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How Podcasting Can Improve Your Blog’s Reach

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You’ve probably heard, at some point, that blogging has created massive opportunities for creative individuals. It offered an avenue for stating your opinions, and share your voice with others via digital means.

But once a blog was in place, the next level of challenge settled into your creative concerns: How do you reach more people? Because everyone is vying for limited attention, your blog has to be exceptional in all regards.

One way to convince those millions of potential readers on the web that your perspective is worthy of their time is to add a podcasting element to the mix. The podcast format allows people to listen (instead of just read) your blog … and a number of other opportunities become apparent once you’ve done a bit of research.

Make Sure You Understand Both Platforms First

Before you jump too far into podcasting, though, make sure you understand the basic frameworks of both blogging and podcasting. When you decided to create a blog, what general format did you use? WordPress, maybe, or Joomla? Or did you build your site totally from scratch?

Whatever your method, you should be sure that you understand that format fully so you’re not missing any opportunities for advancing your goals. The same goes for podcasting.

Do you intend to stream it somewhere? Are there any potential music copyright issues to be aware of? Address those questions first. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 11, 2016 @ 1:29 am

A Few Things To Interest Your Followers

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Whether they are customers on your website, social media followers, or people following your blog, you want to keep the readers of what your write and post interested, and in order to do that you need to keep coming up with new things that make them want to come back for me. Here are a few things that you can share in blog posts, link to your website, or plaster all over social media that will peek your customers interest, and probably even attract new ones. [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 10, 2016 @ 5:33 am

Podcasts For Different Daily Activities: Picking a Routine

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Once you get into the world of podcasts, you never really go back. It’s the best parts of the radio mixed with the best parts of the internet, and it’s completely free and on demand. And there are more topics and types of shows than you could ever hope to listen to, so it’s a infinite box of listening pleasure.

But what activities could you do while listening to these various podcasts? Consider the possibilities of working out, driving, getting ready to sleep, getting your morning motivation in, or just learning about cool stuff. And it’s all just a few clicks away through iTunes or another podcast browser. [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 1, 2016 @ 3:22 am

Best Audio Plugins for WordPress

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Incorporating an audio file in a blog is one of the best ways to attract visitors and keep them glued to your site. This strategy is most ideal for people including artists creating a music blog, a music review blog, a podcast blog or for voice talents who want to promote their voice services to potential clients.

WordPress is still a popular choice in creating blogs of all types today. It is easy to use and maintain and offers numerous plug ins that are sure to make your site fully functional moving forward.

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The best part about using WordPress is you can easily include an audio player or plugin on your blog or website. Many are free to use hence, you just pick the style that suits you best. [Read more…]

Originally posted on June 14, 2014 @ 9:40 am