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How to Start an Interview Podcast
Lessons from interviewing top marketers and podcasters.
About a year ago, around the start of April, I had the crazy idea of interviewing authors about writing their first book.
Maybe it was because I was surrounded by people like Nicolas Cole, Jamie Russo, Ben Putano, Arvid Kahl and Corey McComb. These were the first five people I pitched to, and they accepted the invitation. More about that later.
With the first twelve guests, however, I didn’t record the audio in good quality to turn it into a podcast episode. Something I regret now.
Afterwards, I did record fourteen episodes and did two more interviews that didn’t get published. One because my guest didn’t want to do a face-to-face (Zoom) talk, and the other one… because I messed up-I tried to record directly in Audacity and Anchor, but neither worked.
Anyway, in 28 interviews with marketers, customer experts and other great podcast hosts-not claiming I’m that great myself- I’ve learned a few interesting things about conducting interview podcasts.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Finding guests
- Preparing for the interview
- What to do during the interview
