How To Start A Podcast In 4 Days
4 days?? Are you kidding me? You can start a podcast in 1 MINUTE. Seriously, it is very easy. But what’s that you say? You are lazy? And you can only do 1 or 2 new things per day before you get overwhelmed and quit? Fine. Here are 2 steps you can take in each of the next 4 days and you will have a podcast. I will elaborate on each one in a new post each day.
Day 1
- Order this mic from Amazon.com
- Decide who, if anyone, you will do your new podcast with
Day 2
- Think of a theme/topic for your podcast
- Download the following: Garage Band and/or Audacity, Ecamm Call Recorder, Google Hangouts
Day 3
- Decide on a name for your podcast
- Design the logo for your podcast or have it designed
Day 4
- Record your podcast
- Post your podcast to a hosting site
- 2b. Submit your podcast to iTunes
That’s it. If you are reading this on a Tuesday you can very well have your podcast up by Friday. None of this is hard. Especially when you consider some of these steps aren’t really even steps. They are just “think”
Ok back to day 1. That’s today. These are the things that you should do RIGHT NOW
Day 1 — Mics and Mikes
Step 1: order a USB mic. Order this one. Are there other ones you could order? Sure. But if you want to browse mics and weigh all your options and save $15 then you aren’t gonna have a podcast in the next 4 days. Just order this one. I’m assuming you have Amazon Prime because it is the year 2018 and you are a civilized person so you will have this mic in 2 days time. If you are a barbarian and don’t have Amazon Prime, pay for the expedited shipping. We have a deadline to hit.
Step 2: Decide on your cohost. This is one of those “thinking” steps. Do I want to do this podcast with my buddy Mike? Or do I not want him to do this podcast with me. Decide on that, talk to that person, and BOOM you are done for the day! Congrats!
If you have any ambition at all you can keep right on chugging through the next steps, but I don’t want you to hurt your self. Stop here if you are tired.
(Pssssst… if you want to skip ahead you can watch a few of my #HowToStartAPodcast videos on my Youtube channel)
If you have questions, I’m answering questions via DM on both Twitter and Instagram. @brendanclancy on both.
I usually wait until Friday and then go through them and try to answer them.
Day 2 directions coming soon…
