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Leesa Barnes, author of the book Jumpstart Your Podcast, is a veteran, if there can be one in the podcast world, of using the medium as a marketing vehicle. While that sounds very corporate, Leesa took a decidedly Biblical stance on the issue in her session "The 7 Deadly Sins of Business Podcasting" at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo. Leesa's stance on the matter was well within the theme of the overall conference: this medium is different, still pure, still young, and its culture demands something different. Utilizing the podcast for marketing purposes can be powerful, but the "Reverend Leesa," as she called herself, says that utilization has a whole different set of rules.

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