Of course, we have to report our adventures of a day at podcamp. The fun from yesterday may encourage me to attend other podcamps including Philly and Toronto.
The sessions on podcast promotion and monetizing your podcasts from Jason Van Orden’s and Lessa Barnes were enough to encourage me to start podcasting on a regular basis again with my podcasts called News For Web Designers, Fresh Music Series, and the Save Your Gasoline podcasts (I have spent a lot of time building web sites for my clients lately that podcasting had to take a sideline).
In Promoting Your Podcast, Jason Van Orden reiterated his observation that updating your podcast once per month is enough, contrary to what most of us think that it is necessary to update your blog once per week. That little piece of advice from Jason puts a lot of us a ease and takes the pressure off. I assume that updating your blog and podcast as often as possible is a key strategy for traffic and subscribers, but if he said once per month is sufficient, so be it.
Lessa’s Monetizing Your Podcast session was pretty exciting, mainly because she seems more like a motivational speaker. Every time someone mentioned an accomplishment, she summoned the entire room to applaud. I think Leesa’s single statement that she makes a six-figure yearly income from podcasting probably got everybody thinking. Lessa’s income in podcasting is from her podcast consulting, or what she calls the indirect way of earning podcast income.
For those of you who attended my own seminar on increasing traffic to your web site through your RSS feed, thanks for coming into the Central Park room at 1:00 PM. Also, thanks for the compliments I received about new ideas to utilize your RSS feed to get more traffic/subscribers to your podcast. I hope I reached some of you with my principles as well. Eric Skiff from ClipMarks lent me his projector which made it possible to show my powerpoint presentation. My only regret about conducting my session was that, unfortunately, we only had 45 minutes to present our material. If I had more time, I was going to have a couple of interactive exercises like giving everybody 1 minute to network with other podcasters in the room.
For those of you who were not able to make my session, let me tell you that the biggest principle of using your RSS feed is the fact that you can give your RSS feed to 100 web sites, for example, and when you update your podcast from your blog, your RSS feed will update your podcast on all 100 web sites. Using your RSS feed this way will save you time and effort contacting 100 webmasters. I guarantee that.
The people who I hung out with throughout the day also made the day for me as well. I am not going to mention individual people for fear of leaving anyone out, but you know who you are.
The night at Slate was fun as well and the food was great, but any food is good when you don’t eat for the entire day. I found out at 8:43 PM that my next train back to Long Island was at 9:20 and after that, 11:20. I just did not want to wait two more hours. So, I said goodbye to everyone and ran back to Penn Station, lugging my laptop, and made it back in exactly 17 minutes.
Anyway, thanks for making Podcamp NYC an excellent time and I look forward to hanging out with the same people at more podcaster events.
I have to say that the first online podcamp was a huge success and I am glad to have been a co-organizer of it. Co-Organizer Ava from 