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This series is all about showcasing Libsyn podcasters. Its sole purpose is to introduce these awesome podcasts to the world as well as share their podcasting insight to empower the community!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We started podcasting in April of 2015.<\/p>\n We had a study group of 4 ladies in Colorado who were preparing for an advanced wine credential exam. Since we couldn\u2019t gather often to study as a group we recorded our 7 a.m. Sunday morning conference calls in case someone couldn\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n This way we could go back and listen to the session on Spain, Southwest France, etc.<\/p>\n Steph had been listening to one of the calls while driving & thought the calls were funny and should be turned into a podcast.<\/p>\n We are sure our friends think we are day drunk every day, but that is not the case, but our show name and intro (\u201cIt\u2019s not five o\u2019clock & they don\u2019t care\u201d) elude to the fact that we think that whole “waiting till five o\u2019clock thing is just silly.<\/p>\n Wine Two Five<\/a> is a wine education podcast that focuses on the entertaining and fun aspects of wine. Sure, we provide nuggets of information to our listeners, but we also give folks a sense of how wine can be integrated successfully into your every day life – all day, everyday.<\/p>\n Our tag line is, \u201cEveryday drinking for everyday people.\u201d<\/p>\n Our listeners do include those who are trying to further their careers in the wine business who find some educational value in some of our content and guest conversations as well as folks who sometimes just need a little wine entertainment.<\/p>\n We\u2019re wine-edutainment, really, and offer a variety of resources for our listeners to be educated, entertained and empowered as consumers.<\/p>\n Both Val & Steph are using the Blue Snowball microphones, Audacity audio editing software, and our guest interviews are recorded via Skype call recorder.<\/p>\n Of course we\u2019re using Libsyn for hosting and have 10 destination publishing sites set up.<\/p>\n Our weekly show notes are coordinated via Google docs and we then convert them to a blog on WordPress which is a show notes hybrid that provides extra content, links, photos & goodies.<\/p>\n Social media has been huge for creating our community! Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Pinterest, WordPress Blog, and we\u2019re slowly building YouTube &Google +.<\/p>\n We also cross promote with our own social media accounts. Sometimes it feels like a self-licking ice cream cone situation and you\u2019re essentially retweeting your own content between accounts, but it\u2019s related to what we do in life.<\/p>\n The podcast is prominently featured in our personal and professional blogs as well. Not to mention, we have a tribe of fellow wine educator and professional friends who are truly our advocates, and we continue to grow our network at professional conferences.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve also found that product placement has definitely given us a boost and opened doors to relationships with purveyors of things we love, producers, favorite authors, and other professionals.<\/p>\n If it wasn\u2019t for podcasting we may have never introduced ourselves to some folks in the wine industry who are truly celebrities.<\/p>\n We look up to many of the people who have guested on the show, and we never thought we\u2019d build such a great network!<\/p>\n Maybe the one thing we wish we\u2019d done was a 30-second demo or episode zero – that would have been good to know about.<\/p>\n And of course, the biggie, the time commitment is more of a beast than we thought it would be, but it\u2019s pure joy to create and deliver our content – it\u2019s booze for Pete\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n It\u2019s like a part time job with non-monetary rewards that are very valuable (plus we get to drink while we\u2019re doing it – did we mention that?).<\/p>\n Also, I wish I\u2019d started binge listening to these great resources before launching, like \u201cThe Feed\u201d, \u201cShe Podcasts\u201d, and “Podcasters Unplugged,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n While we wish that all these had been sifted through before we started, you\u2019ve also validated that doubts about that not having our proverbial three episodes in the hopper before launching to iTunes, etc. were unfounded.<\/p>\n We dove in and started doing it with professional bumpers, branding, and artwork created from the start and don\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n We are continually evolving and happy to report a consistent weekly delivery of content for over 70 episodes, so there\u2019s no \u201cpre-fading\u201d situation for the Wine Two Five ladies!<\/p>\n WINE! Lovers! Your podcast! Is here. You know who you are. So go ahead and subscribe<\/a>. And if you have a #BurningWineQuestion, go ahead and ask the ladies, send them a message via Speakpipe<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nQ & A with Val and Steph from Wine To Five<\/h2>\n
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Why did you start podcasting?<\/h3>\n
What\u2019s your show about?<\/h3>\n
What\u2019s your podcasting set-up? Hardware, software, CMS, etc.<\/h3>\n
How have you promoted your podcast?<\/h3>\n
What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started?<\/h3>\n
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