Using Excel as a simple calculator in order to discover the annual savings that Libsyn.com provides with their unlimited bandwidth hosting option. Frankly, without Libsyn, this podcast would be cost prohibitive. If you have a spare two minutes, please join the Libsyn research study to quantify who is watching podcasts. Episode 817 will show you how.
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This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!
Transcript of the video:
Welcome back to the MrExcel netcast.
I'm Bill Jelen.
Well, I have a favor to ask for today.
My Excel tip is not that brilliant of an Excel tip.
It's just, whenever my wife says, hey, where's the calculator, I go to the computer, I fire up Excel.
I mean, it can calculate anything, and we have an interesting situation here.
When we started podcasting, I remember Leo Laporte, a few years ago, saying, I'm not sure where this is going but I want to be on the leading edge, and the industry's kind of matured a little bit.
When I started podcasting, the very first thing that hit me was the enormous bandwidth cost, and, luckily, a company came along that saved the day.
It's at libsyn.com.
The folks at Wizzard Media basically allow this podcast to go out for about $20 a month in bandwidth charges, which is phenomenal.
Before I found Libsyn, we were just working with tremendous amounts of data.
Basically, here, let me convert this to gigabytes, almost 40,000 gig a year, which, you know, if you would have went to our normal hosting company, which is pair in Pittsburgh, it would have been about $799 a month, and that would work out to almost $10,000 in bandwidth charges just to make this all happen.
Well, Libsyn does this whole thing for, you know, basically $20 a month, $240, saving us about 9348.
Great deal.
Well, Libsyn needs your help.
They want to figure out, who's watching podcasts, what's the demographic, where are they from, and things like that, and I think it's a great study.
So, they’ve built a page for us.
It's at Wizard -- and they spell Wizzard with 2 Zs, W-I-Z-Z-A-R-D -- .tv/Survey/MrExcel.
It'll take 2 minutes of your time.
You can go through.
One question here I don't like, they ask about your household income.
I left that one blank and it accepted the survey just fine.
Throw your email address in there and you'll have a chance to win an iPod Touch.
We're trying to get 250 people to sign up and take the survey before the end of August.
They're going to combine this data with the data of all the other podcasts that they host, and, now, the one caution is, to win the iPod Touch, you can only play once.
If you submit multiple entries for the same podcast, can't do that.
Now, if you find another podcast hosted on Libsyn, for example CommandN, Amber MacArthur, you know, you can go sign up for her survey and have multiple entries there.
They're trying to get an idea for each podcast -- who the people are and what the demographic is.
So, if you could help us out, that’d be great, and I'll see you tomorrow for another netcast from MrExcel.
I'm Bill Jelen.
Well, I have a favor to ask for today.
My Excel tip is not that brilliant of an Excel tip.
It's just, whenever my wife says, hey, where's the calculator, I go to the computer, I fire up Excel.
I mean, it can calculate anything, and we have an interesting situation here.
When we started podcasting, I remember Leo Laporte, a few years ago, saying, I'm not sure where this is going but I want to be on the leading edge, and the industry's kind of matured a little bit.
When I started podcasting, the very first thing that hit me was the enormous bandwidth cost, and, luckily, a company came along that saved the day.
It's at libsyn.com.
The folks at Wizzard Media basically allow this podcast to go out for about $20 a month in bandwidth charges, which is phenomenal.
Before I found Libsyn, we were just working with tremendous amounts of data.
Basically, here, let me convert this to gigabytes, almost 40,000 gig a year, which, you know, if you would have went to our normal hosting company, which is pair in Pittsburgh, it would have been about $799 a month, and that would work out to almost $10,000 in bandwidth charges just to make this all happen.
Well, Libsyn does this whole thing for, you know, basically $20 a month, $240, saving us about 9348.
Great deal.
Well, Libsyn needs your help.
They want to figure out, who's watching podcasts, what's the demographic, where are they from, and things like that, and I think it's a great study.
So, they’ve built a page for us.
It's at Wizard -- and they spell Wizzard with 2 Zs, W-I-Z-Z-A-R-D -- .tv/Survey/MrExcel.
It'll take 2 minutes of your time.
You can go through.
One question here I don't like, they ask about your household income.
I left that one blank and it accepted the survey just fine.
Throw your email address in there and you'll have a chance to win an iPod Touch.
We're trying to get 250 people to sign up and take the survey before the end of August.
They're going to combine this data with the data of all the other podcasts that they host, and, now, the one caution is, to win the iPod Touch, you can only play once.
If you submit multiple entries for the same podcast, can't do that.
Now, if you find another podcast hosted on Libsyn, for example CommandN, Amber MacArthur, you know, you can go sign up for her survey and have multiple entries there.
They're trying to get an idea for each podcast -- who the people are and what the demographic is.
So, if you could help us out, that’d be great, and I'll see you tomorrow for another netcast from MrExcel.
