Career & Stress Management Shows - Marketing With Audio And Video

This is the entire hour long audio recording from the Marketing With Audio And Video Show. For those of you who want to hear it all, this is it.




Colette Ellis of Competent Advantage (http://www.gcast.com/u/competentadvtg/main) uses her show as an extension of her professional development program, which helps clients identify their strengths and position themselves for new opportunities. The show explores real life challenges that her clients have experienced. She shares how she started her podcast, why she does it, issues she had to face and her plans for the future.

We had TONS of questions and comments from listeners, and it was a fabulous time had by all. Subjects included:

1. What is a widget?
2. What is an RSS feed?
3. What is the difference between a blog and a podcast?
4. What is a mashup?

One of our guests mentioned a new tool/widget that he has added to his sites which I promised to share the link with everyone else - http://www.sliderocket.com/. I took a quick look at it, and it definitely bears some more investigation. Looks cool!

As always, this show is brought to you by Penny Haynes and the http://www.CommercialCreationCenter.com - simple software and personal assistance to help you create and post audio and video to the internet.

If you want to learn more about how to market with audio and video, I encourage you to check out "101 Things To Do With Audio And Video (To Promote Your Business)". Get your free 30-page excerpt at http://101ThingsAudioVideo.com.

Podcasting Stuff, and Lots Of It

I never imagined the end when I started at the beginning, but podcasting was just a hop, skip and a jump away when I began Encouraging Audiobooks, my downloadable audio book store. Everyone was talking about doing an ezine, but since my business was audio, that seemed somewhat ludicrous to me. Shouldn't I be doing an audio-zine?

So I got Audiozines.com and named my audiozine Your Voice, in the hopes that others would join me in doing audio articles that people could listen to online or download. And join me they did, on many different subjects. It was fun and exciting. I just wished it was easier for people to download everything all at once, instead of one by one or via zipped files.

I tried hiring people to create some program that would download all of the mp3 files at once, but no one would touch the project. Then, Adam Curry developed podcasting and a podcatcher using RSS, and all of my problems were solved. And everything in my world changed. I officially became a podcaster, although that's what I had basically been doing for a while already.

So now, 2.5 years down the road from starting my original business, I'm basically all about Podcasting. Podcasting stuff is my life and my livelihood. I think about it non-stop, I dream about it, I design for it, I program for it...it's not really a passion. Maybe it is best described as an obsession. I see things that I think could be done that have never been done before, and it keeps me up at night (it's 1:35am EST right now - that is proof enough I would think).

So this blog will be about podcast stuff. I will not add audio to this feed. I will be pure. At least I will try not to podcast here - just blog. Plus, truth be told, I'm testing Blogger out for a new project to see if it is easy enough for my future clients to use easily. So even here, I still have an underlying podcasting motive. Oh well, I'm not going to try and change myself. I will accept this wonderful obsession and make the most of it while I can, even at 1:36am EST.

I don't know if anyone will read this, but it's here for the reading. Here's to 2007 - I'm expecting the best from it from the very start!

Penny Haynes, That Podcasting Site