The Best Way to Create a Fabulous Podcast
The Best Way to Create a Fabulous Podcast
The Best Way to Create a Fabulous Podcast
Have you ever thought about the best way to create a fabulous podcast?
Many entrepreneurs are jumping on the podcasting bandwagon. But there are many more who are still hesitant, despite the clear evidence that podcasting allows you to showcase your expertise and grow your business.
This question has been on my mind for several days.
Dexter and I have been producing a podcast for more than 2 years and have seen our audience and our business grow significantly.
We have learned several lessons that we share with you in our The Special Report and Training Guide: Podcasting Power Playbook™.
Below are a few of our tips on how to create a fabulous podcast. We recommend that you begin with a plan than includes these three specific strategies.
1. Speak to Your Target Audience
Speak to a specific audience who is ready and waiting to hear your message. Your audience is not everyone.
Each week address a specific problem that your target audience is dealing with right now
2. Script Your Podcasts
We like to script our podcasts. We do not want to stumble and sound unprofessional.
Instead, we have developed a consistent opening and closing. So, each week, we script the middle.
3. Set a Goal for Each Episode
Set a goal for every episode of your podcast.
Then be sure to include a call to action to your audience around that goal.
Conclusion
The best way to create a fabulous podcast is to begin with a plan that includes the following three strategies.
- Speak to your target audience
- Script your podcasts
- Set a goal for each episode
To learn more about these strategies, and others on the best way to create a fabulous podcast, checkout The Special Report and Training Guide: Podcasting Power Playbook™.
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Mentoring
Dexter and I have a few slots in my 6-week Strategic Pathway to Success Program. If you are interested in working with us to solve your pressing business problems and begin to create multiple streams of income.
Click here: The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team™.
Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love!
Act today!
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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Absolutely the Best Way to Deal with Business Burnout
Absolutely the Best Way to Deal with Business Burnout
Absolutely the Best Way to Deal with Business Burnout
Do you know how to deal with business burnout? What if you knew absolutely the best way to deal with business burnout?
Would you like a solution to address the lack of energy and enthusiasm that you and your clients may feel for your businesses?
I don’t know about you, but I am feeling the stress of this busy holiday season. In addition to keeping my business growing and thriving, there are additional social events this time of the year.
What about you?
Is your enthusiasm for your business waning? Then read on about a fantastic product that you can use for yourself and your clients to deal with business burnout.
Warning Signs of Business Burnout
The moment business burnout starts creeping in, the stress you are already feeling tends to magnify. Warning signs of business burnout include:
o No longer feeling energized by working long hours
o Frustration with your inability to accomplish tasks that were once easy
o Not wanting to come to work (or sit down at your computer)
o Feeling angry with yourself at not accomplishing more
o Procrastination and avoidance behaviors
o A decline in self-worth and self-esteem
o Resenting clients and customers
o Feeling overwhelmed
o Feeling hopeless
When I saw what my friends, Nicole and Melissa from Coach Glue, were offering for sale today, I just had to share it with you! It is a topic that will benefit us all:
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You can learn from it, teach other speakers and entrepreneurs how to deal with this problem, and earn yourself some money!
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Start Podcasting Now!
Another great way to earn yourself some money is to begin a podcast. Podcasting is growing and offering you more opportunities to market yourself and earn more money.
Perhaps if you add another dimension to your business, like podcasting, your enthusiasm for your business will be re-ignited. Your business burnout could go away!
Check out my Special Report and Training on podcasting today!
Click here: Podcasting Power Playbook™
Mentoring Program
I have a few slots in my 6-week Strategic Pathway to Success Program. If you are interested in working with me 1:1 to solve your pressing business problems and begin to create multiple streams of income, then contact me at pamela@mybizdreamteams.com
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Conclusion
If you are feeling overwhelmed by your business, lack enthusiasm to work on a project, or resent talking to your clients, you may be suffering from business burnout.
You will certainly benefit from “How to Recognize and Heal from Business Burnout” by Coach Glue. Then you can teach other entrepreneurs having the same problem and earn yourself some money.
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team™. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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How to Get Started with Public Speaking
How to Get Started with Public Speaking
How to Get Started with Public Speaking
Have you ever wondered how to get started with public speaking? It is not written in stone that you must get up in front of a large audience and put on a full, two-hour presentation. There are many ways to get started with public speaking. The trick is to find ways that are within your comfort zone. Then you move yourself slightly out of your comfort zone with each step that you conquer.
Here are a few strategies that you might find helpful to help you get stated with public speaking.
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Get Comfortable Online
Create a Skype or teleconference workshop for people you know well – and who you know would be supportive.
Think about members of any active forum you belong to, your Facebook industry intimates, fellow Facebook Group members, your subscribers or online friends that share the same hobby or career as you.
Make it small and on one topic you have already mastered.
Better yet, make your group teleconference a regular feature, so that you grow comfortable presenting to others.
We have a weekly teleseminar training series that we repurpose into a podcast. It is a wonderful way to get comfortable with public speaking. To find out more about starting your own podcast, check out Podcasting Power.
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Host a Local Workshop
Do you belong to any local business organizations? Then offer to host a local workshop on a topic you know well.
Prepare handouts. For example, you could prepare a tip sheet, or summary of the points you made, or outline of the methods you used. A list of resources is also a popular handout.
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Volunteer to Give a Storytelling Session at a Local School
You may be amazed at how responsive even the most rambunctious audience will be. Children naturally love stories, and if you can successfully tell a story to your own children – or you have just taken a storytelling course – you can do this at a school.
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Give Free Short Mini-Talks at Local Business Meetings
Local business organizations are always looking for guest speakers. Hone your skills by volunteering to give mini-talks on a single topic. Keep them to fifteen minutes or less. That way, you are not responsible for an entire event – just a small segment of it – and you can get your feet wet in comfort.
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Be the Lifesaver
Local business organizations often find that their scheduled speaker is a no-show. The point is, be the one who is heroically ready to fill the gap. Therefore, before every local business meeting, have a short speech totally prepared and practiced on a relevant topic.
The practice will help decrease your nervousness and improve your public speaking skills. You will be ready to save the day and be the lifesaver.
How to Get Started with Public Speaking
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Create a Paid Product
Pre-record your speech and use it to promote a product. The trick is making sure that the speech itself is as value-rich as your paid product – and that both are unique, original and exactly what your audience needs.
Those are eight ways to dip your foot into the stream of public speaking. Now let us see how we can accelerate your public speaking career by helping your great reputation spread like wildfire.
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Live Public Speaking
Even if you only have a gig or two under your belt, live your dream with passion. If you do – if all your focus for now is on developing your career in public speaking – you will find yourself naturally “talking it up” with genuine enthusiasm.
Let people know why you love giving presentations, what you specialize in, where you have spoken, what you have to offer – and most of all, let them know you are available.
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Carry Business Cards
Make sure you always carry business cards positioning yourself as a public speaker.
Then when you do talk up your public speaking abilities, hand out more than one per person. Ask people to pass your cards on if they know someone who might find hiring you the solution to a problem.
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Specialize
While many entrepreneurs are quite capable of speaking well on a variety of topics to a variety of audiences, your best strategy lies in specializing – becoming known as the expert in one specific area of one niche field.
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Focus on Your Promise
A good speech includes a promise of what people are going to take away if they stay and listen. A great speech delivers on that promise by the end of the speech – and reminds the audience they have done so.
Always spend time on your promise. What is it going to be for this audience? Can you kick it up a notch or two?
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Create Website Presences
You need to be findable online as a public speaker – so make sure you place that information in several different website spots. You can create:
- A speaker profile, cv or bio in your Media Section
- A “Hire [Your Name] to Speak” section
- A contact form for public speaking inquiries
- Another website only for your public speaking, including transcripts or samples of past speeches
12. Attend Conferences and Networking Events
These are fantastic places to make connections in your own niche or industry. Even if you do not find anyone there to hire you, networking strong personal contacts can lead to recommendations from those contacts.
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Volunteer
Offer to speak at your local Chamber of Commerce, civic groups, and other business and service-oriented organizations. Many offer monthly meetings and are always on the hunt for speakers, so it is a wonderful way to build up your speaking chops while helping a worthy cause.
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Join Groups
Join both online and offline groups that include or focus on public speaking. Look beyond your local Toastmasters chapter, to include local business organizations that need and use speakers at every meeting. Also, join focused LinkedIn and Facebook Groups.
These groups can give you plenty of practice – and exposure.
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Just Ask!
Approach organizations you want to speak to. Find out the name of the correct person to contact – and send a query letter and/or your Speaker Profile Sheet.
Outline either one huge benefit to the organization or list three to five strong benefits. Give them the same promise you would include in your speech.
Conclusion/Call to Action
Learning how to get started with public speaking is essential to building your visibility, credibility, and authority status. Remember that you are your business. You must learn to accelerate the spread of your message to help you build and grow your business. By following a few proven- strategies you can be on your way to creating the life of your dreams.
For more information on public speaking check out the following podcasts and blog posts:
How to Quickly Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking
How to Use Public Speaking to Grow Your Business
3 Public Speaking Tips for New Entrepreneurs
At My Biz Dream Team, we show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Podcasting Power Playbook, to help you increase your visibility, credibility, and authority status. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, providing results-oriented strategies that help you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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How to Sound Like a Professional Podcaster
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How to Sound Like a Professional Podcaster
How to Sound Like a Professional Podcaster
Are you ready to sound like a professional podcaster? Do you want your guest to know that she is dealing with a savvy pro podcaster? If so, then listen to the latest episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series. We continue with “How to Get Started with Podcasting Part 4.”
In this episode we discuss the steps to take before you invite your first guest, if you want to sound like a professional podcaster. Remember, your potential guest does not want to deal with an amateur!
1. Produce at Least One Podcast or Podcast Series
If you want to sound like a professional podcaster, then you want to produce at least one podcast or podcast series before you invite your first guest. How will they know if you are a good presenter or interviewer if they have never heard you?
You will need a website for your podcast. That means you will need to buy a domain name for your program. If you already have a website, where you blog, you can link your podcast to that website.
That is what we did. On our website, My Biz Dream Team.com, you will find a link to our podcast on the side bar. You may want to try something similar.
2. Get the Right Equipment
If you want to sound like a professional podcaster, then make sure that you get the right equipment. I recommend you get a good noise cancelling USB headset with a microphone. I recommend and use a Plantronics headset that I bought on Amazon.
You will also want professional recording software. Audacity is available for free.
Also, think carefully about your podcast hosting platform. We use and recommend Blubrry. We like Blubrry because it:
a. easily connects to our WordPress blog; b. provides us great analytics; and c. is not expensive.
For more information on choosing podcast hosting platform, click here, 8 Best Sites to Host Your Podcasts.
For information on setting up your podcast feed, I recommend this article, How to Start Your Own Podcast: Getting Your Voice Heard Literally.
3. Prepare the Recording Space
If you want to sound like a professional podcast, then be sure to prepare your recording space. That means you should make your recording in a room with a closed door. So many people make the mistake of not thinking about where they will make the recording. You want to avoid background noises. Interruptions by crying babies, barking dogs, and ringing phones are not professional.
You want to get prepared by having a glass of water nearby, your notes for the program, and a smile on your face. Remember to close the door and to hit the record button!
In a recent article, media trainer and publicist, Joanne McCall, also offers several excellent tips on how to sound like a savvy pro podcaster. One great tip, that we followed is, “actively listen to other podcasts to learn what you love and what you hate.”
Conclusion/Call to Action
In this series on “How to Start a Podcast,” we have emphasized the importance of having great conversations on your podcast. One way to have great conversations is to invite engaging guests. If you want the best guests for your audience, before issuing that invitation make sure that you sound like a professional podcaster.
By following a few simple steps before you invite your first guest, you can sound like a professional podcaster.
Click here to connect to the other podcasts in the series:
How to Create a Podcast that Grows Your Business
How to Create a Podcast that Attracts Your Ideal Audience
How to Select and Invite Great Podcast Guests
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life.
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How to Select and Invite Great Podcast Guests
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How to Select and Invite Great Podcast Guests
How to Select and Invite Great Podcast Guests
Are you seriously interested in starting a podcast in 2018? If so, you need to know how to select and invite great podcast guests. Listen to the latest episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series, as we share our strategies for selecting and inviting great podcast guests. We have been podcasting for more than a year, and have learned a few strategies that we want to share with you. Hopefully you can learn from our mistakes.
1. Conduct Research Before You Invite Guest
Sometimes you think a person would be a great guest, because they are well-known, knowledgeable, and would fit with your overall theme and focus of your podcast. You know exactly which podcast series would be a perfect fit for them. However, before inviting them, first find out about a few things. You want to know:
· What are they known for
· What is their latest project?
· Who is their audience?
· What can you give them, in terms of adding value?
· What is going on in their personal and/or professional lives that will make your invitation to them good or bad timing?
The timing of your invitation is critical.
2. Develop a Relationship with Intended Guest
Before you invite an intended guest, build a relationship with her by attending her webinars, going to her events, and following her on social media. You do not have to stalk them. However, you do need to let them know that you exist and are interested in what they offer. Another excellent way to establish a relationship with an intended guest is to comment on her blog post. Having a relationship with your intended guests makes it much easier to extend an invitation.
3. Think of Inviting People Outside of Your Niche
If you want a podcast that is interesting, entertaining, and informative do not invite the same guests as everyone else in your niche. There are many interesting people who could be an asset to your podcast. If your focus is primarily people who have online business, invite guests who may have an offline perspective.
Remember you are the person, who is driving the conversation. You can think of ways to make your guest interesting to your audience.
Conclusion/Call to Action
Learning how to select and invite great podcast guests is a key strategy for a successful podcast. Follow these three tips:
1. Conduct research before inviting an intended guest
2. Develop a relationship with an intended guest
3. Think about inviting people outside of your niche as podcast guests.
This is Part 3 of “Podcasting for Riches-How to Start a Successful Podcast.”
You can find the other parts of the series here:
How to Create a Podcast that Attracts Your Ideal Audience
How to Create a Podcast that Builds Your Business
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life.
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Podcasting Can Increase Your Visibility Episode 7:4
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Podcasting Can Increase Your Visibility
Listen to the latest episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday as we continue the discussion of podcasting. Taking action to get expert guests is one of the important steps when it comes to podcasting. In this episode we present several additional podcasting strategies to help you to grow your business and increase your visibility.
Summary of Episode
These podcasting strategies help you make the most of your expert guests. They also help you impress your expert guest and your audience with your professional, easy-flowing podcast interview.
We begin with an update of the podcasting strategies presented in previous episodes.
- You need to do your homework to find experts guests who add value to your audience. The homework continues even after the guest expert agrees to the interview. Preparation is the key for a great podcast.
- You need to conduct a podcast that respects and honors your guests time. Don't let your disorganization cause the interview to run overtime.
- You need to send your expert guest a preliminary list of questions in advance of the interview. One key podcasting strategy is the thoroughness of your familiarity with your expert guest and her product or services.
- You should practice active listening during the interview. Relax and make the interview fun and informative.
In this week's episode, we discuss the following podcasting strategies:
- Your connection with your expert guest does not end with the interview, but should continue. Sending a gracious thank-you note or gift will help you build on the relationship.
- You should ask your expert guests for referrals to other potential guests for your podcast.
- You should prepare a simple form to gather this follow-up information.
All of these podcasting strategies will help you create a dynamic, fun-filled podcast series that grows your business and increases your visibility. Grab your copy of the Special Report and Training Guide: The Podcasting Power Playbook that accompanies this series.
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