Welcome to Podcasting Tech, a podcast that equips busy
Speaker:entrepreneurs engaged in podcasting with proven and cost effective
Speaker:solutions for achieving a professional sound and appearance. I'm
Speaker:Matthew Passi, your host and a fifteen year veteran in the podcasting
Speaker:space. We'll help you cut through the noise and offer guidance on software and
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Speaker:podcast platform, and join us on this exciting journey to unlock the full
Speaker:potential of your podcast. Gonna take you
Speaker:up to New England and chat with Stefan Lubinski. He is
Speaker:the creator at Audience Builders, and you can find more about him at
Speaker:stephanlubinski.com. Well, of course, I'll have a note, a link to all
Speaker:that in the show notes. He's a coach, consultant, and producer.
Speaker:Stefan, thank you so much for joining us this morning. Good morning. Good to be
Speaker:here. Thanks for having me. Oh, it it's my pleasure. So you have an interesting
Speaker:background. You didn't really start in the the media role per se. How did
Speaker:you find yourself in podcasting? Yeah. It's funny
Speaker:because I did we we met through, through an online podcasters
Speaker:group, and and I listed that I was an accidental podcast
Speaker:producer. So my background has been in sales pretty much my
Speaker:entire professional career ranging from restaurants to real estate,
Speaker:technology to television, all kinds of, of different
Speaker:industries, always in business development. One of those experiences
Speaker:was for a company that owned two television networks and we
Speaker:were the first social television network and Mark Burnett was an
Speaker:investor. Now unfortunately, U2 TV didn't make it,
Speaker:as many startups that I've been involved with, although I don't think that it's my
Speaker:fault. But, yeah, it didn't make it, but at that time it was a
Speaker:hot television startup and I got an opportunity one day
Speaker:to actually take a producing role. We had lost somebody and the
Speaker:CEO was like, who I'd known for many years, and he knew I
Speaker:was a creative and he was like, guess what? You're now the producer of this
Speaker:show. And I had no experience in it, and it was television,
Speaker:and it was an interview format. And it was, it was a pay to play
Speaker:format. It's called a buy on show. So the guests literally pay to be
Speaker:on television and to be interviewed as a media asset and a
Speaker:kind of a PR ladder. So I did that, I loved it, I really
Speaker:enjoyed that, and then many years later as I started to wind down
Speaker:my sales leadership roles, I decided
Speaker:I wanted to do more, creative things that help,
Speaker:my clients kind of grow their business, and I landed on,
Speaker:using a show, whether that's a limited series in some cases,
Speaker:whether that's, quote, unquote, a podcast,
Speaker:as a relationship acquisition vehicle for my clients. So early stage
Speaker:startups that are looking to be more visible and credible to have c suite relationships
Speaker:that they don't have, we used, a thought leadership platform
Speaker:as a means to establish those relationships. And so that became so successful
Speaker:for one of my clients that it literally turned into a brand.
Speaker:Rising Stars is now the most recognizable media brand in the Medicare
Speaker:stars space. We're invited to speak at conferences. We now do
Speaker:live events, and next year, we'll look to get into I
Speaker:don't wanna call it credentialing, but, industry education.
Speaker:So all started from just a a strategy to help a client
Speaker:be more visible and has now turned into a brand with three legs to that
Speaker:stool of of live events, education, and and the show.
Speaker:Very, very cool. Congratulations on all that. I I wanna go back to what you
Speaker:were talking about relationship building through thought leadership and and this idea
Speaker:of pay to perform or pay to play or pay to appear.
Speaker:You know, so many podcasters, they get in this and they immediately look at
Speaker:downloads as their biggest metric. And I remember when I
Speaker:first started with clients and podcast production, one of my first clients was like, listen,
Speaker:if people listen to this, great, but having this podcast is gonna open a lot
Speaker:of doors for me and, you know, at first their target really was the guest,
Speaker:not so much the audience. Why is that
Speaker:a successful strategy for some? Because it's an instant payoff.
Speaker:Because with with when you're doing content for business,
Speaker:whether you're a B2B, whether you're a Fortune 500, or whether you're a solopreneur,
Speaker:the payoff for content to business, unless you're selling like an
Speaker:e commerce product, but if you're a realtor, a lawyer, a
Speaker:consultant, a coach, the amount of time it's gonna take
Speaker:to go from content to new business is a long tail.
Speaker:You not only have to build up an audience, you have to have content
Speaker:in front of them multiple times. Some people say seven to
Speaker:eight times, some people say 12 to 18 times before they really get a sense
Speaker:of familiarity, trust, and want to execute on a call to action.
Speaker:So, if you use a podcast
Speaker:for your clients, if you're a producer or if if you're
Speaker:a podcaster thinking about how can you make money with your skills,
Speaker:being able to explain to whether they're a consultant,
Speaker:a coach, an executive in sales, all of those people wanna be
Speaker:connected with the movers and shakers in their space.
Speaker:So if you can create a well enough produced
Speaker:program and if you can ask smart enough questions,
Speaker:you will find that most of the time subject matter experts will say yes.
Speaker:And now all of a sudden my client has a relationship with that
Speaker:C suite target. And I wanna be really clear for
Speaker:those of you that are like, wait, so you're saying these guests are
Speaker:more the target than worrying about the content for the audience and the answer
Speaker:is yes. And not only that, what I would tell you is when I sit
Speaker:down with my clients I say, because I do a 10
Speaker:episode year for a client, like that's a season, So
Speaker:I'll say, who are the 10 people in your industry that will move the
Speaker:needle for you? Whether that's as a joint venture, a partner, a prospect, whatever
Speaker:it may be. And so they list out, these are the 10 people I'd like
Speaker:to have a relationship with or these are the 10 people I'd like to strengthen
Speaker:the relationship with. They know me, but we're, you know, we're not friends.
Speaker:And so, yeah, we'll build the episodes around those
Speaker:targets and we'll we'll get a hold of them and say, hey, listen, we're
Speaker:doing an episode about and of course whatever it was about is tailored to what
Speaker:they do well. And, we know that you're crushing it in that
Speaker:space or that strategy or whatever, and we'd love to have you come
Speaker:on. And it's rare that guests say
Speaker:no. And when they do say no, it's typically scheduling. It's
Speaker:not, no, I don't wanna be on your on your program. Well, so that
Speaker:that's interesting because I did run into lots of clients and lots of other podcasters
Speaker:who who had that route. Right? They wanted to land big name guests on
Speaker:their show as a way to network and grow their, their
Speaker:relationship and their community and and, you know, gain access to people who might not
Speaker:chat with them. But sometimes and and it's rare, but sometimes they were
Speaker:often hit with the, well, how big is your show? What's your audience like?
Speaker:And and so what do you do in that situation? Yeah. So first of all,
Speaker:there's a few things. Number one, I think sometimes people there's a
Speaker:disconnect between when I say the people they're gonna move your,
Speaker:needle, they don't say, oh, yeah. If I knew Gary Vaynerchuk, that would move my
Speaker:needle. Right? So they're not telling me famous people or
Speaker:authors or, you know, somebody that
Speaker:is commanding a million dollars from the stage. They're listing
Speaker:senior vice presidents, CMOs, and CEOs of the companies
Speaker:they do business with. In this case, these are large insurance companies.
Speaker:So look, getting to a senior executive at an
Speaker:insurance company, spend an hour with you, sure, it is a challenge, but again, we
Speaker:position our show as the leading thought leadership platform in
Speaker:Medicare stars so people literally do wanna be on it. The answer
Speaker:to how do you deal with that, number one, don't be over aspirational,
Speaker:you need to ladder up. So you start with
Speaker:a guest that's just happy to be able to tell their story and to be
Speaker:able, so that you can give that back to them and package it up and
Speaker:they can use that for their own benefit. And then you leverage
Speaker:the fact that you had a guest with credibility that, you know, hey we had
Speaker:so and so on from Patagonia and now we'd love to have you on mister
Speaker:CEO. So you do have to kind of earn your bones and level up and
Speaker:not start with too aspirational of a
Speaker:target. So yeah. And then
Speaker:what do you do after that conversation? Right? So you you you the
Speaker:person agrees to come on, you talk to them, you ask good questions, you have
Speaker:a good conversation, you release the episode, But then how do you really
Speaker:convert that experience into a long lasting fruitful
Speaker:relationship for yourself? Are there things to do and avoid? I'm I'm
Speaker:not I don't coach listen. My clients are sophisticated,
Speaker:successful, either 7 figure earners or 6 figure earners,
Speaker:so they know how to take a relationship and continue to nurture it. I they
Speaker:don't need my coaching for that. But what I would caution you is this. You
Speaker:do not use this strategy to bring on a
Speaker:guest and then immediately sell your services. So I'm gonna say that
Speaker:again for the people in the back of the room. If you are thinking, oh,
Speaker:I love this idea, I'm a company, I sell this widget, I'm gonna
Speaker:bring on prospective customers of this widget under the guise
Speaker:of being a guest and telling me what great stuff they're doing and then I'm
Speaker:gonna turn around and whether it's at the end of the show, whether it's the
Speaker:next day, whether it's the next week, I'm like, oh, by the way, did you
Speaker:check out my widget and my thingy and my whatever? That's
Speaker:not the way to go because then the sense is, oh, this wasn't really
Speaker:about either my expertise or establishing a relationship, this was really like,
Speaker:oh, you just wanted to like get an opportunity to sell me your thing.
Speaker:So what I would argue is the best way to use this is what I
Speaker:call at the beginning, a relationship acquisition vehicle. It
Speaker:establishes a relationship, you nurture that relationship, deliver
Speaker:value to that relationship over time, and
Speaker:then you will typically find those people are asking to do business with
Speaker:you or referring business to you. So you don't need to, quote, unquote,
Speaker:sell or or convert, if that makes sense. No. And I I
Speaker:think it makes a ton of sense. And so all this is done under your
Speaker:audience builders brand. Right? Yeah. I mean, I I haven't even
Speaker:trademarked that, but, yes, I, let
Speaker:me back this up. I have not marketed for any of my business. I
Speaker:have been fortunate enough that I don't need a lot of clients.
Speaker:I'm not looking to be a wealthy person. I think life gets more complicated when
Speaker:you're I see my clients who make a lot of money, and I don't want
Speaker:that in life. So I've been lucky enough that people have
Speaker:referred business to me, and and and so that's how I get my clients, I
Speaker:don't really have to go out there and market per se. That said,
Speaker:I wanna move to a new phase for my business. I'm really interested in doing
Speaker:group coaching. I wanna reach out and have more
Speaker:people that aren't looking to spend what I charge clients and businesses
Speaker:to learn about how they can do less selling and help more people
Speaker:buy by building audiences of prospects. So I came up with a brand
Speaker:called Audience Builders and in 2025 my goal is to launch Audience
Speaker:Builders Live in Q1 and that will be a free
Speaker:weekly live Zoom call for 6 figure service
Speaker:professionals who would like to leverage content to build an audience to grow
Speaker:their business to come in every week, ask whatever question they want. It's gonna be
Speaker:an ask me anything format. And first come first
Speaker:serve, ask whatever question or what's keeping you stuck or what strategy
Speaker:is not working and I'll give you my best and that's it. Every week it'll
Speaker:be free for as many people that can log in and get their question
Speaker:in. And information on that will all be at
Speaker:stephanlebinski.com? Yeah, absolutely. If you go to
Speaker:stephanlebinski.com or if you just, if you're ever interested in that, if you go there
Speaker:you can contact me or send me an email stephanstephanlebinski dot com and say, Hey,
Speaker:have you started up Audience Builders? And by the way, if anybody's listening to this
Speaker:and wants to just book thirty minutes of my time, you can just go to
Speaker:my website and you can book thirty minutes of my time, no charge, and I'm
Speaker:happy to listen to what it is you're trying to get done and and give
Speaker:you my 2ยข. So before we move on to the questions I like to ask
Speaker:everybody, one thing you brought up in the very beginning that could be a sore
Speaker:spot for podcasters that I'd be curious to get your take on is you had
Speaker:you were working for this business that was doing right to pay to appear, you
Speaker:know, model. What are your thoughts on that in podcasting? Is
Speaker:that something you encourage, discourage, work with? I I love
Speaker:it. I love the model, because the client is getting what they want.
Speaker:So let's understand what the client wanted in the television model. We
Speaker:had a television network with about 15,000,000 subscribers
Speaker:in cable and OTA over the air and what they wanted
Speaker:wasn't as much about getting in front of the audience with their content,
Speaker:that's part of it. What it really was about is having a professionally produced
Speaker:package that they can use over and over, that they
Speaker:can use on their social, that they can send to their list, that they can
Speaker:cut up into pieces. And so that's really what they're getting. And so it's the
Speaker:same thing for you podcasters that are listening, you podcast producers that are listening, which
Speaker:is, you know, clients, if you're gonna
Speaker:do the model of I've got a pay per play interview podcast,
Speaker:what clients want are two things. One, yes. They would love to have some reach,
Speaker:and they would love that that reach has impact. That is the audience that
Speaker:you have is the audience that they speak to. That's obvious. So the
Speaker:bigger size you have and the more engaged that audience is,
Speaker:not just downloads. If you can show that you've got an engaged community online, whether
Speaker:that's a Facebook group or Discord or whatever it may be, but you have an
Speaker:engaged community, not just anonymous downloads
Speaker:that you really can't even describe much about the demographics to the client. And the
Speaker:other is really a professional production and really smart questions.
Speaker:That is, were they able to tell a story in a way
Speaker:that they have not been able to do before and they were able to articulate
Speaker:their value in such a more creative,
Speaker:smarter way that came off exactly as they wanted and
Speaker:they're not the one They're being asked, right? They're not the ones getting
Speaker:in front of a camera and going, Hi, we're Acme Corp and we're awesome because
Speaker:of these reasons. That's lean out, nobody, that's an advertisement, that's when we'd get up
Speaker:and go to the bathroom and leave. You're being asked like, Hey, you guys invented
Speaker:the yada yada thing in my jiggy and that influenced the
Speaker:whole industry, that's amazing, tell us about that. And so now there's a
Speaker:story, there's credibility for the client, if you've got production value and it looks
Speaker:good and you've produced it well and you've edited it well, this is an
Speaker:asset for them that they can't create or if they could create it's gonna cost
Speaker:them money. So that's why it's valuable. So if you have a
Speaker:big enough reach or if you produce such a glossy,
Speaker:beautiful piece of content with such great editing and on screen
Speaker:graphics and everything else, yeah, people might be willing,
Speaker:to pay for that. In my model with my clients, we're not doing that. We're
Speaker:not we're not asking the senior vice president of Aetna to pay to be on
Speaker:the Rising Stars show. Oh, no. And and I wasn't trying to accuse or
Speaker:or imply that. I was just, it's just such a hot button topic. If you
Speaker:often bring up the idea of pay to blame podcasting, you'll get a deluge
Speaker:of comments from people, most of them against it, a few for,
Speaker:and it's just such a hot button issue. Are the ones that aren't making probably
Speaker:aren't making money in podcasting, to be candid, and they're jealous of people
Speaker:that are making money in some way because here's the thing, if you
Speaker:are open about the model, if you're honest with
Speaker:clients, yeah, but that's the case with anything, doesn't matter what your
Speaker:business If you're dishonest then that's shitty. Oops. Maybe you bleeped that. I don't know
Speaker:what your podcast is like. So, but Well, like,
Speaker:I've I've been approached I've been invited to be on a podcast. So someone
Speaker:reached out, hey. We love your insight blah blah blah. Please come on the podcast.
Speaker:Great. We'd love to do it. You know, fill up the thing blah blah blah.
Speaker:Then the next thing I do is I get an invoice. Says, alright. If you'd
Speaker:like to appear, it's blah blah blah. It's like, you asked me. Like,
Speaker:one, disclose that right up front, and two, make sure you're disclosing it to your
Speaker:audience as well. That's bait and switch. And by the way, we didn't so in
Speaker:in the television model again so I don't do the buy on model for podcasting
Speaker:and I have no problem with it. If you're doing it out there great, good
Speaker:for you, that's awesome. By the way it just means you're delivering enough value
Speaker:that a client is willing to pay to be interviewed on your show.
Speaker:It's as simple as that. But I will tell you, Matt, what you just said
Speaker:is so accurate and I've seen it in television as well where
Speaker:the prospecting is an associate producer, air quotes,
Speaker:associate producer reaches out and says, Hey, we've been following your stuff on
Speaker:social or whatever and we'd love to have you on as a guest. You get
Speaker:all pumped up and you're on the and the next thing you know you get
Speaker:this separate communication that's like, just so you know, there is a cost in order
Speaker:for us to deliver your meetup package and your this and your that and that's
Speaker:bait and switch. And what we did we were talking to PR agencies
Speaker:and we were saying, Look if you've got clients that need to ladder up the
Speaker:media ladder which means they need to kind of prime the
Speaker:pump, they need something that says, Hey look we were on America Up
Speaker:Close on Family Net TV, check it out, they've got something to
Speaker:send out to the other stations. So then when Good Morning
Speaker:Poughkeepsie sees it and says, oh, that's not
Speaker:bad. They're not bad on air. Those were decent questions. You know what? Put that
Speaker:in my Rolodex. I might call for them. And so that was the purpose. That's
Speaker:why the clients paid for it, because and by the way, nobody else was calling
Speaker:them to do free TV. So this is paid media that you then
Speaker:hope, turns to earned media.
Speaker:Yeah. No. I I love that explanation. Love the way you describe it. And, you
Speaker:know, my past life when I was a radio producer, often when we were
Speaker:looking for experts, you know, one advantage would be if you presented
Speaker:someone who, you know, had good opinions where I was topical to what we were
Speaker:talking about. But also if you said they've appeared on such and such, it's like,
Speaker:great. I know they won't freeze up. I know they won't give single word answers.
Speaker:Right? Like, I know they'll be engaging for the audience and so yeah. I love
Speaker:the way you put that. The the paid paid for appearance can
Speaker:work, but, as as you said, be honest, be
Speaker:upfront, disclose it, don't bait and switch. That's terrible, and that's giving people
Speaker:who are doing this very well and very successfully and very honorably a terrible name.
Speaker:Yeah. Be be proud of your product. If your product is listen. We we first
Speaker:of all, we buy eyeballs. That there's nothing wrong with that either. Let's be super
Speaker:clear. So if you have a and they do this in television, what do you
Speaker:think an ad for a show that you're not
Speaker:watching is that's paid advertising to say
Speaker:please put your eyeballs on this show? Okay? And so,
Speaker:if you're buying eyeballs, if you're buying traffic to put
Speaker:it on your content there's not in fact, let let me say this before we
Speaker:go. Not only is there nothing wrong with it, it's the single biggest mistake podcasters
Speaker:and anybody that's a quote unquote showrunner is making. If
Speaker:you are not spending to put eyeballs on your content and
Speaker:then corral them off into a custom audience that you can nurture
Speaker:them because it is familiarity that leads
Speaker:to this sense of likability and trust. It is seeing
Speaker:that person or hearing that person on a frequent basis. When you turn on your
Speaker:TV in the morning and you see that same weatherman, over time you get that
Speaker:sense of familiarity and trust. So, if you think that you
Speaker:launch a podcast and, like, people are gonna find
Speaker:it, like, you they go to Spotify and,
Speaker:like, type in a and then just see what comes up in school. Let's
Speaker:see. Oh, Adam's Apple, Mobile Energy. Oh, that looks
Speaker:like an interesting name. Like that's just not how podcasts are discovered, right? And
Speaker:then putting your podcast in your email signature and your face
Speaker:great. So your friends and the very small group of people that know
Speaker:you, they already know you have a podcast. They're already not listening to it. You
Speaker:know what I mean? Or the three friends that are really nice are listening to
Speaker:it. Shout out to Mark Serkin. So so,
Speaker:you know, so the the truth is if you really want to get
Speaker:listeners or viewers or grow an audience, you have
Speaker:to pay like everybody else. Organic reach is dead across all
Speaker:platforms, every single platform. There's no more okay. Except for
Speaker:TikTok Except for TikTok where you still can get a ton of
Speaker:vanity views, but what I'd argue is to what end? Even people that are like,
Speaker:oh, this got 300,000 views. Okay. How many people signed up for your
Speaker:newsletter? How many people joined your your your group your Facebook group?
Speaker:Like, how how do you take them from an anonymous like that just gave you
Speaker:a dopamine hit, oh, you got 10,000 likes. How
Speaker:My bank currently does not take likes. When I go to Chase for a
Speaker:deposit, they do not I tried. I brought a shit I was like, I have
Speaker:7,000 likes to deposit, and they were like, yeah. We don't give a shit about
Speaker:that. So so you shouldn't give a shit about that either, and
Speaker:you shouldn't give a shit about 10,000 downloads unless that 10,000
Speaker:downloads is what is allowing you to sell that sponsorship and you're
Speaker:monetizing it. Right? So, yeah.
Speaker:Love it. Steviele Bimste. Put put put people in fact, here's
Speaker:the other thing I will tell you, whether you do YouTube, which means do mid
Speaker:roll and pre roll ads, and and and that mean meaning about your content. So,
Speaker:like, hey, I've got a video podcast and, but I'm not a
Speaker:YouTuber, that's fine, go on YouTube and buy ads and
Speaker:put your pre roll or mid roll on content that
Speaker:is similar to yours. If you speak to accountants and there's
Speaker:some YouTuber that does accounting videos that they're really into, you can put your ad
Speaker:about your accounting videos that they're really into, you can put your
Speaker:ad about your accounting podcast, your take on
Speaker:accounting on that dude's YouTube channel, and guess what? If they
Speaker:click skip, you don't pay. And the and the other place I would think about
Speaker:that that most podcasters are not thinking about at all is
Speaker:Facebook. It it Everybody is still there. People are like, oh, it was It's
Speaker:full of shit. Everybody is still there. If you go there and you run Here's
Speaker:what you can't do on YouTube and these other places, you can't
Speaker:retarget the way you can on Facebook. So if somebody watches five seconds of my
Speaker:video about building an audience, so, hey, are you a 6
Speaker:figure service professional looking to build your audience to grow your business? They watch five
Speaker:seconds of that, I put them in a custom audience. And now I'm gonna make
Speaker:sure that they keep seeing my stuff until they
Speaker:take my call to action which is just show up to audiencebuilders.
Speaker:Live every Wednesday at whatever time it is, two p. M. Eastern,
Speaker:whatever time I'm doing the thing and that's the call to action every single time.
Speaker:My point is you gotta take somebody from an anonymous download or an
Speaker:anonymous like or an anonymous anything and you have to convert them
Speaker:into a member, a user, somebody on your
Speaker:list, somebody getting your newsletter, somebody on your substack,
Speaker:then you've got their name, and you can start establishing a relationship. And once you
Speaker:get to the relationship stage, you can start making money.
Speaker:Love it. He's a growth coach, consultant, producer. His name is Stefan
Speaker:Lubinski. You can learn more about him at stephanlubinski.com and keep an eye out
Speaker:for his audience builders program that is coming out soon depending on when
Speaker:you're listening to this episode. Before we let you go, a couple of questions we'd
Speaker:like to ask everybody who appears on the show. One, in
Speaker:podcasting specifically, is there a place where you'd like to see improvement, whether that's
Speaker:from listening, production, discoverability, monetization, like, anything in particular
Speaker:where you're just like, god. I wish podcasting could do
Speaker:this. Not that I wish podcasting per
Speaker:se could do something, but I would love to see one of the platforms,
Speaker:Riverside, as we're both fans of Riverside and
Speaker:use it, and the other player in the space is Descript,
Speaker:truly become one stop shop platforms where you can accomplish
Speaker:everything you're looking to accomplish, and and I mean everything. There's not
Speaker:the platform that is thought of guest booking, guest
Speaker:tracking, a guest portal for their
Speaker:files once it's done that they're immediately issued upon
Speaker:registering in with you in the first place. Right? Then
Speaker:the recording, then the editing, then the publishing, then the social
Speaker:syndication, then the reformatting, and the, you know, I want this in
Speaker:audio, I want this in transcript, I want a blog version of this, and because
Speaker:of AI, this is right around the corner. And I've always told people
Speaker:stop producing and just audio, stop, stop, what are you
Speaker:doing? When you produce in video, you get all three formats
Speaker:baked in. You get your video for and by the way, here's the other thing.
Speaker:It's not about what format you like in media. Well, I like audio. I'm in
Speaker:a podcast. Give you shit what you like. It's what your audience likes.
Speaker:And what they like is media consumption based on what they're doing.
Speaker:So when they're in their car, they can't play a scroll with their finger so
Speaker:they listen. When they're in their whatever, they're watching,
Speaker:and when they feel like reading really quickly, they're reading, and what I would say
Speaker:to everybody listening is you know darn well you're a listener, you're a watcher, and
Speaker:you're a reader, you're all three. What is different is about where
Speaker:and when you're doing these things to make it the best
Speaker:experience for you. So why would you produce in
Speaker:one format? Well, I just blog. Well, you're insane.
Speaker:I just do audio. Also crazy. Do it in
Speaker:video. I've got the blog. I've got the audio podcast. I've got the
Speaker:video. I'm now gonna deliver content in a way that
Speaker:however you wanna consume it, it's available to you. That's how you should be
Speaker:approaching it. So, yeah, I would love to see a platform that literally I log
Speaker:in and I handle my entire
Speaker:tech stack. The entire tech stack, including
Speaker:managing my including it's a CRM because it's gonna literally manage
Speaker:my clients and the guests of my clients. Yeah. I think
Speaker:I think there's a lot of companies that are taking lots of pieces of it,
Speaker:grouping it together, and the Venn diagram of
Speaker:everything you need is getting there, but it's not no
Speaker:one is quite doing it where the entire circle overlaps with everything that you need
Speaker:to do. You have, you know, like, three quarters of it being handled by Riverside,
Speaker:another three quarters being handled by hosting companies, another three quarters being handled by
Speaker:Spotify. Right? But no one has the entire single
Speaker:package of one. So I love that idea. I love that concept. Want them to
Speaker:be once it's left to go to its like, they're not a
Speaker:destination, so you still need to publish at the destination, whether that's
Speaker:Spotify or Google or Well, I just need Spotify with with Anchor being
Speaker:able to host and submit and, you know, be a listening platform
Speaker:and, monetization. Right. All that. Like they, they do things other than
Speaker:just be the place where people listen to podcasts, but yes, there's,
Speaker:but yeah, I love this idea of just this all in one, every aspect from
Speaker:start to finish. LOUIS, I did both. From the start of reaching out to a
Speaker:guest all the way through to I'm hitting send this to my
Speaker:YouTube channel to publish, and by the way again including like the
Speaker:spit out of the blog post, the infographic, like because again
Speaker:once you create one thirty or forty five minute piece of content guys,
Speaker:you have a a month. I only meet with my clients once a month, that's
Speaker:my executive production package because they're too busy. But I can get a
Speaker:month's worth of content out of that one hour that they spend
Speaker:on air with their clients and and with their guests and remember when they walk
Speaker:away from that they're stoked because those were guests that they want a relationship with
Speaker:and now they're kinda chummy with them, so they're all feeling pretty good, and then
Speaker:I can give them a pile of content that their assistants can load up on
Speaker:their LinkedIn and elsewhere for the rest of the month. Love it.
Speaker:I guess, I mean, this might be the same question, but is there any tech
Speaker:on your personal wish list, whether it's, you know, something you've wanted to
Speaker:buy and and haven't yet or something that hasn't been invented yet that you you
Speaker:wanna get your hands on, camera, mics, off, or something like that?
Speaker:You know what? Elgato is getting closer to
Speaker:creating a teleprompter that I think makes sense. I still have in a
Speaker:box somewhere like one of the traditional glass teleprompters that I never
Speaker:set up because I am one of those idiots that's like, I'll just get it
Speaker:done in one take. I'll just I don't need a script. But there are
Speaker:times when I really, really would have loved to have had a script and then
Speaker:I wouldn't have done 728 takes.
Speaker:And Elgato has one that is much more electronic and you have much more electronic
Speaker:and you have much more control over it, but I read some reviews
Speaker:that it wasn't quite there, so I guess I'll wait for a few more
Speaker:generations. It it it works well,
Speaker:but you have to be using all Elgato products. I tried to use it
Speaker:with, like, my BRIO, and there's still glare. You know, if you have,
Speaker:like, a really fancy camera with a lens, yeah, that's okay too. But, right,
Speaker:it's it's very good, but, right, it's just just a
Speaker:falls just a hair short. Yep. That's about that's about it.
Speaker:One of these days, I probably would hire Luria Petrucci to,
Speaker:design a set for me other than what I've got here, which is, you know,
Speaker:it's clean, it's simple, and you can tell that, you know, I do something with
Speaker:with media. But, yeah, if I were to get fancy, I'd call
Speaker:Luria up at, Live Streaming Pros. Shout out,
Speaker:Luria. And, in fact, quick side story, her
Speaker:name when she was in television was Callie Lewis. That was her on air
Speaker:television name, and she was a tech reporter, and she would cover CES and all
Speaker:that other stuff. And when I was, working
Speaker:for U2 Television, I signed Callie Lewis, and we put her on
Speaker:our on our network, and, and we ran, The Callie Lewis
Speaker:Show for for a while. So Shout out to the old days, Luria.
Speaker:Love it. Alright. And the last question is, is there a podcast or
Speaker:two that you are listening to that, like, no matter what, when they
Speaker:drop new episodes, you're gonna stop and check those out, or you're not gonna let
Speaker:them go without checking out the latest episode? I mean, honestly, I don't have that
Speaker:about anything, and that's probably more to do with my ADHD. But,
Speaker:I would say that, I really like Tim
Speaker:Ferriss. I I appreciate his long form podcasts,
Speaker:and I also I don't know if he's a pod I guess he's a podcaster,
Speaker:but is he a YouTuber? The diary of a
Speaker:CEO, podcast. So I guess, yeah, it's a
Speaker:podcast. I find that there's some really, really interesting, guests
Speaker:on there, so I guess those would be the two that I that I really
Speaker:do like. If you haven't seen diary of a CEO on on,
Speaker:YouTube, check it out. He has some pretty interesting,
Speaker:guests. Very cool. Stefan Lubinski, growth coach,
Speaker:consultant, producer. You can learn more at stephanubinski.com. Thank you so much for joining us
Speaker:today. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Thanks for
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