#49: Remote Work & Client Attraction Tips
Does A Podcast Editor Title By Another Name Sound Just As Sweet?
This is a random structure in Marjan Park here in Split.
Greetings wavies,
It’s 11 days before we country hop from Split, Croatia over to Valencia, Spain and all I can do is think in lists. You’d think my lists would be:
pack this
clean that
stock up on this
sell that
But honestly, I’m kinda obsessed with this newsletter so they’re
places where I’m seeing remote podcast editing jobs
job titles that have remote podcast editing work in them
info of smaller production houses so I can work with them to bridge a gap
client attraction tips that I hear others talking about (for experimentation) and also ones I’ve accidentally or intentionally done/used in the past
I wish I was kidding. I wake up with lists floating around my head. It doesn’t feel bad. It feels kinda pep in my step kind of energetic. I don’t know. Maybe it’s a distraction.
Today I wanna dig into the potential work search terms: “podcast engineer” versus “podcast editor.” As mentioned before, wonky job labels are common in podcasting and I’m down for digging into them to see which are the most useful for us to be using while looking for remote podcast editing work.
Let’s do this!
-Steph
Part 1: Podcast Engineers vs Podcast Editors
Not only are there podcast editing jobs hidden in work posts labeled “podcast producer” but I’m seeing the term “podcast engineer” used more and more. This term is popping up both in work posts AND in podcast “editors” profiles. What’s going on and more so how can we use this to find more of the kind of work we’re looking for?
What’s the difference?
Ever since I met Dave from Podcast Engineers I’ve wondered if this term, podcast engineer, was his branding OR if other folks call themselves this term. If I remember right, Dave got his training from Chris Curran of Podcast Engineering School and has taught his team that level of production. So it makes sense to use “engineers” in this way for what his company does.
It sounds like they go well above and beyond simple um, eh cuts in their clients’ episodes. But how many of us do that also? Is it advantageous for us to rebrand as “podcast engineers?” I have many questions so decided to take a peek at how this term is being used online. Here’s what I found.
“Podcast Engineers” Job Postings?
radio/podcast engineer work post
The editing of the episodes sounds like podcast editor work to me and the editing of audio clips for social media sounds like, well, a social media role as well. So that leaves these tasks as more of the audio engineer flavor:
Board op the show
Produce and load sound into system
Produce audio elements for the show (what the heck does “elements” mean? argh!)
The salary range is not posted so it’s impossible to say if they’re asking their podcast audio engineer to do non-engineer duties (what is much more likely) if they’re asking their podcast producer to do all the things (engineer, editing, producer and social media things).
Let’s look at another work posting and see if we can spot a trend.
Podcast Audio Engineer work post
for this part-time gig, the majority of the responsibilities were customer service oriented. It sound (no pun intended) like this is a studio manager job with audio knowledge helpful. The few audio skills listed were:
Have strong Audio Engineering Technical Skills, which includes the ability to troubleshoot audio issues, independently and as needed
Experience working in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), such as Audacity, Pro-Tools or Logic.
Once again, rates were not listed. So this could be the same situation as above where they’re wanting an audio engineer with a good mic side manner OR want someone interested in audio who is good with people that they’d train and potentially underpay during the gig. That’s my jaded interpretation, not something they mentioned in the ad.
In the premium part of our newsletter today I’m sharing a deeper dive I did into how “podcast editing” and “podcast engineering” were used in Fiverr. No matter what you think of that platform, it provided an interesting view of how these terms are being used in real client interactions. And of course, I connect this usage to your own client attraction choices/strategies.
You, the professional podcast editor, can probably expense this newsletter. This is a global community so I can’t speak to every country regarding this so please check your local income tax and business laws for specifics.
LIVE Global Podcast Editor Chat
We had another chat last Thursday. I’m now including the timestamps in the YouTube video and podcast versions of the chats cause I know that you’re listening time is valuable real estate. Hope this helps!
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Chapters:
0:00 Global Podcast Editor Chats Information
1:39 Meet the Editors in today's chat
5:14 Steve's recent business challenge: scaling his business
11:43 Does your business always need to grow?
19:32 Alex's business challenge: what are efficient ways to grow a team
21:12 Business efficiency tips that are also technical
26:34 Neal's tech challenge: the downfalls of many recording software
30:23 Drift and muting issues in recording platforms
31:13 Keyboard shortcuts & mouse love (programmable buttons, horizontal versus vertical)
36:05 Steph's business challenge: the freelance versus business decision and how to shift
44:52 Guest podcast editor contact info
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In the works: Monthly Online Face-to-Face Remote Podcast Editor Meeting
There’s an idea brewing about us having a once-a-month face-to-face (aka, video) meeting. We’re thinking of a few minutes of a tip or trick from someone in our community AND then some chatter time where we check in and hear from you. What are you working on? Do you need any help? Are you looking for more work? Do you need tech help? And so on and so on.
Would you be interested?
If so, reply with YES, LET’S HAVE A MEETING in the email subject line.
UPDATE: So far we have 1 yes. That’s not meeting size yet, so nothing has been planned.
See ya next Monday (or this Thursday if you watch the live GPE chats!)
:)
Steph
PS Love this coffee event that happened recently in a cafe. Not 1 drop of the coffee actually hit the floor. I thought it was amazing. For the record, although I have zero spatial awareness, it was the waitress that spilt it. Still, the beauty of this moment is undeniable, right?
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