Getcha Some Productions Podcast Episode 12
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http://www.getchasomeproductions.com/podcast
A podcast covering all things related to music production: from the first note to the last fan and everything in between.
Not your typical “how-to” podcast: For a new listeners, each episode is a live business meeting. We are figuring out how to build a music production company (a media empire) as we go and listeners come along for the ride.
Every podcast is a business meeting, every business meeting is a podcast. This podcast is (always) candid and unrehearsed.
In this episode we discuss:
We start off by talking about YouTubers who give bass lessons and we were joking about the slap bass guy (do you want to challenge me to a slap base battle?). He’s hysterical. Look him up.
Dan is actually recommending Scott’s bass lessons.
https://www.youtube.com/user/devinebass
Dan was also saying that he was going to learn a bassline every day. So we should probably check in with him and see how he’s doing.
This episode is about what a pain in the ass it is to set up a website.
Dan used to work, around the new millennium in his words, In Web design. So you can tell, that’s a long time ago because no one says that anymore laugh laugh ha ha Ha LOL.
So, to recap we decided to use Bluehost to host the website. And, naïvely, we thought that we would be able to just log on and go through their little tutorial and have a website set up in short order. Of course we were very stupid to think that because it is complicated to build a website.
It is very time consuming to put up a website so you should be prepared when you get into it that. It’s going to take a lot of time. However most of that time is spent upfront and once you have the site set up you can just let it roll with occasional updates so that’s kind a good part of it.
I (Keith) actually took on the task of setting up the website. Meaning, I was the person on the team who volunteered to set up the website because I thought it was going to be relatively simple. When I got into the Bluehost builder and saw that there were like 600 different templates I was overwhelmed and had to shove it off on Dan.
That was when my mind shut down in my eyes glossed over.
The Motto of our podcast in general (in our entire business) is that these things don’t get done all at once. If you do just one task per day or even one task per week you’ll make great progress and you’ll probably be doing better than 99% of everyone else just by virtue of the fact that you’re moving forward at all. And you have to really hold onto the fact and just keep moving forward even if it’s at a slow pace.
For this podcast alone and for our “one step” we decided just to choose the template, to put a very small amount of verbiage in there for a SEO and to put the logo on the site and that’s it. That’s enough.
Just keep moving forward. No matter what. Relentlessly.
Dan did his assignment of getting the website set up or at least taking the first step to get the website set up. I however was a jerk and I didn’t do my assignment. My assignment was to plug Nikki Payne on Facebook and I did not do that this week so I had to go on the site while we’re on the actual podcast in the moment and make sure I got my one task for the week done.
Now, since we are already on the phone doing a podcast we decided to roll with it and blow through some housekeeping items.
We’ve covered, many times, the fact that we are following Colin Gray’s free program on starting a podcast called StartPod which is on thepodcasthost.com.
Even though we’re up to episode 12 of our podcast we’re only up to step seven of the StartPod program
StartPod 7 is finding the best media host for our podcast which we already did. (However at the time of the recording we hadn’t done it we just thought we had. So that was a screwup on my part.)
StartPod 8 is naming your podcast. We already did that – it’s called The Getcha Some Productions Podcast.
StartPod 9 is, how can I record an online call? We’re already doing that because we’ve been doing it all along using Tape a Call
StartPod 10 is, how long should a podcast be? We’re trying to keep them around 20 minutes but were usually going over around 25 minutes.
StartPod 11 is just breathe. In other words take a break and celebrate your wins and rest and take stock of what happened so far.
StartPod 12 is, how frequent should my podcast be? We’re shooting for weekly. Dan has some trepidation about this because right now we’re following a script but once that script runs out, are we going to really have enough material to support a weekly podcast?
StartPod 13 is, what is your podcast format? We discussed this a little bit but we decided to save this for a future episode because this is a much more important can’t be glossed over in our opinion so I will will defer that until next time.
Thanks, as always to Colin Gray of the The Podcast Host, for his instruction.
https://www.thepodcasthost.com
Thanks especially to Nikki Payne of https://www.thelifepa.co.uk/ for her ongoing assistance.
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