Jeremy Weisz 10:57
Yeah, whether you go or not, like you said, is a good point. Because you can, when you think of the needs, and again, it’s not my needs or your needs, it’s the other person’s needs. When we think of the needs of a conference, they want to attract more attendees, they want more sponsors. And if they have sponsors or exhibitors, they want to help those people get more exposure. Right. So when I think in terms of the other party, well, how can I help them accomplish their goal? You know, which means okay, well, I can promote. You know, there’s many times where you do this job to is like someone’s having a conference. And we have some of the speakers some of the exhibitors on. And we posted on social media to tell people this conference is going on, we’re also building relationships with some of the top players in that industry. But ultimately, we’re serving the needs of that conference. So you can reach out to the speakers and exhibitors. And even if I never went to the conference, I still know, let’s say a large majority of the speakers, the sponsors, the exhibitors, some of the organizers, and but when you go to the conference even more powerful, because I don’t know, you know, people would look at me in a room done. As you know, I’m introvert, I’m not really introverted. But I think I’m kind of like observing from the sides. I’m not like, very outwardly, boisterous or anything like that. So really helps me make individual connections, it makes the room smaller. So when I go in person, it could be a networking group, it could be, you know, just connecting with people one on one through the podcast, when I show up to that, I know everyone individually. And so I feel like I can approach people where that’s not my natural inclination is just to golf to people and say, Hello, if I don’t know them,
John Corcoran 12:43
I think a lot of people have experienced that where they feel a bit of introversion, and they feel nervous and roomful of people. And so that idea of connecting with people beforehand, knowing a few people in the room can make it feel smaller for them. Let’s talk about speeding up your sales cycle. That’s another point that you’ve made frequently about how podcasts can help speed up the sales cycle. Talk about that?
Jeremy Weisz 13:07
Yeah, I think, um, you know, building trust is a big thing. And, you know, when you’re talking to a prospective client, you know, building up trust in continuing that trust. And also, it saves time, because, let’s say, John, we have this conversation, and one of our episodes you can check out is the five different types of episodes you should create if you do a podcast. And let’s say we’re on the phone with a client, a potential client, and we’re saying we’re giving them value, like we’re trying to give them as much value as possible and a little in the little time, we have to discuss it. And, but when you have a podcast, you can we can deliver that value and say, Hey, John, we have this episode, which is and by the way, if they’re thinking podcasts are going to find this very valuable, the five different types of episodes, you should be creating, if you have one, and we break it down. And we may spend five minutes discussing it, but it doesn’t do justice to the full, you know, the full topic. So we will send that 20 or 30 minute episode to that person. So that speeds up the sales cycle to without you having to be there necessarily, you can deploy the content that you’ve already created to that person. Okay? It also when you if you do have them on your show it, it’s another give, right? And so it’s just building that trust, building that relationship, not asking for anything, and just helping them as much as possible. So it just that getting to know you and building trust. They may go in and I know it’s happened to you, John, they’ll go you know, John, I feel like I know you I just listened to five or 10 of your episodes. You’ve maybe talked to them once or maybe it’s the first time you’re talking to them, but they’ve binge listened to five or 10 year episodes. They come knowing your story and knowing certainly, yeah, yeah, for sure.
John Corcoran 14:59
You know, the way I describe it to people a lot of times is imagine it’s Saturday night, it’s whatever 1010 30 You’re about to hit the sack, you get an email from someone from a great potential client. They’re excited to talk to you. They say, Wait, when can we talk, I really want to know more about what you do. But you’re, you’re busy, you’re busy. By Monday, Tuesday, you’re fully booked, you can’t talk until Tuesday evening. In the interim, you can share with them one of these resources that we’re talking about here, which is not like pushing someone off your website. It’s not like a marketing pamphlet or anything like that. It’s a conversation. And they will if they consume it, and then in the meantime, before you talk, they will be that much further along. They will, they will be that much warmer, and it didn’t take any of your time, as you pointed out. Let’s talk about content creation. So one of the big advantages of doing podcasts is it saves time with content creation, because you’re talking out your content. How many people do we know that are beating themselves up because they haven’t done a blog post in six months, they know they need to do it. They know that Google and SEO and the world relies on content creation these days, you need to do it for thought leadership. And yet they’re beating themselves up because they haven’t done it. But such a better way to do it is to talk out your content. So talk about that.
Jeremy Weisz 16:12
Yeah, I mean, we’ve talked about this, you’re a writer. So it’s not maybe maybe it’s more painful. But maybe I feel like it’s not as painful. For you. I could be wrong. Like I if you asked me to write a blog post. I mean, you were a speechwriter at the White House. Governor, California. You know, if you asked me to write a blog post, in, you know, over a decade, I’ve been podcasting, I’ve been putting out two to three episodes, blog posts a week that go on 15 different channels, they go on the website, they go everywhere, I probably wouldn’t have done one. Maybe, maybe. But it’s more engaging. It’s, I find it easier, I’ll hear what you have to say about it, but to talk and have, you know, a great conversation. And then we hand it to our team that does all of the writing and posting. And so it’s an easy button, I could just upload, this is what we’ll do after this. We will in less than three minutes, send the file to our team, it will magically appear there’ll be a nice blog post written. And good thing, John, you know, works with writers because if it were me, we probably get nothing out the door because I was a biochemistry major file.
John Corcoran 17:23
That’s all you get. Yeah, exactly.
Jeremy Weisz 17:24
But it allows you to that is authority, that is SEO, um, you know, two to three episodes or posts a week is SEO, I know that. And if you do a video, it’s on YouTube. I know, a couple weeks after I’ve done interview, people Googled someone’s first and last name I’ve had on and I’m like three search results on the first page of Google for their name. And so now they’re, I’m showing up in searches for someone else. So it just saves so much time because you just show up and talk. And then the rest of it gets deployed as audio and video in a blog post and transcript. So, yeah, I want to hear what what your thoughts are, because I’m not a writer,
John Corcoran 18:09
right? I mean, to the point you made, it’s I describe it sometimes as a land grab, it’s grabbing real estate, where the real estate matters the most, you know, or it’s almost like back when the Yellow Pages was the thing is like getting a free Yellow Pages ad in the section that you want to be in. Because, you know, by creating this content, and putting it out there you are, you know, grabbing a piece of that coveted real estate on the first page of search results that people fight tooth and nail to get there. Right. The other example that I give is, you know, I wrote for Forbes for a few years. And I didn’t put out that many articles. Yeah, it had cachet and everything. But I put out like 10 to 12 articles a year, that’s 10 to 12 people that I was building and deepening a relationship with, it probably took over 100 hours. For half that amount of time. I’m, you know, connecting with five times as many people. And it was more, it’s more fun. It’s more enjoyable. And so yeah, even though I’m a writer naturally, that’s my background. You know, I realized that that impact the number of hours that you put in to the number of relationships that you build to the amount of content, the output in terms of word count, Article count is just far greater when you talk about your content.
Jeremy Weisz 19:27
Yeah, I mean, what’s the easiest way to deploy your ideas and gift your relationships and serve so many other purposes? Right, another one I want to point out so I don’t know if there’s anything on that piece but it just saves time and content creation. There’s there’s no doubt about it. I mean, you have so the busiest people in the world. If you look at some of them have a videographer or a video person following them around just to record it. And then the magic happens afterwards. So they
John Corcoran 19:55
do two more points. One is panel discussion And then the last one is repurposing, perhaps content that you created in another context, like a speech or a webinar or something like that. So panel discussions is one that we usually don’t recommend that people embark on if they’re just getting started. But you know, you and I are doing one this Friday, where it’s going to be basically a panel discussion. So you can, you can do it two different ways. You can do a panel where you, and perhaps other clients, come on your show and interview one person. Or you can do a panel discussion where you’re building a relationship with multiple guests, or all panelists on the panel, you’re the moderator facilitator. And you are guiding them through either way, it’s high leverage to talk about that point, Jim.
Jeremy Weisz 20:41
Yeah, I mean, it takes some, you know, you want to make sure you run it, right. So people aren’t talking over each other. So, you know, it’s always a work in progress. But, yeah, panel discussions, when you have and I’ve had people on like two or three people. I remember one person reached out and they said, Jeremy, I’m launching a new book, I want to come on the podcast. I’ve already had him on the podcast, great person. I’m like, this would be great. I’d love to have you on what, who are some of your friends, we’re also releasing books that we could have on as well, because I’ve had you on usually don’t have a ton of repeat people. So I like to get some, some fresh people on the podcast. And he brainstorm with me names. And he’s like, Well, I this friend, and you know, it was in the marketing arena. So he wanted something that was similar. He thought of two other people that were, I think one of them was, was releasing a book, and one of them had written a book. So we had three people on in the marketing realm, and he basically brainstorm the people. And I didn’t even know them. So he’s like, he reached out to him. He got them. We arranged it. And it was a great session. And they all had chemistry together because they knew each other. So it’s kind of fun. I didn’t, I only knew one of the three. And but it’s a great way to build relationships in this in this arena. And like you said, John Mossville and think of it well, you could have, there’s several we’ve done where we had another guest, interview around. Okay. And we both, you know, I had one in particular lately in the wine industry. And I don’t have a lot of industry knowledge in that. But we have a client who does. So I said, Hey, do you want to come on, and you could really be the brains behind the wine stuff. And I’ll ask questions about the journey. And it was great for both of us.
John Corcoran 22:36
It’s great. And then final point. And by the way, we should do a whole nother episode on best strategies, best practices around doing a panel moderated panel discussion, but last one is repurposing so repurposing a spreadsheet, you gave a webinar, you did a LinkedIn live Facebook Live talk a little bit about that point.
Jeremy Weisz 22:55
Yeah, I mean, listen, we spent, I don’t know, John, between the two of us, how many webinars have we done like over 400, or 500. So you spent, we spent a lot of time constructing those webinars thinking them through. And it’s kind of a shame, just like, Let not bring that into your podcast, right. And so there are certain points that you’ve really thought through certain stories that you can tell, and a lot of times, it’s based around, there’s, you have the webinar on that topic, because you are the thought leader in that specific space, you may ask, you know, ask answer questions that are really powerful that you want your audience to know. So you can take pieces of a webinar, and and release it. So repurpose what you’ve already done a speech that you’ve given, um, you know, it could be something that you touch on in like you said, in a LinkedIn live our Facebook Live, like you just said, you bring up these topics await the panel discussion, we people ask us all the time, like how should I do that? Well, now we just are brainstorming on the fly right now. Um, and we could take a pluck a topic that we can just touch on in one and bring it to another episode. So there’s so much that can be done, but use repurpose the stuff you’ve already done. The topics not you don’t like take it and you just play it on your podcast necessarily. But you can take pieces of it and actually record it and have individual pieces that you can deploy when necessary.
John Corcoran 24:32
Yeah. And I realized in the course of you answering that, that that’s not even focusing on repurposing once you’ve done the podcast repurposing that in other ways. So putting it on different social channels, putting on LinkedIn, creating interactive dynamic audio is where you take a little snippet of something that the guest said or that you said, and turning that into something that you put on social media that gets a high amount of engagement. So there’s those other events If it’s as well,
Jeremy Weisz 25:00
yeah, I mean saving time in general to give to your network. Once you have that conversation now, you can put it on all the channels. You can, like you said, Chuck, you know, we’ve done it, where we’ll take like a snippet of it, and we put it across all the social media channels all over again. So it’s giving to them all over again, and posting it on the social channels, when you’ve already had the conversation. And you’re even posted about that conversation. Now you’re doing it a second time? Yeah, just keep giving with the kind of original content or the repurpose content.
John Corcoran 25:35
Alright, wrapping things up. Where can people go to learn more about all of these ideas? And what we do?
Jeremy Weisz 25:41
Yeah, I mean, they can go to Smart Business Revolution, amazing guests, you can go to Inspired Insider. Again, all this content is free, by the way, amazing guests, you can go to more episodes of the Top Business Leaders Show and go to rise25.com to learn more about what we do, and we are just creating tons of free content to deliver value.
John Corcoran 26:05
Yeah, and connect on LinkedIn if you like as well, for either of us and happy to answer questions. We’re passionate about this stuff. So always happy to answer people’s questions if they’re curious about it. All right, Jeremy, thanks so much. Thank you.
Outro 26:17
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