Big Podcast Playbook - Grow Your Podcast. Build Your Audience.

NOTE: This is Day 10 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

If you want to do a great podcast interview, you need to do a pre-interview. In this episode, I talk about the importance of doing a pre-interview and different ways to do it.

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 9 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

I have a four-part "contract" that I make all guests agree to before they can be on my podcast. In this episode, I share these four agreements with you and explain why it's smart for you to have something similar for your podcast guests.

RELATED: Day 5 - Podcast Guest Qualifications

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 9 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

I have a four-part "contract" that I make all guests agree to before they can be on my podcast. In this episode, I share these four agreements with you and explain why it's smart for you to have something similar for your podcast guests.

RELATED: Day 5 - Podcast Guest Qualifications

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 8 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

You've got a great opportunity to interview an interesting guest, but he (or his publicist/management) want to put restrictions on the questions you can ask.

What do you do?

I've agreed to "interview restrictions" once. I tell you why and also give you the main reasons it's only happened once on this episode of Podcast Interviewing School... 

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 8 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

You've got a great opportunity to interview an interesting guest, but he (or his publicist/management) want to put restrictions on the questions you can ask.

What do you do?

I've agreed to "interview restrictions" once. I tell you why and also give you the main reasons it's only happened once on this episode of Podcast Interviewing School... 

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 7 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

For the next seven episode, I'm going to be talking about what you can do before an interview to make sure things go well when you get a guest in the studio, on the phone, and connected via Skype.

As you get more and more experience doing podcast interviews, you should be better at figuring out who will be a good guest before you interview him.

But sometimes we're wrong... Sometimes bad podcast guests sneak in.

It happens to all of us.

And sometimes, because we're so worried about being stuck with an interview we won't be able to use, we skip over great guests because they're unproven or unknown.

More thoughts on the subject on this episode of Podcast Interviewing School... 

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 7 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

For the next seven episode, I'm going to be talking about what you can do before an interview to make sure things go well when you get a guest in the studio, on the phone, and connected via Skype.

As you get more and more experience doing podcast interviews, you should be better at figuring out who will be a good guest before you interview him.

But sometimes we're wrong... Sometimes bad podcast guests sneak in.

It happens to all of us.

And sometimes, because we're so worried about being stuck with an interview we won't be able to use, we skip over great guests because they're unproven or unknown.

More thoughts on the subject on this episode of Podcast Interviewing School... 

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 6 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

Podcast booking agents and publicists can be great for finding quality podcast guests. Unfortunately, they can also try to stick you with clients whom they're only working with because those "guests" are attached to a big pile of money.

In this episode of Podcast Interviewing School, I talk about the pros and cons of working with a podcast booking agent and how to make the most of the experience to make sure you get quality guests for your podcast and avoid the ones who will waste your time and repel listeners.

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 6 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

Podcast booking agents and publicists can be great for finding quality podcast guests. Unfortunately, they can also try to stick you with clients whom they're only working with because those "guests" are attached to a big pile of money.

In this episode of Podcast Interviewing School, I talk about the pros and cons of working with a podcast booking agent and how to make the most of the experience to make sure you get quality guests for your podcast and avoid the ones who will waste your time and repel listeners.

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.

NOTE: This is Day 5 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.

Great podcast interviews start with great guests. Unfortunately, there are a lot of potential guests who aren't worth your time.

How do you find great guests for your podcast? When a potential podcast guest approaches you, what can you do to qualify him before you waste your time doing an interview?

This episode of Podcast Interviewing School talks about how to qualify guests and make sure you have quality guests for your podcast.

Don't Let Your Podcast Be Ignored - Download my free "Audience Attraction Cheat Sheet" to get 25 podcast episode (and segment) templates.