Hosting on Gdrive?!? Hosting on your own site? – Don’t!
Costs are a killer to any enterprise yet some costs provide more benefits than the resources they consume. Quite often when we start a new hobby/business we are trying to keep costs to an absolute minimum. This can lead to less than optimal choices. I’ve done it and I know others who have too. Hosting is the area where most people try to save a few bob.
You are an expert!
This is where mindset meets reality. It can be a terrifying or a liberating moment. The choice, as with most things podcasting, is ours. From our point of view, we producing content we enjoy and assume/hope our listeners will too. It’s just stuff we know.
Nothing matters if you don’t start!
Hands up! Guilty as charged. From conception to actual publication of episode 1 took a mere 12 months. I know, my head hangs in shame. The idea was and still is a great one, 159 episodes in and still going strong. I’m talking about World Organic News.
So what was going on? I contacted a friend on Facebook who was about to start her show The Organic Gardener Podcast, for some technical info. Where to host? What will it cost? And that sort of thing. Then Jackie decided my two year old blog, World Organic News would qualify me as a guest on her show. Continue reading →