With the interview done, you’ll need to do some editing of it before you upload it to your blog and sharing it online. This is where Audacity comes in.

I downloaded Audacity after I started the project, and learned all about it on YouTube. Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor, and it’s free to download.

Audacity helped me add music intro to my interviews. These intros help ease listeners into your interviews. I try to choose a pleasant piece of music or sounds to introduce my interviews. This puts the listener in a ready mood to listen to the interview, and wakes them a bit if their mind may be on something else.

Where do you I get music pieces? I got mine funnily from visiting Wistia’s website while browsing the internet. They promised to email me 3 short pieces of music in exchange for my email. I have heard other podcasters use music to introduce their episodes, and I wanted to use one for my project interviews. So I signed up, and got a few nice pieces — Cayuga Summer, Merluzzo, and Interlaken Road, all by Dan Mills — that I used. You can hear them in the intro of most of my interviews.

A note to put you at ease: you can record your interviews raw and unedited, upload them to Soundcloud and then put the embed code into your website.

This is what I did with my first few interviews, and then learned how to add intro music. You can listen to my first interviews on my blog to see. So yeah, you could do that. All that matters is that you are off and going, and things sort of work out somehow. If I had waited to master how to add intro music, I wouldn’t have left the apartment to go out and prospect. The most important thing is the interview, and not the polishes. Start at the epicenter: the interviews, the blog posts, and interview uploads.

So that’s it for Audacity: it helps, but it’s not the most important thing. Feel free to type Audacity into Google or YouTube to learn all you can about how to use it. But don’t get stuck there. Put the main thing, the food — -going out, doing interviews, and blogging — -on the fire! Note: Recently, I have started using BandCamp for free to host my audio file and embed the code into my blog.

Posting Interviews & Sending Notices

After, I embed the interview into my blog’s interview page, after uploading it to Sound Cloud. How do I do this? I pick up the embed code from the Sound Cloud file, and paste it into the HTML header of my blog. And if you don’t know how to do this, a simple YouTube search of how to embed sound files into a website should clear this up for you.

Once it’s uploaded, and I add notes to it to make it clear to my listeners what the interview is about and what they can learn from it, I send an email to the owner with a link to the upload on my blog.

Here’s an example email below.

Hello…

This is Kingston. Again, thanks for taking the time to talk to me this week, on Monday, the 8th, as part of my project.

Like I said, I have uploaded the file to my blog — -the interview page. But it’s also uploaded to my sound cloud account as a public track, where anyone can listen to it.

I also used one of the photos I saw on your website for the track photo. Let me know if that’s okay, or if you would like to send me a copy of your logo, or another photo you prefer.

Here’s the Sound Cloud link for you to take a listen to: The Cafe Java Conversation (that’s a link to the interview).

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts, or if you want something edited.

Thanks again,
Kingston Temanu
A Couple Things For Owners
The 21-Day Project
www.acouplethingsforowners.blogspot.com

This email has links to the interview upload and gives the owner a chance to take a listen to it privately.