I want to break down just how much time the PowerPress Podcast Plugin and Blubrry Hosting has saved me when I publish my podcast. Most of us are so busy today anytime we can get some time back through new tools and more efficient ways that it is worth sharing.
Disclaimer my company RawVoice is the company behind Blubrry.com and the PowerPress plugin, everyone’s publishing process will be slightly different but from my perspective this was well worth sharing.
I have had a set routine for publishing my podcast over the past 5 years that I have followed for over 480 shows after with little variation. That routine has changed since we rolled out our new tools let me give you a comparison so you can see where the deltas are. first let’s look at old way I did the show.
- Show Material Preparation 1Hour
- Tricaster, Ustream, Adobe Audition, Show Intro prep 10 Minutes
- Announcing Live Event on Twitter and Facebook 5 Minutes
- Podcast Recording 75 Minutes
- Saving Recorded Audio 5 Minutes
- Filling in ID3 Tags 5 Minutes
- Uploading Podcast to Server and Creating Show Notes 30 Minutes
- Announcing Show on Twitter and FaceBook 5 Minutes
- Sending NewsLetter to Audience Members 5 Minutes
Total Time for Show Production 3:20 Minutes
Here is the comparison using WP, PowerPress, Blubrry Uploader, Blubrry Hosting and our publishing Tools.
- Show Material Preparation 1Hour
- Tricaster, Ustream, Adobe Audition, Show Intro prep 10 Minutes
- Announcing Live Event on Twitter and Facebook 5 Minutes
- Podcast Recording 75 Minutes
- Saving Recorded Audio 5 Minutes
- No longer fill in ID3 Tags Blubrry Hosting Does that for me automatically! 0 Minutes
- Publish Media 3 Step Publishing 20 Minutes
- Announcing new Show available Twitter 0 Minutes (Automatically Done by Blubrry)
- Announcing new Show available on Facebook 2-3 Minutes
- Sending NewsLetter to Audience Members 0 Minutes (Automatically Done by Blubrry)
Total time for new show production 2:58
I would have never thought that I could shave that much off my Podcast Publishing Time. Some people may say what’s the big deal, well when you are recording a show twice a week saving 20 minutes or more is huge when you look at the time savings over a year or more. But honestly here is the bottom line, as I walked out of the Studio over the past couple of weeks my wife has been saying wow your finished already!This was motivation enough to do some in-depth comparisons.
I Recently did an Interview with Ari Burton for The Burton Report he I talk at length about [Blubrry.com] I also talk about the podcasting space.
Mashable has opened nominations for the 2006 Social Networking Awards.
Help Blubrry get into the mix by nominating us over on the Mashable site in the “Niche and Miscellaneous Networks” category. Which is category #12
The winners will be announced on Thursday, December 21st so get your nominations in today!
The Blubrry Podcast Network is now offering special perks to its members. Starting immediately, members may utilize the Blubrry Media Player on their own web sites. This media player is unlike any of the other offerings and has been optimized to interact with your shows RSS feed allowing on-line listeners to review your show notes while watching or listening to your Podcast.
The Blubrry Media Player includes no advertisements or other program information. The player is intended to assist Blubrry members with building their own brand. Remember, Blubrry wants their members to keep their listeners, not draw them away.
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If you are not a Blubrry member, click here to create an account and post your show. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments regarding the Blubrry Media Player. [Blubrry Member Perks]
I was thanked today by a new Blubrry Podcaster for not plastering our new site with advertisements, and I relayed to him this thought, do you want to drive listeners to blubrry.com to click ads, or do you want to drive your listeners to listen to podcasts and participate in the community. If they do any clicking it will be to participating podcasters content or their websites
If you look closely you will see we are big on supporting podcasters brand at the same time helping people that want to find great content without having to search 25 sites. Everything on that site is just a couple clicks away.
Some pictures of Blubrry have made it on the net and as you look at them we are finishing up styling and had some elements in the wrong place but this is gonna give you a idea what it looks like. [PodcastHearld.com]
We sent the invitations tonight out to a massive number of podcasters that have requested to be part of the Blubrry.com Podcast site launch. If you are a podcaster and want a invitation to attend the meeting you must send the following information immediately.
Send your an email to blubrry@rawvoice.com include the following in the e-mail
Your Full Name:
Email address that can be used for a private mailing list:
Your Telephone Number:
Your Show Name:
Your Show URL:
Your Show RSS feed:
Your Current Network affiliations if you have any:
We exposed the Blubrry design today to our team of Podcasters at Podcaster News, and the response was very favorable. We will be sending out invitations to non PCN podcasters that have requested info and are interested in what we were going to be launching. This will shake out who we are going to invite to the short duration beta testing. Those invitations will go out early next week so if you want on the list make sure you sign up at Blubrry.com
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