte Interview – The Power of Podcasting appeared first on The C...

My BlogWorld LA 2011 Talk I am so excited to share my BlogWorld LA 2011 talk with you here in this episode of Podcast Answer Man. The talk was titled “Forget CPM! Proven Strategies For Generating Serious Income From Your Podcasting Efforts.” The audio of this is included in the podcast feed. However, I'm also […] The post 235 Podcast Answer Man – Proven Strategies For Generating Serious Income Fro...

Very Important Note: On Thursday, January 5th, 2012, I recorded several shows for my gspn.tv production network where I mentioned that I had shared A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT about the future of gspn.tv content. Unfortunately, in most of those episodes, I told folks to be sure and check out episode 234 of Podcast Answer Man to […] The post 234 Podcast Answer Man – BlogWorld LA Review – Meeting Leo Lapor...

Podcamp Cincinnati Reactions I kick off this episode of Podcast Answer Man by giving my reactions the first ever, Podcamp Cincinnati. I share why I felt that this was one of the best Podcamp experiences to date. Missing Artwork Previews On The Mac Katie Davis called in to say that she watched the video on […] The post 233 Podcast Answer Man – Missing Artwork Previews – Podcast Hosting – MDX 4600 –...

Very Important Announcements Hey folks, I had to release this very special episode to provide a few very time sensitive announcements. Please take a few moments to have a listen to this brief episode to learn what I've got planned for my trip to the West Coast. Here is some important information from the announcements […] The post 232 Podcast Answer Man – TWiT & LA Meetup Announcement! appeare...

How Do I Set Up Email With My Podcast? Mark called in and shared that he is setting up his podcast so that his website is running on WordPress and his media files will be hosted with Libsyn. He states that he is having a difficult time figuring out how to get email set up […] The post 231 Podcast Answer Man – Four Figure Per Episode Sponsorship And More! appeared first on The Cliff Ravenscraft Sho...

Have You Asked Yourself Why? In has been six years since I was first introduced to the world of audio podcasting. You only need to go through the information on my about page to learn just how much of a profound impact podcasting has had on my life. Last week, I was interviewed by John […] The post 230 Podcast Answer Man – Why Do I Do What I Do? appeared first on The Cliff Ravenscraft Show .

Big Things Happening In Other Areas of Life: I'm excited to bring to bring you this episode of Podcast Answer Man. As the show starts, I mentioned a few links that you can check out to see what has been going on in some other areas of my life over the past few weeks. Here […] The post 229 Podcast Answer Man – What Will 2GB Get You? appeared first on The Cliff Ravenscraft Show .

This episode is far different from my normal Podcast Answer Man episode, especially when it comes to production quality. However, I have been wanting to do this sort of episode for quite some time to demonstrate just what can be done with a single digital audio recorder and a little post production work. This entire […] The post 228 Podcast Answer Man – With Only A Digital Audio Recorder appeared...

Why My Show Has Been Posting Late I start this episode by answering the #1 question that I've been asked over the past 24 hours. Whenever I don't get my Podcast Answer Man episode posted online by Friday afternoon, I get a lot of emails and notes vial social networks asking if there was a […] The post 227 Podcast Answer Man – Podcast Awards – Katie Davis – Condenser Mics – And More appeared first...

Making Yourself Newsworthy In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I am happy to share an interview that I did with Joel Bogges & Pei Kang from http://4PointsCoaching.com. The reason I brought them on the show was to talk about the idea of making yourself newsworthy so that you can leverage the local, traditional, media […] The post 226 Podcast Answer Man – Making Yourself Newsworthy appeared f...

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I share two stories that I hope will inspire those of you who have been sitting on the sidelines, just waiting for the right moment to launch your podcast. Many of you are already familiar with my story of how I started podcasting, as a hobby about something […] The post 225 Podcast Answer Man – Start Podcasting Today! You Never Know Where It Will Take You! –...

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I share the following: Check out http://BusinessTechWeekly.com Use http://Repportive.com to connect with your audience Free Podcasting 101 Webinar – http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/pod101 Webinar Bridge Plugin – http://WebinarBridge.com Thoughts on Katie's clipping audio issue. iTunes Ratings – http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/itunesratings PowerPress 2.0.4 Display Se...

In this episode of Podcast Answer Man, I cover the following topics: How to update feed titles within Feedburner. Podcast voicemail options – http://PodcastAnswerMan.com/voicemail I'm speaking at Financial Blogger Conference – http://FinancialBloggerConference.com Chicago Meetup on Friday Sept 30th – http://gspn.tv/chicagomeetup Podcamp Cincinnati Oct 22nd – http://PodcampCincinnati.com Thoughts o...

Buzzing Noises When Connecting To A Computer – Ground Loop Have you ever had everything set up and working perfectly with your microphone, mixer, and digital audio recorder only to go and bring in either sound clips or a Skype co-host into the mix, via a computer connected to your mixer, and end up with […] The post 222 Podcast Answer Man – Ground Loop Isolator And More appeared first on The Cliff...