Streamlined Podcaster: Save Time Podcasting with Systems and Automation
by Joe Casabona, Solopreneur Systems Coach
My Workflow for Recording in the Field
About this podcast
You're a solo podcaster who loves your podcast, but it's so time consuming...and you don't have the budget to hire a team. So what do you do?
The whole process of producing a good show seems overwhelming: the ideas, research, recording, editing, publishing, and promoting. It's all too much. That's why you need good podcast systems — to keep everything organized so you can save time podcasting, without sacrificing quality.
Your host, Joe Casabona, has been podcasting for over 15 years, and has run half a dozen of his own podcasts over the years — sometimes as many as 4 at a time. He understands podcast workflow better than anyone.
And with the systems and podcast automation he's put in place, he's a solo podcaster who has time to focus on what really matters: creating great content for his audience.
If you're a solo podcaster who needs better podcast systems...so you can podcast without burnout, subscribe today.
Or visit https://streamlinedpodcaster.com
Episodes
The newest 20 of 193 episodes
- My Workflow for Recording in the Field · 8 min · Season 7 Episode 13I got to record on the floor of an actual chocolate factory this summer for Start Local, the show I produce with Liam and Eric — and the gear I brought fit in a messenger bag…
- We Did It: Wrapping Up 30 Days [Day 30 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 3 min · Season 8 Episode 30Day 30, on International Podcast Day. There was a stumble in the middle, but what's a podcast without a couple of stumbles? I cooked this series up seven days into September, and…
- Small Shows Are the Future [Day 29 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 3 min · Season 8 Episode 29Most podcast ad money goes to the biggest shows, and the big companies that bought networks aren't seeing the returns they wanted. So I think podcasting goes the way blogs and…
- YouTube Is Podcasting's Discovery Engine [Day 28 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 3 min · Season 8 Episode 28YouTube is going to keep being a big part of podcasting, and a lot of what Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the hosts have changed recently is a response to it. The most interesting…
- Dynamic Ads Are Coming [Day 27 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 6 min · Season 8 Episode 27Dynamic ads are going to be a bigger part of podcasting, the same way they were for YouTube. I explain what they are, how you can mix programmatic ads with your own recorded…
- What Will Always Work [Day 26 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 4 min · Season 8 Episode 26Yesterday was the rah-rah version; this is the practical side of what will always work in podcasting. Have a mission statement: I help these people with this problem by this…
- The Future of Podcasting Isn't That Different [Day 25 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 5 min · Season 8 Episode 25First, a confession: I miscounted which episode I left off on before a week of travel, so this one is late and recorded in a hotel room in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where I'm…
- The Fastest Path to Monetizing a Podcast [Day 24 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 7 min · Season 8 Episode 24Every monetization path is hard, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something or got lucky. YouTube's threshold is a real climb. Memberships and affiliates both want an…
- Should You Do Video? [Day 23 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 6 min · Season 8 Episode 23I used to ask what value video adds for your audience. I was wrong about that one — YouTube settled it, and people are plainly willing to watch two heads talk. So the real…
- The Tools You Actually Need [Day 22 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 8 min · Season 8 Episode 22Gear is the hardware; tools are the stack. You need a host, because a podcast is something people can get anywhere — that means an RSS feed that reaches Apple, Spotify, Overcast…
- You Need About $50 of Gear [Day 21 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 7 min · Season 8 Episode 21There's something like ten thousand dollars of gear on my desk, and you need almost none of it. I've had the same Shure SM7B for eight or nine years because it's a workhorse, but…
- Your Mission Statement Matters More Than Ever [Day 20 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 7 min · Season 8 Episode 20I recorded this straight off the back of Ops-Oh, Layla Pomper's event at ProcessDriven, where I met a lot of people who run podcasts without living inside the podcasting bubble —…
- Quality Is No Longer a Differentiator [Day 19 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 9 min · Season 8 Episode 19I've said all series that audio quality is why my show took off. The pandemic ended that advantage. Everyone stuck at home needed to sound good, so investment poured into home…
- Podcast Sponsorships During COVID [Day 18 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 8 min · Season 8 Episode 18When events got cancelled in 2020, companies were sitting on events, travel, and marketing budgets they didn't want to lose the following year. My pitch was straightforward: you…
- How COVID Changed the Market [Day 17 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 7 min · Season 8 Episode 17Before 2020, the objection I heard constantly from would-be podcasters was "I don't have time." Then the pandemic hit and time was suddenly the one thing everybody had, and…
- If You Sounded Good, You Were Good [Day 16 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 5 min · Season 8 Episode 16The thing I keep landing on when I ask why my show did well is that I was stubborn about audio at a time when most shows weren't. Guests recorded their own side — I wrote…
- Forgetting My Mission [Day 15 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 7 min · Season 8 Episode 15The first real dip in my downloads was my own doing. I went from talking to a very specific developer niche, to business owners in that niche, to business owners generally — and…
- Why How I Built It Worked [Day 14 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 7 min · Season 8 Episode 14For a long time I couldn't work out why How I Built It took off, and a few people insisted I was just riding NPR's coattails. The download graph said otherwise — coattails give…
- How I Got My First Sponsors [Day 13 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 8 min · Season 8 Episode 13My first sponsor landed before episode one even dropped. Someone emailed asking to trade backlinks, I told them I don't do that but I did have a podcast coming — a hundred…
- How I Chose My Guests [Day 12 30 Days of Podcast Notes] · 7 min · Season 8 Episode 12My early guest list came straight out of my own orbit — Jason Coleman first, then Rebecca Gill, Brian Krogsgard, Corey Miller, Carrie Dils — and my first big guest, Chris Coyier…







