Meet the Community (April, 2017)

Podcasters' Society Webinars [audio]: (Protected Content)

Podcasters' Society Webinars : (Protected Content)

Get to know some of the fellow podcasters in Podcasters' Society! We also talk a little about the podcasting industry.

Cliff Dunning

  1. What is your podcast? Earth Ancients
  2. Why do you podcast? I wanted to get out more content and talk to guests. I can't really do that with Facebook.
  3. What's an accomplishment from the last year you'd like to celebrate? 125,000 downloads in a month and had a major sponsor.
  4. What's one area you know you need help to improve? Removing “uhs” and “ums.” Get sponsors.

Gary Colcombe

  1. What is your podcast? My wife, Ruthie, and I podcast the Celtic Myth Podshow.
  2. Why do you podcast? We started making the shows to make the Victorian translations of the old Celtic myths more accessible to a modern audience and, in the process, help ourselves learn our way around them. Over the 8 years that we've been doing this we've built up an amazingly supportive community, and have realised that there is so much material that we could probably continue to research and produce for another 20 years!
  3. What's an accomplishment from the last year you'd like to celebrate? I think we'd like to both celebrate beating many of the huge obstacles that life has thrown at us, and getting back to doing what we love most – making our shows.
  4. What's one area you know you need help to improve? We are still somewhat raggedy over the production of new content – chemotherapy has a very draining effect on my energy levels – and are overjoyed to be producing not only a brand new episode, but a different style of episode (thanks to many of the things that I have learned in the Society!). There are three areas we still have much to learn in.
    • We still need to work on consistency. We need to manage ever-changing lives so that our podcasting workflow stays with us all the time.
    • We need to learn how to encourage more engagement in our Social Media interactions, and,
    • Later on, when we have got back to a consistent release schedule, we need to start looking at monetisation. We are not thinking of the podcast primarily but of products and services that link directly to it – such as books, downloadables and lectures/presentations.

David Ballentine

  1. What is your podcast? Surging Forward Podcast
  2. Why do you podcast? To help grow leaders in the construction Trades
  3. What's an accomplishment from the last year you'd like to celebrate? That I am up to 37 episodes each week as I did not even know what a podcast was last Aug 2016
  4. What's one area you know you need help to improve? Learning how to do long distance interviews

Jeffrey Warren

  1. What is your podcast? The Philadelphia Sports Table
  2. Why do you podcast? I love talking about with my co-host and our listeners the 4 major Philly sports teams and college sports teams in the city. It's great connecting with other like-minded individuals and others who are so passionate about being Philly sports fans.  It really is a community.
  3. What's an accomplishment from the last year you'd like to celebrate? We are the longest running weekly podcast show solely dedicated to Philly sports in the world, and we celebrated our 200th episode just over a month ago.
  4. What's one area you know you need help to improve? Getting the word out about our podcast show since there are so many Philly sports fans who would truly enjoy listening to our show.  Engaging sponsors and advertisers.

Felice Gerwitz

  1. What is your podcast? Vintage Homeschool Moms, and I own Ultimate Homeschool Radio Network
  2. Why do you podcast? To mentor moms who homeschool and for encouragement, since I floundered as a young parent and homeschooler.
  3. What's an accomplishment from the last year you'd like to celebrate? We celebrated our third anniversary as a podcast and I personally celebrated my 7th year (4 on another podcast still going strong in archives) and 3 on this one.
  4. What's one area you know you need help to improve? Getting more listeners. Everywhere I go people say they would listen if they just knew we had a podcast network!

Max Flight

  1. What is your podcast? AirplaneGeeks.com, theUAVdigest.com, PaxExPodcast.com.
  2. Why do you podcast? Because of the amazing people I get to meet and learn from.
  3. What's an accomplishment from the last year you'd like to celebrate? Success with a studio condenser mic!
  4. What's one area you know you need help to improve? My propensity to expand the time I spend podcasting to the available time in my life. Especially since I retired.

Bryan Entzminger

  1. What is your podcast? Engaging Missions, where I interview missionaries, church planters, and ministry leaders
  2. Why do you podcast? I think there are valuable and encouraging stories and insights to share from their lives and they deserve (and need to be) heard
  3. What's an accomplishment from the last year you'd like to celebrate? Several weeks > 1,000 downloads (including the archives), multiple weeks > 250 downloads from the most recent episode. I feel like I've made some significant improvements in the overall quality of the content and production.
  4. What's one area you know you need help to improve? I need to improve in marketing (and I need a bookkeeper because I'm super-bad at that).

Jonathan J. Reinhart

  1. What is your podcast? Wargaming Recon.  It is the longest-running tabletop wargaming podcast on the planet.
  2. Why do you podcast? I want to promote the tabletop wargaming community & its members while also growing the hobby and giving back to those in need by using this soapbox God has given me.
  3. What's an accomplishment from the last year you'd like to celebrate? The accomplishment is actually a combination of one from last year and one happening this year.  Last year I moved to the TSR Podcast Network when they asked me to bring my podcast over as their flagship wargaming show.  As a result of that my show and I will be in an upcoming documentary.  This has all connected to the next venture.  We’re launching a Roku channel with the Nerd Broadcasting Network in the vein of the TWiT Roku channel.  It will feature the video from our podcast recordings along with extra content (unboxing videos, actual play content, reviews).  The plan is for that to spread to Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and Google Play etc with long term goals of an actual TV channel. My team and I get to make the content we love to make with the opportunity to obtain some money from NBN.  We hope it will bring our show to a wider audience.  We do well, but tabletop wargaming is definitely a niche of a niche.
  4. What's one area you know you need help to improve? We want to enhance and revitalize our Patreon campaign to add even more value to our backers (My motto is to give more than we receive), upgrade our video capabilities, and outfit my entire team with appropriate audio gear.  The overarching goal is to make the show revenue neutral.  We’re close in that we need at around $1,000 per year and we’re bringing in about $650 per year.