Advice on How to Create Audio Information Products

August 28, 2007 · Print This Article

You can increase your traffic and sales by adding information products to your website. Your visitors and customers will like being able to hear your voice because you then become more real to them. People can hide behind screens and information and audio products can develop more trust between you and the buyer.

Digital products can provide a lot of convenience too many people. People will not have to wait days on end for their products to arrive in their mailbox and they can get started on using them right away. Your listeners can download the information to the site easily and give them immediate gratification. They can listen via the internet and they can include links to Mp3 recordings. They can then download Mp3 and then listen to the recording on the Mp3 player. They can then burn the audio to the CD and then listen to it when they want.

You can record audio and upload it to your site in a variety of ways. You can subscribe to a service such as Audio Acrobat and it might cost you about $20 per month. Audio can be recorded by your phone by dialing certain numbers provided by the company. It is a great way to interview people for your audio and you can create videos with a webcam and through an internet microphone. This type of service will make it easy for you to publish audios easily and you can then add some HTML into your website and then stream your audio across the internet. You can then also provide a link so that when your visitors click on it, they can then download the audio.

You can also use Audio Acrobat to do podcasting. The phenomenon called podcasting is similar to blogging. The podcaster publishes their voice onto the internet and is much more effective then publishing their words. There are podcasts listed on every subject you can imagine. You can provide an RSS feed on your site for your visitors so that they can download your podcast and keep up to date on it. When you use Audio Acrobat it includes iTunes intergration and RSS feeds. When your visitors subscribe to your podcast, the new podcasts will then be delivered to them right through their own iTunes.

You can also use free software such as Audacity. This type of software allows the user to record audio and edit and mix sound using internet microphone. You can ask your visitors money for your information products or give your visitors it free so you can increase the traffic to your website. If you have paid members on your website then you can provide links to paid subscribers.


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