Guerrilla Tactics for Podcasters With Great Shows and Poor Budgets
Strategy - what's the goal
Tactics - how to get there
Assumptions: you have or want to have a podcast. You want to share it to lots of people.
Things we will not cover: how to podcast.
The first and final lesson: all promotion is for naught if your show sucks.
Goals (strategy)
- Connectors, Mavens, Salesmen - tipping point stuff - get the audience, keep the audience
- It's all about being easy! - Get to, listen to, subscribe to, share, and participate
Get To
- Web site
- Email
- RSS
- Domain
- A channel, not VK
- SEO
- PSEO
- Directories
- Press releases
- Cobrand
Listen To
- Flash
- MySpace
- MP3
- CD?
- iTunes/PodCatcher
- iPod
- Desktop
- Browser
Subscribe To
- .htaccess/301s
- http to itpc
- A channel stuff again
- MySpace
- iTunes
- One Click
- Remember the name
Share
- The name matters
- Feedburner
- Pingoat
- Digg
- Technorati
- Flickr/Frappr/Missing Vowelr
- MySpace
- Offline
- A Channel, but provide VKs
- Blogrolling and linkbacks
- Comments
- How about an army of unpaid promoters?
Participate
- Phone
- Email
- Postal
- Web
- Networks
- Participate and share go hand in hand
- Create useful things and brand them with your show
Measure
- Subscriber
- Listener
- Visitor
- They are NOT the same!
- Downloads
Questions & Open Discussion
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