Bad audio will ruin your work, whether pure audio or video creation. A music bed is not a real 'fix,' but it can get you over the poor quality you hear in your recordings while you are working through the current limitations…
Being an expert is as simple as knowing a little more than your audience. Being an effective communicator and trainer doesn't require being an expert in a topic, but being proficient in communicating and training are skills …
There are four basic questions I ask everyone who comes to me for help in beginning their journey as a creator. First, why do you want to be a creator? Second, what do you know about (or want to know about)? Third, are there…
Niching down means focusing on your ideal target customer and aligning your marketing to match. So niching down is a popular topic for new podcasts and video creators to help find a consistent audience.
A solo production is just a person giving a speech, and an interview or group chat production is just a few people at a party having a structured conversation together. The key to your success in whatever you are producing i…
It's your work. If you are not getting the response you want to your offering, continue to do whatever you like to hear in the final product. Or at least keep doing what they don't seem to hate.
The road to finding 'success' in your work will be a very long journey. Start a list of accomplishments and accolades early in the journey to help sustain you.
Podcasting is an easy way to reach an audience beyond the borders of your home country. But do the norms you are used to flatter or offend those of other nations and cultures? If you don't know, you won't know how a broader …
Having someone to underwrite your work is awesome, but it also binds you to those underwriters to produce certain things just for them, which may mean less of the things you want to produce for yourself.
You do have to take care of the listeners who are here for you and your content. But not at the expense of people you might not initially consider your target listeners. There are a lot more non-target listeners in your floc…
Don’t give up hope that your audience isn’t out there looking for your content. Don’t stop trying to find easier ways for your potential audience to find your content.
Yes, lucky breaks can make a content creator. But luck can only be capitalized and sustained but a person already putting in hard work with an intention of what success looks like.
Too many people hear the word “support” from voice coaches and think it means to create pressure in your abdomen as a means to somehow push more air out. The key is to relax your abdomen and create no pressure at all.
