I want to break down just how much time the PowerPress Podcast Plugin and Blubrry Hosting has saved me when I publish my podcast. Most of us are so busy today anytime we can get some time back through new tools and more efficient ways that it is worth sharing.
Disclaimer my company RawVoice is the company behind Blubrry.com and the PowerPress plugin, everyone’s publishing process will be slightly different but from my perspective this was well worth sharing.
I have had a set routine for publishing my podcast over the past 5 years that I have followed for over 480 shows after with little variation. That routine has changed since we rolled out our new tools let me give you a comparison so you can see where the deltas are. first let’s look at old way I did the show.
- Show Material Preparation 1Hour
- Tricaster, Ustream, Adobe Audition, Show Intro prep 10 Minutes
- Announcing Live Event on Twitter and Facebook 5 Minutes
- Podcast Recording 75 Minutes
- Saving Recorded Audio 5 Minutes
- Filling in ID3 Tags 5 Minutes
- Uploading Podcast to Server and Creating Show Notes 30 Minutes
- Announcing Show on Twitter and FaceBook 5 Minutes
- Sending NewsLetter to Audience Members 5 Minutes
Total Time for Show Production 3:20 Minutes
Here is the comparison using WP, PowerPress, Blubrry Uploader, Blubrry Hosting and our publishing Tools.
- Show Material Preparation 1Hour
- Tricaster, Ustream, Adobe Audition, Show Intro prep 10 Minutes
- Announcing Live Event on Twitter and Facebook 5 Minutes
- Podcast Recording 75 Minutes
- Saving Recorded Audio 5 Minutes
- No longer fill in ID3 Tags Blubrry Hosting Does that for me automatically! 0 Minutes
- Publish Media 3 Step Publishing 20 Minutes
- Announcing new Show available Twitter 0 Minutes (Automatically Done by Blubrry)
- Announcing new Show available on Facebook 2-3 Minutes
- Sending NewsLetter to Audience Members 0 Minutes (Automatically Done by Blubrry)
Total time for new show production 2:58
I would have never thought that I could shave that much off my Podcast Publishing Time. Some people may say what’s the big deal, well when you are recording a show twice a week saving 20 minutes or more is huge when you look at the time savings over a year or more. But honestly here is the bottom line, as I walked out of the Studio over the past couple of weeks my wife has been saying wow your finished already!This was motivation enough to do some in-depth comparisons.