The Flow: Episode 22 - Podcasting Resolutions for 2023
The Flow: Episode 22 - Podcasting Resolutions for 2023 : The Flow: Episode 22 - Podcasting Resolutions for 2023
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Podcasting, especially video podcasting, can be a great way to share your message with the world. There are so many things to learn and do, but it's hard to know where to start if you've never done it before.
Producing a podcast can seem daunting at first; it's easy to feel overwhelmed when you're starting something new. Using a Video First approach with Ecamm Live will make it much easier and save you lots of time.
The Flow is here to help. We'll take you step-by-step through creating a video podcast, from planning and production to promotion and monetization. You'll learn how to build an efficient workflow that will make your content shine, leaving you to focus on creating great content.
In this episode, Katie and Doc talk about Podcasting resolutions for 2023.
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Hello, Flow Riders.
Speaker:Welcome to the Flow.
Speaker:It is that brand new first edition of 2023 a k a, the big trade.
Speaker:We are back.
Speaker:We are in action.
Speaker:And yes, Paul, no one sees your mouth on the podcast.
Speaker:That is my favorite line of 2023.
Speaker:So far it's only what day three?
Speaker:So let's get out there.
Speaker:I am your podcast host, Doc Rock, community manager at Ecamm
Speaker:with my awesome co-host, Katie.
Speaker:What's up Kate?
Speaker:Hi.
Speaker:I'm so excited to be hanging out here and, and huge thank you to everyone
Speaker:that put up with me solo hosting with special guests while Doc was in Japan.
Speaker:So I was saying to Doc, we did it.
Speaker:We survived.
Speaker:Nothing went crazy wrong, and it was a lot of fun.
Speaker:So not that I ever want you to leave again, Doc, but
Speaker:I'm really proud of myself.
Speaker:I held it down.
Speaker:I held it together.
Speaker:It's different, right?
Speaker:It's so different.
Speaker:Like it is like, you know, did the show with Jared when you
Speaker:were gone and Jared's awesome.
Speaker:Jared's my dude, right?
Speaker:I love Jared to death, but it is different.
Speaker:It's not the same as when we do it, so hey.
Speaker:Don't, don't hit me, Jared.
Speaker:It was just Katie
Speaker:It was, it was good.
Speaker:It was all, it was all good.
Speaker:And I will take credit for today's topic, which is gonna send Doc into
Speaker:spirals because we're talking about podcast resolutions and Doc's first
Speaker:resolution is that there should be no resolutions, but we already have an
Speaker:episode called podcast planning, which is really what this is so whether or not
Speaker:you wanna call it a resolution or you wanna call it just a plan for this year,
Speaker:I just thought it would be fun for us to live talk while you are either live
Speaker:watching or replay watching or listening later next week when this episode
Speaker:drops on all of the podcast platforms.
Speaker:What are our plans for The Flow this year?
Speaker:And we will live brainstorm and plan it.
Speaker:And then we'll take all these ideas and we'll, and we'll roll with them
Speaker:and run.
Speaker:All right, so first, not to sound like a jerk, but I don't
Speaker:care if I sound like a jerk.
Speaker:I'm a very factual person.
Speaker:Not pedantic to a fault, but I'm just a factual person.
Speaker:I don't like fluffy stuff that doesn't math.
Speaker:I don't like things that don't math.
Speaker:I'm a Virgo, right?
Speaker:Like, okay, if you want to give it some fluffy, I'll give you Virgo.
Speaker:I don't even believe in half of that crap, but it doesn't math to
Speaker:me because what happens is, first of all, Fuljens nailed it yesterday, my
Speaker:podcast resolutions are 4K and 8K.
Speaker:Fuljens absolutely nailed it yesterday.
Speaker:The reason why I don't like resolutions is number one, it requires you to wait until
Speaker:January 1st to make a positive action or change in your life, which is just silly.
Speaker:These numbers are purely arbitrary.
Speaker:Let's run it all the way back to, uou know, Gregorian people, the
Speaker:calendar is freaking arbitrary.
Speaker:At the end of the day, those numbers on that square boxes don't matter.
Speaker:What matters is that you're doing stuff and you're moving forward
Speaker:and you're making it happen.
Speaker:So if you decide someday in February that you're gonna do this, and you just
Speaker:start, then that is to me, is amazing.
Speaker:If you decide on, say, February 10th, you're gonna start something
Speaker:on March 1st, what the hell are you waiting two weeks for?
Speaker:What is that extra two weeks gonna give you?
Speaker:If it's preparedness and getting better, that's fine.
Speaker:If you're just putting it off so you can have some arbitrary date,
Speaker:you're kind of like setting yourself up for the first original hurdle.
Speaker:So like I told my whole crew, we're not gonna wait until the new year
Speaker:to get ready to plan the new year.
Speaker:We started in November.
Speaker:So that way we get to January one at full speed running as opposed
Speaker:to starting cold on January 1st.
Speaker:So this is why I hate resolutions because it builds unnecessary,
Speaker:arbitrary blocks and the kind of people that need to make resolutions.
Speaker:And let's be purely factual about this, the kind of people
Speaker:that need to make resolutions.
Speaker:You already have a block.
Speaker:Because those of us that don't make them, we don't have those blocks.
Speaker:We just run and hit the wall back up, hit it again.
Speaker:So I say remove the blocks.
Speaker:That'll be your first step to actually winning a resolution is
Speaker:getting rid of these weird blocks that you put up for yourself.
Speaker:So that's why.
Speaker:I don't seem to sound goofy about it, but it's what it is.
Speaker:Well, this particular title of today's podcast and the general topic, regardless
Speaker:of whether or not we believe in it or wanna do it, actually plays into one
Speaker:of the things that I would like to get better at this year for the podcast,
Speaker:which is podcast titles and descriptions.
Speaker:And just general SEO.
Speaker:And so while I was thinking through what we wanted to talk about today,
Speaker:really I wanted to talk about what the plan was for this year, what things
Speaker:we have on the horizon, just be able to kind of brainstorm live, because
Speaker:I know that many of you are thinking through, now that we have a new year.
Speaker:What are the things that you wanna do with your podcast?
Speaker:Maybe this is year you actually wanna start a podcast.
Speaker:Maybe this is the year you wanna add video on.
Speaker:So thinking it through, and again, we have an episode
Speaker:already called podcast planning.
Speaker:So I was like, okay, well people are looking for or thinking through
Speaker:topics, it makes sense for the seo.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:A hundred percent.
Speaker:It makes sense for SEO.
Speaker:I will say that is definitely a huge push for us this year, is really going
Speaker:through even past YouTube videos and doing a lot of that cleanup because
Speaker:YouTube as a platform has changed really dramatically over the last year and we'll
Speaker:continue to change dramatically this year.
Speaker:So going back and just really making sure.
Speaker:We use TubeBuddy right now and a couple of other tools, but you know, with
Speaker:TubeBuddy you can see like on a video that you've uploaded or a previously
Speaker:live video, what your percentage out of a hundred is for how SEO
Speaker:rich or SEO friendly your video is.
Speaker:So like any of those ones that are sitting below like 70 or 80%, I definitely wanna
Speaker:go back and say Hey, what happened here?
Speaker:Is it the topic of the video?
Speaker:Is it something that we're missing in the keywords?
Speaker:How can we really clean that up?
Speaker:And specifically for The Flow, I think is gonna be huge as we think
Speaker:through just, yeah, like what, you know, how are we talking about it?
Speaker:What are the words we're using, what are the topics that we're covering?
Speaker:You know what I think is awesome?
Speaker:I think it's awesome that we have these shows and a lot of the shows
Speaker:connect and compliment with each other.
Speaker:So for instance, yesterday on E N N.
Speaker:Ana and Fuljens, they were going on and they were talking about
Speaker:some of the stuff that's happening with chatGPT and g p t three.
Speaker:And so these other AI complimented tools.
Speaker:I'm gonna do what in the industry we called a callback, but instead
Speaker:of a callback to our own show.
Speaker:I'm gonna do a callback to ENN yesterday when one of the things that Ana brought
Speaker:up, and it was very insightful, she says, I'm just curious as to what people are
Speaker:going to be able to do with this and how they can use it to make it work.
Speaker:Now, naturally, whenever any new technology comes out, there's all the
Speaker:people that are just running around scared like, oh, you know, chat G P
Speaker:T is going to help students cheat.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:It's not.
Speaker:Let's just get away from that.
Speaker:What that means is that you're a teacher and you don't want to do the work to
Speaker:learn how to teach different, because they said the same thing when we got
Speaker:calculators, they said the same things when we got computers, they said the
Speaker:same thing when we got iPhones, iPads, all of the above, and you know what?
Speaker:Students don't cheat anymore.
Speaker:Let's run this back and be factual.
Speaker:If your students need to cheat, you are a horrible teacher.
Speaker:Because if you're a good teacher, they got the information and
Speaker:they don't need the cheat.
Speaker:But nobody wants to take the response for that.
Speaker:So it's easier to say that it's gonna make people cheat.
Speaker:Anyway, off my soapbox, what this is going to allow you to do if you run your
Speaker:titles and descriptions through an AI situation like Jasper or chat G P T.
Speaker:In this particular case, Jasper would be better.
Speaker:You will get better seo.
Speaker:Here's the reason why.
Speaker:They both pull from a knowledge base of the data that already
Speaker:existed on the internet at the time.
Speaker:So unless you're talking about something so topical that it's past
Speaker:June of 2021, letting that generate the description and title for you, or
Speaker:bless, take your title and description, throw it and say, improve it.
Speaker:You know for a fact that that information is being pulled from the internet,
Speaker:so therefore it already exists, so therefore it will align seo tighter
Speaker:then if you just pull it out of the wonderful mind of yourself.
Speaker:That is one of the cheat codes.
Speaker:If you want, if you wanna learn nothing else about this program because you're
Speaker:scared of it, whatever, put your fear in the closet and just search how to
Speaker:do better s e o using AI that will fix.
Speaker:And matter of fact VidIQ actually gives you
Speaker:s E i, descri, S E I...
Speaker:aI descriptions and AI title enhancements.
Speaker:So you put in your basics and you hit a button and it will run it through
Speaker:a version of chat GPT that they have installed and sort of give you better
Speaker:title and better descriptions because it know, it reads the whole YouTube.
Speaker:So there you go.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And that and speaking of which, so that obviously relates directly
Speaker:to how we wanna be able to kind of improve our discoverability
Speaker:and just accessibility on YouTube.
Speaker:But similarly, like I think we also could do a better job, or I would
Speaker:like to dive a little bit deeper on going through our show notes
Speaker:in Captivate and making sure, because in, in Captivate there is a section
Speaker:as you know, Doc, but for anyone that doesn't use this tool or similar
Speaker:tools, there's a section for our transcript, which is super helpful.
Speaker:It's filled with all the incredible things.
Speaker:Doc says, but it also has a show notes section where we could do a better job
Speaker:of doing things like helpful links, information on the guests we bring on.
Speaker:So right now we're just duplicating that from whatever
Speaker:our description was on YouTube.
Speaker:Fine.
Speaker:But I think we could do a better job of adding in more additional resources.
Speaker:Or maybe once the episode has already, we've already recorded the episode,
Speaker:maybe we go back into that afterwards and add in anything that you know
Speaker:is additional helpful information.
Speaker:We talked about, like in this case, we mentioned Doc mentioned Jasper.
Speaker:So maybe we wanna go back and say like, Hey, you wanna learn more about Jasper?
Speaker:Here's the additional tool.
Speaker:So I think really thinking that through or building that into our
Speaker:process better is gonna help this podcast continue to grow and continue
Speaker:to be helpful and relevant to people.
Speaker:And I think is a really important way to spend our time this year is to really,
Speaker:you know, make sure that all of the amazing content we're creating, whether
Speaker:it's this show or other shows, are discoverable by really doubling down on
Speaker:those amazing tools that are out there and on the basics of SEO and marketing
Speaker:that we should be doing anyway, but are really easy to ignore when you're like,
Speaker:ah, copy paste or template, or like doing it last minute because we forgot,
Speaker:or all the other reasons that pop up.
Speaker:I did mark this cause I think it's a good one.
Speaker:Resolution one dive deeper into Captivate for us.
Speaker:But I think I want, I put a, I put a print, a parenthetical on there that
Speaker:says if you're someone else and you are using a different tool that you
Speaker:have used like Ecamm, I know because you guys come to the demo as stuff
Speaker:that you shouldn't know from day one.
Speaker:If you've been half using a piece of software for a long time and getting away
Speaker:with it, let's stop getting away with it.
Speaker:Let's spend some time this year to dig deeper and so I
Speaker:posted on LinkedIn yesterday.
Speaker:LinkedIn is my, is in my resolution one sentence, if you
Speaker:have to give it that terminology.
Speaker:For me it's LinkedIn because I've been like just like running by
Speaker:giving it a quick peck on the cheek and running home real fast
Speaker:before her daddy came home for a long time, so, For me it's LinkedIn and I
Speaker:posted on LinkedIn the other day when I was doing interview with Sally, and then
Speaker:vice versa being interviewed on her show.
Speaker:She told us last year that last year was gonna be her year for Ecamm.
Speaker:Sally spent every waking minute that she had
Speaker:extra from her business and she runs an incredible business fam.
Speaker:She was learning deeper and deeper and deeper about Ecamm.
Speaker:She spent an entire year making sure she got better at Ecamm
Speaker:because it was gonna help her move the needle and the other tools.
Speaker:I think what a lot of us do is we all buy these tools and
Speaker:then we kind of half use them.
Speaker:If another person says to me, I got a Rodecaster Pro and I only half use it.
Speaker:I'm like, that's not something you should ever admit.
Speaker:That's like admitting that you secretly fart in the back of the elevator.
Speaker:Like don't admit that, fix that.
Speaker:Like seriously, you can admit it to yourself, but you shouldn't be proud of
Speaker:buying expensive tools and half using them cuz I will definitely judge you.
Speaker:Put your money where your mouth is.
Speaker:So Doc is absolutely right.
Speaker:He has been spending more time there and I feel like for us last year,
Speaker:for us as a business last year, we were really focused on growing and
Speaker:fostering our community on Discord, and we'll definitely continue doing that.
Speaker:We were also really focused on getting more content up in a more
Speaker:relevant way on Instagram, and we saw really huge results from that.
Speaker:Like, I completely agree.
Speaker:I think being able to spend your time on the tools and in the
Speaker:places that matter most and really understanding them is hugely important.
Speaker:And I would say, yeah, put together, you know, put together and think through
Speaker:your plan, but be able to connect those, be able to connect those dots.
Speaker:So from my side, what we could do better again here for this specific
Speaker:podcast is we started a few months back really using my time in Descript,
Speaker:where I'm pulling the transcript to also create shorter video clips.
Speaker:And so, you know, Caleb's been putting those out across different places.
Speaker:But I think really doubling down on that and being able to pull out a lot more of
Speaker:these like amazing tips now that we are 22 episodes in, we have more of that stuff.
Speaker:We could be able to put those clips in a ton of different spaces.
Speaker:As you said, maybe, you know, better collaboration between all of
Speaker:the shows that Ecamm has as well.
Speaker:So there's, I think, opportunities as you're diving deeper on LinkedIn and
Speaker:as we're trying to get better at a few of these key platforms, figuring
Speaker:out how to pull that story through.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So it's the same content that you're carrying across
Speaker:all the different platforms.
Speaker:You just gave me another really good, a good idea.
Speaker:So one of the things that we should possibly do, not possibly
Speaker:we should do it, period.
Speaker:I'm, we should, we should do, yeah.
Speaker:we're gonna build our to-do list off of this episode.
Speaker:So throw it in here, right?
Speaker:So somebody, Paul or Eden, or one of y'all is taking notes and giving us
Speaker:what our to-do list is after this.
Speaker:I think that we should definitely use AMIE.
Speaker:This is a Captivate feature.
Speaker:If you don't have Captivate, I'm sorry for you.
Speaker:You got to figure this out on your own.
Speaker:Captivate does this, so we're gravy.
Speaker:We need to use AMIE better to promote the other shows that we have.
Speaker:Yes, we have an amazing sponsor, Speedify.
Speaker:And I like keeping those as live reads, but that doesn't mean with AMIE, we can't
Speaker:do a post roll that says, make sure you're checking out ana and FJ on ENN or make
Speaker:sure you're coming to the demo or you're coming in to Leap in the, I can't tell
Speaker:you right now cuz Katie might hit me.
Speaker:But we got some guns coming up.
Speaker:Saucy fam.
Speaker:Ooh, it's so saucy.
Speaker:This year's Leap is gonna be, I stop snitching.
Speaker:Lemme stop snitching.
Speaker:I don't wanna be like Ken and snitch.
Speaker:So don't tell Ken I said that.
Speaker:Is he sitting there anyway?
Speaker:So he's not?
Speaker:I think we should definitely use AMIE, which it, AMIE, for people who don't
Speaker:use Captivate, it's a way to input advertisements or promotional things
Speaker:into your podcast auto mechanically.
Speaker:And what I mean by that yeah, is you basically upload the .wav file or the MP3
Speaker:file for, that's gonna be your reader, your liner, and it will automatically
Speaker:place it in places where you set markers.
Speaker:So we can do a post roll, a pre-roll, we could do a mid-roll.
Speaker:We could even put slots in where we know right before we break
Speaker:into q and a, it like it would automatically throw it in ad.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It's a really wonderful tool and I don't know if your platform has it,
Speaker:but our platform does so switch to Captivate because it's really handy.
Speaker:We used it perfectly for the sale for Cyber Weekend, and then we
Speaker:should dive deeper into that.
Speaker:Also, I think another thing in the, in going back to one, is that we should
Speaker:work with using the guest sheet and the research note sheets in Captivate a little
Speaker:deeper because then that automatically helps the show notes happen better.
Speaker:So reality is we just gotta dig deeper into Captivate.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:And not that we don't do like planning for this show, but I think, yeah, I
Speaker:think forcing ourselves to kind of build out a guide that we can all see will
Speaker:also help us as, right now we do have a, obviously a flow for the show, so
Speaker:we have like, You know our kind of live sections where we're doing housekeeping
Speaker:and welcome and just chatting in banter.
Speaker:And then we go into the actual show itself, which usually not today,
Speaker:but usually is split into three, you know, three main questions.
Speaker:And then we have our live q and a at the end, but we don't have in that
Speaker:flow, like as you said, the, you know, Pauses where we can, you know,
Speaker:say, Hey, we're, we'll be right back, we're gonna go to this ad break.
Speaker:And we could do something like that if we did wanna add in and be able
Speaker:to, you know, feature other shows or upcoming events that that Ecamm
Speaker:is doing or places that we're at.
Speaker:And we do have all of those things.
Speaker:So I think it would be, I completely agree.
Speaker:I think,
Speaker:having a structure that's outlined will help keep us on point and will
Speaker:also help make the show notes better and will also help us leverage
Speaker:AMIE and other tools better.
Speaker:So a win all the way around to, you know, to be able to just have that document.
Speaker:And I know that people like Jeff and Grace who run Social Media News Live,
Speaker:which is a show that we partner with, they have a really great template for that.
Speaker:So we certainly have some tools we can build out to be able
Speaker:to use and share for sure.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I think topically I would like to see us, that's something that you and Luis and
Speaker:I talked about a little bit yesterday.
Speaker:I would like to see us do multi-part deep dives into a particular thing.
Speaker:As you know, this month I'm diving into just getting
Speaker:better with interviews, right?
Speaker:My class starts on Saturday.
Speaker:I got a bunch of folks signed up, and we're going to be just working on
Speaker:helping people become better hosts.
Speaker:You know, like, uh, I heard you when I was in Japan.
Speaker:I was listening to you on the last week's show, not the one
Speaker:that came out today, but prior.
Speaker:The interview with Matt, or when, or when I forced my best friend Nat to join us?
Speaker:Your friend.
Speaker:You had your home girl.
Speaker:She was really good by the way.
Speaker:And you made a statement of, well, I'm not as good as like, you
Speaker:know, pulling these off the top of my head or whatever, whatever.
Speaker:And that's something that you just get from doing it more.
Speaker:So I think that it'll be cool to deep dive into maybe how to get better at
Speaker:pulling these nuggets out or doing, so some of that stuff will be covered in
Speaker:interview class and then yeah, we can take that and turn that into a show.
Speaker:But like dig digging deeper into things like that.
Speaker:Digging deeper into, say audio editing if you don't have an editor, like how
Speaker:to use compression, how to use eq.
Speaker:Yes, Auphonic will fix a bunch of stuff, but it's also better if
Speaker:you start it with a good thing.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:The better stuff you throw it all on, the better it sounds comes out.
Speaker:Like why is Doc always screaming about negative 16 L U F S, AKA loudness
Speaker:under full scale, AKA K rated?
Speaker:And why do I need to know such a complicated thing?
Speaker:Because you do.
Speaker:Every one of us, especially if you watch a and e have had this situation, A and e I
Speaker:just wanna punch you in the face so hard.
Speaker:The show is like, okay, then when we talking about this, and then
Speaker:Thomas Jefferson came around and then would go to the commercial,
Speaker:you feel depressed, take this.
Speaker:And it's just loud.
Speaker:Like the level between the show and the depression medication,
Speaker:it jumps up like seven decibels.
Speaker:And it's obnoxious.
Speaker:It's super obnoxious.
Speaker:A&E is the one station that does it, does it religiously.
Speaker:Most of the other ones have had it, you know, sort of figured out.
Speaker:If you think I'm joking, you can watch A&E today and you'll hear it instantly.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:It also happens with a, it happens with a lot of podcasts where if
Speaker:they're part of like a network and the network is placing ads for them,
Speaker:they're always like, you know, and we'll be right back after the break.
Speaker:And then the ad that the network is placing is obsessively louder
Speaker:or quieter than the show, and you're like, wait, no, down, up.
Speaker:Buy another Paul Duncan mattress because Paul Duncan mattresses let you sleep.
Speaker:Why does every podcast sell mattresses?
Speaker:I just wanna know like, like really with every podcast sells
Speaker:freaking mattresses and bras.
Speaker:Not just mattresses.
Speaker:Mattresses, bras, underwear, socks, lots of clothes, pretty clothes heavy.
Speaker:Websites.
Speaker:So Squarespace, there's like probably like 10 podcast advertisers that are like
Speaker:the go-to advertisers for big podcasts.
Speaker:It's kind of hilarious.
Speaker:And I have to admit, I was like, I don't think podcast advertising works.
Speaker:And then I like look around my house and I'm.
Speaker:Oh, yep.
Speaker:It does.
Speaker:I have all those things.
Speaker:I gonna lie, I bought some MeUndies, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker:Yeah, I have, I have MeUndies, I have HelloFresh, I have , I
Speaker:have the Bomba socks.
Speaker:If HelloFresh shipped to Hawaii, I'd be there.
Speaker:Because when we did that, when we did that taco kit that one
Speaker:night, that was so much fun.
Speaker:Like I loved it.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I wish HelloFresh was shipped to Hawaii, but they don't.
Speaker:Jared is putting in the facts negative 16 loudness on the full scale for
Speaker:podcast negative 23 for video.
Speaker:Actually, YouTube still prefers negative 16 as well, so I, I published my YouTube
Speaker:videos for 16 and let them adjust down.
Speaker:But yeah, Netflix and a lot of the broadcast television
Speaker:places want a negative 23.
Speaker:Athletic Greens is for short.
Speaker:That's another one.
Speaker:They're all over.
Speaker:Man.
Speaker:If I have to think about Athletic Greens, I'm telling you what.
Speaker:Anyway.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:That's one that I have no interest in buying, so I'm not worried about that.
Speaker:Me, me neither.
Speaker:I agree though.
Speaker:I think like audio, audio is a good subtopic.
Speaker:Interviewing I think is a good subtopic.
Speaker:Advertising or sponsorships is a good, but if there's any that we're not thinking
Speaker:of, you know, and you're listening right now, or here in the live chat with
Speaker:us, you know, drop it into the chat.
Speaker:Send us an email flow at Ecamm dot com or swing over to the volley.
Speaker:V O l L E Y is volley and you can certainly ask a video question.
Speaker:That's another one that is high on my list.
Speaker:I'm trying to convince you all that.
Speaker:The more you know, the more interactive I would love to add into this show,
Speaker:like a Flow Rider question of the week where at the end of the show
Speaker:we have a video question that pops up and we're able to chat it back
Speaker:and forth on a particular topic.
Speaker:I think it would be really fun for everyone.
Speaker:So if you have one, now is the time.
Speaker:I feel like we, we need to collect probably about five or 10 of
Speaker:them before we'd feel comfortable launching it as a segment.
Speaker:But I, it would be great to get some just general podcasting questions.
Speaker:So if you have some or wanna share like a pro tip.
Speaker:Maybe it's one or the other, but it'd be fun.
Speaker:You just gave me an idea.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:We need a idea.
Speaker:First of all, I wanna give you, okay, Jared made a comment and I normally,
Speaker:we don't do comments in the show, but I'm gonna do this comment in the show
Speaker:because it kind of works along with my idea and I know that Jared can pull
Speaker:it off because Jared's a video guy, so don't be mad that he's just good at this.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:It says, I do have a story about sponsorship.
Speaker:Okay, Jared, so here's gonna be my thing.
Speaker:If you have a pro tip, a story, a win, or something of that nature
Speaker:about podcasting that you would like to share, send us that video clip.
Speaker:Make sure that it's properly audioed, properly lit, properly done.
Speaker:If it passes my muster for quality, we will loop it in the show.
Speaker:And I'm gonna be hard ass about the quality because it's our show.
Speaker:I'm sorry, like I don't, I'm trying to be a fallange about it.
Speaker:Sorry, but it's our show.
Speaker:So like I do expect a certain amount of lighting and audio capability and if
Speaker:it doesn't pass it, that doesn't mean you shouldn't send it, send it anyway.
Speaker:Maybe I'll just repeat it for you.
Speaker:And give you the promotion and the link in the show notes and
Speaker:the things that will help you.
Speaker:But this goes onto the thinking of promoting your own shows,
Speaker:the sort of pod swap, whatever.
Speaker:So I know that Jared and the Hive podcast, if you send us a clip and it's
Speaker:like, okay, I have this story about my win with Ecamm podcasting, or I have
Speaker:this win about podcasting, or I met this sponsor and this is what happened.
Speaker:More than happy to run those in the show as like a clip of
Speaker:the week from the fan base.
Speaker:TV shows do this all the.
Speaker:And the other thing I was gonna give you props on Katie, talk
Speaker:about having your co-host together.
Speaker:My question I was about to ask you and we kind of like overstepped
Speaker:each other for a second, was what would you want to hear next?
Speaker:And you actually hit that anyway.
Speaker:That's another prime example of when you work with your co-host enough, you kind
Speaker:of understand what's going to happen.
Speaker:So Katie knows I'm gonna say something stupid and then she followed my next
Speaker:point without me having to tell her.
Speaker:These things are factual.
Speaker:I told you I'm a factual person.
Speaker:I do love that you and I are both Virgo, but you are like much more like
Speaker:factual, whatever, and I'm much fluffier.
Speaker:Like we are like the opposite sides of Virgo.
Speaker:You're close to those Leo people.
Speaker:That's why you're on the very edge, like you slid in the back door.
Speaker:I'm at the very end of August, so yeah.
Speaker:But yeah, you got some of that lion crap leaking about you.
Speaker:the perfect balance.
Speaker:I'm the perfect balance, Doc.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Well what else have we missed?
Speaker:I think those were my major ones.
Speaker:I'm trying to think if there's anything else that was on my
Speaker:list of what we didn't cover.
Speaker:Luis said and I thought it was crazy cuz he out his mind, cause
Speaker:he's the one that got to edit it.
Speaker:But Luis said we should run more guests.
Speaker:And I'm like, all right, you're the one that's gotta edit it.
Speaker:Dingo, why would you do that to yourself?
Speaker:But he crazy.
Speaker:So what can we do?
Speaker:I do like the idea of doing more guests and I think the best place to do that is
Speaker:in those like deeper dive mini-series.
Speaker:Like it would be cool, and maybe this is like over the top as a structure,
Speaker:so, but let's talk it through.
Speaker:It would be really cool if we had like a special guest on, let's say we
Speaker:have, we have Mark on from Captivate.
Speaker:Okay, so we are, we're talking about Captivate, we're talking
Speaker:about that specifically.
Speaker:It would be really cool to have Mark, come on, do like a deep dive episode
Speaker:all on that, and then do like a mini video only workshop so that, you know,
Speaker:he could go, like, we could deep dive into it and actually show what the
Speaker:software is and it's only video, so it's the audio people get like the
Speaker:interview, the in-depth, et cetera.
Speaker:But then there's a call to action for this like flow workshop or offshoot that
Speaker:is, You know, more hands on video only.
Speaker:Where people can really do a deep dive into the software
Speaker:or into audio is another one.
Speaker:We did an audio workshop last year.
Speaker:You know, maybe it's like, okay, we're gonna have this guest on, we're gonna
Speaker:do the high level with the guest audio, and then we're gonna deep dive either
Speaker:with the guest or or just by ourselves.
Speaker:But I think it might be kind of a fun structure that lets us play kind of back
Speaker:and forth between video and audio and really it lets us do deeper, a deeper
Speaker:dive that's really actionable or hands on.
Speaker:You know what?
Speaker:I think we could also do a really dope one day Re-Leap, where we just reiterate stuff
Speaker:that happened from Leap Into Podcasting and double check and see where people are.
Speaker:Give them another bump if they're coming down there.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:Coming down.
Speaker:Only Luis would get that joke.
Speaker:Yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker:Those guys as guests, yeah.
Speaker:I think a Re-Leap is like, somewhere would be just dope.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:And we could plan it.
Speaker:So we, that was September.
Speaker:So if we wrap around like six months, um, it'll be coming up kind of
Speaker:quick, but it'll be just a thing.
Speaker:It, maybe it's a couple of hours, but it'll be really dope to do a
Speaker:Re-Leap and just check and make sure everybody's doing good.
Speaker:Catch up, you know, have a little hangout.
Speaker:We can hang out inside Alter Live or something, or Discord and just, you know,
Speaker:have a conversation and let people have a two-way y'all, because the chance of
Speaker:putting together a Flow event in a short amount of time is really difficult.
Speaker:But having everybody come together and go through some specifics and
Speaker:things like that would be good.
Speaker:One other one that I would like to.
Speaker:And rather than me yelling at you, this is something that we could pull
Speaker:in like a Jared or a Tom or somebody is come in and talk about, like,
Speaker:you know, basic camera settings.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Luis and I were talking about that before you joined.
Speaker:My camera's dialed in, but I spent a lot of time dialing it in.
Speaker:And yesterday, Gregorius hit me up and he is like, yo, man, what
Speaker:kind of filter are you using?
Speaker:Because everybody thinks that you're using some Instagram filter.
Speaker:No, people.
Speaker:I use actual glass filter.
Speaker:Hello.
Speaker:I'm a photographer.
Speaker:So you buy real glass filters like tinging, tink, you don't, you
Speaker:know, put some software that's just gonna muck up your whole system.
Speaker:It's a legit glass filter, less than a hundred bucks.
Speaker:You screw it onto your lens and game over.
Speaker:And so things like that, those little pro tips would come off good.
Speaker:So if we did a focus on video quality, for most people your video
Speaker:quality is coming from your lighting and everybody wants to blame the
Speaker:Camlink or Ecamm or their computer.
Speaker:It's your lighting 9 outta 10.
Speaker:It's your lighting.
Speaker:So it'd be cool to have somebody like Jared or Tommy, whatever, come
Speaker:in and maybe it's a couple different guys with different approaches or
Speaker:couple different females, cuz there are things I'm not gonna think about.
Speaker:I don't have hair, so I don't think about some of that stuff y'all think about.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So it'd be kind of cool.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's so funny.
Speaker:Luis and I were talking about it before, before the episode went live
Speaker:that I think, yeah, it, it's so much of, so much of live streaming and
Speaker:video podcasts and video production is like basic photography 1 0 1.
Speaker:It's like where to position your camera, three point lighting, like how to look
Speaker:into a camera and talk, like all of that kind of stuff that if you don't come
Speaker:from that background or you've never had that training, that's where most if not
Speaker:all of your questions are stemming from.
Speaker:And so, yeah, I think covering some of those just basics.
Speaker:Like not even so much the specifics of a specific camera, but just like how to set
Speaker:up your space so that your lighting looks good or your vi like your, just your basic
Speaker:videography or photography steps as far as what you need to take to get a good shot.
Speaker:You know, and it is funny because I see a lot of videos.
Speaker:I hear talks about it, I've given talks about it, about, you know, camera
Speaker:confidence and maybe I'm just a weirdo.
Speaker:I've never thought of a camera as needing confidence.
Speaker:I never put that level of thought.
Speaker:Standing in an airplane at 18,000 feet and looking at the ground and
Speaker:deciding to jump out, that's confidence.
Speaker:But just looking at a piece of metal, like 28 inches away from my face, the
Speaker:thought never even crossed my mind.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Like, so I think there's even something to talk about, like the things that
Speaker:we've already told ourselves are problem, that are not necessarily
Speaker:problems, but we just made it up and therefore we made it bigger.
Speaker:So we amplify it.
Speaker:Every time we tell somebody, here's a course on how to get better and confident
Speaker:on camera, you're amplifying a problem.
Speaker:That's not a real problem.
Speaker:So let's just just be a better speaker.
Speaker:And that covers everything, whether there's a camera there or a person
Speaker:sitting across the table at lunch and yeah, so I think we could even
Speaker:get into some of that stuff because that's something that you said when you
Speaker:mentioned to your friend about being at her, at being better at extemporaneous.
Speaker:You know, just like pulling this, this nugget out or saying this or saying that.
Speaker:A lot of that comes from just getting better at talking to people.
Speaker:And if you gave Katie the opportunity to stay in the house with a blanket in the
Speaker:book, she ain't seeing none of y'all.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:You see what I'm saying?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So let's, maybe we can even work on some of that.
Speaker:Where are some good opportunities to go and get better at just
Speaker:conversating with people so that you are a better conversationalist.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Especially if you spend a lot of time not being one.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's a really good point.
Speaker:Dang.
Speaker:This is good.
Speaker:This is good.
Speaker:This was a brainstorm session live on the podcast.
Speaker:Never thought of that one.
Speaker:Yeah, know.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, I love it.
Speaker:I'm filled with ideas.
Speaker:All right, so here's what I say.
Speaker:Anybody that has any ideas, people, and you know this podcast
Speaker:means nothing without you.
Speaker:Let's just get this through the heads of everyone listening,
Speaker:watching live, you didn't catch the live show, that's your fault.
Speaker:We are here every Tuesday at 12 come through, where it's
Speaker:open door like come through.
Speaker:We really would love to have you cuz it's a lot of fun.
Speaker:And sometimes we break the fourth wall and talk to the comments
Speaker:when we're not supposed to.
Speaker:But I find that part is epic.
Speaker:And also we couldn't do this show without you.
Speaker:And so please don't be shy.
Speaker:If you have a question, please ask it.
Speaker:We're not gonna make trouble to you.
Speaker:To the best of my ability, we're going to give you the answer.
Speaker:We're here so much that we want to help you so much because I everybody who's ever
Speaker:bitten the podcast Apple, it gets you.
Speaker:Like if you think a little near about it, okay, maybe it doesn't catch you, right?
Speaker:But if you bite it, bite it, you just like, oh man, I'm in there now.
Speaker:I wanna make more.
Speaker:And it's a lot of fun.
Speaker:It's a great way to help people understand about your business, your
Speaker:product, you know, things of the above.
Speaker:So, By all means if you have a suggestion or you wanna send in some of those clips.
Speaker:So Jared, you're on the hook for that story.
Speaker:I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it to you.
Speaker:Please by all means flow Ecamm dot com.
Speaker:Please reach out because we would love to have a lot more of your stuff thrown
Speaker:into the show because this is all.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:If it was up to Katie, she wouldn't have to talk to me this much.
Speaker:So
Speaker:don't like talking on the phone,
Speaker:weirdly enough.
Speaker:I like this format way better than like if my phone rings, I am definitely
Speaker:the person that just like, stares at it and goes like, maybe it'll just
Speaker:stop ringing cuz I don't wanna answer.
Speaker:Like texting.
Speaker:No problem.
Speaker:Emailing, no problem.
Speaker:Slack, no problem.
Speaker:Talking on the phone, like there's no end date.
Speaker:There's no end time to it.
Speaker:It could go on for forever, and that's very scary for me.
Speaker:Okay, Katie.
Speaker:Katie and I are both true crime lovers.
Speaker:Katie, you wanna see something bananas?
Speaker:Go on to Netflix today and look at, don't pick up the phone.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:It is purely psychotic.
Speaker:See you all later.
Speaker:I'm gonna be binge watching tv.
Speaker:It don't make any sense.
Speaker:It doesn't make any sense at all, but it's true.
Speaker:And it happened and it's, I didn't even know this happened, and it's around
Speaker:in the timeframe where I should have probably known, but it's psychotic anyway.
Speaker:So yes, people please that information, and if anything you wanna see us do, by
Speaker:all means, like this show is about you.
Speaker:Throw your feedback.
Speaker:You can throw feedback in Volley, you can hit us up in the email.
Speaker:You can hit us up on the iTunes podcast review section, which is very important.
Speaker:And then, we also gotta send a big, big shout out to Speedify, because
Speaker:they really do help us out a lot.
Speaker:I always talk about it from the aspect of saving your internet
Speaker:if you're doing a live stream or recording a podcast, whatever,
Speaker:like protecting you from a failure.
Speaker:But when I was traveling, I was in Japan.
Speaker:And of course, you know, there's all kinds of things happening in the world of round
Speaker:football and let's say Manchester United was trying to play a game and they're
Speaker:like, you can't watch this because you're not in the United States of America.
Speaker:And I went, Speedify, Los Angeles.
Speaker:Hey, look, I'm in America.
Speaker:NBC, check this out.
Speaker:And the NBC is like, oh, here you go.
Speaker:Here's a Manchester United game.
Speaker:I was like, haha, suckers.
Speaker:So Speedify does so many things besides what we talk about.
Speaker:Even if you're not using it for your podcast and your livestream stuff,
Speaker:there'll be occasions where you're traveling and you wanna protect things.
Speaker:It worked even during the time I was gone.
Speaker:It's the end of the year.
Speaker:I had, you know, some financial things I needed to.
Speaker:I know I was safe on the hotel wifi with Speedify engaged because it's the VPN
Speaker:allowed me to go in and pay my Apple card.
Speaker:Thank you Mac Studio and, yeah, so you can just do that stuff and not worry about it.
Speaker:So big ups to Speedify for being an awesome sponsor of this show.
Speaker:And thank you guys for just being the dopest Flow Riders there ever could be.
Speaker:We really, really appreciate you.
Speaker:Absolutely, and we just, we just spent the last 30 to 45 minutes talking
Speaker:about all kinds of amazing ideas.
Speaker:But again, we would love to hear yours.
Speaker:So if there's something that we're missing or there's something you want
Speaker:us to go through the process to see how it works before you try it yourself,
Speaker:that is literally the point of the show.
Speaker:So if there's something out there, we, yeah, we would
Speaker:absolutely love to hear you.
Speaker:And yeah, send in those ideas.
Speaker:Send in those suggestions.
Speaker:What can we do?
Speaker:What do you wanna know more about this year?
Speaker:We are here to make the resolutions for you.
Speaker:We will resolve to try it out for you.
Speaker:See, there you go, Flow Riders.
Speaker:We'll see y'all in the next episode.
Speaker:We're gonna slide in the q and a real quick.
Speaker:I appreciate y'all.
Speaker:And remember, your resolution for New Year's is 4k.
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