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Grow Your Email List by Turning a Podcast Episode into an eBook

One challenge that many podcasters face when growing their email list is finding a good enough “hook” to entice people to subscribe. After all, you’ve got to give something to get something, and most of us get enough email as it is, right? Fortunately, some podcasters have discovered a great way to take an episode and turn it into a tool to get people to opt-in to your email list. You can grow your mailing list by turning a great episode into its very own eBook!…

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Increase Your Podcast Audience by Transcribing Your Episodes

You’ve put time, energy, and money into creating a podcast. Now, you face the challenge of increasing your audience size to make more money. Most podcasters struggle with this same problem, but a few have discovered an easy way to use existing podcast recordings to massively increase their audience in a short period of time. In order to grow your podcast, you need to get more eyeballs onto your content – period.…

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Use Transcription as the basis of a premium service, like PopupChinese!

I started studying Mandarin this year, and after a while I decided I wanted to listen to some Chinese podcasts to work on my language comprehension. I googled around and found PopupChinese. PopupChinese produces language learning podcasts in Mandrin that are fun and fresh - and a real change from the standard “Where is the bathroom” conversations used in most languange courses. And It’s accessible to beginners (as well as more advanced students of the language).…

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Feature of the Week - Better Spellchecking.

On Friday we rolled out a new interface to our editors - with much better spellchecking. Now our editors have obviously been spellchecking along, but this allows for all of them to use a custom CastingWords supplied dictionary with more proper nouns, jargon, and acronyms. And it paves the way for new per customer dictionaries to be layered on top - allowing for us to spellcheck your files, using your industry’s terms and jargon.…

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