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Here are top tips to help you get booked for podcast interviews even if you’ve never done it before and are in the earlier stages of building your brand.

6 Ways to Land More Podcast Interviews

Today, I have some tips to help you get booked as a guest on podcasts (even if you’ve never done it before and are in the earlier stages of building your brand as a thought leader).

I’m doing a podcast interview tour myself right now, so I have some fresh perspective and an inside look at what works to get more “yeses” from your outreach.

1) Do Your Research

Here’s the truth. Most people who send guest pitches are lazy. They shoot out huge quantities of ill-informed, poorly-crafted emails and just pray a few of them to get a response. You’ll stand out by taking a bit of time to do some research and match your pitch to the specific podcast. Read more

A wake-up call this week in the form of feedback given to me about my new podcast which launches later this month

They called me out and they were right

I had a wake-up call this week in the form of feedback given to me about my new podcast which launches later this month. There’s a valuable lesson in it for any content creator, so I’d like to share it with you.

Let me give you just a bit of setup first.

Here’s the deal. I’m feeling some pressure when it comes to this new show. I had a wildly successful podcast for twelve years, then I went on podcasting hiatus for a few years.

Now, I have high expectations of myself to start strong with this new show as I step back on to the podcasting stage.

There’s nothing wrong with stretching one’s self to reach higher. But it seems maybe I took it a little too far.

I researched.

I backed my ideas up with stats.

I created a framework to make the content actionable.

I kept it all within a nice concise 19 minutes.

I scripted the content (something I’ve never done with a podcast before).

I spent hours writing and re-writing the episode to get it “just right.”

It was those last two that did me in.

Here’s the feedback I received this week from two separate people after they listened to an advance version of episode one. Read more