Podcasting is a great way to go for home based internet marketing businesses. They are easy to make, really inexpensive to do and surprisingly fast to get started. Like any other tool you are going to use, online or offline, you just need to make sure to have everything really clear and go through it step by step. I found getting my first podcast started was easier than getting my first blog going! So let’s talk about the steps that you need to go through to get your first podcast started.

Step One:

The very first step is to make sure you can actually make the recording. Now for this article I am going to be talking about audio podcasts…because they really are easier…and you can get going and having success with them right away. So you need to have a microphone and a program for recording. Audacity is a free program that is really easy to use. There really isn’t any need to go buy software for this…just search for Audacity on Google-it’ll come up at sourceforge.net.

Step Two:

Next you have to have a way to host your podcast…just like you have to host a website. One of the free sites out there…and it is one of the largest…is podomatic. You have to join and set up an account in order to create your podcasts there, but it is free…and you get all kinds of cool stats. It’s pretty neat to see a world map and see wow, there’s somebody in India or Brazil listening to you podcast. What the host does is look after the RSS feeds and everything else. Podomatic actually makes a podcast page for you…basically a blog…so you can send people to that page. You can have notes about your show, what your podcast titles are, who you are and what you are all about. Pretty cool. Within about 30 minutes…not including your actual talk time…you can have your podcast up and running.

Step Three:

For your very first podcast, just do a simple test. Really. It doesn’t even matter if it means anything. Just make a test so that you are comfortable with the technology and you know it is working. Not having the pressure of learning the technology while you are also trying to sound good is a big relief! So relax with it, you can just hum or talk gibberish, it doesn’t matter. Now you have your first podcast out of the way! That first one is always going to be the worst one…so get it over with! Each time you do a podcast you will learn more, get more comfortable and they will just get better and better. After you have done a couple you won’t even think about it-it really is that simple.

Step Four:

You are also going to want to use a pinging service, like ping-o-matic to ping your podcast after it is done. That just send out the RSS feed to all the different pinging or RSS and blog services to let them know you’ve updated your podcast.

So take the idea you have for a podcast and just do it! Home based internet marketing businesses in any niche can use podcasts…and they are so simple you can actually have your podcasts up and running today-and it is totally free!

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