My Favorite Sales Oriented Podcast … By Far
I get a lot of emails asking which sales podcasts I listen to on a regular basis.
Honestly, there’s probably 5-7 different ones in my iPod right now, but the only one I could listen to every single day is The Advanced Selling Podcast.
Ever since I found these guys (and sometimes young lady), I’ve looked forward to the 7, 10 or 15 minutes they’re on each week.
I’m an old country boy and I’m pretty simple too, so the easy listening style of The Killer B’s - Bill, Bryan and Brooke - has given me hope that gobbledygook, buzzwords and pseudobaloney are not going to overtake the world of sales jargon.
Heck, every now and then a dang or heck, or the less polite equivalent might escape from Bill’s lips, which makes me feel all the more familiar and homey with the Caskey-man.
My only real problem with these guys, who live about 3 1/2 hours from me, is that they’re Hoosiers ! You know we Kentuckians aren’t usually crazy about their kind.
Their methods are sound, the strategies are actionable and their training is said to be top-notch.
I’m gonna email Bill and ask for a book or two to review for you guys and I’ll see if I can get an audio interview for you, but for now, head over and subscribe to The Advanced Selling podcast.
PS - Their logo is also the best podcast logo I’ve ever seen, so now I’m crushin’ on it too !
Gimme Your Advice About Sales And Marketing Podcasts
I’m in need of some good sales and marketing podcasts, so I thought I’d start my search here with y’all and let you tell me about any you can recommend.
Got any that you listen to on a regular basis and can vouch for ?
Got any that you’ve heard might be good ?
Got any that suck that you’ve tried and hated ?
Help a brother out and show him some link love to some great sales and marketing podcasts !
Podcasting Webcast With Jay Jennings
My friend Jay Jennings and I did a webcast this afternoon about podcasting and his product, Podcasting In About An Hour.
It was nearly 90 minutes of very fun, very informative content.
Jay gave away more secrets than he intended and we both gave away a LOT of good ideas.
To give it a listen, feel free to visit the replay page and at the end of the interview, Jay made a special offer, so hold out til the end and you’ll get way more than you’ll pay for.
I own the product and no affiliate links were used in this marketing effort or during the webcast. Nor were any animals harmed in any way, although we did mention cats way more than you’d believe.
You can also use the Get Podcasting Info button on the replay page to get Jay’s product.
The special price will show up in the shopping cart and he has a great guarantee, so don’t even hesitate, head over and get educated about podcasting.
Podcasting In About An Hour Webcast
After my review of “Podcasting In About An Hour” and the follow up post, a reader asked if I was going to do a webcast like I had previously done here and here.
As is usual around here, your wish is sometimes my command, so on Thursday August 2nd, at 5 PM EST, Jay Jennings and I will be presenting a webcast that will hopefully entertain, enlighten and educate you.
Here’s a link to the webcast page for Podcasting In About An Hour.
There’s a form there for your questions, you can print the page and you can click thru to the sales page for Podcasting In About An Hour.
Yes, I own the product.
Yes, I paid for it.
No, that’s not an affiliate link.
Join us on the phone or listen for no cost thru an audio player of your choice.
There will be an mp3 made available for download afterwards.
Want A Chance To Win Some Great Podcasting Gear ?
After I started blogging about podcasting, it seems I see all kinds of posts about it now.
Here’s a blog that’s giving you a chance to win $335 in podcast gear and all you have to do is subscribe to their RSS feed and send an email.
No, really, it’s that simple and you know I like simple.
Click thru to the special page that Create Business Growth built to use for their giveaway and you’ll see the podcast gear I’m going to win !
The even better part is, during the week I’ve been an RSS subscriber, I’ve actually really enjoyed their blog !
Kind of a win-win thang.
Use Podcasting To Generate Sales In 3 Easy Steps
After my review of Podcasting In About An Hour, a reader sent me an email and asked me to design a marketing campaign using podcasts.
I agreed to do so, for a small fee. The reader declined my offer, so I’ll not be designing a full-scale, all-out marketing campign for them, but I will give you some tips to use to stimulate your brain and help you along the road to generating sales using podcasts.
Step 1: Create a series of podcasts that tell a story about your product. How to use it for maximum profit, pleasure or productivity, how to aviod mistakes when using it, etc.
Step 2: Post that series on iTunes or mp3.com.
Step 3: Drive traffic to a landing page that promotes the series of podcasts.
That’s it. No, really.
Economical, easy and effective.
Don’t believe me ? Then prove me wrong.
Write the series of podcasts, build the landing page, upload them and drive traffic to the landing page.
If it doesn’t work for you, show it to me and I’ll offer a free critique of the series and landing page for the first 5 people who ask.
Action speaks louder than doubt.
Do You Want To Be Podcasting In About An Hour ?
My friend, Jay Jennings, is a marketer, programmer/coder, product creator and several other things all rolled into one package.
He just began the release cycle of a new product, called Podcasting In About An Hour.
It’s a video tutorial and I bought a copy.
Here’s the kicker - I bought it mainly for one of the bonuses he includes, called Audio Editing Secrets, another video tutorial product.
I’m doing a lot more audio and have the intention to ramp that up into more multi-media products as the year goes along, so a quick, easy, video tutorial seemed like the thing to help me learn to use a product like Audacity, which he includes on the CD, and if he could teach me using a condensed, quick and easy version, it would be nice.
Jay’s done many, many audio products and services over the years I’ve known him and I tend to buy almost every product or service he produces, so I’m familiar with his style and quality, which have never been a disappointment to me.
In Podcasting In about An Hour, Jay covers:
Formatting Your Product, Finding A Source For Content, Recording And Editing Your Product, Easily Recording Interviews For Your Podcast, Publishing Your Podcast On Your Website and Promoting Your Podcast On iTunes And Other Sites and more.
I listened to and watched the whole tutorial in a little under 2 hours.
I paused it “several” times as the info was causing me to take notes faster than I could write and I wasn’t even interested in podcasting !
Remember, I bought the course for the bonus, Audio Editing Secrets, which I also watched and learned all I needed to know to work with my audio products … in about an hour.
I won’t bore you with a tremendously long review, but there are some high points that you need to know about.
The Intro was a great overview, the part about Doing Interviews was well done and the step-by-step Putting It All Together section will make it quick and easy to create an audio product or podcast.
Let me be a bit more specific here about the Publishing Your Podcast section. Here Jay goes into great detail on using a product call Podcast Generator. Not only does he teach you how to use it, which will make creating the actual podcast very simple, he even includes the software on the CD ! Yeah, it’s open source, but now it’s always where you need it, on the CD.
The Hardware and Software section looked like it would be scary, but it’s nowhere as complicated as I thought it would be and Jay’s been there and done that, so he can tell you what to buy and more importantly, what not to buy, to avoid wasting money !
Under Formatting Your Podcast, he’ll teach you a “segmenting” secret that will allow you to record pieces and parts and put them together to make multiple podcasts from one sitting in front of your mic.
This was worth the price of the course alone.
Also worth the cost of the course was all the secrets he spilled in the Finding Content section. he mentions two or three places to find content that will cost you nothing to very, very little. I’ll be using both of these in some form or another.
Jay also lists the Top 5 podcast directories and shows you how to add your podcast feed to them.
Want to get your material on iTunes in less than 10 minutes ? Jay went thru the steps in a lot less time than that, but it would have taken me all night, if he hadn’t made this video for me.
Jay also includes a 4 hour teleseminar he did with a podcast expert, as another bonus for his customers.
And he includes a simple tweak to Podcast Generator that will make it make more money from your podcast home page.
Taking everything into account, this product was a tremendous addition to my marketing arsenal, especially since a couple of my corporate clients have indicated wanting to add a lot more audio to their mix in the coming months.
Here’s the best part. Jay has agreed to be on a teleseminar with me to answer all of your podcasting questions and any questions you may have about his video tutorial course, Podcasting In About An Hour.
Click thru, ask your question(s) and stay tuned for more free education about podcasts.
