Tag: audience

What’s on your playlist?

Hello short and sweet for today. Every month I send out a playlist of great podcast I have listened too and want to share with my list. So I have decided that each week  here on the blog I will share an episode of a podcast I have discovered and loved.

What are you listening too?
What’s on your playlist?

If you want the full list, don’t be shy please join my mailing list.  This week I want to introduce you to The Trip : Roads and Kingdoms.

Start with Goats, Gods and Garlic – find out about “goat twitter” (yes that’s a thing) a fathers secret goat meat supply and the beauty of Nepal.

Have a listen tell me what you thought, do you have a show I can recommend?

If you did listen and love please leave them a rating and review because… well because it’s a nice thing to do. Have a good one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to be a great podcast guest: Give away the good stuff

You will get the chance to tell people about who you are and what you do. Then make sure before the interview that you have one place to send them where they can find out what they want to know about you. If it’s your website great. No website yet? A landing page will do. Also make sure that you have some sort of “gift” offer for listeners.

Make sure it’s not fluff, if it’s a download make sure it is something that saves people time, teaches them something and that they might have been prepared to pay for.

Remember you want to create value!! Also your links will live in the show notes as well so make sure you have suitable working links.

Most hosts will also link to your social links in the shownotes as well. So make sure these are set up.

How to be a great podcast guest: You have 90 seconds

You have 90 seconds

Be mindful when the host gives you a time limit.

Especially when the host says something like “you have 90 seconds to tell us ….”

Try and stick to that time frame, actually do not try. Do it. This tip was given to me by @blackpillradio who commented on my IG thread.

I was on a panel with 5 other awesome ladies talking about:

  • Women in podcasting
  • The equipment you need
  • What holds people back from getting started and how to push through that

Do you have something to add? What do people need to remember when they are being interviewed?

How to be a great podcast guest: Be on time

No long explanation for this one be on time. Put a reminder on your phone. Yes life does happen, but treat this as you would any other professional engagement. Full disclosure I was crap at this last month when I was interviewed and was a little fraught with things, but now I’m back on track.

Watch the clock
Be on time for your interview

 

The podcast will normally use the first minute to check levels and make sure you are comfortable, it is time well spent and neither of you want to be flustered and rushing to get everything in.

How to be a great podcast guest – Quiet Please

As much as possible try to be in a quiet room/office when you are being interviewed. Life in your household does not have to stop but can you sit in a room where you can’t hear loud traffic noises from outside, or your neighbours’ dog?

Ask kids and spouses to give you a little quiet time whilst you are being interviewed.

I don’t want this to be a lecture but please put your phone on SILENT!!!

 

P.S. Just so we are clear the picture is a perfect example of where you should not record. 

Perfect Podcast Pitch – Craft your Pitch

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By now you’ll have a list of the shows you want to be interviewed on and you will be familiar with their tone and feel. ⠀
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Look at the website for the show you love. How does the host say you should contact them? ⠀
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If they say email, then do email. Follow their directions ⠀
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What info have they asked for from you? Provide it in the your pitch email. ⠀
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Don’t forget to tell them what value you are bringing to the table. ⠀
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If you don’t get a response, try again after about a week or two. A lot of podcasters are doing their shows and working another job. So be patient. ⠀
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Need some help crafting your pitch or contacting podcast hosts in your niche? Book a free discovery call let’s get you booked in 2018!!

Sign up for the Craft your Pitch download on the home page.

Variety adds spice to podcasts – Podcast pet peeves

Can you add a little variety to your segments? Sometimes a guest might be great on paper but when you listen to the recording it can be a little long and dry.  Your guest may have been nervous, it might not have been a great day for them, whatever.

Podcast segments
Add a little variety to your podcast with different segments

 

In the forum a lot of people said their attention wandered after 30 mins.

I am not telling you to cut your podcast short my we are all different. Think about surprising your listeners (pleasantly!!) by mixing things up a bit.

Stick with your format but could you try to:

  • Break up a longer conversation with a recap?
  • Quick fire Q’s
  • Illustrative clip from a different source
  • Speed round

Perhaps these will not make it into the final cut but it might be a good way to get more “personality” from your guest.

Can you think of a podcast where this is done really well?  Have you tried this? What feedback did you get from your listeners?