Upload Drive Podcast to Apple Podcast Connect Step-by-Step
Close the file with a fourth-page grey box containing a single sentence: "If this process interests you, I’m open for a month-long remote sprint starting whatever Monday." Add your mail and Discord handle; no portfolio links, zero Behance, zip social icons–mentors reply faster when the path is effortless.
must align with the channel title byte-for-byte; extra whitespace trigger error 400. inside needs a live mailbox; Apple sends legal notices there and bounces wipe out the whole show. requires one primary and up to two subcategories; spell them verbatim as listed in the official tree—"Society & Culture" not "Culture & Society". must be square, RGB, 72 dpi, no alpha; pre-crop the rounded edges—Apple no longer crops, it simply refuses non-compliant files. for every episode: HH:MM:SS format; missing zero-padding break scrubber display. has to stay unchanged; altering the string after approval resets reviews and rankings.
Check the enclosure length attribute against the real MP3 byte size; a 200-byte mismatch provokes "episode unavailable" on mobile clients.
Export the cover at 72 dpi, sRGB, no ICC profile; run through ImageOptim till ≤ 512 KB. Host the image on a properly configured HTTPS domain; Dropbox raw links rot and kill the feed. Paste the feed URL into W3C validator first, then into Podcasts Connect; fix every red line—yellow warnings turn into rejections at editorial review.
After approval, shelve test episodes with yes; removing the tag later releases them without re-review.
Store the brief as ISO-date-project-brief.md in a git repo. Every commit message must reference one cell: "commit 3a71f4c: metric-2 white-space 45 % achieved". This keeps feedback trackable for quarterly review.
Scribble the sensory stack in one column: smell, texture, hue, decibel level. In the opposite column, list the single action you pulled that nobody else could have done in that second. Highlight the verb that required zip hesitation.
Strip the memory down to a 5-word headline. Example: "Pushed boat pre-dawn" or "Informed chief strategy stinks."
Set a 30-day rule: before any buy over $20 or any calendar commitment longer than 30 minutes, write the mission statement on a sticky note, place it on the wallet, and wait 30 minutes. If the action still scores M, proceed; otherwise skip. Pilot testers cut discretionary waste 37 % on average.
Harvest the "Hiring" tab on Wellfound every start of the week; filter for early climate-tech with 15–40 employees. Snag founder emails with Apollo, drop them into a three-hit G-suite sequence: 1) subject "$623 MRR lift per user–GIF proof," 2) blink-and-you’ll-miss-it GIF of your UI animation, 3) final nudge offering a 24-hour paid pilot capped at $$1.5 k. ~30 % reply, more than half convert to monthly.
Sneak 5 Micro-Stories Into Product Pages for Viral Hooks
Swap one hero image for a half-dozen-second GIF that shows the precise blade slice that splits a leather hide, the metallic rasp of the edge, and the 0.8 mm shaving that curls to the floor. Pinterest repins for "hand-stitched wallet" jump 34 % when movement replaces stills.
Replace the generic size-chart pop-up with a flipper of three customer Polaroids: a crag rat chalking while wearing the Build a neutral avatar 1:1 1080px canvas, 3-color flat icon; switch the bio to "Something’s cooking–announcement soon" plus a universal link. Feature one ¼-minute loop showing the icon breathe; this meets platform "active user" rules and blocks deletion for inactivity (Twitch nukes accounts after a year of zero streaming). Capture every successful registration; disputes at Instagram require dated proof. Go public only after the third confirmation email arrives; 82 % of name conflicts strike within the initial 60 min of going public. If a fan snags a variant, offer $99 via PayPal Goods & Services–beyond that price, file UDRP ($1.5k) instead of paying scalpers. Once the drop drops, switch every bio to the identical 27-character link: your domain plus /name; consistency raises click-through 21 % versus messy slugs.
Archives beyond 100 MB hit you with a virus-scan warning page; duck it by scripting the confirmation token from the response header download_warning. Google-native files ignore the parameter; convert first PDF or Office via /export?format=pdf prior to adding the flag.
For command-line retrieval, combine the link with curl plus a cookie jar to dodge the scan page:
Apple Podcasts Connect refuses feeds that contain URL shorteners or demand sign-in. Replace every https://drive.google.com/file/d/FILE_ID/view with https://drive.[google drive share link to direct link](https://social-Lancer.com/profile/margaritahugga).com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID and host only stereo 44.1 kHz MP3 audio under two hundred megabytes. Anything larger trigger a silent error in the RSS ingest queue.