Podcasting Transcription
A Guest Post from Tishia Lee of Tishia Saves Time:
When I first started offering transcription services as part of my Virtual Assistant business, transcribing podcasts was not something I considered. In all honesty, I never thought about the fact that there would be a benefit to having a podcast transcribed. Once I began receiving requests on a regular basis I began to learn why people were choosing to do this.
There are some people that like to have text to read so they can follow along as they listen to audio and there are also people out there that would prefer to just read the transcript than listen to the audio. By having their podcast transcribed they were providing that option to their listeners. This is probably the most common reason why people choose to have their podcasts transcribed.
Aside from the reason listed above, there are other benefits to having a podcast transcribed. Once it has been turned into a text file you can add it to your website. This provides new content and we all know how the search engines like fresh content.
Another benefit of having your podcast transcribed is that you can use it as part of a package deal. For instance maybe you have a special report to offer to your target market and you interviewed someone really cool for your podcast that goes along with the information in your special report. You can offer the audio and the transcript as a bonus to go along with it.
You can also turn the transcript into blog posts, articles, mini ecourses, etc. These are just a couple options of how having your podcast can be beneficial to you. You can get as creative as you want and use the transcript however you see fit.
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