My selection of free tools I use for the making, automation and marketing of podcasts

1 Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.Developed by a group of volunteers as open source

2 Levelator – Free software that will level your sound for when you have more than one speaker and they have sound levers higher or lower. So what is The Levelator®? It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It's much more than those tools, and it's much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler's application window, and a few moments later you'll find a new version which just sounds better.Have you ever recorded an interview in which you and your guest ended up at different volumes? How about a panel discussion where some people were close to microphones and others were not?

3 Zoom – Here you can record the video and sound if you are interviewing someone remotely. Because why wouldn’t you want to have extra content to make a video. This is also a free tool

4 Wordpress – Yes you can get a WordPress blog to post your show notes that will generate SEO and Google ranking, so eventually you start getting visitors to your site that you can capture emails, or even monetize with ads.

5 Zappier - Zapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use. Connect the apps you use everyday to automate your work and be more productive. 1000+ apps and easy integrations