​Today on the "Dailicast Moment", host Chris Laning, talks about audio logos, the short sounds (music, voice, etc.) used to let listeners immediately recognize that your dailicast is playing.

Music Clip: "Legendary" (Official Audio) - Welshly Arms

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With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Now this week we're going to be talking about intros and audio logos. Essentially getting into your dailicast. So today and tomorrow we're going to focus on the audio logo. Now what is an audio logo? An audio logo is a sound that becomes instantly recognizable when listeners hear it. And there's several examples of it which I'm going to get to in just a minute.

But let me start by this. Why is it important to have an audio logo? You should really be starting all of your dailicasts off with an audio logo. And the reason for that is simple. With a format such as the dailicast, short podcast or Amazon flash briefing, more than likely people are going to be listening to this as part of a list of ones that they're going through. Right? It could be a list of podcasts, a list of short podcasts. It could be the Amazon flash briefing where it literally is a list of all the flash briefings that they want to listen to.

So as people are listening to it, a lot of times they start half listening, they start doing other things, and so they're sort of only partially paying attention. With an audio logo, if it's one that they recognize and they associate with your dailicast, particularly if they really like your dailicast, it's going to immediately grab them and pull their attention back. They're going to go, "Oh wait! That's that one! I really like to listen to that." They will know immediately when it starts playing that it is you and that's why we need to do this.

Now, what are the types of audio logos? Well, they can come in several forms, all of which should be short. I will start by saying that right now your audio logo should be short a couple of seconds at the most, just enough to get their attention. This is not the same as your intro. We're going to discuss intros later this week. The audio logo needs to grab them and pull them in within a couple of seconds. So there's a couple of types out there.

One is a sound effect. It could be an unusual sound effect. Something that just really gets their attention. Kind of like this: (Decending swooshing sound plays)

It can also be a short musical clip. Several of the dailicasts I listen to do that. They take a short clip from a song and they use that to get your attention. Now like with anything else, you need to make sure that music piece is licensed. You just can't go take in your favorite song, chop it up and drop it in there. I mean you could, but I can't guarantee you're not going to get some flack for that one. So an example of a short musical clip would be like this. (Music clip from song "Legends" plays).

Now another thing could be a short musical riff. Now this could be something that you get put together that just a couple of notes by a certain type of instrument or a certain type of orchestration that just is kind of unique to you and really gets people's attention. Here's an example of that. ("Dailicast Moment" audio logo plays)

Another type that people do is actually to do voiceover, so they get a short little voiceover clip, very much similar to how sometimes radio stations or others just have a real short blast and they go in and out. So here's an example of voiceover version:

Beetle Moment Marketing with Emily Binder.

And of course with any of these you could combine them so you can certainly have music under the voiceover, whatever, but those are several different ways that you can grab people's attention. Now with sound effects, going back to that, I wouldn't go with something crazy like a big nuclear blast or anything that's going to drive people nuts, but you want something that is going to be just interesting enough to get a hold of their attention.

Now, tomorrow I'm going to explain to you what I have done for the three dailicasts that I'm doing because I kind of found my own unique way of doing it, but I'm going to take you through that process so you can see what my thought process was and maybe use that to figure out what you want to do with your audio logo. Now that's all for the "Dailicast Moment" for today. If you like "Dailicast Moment", I would love for you to connect with me on social media. Search for "Dailicast Moment" on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or YouTube. If you're on Linkedin, you can search your me, Chris Laning, L-A-N-I-N-G directly. And once we're connected, please share and/or like "Dailicast Moment" so your family and friends can find it too. With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Have a great day!

It's "Mindset Friday" on the "Dailicast Moment", where host Chris Laning, talks about something related to mindset to keep in mind when doing your dailicast. Today, he discusses finding "Your Voice", something he heard Voice Over Artist and Coach Bill Dewees talk about on a recent video.

 

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With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Guess what? It's Friday. Yes, we actually got to Friday once again. Woo Hoo! Time to celebrate! But that also means here on the "Dailicast Moment", if you remember yesterday we were talking about themes. Well, the theme for today and every Friday is mindset, "Mindset Fridays".

Now today's "Mindset Friday" we're going to talk about your voice. Now, this came from the other day I was listening to a video from Bill Dewees. Now, Bill Dewees is a voice over artist, a very successful voice over artist. But he's also a voice over coach. He does a lot of videos out there to try to teach others how to do voice overs and offers his tips and thoughts on it. Really great stuff! And he's got a good training program that I've been a part of too, and so going through that, I've learned a lot. But one of the things he said in a video he sent out the other day, and I think it was actually an old one that he resent out. But he was talking about one of the keys to doing voice over work is finding your voice, your unique voice, your unique brand, something that really stands out and that people seek that particular voice. Well that's all well and good, but as Bill pointed out, you can't find that voice over voice if you don't know what your own personal voice is.

That's pretty profound. You're saying like, "Wait, well I should know what my voice is!" But if you sit down and you really think about it, do you know what your voice is? Are you truly genuine all the time? Or are you just kind of going through the motions or acting out or just pretending to be someone you aren't? And maybe that's because you just haven't quite figured out who you are yet.

This is something that I do and I actually last week put out a little video on Facebook to my friends saying the same thing because I do sometimes feel like when I'm recording that I'm performing rather than just talking with you. I'm trying in this week's recordings. I'm trying to think a little bit more along those lines of just talking with you more so than performing. But it's really hard to bring my regular voice to the broadcast. And I think that's because in some ways I'm still struggling to figure out what that voice is.

There's been a lot of changes in my life over the last several years. And so many good things in my life and then there's a few rough things in my life. And we all have that. We have our good moments. We have our bad moments. We have seasons of change. Right? It's always about the seasons of life.

Well, as we go through different seasons of life, it might actually change a bit who we are and how we're perceived and how we want others to perceive us. So we need to know that. We need to know what our voice is because when we're doing our dailicast, that's what we need to bring to the dailicast.

If you go back and listen to some of these ones that I did early on, it was very, (sounding hokey) "Hey, with your 'Dailicast Moment', we're having a great time! You want to do that? Yeah!" But that's not really what you want. You want to know that I am a real person. I've got the same struggles as you. And yet I'm taking the time to put together a dailicast. And because if you know that this guy here can put out a successful dailicast, then yeah, you should be able to pop it out pretty fast. Right? And that's what we need to keep in mind.

Before you sit down and record, think about your voice. Hopefully you know who you are. Hopefully you do know who you are. And if you don't, well you know you need to probably talk to someone, whether it's counselors or coaches or somebody that can kind of help you outline what your voice is, know who you are in real life, and then bring that to the dailicast. So you may have to sit down just before you record, think about that and say, "Okay, this is who I am. This is who I want to be when I step in front of that microphone." Because that's the key! On these dailicasts you just need to be......you. Sure, you want to have some energy. Sure, you want to (talking lethargically) not just get on and talk like this. I get that. There's ways to be yourself but still add a little bit more energy to it.

But just be yourself. Don't try to be some character in it. I've done that in the past. I've always tried to create these characters to be. You know what? It just hasn't worked out for me. So maybe it's time I started doing things my own way and by that I mean by being me. Because the whole point of dailicasts, the whole point of podcasts is to let your listeners get to know you, like you and trust you. Particularly if you're trying to turn them into customers. You want them to feel like they are friends. You want them to feel like that they're a part of your life and that they want you to be a part of their life as well. Got It. That's the kind of connections we're looking to make here. So just be you. Unless you're a really horrible person, then fake it. Just kidding.

That's all for your "Dailicast Moment" for today and really for all week. You can find out more about dailicasts and the services I offer at https://Dailicast.com. I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. I want you all to have a great day and have a wonderful weekend.

This week on the "Dailicast Moment", host Chris Laning, talks about different ways you can find content for your dailicast. Today, he discusses using themes to help you better manage planning and finding things to talk about on your dailicast. He credits Peter Stewart from the "28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing" for the idea.

 

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With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Now continuing our discussion this week on finding content. Today, I'm going to talk about themes. Now, this one also, I'm going to credit Peter Stewart who I talked about yesterday who is the host of the "28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing". Peter also has had a long career in broadcast including radio and other types of fields, so he's got a lot of experience to share on that flash briefing and I do suggest you go out and check that out. Again, it's called the "28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing" and you can find that through the Amazon Alexa skills section. Well one of the tricks he talked about from his radio days, and he says a lot of radio presenters as they say over in England, we would say a radio host or broadcasters here. What they would do is come up with themes for a given day that helps them put together content.

So for example, I just started this recently on the "Dailicast Moment" if you've been listening. I created "Mindset Fridays". So no matter what I've been talking about throughout the week on Fridays, now I change it up and I talk about mindset. What has this done for me? Well, it used to be when I'm sitting there looking for content for the week, like I was just earlier today trying to figure out what I was going to talk about for these five days. I had five full days to fill. And without having any way to narrow that focus down, it just was overwhelming. So by designating "Mindset Fridays", I now have one day a week that I know doesn't even have to necessarily be 100% related to my main topic. I can look through a variety of things related to mindset and figure out how to apply them to doing your dailicast. So that's actually given me one less day to worry about as a whole. I still have to worry about finding it, but at least it gives me a narrow focus and I can probably use other resources on mindset to find topics to talk about.

You can actually do that for other days. You could lay out a different theme for every day if you want it, and by doing that, again, it narrows your focus down. Sometimes when we're trying to come up with things, there's just so much to choose from, we don't even know where to start and we're overwhelmed. By narrowing it down, you're able to say, "Okay, I need to find something related to this.", And by doing that you're probably going to have an easier time finding a topic to talk about.

And again, doing this topics may let you also stray slightly outside of your core topic, like with mindset. Mindset isn't directly related to flash briefings. It's something outside of it, but I can then relate it back and so that's kind of a cool way of doing it too.

Now themes don't just have to be daily, themes can also be weekly. Again, something I do here on the "Dailicast Moment". This week, my theme has been "finding content". So every day, at least in the four days except for "Mindset Friday", has been about finding content. Once I decided that I wanted to do a theme on finding content that gave me the ability to say, "Okay, well what different things do I want to talk about?" And then I was able to lay out topics for each of the four days. So it allows you to break down a topic into smaller bites and pretty much help you fill out your week pretty fast. So weekly themes I definitely recommend. It gives you something to talk about for the week. You can break it down and it's a lot easier than just trying to come up with a brand new fresh topic every single day.

Now it doesn't always have to last a whole week. If you noticed last week I actually split it. The first two days were on promoting your dailicast and different ways of doing that. The last two days were actually on organizing, both on working ahead and on how to organize your thoughts when you're doing this. So just because you're creating a weekly theme doesn't mean you can't have two weekly themes, right? One for the first part of the week, one for the second part of the week. And then in my case you have got "Mindset Friday", which is a whole different theme on Fridays. So work with the themes, use that to help you focus better, to bring better content and to be able to just kind of zero in on what do you want to talk about.

Now that's all for the "Dailicast Moment" for today. If you aren't already doing so, don't forget that the"Dailicast Moment" is available as an Alexa flash briefing skill. Just go to Amazon and search for "Dailicast Moment" and then click to enable it for your account. It'll then be available in of your Alexa devices and all you'll have to say is "Alexa, play my flash briefing" and you'll hear the "Dailicast Moment" as part of all of your other flash briefings. Also, don't forget if you don't have an Alexa device, you can still download the Alexa app on your smartphone and be able to listen to flash briefings through there as well. With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Have a great day!

This week on the "Dailicast Moment", host Chris Laning, talks about different ways you can find content for your dailicast. Today, he discusses a few other ways you can essentially get others to generate your content for you. He credits Peter Stewart from the "28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing" (https://www.thesmartspeakers.com/)  for some of the ideas.

 

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With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Continuing our discussion on finding content for your dailicast, I wanted to go over a few other ways that you might find content for your dailicast. Now first off, I've got to credit Peter Stewart. Now Peter Stewart has a flash briefing called the "28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing" in which he actually takes you through a very detailed process on how to build, create and maintain your daily flash briefing, your dailicast. One of the ideas that he suggested on his, and I do, I'm, I listen to his all the time. One of the ideas that he suggested was centering around going to industry events. Now I mentioned yesterday, you know, if you're at an industry event, maybe you want to grab one of the speakers or one of the organizers, do a quick interview and be able to use that on your dailicast.

But one of the ideas Peter suggested was also getting other attendees thoughts on it. So if a big announcement is made at this industry event, you know, obviously you want to try and go get the people involved, but why don't I just be, as you're running around, as you're talking to people, just say, "Hey, can I get your thoughts on what you think about this change?" And then just ask them and let them do it. Then you've got that content which you can put on the air. Essentially, as Peter points out, you're letting other people create the content for you. And if you do several of those, you could again do multiple episodes. You might get a week, maybe even two weeks, depending on the type of event that you go to. If there's a lot of announcements you might get an entire month. So that's one great way of finding content from others.

Another one is to actually tap your listeners. Now you can do this through voicemail or ask them to submit audio submissions. Or you can even have them email in questions if you want, but it's better to have their voice on it. And you can ask them for questions if they have questions for you or things that they want to know. You can even have them offer comments so maybe it's the other way around. You actually put out a question and ask them to send in their responses. And then you play those responses as part of your dailicast. Again, they're creating the content. You're just getting the ball rolling.

The final way that you could do it is through surveying listeners. This is actually similar to what I just mentioned, but what you could do is you could put up a survey through something like Survey Monkey (https://surveymonkey.com) asking people's opinions on a particular topic. And you give that some time for people to hear that and to be able to respond to that. But then you take that survey, you break it down and you report the results on one of your dailicasts or maybe two of your dailicasts depending on how complicated the survey is. So you sort of generated that content, but a lot of the comments, a lot of the feedback is coming from your listeners and it gives you something else to talk about on your dailicast that people will buy into, they'll listen to and they will get value from. And that's the important thing we want to bring value to our listeners.

Now, that's all for the "Dailicast Moment" for today. Remember, if you want to launch a dailicast, but you feel like you don't have the time to do all the necessary steps to make it happen because it can be a lot of work. Just go to https://Dailicast.com and check out the "Dailicast Concierge Service". Now, with that service, all you do is simply sit down for 30 to 45 minutes a week, record your five episodes and send it to me and I will take it from there. That's it. You record it. You send it to me. I got your back on the rest of it. Can you ask for anything better? You can find out more about that at https://Dailicast.com and don't forget, dailicast is spelled D-A-I-L-I-C-A-S-T.com With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Have a great day!

 

This week on the "Dailicast Moment", host Chris Laning, talks about different ways you can find content for your dailicast. Today, he revisits having guests and how that is a great way to generate several episodes. He also talks about seeking out shorter interviews with guests at industry events.   TRANSCRIPT:   With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Now this week we're talking about finding content for your dailicast. Another great way, and I know I've mentioned this just recently, but it bears repeating again, interviews. Getting guests for your dailicast is a great way to get content. Because it's not relying on you necessarily to come up with all the information. After a while, you only have so much information to give, particularly if you're relating it from your experiences. So bringing in other people with their experiences and the things that they've gone through does a couple of things. One, it brings that new information, fresh information to your dailicast. And, quite frankly, you're probably gonna learn something in the process as well.   So look to bring on guests, people that are in your industry, people that are in the area related to the topic that you're discussing on your dailicast. Bring them in, do interviews, and as I mentioned before, you might want to do a little bit longer interview and break it up into several episodes. You could theoretically get a week's worth of dailicasts out of just one 15 minute interview with someone. So think about doing that.   Another type of interview you might do is if you attend an industry event. Now this is assuming that your dailicast is surrounding a particular industry. Somewhere where you might be attending a convention or a summit or I don't know all kinds of names for this. Where you're going to like corporate events. There you may want to interview the key players there. See if you can pull them aside and get some interviews with them. So it's very similar to having guests on your podcast, but it's probably going to be a little bit shorter. You're not going to grab somebody as they come off stage from giving a speech and say, "Hey, can I ask you a few questions for, oh, I don't know, 20 minutes?"   Yeah, no. It's probably going to be short and sweet. You may only get one episode out of it, maybe two if you stretch it, but still it gives you more content that you wouldn't have yourself. And it has the added benefit of being more relevant because it was just something they just gave. So you're in many ways communicating news as well. Again, you can make multiple episodes out of these guests and these industry events and that's going to help you fill some of that content. And again, bring fresh new content to your listeners.   So think about doing interviews. Guests or industry events, doesn't matter. Get out there and get some interviews and bring them to your dailicast.   Now that's all for the "Dailicast Moment" for today. If you like "Dailicast Moment", I'd love for you to connect with me on social media. Now you can search for "dailicast" on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube. Or if you want to do it on Linkedin, go ahead and search for me, ChrisLaning, L-A-N-I-N-G directly. And once we're connected, please share and/or like "Dailicast Moment" so that your family and friends can find it too. With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Have a great day!

​This week on the "Dailicast Moment", host Chris Laning, talks about different ways you can find content for your dailicast. Today, he talks about searching for news stories in your topic area and using them, when appropriate, on your dailicast.

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With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com.

Now all this week we'll be talking about finding content for your dailicast. We've kind of gone through the whole process on how to build one and I've given you a lot of tips and tricks on what to do to get your dailicast up and running. We're going to kind of go back over trying to find content for your dailicast.

Today I'm going to talk about finding content in the news. Now what you want to do is you kind of want to keep track of news that are related to the topic that your dailicast is on. As you run across stories, you may find stories your listeners might appreciate. Now if that's the case y ou're going to want to summarize that story and then if appropriate, kind of give your brief take on it, no pun intended. Basically you want to digest that story and give it back to your listeners so that they're hearing it, but also getting your opinion on it.

Now, how do you go about finding these stories? Well, there's a couple different ways. One that I've always used has been Google news. You can go into Google, switch to news section, put in a few key terms related to your field and it'll bring you up a list of news stories. So it's kind of the hottest latest that's going on. You can then also create an alert there and that alert basically, they'll send you an email periodically letting you know when news stories are available. You may want to go with the daily summary so that at a certain point of the day you get a list of all stories that have come across that are related to the topic that you picked. Then you can scan through those stories and find ones that you want to turn into your flash briefing. Now another way you can do it is using RSS feeds. Now I've always used a site called Feedly.com and what you do is you go through and you find all these different websites and other types of resources on the Internet that serve up news stories related to your field. You then grab their RSS feed if they have one available so that you can get a feed of the stories they're putting up and you assemble it all one place like Feedly.com. That way you can go there and you can see kind of a running list of stories from multiple sites and then you can go and you can tag the ones that you like. You can move them, save them for later, read them whatever you want to do, but it's all right there for you to work with. And so those are two great ways to get the news.

Now understand doing a briefing on a news story is not appropriate for every dailicast that you do. Case in point, I've got three dailicasts going right now. One of them, this one "Dailicast Moment", it would be very appropriate to have news related to flash briefings to dailicasts, anything that's related to the voice first environment. Those would be great news stories to put on here and I will eventually get to doing all that. So "Dailicast Moment" is a perfect candidate for this type of content.

I then have the "Voice Over Match dailicast," which essentially takes the "Voice Over Match Podcast", which is an interview podcast I do with people in the voice over industry and everyday I'm dropping in clips from that week's podcast. Well, news isn't going to fit in very well there, but if something big were to come up, something very important to the voice over industry, there's nothing stopping me from opening up a dailicast with, "Hey, guess what, in the news yesterday, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Go over the story and then say, "Okay, anyway, here's today's clip from this week's podcast." So I can put news in there if it seems appropriate.

The other dailicast I have is called "Your Daily Psalm" in which everyday I am doing a dramatic read of one of the Psalms. Now, news may not be appropriate here because I just don't see too many news stories coming out about major changes or additions in the world of Psalms. So that is one where clearly it would not be right at all and that's fine. We're going to have ones where it's just not appropriate. So when you have your dailicast, think about whether news can play a part in it, and if it can go to those sites that I mentioned, start combing the news stories and bring that content to your listeners.

Now, that's all for the "Dailicast Moment" for today. If you like what you've been hearing on this dailicast, I would love it if you can leave us a review. Now if you're listening on the Amazon ecosystem, just head on over to Amazon and search for "Dailicast Moment" in the skills section. There, you can leave us a rating and review. If you found us elsewhere, the iTunes Store, Google Play Store, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, head over there and leave your rating and review there. That way we know that's where you were listening. And I would really appreciate that rating and review. With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Have a great day!

 

It's Friday...which means its time for "Mindset Friday" where we discuss mindset related topics around doing your dailicast. Today Chris talks about having that smile while you record. Even if you are having a really bad day you need to be genuinely...

It's Friday...which means its time for "Mindset Friday" where we discuss mindset related topics around doing your dailicast. Today Chris talks about having that smile while you record. Even if you are having a really bad day you need to be genuinely happy when you record. He offers tips on how to do that.

 

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With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Well today is Friday. Happy Friday everybody for getting here. But it also means it's "Mindset Friday" here on the"Dailicast Moment". That's where we talk about something related to the mindset you need when doing a dailicast.

Now I don't know if I can tell the future or not, but I actually came up with the ideas for this a few days ago, right? And here I am recording on a day and it's actually very appropriate. Because the thing I want to talk about today is smiling. That's sounding happy. That's sounding like your having a good time, that you're friendly and all is right with the world. And that's important because people, when they listen to your dailicast, want to feel comfortable. They want to feel happy. They don't want to hear somebody come on and just be very depressed and grumpy and you know, whatever. There might be a few people that would like a dailicast where somebody gets on and grumbles about something, I'm sure. But for the most part, people don't want that. They want to hear a pleasant sounding voice and somebody that's happy and upbeat.

And sometimes that's not always easy to do because maybe the day your record, you're just not feeling that. That's kind of been how it has been for me today. For a variety of reasons. I'm just not in a really good mood today, just not in a good place in general today. But yet today was the day that I needed to record. So I had to kind of think about it and come up with ways to really get myself up to be able to do the recording. And the thing is you have to kind of do that in a genuine way. People like to hear a smile and yes, people can hear a smile. That's something that's talked about in broadcast for years. Make sure you're smiling because people can hear a smile and if you're faking happiness, it just doesn't sound genuine.

So on a day like today, for me, even though I'm in a really bad mood, I've got to think of something that makes me happy. In this case, you know, just being able to be in front of the microphone and being with you guys makes me feel happy. It brings me up! You know and maybe I'm thinking about some things I'm supposed to be doing this weekend as well that are supposed to be fun and enjoyable and it's kind of putting me temporarily in a better mood. Like to think it'll do it all day, but I'm not holding out hope. But at least while I'm recording, I'm actually in a good mood. And so by envisioning that pleasant situation or even envisioning talking to someone that just makes you smile, that's going to help you sound so much better on the broadcast.

You know, there's a couple of people that I've run across in my life that, you know, I'm not even necessarily that good of friends with them, but there's just something about being in the same room with them that make you happy. So if you're having a thing where you're just down, think about having a conversation with them. Think about being in the same room with them. Just think about that light that shines in their faces and how they just seem happy all the time. And you can feel that way. Even if it's for short time, let's at least get through the recording. Because you need to always genuinely smile.

Like I could've got on here and, "Hi everybody. I'm having a great day today! Are you buying that?" No, you're not. But right now, I'm actually in a good place. Again, probably for a short period of time. But here I am sharing this with you, So keep that in mind whenever you do a dailicast even if you don't feel like doing it, if you have to record the day, I mean obviously we'll be best at all right, let's put it off till I'm in a better mood, but sometimes you don't have that choice. Take a moment. Think about a person that makes you happy or a situation that makes you happy or just some place where you feel good for a short period of time and then do your recording.

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Today on the "Dailicast Moment" Chris continues talking organization. He discusses both reasons why you should be organized and some tools for doing so. https://trello.com https://wunderlist.com   TRANSCRIPT:   With your "Dailicast Moment"...

Today on the "Dailicast Moment" Chris continues talking organization. He discusses both reasons why you should be organized and some tools for doing so. https://trello.com https://wunderlist.com https://monday.com

 

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With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com

Now yesterday we talked about working ahead. But here's another important thing that you need to know regarding your dailicast. You must be organized. If you try to do this and just sort of a eh, go with the flow type thing. It is not going to work. We need organization. As with any project, organization is key.

Now, as I talked about yesterday, you probably want to keep a list of topics that you can pull and use when you need ideas for your dailicasts. But along with that you should also keep a calendar and list out each of the episodes and as you know them, put them on the calendar along with the topic for that dailicast. Having that calendar is especially useful if you have guests. Because when you finish your interview with the guest and the guest says, "Yeah, do you know about when this will be on?" You can turn around and say, "Yes, it will be on August 3rd, 4th, and 5th." How impressed is your guest going to be if number one that's still like two or three weeks away, but you were able to know that date right off the top of your head. That looks organized. That looks professional.

Some other things you want to do is you want to set up a task list of things you need to do to publish each and every dailicast episode. What do I do? I have a task list that includes the following things. One, I have to come up with the topics and the points to cover. So I actually will open up a thing for the episode and I'll explain what tool I'm using and a little bit later, but I'll open it up and I'll say, "Okay, I want to come up with a list of points of what I want to talk about on this dailicast." Believe it or not, I don't write out a full script and perfrom it. I used to work that way years ago with podcasts, but now I just put together a list of points that I want to hit and I make that available. So when I go in to record, I just pull up that list, work from that list, put it away, pull up the next episode's list, work from that list. I don't have to stress about it, I don't have to think about it. I'll take that time in advance to organize the ideas.

So after I come up with the topics and points to cover. I then record the episode, as I mentioned yesterday, often in batches, usually a week's worth. Then I edit and finalize the episode. Then I schedule the audio episode on the dailicast host and the podcasting host. Then I get the episode transcribed. Then I turn it into an audiogram and put transcription titles in there so that people can read them when I put it up on social media, I then have to upload the audiogram video to social media and schedule those, and then I can alert the guest about the appearance. Now that's a lot of steps to do and believe me, my memory does not work that well, so that's why it's important to set up a task list, check them off as you do it. Because particularly when you're doing an episode every day, you may work a couple episodes ahead. You're not going to remember what you've done on this episode versus that episode. That's where the checklist comes in handy.

Alright, so a couple of sites that I've used to help organize. Number one, Trello, I mentioned that before. Trello is a place where you can set up lists with little cards on them and you can use it for organizing your ideas. Really great way to get organized and see things all at once. Another one I know some people use, I used to use it for like shopping lists and stuff, but Wunderlist, W-U-N-D-E-R-L-I-S-T, and it just allows you to make a checklist and then you just click off the items on the checklist. The only problem with Wunderlist is you have to kind of redo the list every time that you need it. It's not as easy to work with in that case and might be a lot more effort than it's worth. But it'll be up to you to look at that and decide for yourself.

The big one that I'm using right now and I got turned onto this by a colleague of mine is Monday.com. Now it definitely costs money, but having that organizational ability through Monday.com is awesome. You set up a board. You can set up rows for each episode you have coming up with columns including the date that it's going to be on, and then you can have columns for when you record it, when you schedule it, when you edit it, all those columns out there. You can even set up all these automations so that when you click that you're finished one of them, it automatically changes the status on the other ones so that you can have one column right there by the episode name and date telling you the current status. I can go in, I can open up that board and immediately know where in the process each one of my episodes is. So you might want to check that out , https://Monday.com

Now, that's all for your "Dailicast Moment" for today. If you aren't already doing so, don't forget the "Dailicast Moment" is available as an Alexa flash briefing skill. Just go to Amazon and search for "Dailicast Moment" and click to enable it for your account. It'll then be available on all your Amazon Alexa devices. All you have to say is, "Alexa, play my flash briefing" or "Alexa, what's in the news?" And you will hear "Dailicast Moment" as part of all your other flash briefing skills. And don't forget if you don't have an Alexa device, you're not out of luck. You can still download the Alexa app on your smartphone and be able to listen to flash briefings through there. With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com. Have a great day!