How to Start a Successful Podcast in 2018: A Guide for Beginners featuring @GonnaGeek

Have you ever wondered how to start a successful podcast? In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we welcome Stephen Jondrew and Stargate Pioneer a.k.a. SP from the http://gonnageek.com (GonnaGeek Podcasting Network) on the show to talk all things Podcasting and all things Geek! If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our http://teachercast.net/contact (Contact Page) and let us know how we can help you today! How to Start a Successful PodcastHow do you describe the term podcasting to those who don’t know what a podcast is? (RSS) What should we be thinking about when planning a new podcast?https://www.teachercast.net/blog/podcasting-blogging-editorial-calendar-template/ (Topic / Content) EquipmentUse your Phone when starting out https://www.teachercast.net/product/B007JX8O0Y/US/teach00-20/?cart=y (AT2005 USB / XLR) https://www.teachercast.net/product/B004QJOZS4/US/teach00-20/?cart=y (AT2100 USB / XLR) Podcast EditoriMovie Final Cut https://www.teachercast.net/product/B00HRQB216/US/teach00-20/?cart=y (Movie Studio Platinum) Websitehttp://teachercast.net/pw (Podcast Websites) http://WordPress.com (WordPress.com) http://sites.google.com/new (Google Sites) Hostinghttp://podbean.com (PodBean) Audience Graphicshttp://canva.com (Canva) http://slides.google.com (Google Slides) http://drawing.google.com (Google Drawing) http://Pixelmator.com (Pixelmator) http://adobe.com (Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop / Lightroom)) https://www.teachercast.net/product/3836245906/US/teach00-20/?cart=y (Affinity Photo) PowerPoint Audio or VideoStart with Audiomuch easier less resources needed faster to export Use Hardware Audio Recorders Streamed live or recorded Budget Integrity Building an audienceDon’t stress over your numbers IAB compliant stats Keep your goals in front of you … not your downloads Grow your community …. Ask for feedback Finding the right podcasting topic How do you survive podcasting with a cohost?You fire them Pop CultureStar Wars Marvel Transformers Follow our PodcastThe TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network | http://www.twitter.com/teachercast (@TeacherCast) https://www.teachercast.net/edupodcastingtoday (Educational Podcasting Today Podcast) | http://www.twitter.com/podcastingtoday (@PodcastingToday) Follow our HostJeff Bradbury | http://www.twitter.com/jeffbradbury (@JeffBradbury) About our GuestsStephen JondrewI’m a new media creator with a history of creating podcast, video and website content. I currently produce two video shows (The Official GonnaGeek.com Show and Better Podcasting) and run GonnaGeek.com, which features geek content including its own Podcast Network. http://stephenjondrew.com/about/ (http://stephenjondrew.com/about/) Stargate PioneerStargate Pioneer, or “SP” as he likes to be called, is a Science Fiction and Space aficionado, comic book universe fan, amateur drone pilot-adventurer, and hobby podcast mentor and advocate. Inspired by early television scifi and NASA missions SP strove from his early teens to work in the space industry and ultimately earned an advanced degree in Astronautical Engineering. Having achieved career success in Aerospace for decades SP became enamored with early podcasting after receiving an original iPod Nano as a gift. SP enjoyed the commercial free niche content that you could not find anywhere else at the time including Satellite Radio. SP finally caught the podcasting bug on New Years Eve of 2010 and hasn’t looked back since having created three podcasts, taken over producing two additional shows, and cohosting another. He applied his professional training to the craft, absolutely enjoyed everything about podcasting, and put himself to task to learn as much as he could about podcasting from the production side to hosting to hardware to content creation. Five years into podcasting SP noted a gap in the podcasting space for the next generation of new hobby...

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