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Download Your FREE Web 2.0 Podcast And Then Make Your Own!

By: steve cowan

Podcasting has been around for quite a little while now, yet the strange thing is that it still seems to be a bit of a 'black art' for many people.

Indeed, it seems that podcasting is something that almost everyone has heard about, but very, very few appear to have really grasped the significance of.

Even the many millions who download podcasts for their mp3 players still haven't got beyond the idea of them being something that you passively listen to.

For the vast majority, podcasting is still something that other people do, be they radio personalities, leading marketing or industrial commentators, or whatever

However, the very ethos of podcasting is that it is for everyone, and anyone can do it. There is no need of expensive recording or broadcasting equipment, and no recording studio or sound engineers are necessary.

You can, if you want, sit down at your PC right now, record absolutely anything that you want to, and have a downloadable link to the 'podcast' that you have just created on your website within the hour!

It really is that simple!

And, if you don’t believe me, download and listen to the free podcast that I created in around 30 minutes (start to finish), reviewing Jack Humphrey’s excellent Web 2.0 'Authority Black Book' at http://webbiz99.com/blackbook.

Without giving too much away, I would thoroughly recommend that you download the podcast, and then get a copy of Jack's book from the same page, whilst it is still free (I truthfully don’t think that it will be free forever – you’ll see why when you read it!)

Anyway, you can literally create an audio podcast to get your message out into the big wide world in the time it takes to cook your dinner, and it takes pretty much the same amount of effort as well!

You do not even need any fancy equipment or software. Buy your self a combo mike and headphones set (you can pick them up on ebay for less than $5!) and off you go.

Nor do you need fancy (i.e. expensive) software to create audio podcasts.

Download free recording software from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and either follow the link to the 'Lame' mp3 plugin from the audacity page, or go straight to http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/lame.html and download it from there.

Then, once you have recorded your first audio track using audacity, click 'File' in the top left corner and look for 'Export As MP3'.

The first time only, you then have to locate the dll file in the unzipped “'Lame' folder, and that’s it – you have an mp3 file ready for streaming podcast or download.

That is literally it. You can be creating your first podcast within the next hour!

So, who can make money podcasting? Well, quite clearly, as you can now create as many podcasts as you want, then the simple answer is that you can!

The how of making money using podcasting is something that we will come back to in the next article.

If podcasting seems to be difficult or complicated, you could be in for a shock! Find out in this article how to create your own podcasts, using free software, and download a free podcast (value $27).

Download Steve's free podcast about the superb new eBook Authority Black Book and get a copy of the book itself from http://webbiz99.com/blackbook. Do it soon, while the book is still free!

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