Sell MP3 Recordings
July 2, 2008
There’s a growing demand for audio products – I suppose most people are too busy to read these days and you can listen to audio while you do other stuff, like drive, exercise or whatever.
So if you want to create a product of your own, just make a recording and sell it on.
Except that it’s a bit harder than that. You have to come up with the product and you have to have good equipment to record it. And that costs money.
But there’s an easier way and it’s free (in a lot of cases), or very, very, very cheap in all cases.
If you record interviews with an expert on a particular topic then you will have a product that is likely to be in high demand. Conducting the interview by telephone is one way of doing it without the cost of air travel, but recording the sound can be tricky and the quality isn’t always great.
Let me cut to the chase: You can use Skype to record both ends of the telephone call and you’ll have an almost instant audio interview product for sale. I say almost instant because you should do a little clean up on the audio to get the best quality for your customers. Offering high quality audio, rather than the poor, noisy stuff that sometimes passes for audio, will endear you to your customers because they’ll be able to hear and understand what was said.
There are some technical issues in getting a good recording quality with Skype and I’ve just come across a resource that explains in some detail how to do it. It’s a fascinating slideshow and I’ve used a couple of the tweaks myself already to get better Skype quality. Here it is:
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You can also try out callgraph, its free and automatically records everything in an mp3 file. The web service also offers online storage, sharing, search and transcription.