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July 23, 2013 by Nina Amir 8 Comments

How to Create an Audio Product to Sell on Your Blog

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Record an audio program to create an easy online productNot all writers consider themselves “techies”—even if they decide to blog their books or blog about their books. Thus, the idea of creating a business around your blog with membership sites and courses might seem overwhelming. An ebook might seem more doable since you probably consider yourself a writer.  But even those who aren’t highly techie can produce an audio readers can purchase as a product.

Creating an audio product uses fairly simple technology, and the end result can be fairly easily uploaded to your blog. Let’s look at how this works.

Produce a Recording

This requires that you produce a recording of yourself speaking. Here are four methods you can use to do so:

  1. If you have a digital recorder, you can record yourself speaking into it and then upload the recording onto your computer.
  2. Your computer probably has a built-in device recording device you can use to produce audio.
  3. You can use a free service like www.freeconferencecall.com or www.freeconferencing.com. Have someone interview you using this service or simply call in and record yourself. The service will allow you to download a wave or MP3 file.
  4. Download a free version of Audacity from soundforge.net, and use it to record your audio. It offers easy editing tools as well.

I’ve used all of these methods, but there are plenty more free audio programs (and paid ones) out there. All you have to do is Google “free audio editors or programs” and you’ll find plenty of lists and suggestions.

Upload Your Audio

To upload your audio to your blog you will need an audio plugin or player of some sort. There are many to choose from—both free and paid. I used PB oEmbed HTML5 Audio – with Cache Support, which is free, to upload the audio below, which I recorded using Audacity. (I’ve tried several others, this was by far the easiest plugin I’ve found to date.)

https://howtoblogabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Audacity.mp3

Create a Transcript of the Recording

Once you have a recording, you can easily produce written material to go with it by transcribing your audio file. Numerous experts sell products that consist of an audio and a transcript. If you don’t want to transcribe the audio yourself, you can hire someone to do so for you. Professional transcriptionists can prove expensive, but you can find cheaper transcriptionists on www.odesk.com or www.elance.com.

Create a cover for your transcription, and it will look like a little book! You could even edit it into more than a transcript if you are feeling energetic.

An audio file alone serves as a great free product. If you decide to sign up for a teleconference line, consider hosting a teleconference! Then sell that recording and the transcript. You can even add new subscribers to your mailing list that way!

Selling Your Product

As with any product you sell, you will need to sign up for PayPal or find some other solution that allows buyers to purchase your items. Eventually, you may decide to integrate a shopping cart into your site. But for one product or two, you can easily just use PayPal and password protect your products. (I’ll discuss this in my next post.)

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Comments

  1. JD says

    July 26, 2013 at 9:59 pm

    Great advice. Honestly, it’s not that difficult these days to record yourself and, like you said, have a transcript written so you can share your message via multiple mediums. Thank again!

  2. Linda says

    May 12, 2015 at 8:45 am

    Please can you clarify something for me? On your website, following the link to How to Build a Business Around Your Blog, from Twitter, I was taken to the sign up page which quoted me $29 and premium for $109, but when I went to sign up via the internet on my computer using your regular website the same product quoted the price $47 and $137 respectively? Now reading through the material it does quote the latter prices throughout the blog, so I fully expected to pay the original amount for the product, but when I went through to pay, it showed me what I perceived as a discount!! This was amazing!! So you can imagine my surprise that because I wanted to download to my regular computer, and not through my tablet, I could not find the same discount?? The discounted prices really had me thinking I might go for premium after all, but I know I couldn’t afford the full $137! So please can you look at the issue that has cropped up and let me know if, indeed, I can have the course for the original price I found on my tablet through Twitter, or will I pay the full asking price for your course? I’d appreciate a speedy return on this cos I retweeted your links. Thanks, Linda.

  3. Nina Amir says

    May 14, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    Hi Linda! I’m trying to figure out where that page with the lower price is even living! It’s an old price…contact me off the blog (use the contact form), and I’ll figure something out for you.

  4. Gene J. Horton says

    May 17, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    Great article, very informative
    Thank-you for the detailed description on how to create Audio Product. My question is.. How much should be charge for the audio products?

  5. Nina Amir says

    May 22, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    That depends, Gene, on the value you provide…you can charge $5 or $50 or more!

  6. james says

    April 1, 2021 at 2:43 am

    Hi Linda. Very amazing blog!! I actually love music and i do recordings of my music.
    Also do visit this website they provide best audio production services.
    https://isdnrecordingmiami.net/

  7. james says

    April 1, 2021 at 2:47 am

    Great and very informative article. It has become very easy to record yourself these days.
    Thankyou

  8. alex says

    June 26, 2021 at 1:58 am

    Wow amazing tips. thanks for sharing

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