How to Get More Listener Engagement
January 17, 2022
We all want more "engagement" on our podcasts but the word itself poses some challenges and leaves us fighting for broad strokes of interaction that we just can't scale. But we can fix it.
We all want more “engagement” on our podcasts but the word itself poses some challenges and leaves us fighting for broad strokes of interaction that we just can't scale. But we can fix it.
Recommended podcasting tool of the week
This is a new segment to the newsletter and to the podcast so I'm starting it off with something that I've used since day ONE of podcasting back in 2013 (or 2012? I'm not sure anymore) and that is my RÖDE Procaster microphone!
It's rare that I recommend hardware because my love is more about software and the content/marketing side of podcasting but wow, this mic has served me SO well. I've tried ALL sorts of mics over the years and this one has never let me down.
It's an XLR mic so it's not something that you can plug straight into a computer like you can the Samson Q2U or ATR 2100 (all amazing mics) but for the budget, this mic was the best pound-for-pound contender for me and my voice and it could be for you, too.
It's a dynamic mic so you have to be up close to it but it will keep a lot of the background noise or echo out of the recording, too.
It's £140 on Amazon in the UK and $218 on the US version of Amazon (which seems a bit weirdly steep considering the exchange rate right now).
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