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creating amazing podcast interviews on today's episode. Today's episode is brought to you by Social Pilot, the social media and marketing tool for bloggers and small businesses. Join over 20,000 social media pros at serve. No master dot com Backslash social pilot today Are you tired of dealing with your boss? Do you feel underpaid and underappreciated? If you want to make it online, fire your boss and start living your retirement dreams now then you've come to the right place. Welcome to serve no master podcast where you learn how to open new revenue streams and make money while you sleep. Presented live from a tropical island in the South Pacific by best selling author Jonathan Green. Now here's your host. I've Bean doing recordings online for nearly a decade now, using every different software tool you can imagine doing Webinars interviews, calls and I've encountered so many different technological problems, and it can really be a nightmare. You spend an hour recording your greatest performance ever, and then you discover that the recording is broken. There are several different ways that your recordings can go bad, and they all happened to me when you're recording with a guest. I've done a webinar where I have 1/4 of my end and then the guest voice never get selected. You don't check one little box. And on Lee records one voice of the other. I've done that multiple times. It's the worst. Or you could make a very common mistake where it records on the other end, or the software that's recording crashes in the middle and you lose everything. These have all happened to me, and it's such an overwhelming night when the last thing you want to do is seem unprofessional. This is why it could be so tempting to wanna record in person with a tape recorder, because then at least you know you're not gonna lose it. At least it's a physical thing. So recording someone online could be a little bit daunting because all these mistakes airs and complications. They're pretty common. I've done recordings where I've recorded two different ways. The guest has recorded I've recorded and both have gotten corrupted. Now, technology has gotten better over the last few years. Most of these problems happened three or four years ago, but you still want to be as prepared as possible. There are problems that can happen that our operator air. And that's the real danger really common. One is you connect with someone. They've got an amazing microphone in front of her face, but they clicked the wrong setting or the software defaulted back, and it's recording through the laptop microphone. This has happened to me multiple times in multiple different ways. So this isn't really an uncommon air. This isn't really a big surprise, and it's not always the person's fault, because sometimes it's the software automatically defaulted without them noticing. And so this little mistake, this little thing you don't even notice, could destroy the quantum's recording. And this has happened to me when I'm recording by myself that have made a recording with the guest. All these things can be overwhelming, and the standard way to deal with this right now is to send your guests a big cheque list of the steps taken. In fact, one of appeared on other podcasts. They've sent me checklist in the past thing got this, This, this, this and this, make sure all these things are set up and it kind of gives your guest a lot of things to do. and that could be okay if your guest is low and they want to appear on your show. So if your guest has a smaller audience than you. But if your guest is someone larger on instant, you're trying to grow your audience. Whether at the same level than you, they're gonna find it annoying, especially been in other shows. I don't have to do those things, so these can be really stressful and even worse, our issues. If you're doing a video podcast with lighting and with background noise, you have to deal with all these other issues. Background noise is basically the bane of my existence. I'm constantly at war with the background noise of my life. There's always a noise from somewhere around me, Whether it's the dog or one of the kids or someone outside or a motorcycle driving by. It's very hard to be in a place of absolute silence. It's very hard to create that environment. No matter what you d'oh! The outside world will always exist unless you have entirely soundproof department are entirely soundproof room in your house, which is very hard to make. It can be difficult to get that perfect silence and all your guests has to do is forget one little thing like to turn off the water, machine and refrigerator or the phone rings in the background and you have a problem. You recording, you have to deal with all this stuff. So how can you do with these problems these days? And what's great is that there's been some shifts and technology there, a couple of cool new tools coming out that make things a lot easier. So I will walk you through three different ways of recording. Now the way that I record. Right now, I use Skype and use a special program called Call Recorder. And with this program does that's really great. Is it records? When you said it right, you have to set it up right. It will record two different channels. It will record me and one channel and the Gaston another. Now, the problem with this software and the reason I'm looking to make a change, I'm looking to test out some new things. I want to share these with you as I experiment you. Directions is that if there's any delay, if there's any artifact ing or problem with the signal from the guests coming to me that would be stored in the recording. Other programs what you really want. The ideal solution is something that records on each person's system so records their computer and stores it in records on my computer doors and then merges them. And that's kind of where some new technologies going, and that's what's really exciting Right now. It's a shift in the market, and it's kind of technology catching up with the need of what presenters really need. There've been some attempts in the past to make software for podcasters that have really tanked, and for that reason I haven't really shift. But in the last six months, to really cool tools have come out that very interesting. One is called cast in what is called Zen Castor, and they're very similar to what they do. They're very similar pricing, and I'll be doing some experimenting with them over the coming months, and I want to share them with you now because they're very interesting and what they do is you log in and the guest logs in and it takes the guests through and make sure the guest has the right microphone activate all those little steps, and so it's integrated into the log in process, and when each person speaks, it records them separately. So I get record on my computer. The guest gets reporting their computer. There's 1/3 guest. They get report on their computer, and then they all get merged together in the website. See, when you have your guest record their own channel, often times I have to have the guests send me their audio file, send me their recording, and then I have to sink them up, which takes a really long time. Matching up to audio files has to be perfect. If one audio files out of sync by half a second, it's very noticeable in the final product. And all these little problems are something that can hold people back from podcasting. A lot of people feel overwhelmed by the challenge of podcasting or the challenges of dealing with the software. And so I just want to share with you that I'm really excited about some of these changes, and that now getting into interviewing doesn't have to be a scary is used to be, you know, after what about these technical hurdles and they each have free trial, seem kind of check them on, get started. And in my experience, the technical fear is one of the first really overwhelming fierce that people face when they're thinking about getting into podcasting. Think about as a performance and as someone who's deejaying around the world. I've had a lot of experiences where major software problems or major hardware problems. I've really kicked me in the teeth. I've had experiences where the power went out to the tools I was. You have had experiences where the computers crash, where the computers died forever, where the smoke coming out of computer, all these things can happen, and they're really scary. The great thing about using an integral solution, something that's in between you and the guest is that these things can't happen. You have your local backups, your remote backups, and these tools are only getting more powerful. And I think there's gonna be strong shift over the next few years into these directions in these tools will continue to get more more refined, and it's something that makes me pretty excited about looking towards the future of podcasting. You know that I'm not heavily into interviews with my podcasting, and part of that is I love kind of sharing my message with you, but I will be definitely recording Maur interviews in the future. I have an interview coming up next week that I'm very excited about with one of largest podcasters in the world. I've been thinking a lot about ways to bring you Maur and exciting information, and they're a couple of things that hold me back personally from doing a lot of interviews. And one of them is the time logistics. It's hard to schedule a time this interview have next week. We actually schedule it. Three weeks ago, I had to do with his assistant. It's on the counter, the whole thing. I don't really like doing that. I hate having a really hard line, fixed schedule, but with a tool that's like handles all the steps, it makes it a lot easier. I hate having to send someone calendar thing and that I have to send them a separate thing about the Skype invitation. Have to send him separate reminder. It makes it really, really complicated, and they have to send them the list of instructions, make sure they don't mess up the recording by using the wrong microphone, or I've had people use a really bad phone connection on interview before. It sounds terrible. All of these problems become bigger and bigger and bigger, and it's just extra stress that you don't want. So the ability to control more, more of the process in the ability to work with a really tight solution that gets me excited. That's something I'm interested in. And I think that as a test of both these tools and trial castings and cast, and eventually I'll update the post about this to tell you which one I like more. I've just been researching over last week thinking about some change and discovered one of the discovered, the other, some very interested in seeing where things can go forward if they could make it easy for me, kind of remove all of the house so I don't want to hate sending people a list of instructions, and I'll make sure do this. Make sure have headphones on. Make sure if the software can kind of handle all that and make sure I get a good recording them excited about. No, obviously I don't want to test this stuff using a real guest. That's the other thing. It's like, Do you really want put all your eggs in one basket? I've seen people do this before. I saw people in the past when Google Hangouts first came out in a couple of other different webinar. Prosperous came out. They started doing live events, and their first time using this software was at a big sales event, and I just couldn't believe it, because that's so dangerous. You never want to try something new when it's really important when it's live. So when you're testing these tools, if you decide to give a tryout, try him out with a friend of trauma with not a real guests you don't want to try to will discover it's not for you. That's the reason that I don't use a Google hangouts is that I had a couple of experience that were really bad with it. The software's probably great now. It's been a couple of years since then, but when you try something once and doesn't work, it really burns out your impression of that tool. I really think that it's kind of a great time to move in a podcast. I'm really excited about where podcasting is going because my casting is really growing as a market. It's really growing with how many people are listening podcaster. The numbers are up across the board, and it's really wide opportunity right now to enter the market. And that's the reason that software technology is now adapting. For a long time, there weren't very many good options for recording for podcasts. Most of tools out there was kind of secondary feature. Wasn't something really serious. But now that the market is so strong that technology is finally catching up, people finally rising. Wait, everyone does Listen, podcast. Maybe we should make technology for that. So over the coming year, expect to see a lot more really, really cool developments and really exciting things coming out. And I think that you're gonna be very excited with where this market goes, and it's really just a great opportunity. So if you've ever thought about doing recordings, whether it's for a podcast or for anything else, I really recommend check out these new tools, and I'm just excited about the direction that things are going in right now, and these air couple of really great ways. You can record amazing live interviews for your next podcast. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Serve No Master. Make sure you subscribe, so you never miss another episode. We'll be back tomorrow with more tips and tactics on how to escape that rat race. Head over to serve no master dot com forward slash podcasts Now for your chance to win a free copy of Jonathan's best seller, Serve No, master. All you have to do is leave a five star review of this podcast. See you tomorrow. Thank you for listening to this episode of the serve. No master podcast. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode.