Podcast Gear: What you’ll need for a successful podcast
- Microphone
- Audio recording software
- Podcast Manager & Hosting
- A computer
- Time
- A smooth radio voice (optional)
Tips for Hopeful Podcasters
- Make sure your feed is iTunes valid.
- Make sure your feed is in the directories.
- Make sure you ping the appropriate services such as FreshPodcasts (see below) after you update your show.
- Get familiar with your sound editor—try to play a round with it a few times before taking the full leap into the podcast.
- If you wish for the RSS feed to work in Apple iTunes, you must add special field
- Make sure the RSS podcast feed is valid.
- Make sure your podcast is hosted by a reliable server that can handle huge bandwidth spikes. Be wary of cheap hosting services will not work for this.
- Be exciting—always have something fresh and new to talk about and bring guest on to diversify the conversations
- If you’re playing music, make sure to get the rights to the song or songs you wish to play
















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RSSjust saying just like DeJay Neeley i dont care either
ps. I dont care if this is from wikihow... just saying :P
You should try to record your podcast a minute or 2 at a time. You can use the audio editing software to combine it all together in the end and no one would ever know.
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