Naming your podcast can be quite the challenge. We haven't talked about

it since 2019, and I've got some tools for you that

might make it even easier.

Yeah, it was back a while when we talked about

naming your podcast. I have a simple test for this. That's

where you say, hey, I'm doing a podcast called Blank.

What do you think it's about? And when their answer

matches your content, you've got a

pretty good name. People try to get cute. They'll call their

show the Dugout, which does not have the word baseball

in it. And then they wonder why my show doesn't show up

when you type the word baseball. Because the word

baseball is not in your title. It's not in any of your episode

titles. It's not going to show up. So if you get cute,

then add a tagline. But I wanted to bring

this topic up because that's, for me, that

hasn't changed. Tell people I'm doing a show like this. Then

you want to do things like make sure it's easy to spell. Make sure it's

easy to say, I at one point called my podcast

consulting podcast fastpass, and you

had to pronounce it that way. Otherwise it sounded like I was saying, I

don't know, podcast Sassafras or something. But I would be like,

podcast FastPass. And then you sound like one of those

really smart child actors that you love, but

with compassion, want to mildly punch them in the face.

Yeah. So nobody likes that. You want to make sure it's easy to

spell. So if you say things like

forever, or this too shall pass, is it the number

two? Is it the number four? What is it when you have

S's back to each other? So it's the podcaster's

studio. Is it podcaster studio or

podcasters studio? Things like that.

And you always have to make sure that if you do things like School of

Art, that when you spell it, you notice, hey, wait, that says

school of Art. Yeah, don't want to have that either. Make sure the

domain's available. All this in mind, and

what I usually do is I will narrow it down to a couple

and then I'll make sure the domain is available. I try to get a dot

com. If the dot com is not available,

then Try tacking on the word show or

radio or cast or something like that

to get the domain. I think

it's not as big a deal as it was, say, six years

ago to get the dot com. But it does seem like if

you don't get it, you're like, oh, it's davejackson.net, which is not

available either. People like, oh, yeah, he missed

out. Yeah, she missed out, whatever it is. But I wanted

to alert you to not one, but two

websites that can help you pick

a name for your show. The first one is for the company I work

for called PodPage. You can click on, you type in some information,

it'll spit out some names, and it's actually not too bad. And then the

other one just got released by Buzzsprout. It's got a little more.

A few more options on it, but also will give you some great

content. So just go to podcastconsultant.com

223 and you'll see a link

for those, because the domain for those, it's a little long for

that. But this is one of those things where

for me, you want keywords, you want it

to be obvious, you want it to be things that people,

maybe you're searching for, and then more importantly

again, you want it to be obvious. And does it make people click?

That's really, for me, the bottom line. And then what you can

do is if you're like, Dave, I got it narrowed down to 2.

Type the name into always do this no matter what, but

type the name of the show into Google to make sure somebody

else isn't using it. And then if nobody's using it,

which one had the more results? Because that's going to be the

more popular term. So keep that in mind

as well. But that's kind of step number one. You.

You come up with the topic that you want to talk about. I want to

talk about this and how people are doing this and whatever it is. Great.

What would people type in to find content about that that

might be the name of your show? Go check for it,

see if the domain's available. Is it easy to say? Is it easy to spell,

et cetera, et cetera? And again, for those tools I mentioned,

go out to podcast consultant.com2 23 now if you

need more help with this, you're like, dave, I got a name. I just need

some help with microphones or whatever. Come visit me

over@schoolofpodcasting.com I've been doing

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