In my opinion, some of the best ways to learn about podcasting is through other podcasters. So today we have quite a few of our podcast family from Gaffin creative and Mike tech society is sharing all about their tips for podcasting. Hey, y'all welcome to the clocking in Podcast, the podcast for podcasters entrepreneurs and professionals making their way in the working world while building their own personal brand in the podcasting industry. I'm your host Haylee Gaffin, owner of Gaffin creative a podcast production company for creative entrepreneurs. If you're a podcaster, or even just dreaming about launching your own podcast someday, this show was built to help you merge your love of conversation, education and business. You can find resources, show notes and more for the clocking in podcast at Gaffin creative.com. Today's episode is brought to you by MIC CHECK society, a community that was built for podcasters who are looking to take their podcast from good to great, scale your podcasts, improve your processes and connect with your listeners through our educational trainings, our private members only community and our monthly calls. If you're ready to join us, you can head over to Mic check society.com and enroll today. And you can get $10 off per month with the code podcast. Now let's clock in and get to work. If you're new around here, my name is Haylee Gaffin. And I am the owner of Gaffin. Creative and the creator of MIC CHECK society, a community for podcasters. Now if I had to share one piece of advice for brand new podcasters, it would be to only go about this if you're passionate. If you're passionate about podcasting, everything else will fall into place. Now I do believe that there is a lot of value in podcasting, for your business for a career for money, for sponsorships for setting yourself up as an expert. All of that is very valuable and trustworthy, solid goals. But if you don't have the passion behind podcasting, you will fall flat. So make sure before you get into podcasting, or maybe if you're in it, and you can't figure out why you're not enjoying it, it might be that you're not passionate about it. So what I would recommend, if you're in that place is to find why you got started, find that passion again and start creating the content that allows you to be passionate content like this is what is passionate for me. I love to collaborate and create community and find ways for other podcasters to share their knowledge and their expertise, but also highlight their voices and highlight what they do on their podcast. So make sure that with every single one of these podcast hosts that you hear today, you head over to their podcast, you give them a listen, you download their episodes, and you share their podcast with someone who would really appreciate it and love it. Now let's get into all of their advice.
Hey, my name is Joy, Michelle, and I host the call to both podcast. My advice for you actually comes from something that I did wrong when I was starting my podcast journey almost two years ago. And that is I waited a really long time to start my podcast. And it looked productive because I was in a learning phase and an absorbing phase where I was trying to get my ducks in a row and plan and forecast what I could do to make sure that my show was successful. And this was about one to two years. And it really started to become a way that I was actually avoiding doing a hard thing and trying something new. And I was really playing it safe and staying where I was comfortable by not starting sooner. So my advice to you really comes from the idea that there are some things that you will not know by doing just a little bit more research or listening to one more instructional podcast or reading one more book or watching one more webinar, there's a certain point where you know in your gut that it is time to simply start. Because when you start you get to actually see what your audience likes, and what episodes and topics they're resonating with most and so much more. So my advice to you is simply start and let go of the idea, the false idea and the false notion that you can research and plan your way to a perfect podcast, when really the perfect podcast for you comes through the cultivation of starting and creating a real podcast. So I really want to encourage you to be brave and start before you actually feel ready. Because you know what's annoying even After a year or two of researching and planning for my show, I still didn't feel ready and I still had to shake off the nerves and figure out how I was going to present on a podcast for myself. And all of that research didn't really help me get to where I am today. It's really the doing that made me the podcast host that I am today. Hey,
everyone, it is a co Canady here host of The Independent Business Podcast by honey book. And the key piece of advice that I would like to share with anybody who has a podcast or is thinking about podcasting is consistency. One thing I've learned is that podcasting, it is a long game. And if you are wanting to see results, you need to be consistent in showing up. And just remember that you are providing such amazing value. So center your audience, first and foremost, especially in times when things get harder, you're not seeing the results that you would like to see, keep reminding yourself that you are here to provide and make an impact to your audience. So that is my main key takeaway. And another thing too, that I have just learned from my experience with podcasting is use the learnings, lean into your data, use those learnings, watch previous interviews to fuel that and use that to fuel you to better yourself, right. So that's something that I do leading to my data to refine my podcast strategy, leaning into my data of how I want to be a better interviewer. Really be open to it. So even if you're not seeing the results that you would like don't don't use that as a way to tie it to your worth. Use it as a way to fuel you of how you can improve your podcast so that it can be what you want it to be. So I think those would be my two major takeaways.
Hey, friends, my name is Bree and I am the host of the Thrive blogger podcast. My advice is that you record video, I did not do this at the beginning. Although I've been recording, doing podcasts for several years now before video was as hot as it is now. But that is my advice. Always record a video and then repurpose everything. Make sure you're making clips of your videos and putting them on all channels, reels, Facebook, YouTube shorts, all of the places, post your podcast over on YouTube. Take your content and run with it make it spread as far as it can. Because if you're putting all that effort into an amazing podcast, make sure you're reaching as many people as possible. Oh, hey,
I'm Kiana host of Kiana Marie weekly, and my best advice is to truly ask yourself, What's the point of starting this podcast? How will I be serving my clients? Will it help me increase my revenue and support my long term business or lifetime goals? I truly believe long form content, like podcast episodes, helps increase brand awareness builds trust with future clients and educates current clients. I love my weekly podcast episodes. So I can introduce you to my real life, friends, mentors and influencers, not the kind of influencers that persuade you to buy or random things, but to encourage you to truly be the best version of yourself while you grow the business and life of your dreams. My advice to anyone thinking about starting a podcast is always rooted in what are you truly passionate about. If you're thinking about starting a podcast to simply make more money, just like any business, I would advise you to take it slow and consider becoming a guest speaker on other podcasts before you take the jump to host your own podcast and talk about investing in your podcast, right? That's going to be an expense. And I definitely advise you to kind of test the waters before you get started. If you're passionate about making an impact, sharing your story and creating a stage for others to voice their truth. Podcasting truly is the long game for your business. I encourage you to go out there and live life, make connections, build friendships and create something worth sharing. I may be intuitive, but I'm totally not a psychic. But I believe that everyone has something to say thanks to Haley with gap and creative and her incredible editing team. I have a podcast I'm really proud of let's just say without my Podcast Producer, I wouldn't have a podcast. Investing in a producer is the way to go. i
My name is Molly Cahill and I'm the host of the holistic marketing simplified podcast. It's really exciting to be recording this because I just finished up 52 weeks or one full year of podcasting. So my advice is to lean on one on one connections. This is the advice I give all of my clients and students I run a social media management agency as well as have a program called holistic marketing hub for health and wellness professionals. And the thing I always teach when it comes to social Media Marketing is really the same thing I would teach when it comes to promoting your podcast, which is, again, leaning on one on one connections and networking. I think so often we get into this online business space, and we just think, oh, we'll create a podcast, and we'll put it out there. And you know, yeah, maybe we'll make sure that title title is like, SEO optimized, and all these people are gonna find it, and it's gonna be great, and they're gonna leave me reviews. And then maybe we go on a review campaign where we're mass emailing our lists, and I'm not saying any of that as bad. But I will say what I did in the beginning that I think really helped was, I reached out individually to a lot of people like literally one on one in my DMs and asked them to leave me review, and most of them did, and it was, I was able to get some reviews, right when I first started pretty quickly, this is reminding me that I need to go do that again. And the other thing is, early on, I had some guests on my podcast, who I knew, would be willing to share their episode with their audiences email list, and also collaborate on Instagram so that the podcast can be shared on that person's Instagram. So again, that one on one connection really helped me to get in front of a lot more people by leaning on my warm network. And then lastly, how I've leveraged the power of one on one connections is putting up polls on my Instagram stories with various topics for people to vote on on the podcast. Yes, I have done some more generic, like question boxes of what would you like to hear on the podcast? But I've also done really specific like, polls of like, Okay, would you like to hear about topic A, B, or C. And then when I create an episode around one of those topics, I'll go back to my Instagram Stories archive, and find the people who voted for A, B or C way back when you can go back and see who's voted on the poll, even if the story is not happening more in the archive. So I would go back and see who voted for that specific topic. And then DM them say, hey, a couple of weeks ago, you voted that you wanted to hear about XYZ on the topic. And here is the link to the episode I wanted to know wanted to let you know that I recorded it. And again, I know this kind of thing takes time, but it's really that one on one. If you can serve one person really well, then they're going to tell their friends, and everything builds that way. So that is my advice. I'm
Val of creative income care. And my advice is to not strive for perfection from day one, I am an Enneagram, one recovering perfectionist, and I thought that I needed to have everything scripted down to the word. And I thought that it needed to be the best it could be. Because if people aren't impressed by the first few episodes, then it's never going to grow, right. But that's just not the truth, we have to start somewhere. And I honestly think that when you are a podcaster hearing your natural thoughts and the way that things naturally come out of your mouth is actually a good thing. Because that's a part of who you are in real life. Right? Like you don't script out your responses to people in real life. And especially if you're interviewing guests, I think that when you have everything scripted, it can feel it can feel almost forced. But if you just think about being in a normal conversation in normal life, that's not how it feels, right. And so I think we just kind of like need to release some of the pressure and allow ourselves to just be ourselves and to grow to to get better over time. And to be okay with, we have to have a crappy first draft, right, we have to start somewhere. And the more we do it, the more that we have these conversations, the better we're gonna get, the quicker we're going to be on our feet. And, and we have, we have to have that growth process. And we can't just jump ahead to perfection. It just doesn't work that way. Hey, I'm
Stephanie at the organized Flamingo host of organized and productive the podcast. And my advice would be to somewhere somehow keep track of all of the podcast episodes that you're doing. I keep a Google spreadsheet, but you can use whatever method works for you. Basically a place where you can always reference back on the episodes that you've done. So you know when you've talked about who was your guest, you can go and get as fancy as you want it to be. But if anything, at least you will have one reference point where you can go back when you're having a brain freeze when sometimes you're just not sure what direction you want to go with the story with your episode with your guest. And this is just a really great place for you to look back and see what you've already done so that it can guide you towards the future. sure of your of your podcasts and your episode that has saved me so much time and would encourage all podcasters to do. Again, it doesn't have to be super fancy you just somewhere you can reference all of your past episodes. Enjoy the process and happy podcasting.
Hey, I'm
Candace Coppola, host of the power and purpose podcast. And my advice is to not use a script when you're recording your podcast. Now, hear me out. I know why you have a script. And that's because you want to be prepared. There are points you want to make for your podcast. And you want to make sure that every single person listening to it gets the maximum out of it. You want them to take action. You want them to walk away from your episode, feeling whatever it is you want them to feel. But a script can make you sound just scripted. And I think that the more you begin to podcast without a script, the more authentic your podcasts will feel. And also, the more confident you'll become in podcasting, in sharing your expertise, your story, or whatever it might be that your podcast is about. Now, when I started my podcast, I definitely had a script. I tried to read it. So it didn't sound like I was reading from a script, but I was. And then over the years, I started to loosen up and the less I relied on my script, the better my episodes got. But I do show up to my podcast recordings with some type of outline. And the outline is super loose, there are points I want to make, I might break it down into like five tips and then a few bullet points under each. If I want to mention any statistics, I usually write those down to so I don't butcher it or misquote a statistic. But for the most part, just like I'm doing right now, I wing it, but I wing it coming from a place of a lot of knowledge and expertise and having very much thought about what I wanted to say before I set it. So that's my advice to you, my friend, whether you're an OG podcaster, like me, or you're just getting started an outline is really all you need. Trust in yourself, and trust that with every single podcast, you record without a script, you're going to get better and better.
Hi there. I'm Dan Moyer and I host the focus photographers podcast. If you are just starting out podcasting, if you have a couple of episodes out, the best advice I could give you is to keep showing up pushing record and getting your voice out there into the world. It is really easy to get lost in the minutiae of producing a podcast everything from where's my podcast hosted to do I do solo episodes to do I do guest episodes, where do I find guests? What do I talk about? What's my intro music, all these things will come later as you keep putting the reps in. As you keep showing up as you keep recording your voice and getting it out there into the world. First of all, you have a story and you have experienced that needs to be shared, the more that you can just get practice sharing that the better we're all going to be because we need to hear your story. I'm reminded of this parable, this story of a ceramics professor, a pottery professor who shows up on the first day of class and divides his class into two separate groups. This group over here on the left, he says at the end of the semester, you are going to be graded purely on the quantity of tea pots that you make to the group over here on the right, he says you need to make one perfect tea pot to get an A that's it just one perfect teapot. And his methods were very simple. On the end of the semester, on the very last day, he brought in bathroom scales. And if you had 50 pounds worth of tea pots for the quantity group, you got an A if you got if you had 40 pounds worth of tea pots you got to be and so on. For the quality group you had to produce one perfect tea pot. Well, something interesting happened on that last day he found that the individuals who were in the quantity group ended up producing more perfect teapots, because as they were going through creating a mass quantity of things. They were learning from their mistakes. They were learning techniques, they were getting more exposure to what happens when the clay is too wet and all these different things. They took their experiences and learn from them and made it better versus the quality group who was trying to create one perfect teapot. They got stuck on theorizing about what the perfect teapot was and trying to just figure it out from a intellectual perspective rather than using both their hands and their experience and thinking about their experience to create better teapots. Thinking about doing the thing is not doing the thing. planning on doing the thing is not doing the thing. Getting guests on your calendar is not doing the thing, showing up each day and doing the thing is doing the thing. Keep pushing record because we're here for it.
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