Is starting a podcast – good idea or bad idea?
Jim Kukral has posted a question or rather has asked everyone to start a podcast of your own because he believes that it’s really important to start a podcast at this point of time. The reason is that he thinks that it’s the perfect time to start a podcast as it’s still in early stages and by the time, podcasts will grow huge, you’ll have a pretty big archive.
I agree with Jim on this part completely and I’ll say that here are some of the reasons why I would like to start a podcast of my own or may be screencasts :
1. It’s the right time to start one. (The point made by Jim).
2. Monetizing them isn’t difficult too : there are services like Revver, Metacafe, Kaltura (still not released but have the plans to share the money) which allow you to earn money through the videos, which allow you to upload.
3. Helps build authority : Various websites like YouTube, Revver, MetaCafe attract millions of users and if you build a pretty impressive video then those videos will help you in building authority as you’ll be able to brand yourself in front of those millions of users.
4. Helps in driving traffic : You get to include the link to your own website in the description of the videos, you can put your website address as the watermark in the videos too and that can certainly help in driving the traffic to your blog/website.
Well with all these benefits I certainly believe that it’s a nice idea to start a podcast and now my question for you is that what kind of videos/screencasts would you like to see on this blog. I’m certainly going for it and I hope that you too should also start one.
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