Episode 28 - Content Planning and Technique Improvement

Welcome 

• Welcome to the Business Souls podcast which helps you to maximise your magnificence by exploring one topic each week for 10 minutes.
• Sorry I am really over time this week.
• Hello and Welcome to Episode 26 - How to choose a podcast host ?
• Part 10/10 Series Podcasting also apply to YouTube or YouTube Live / Facebook or Instagram Live
• Look into planning podcast and episodes
• Practicality of equipment, recording, editing and choosing a podcast host
• Look at how to launch
• Post launch content cycle and improvement of style of delivery

Quote For The Week

"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change." Tom Peters, Author (Thriving on Chaos)

News

• Hello Business Souls
• Last in mini series for podcasts
• Content Planning - how to plan your content so that you never run out of things to say
• Technique Improvement
• Improving the way you speak
• Improving the way you record
• Improving the way you edit

Main Topic
Content PlanningIdeas

• List of ideas when first started the podcast
• As community grows you should see other topics emerge or people to interview
• Keep up with news in your niche which should also fuel ideas

Group Ideas Together

• Try and come up if you can with mini - series because then you have a number of coherent podcasts
• For example my next podcast is going to be on communication
• Following this will be a mini-series on how to actually communicate using pause, pace and pitch. This maybe one episode or a mini series of 3

Calendar

• What world days affect your niche ?
• What conferences are coming up in your niche ?
• What world events are affecting your niche ?

ImprovementVoice Technique

• Listen back and critic yourself when editing
• Try and actively think about your ums and so and anything else that is annoying you

Pause

• If you can’t think of anything pause you can always edit this out

Pace

• Be consistent and try to speak as you would do to a friend. Ensure you can be heard.
• Don’t speak too fast

Pitch

• Try and speak naturally and consistently. Add a noise gate and you have to keep up the momentum. Think you have one if you don’t
• Don’t mumble
• Try to articulate your words

Recording Technique

• Try to do the whole episode in one go
• If you can’t just do a segment
• If you get one sentence wrong. Pause and then repeat again you can edit it out
• Practice, practice, practice
• Record earlier than you think. Don’t stop recording until after you think you have finished
• Get your levels right. TOAST
• Don’t adjust

Editing Technique

• Much easier if multi-track
• Always have separate tracks for each voice
• Add EQ and Gain if required
• Always add noise gate to any external source
• Much easier if you have an intro and outro that you have pre-recorded. Put on separate tracks
• Copy the previous episode
• If got pause much easier to edit out
• Leave a few natural ums
• You will learn each time. For example this week on my gin podcast had to record using telephone. Poor audio
• Had to learn a few techniques to make better
• You will improve over...