Looking for podcasts you can pitch to be a guest on? I’m sharing some easy ways to find shows so you can get pitching even faster.

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Let’s dig into podcast pitching and talk about putting together your pitching strategy, whether you’re pitching yourself or outsourcing tasks to a virtual assistant or an intern. 

By starting with a strategy, you’ll save you time when you start researching and pitching. There’s four parts to your pitching strategy: 

• Your Why (pitching goals)
• Your Who (target listeners to reach)
• Your What (topics to talk about)
• Your Where (types of shows to pitch)

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Looking to market your book in new ways that bring joy to you and your readers? 

My guest today is my friend, Yvette Walker, author of the devotional, “Whispering in His Ear: A Month of Joyful Conversations with God” and host of the Positively Joy podcast.

Yvette shares about:

• being open to God rerouting you to be closer to Him
• collaborating with others through podcasting, Instagram LIVE and the Clubhouse app
• tips on pitching yourself as a guest on her podcast and others
• her experience using Podmatch, a service for finding guests for your show and shows for you to guest on

Whispering in His Ear: A Month of Joyful Conversations with God

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The 3rd Annual Spark Conference for Christian Podcasters was earlier this month and I can’t wait to share my top 5 takeaways with you. These apply to you whether you are an author or blogger who hosts your own podcast, or are an author wanting to be a guest on podcasts.

Misty Phillip, founder of Spark Media, is amazing and I love seeing how she's walking out her calling in serving podcasters. It was hard to narrow my takeaways down to only 5. So I do share a bonus takeaway that honestly should have been #1.

And if you’re wishing you could have heard all the presentations, you are in luck! Misty has the video replays from the conference for you!

Plus, you can learn all about podcasting and network with other Christian podcasters inside the Spark Media Collective monthly membership.

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Today my guest is my friend Amy Odland, who has been helping authors launch their books into the world since 2017. Her goal is always to make the launching process as organized and fun as possible for all involved. 

We talk about:

• Why authors need a launch team and how soon to gather one
• How Amy got started supporting authors with book launches (and advice if you’d like to do the same)
• What all goes into managing a book launch team (you might be surprised by what we share)
• How to prepare your launch team in advance to avoid getting reviews rejected by Amazon (yes that is a thing!)

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I’m thrilled to share an interview with my PR mentor, Brittney Lynn. She interviewed me for her Human Connection podcast.

Note this was long before I started my own podcast and knew the importance of a good microphone. :)

I enrolled in Brittney’s Impact + Influence PR course several years ago and had great success pitching my author clients to publications, especially by responding to journalists’ requests on Help A Reporter Out (HARO).

If you are thinking of pitching yourself, or your own clients, to the media, this episode is for you! We talk about:

• How to get started with PR 
• Lessons learned pitching clients to publications
• What we both love about PR
• How Brittney’s course helped me land interviews and publication mentions for my clients

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You have book marketing questions, we have answers. Thomas Umstattd, Jr. is my guest today and he is a wealth of book publishing, marketing and podcasting knowledge!

Thomas is host of both the Christian Publishing Show and the Novel Marketing podcasts and we chat about ALL THE THINGS.

[6:25] How early should authors start building their platform to have a strong book launch?
[11:45] Why is having an engaged email list so important to publishers?
[15:00] Scratching your potential readers’ itch with a ‘reader’ magnet
[19:07] Advice for authors starting a podcast
[26:34] Maximize the back of your book to build your email list and sell more books
[30:00] Hosting a Guestcast to share your podcast interviews
[41:03] His podcast host directory (w/ email addresses)

Thomas' Guestcast
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Pitching Only When You Launch a Book? Common Podcast Pitching Mistake #8 (and How to Fix It)

6 Ways to Repurpose Your Interviews as a Podcast Guest

How to Be a Great Podcast Guest When You Promote Your Book as a Christian Author

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I’m so thrilled today to welcome my friend and client, Kristine Brown, to the podcast. Kristine is the author of two books including her recent one, Cinched: Living with Unwavering Trust in an Unfailing God.

Kristine and I worked together to jumpstart her podcast pitching strategy and it's been incredible to see her put it into place and start guesting on podcasts.

She's here to share 5 lessons she learned from her first 5 podcast interviews. If you have any questions or worries about pitching yourself like….

• How do I keep track of everything?
• What happens if something goes wrong with my tech?
• What if I mess up or wish I would have said things differently?
• How can I keep from getting overwhelmed by all that goes into podcast pitching?

Kristine answers them all!

Kristine's book, Cinched

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Launching a book this year? Then you are in for a treat today! 

My friend, Lindsey Hartz, marketing consultant and book launch strategist at the Hartz Agency, is my guest today. She shares all about:

• How to tackle the overwhelm and fear of book marketing
• How marketing differs (and is alike) between traditional and self-publishing
• When you should start outlining your marketing plan
• What only you as an author can do (not your publisher)
• How to build a community-driven launch team (long before you launch)
• Creative ways to get reviews even after your launch

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It’s hard to trust in what we can’t see and my guest today is all too familiar with this.

Courtnaye Richard is the author of Inside Out with Courtnaye, a 52-week devotional to help us grow from the inside out one week at a time. I couldn’t wait to have Courtnaye on to encourage us all as we grow in our walk with God, while he’s walking us through our book marketing plans. We talk about:

• How to strengthen your faith walk while waiting on God to move in your life (Courtnaye launched her book during the COVID shutdown)
• How to set boundaries to make time for self care when marketing your book
• How to connects and communicate with new readers (and what lead magnets have been effective for her)
• How she collaborates with other authors and features them in her online magazine
• How she pitches the media to market her books

Inside Out with Courtnaye (52-week Devotional)
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