Helping a friend start a podcast
During the lockdown of 2020, I got to step away from the 360 product photography and helped out a friend with a new business direction that he wanted to work on. Keith wanted to start a podcast (TheFuelPodcast.com) to support his other business and, since he was working from home a lot more, it made perfect sense to build a podcast studio and do the whole thing from his home office.
From time to time, Keith will reach out to me with technical questions, and I am always willing to help out. Because I have quite a bit of experience with audio content production from the days of multimedia production back in the double oh’s and understand the value of podcasts, this was something I was keen to see take off!
The first thing we discussed was the branding. Keith had created a mission statement and outline for the show format, so I helped him settle on a URL and configured the hosting for him. This not only entailed a physical web site that he could build and maintain, but also a remote hosting facility to house all the shows.
The hosting issue is important to starting a podcast – unless you have a dedicated hosting service, the major distribution platforms will only host your last 10 shows, so you risk losing all your earlier podcasts. Dedicated hosting gives you an archive.
We settled on WordPress for the web site, as it really does offer a great user-friendly plug-and-play product.
Once that was in place and some initial designs were agreed, Keith was able to build the web site and start filling it with content.
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