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Welcome to Podcasting Tech, a podcast that equips busy

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entrepreneurs engaged in podcasting with proven and cost effective

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solutions for achieving a professional sound and appearance. I'm

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Matthew Passi, your host and a fifteen year veteran in the podcasting

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space. We'll help you cut through the noise and offer guidance on software and

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hardware that can elevate the quality of your show. Tune in weekly

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for insightful interviews with tech creators, behind the scenes studio tours, and

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strategies for podcasting success. Head to

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podcastingtech.com to subscribe to this show on YouTube or your favorite

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podcast platform, and join us on this exciting journey to unlock the full

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potential of your podcast. Gonna take you

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up to New England and chat with Stefan Lubinski. He is

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the creator at Audience Builders, and you can find more about him at

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stephanlubinski.com. Well, of course, I'll have a note, a link to all

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that in the show notes. He's a coach, consultant, and producer.

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Stefan, thank you so much for joining us this morning. Good morning. Good to be

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here. Thanks for having me. Oh, it it's my pleasure. So you have an interesting

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background. You didn't really start in the the media role per se. How did

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you find yourself in podcasting? Yeah. It's funny

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because I did we we met through, through an online podcasters

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group, and and I listed that I was an accidental podcast

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producer. So my background has been in sales pretty much my

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entire professional career ranging from restaurants to real estate,

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technology to television, all kinds of, of different

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industries, always in business development. One of those experiences

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was for a company that owned two television networks and we

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were the first social television network and Mark Burnett was an

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investor. Now unfortunately, U2 TV didn't make it,

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as many startups that I've been involved with, although I don't think that it's my

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fault. But, yeah, it didn't make it, but at that time it was a

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hot television startup and I got an opportunity one day

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to actually take a producing role. We had lost somebody and the

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CEO was like, who I'd known for many years, and he knew I

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was a creative and he was like, guess what? You're now the producer of this

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show. And I had no experience in it, and it was television,

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and it was an interview format. And it was, it was a pay to play

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format. It's called a buy on show. So the guests literally pay to be

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on television and to be interviewed as a media asset and a

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kind of a PR ladder. So I did that, I loved it, I really

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enjoyed that, and then many years later as I started to wind down

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my sales leadership roles, I decided

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I wanted to do more, creative things that help,

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my clients kind of grow their business, and I landed on,

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using a show, whether that's a limited series in some cases,

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whether that's, quote, unquote, a podcast,

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as a relationship acquisition vehicle for my clients. So early stage

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startups that are looking to be more visible and credible to have c suite relationships

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that they don't have, we used, a thought leadership platform

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as a means to establish those relationships. And so that became so successful

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for one of my clients that it literally turned into a brand.

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Rising Stars is now the most recognizable media brand in the Medicare

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stars space. We're invited to speak at conferences. We now do

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live events, and next year, we'll look to get into I

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don't wanna call it credentialing, but, industry education.

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So all started from just a a strategy to help a client

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be more visible and has now turned into a brand with three legs to that

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stool of of live events, education, and and the show.

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Very, very cool. Congratulations on all that. I I wanna go back to what you

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were talking about relationship building through thought leadership and and this idea

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of pay to perform or pay to play or pay to appear.

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You know, so many podcasters, they get in this and they immediately look at

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downloads as their biggest metric. And I remember when I

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first started with clients and podcast production, one of my first clients was like, listen,

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if people listen to this, great, but having this podcast is gonna open a lot

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of doors for me and, you know, at first their target really was the guest,

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not so much the audience. Why is that

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a successful strategy for some? Because it's an instant payoff.

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Because with with when you're doing content for business,

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whether you're a B2B, whether you're a Fortune 500, or whether you're a solopreneur,

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the payoff for content to business, unless you're selling like an

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e commerce product, but if you're a realtor, a lawyer, a

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consultant, a coach, the amount of time it's gonna take

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to go from content to new business is a long tail.

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You not only have to build up an audience, you have to have content

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in front of them multiple times. Some people say seven to

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eight times, some people say 12 to 18 times before they really get a sense

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of familiarity, trust, and want to execute on a call to action.

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So, if you use a podcast

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for your clients, if you're a producer or if if you're

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a podcaster thinking about how can you make money with your skills,

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being able to explain to whether they're a consultant,

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a coach, an executive in sales, all of those people wanna be

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connected with the movers and shakers in their space.

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So if you can create a well enough produced

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program and if you can ask smart enough questions,

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you will find that most of the time subject matter experts will say yes.

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And now all of a sudden my client has a relationship with that

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C suite target. And I wanna be really clear for

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those of you that are like, wait, so you're saying these guests are

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more the target than worrying about the content for the audience and the answer

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is yes. And not only that, what I would tell you is when I sit

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down with my clients I say, because I do a 10

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episode year for a client, like that's a season, So

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I'll say, who are the 10 people in your industry that will move the

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needle for you? Whether that's as a joint venture, a partner, a prospect, whatever

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it may be. And so they list out, these are the 10 people I'd like

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to have a relationship with or these are the 10 people I'd like to strengthen

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the relationship with. They know me, but we're, you know, we're not friends.

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And so, yeah, we'll build the episodes around those

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targets and we'll we'll get a hold of them and say, hey, listen, we're

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doing an episode about and of course whatever it was about is tailored to what

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they do well. And, we know that you're crushing it in that

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space or that strategy or whatever, and we'd love to have you come

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on. And it's rare that guests say

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no. And when they do say no, it's typically scheduling. It's

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not, no, I don't wanna be on your on your program. Well, so that

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that's interesting because I did run into lots of clients and lots of other podcasters

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who who had that route. Right? They wanted to land big name guests on

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their show as a way to network and grow their, their

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relationship and their community and and, you know, gain access to people who might not

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chat with them. But sometimes and and it's rare, but sometimes they were

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often hit with the, well, how big is your show? What's your audience like?

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And and so what do you do in that situation? Yeah. So first of all,

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there's a few things. Number one, I think sometimes people there's a

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disconnect between when I say the people they're gonna move your,

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needle, they don't say, oh, yeah. If I knew Gary Vaynerchuk, that would move my

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needle. Right? So they're not telling me famous people or

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authors or, you know, somebody that

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is commanding a million dollars from the stage. They're listing

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senior vice presidents, CMOs, and CEOs of the companies

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they do business with. In this case, these are large insurance companies.

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So look, getting to a senior executive at an

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insurance company, spend an hour with you, sure, it is a challenge, but again, we

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position our show as the leading thought leadership platform in

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Medicare stars so people literally do wanna be on it. The answer

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to how do you deal with that, number one, don't be over aspirational,

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you need to ladder up. So you start with

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a guest that's just happy to be able to tell their story and to be

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able, so that you can give that back to them and package it up and

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they can use that for their own benefit. And then you leverage

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the fact that you had a guest with credibility that, you know, hey we had

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so and so on from Patagonia and now we'd love to have you on mister

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CEO. So you do have to kind of earn your bones and level up and

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not start with too aspirational of a

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target. So yeah. And then

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what do you do after that conversation? Right? So you you you the

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person agrees to come on, you talk to them, you ask good questions, you have

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a good conversation, you release the episode, But then how do you really

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convert that experience into a long lasting fruitful

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relationship for yourself? Are there things to do and avoid? I'm I'm

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not I don't coach listen. My clients are sophisticated,

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successful, either 7 figure earners or 6 figure earners,

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so they know how to take a relationship and continue to nurture it. I they

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don't need my coaching for that. But what I would caution you is this. You

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do not use this strategy to bring on a

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guest and then immediately sell your services. So I'm gonna say that

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again for the people in the back of the room. If you are thinking, oh,

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I love this idea, I'm a company, I sell this widget, I'm gonna

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bring on prospective customers of this widget under the guise

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of being a guest and telling me what great stuff they're doing and then I'm

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gonna turn around and whether it's at the end of the show, whether it's the

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next day, whether it's the next week, I'm like, oh, by the way, did you

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check out my widget and my thingy and my whatever? That's

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not the way to go because then the sense is, oh, this wasn't really

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about either my expertise or establishing a relationship, this was really like,

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oh, you just wanted to like get an opportunity to sell me your thing.

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So what I would argue is the best way to use this is what I

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call at the beginning, a relationship acquisition vehicle. It

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establishes a relationship, you nurture that relationship, deliver

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value to that relationship over time, and

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then you will typically find those people are asking to do business with

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you or referring business to you. So you don't need to, quote, unquote,

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sell or or convert, if that makes sense. No. And I I

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think it makes a ton of sense. And so all this is done under your

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audience builders brand. Right? Yeah. I mean, I I haven't even

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trademarked that, but, yes, I, let

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me back this up. I have not marketed for any of my business. I

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have been fortunate enough that I don't need a lot of clients.

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I'm not looking to be a wealthy person. I think life gets more complicated when

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you're I see my clients who make a lot of money, and I don't want

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that in life. So I've been lucky enough that people have

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referred business to me, and and and so that's how I get my clients, I

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don't really have to go out there and market per se. That said,

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I wanna move to a new phase for my business. I'm really interested in doing

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group coaching. I wanna reach out and have more

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people that aren't looking to spend what I charge clients and businesses

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to learn about how they can do less selling and help more people

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buy by building audiences of prospects. So I came up with a brand

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called Audience Builders and in 2025 my goal is to launch Audience

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Builders Live in Q1 and that will be a free

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weekly live Zoom call for 6 figure service

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professionals who would like to leverage content to build an audience to grow

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their business to come in every week, ask whatever question they want. It's gonna be

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an ask me anything format. And first come first

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serve, ask whatever question or what's keeping you stuck or what strategy

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is not working and I'll give you my best and that's it. Every week it'll

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be free for as many people that can log in and get their question

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in. And information on that will all be at

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stephanlebinski.com? Yeah, absolutely. If you go to

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stephanlebinski.com or if you just, if you're ever interested in that, if you go there

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you can contact me or send me an email stephanstephanlebinski dot com and say, Hey,

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have you started up Audience Builders? And by the way, if anybody's listening to this

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and wants to just book thirty minutes of my time, you can just go to

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my website and you can book thirty minutes of my time, no charge, and I'm

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happy to listen to what it is you're trying to get done and and give

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you my 2ยข. So before we move on to the questions I like to ask

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everybody, one thing you brought up in the very beginning that could be a sore

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spot for podcasters that I'd be curious to get your take on is you had

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you were working for this business that was doing right to pay to appear, you

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know, model. What are your thoughts on that in podcasting? Is

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that something you encourage, discourage, work with? I I love

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it. I love the model, because the client is getting what they want.

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So let's understand what the client wanted in the television model. We

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had a television network with about 15,000,000 subscribers

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in cable and OTA over the air and what they wanted

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wasn't as much about getting in front of the audience with their content,

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that's part of it. What it really was about is having a professionally produced

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package that they can use over and over, that they

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can use on their social, that they can send to their list, that they can

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cut up into pieces. And so that's really what they're getting. And so it's the

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same thing for you podcasters that are listening, you podcast producers that are listening, which

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is, you know, clients, if you're gonna

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do the model of I've got a pay per play interview podcast,

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what clients want are two things. One, yes. They would love to have some reach,

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and they would love that that reach has impact. That is the audience that

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you have is the audience that they speak to. That's obvious. So the

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bigger size you have and the more engaged that audience is,

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not just downloads. If you can show that you've got an engaged community online, whether

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that's a Facebook group or Discord or whatever it may be, but you have an

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engaged community, not just anonymous downloads

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that you really can't even describe much about the demographics to the client. And the

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other is really a professional production and really smart questions.

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That is, were they able to tell a story in a way

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that they have not been able to do before and they were able to articulate

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their value in such a more creative,

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smarter way that came off exactly as they wanted and

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they're not the one They're being asked, right? They're not the ones getting

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in front of a camera and going, Hi, we're Acme Corp and we're awesome because

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of these reasons. That's lean out, nobody, that's an advertisement, that's when we'd get up

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and go to the bathroom and leave. You're being asked like, Hey, you guys invented

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the yada yada thing in my jiggy and that influenced the

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whole industry, that's amazing, tell us about that. And so now there's a

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story, there's credibility for the client, if you've got production value and it looks

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good and you've produced it well and you've edited it well, this is an

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asset for them that they can't create or if they could create it's gonna cost

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them money. So that's why it's valuable. So if you have a

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big enough reach or if you produce such a glossy,

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beautiful piece of content with such great editing and on screen

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graphics and everything else, yeah, people might be willing,

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to pay for that. In my model with my clients, we're not doing that. We're

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not we're not asking the senior vice president of Aetna to pay to be on

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the Rising Stars show. Oh, no. And and I wasn't trying to accuse or

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or imply that. I was just, it's just such a hot button topic. If you

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often bring up the idea of pay to blame podcasting, you'll get a deluge

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of comments from people, most of them against it, a few for,

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and it's just such a hot button issue. Are the ones that aren't making probably

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aren't making money in podcasting, to be candid, and they're jealous of people

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that are making money in some way because here's the thing, if you

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are open about the model, if you're honest with

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clients, yeah, but that's the case with anything, doesn't matter what your

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business If you're dishonest then that's shitty. Oops. Maybe you bleeped that. I don't know

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what your podcast is like. So, but Well, like,

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I've I've been approached I've been invited to be on a podcast. So someone

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reached out, hey. We love your insight blah blah blah. Please come on the podcast.

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Great. We'd love to do it. You know, fill up the thing blah blah blah.

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Then the next thing I do is I get an invoice. Says, alright. If you'd

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like to appear, it's blah blah blah. It's like, you asked me. Like,

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one, disclose that right up front, and two, make sure you're disclosing it to your

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audience as well. That's bait and switch. And by the way, we didn't so in

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in the television model again so I don't do the buy on model for podcasting

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and I have no problem with it. If you're doing it out there great, good

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for you, that's awesome. By the way it just means you're delivering enough value

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that a client is willing to pay to be interviewed on your show.

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It's as simple as that. But I will tell you, Matt, what you just said

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is so accurate and I've seen it in television as well where

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the prospecting is an associate producer, air quotes,

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associate producer reaches out and says, Hey, we've been following your stuff on

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social or whatever and we'd love to have you on as a guest. You get

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all pumped up and you're on the and the next thing you know you get

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this separate communication that's like, just so you know, there is a cost in order

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for us to deliver your meetup package and your this and your that and that's

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bait and switch. And what we did we were talking to PR agencies

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and we were saying, Look if you've got clients that need to ladder up the

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media ladder which means they need to kind of prime the

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pump, they need something that says, Hey look we were on America Up

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Close on Family Net TV, check it out, they've got something to

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send out to the other stations. So then when Good Morning

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Poughkeepsie sees it and says, oh, that's not

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bad. They're not bad on air. Those were decent questions. You know what? Put that

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in my Rolodex. I might call for them. And so that was the purpose. That's

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why the clients paid for it, because and by the way, nobody else was calling

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them to do free TV. So this is paid media that you then

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hope, turns to earned media.

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Yeah. No. I I love that explanation. Love the way you describe it. And, you

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know, my past life when I was a radio producer, often when we were

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looking for experts, you know, one advantage would be if you presented

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someone who, you know, had good opinions where I was topical to what we were

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talking about. But also if you said they've appeared on such and such, it's like,

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great. I know they won't freeze up. I know they won't give single word answers.

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Right? Like, I know they'll be engaging for the audience and so yeah. I love

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the way you put that. The the paid paid for appearance can

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work, but, as as you said, be honest, be

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upfront, disclose it, don't bait and switch. That's terrible, and that's giving people

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who are doing this very well and very successfully and very honorably a terrible name.

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Yeah. Be be proud of your product. If your product is listen. We we first

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of all, we buy eyeballs. That there's nothing wrong with that either. Let's be super

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clear. So if you have a and they do this in television, what do you

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think an ad for a show that you're not

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watching is that's paid advertising to say

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please put your eyeballs on this show? Okay? And so,

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if you're buying eyeballs, if you're buying traffic to put

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it on your content there's not in fact, let let me say this before we

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go. Not only is there nothing wrong with it, it's the single biggest mistake podcasters

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and anybody that's a quote unquote showrunner is making. If

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you are not spending to put eyeballs on your content and

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then corral them off into a custom audience that you can nurture

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them because it is familiarity that leads

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to this sense of likability and trust. It is seeing

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that person or hearing that person on a frequent basis. When you turn on your

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TV in the morning and you see that same weatherman, over time you get that

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sense of familiarity and trust. So, if you think that you

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launch a podcast and, like, people are gonna find

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it, like, you they go to Spotify and,

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like, type in a and then just see what comes up in school. Let's

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see. Oh, Adam's Apple, Mobile Energy. Oh, that looks

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like an interesting name. Like that's just not how podcasts are discovered, right? And

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then putting your podcast in your email signature and your face

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great. So your friends and the very small group of people that know

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you, they already know you have a podcast. They're already not listening to it. You

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know what I mean? Or the three friends that are really nice are listening to

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it. Shout out to Mark Serkin. So so,

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you know, so the the truth is if you really want to get

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listeners or viewers or grow an audience, you have

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to pay like everybody else. Organic reach is dead across all

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platforms, every single platform. There's no more okay. Except for

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TikTok Except for TikTok where you still can get a ton of

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vanity views, but what I'd argue is to what end? Even people that are like,

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oh, this got 300,000 views. Okay. How many people signed up for your

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newsletter? How many people joined your your your group your Facebook group?

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Like, how how do you take them from an anonymous like that just gave you

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a dopamine hit, oh, you got 10,000 likes. How

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My bank currently does not take likes. When I go to Chase for a

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deposit, they do not I tried. I brought a shit I was like, I have

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7,000 likes to deposit, and they were like, yeah. We don't give a shit about

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that. So so you shouldn't give a shit about that either, and

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you shouldn't give a shit about 10,000 downloads unless that 10,000

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downloads is what is allowing you to sell that sponsorship and you're

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monetizing it. Right? So, yeah.

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Love it. Steviele Bimste. Put put put people in fact, here's

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the other thing I will tell you, whether you do YouTube, which means do mid

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roll and pre roll ads, and and and that mean meaning about your content. So,

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like, hey, I've got a video podcast and, but I'm not a

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YouTuber, that's fine, go on YouTube and buy ads and

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put your pre roll or mid roll on content that

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is similar to yours. If you speak to accountants and there's

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some YouTuber that does accounting videos that they're really into, you can put your ad

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about your accounting videos that they're really into, you can put your

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ad about your accounting podcast, your take on

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accounting on that dude's YouTube channel, and guess what? If they

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click skip, you don't pay. And the and the other place I would think about

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that that most podcasters are not thinking about at all is

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Facebook. It it Everybody is still there. People are like, oh, it was It's

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full of shit. Everybody is still there. If you go there and you run Here's

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what you can't do on YouTube and these other places, you can't

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retarget the way you can on Facebook. So if somebody watches five seconds of my

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video about building an audience, so, hey, are you a 6

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figure service professional looking to build your audience to grow your business? They watch five

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seconds of that, I put them in a custom audience. And now I'm gonna make

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sure that they keep seeing my stuff until they

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take my call to action which is just show up to audiencebuilders.

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Live every Wednesday at whatever time it is, two p. M. Eastern,

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whatever time I'm doing the thing and that's the call to action every single time.

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My point is you gotta take somebody from an anonymous download or an

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anonymous like or an anonymous anything and you have to convert them

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into a member, a user, somebody on your

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list, somebody getting your newsletter, somebody on your substack,

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then you've got their name, and you can start establishing a relationship. And once you

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get to the relationship stage, you can start making money.

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Love it. He's a growth coach, consultant, producer. His name is Stefan

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Lubinski. You can learn more about him at stephanlubinski.com and keep an eye out

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for his audience builders program that is coming out soon depending on when

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you're listening to this episode. Before we let you go, a couple of questions we'd

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like to ask everybody who appears on the show. One, in

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podcasting specifically, is there a place where you'd like to see improvement, whether that's

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from listening, production, discoverability, monetization, like, anything in particular

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where you're just like, god. I wish podcasting could do

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this. Not that I wish podcasting per

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se could do something, but I would love to see one of the platforms,

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Riverside, as we're both fans of Riverside and

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use it, and the other player in the space is Descript,

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truly become one stop shop platforms where you can accomplish

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everything you're looking to accomplish, and and I mean everything. There's not

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the platform that is thought of guest booking, guest

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tracking, a guest portal for their

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files once it's done that they're immediately issued upon

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registering in with you in the first place. Right? Then

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the recording, then the editing, then the publishing, then the social

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syndication, then the reformatting, and the, you know, I want this in

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audio, I want this in transcript, I want a blog version of this, and because

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of AI, this is right around the corner. And I've always told people

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stop producing and just audio, stop, stop, what are you

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doing? When you produce in video, you get all three formats

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baked in. You get your video for and by the way, here's the other thing.

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It's not about what format you like in media. Well, I like audio. I'm in

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a podcast. Give you shit what you like. It's what your audience likes.

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And what they like is media consumption based on what they're doing.

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So when they're in their car, they can't play a scroll with their finger so

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they listen. When they're in their whatever, they're watching,

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and when they feel like reading really quickly, they're reading, and what I would say

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to everybody listening is you know darn well you're a listener, you're a watcher, and

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you're a reader, you're all three. What is different is about where

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and when you're doing these things to make it the best

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experience for you. So why would you produce in

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one format? Well, I just blog. Well, you're insane.

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I just do audio. Also crazy. Do it in

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video. I've got the blog. I've got the audio podcast. I've got the

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video. I'm now gonna deliver content in a way that

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however you wanna consume it, it's available to you. That's how you should be

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approaching it. So, yeah, I would love to see a platform that literally I log

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in and I handle my entire

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tech stack. The entire tech stack, including

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managing my including it's a CRM because it's gonna literally manage

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my clients and the guests of my clients. Yeah. I think

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I think there's a lot of companies that are taking lots of pieces of it,

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grouping it together, and the Venn diagram of

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everything you need is getting there, but it's not no

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one is quite doing it where the entire circle overlaps with everything that you need

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to do. You have, you know, like, three quarters of it being handled by Riverside,

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another three quarters being handled by hosting companies, another three quarters being handled by

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Spotify. Right? But no one has the entire single

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package of one. So I love that idea. I love that concept. Want them to

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be once it's left to go to its like, they're not a

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destination, so you still need to publish at the destination, whether that's

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Spotify or Google or Well, I just need Spotify with with Anchor being

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able to host and submit and, you know, be a listening platform

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and, monetization. Right. All that. Like they, they do things other than

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just be the place where people listen to podcasts, but yes, there's,

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but yeah, I love this idea of just this all in one, every aspect from

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start to finish. LOUIS, I did both. From the start of reaching out to a

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guest all the way through to I'm hitting send this to my

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YouTube channel to publish, and by the way again including like the

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spit out of the blog post, the infographic, like because again

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once you create one thirty or forty five minute piece of content guys,

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you have a a month. I only meet with my clients once a month, that's

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my executive production package because they're too busy. But I can get a

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month's worth of content out of that one hour that they spend

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on air with their clients and and with their guests and remember when they walk

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away from that they're stoked because those were guests that they want a relationship with

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and now they're kinda chummy with them, so they're all feeling pretty good, and then

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I can give them a pile of content that their assistants can load up on

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their LinkedIn and elsewhere for the rest of the month. Love it.

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I guess, I mean, this might be the same question, but is there any tech

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on your personal wish list, whether it's, you know, something you've wanted to

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buy and and haven't yet or something that hasn't been invented yet that you you

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wanna get your hands on, camera, mics, off, or something like that?

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You know what? Elgato is getting closer to

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creating a teleprompter that I think makes sense. I still have in a

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box somewhere like one of the traditional glass teleprompters that I never

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set up because I am one of those idiots that's like, I'll just get it

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done in one take. I'll just I don't need a script. But there are

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times when I really, really would have loved to have had a script and then

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I wouldn't have done 728 takes.

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And Elgato has one that is much more electronic and you have much more electronic

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and you have much more control over it, but I read some reviews

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that it wasn't quite there, so I guess I'll wait for a few more

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generations. It it it works well,

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but you have to be using all Elgato products. I tried to use it

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with, like, my BRIO, and there's still glare. You know, if you have,

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like, a really fancy camera with a lens, yeah, that's okay too. But, right,

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it's it's very good, but, right, it's just just a

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falls just a hair short. Yep. That's about that's about it.

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One of these days, I probably would hire Luria Petrucci to,

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design a set for me other than what I've got here, which is, you know,

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it's clean, it's simple, and you can tell that, you know, I do something with

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with media. But, yeah, if I were to get fancy, I'd call

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Luria up at, Live Streaming Pros. Shout out,

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Luria. And, in fact, quick side story, her

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name when she was in television was Callie Lewis. That was her on air

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television name, and she was a tech reporter, and she would cover CES and all

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that other stuff. And when I was, working

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for U2 Television, I signed Callie Lewis, and we put her on

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our on our network, and, and we ran, The Callie Lewis

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Show for for a while. So Shout out to the old days, Luria.

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Love it. Alright. And the last question is, is there a podcast or

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two that you are listening to that, like, no matter what, when they

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drop new episodes, you're gonna stop and check those out, or you're not gonna let

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them go without checking out the latest episode? I mean, honestly, I don't have that

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about anything, and that's probably more to do with my ADHD. But,

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I would say that, I really like Tim

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Ferriss. I I appreciate his long form podcasts,

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and I also I don't know if he's a pod I guess he's a podcaster,

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but is he a YouTuber? The diary of a

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CEO, podcast. So I guess, yeah, it's a

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podcast. I find that there's some really, really interesting, guests

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on there, so I guess those would be the two that I that I really

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do like. If you haven't seen diary of a CEO on on,

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YouTube, check it out. He has some pretty interesting,

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guests. Very cool. Stefan Lubinski, growth coach,

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consultant, producer. You can learn more at stephanubinski.com. Thank you so much for joining us

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today. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Thanks for

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