Influential Voices of Authority Find Time For Your Podcast – PTC 372
Planning and scheduling is critical to keep all of your plates in the air. To find time to produce an episode each week, you need to be organized and follow your calendar.
There are three tips you can use to make your week more efficient.
PERFECTION
First, stop trying to be perfect. Get the best show produced in the given amount of time you have allotted to the podcast.
If you only have 3 hours a week to produce your show, make it fit into three hours. Stop trying to edit out every "um" and stumble.
Perfection is the enemy of done. Shipped is better than perfect. Get it recorded and get it out to the world.
FIND TIME OR MONEY
There is a saying that goes, "You can spend time or you can spend money."
If you have more time than money, by all means figure out how to do it yourself. Go learn how to do it and save the money.
However, if you can spend the time making more money than you would spend hiring someone to do the task for you, hire it out and go sell something.
Let's say it takes you three hours to produce and publish your show after you record it. In that same three hours, you could conduct two discovery calls and land one client.
If it costs you $100 to hire a producer for your podcast episode and the client brings in $500, stop spending time producing. Hire it out and use your time creating revenue.
HONOR THE SCHEDULE
Finally to find time to produce your show, you need to honor the schedule.
Budget your time just like you would budget your money. There are only so many hours in the week. Be deliberate as you decide how to spend those hours.
Schedule the week before it begins. Then, honor the schedule.
It won't be perfect when you first start out. You will find things pop up at the last minute. You will need to decide how important those things really are.
As you get better at budgeting the time, you will start to build in time for life to happen and things to pop up. But you won't get better unless you start.
PANDEMIC
The pandemic hit right as Robin Fejes was considering a podcast launch. We talk to her today to lay out a launch plan. How can she find time in the week? Where can she get tech help? How can she use her podcast to drive her non-profit?
Enjoy the conversation.
FIND TIME FOR COACHING
Big thanks to Robin Fejes for joining us on the show today. I hope you gained a few nuggets from our conversation that will help you find time for your podcast this week.
If you don't have a mentor who can take your hand and walk you every step of the way, go to www.PodcastTalentCoach.com/apply, click the button and apply to have a chat with me. We will develop your plan and see how I can help and support you to achieve your podcast goals.