Lawyers Who Podcast - Part II

Lawyers Who Launch

Welcome back to part II of the Lawyers Who Podcast mini-series. In part I we covered how to hone in on your niche, topic, and format. We also gave you some homework. If you are considering starting your own podcast, part I of the Lawyers Who Podcast mini-series is not to be missed. This week we are going to build from there. We will discuss choosing a name, the mechanics of getting started, buying your tech, and a life-saving time-saving hack that will make your entrance into podcasting so much easier.

Choosing a Name -Just like with the episode ideas, we recommend starting with a master list. Once you have started working on a list then you can start researching those names that you like. This is an important step. You need to know if someone else is already using that name and also what people will find when they search your name. Do not forget to separately search podcast directories in addition to your general internet search. You certainly want to make sure that no one else has the same name for their podcast because when your audience goes to search for your show you want to make sure they find you and not someone else. As you narrow down your name you also want to consider what the name tells your listeners about your podcast. Is your name a play on words? Does that make sense for your business and your brand? What does it say about the topic of your podcast? The selection of a name, while strategic, is also very personal.

Mechanics of Recording-How will you record your podcast? If you have a solo show then this one is fairly simple. You’ll need a good quality microphone and you will need to have a program on your computer to record your audio. If you have a solo show, we would personally recommend Audacity for both Mac and PC as your recording platform. You can then edit in that same program. Since we record our episodes together, we record in a very user friendly program called Zencaster. After we are done recording we upload the audio to Audacity to do the editing in that program. Once the episode is complete, we then run the audio track through Auphonic to process the audio, which basically cleans it up and improves the sound quality. With Auphonic, you get two free hours of audio processing per month.

Equipment -One thing that you will have to spend a bit of money on it is your equipment. It is worth a little bit of an investment to get a microphone that is a better quality than what you will find built into the headphones you use for phone calls.

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Podcasting Hack-As you are learning the steps you need to produce and edit your podcast - WRITE IT DOWN. It sounds so basic, but there are a lot of steps. Haley did not take any notes when she was originally learning, and after finalizing the trailer, she had to go back and relearn everything in order to do the first full episode.

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