Building a Successful Online Endeavor: MyChingo Ep2
By Patricia Mayo • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: Online Business, Podcastsby Patricia Mayo

Photo by Sanja Gjenero
I’ll be the first to admit - I don’t know it all. Sure I’ve been around a lot, but sometimes you just have to lean on someone a lot more experienced than yourself.
If you will remember from the first episode on building a successful business out of MyChingo.com, one of the product’s biggest target markets is educators. I’m certainly not an expert on the education industry, but Matt Herzberger definitely qualifies.
Matt is right in the middle of everywhere MyChingo wants to go. He works in higher ed filling seats and working with the technology students want in the classroom, the mind behind the @makechange Twitter bot, runs an edublog aggregator at BlogHighEd.org, and an apparent master at sucking up because he got BlogHighEd.org to move up on Alltop.com.
In this episode, Matt helps me figure out how to get MyChingo in front of educators, with insights on what really matters to them and how to position it to succeed.
The music is “The Colorful Box” (not yet completed or released) by Sedition, and it continues at the end of the podcast so be sure to stick around. If you would like to promote your music in next week’s podcast, please feel free to get in touch.
(in case you didn’t know, Sedition is my “band,” it’s just me, and just a hobby)
.
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed so you never miss the next great communication tip. Thanks for stopping by, I hope to see you often!
Trisha, @mayobrains on Twitter
Related Reading
- Building a Successful Online Endeavor Out of MyChingo Ep1: Bloopers
- Building a Successful Online Endeavor: MyChingo Ep1
- The Liars Have Been Marketing Online Since 1996
- The Ghostwriter’s Betrayal: Lies of “Make Money Online”
- Directing Those Thousand Words Pictures Speak #2
Patricia Mayo is an entrepreneur with way too much experience online. Seriously, it's not healthy. Feel free to follow on Twitter, LiveJournal, MySpace, Facebook, Tribe, LinkedIn, or Plaxo Pulse. If that isn't enough, there are many more ways to reach out and touch her at MayoBrains.com.
Email this author | All posts by Patricia Mayo


Hi, I have a technical question. What plug-in do you use for the playing of the mp3-s, and does it work in WP 2.5?
Thank you for your time,
Stephen
I use PodPress, and I’m using 2.5 =) It’s a little difficult getting started unless you really know the WP filesystem well tho.
Hi again,
Would you have a few minutes sometime to explain how to set it up? I have been using WP for a year or so, I have a pretty good feel for it.
Getting it installed isn’t a problem - it’s telling the plugin where to find your podcast that’s a little tough. I don’t even really understand its logic, I just copy whatever I have in the last podcast =P
But I’d be happy to help if you get stuck. Feel free to use any method of contact from my contact page =)