25 | Starting Your Own Podcast

Amy and James continue their creator series for designers and developers, explaining some of the things that they learned while starting their own podcast.

Sponsors

Vercel

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DatoCMS

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Show Notes

• 0:00 Introduction
  • JS Challenges
  • Advent of CSS
  • Advent of JS
  • Advent of SVGs
• 2:47 Gear for Starting Your Own Podcast
  • Rode Micro
  • Episode 14 - Building the Perfect Desk Setup
• 6:45 Why podcast (vs another medium)?
• 8:29 Types of Podcasts
  • Interview
  • Monologue
    • Amy Porterfield
  • Co-Host
    • Syntax
    • Shop Talk Show
• 10:27 Our Why
• 14:26 Sponsor: DatoCMS
• 15:20 Creating Show Segments
• 17:57 Hosting
  • Buzzsprout
    • Creating ZEAL Podcast
  • Anchor
  • Transistor.fm
  • Simplecast
• 20:36 Cover Art
• 21:06 Creating a Trailer
  • Submitting to different podcatchers
• 22:36 Finding Sponsors
  • Creating a Prospectus
  • Field of Dreams
• 25:26 Sponsor: Vercel
• 26:38 Workflow
  • SquadCast
  • Screenflow
  • Descript
    • Chris Sev
  • Auphonic
  • Forecast
  • MailChimp
• 33:14 Things We Want To Do
  • Write Accompanying Blog Posts
  • Make clips for social
• 35:17 Things I Wish We'd Done Differently
  • Line up Reviews on iTunes
• 36:33 Sponsor: ZEAL
• 38:02 Grab Bag Questions
• 38:21 What have we learned? Future goals, ambitions?
• 42:11 How important is consistency on publishing dates?
  • Seasons vs Episodes
• 45:05 Amy's Pick - Book: The Ride of a LifeTime
• 45:42 Amy's Plug - SelfTeach.me on Twitch
• 46:04 James's Pick - Portable Light
• 47:03 James's Plug - @jamesqquick on TikTok
  • James Q Quick's Newsletter
  • Captain Marvel Website