Podcast Design Thinking
Free Info, Tools, and Ideas to help you design YOUR first or next podcast! Enjoy!
Gagglepod Webinar Replays
Brand Podcast Design: 5 Secrets to Creating Loyal Brand Podcasts Webinar – Great brand podcasts find a way to redefine and own the conversation an industry has been having with its consumers. Unfortunately, most branded podcasts miss the point! Why? Nobody wants to hear another episode about how fantastic your product or service is. They don’t care! But what they DO care about is a brand podcast that has deep niche understanding and is willing to solve customer problems without pushing the sale. In this webinar, Kyle M. Bondo highlights the creative elements that make a brand podcast actually work for your business!
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Podcast Design Plan: Principles for Designing and Creating a Successful Podcast – What’s a podcaster’s worst nightmare? Spending tons of time recording a podcast that has no focus, discovering that you have no plan to work off of, and finally hitting episode #13 with no idea what comes next. Or worse, never even getting to episode #1. Would you like to know exactly how to design a highly-focused, process-driven podcast? This webinar is designed to shine a spotlight on the most common pitfalls that could sabotage your podcast to help ensure your success by showing you five easy principles for designing and creating a successful podcast. These principles will give you a clear path so you can release a highly-focused, process-driven podcast with total confidence! Presented LIVE on November 11th, 2019.
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Podcast Design Tools
- Idea Board Worksheet – Podcast Design Form #1 [PDF]
- Direction Canvas Worksheet – Podcast Design Form #2 [PDF]
- Concept Sketch Worksheet – Podcast Design Form #3 [PDF]
- Script Canvas Worksheet – Podcast Design Form #4 [PDF]
- Design Summary Worksheet – Podcast Design Form #5 [PDF]
- VAPODA Presentation Slide Archive – All of our VAPODA (Virginia Podcaster’s Association) Meetup Presentation Slides
- Fred Rodgers Style of Podcasting – Presentation Slides from MAPCON 2019 [PDF]
- What is Your Weird Thing? – Presentation Slides from MAPCON 2019 [PDF]
- Canceled Podcasts: How Not to Name Your Show – Presentation Slides from PODFEST 2019 [PDF]
- Transform Your Book into a Podcast – Full Article
- Gagglepod Podcast Design Process – Process Diagram #1 [PDF]
- Gagglepod Podcast Industry Process Diagram – Process Diagram #2 [PDF]
Podcast Design Courses
Podcast Worthy Design 101
Struggling with your podcast idea? Not sure how to transform your topic into a podcast people will listen to? You are not alone in asking this question. In fact, this is the #1 concern for every new podcaster! If you this way too then get serious about your Podcast Design by learning what to do BEFORE you buy a microphone in our upcoming podcast design course Podcast Worthy Design 101. Sign-up to save your seat in our next virtual class!
Design Thinking Podcasts
- Podwrecked – Survive Your Podcast! – Podcast on Podcast Survival Thinking
- Create Art Podcast (CAP) – Podcast on Art and Creativity
- Not Easily Squished – Podcast on Design Thinking
Recent Presentations
Stop Podwrecking! Design Your Podcast First – How do you avoid becoming a podwreck? The answer is by becoming very clear, very narrowly focused, and obsessed with knowing — without a doubt — what the WHY of your podcast is! When you get this “crispy” with your podcast design vision, you can create a podcast concept that has a fighting chance of surviving! Presented during the IndiePodCon 2020 virtual conference. Download Slides [PDF] | Watch the Video [YOUTUBE]
Story Hunting: How To Design Good Content – In this talk Kyle will walk you through his process for finding good content, deciding what content belongs in your show (and what does not), and how to organize your episode design to keep your show going when your going gets gone. Presented during the Virtual Podcasting For Beginners 2020 virtual conference. Download Slides [PDF] | Watch the Video [YOUTUBE]
The Long Game: How to create brand podcasts that redefine industry conversations
Great brand podcasts find a way to redefine and own the conversation an industry has been having with its consumers. In this talk, Kyle M. Bondo highlights the creative elements that make a brand podcast actually work for your business! Presented during the SuperECon 2020 virtual conference. Download Slides [PDF] | Watch the Video [YOUTUBE]
Ten Ways to Podwreck: Strategies for Surviving Your Podcast – Kyle and Tim give you an exclusive preview of their Indie Podcast Conference 6 (ICON6) talk that explores ten ways podcasters podwreck. Download Slides [PDF]
Upcoming Publications
Not Easily Squished – Creating Rugged Podcast Designs that Survive
Behind the scenes of Gagglepod, we’ve been writing the missing podcasting book focused specifically on all the podcast design work you need to do BEFORE the microphone. Previously titled Podcast Worthy, Not Easily Squished has taken us almost 3-years to complete but contains all of our secrets we use to help clients create a solid podcast prototype long before they sit down to start recording their first episode. We’re offering this book to you (expected to be released in early 2021) at 50-percent off the cover price. To receive your advanced copy long before anyone else, please visit our book release party sign-up page and get ready to go deep into podcast design principles and processes. Plus, if you sign up for this exclusive offer, it will force us to buckle down and finish this book on time! * Note: If you sign up we promise not to send you more than one or two update emails. Sign-up today!
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We support your podcast journey by helping you design your podcast, create an ideal show, and give you all the creative tools you need to attract an audience. From creative strategy to brand podcast design development, Gagglepod will make your podcast worthy!
Reach out to Tim and Kyle at Gagglepod by emailing us and let us help you get your brand podcast idea into the world!