You got into podcasting to build relationships, have interesting conversations, and share your expertise. You didn’t plan on spending your evenings battling with GarageBand or wondering when your editor is going to get back to you with the latest changes.
Hiya đź‘‹ I’m Mark
Although I’ve been editing audio since the turn of the century, what I offer is much more than cutting out umms.
I provide a full listen-through edit. which means you don’t have to send over timestamps for things you want removed.
I’ll also write show notes and come up with a catchy title for each episode, based on my formula for capturing attention from potential listeners.
Once it’s all ready and you’re happy with the finished product, I’ll upload it to your media host and handle the scheduling and distribution.
If you use a tool like Riverside or SquadCast and we have a regular agreement, you don’t even need to ping me when a new episode is ready.
All of this means one thing: you can spend more time having great conversations and making connections with your listeners, and less time doing admin or chasing virtual assistants.
Introducing IQ editing
This is what I call the style of editing I’ve cultivated over 16 years, that focuses on everyone sounding their smartest, while maintaining efficiency.
The aim is to make you and your guest sound like you’re in the same room – even when you’re miles apart – having a smart, free-flowing conversation where everyone sounds like themselves, but on a really good day.
What this typically includes
- Reducing silence or loss of synchronicity caused by Internet lag
- Removing cross-talk and smoothing over interruptions
- Removing false starts, sentence fragments, and excessive thinking time
- Finding the best start and end point for the conversation
- Removing all the boring bits
IQ editing doesn’t alter the flow of the conversation or the order in which things happen. It also doesn’t involve making sweeping executive decisions about what should stay in the episode and what should be edited out (over and above common sense).
What you get with each episode
Every podcast is different, and there might be aspects you feel happier doing yourself. But here’s what I offer as standard.
- A send-by-second audio or video edit
- A clickworthy title
- Show notes that open a loop in the listener's mind
- Links to resources mentioned in the episode
- Slots for ads to be dynamically inserted
- Uploading to your media host
Everything in one place
I manage everything in one place: A Notion workspace that forms a single source of truth for your podcast. Everything we need to know as a team is there, from the individual episodes we’re working on, to the dynamic ads you want to insert, to recordings and notes of the catch-up calls we have together.
