On today's "Dailicast Moment" Chris talks about the importance of working ahead, recording several episodes of your dailicast well in advance to avoid stress and last minute problems.
TRANSCRIPT:
With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com
Now, the first part of this week, I've been talking about promoting your dailicast. First I talked about getting out there and evangelizing and telling and teaching people what dailicasts are and convincing them that they should be jumping in and listening to dailicasts as well. Yesterday I talked about how if you reach out to guests, particularly people with their own dailicast or people that are popular in the field that your dailicast is on or even people with really engaging stories, how doing that brings more attention to your dailicast and hopefully more listeners.
Today, I'm going to go in a different direction. Today,I want to start talking more about managing your dailicast. In particular working ahead. Let me tell you, it is a terrible feeling to be sitting there the night before you have run out of dailicasts, trying to think of something to say. It really becomes stressful. The reality is there's times when your brain is flowing where you can come up with all kinds of great ideas, but when you have to come up with one, when you know you're down to the wire, sometimes you just freeze up and nothing comes out.
So we can avoid the stress by working ahead. Now, there's a couple of ways we can do this. First off, you should keep a running list of ideas. I particularly like to use Trello and I'll have a list of ideas that I can put in Trello. So driving down the road, an idea pops in my head, "Hey, I should do an episode on this." Boom. Well, I'm going to need to pull over. I mean you can't do it while you're driving. But you know, you write it down, you put it into Trello and the list is there. So when you do sit down to plan out what your episodes are going to be about, you can hit that list and you've already got ready made ideas.
Then you want to set it up and record your dailicast in batches. I'm not going to lie. That's what I'm doing right now. I am recording a week's worth of dailicasts right now. Now does that mean that if something big comes up that I want to tell you about tomorrow, I'm not going to bump it. No. I can always come back pop in another episode and do that. So if some big thing breaks tonight that I need to tell you about regarding dailicasts, trust me, I'm going to jump on. I'll record the episode and I'll push everything back. So go ahead and record your dailicast in batches. That gives you more time to edit it and to get them prepped the right way.
As I mentioned yesterday, you also want to use multi episode interviews. So if you do an interview, spread that out over a couple of episodes. You can build two, three, four episodes out of one single interview.
Now, what does getting ahead do for you? Well, first off, it keeps you from stressing daily about your dailicast. You're going to burn out quickly if every day you have to start your day, but gone. All right, I got to think of an idea for tomorrow's dailicast or even worse, you wake up in the morning, you don't have one and like, "I got to come up with an idea. I need to record it and I need to get it up!" We don't need that kind of stress. This is supposed to be something we're doing for fun and something we're doing to kind of promote our businesses, promote whatever it is we want to promote and get out there. This is a passion, so let's not make it a daily chore.
Second, it keeps you from putting out poor quality because you're rushing to get it up. Again, if you're coming with ideas last minute, you're trying to get it up and you just running at a time, your just going to start talking fast. You're not going to time to edit it, right? It's just going to sound terrible. Let's do it in advance and let's put out some really good quality. It allows you time to properly promote episodes including teasing. So if you do an interview with somebody that's really good, you can actually start talking about that and promoting that before it even goes up. Say, "Hey, next week on the dailicast, you're not going to want to miss this interview I did with So-and-so." It also gives your guests a chance to do the same thing, to promote their upcoming appearance, to build some buzz around it.
Another thing it does, it makes you feel you're in control of your dailicast, not the other way around. It is very easy when you have something you need to put out every single day for it to control your life. And we don't want that. We want to be the boss of this. We're going to take control, we're going to make it happen.
And finally, working ahead keeps you from having to sweat about it on vacation o r if you get sick. You wake up in the morning, you're just not feeling great, but you know you've got to get an episode out. What are you going to do? Are you going to get up and go, "Ooooohhh, with your dailicast? Oh, it don't feel ...." No, you're not going to do that. By working ahead and having several days ahead you can handle vacations, you can handle being sick and get back on track long before there's a problem.
So plan and schedule your dailicast and then also plan and schedule the social media so you can set it and forget it. Ideally you should be working several weeks ahead. Right now I'm probably working only about a week ahead. I'm trying to get to a point where I'll be working several weeks ahead. So if I go on vacation, which I'm planning to do for a week, I don't have to worry about it.
Now that's all for the "Dailicast Moment" for today. If you want to launch a dailicast but don't have the time to do it because there a lot of steps involved, just go to https://Dailicast.com and check out the Dailicast Concierge Service. In other words, make my problem. With that service you simply sit down for 30 to 45 minutes a week, record your five episodes and send it to us, and then we take it from there. Just think how easy that would be to work ahead. You can sit down and you could spit out a month's worth of ideas and send it to us and not even have to worry about it. Doesn't that sound appealing? So you can find out more about that at https://Dailicast.com. With your "Dailicast Moment" for today, I'm Chris Laning from NeighborhoodStage.com Have a great day!
