6 Podcast Checks To Keep Your Show On Track
When you create your podcast, it is easy to become so close that you lose objectivity on the standard of your podcast. A question to ask yourself regularly is “If you were not the producer of the show, would you listen and subscribe to the show?”
Here are some checks and balances that I would have in place…
1) Listen as a subscriber frequently…in car, on a computer, on an iPod. Does it sound OK?
2) Compile a list of subjects covered…are you repeating topics too frequently, is your content remaining fresh?
3) Listen to other shows on your subject - are you different, are you all talking about the same things…are you putting your distinctive personality on your subject area
4) Review your review in iTunes, in podcast alley, to see what people are saying?
5) Have you got a Technorati and google alert for your show, to see what people are saying about it?
6) What are your subscriber numbers doing…..increasing or decreasing?
The first 10-12 shows are about finding your voice, finding out how to express your personality through this new medium. At some stage, you find that voice and it then becomes important that you don’t become too comfortable with it…..when I say comfortable, I really mean complacent. You become that close to the product and the production becomes so much easier than before that you don’t put in the same level of effort, or give the same amount of energy to the show.
If you have honest friends that will give you objective feedback - use them as a resource, use them to act as your warning signs that you need to freshen either your approach or your content.
What other checks and balances do you have, that you want to share with other readers?
November 4th, 2007 at 9:52 am
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November 10th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
I use an episode map spreadsheet to keep track of my Reports from the Asylum–particularly the ’sponsoring’ syndrome. The idea came from Podworx–I highly recommend their 4 Ps of Podcasting series.