Can I Make A Hit Podcast?

There's no getting away from it. Without good time management the chances of making a hit show is looking unlikely.

But instead of saying it's all too much work, I go in search of solutions to this problem.

Can you use time management techniques for podcasting? Well take a listen.

Can you get exceptional guests easily or does it take plain and simple hard work.

I put it to the test.

People are interested in appearing on the new show but will any of them be able to deliver what we need to make the new show a HIT show? Well let's see.

Can I actually reach "good" podcast guests? How do I do that? This is the first part of the quest to find the perfect guests for the new show.

It's easy to book a guest for a podcast right? Pick up the phone, join a guesting group or send out a tweet perhaps and it's done right? That's what I thought.

But then I realised that getting the wrong guests could be a huge waste of time and turn what could have been a hit show into an "also ran" show.

So what is the "right" guest?

In this episode I look at why I spent two weeks working on this issue before even approaching a single person.

Hope it helps you too.

How do you record a remote podcast interview? The first thing podcast guests are going to ask is where and how are we going to record this interview? As an independent podcaster with no budget who is trying to compete with the big podcast companies I've got to find another way. What I need is a system which will allow me to record guests in high quality remotely. In this episode I test out some of the top systems to record remote podcast interviews and let you hear the results to decide.

If I'm to make (and market) a hit podcast, I've got to work out how to do social media right? From what I've been looking at there is a lot of very un-engaging social media. Some of it on the other hand is very good. So this week I want to go off at a tangent for one week and look at "podcasting and social media".

It's all about the power of story in Episode 8. I'm looking at what Gimlet Media suggest and what they actually do plus I look at the problems of making a story too without losing all the spontaneity.

It's all well and good Gimlet Academy telling us how to make a hit show but when are we ever going to find the time to do what they suggest?

In this episode I look at the problems and a tool to help solving one of these straight away.

One of the biggest podcast production companies (Gimlet media) have revealed their secrets in a podcast series. What's the secret?