EP80: The Show Notes Show
Happy St. Patricks Day!
Episode Topic:
Behind the Scenes of Show Notes
What are Show Notes?:
This blog post. It’s the text that accompanies each podcast episode.
Show Notes are where you would leave links and resources to items mention in the podcast and provide a good overview of what listeners can expect if they listen.
What you will learn
How I write my show notes
How I Format my Show Notes for the Web
How I Prepare my episode artwork
How I Schedule & Publish Each Weekly Episode on my WordPress Site.
Tools Mentioned Today:
Adobe Indesign
Scrivener
Byword
Divi Theme by ElegantThemes.com
WordPress.org
Libsyn.com
PowerPress Plugin by Blubrry
Mailchimp
Buffer
Show Notes: How To Not Hate Them
- Have a repeatable process
- Write Script or Outline with Show Notes in mind.
- Find balance and do not agonize over minutiae
Mike Murphy Unplugged Show Notes Workflow:
Step 1:
Episode Artwork & Featured Image for the WordPress Blog Post
Tool Used: Adobe Indesign
Time: 5–10 minutes
Step 2:
Craft Show Notes Outline
Duplicate Script
Copy Show Notes to Clipboard (Cmd + C)
Tool Used: Scrivener
Time: 10 – 20 minutes
Step 3:
Multi-Markdown Formatting
Paste Script
Use Multi-markdown language (HTML short codes) to format Show Notes for WordPress post
Tool:
Byword
Step 4:
Create New Blog Post in WordPress.org using Divi Theme by ElegantThemes.com
Tip:
Add /wp-admin after your web address to log-in
–Schedule the post to Publish on Fridays (for me).
–Change permalink episode link to make sharing easy
–Replace Episode & Featured Images
Step 5:
Login to my media host, Libsyn.com and copy the mp3 link and podcast layer code.
Step 5.5:
Paste mp3 url in PowerPress Plugin by Blubrry
Step 6:
Prepare the newsletter in Mailchimp
Step 7:
Create a promo video for each episode
Step 8:
Use Buffer to send show notes page out to Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus
Rinse & Repeat.
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Just think, Book 1 is, as of yesterday, 80% written!
Question: will you include your videos in the appropriate chapter as text (work ), footnote (easy) or link (even easier)?
As I see it, your chapters will be short which is great for today’s readers. So get going!!!
love ya, P
PS makes me feel great that you ask my opinion or share stuff you’re thinking about.
I like being 80% done before I have even started! No videos in the book, but will probably include links. The chapters will be short, but I plan on adding photos and graphics to make each topic easy to understand. I’m going, I’m going!