Archive for 2010

Hi there from Neil, I just wanted to drop you a quick line to
with you Seasons Greetings… and update you on a few bits
in the world of Podcasting and Internet Marketing.

And to make you an offer you cannot refuse….

I am enjoying working one on one with various clients at the moment,
one who I am meeting in person (just to prove there is a real
person behind this!)

I am training her in radio skills. She has a long held dream
to be on radio and we are having face to
face sessions, and she is doing really well.

Despite what you may think, radio skills are teachable and rather easily
as well.

I can offer sessions on Skype, or if we are local, face to face.

Or, if you have a privare jet, you can fly me out to meet you!

If you wanna read more about personal coaching, have a look here:

http://getintoradioonline.com/personal-coach

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I liked the news story this week about panda conversationists
dressing up in full size panda costumes as part of their job.

They do not want to “humanise” the cubs too much,
but they do need to touch them, so they
dress up as full size pandas as art of the gig.

Personally, I don’t think you should panda
to the kids like that!

I have a friend from a local wildlife sanctuary,
who sent out a press release about hedgehogs,
which I will share later. They are not ill or
dead, probably only sleeping. Seriously!

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Sometimes you just want to get on
with what you are good at, and not
spend hours on the technical side.
There again, you have probably heard
about Web 2.0 social media,
and think if you’re not tweeting you are probably
missing out on something.

Well, the good news is I have put together a really cool
“pick and mix”bespoke package for you,
which can get the irritating time of manually
updating all those services, to 5 minutes.

Seriously, 5 minutes!

http://www.thepodcastersbible.com/podcastallin1sl.html
Did you know there is a new service that combines
Facebook, You Tube, and
Twitter? It’s called You Twit Face

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HEDGEHOGS

Sometimes you have to wonder if the life of a hedgehog is
somewhat simpler than the life of online entrepreneurs…

According to my friends at Wildlife Aid, that I mentioned earlier,
apparantly not!

This time of year, if you are out and about in your garden or
walking in the countryside,you may well encounter hedgehogs
curled up and motionless. Many people in this
situation assume that these hedgehogs are dead –
but chances are they are just hibernating!

In recent weeks the volunteers at local animal charity
Wildlife Aid have taken scores of calls from
members of the public reporting that they have
found dead hedgehogs and others have
brought the little creatures into the
charity’s Leatherhead centre to check
whether they are alive or dead.

Wildlife Aid founder Simon Cowell MBE
admits that if you don’t know what you are
looking for, it can be hard to tell if a hedgehog has died,
is unwell, or is just having its winter sleep.

I can understand why some people aren’t sure, as a
hibernating hog has a very slow heartbeat that
isn’t easily detected – and sometimes doesn’t
seem to be breathing at all,” says Simon.

In the last few days we’ve already had four hedgehogs
brought into  Wildlife Aid by members of the public
who were concerned that these animals
might be dead or dying.

It is good that people are so concerned but
in most cases there really is nothing to worry about.

However, Simon adds, “if you see a hedgehog that is
still up and about at this time of year,
and scurrying around, then that
is when you’d be right to be concerned!

By now, all hedgehogs should be in hibernation and
if they’re not then there is something wrong.
So, if you find a hedgehog in your garden in December
and it’s moving around then our advice is to pick it up carefully,
take it indoors and weigh it.

This is the best way to tell its condition.
A healthy hog should weigh over 600g. Any less is a bad sign,
especially below 500g. That’s when you should call Wildlife Aid
and arrange to bring it in to us to be examined.
So now you know. And of course its not THAT Simon Cowell!
Anyway, I do not have an affiliate link for hedgehogs!!, but
if you would like to “adopt” one, you can on
www.wildlifeaid.com

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This afternoon I am about to record another episode of
Your Online Profits Radio Show and have a session with my
mentor Nicola Cairncross. She is the author of The Money
Gym.

She has recently focussed much more on Internet Marketing, and
is mentoring people, rat her successfully, if you are lucky
enough to get

her, I cannot recommend her mentoring enough.

http://www.totalbusinesscart.com/app/?Clk=3815340

Do you have a question about Internet Marketing you would
like the answer to? Hit reply to this e-mail, and I will ask her
when we do our session- and make a radio show with the answers.

Bespoke radio- not bad eh!
Once again, that link for mentoring….

http://www.totalbusinesscart.com/app/?Clk=3815340
If you are looking for a series of answers to common internet
marketing problems, Nicola is also featured on a really handy
set of informative audios, which you can grab here:

http://www.thepodcastersbible.com/masterssl.html

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No doubt I will be in touch before Christmas, I am working on
the radio Christmas day (www.radiojackie.com), and on Boxing
Day, doing a show with my daughter! Cool!

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Have fun, speak soon, and don’t hesitate to get in touch if I can help
in any way.

Neil

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I wanted to do a little case study here- obviously, there are many kinds of radio, different styles for different markets, and inspirational radio is no exception.

Karen Lynne is an intuitive law of attraction coach- she does not want to get into radio exactly, but she is interested in web broadcasting.

Basically, she wanted to take her (really good, inspirational teaching) to a wider audience, and she saw radio as the ideal way to do it.

BUT… then she hit all the usual problems, I mean for a start, how many British radio stations do you know that do a Law Of Attraction Show

?

Can you imagine that on Heart FM? Although in many ways they have an ideal name!!

So, the solution for Karen was to broadcast online, on her own radio online show.

As part of the deal, we created a blog for her, that looked like her website for branding consistency, and it looked great!

Then we put some plug ins in to make it search engine friendly.

Then I trained her in basic radio skills that were appropriate for the niche she was in.

And made her some professionally made jingles….

And you can hear the result on www.karenlynne.co.uk/blog

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If you want to broadcast yourself, or broadcast yourself online, it is useful to know basic editing skills

A five minute video here that I found from You Tube.

It shows basic editing, and basic mixing of tracks together.

A lot of folks are technophobes, but I promise there is nothing to worry about here-

and the software is free. There are better softwares like Adobe Audition, which is “high end”, of tha market, but for those

wanting something simple and best of all FREE!, you can click to download audacity here.

Don’t forget to share this post if it is useful to you and others…

Seriously, audio marketing has never been easier with these tools, you could be an editing master for your radio online show in an hour.

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Why not?

For the aspiring radio presenter, this levels the playing field significantly. In the “good old days” (!), those who wanted to get into radio

had to do it the old fashioned way, lots of demos and phone calls, and thinking “Who to call now!”

Now though, it is easy to broadcast yourself online- whether you are doing podcast marketing, or just making a show for fun, broadcast media is an ever evolving and growing field.

If you go to blog talk radio, www.blogtalkradio.com, you can have your own show online IN AN HOUR!

If you run a business and audio marketing is your thing, can I humbly recommend www.thepodcastersbible.com, it’s free and you can learn how to get your podcast online easily and well.

Podcasting is a way cool marketing strategy, it boosts your credibility and is very fun to do as well.

Or maybe you are just a total show off, and want to display your talents to the world- all good reasons to broadcast yourself online.

If the idea of updating all the social networks, and/or podcast directories every time you log on does not turn you on, perhaps one of

our all in one solutions may be of value to you.

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PODCASTS ARE VERY COOL..Why?

• An increasing number of people are downloading new podcasts every day, and there are podcasts on just about you name is on everything under the sun!
• Podcasts are “timeshifted”. That means that people can listen to then whenever they want, that means if they have chosen your podcast, then you get their full attention..
• It’s also a lot more fun and less time consuming than blogging (which I am doing now!-oops!

5 Steps to Producing a Podcast

1. Download Audacity at audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ or any other audio editing tool.
2. Get a good microphone.
3. Write the script (so the podcast doesn’t sound improvised and amateurish).
4. Record it in a noise-free environment.

5. Apply the noise-reduction filter in your audio editing software and save the podcast file.

Where You Can Submit Your Podcast

PodOMatic – podomatic.com/
Podcast Alley – podcastalley.com/index.php
iTunes – itunes.com/
Yahoo Podcasts – podcasts.yahoo.com/
Digg Podcasts – digg.com/podcasts
Podcast Directory – podcastdirectory.com/
Podcast Pickle – podcastpickle.com/
PodFeed – podfeed.net/
Odeo – odeo.com/
Digital Podcast – digitalpodcast.com/
Podcast.net – podcast.net/
Singing Fish – search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp
Blog Universe – bloguniverse.com/
All Podcasts – allpodcasts.com/
Big Contact – bigcontact.com/
Collectik – collectik.net/collectik/
PodNova – podnova.com/
PodTech – podtech.net/home/

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So many ways to broadcast yourself, so little time:

Here’s a few suggestions:

1. Sign up for an account at www.blogtalkradio.com, you can have your own show within an hour, live to the whole world on the world wide web! Seriously.

2. Have some tweaks made to your blog, so it turns into your very own radio station. Record your audio, press a few buttons, and you’re live to the world.

HINT You can have it all automated, so you don’t have to update the directories every time- that’s waaay too time consuming.

We can do all the techie stuff for you with one of our bespoke packages.

3. If you don’t have a blog, have one made for you that looks likke your website, it’s so much more search engine friendly.

Don’t worry, we can do that too!

4. Grab a job on a local radio station like hospital radio, or a local radio station if they will let you on!

Do you need a demo made, well guess what, we can help with that as well.

5. Learn about podcasting – for free! Grab The Podcasters Bible

6. Grab a loud hailer, and shout from a street corner! We cannot help you out in any way I am afraid on that.

So, as you can see, many ways are available to you to broadcast yourself.

Pick one, and go for it!

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You know, sometimes I think I should open my own broadcasting school, I think
so many enthusiastic people would love to learn audio marketing or how to broadcast online.

A lady called Karen Lynne approached me and asked about radio broadcasting.

She is an intuitive coach, think law of attraction and related stuff, and I have
been teaching her about podcast marketing- she wanted to get her
work out to a greater audience, and her own show online seemed to be
a great vehicle to do that.

Two reasons why this works-

1. It establishes her as an authority.

2. People can hear her!

She has the perfect voice to do this
kind of work, think “Northern Warmth”

She was a bit concerned about the whole broadcast media thing, I mean
lots of us probably would like the idea of “my own radio show”, but
what on earth to do about the technical side, that is huge right now, and ever changing!

Well, we have a solution to that as well, all you do is learn some easy principles
that take all of 5 minutes, and hey presto, press one button, and all the technical side
is done for you, including making it search engine friendly, updating the social networks
automatically and much much more.

The next step for her is to have some professionally recorded jingles made for her.

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This lady is going to be an absolute star.

 

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Just a quick point here, if you’re into the whole Law of Attraction thing, she had been playfully
musing “Hmm, I would like to learn about audio marketing”, and 3 days later I show up
in her life.. coincidence?

There has never been a better time to have your own radio show or podcast, and
if you feel “attracted to me”, then I also do PERSONAL COACHING

Don’t forget you can get your own copy FREEEE! of “The Podcasters Bible” by clicking on the link.

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