Podcasting
Let Website Visitors Listen To Your Blog
Tweet During last night’s Open Source Marketer Wednesday Member’s Webinar we talked about how you can use the Odiogo Listen Button to create a Text Content Factory that adds text-to-speech audio player to your blog. Odiogo provides a free services that turns your text blog posts into spoken audio. Website visitors can either click the play button on the built in audio player... More...
A Sample Podcast Interview
Tweet Recently I gave a talk on creating podcasts to the Frisco Internet Entrepreneurs Meetup Group in Dallas, Texas. As part of the presentation we did a live podcasting demonstration to show just how easy it is to interview an expert. Attendees were able to see the process take shape in front of them and they got an opportunity to learn that interviewing an expert is just like having... More...
Streaming Podcasts Directly To The iPhone
Tweet According to the 2009 Podast Consumer Report, 43% of Americans have heard of podcasting and 22% actively listen to podcasts. Apple alone has sold 218 million iPods and 30 million iPhones all of which play podcasts. But with all these positive numbers showing growing support for podcasting, there’s still one major problem with the technology. There are just to many steps for... More...
Interview With A Love Kung Fu Artist
Tweet Can being a Love Kung Fu artist help you increase your customer base and make you more efficient too? Well, I can guarantee anything, but it has certainly worked for Mark Berry of LoveKungFu.com. Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark and he told me about several creative ideas he’s used to build up his online life coaching business. Using word of mouth advertising,... More...
How John McCain Lost The Presidential Race
Tweet What can we learn as Internet Marketers from the 2008 Presidential race for the White House? Before we answer that, let’s look at how John McCain failed to leverage the Internet to promote his campaign. Was John McCain the victim of a biased news media during the 2008 Presidential race to the White House? Maybe so. But, what ultimately hurt John McCain’s campaign... More...
BrightKite Improves On Twitter Style Social Networking
Tweet Online social networking is still a very young industry and because of that there is still a ton of room for new ideas that can stretch and grow the current social landscape. BrightKite is a new social networking player that’s bringing fresh ideas to the table. BrightKite combines a Twitter like social update service with mobile technologies to create a better networking experience. Through... More...
Blogging Tips From WordCamp Dallas 2008
Tweet Here are a few notes from John Pozadzides at OneMansBlog.com. He’s giving the presentation on 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog at WordCamp Dallas 2008. I’m not going to list all 45 tips in this update, but here are a few interesting ones for you. Use English Names for Images Descriptive and accurate titles are essential Use title elements on every hypertext link Pick the... More...
How To Add Blog Audio Using A Cell Phone
Tweet In article one, How To Create Text To Speech Blog Posts, of this three part series we used a free service to convert your text blog posts into downloadable audio files. In article two, How To Add Podcast Audio To Blog Posts, we examined what it takes to add a podcast to your blog. In this third and final article in the series we are going to learn how you can use your cell phone... More...
How To Add Podcast Audio To Blog Posts
Tweet In the previous article of this three part series on adding audio to your blog we explored Talkr.com as a solution for offering text to speech audio publishing on your blog. In this article we’re going to cover the fundamentals of what it takes to include a podcast in your blog posts. Podcasting is very popular and a natural extension of blogging. But, before we get into the... More...
How To Create Text-To-Speech Blog Posts
Tweet UPDATE: Originally, this article covered the Talkr service for adding text-to-speech to your blog. Unfortunately Talkr doesn’t seem to be updating their service, so you if you’re interested in a long term solution for adding text-to-speech to your blog, you might want to take a look at the Odiogo Listen Button. Odiogo provides a free services that automatically turns... More...
How To Conduct A Successful Phone Interview
Tweet If you are looking for creative ways to generate content and value for your blog readers or podcast listeners, then consider hosting a recorded call with someone who is an expert in you topic of interest. The recorded call can be turned into a downloadable MP3 as part of a series of audios, as content for a podcast, or as the basis for articles on your blog. You can even have the... More...
Learn To Use Google Trending For Your Advertising and Marketing Efforts
Tweet Understanding developing trends can be an important aspect of creating marketing campaigns to promote your product or service. Before Google was born, most trending information was collected offline by the government or private survey companies. This data, if it was publicly available, was either expensive to get or out of date by several years. Now, however, there is a new way to... More...
