Podcasting Ideas for the Work at Home Mom

When I launched Work at Home Moms Talk Radio in November of 2003, I had never heard the word ‘podcasting’ before in my life. WAHM Talk Radio was born as an on demand internet radio show. This means I uploaded an Mp3 to the website and put up a small windows media player on my website so that visitors could listen or download.

My learning curve was gigantic! I had no idea how to make put audio up on the web, no clue how to record a telephone conversation, no experience with editing audio files, etc.

Wobbly First Steps

If you have been around me long enough to listen to those first shows – I apologize I had more enthusiasm than skill and I was using all the wrong tools.

I figured things out eventually. I acquired better tools which made a big difference. I grew in experience and produced better sounding programs.

It wasn’t long before some of my friends started to ask me for help in creating their own internet radio shows. I was glad to help too. It was fun to share with others what I worked so hard to learn.

Eleven months after my first show, I read a blog post about podcasting and quickly set WAHM Talk Radio up with an RSS feed. It’s been four and a half years now and I still love doing my weekly show.

I know that the radio show/podcast is the main reason I’ve experienced as much success as I have and I continue to be enthusiastic about seeing other work at home moms and entrepreneurs get involved.

Every WAHM Can Benefit from Podcasting

I really believe that. One way or another, a work at home mom doing business on the internet can use podcasting to:

• Establish expertise
• Reach new potential clients
• Improve customers relationships
• Share information in a new medium
• Market themselves creatively
• Develop partnerships
• Be found in more places

I’ve had some great conversations with internet marketers who have a strong interest in the concept of podcasting but feel stalled as to how to get things rolling and fear that they would not have enough to say to keep a podcast going in the long term. If you would add yourself to this group, I would like to encourage you to check out my upcoming learning course being offered through our new SparkplugU.

There are actually two courses being offered. The first is all about developing your plan for a new podcast or developing a plan to improve on you already have. As a group we are going to work through our ideas, goals and vision for our own podcast. By the end of four sessions, you will have a plan to move ahead with.

The second course will get into the nitty gritty of podcast recording, editing and publishing. This is for the DIY podcaster.

Quit Yer Dollygagging

I’ve been behind the times on a few things in my business. I waited too long to start affiliate marketing. I waited too long to start my own mailing list. I’m darned glad I was ahead of the times in the realm of podcasting because it helped me to make up for what was lost in those other areas.

If you’re worried that you’re ‘too late’ to jump into podcasting, put that thought out of your mind. Podcasting isn’t the shiny new apple that it was a couple of years ago so you may not hear as many people talking about how it’s the next big thing – but that shouldn’t be taken to mean that podcasting is ’so last year’ because it isn’t.

Podcasting is here to stay. Listenership is growing day by day with the number of portable listening devices being sold. Every people group is out there looking for audio to download for their iPods and they are thrilled when they find niche content just for them.

If you know in your gut you should be podcasting – take my class and let’s get it rolling