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1. Class Introduction: This class will teach you from the beginning how
to start a podcast. This includes how to create
the podcast, record it, edit it, host it, and
distribute it all by yourself. This class takes you step by step with video
and instructions, documents that work together. This is a great class for
beginners that want to start a podcast and want to
do it with zero cost. It's also good for
current podcasters that want to cut costs. No website costs, no hosting
costs, no domain fees, No cost Recording software, no cost for distributing your podcast to third
party platforms. I'll even show you how
to do this all without paying one penny for
equipment to get started. This class starts with launching your free web hosting
and your domain. After your hosting is set up, I'll show you how
to download and install free audio
editing software. I'll show you how to create your first podcast recording even if you have no equipment. I'll then show you how to create your podcast cover image and
images for your episodes. Once your podcast is recorded and your image and
thumbnails are completed, I'll show you how
to upload them to the podcast software
and complete all the required details to
publish your first podcast. Once you publish your podcast, I'll show you how to
add your podcast to third party platforms
like Pandora, Spotify, Apple podcast,
and many others. This is a great training to
get started in podcasting.
2. 1. Hosting Setup: We are going to start with
setting up your hosting, and once again the
link is on your PDF. We're going to sign up
and create an account, and I hit the Google login, I'm already set there. The first thing we're
going to do is we're going to set up your domain, and this is going
to be a subdomain. You're going to click the
domain manager right there, and you're going to select
the name for the domain. We're going to get it set up. We are going to create
a free subdomain. You're going to name
it whatever you want. Just going to put podcast test. And then you're going to
select from the right, the actual name of the domain. There's quite a few of
them try to find something related to your topic
of the podcast. I'm just going to call
it media news online, but you can select
whatever you want. And then once you do
that, click Create. Then that is your domain name. Podcast, test media, Newsline.com
is the what I selected. But it'll be whatever
you select at the time. Copy and paste that. And keep
it so you always have it. So you have that for reference
and you can share that. The next thing we're going
to do is we are going to get Zaki app installer, so we can install Wordpress, Because that's where we're
going to set up your podcast. You're going to click
Browse Applications and select Wordpress. Proceed. The next step, this is all steps. It's very easy to
set up right now. You're going to create the
title for your podcast. It's going to be your website, but the website name
should be really the same as your podcast. We're going to create
administrator user name o times, I just name it the same
as the podcast itself. And then create an
admin password. Make sure it's strong,
make sure it's something that you have access to
or and can remember it, then you install the
application from there. It's basically doing everything. It's creating the database, copying all the files required, and it's sending you an
e mail that it did it. I'm going to save my password. Now there is your
domain and under it is your access to
the control panel. Copy both of them because
it's very important. Now we're going to
go into Wordpress.
3. 2. Setup Podcast Software: Now if you know Wordpress, it's very simple to use. A lot of this is just basic information I'll be giving you. Just log in with the admin
information you had created. Now you're on the
Wordpress control panel. The first thing we're
going to do is go to plug ins and add new plug in. Because now we're going to
get the podcast plug in. This is where you're going
to create a plug in. There you're going to search. Seriously simple
podcasting. There it is, there it pops up Seriously
simple podcasting. This is what's going
to help you create your podcasting every time
you podcast. Very simple. Basically what you're
going to do is click install and it's going
to do everything else. Once it goes through
its whole process, just activate, it's ready
to go. There you are. Now you're going
to name your show because this is the software
or the plug in that's going to actually do all
the work for recording your podcast using
the audio files, creating your thumbnails. And this is what
you're going to use to get it distributed
to other platforms. Make sure that you completely give a lot of information on what
your show is about. Now, the artwork is for
the podcast cover image, and that's what you're
going to drop in there, but we haven't made it yet. If you have any
graphic application, use that or I'm going
to show you how to do it in Canva.com We're going to skip that for now
because I want to show you exactly how to
get the podcast set up. Now you're going to pick the primary category
of your podcast. What is it all about?
I'm just going to select business and
entrepreneurship. But try to select
the closest thing that your podcast is about
because that's going to go into the distribution
information and then just collect proceed from here. Just skip that, That's an
up sale. Just skip that. You're ready to
go, you're all set ready to start
creating your podcast. And you can either just
click Go to Dashboard, or let's start very
quickly before we create your
podcast information. To enter, I'm going to show you how to create the thumbnail, but if you already have a podcast audio file
and your image, just fill out all
this information. It'll create the
podcast for you.
4. 3. Editing Software: What I want to do now very quickly is if you go
to your PDF file, there's a link for Audacity. And that's to edit your audio. If you go to Audacity link, click that and it'll take
you to the download page. If you use Windows or
Mac, click either tab. I'm using a Mac, so I'm
going to click that. It'll send me the link
file to download. Audacity. I'm just going to click that and then
put it on my desktop. This once again is to
create the audio editing. If you already have
your own audio editing, whatever it may be, you
can just skip this part. But this is for somebody that's starting from scratch with zero. I downloaded it and I just
drop it into my applications. Once again, this
is for Macintosh. If you're using Windows, just follow the rules on that. Now I'm going to
open Audacity Up. This is an audio editing
software and I'm going to show you just the basic
steps on how to operate it. It's good to learn the
knowledge base and the instructions for
detailed information. The first thing I'm going
to do is create a track. Just go to tracks and I'm
going to select mono track. You can select
whatever you want and I'm going to select two
tracks for my voice. I just do that a lot. If I'm not doing it in stereo, this is to do my voice. Then later we're going to
put a music bed under it. But this is just for
recording the voice. Now, if you have a microphone
connected to your computer, we're going to get that
set up to make sure that Audacity knows that
it's the microphone. Or if you're just using
your internal microphone, it's already the
default on that. But what we're going to
do is go to Preferences. This is to set up your
microphone audio settings. And then for recording, select the microphone that
you're using right now. It's for built in microphone, but I'm using Yeti X. There it is. It found it
and then I just click. Okay. Now, a lot of times
if you've already had your microphone plugged in
and then you set this up, sometimes will not recognize it. If that's the case, just go to transport and select
that audio devices. What that does is it resets it. Then if it's not there,
it will be there. Then I selected again.
It was already there. I just hit cancel. From there we start
creating a recording. Hi, this is Alan
Edwards and I'm just recording my first podcast
to see how it works. I'm setting up all
the information, and this podcasts
to be all about how to create your own
podcast from scratch, at zero, at no cost. What we're going
to talk about on a weekly basis is simple, things you can do to
create your own podcast. It could be any topic, any items that you
want to talk about. We're going to discuss how the technical part works and how you can
improve your podcast. Each and every time
you do an episode, it's one of the best things ever and you're
going to love it. There's going to be
so many sequences that even pros don't
even know about it. That's the way it's going to be. I'm just rambling on because, okay, you get the gist of it. I created the voice. Now I already have a
music bed on my desktop, meaning a music file, and I'm just going to
drop it right under it. But as you see, it's much
louder than my voice track. If I was to play that, that music would be very loud. What you do is see that
little icon there. It basically stands
for adjusting levels. What we're going to
do is we have to click that in order to get that music lower than my voice. The music is low under my voice. That's not overpowering and you can hear me.
Let's click that. Now that has turned
into little arrows. Now if you drag it up or down, see it gets much
lower than my voice. It'll be a lower music
bed underneath my voice. Now if I played it, you can hear my voice much
louder than the music. It equals out. What I'm going to do is drag
this over to match up to the length of my
voice at the end. If I want the music to get a little bit louder,
when I'm done talking, once again just drag it
up. There's the track. Now, if you're going
to add more tracks and you need to see them easier, you can just click on the track lines and then
drag them up or down. See, now I have more room to add more tracks if I
need to, but once again, this is just a basic
settings on how to get started editing your
audio once it's ready, once you've done it,
just go to export audio. Then there's the settings. I'm going to click mono. I'm going to select it as a MP three file because
that's probably the best. And that's what most third
party podcasts take, are MP three files. I'm going to name my podcast. I'm going to decide to put it on the desktop when it's done. Then from here the
quality don't get too crazy with it because it says like insane and extreme. Most of the time I
would select standard. That's in case
people listening on their phones using their data, they're not going
to use up a lot. And it's not going
to skip so much because it's such a
high or large file. After I explored it, I dropped it on my desktop as it showed.
5. 4. Create Graphics: Now we're going to create
the thumbnail that is at Canva.com And you just create the thumbnail by
clicking the right top button. Create a custom size. They always have to be square. I always recommend 3,000 by 3,000 And there's a lot
of templates there, Just pick one template,
whatever you want. I just dropped this
one in, I renamed it, reaming just what that
episode was all about. You can resize it,
change the fonts, change the pictures,
whatever you want. I think most people know
about Canva.com It's free. And then once you're done,
click Share and then download. And I'm downloading that
on my desktop again. Now I have my audio file, I have my thumbnail. If you didn't create
your cover image for your podcast, you can
do the same thing on.
6. 5. Upload Your Podcast: Now we go back to the add new episode on the podcasting plug in
on the Wordpress site. Here we have it.
Where I am creating my first podcast episode
that you should title. What the podcast is about. Feel free to explain what
the podcast is about. Make sure that you add the
guests name and everything. Now you're going to
add the audio file. I've already uploaded it. There it is there. That's the
one we created on Audacity. Now we create upload the episode
image and that's what we created on Canva.com We're
going to upload that. If you don't have it
on your media file, click the upload files, drag and drop it in. And that's what we created on
Canva.com Once it uploads, just upload and there it is. Now you have your audio file, you have your thumbnail. The rest of this you can
fill out if you want. The more description
you have, the better. Once it's done, click Publish. You created your first podcast, and as you see the
permit link up there, that's the link to that podcast. If I click it, there's
my first episode. It shows the single
episode there and it comes with a little
player and you can share that for
people to listen to.
7. 6. Design Your Website: You go back to the podcast feed, which has all the episodes on. We have one episode there. You'll see it says visit
podcast website link. We have to create that. But on Wordpress it starts
out giving you a template. Now, you can use
this if you want, you can put another template in. But for just an example, I'm going to use what came
with it, the template. All you have to do is
click the edit button and change anything you want
on this edit your site. Get started. And I'm just going
to change the title here. This is the website that
everybody will go to. If they click that website
link on your podcast. This will basically,
you will be giving an overall information about what your podcast is
about, what you're about. You can put blogs on
this whatever you want. A lot of people don't spend
that much time on it. But if you want to change
the image, just replace it. Just go down and change all the information
that pertains to you. Most of the time, people are
more focused on the podcast because distribution only
plays the podcast itself. Anyone does want
more information, they would click
the visit website. Just change all the
details that they're going to go based on
your information. You can delete a
lot of this if you don't want to get
that involved in it, but that pretty
much covers that. And then you hit Save. Now when you click to
visit the podcast website, all the changes you
made are there. You can get as
detailed as you want.
8. 7. Create Feed Distribution: What we're going to do
is we are going to make sure that you have your
feed settings correctly. Because that's going to be
very important when you start sharing your feed to third
party podcast platforms. To do that, you're going
to verify everything. Just go to Feed Details. Most of the information
you already input. It is already there.
I put podcast test. If you want to put a subtitle
in it, just put it there. Most of the stuff
that you selected, like the category I
selected, business, the subcategory, I
put entrepreneurship. Whatever you selected
will be there. One of the most important
things is I told you earlier that we needed
to create a cover image. Make sure if you didn't in
Canva go back and create it. That's going to be your
Feed podcast cover image. Make sure it has your
e mail on there. Very important for third party
distribution and fill out any information you feel that is important as far
as the show type. Is it episodic or serial? Whatever it is, select that. That lets third party
distribution know how many and how you
distribute your podcast. Once you've filled it all in, all the information, just
click Save Settings. Now your feed information is
all there and ready to go. Then you just go from third
party to third party and share those links and you're going to be
distributed in no time.
9. 8. BONUS! Start With No Money: He's a great idea if you don't have equipment and
really don't want to invest money until you're ready
to create great podcasts, Use your phone, it's
a great way to get started without paying
$0.01 on equipment. Most phones have
great microphones and there are a ton of great
mobile apps out there. Specifically for
recording your voice, Simply download a popular
MP Three recorder app from the app store practice
when you're ready, record your podcast to clean up the voice recording
and make it sound better, go to the Adobe link
on your PDF document. Create your free account, then upload your MP
three audio file that you created
with your phone. It will then remove
background noise, clean it up, and make
it sound better. Download the finished file.
Allen Edwards, Voiceover Broadcast Training
