UPDATED. Good news! The first episode of The Backlight Podcast is here and in iTunes. In this episode I go over 5 ways of how you can use microblogging platform Tumblr in your Internet business.
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This first episode is about 16 minutes long and you can listen to it by clicking the play button on the player above. Click here if you can’t see the player.
The Backlight Podcast is in iTunes right now but don’t go check it out over there yet! I’m having some problems with it and with my feed. It’s listing several of my old blog posts with accompanying MP3s as podcast episodes. Anyway, THIS is the first and only episode of The Backlight Podcast and until further notice (hopefully it’ll all be cleared up soon), don’t bother subscribing to or rating the podcast in iTunes yet. Just listen to it here.
UPDATE: The problems have been fixed and now the podcast is in iTunes! You can find it here or by just searching for “The Backlight” in iTunes. And please rate it positively if you’re so inclined :)
So yeah, Tumblr. I *love* Tumblr. It is an incredibly simple, powerful, and addicting blogging platform with a social twist. I think it’s under-appreciated and under-utilized by Internet marketers and Internet business owners. You’ll definitely come away from listening to this podcast with some great ideas.
I mention the following Tumblr blogs in the podcast:
And here’s the theme I use for all of my Tumblr blogs. It’s free, very flexible, and very good looking. It’s called Effector Theme.
This whole podcasting thing is going to be really interesting. It’s taking me way out of my comfort zone. I’m very comfortable with writing, but I don’t do too well with articulating my thoughts verbally. But part of the reason I’m doing this podcast is so I can get better at that. So please hang in there with me for the first handful of episodes. I might not be the most captivating podcaster (yet), but I promise you’ll find really valuable information.
One more thing. I don’t mention this in the podcast, but a couple weeks ago I started what is perhaps my favorite Tumblr blog, cuteAWESOME. It’s in no way related to marketing or Internet business or anything. It’s just pictures of cute baby animals followed by pictures of awesome things (so you know, you feel like a man again after awwww-ing at the cute baby sloth). In other words, it’s everything good about the Internet. If you do nothing else after reading this or listening to the podcast, just go to cuteAWESOME.
Anyway, enjoy the podcast, and let me know what you think. And again, here’s the podcast in iTunes.
Thanks!
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Hi Tristan, I’m glad to see you podcasting now. I might be able to help out with the iTunes RSS feed. Stitcher is another great place to add your podcast.
Tumblr is so much fun and you can also use the HootSuite app and manage your Tumblr right from the Hootsuite dashboard.
Thanks for the podcast.
As I’d hoped, the issues I was having were fixed when I published this episode. Yesssss. So now the podcast is in iTunes and all is well.
Ooo, good idea about Stitcher. I use it occasionally but never thought of adding the podcast there.
Thanks Ileane!
listened to your The Backlight Podcast , youve captured my interest so off to check out your Tumblr blog, cuteAWESOME, will come back to you and tell you what i think
I’m glad you found some useful info in the podcast. Thanks for listening and for commenting!
Hi,
Nice one which can make our online work more beneficial for better result.
Righty-o.
very interesting
and i agree with alot of the comments,
but at the moment im still tinkering with the site to see what works best…good site though
thanks heaps :)
james
Ok, so I need to create some podcasts and host them someplace so that they can link back to my blog. Sounds like a tall order, but I think I had better get started if I want to be a success.
Thanks for the motivations.
Awesome tips! i am using tumblr since i do my blogging. This may help others how to do back-linking.
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