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Meet the Members

This week we meet Chaley Hays from www.crossdrivenradio.com and he features with musicians and plays great music. You can find it at www.crossdrivenradio.com Chalrye uses a mac computer with graragband and sound studio for editing, Sterling Audio ST55 microphone, DBA 266XL noise compressor, sound craft compact 4 mixer.

Great Plugin Saves Time - Helps Make Money

This is a pretty cool plugin for wordpress. It's called Affiliate Elite. You can set up keywaords to link to certain pages. Once you set this up, you just type the words and the links are created. This will save you time, and if you're trying, make you money.

Last 5 in 5 from Charley of www.crossdrivenradio.com

The Bitterest Pill (Charley is a Premium Member)

Fact or Fiction (iTunes)

KJ52 Podcast

 Stuff You Should Know (iTunes)

Wordcast (Dave Love's this one too now)

 Charley is using the Thesis theme on his site.

My wordpress sites www.supportthisshow.com and www.stageclothes.net both got hacked over the weekend. The good news is the hackers only performed the following:

They changed my password which made it impossible to login to my wordpress.

They changed the index.php

Here is how I fixed it:

Login to your website control panel.
Go to Php Myadmin
Click on yrou wordpress database.
Click on wpUsers
Click on the browser button
Click on Edit
Enter your email address.
Go back to your website and request the password be sent.
Go to your email and click the link that is sent to confirm the request.
The new password is sent. Copy it and paste it into the login screen.
Now that you are in, click on Users and change your user password.

To get the front page back to normal, install wordpress on your website (from scratch). Go into the index.php page and copy that code. Then copy this code into your hacked index.php file removing all code from that file before pasting in the new code. When you save it and refresh the screen you should see your site come back. If not they may have deleted your data. Then you can go in and delete your second installation of Wordpress.

One great tool to back up your wordpress installation is a plugin call WP-DB-Backup. Which I originally heard on the Internet Business Mastery podcast with Jason Van Orden (who I met at the first Podcast Expo). This backs up your tables in the event that things go horribly wrong and ALL your data is taken and deleted. It's better to be safe than sorry.

Are you ready to avoid the pitfalls? Then its time to go to the School of Podcasting and start a successful learn how to podcast today.

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How to Podcast Poorly
Have a Robot Read Your Text
Podcasting is all about conversing with your audience. At http://sixfiguremarketer.com their "Podcast" is their blog being read by a computer. This means you're too lzay to talk to me, so consequently I won't listen. You just don't get it Gary.

Make an Infomercial This Week
The company Kerusso (www.kerusso.com ) has PHENOMINAL Christian Products, but there podcast has 4 episodes and they are almost all the same 20 minute commercial for their company. I like the history of the company, but I don't need to hear it four times.

Likewise I'm not even sure what I'm listening to when it starts, as a marketing company I'm surprised there is no call to action. You could build an audience who networks through your website to get your message out to the world.

You have a built in audience (your customers). You can get the word out about your podcast, and they will spread it to the world (which will then spread the word about your products).

A member of the School of Podcasting (who is a kerusso reseller) is closer to the target. At www.llmlive.com they have Christians share their experiences (helps build community), and he also mentions that the podcast is courtesy of www.lordliftedmelive.com

The name of their podcast is "Kerusso" and to this I ask, "Who is looking for that?" Why not name the podcast "Jesus 2.0." Then be sure to put in the proper ID3 tags. This way if someone stumbles across the mp3 file they know where to find more.

The good news is they've launched a podcast, and many people don't get that far. However, they need to tweak it.

If you need help tweaking your podcast check out our tips and tutorials at http://www.schoolofpodcasting.com