Podcasting How To FAQ

To get the embed code of your Podcast Player, you simply click “Manage” tab, then “Embeddable Player” sub-tab. Select the color and size of the player and click “Get Embed Button”.

To get the embed code of the Podcast Player for a single episode, you click “Manage” tab, then “Posts” sub-tab, click the “embed code” button at right side of the post.

Because the full screen uses javascript but some sites(ex:myspace) may block it for security purpose.

Yes. Just select your own image when publish. If not, we’ll generate it for you.

The video may not be well encoded when you create it, so please check your settings.

After you have a new publish, we may do some backend works for you such as encode for flash player, generate thumbnail and regenerate the playlist etc, which may take up to 24 hours.

It’s simple to display podcasts to your own blogs, websites, social networks etc. All you need to do is the following:

1. Upload your media file (audio, video, pdf etc.) into your Podbean account by clicking on the “Upload” tab situated in your Podbean account “Dashboard” menu.

2. Publish your media file into a podcast post by click “Publish” tab and select the media file from the drop down list.

3. Once published your post, click “Manage” tab, then click the “embed code” button situated on the right side of the podcast that you wish to embed into your blog. This will generate html embed code for you to copy & paste into your own website.

Then click on the plus sign located to the right of either “Show HTML Code using audio flash player in grey” or “Show HTML Code using text link” and copy and paste this code to your own sites.

It is done. Your podcast now is ready to show.

Using Podbean to sell digital downloads is simple all you need to do is the following:

1. Upload your files, mp3, PDF or MOV etc. by clicking on the “Upload” tab situated in your Podbean account “Dashboard” menu.

Optionally, you may upload files via FTP. After ftp uploaded your files, click “Import to eStore”, in the “FTP Upload” page.

2. Once uploaded files in the Podbean “Upload” page, click the “eStore” button situated on the right side of the file that you wish to sell. This will move this item to the Podbean secure file server to ensure that it is protected.

3. Then click on the “eStore” tab located in your main “Dashboard” menu and the “Add Product” tab located in the sub-menu and select the product file to sell from the drop down list as pictured below.

4. To add the “Buy Now” and “Shopping Cart” buttons or text links code to your blog click on the “Manage Product” tab located in your eStore sub-menu.

Then click on the plus sign located to the right of either “Show HTML Code using a Button Image” or “Show HTML Code using a Text Link” and copy and paste this code to your blog.

5. Simply paste the html code of “Buy Now” button into your blog post, you are ready to sell the product. Optionally, you may create a static ‘My eStore’ page in blog to list all products.

6. Monitor/manage your eStore transactions in “Purchase Log”

Using Podbean and PayPal Services to Sell Digital Goods and General Merchandise in your Blog and Podcast is simple by following the directions listed below.

1.) Sign up for a ‘free’ Podbean account at: http://www.podbean.com

2.) Sign up for a ‘free’ PayPal account at: http://www.PayPal.com

3.) Activate your eStore by clicking on the ‘eStore’ tab located on your Podbean ‘Dashboard’ page.

4.) Add products into your eStore by clicking on the ‘Add Product’ sub-menu located in your ‘eStore’ tab, and the Podbean eStore system will automatically generate ‘Buy Now’ and ‘Add to Cart’ code for each product.

5.) To add the ‘Buy Now’ and ‘Shopping Cart’ buttons or text links code to your blog click on the ‘Manage Product’ tab located in your eStore sub-menu.

6.) Then click on the plus sign located to the right of either ‘Show HTML Code using a Button Image’ or ‘Show HTML Code using a Text Link’ and copy and paste this code to your blog.

We highly recommend to you to do a test buy for each product after you set up the eStore to ensure that it is working correctly.

Are there service fees that Podbean charges when the product is added?

Podbean charges no additional fees for this service until you get paid - there are No Set up Fees and No Monthly Fees. The fee structure upon purchase is as follows:
* 0% fees for general merchandise transactions
* 3% fees for protected digital downloadable goods transactions

For more information see Podbean Fee Schedule at http://www.podbean.com/podbean-fees

How to sell a digital downloadable item using your Podbean eStore?

Using Podbean to sell digital products is simple all you need to do is the following:

1. Upload your files, mp3, PDF or mov etc by clicking on the ‘Upload’ tab situated in your main ‘Dashboard’ menu.

2. Once in the Podbean ‘Upload’ page, click the ‘eStore’ button situated on the right side of the file that you wish to sell. This will move this item to the Podbean secure file server to ensure that it is protected.

3. Then click on the ‘eStore’ tab located in your main ‘Dashboard’ menu and the ‘Add Product’ tab located in the sub-menu and select the product file to sell from the drop down list as pictured below.

How the Podbean eStore works for a customer?

As a seller of products it is always reassuring to know exactly what experience your customer will have when entering your online store, therefore we have summarized how the Podbean eStore works for your customer:
1. A customer browses your blog or podcast posts and finds a product or products that they would like to purchase.
2. They then click on the ‘Buy Now’ links generated from the Podbean.com eStore
3. Once, they have clicked the ‘Buy Now’ button they will be redirect to a Paypal web site and the product brief information will be displayed.
4. If your customer has a Paypal account, they will then log into their account and pay right away. If they do not have account, they will be given the opportunity to create one or they may the alternative option of paying via credit card or their existing bank account.
5. After they have completed the payment process, they will then click the ‘Continue’ button to view a summary of their order. If this is a digital downloadable item, they can then instantly download their order using the summary page.
6. An email will then be sent which contains the URL link to their order summary page and your custom ‘Thank You’ text that you entered during the ‘Add Product’ process. A duplicated email will also be sent to you so you may verify orders.
7. Customers can then click the order summary link in this e-mail to review the order or download their ordered items.
8. The details of all purchase transactions will then be listed in your Podbean account eStore purchase log page so you may also check each product selling statistics.

Podbean supports multiple feeds in one pocast blog channel, therefore you can have one feed per category, such as, a tech feed for all posts in tech category and a sports feed for all posts in sports category, etc.

You can simply create a new category by:

1) Clicking on the ‘Manage’ tab in your main dashboard menu and then clicking on the ‘Categories tab in the sub-menu.

2) Scroll down the page to the ‘Add New’ section and fill in the details of your new category.

Alternatively, you may also add a new catergory by clicking on the ‘Categories’ + sign on the right hand side of your ‘Publish’ - ‘Write Post’ page, and then filling in the category name and pushing the ‘Add’ button.

If you create a category “sports”, the RSS Feed URL of this category will be: http://yourusername.podbean.com/category/sports/feed/
All posts in the sports category will be listed in this feed.

Podbean.com provides monthly growth, disk space to match their users’ ever-increasing need for storage space. This application works by giving you the user full control of how much space you require and when you require it, therefore, instead of increasing your disk space at a specified time monthly you decide what is applicable to your needs and requirements at the time.

To use this feature simply login to Podbean and click on your ‘Dashboard’. Then click the ‘Upload’ tab located on the top right of your screen. Once in ‘Upload’, make sure you are on the ‘Media Manager’ page (as pictured below).

Then click the ‘Archive’ button located on the right side of the ‘Current Media Files’ tab. As soon as you archive a file, the space that this file occupied then becomes available to you. You may archive as many files as you want until the total archived files size is greater than your monthly growth limit, and the archived quota will be reset to 0 at the end of each monthly circle. Surely the best part about this process is these archived files are still available for public to access.