Are You Ready to Outsource your Podcast?

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Welcome to podcasting one on one with me your host

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Rachel. This podcast is for female business owners and

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solopreneurs that are looking to start a podcast that add to your

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own already awesome offering. I'll give you helpful advice

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that you can take away and use in your podcasting journey. I

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hope to answer those tricky questions that just keep you

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from starting. Once a month, I'll be joined by other female

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podcasters. They'll share their journey with you and offer tips

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and advice they discovered along the way. Let's get started.

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Hi, and welcome to this week's episode. Today, I am talking

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about are you ready to outsource your podcast. If you already

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have a podcast, you'll know that it is quite a commitment. There

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are a lot of moving pieces that you need to keep up with to get

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your episodes out there on a weekly bi weekly, whatever your

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commitment is on that kind of basis. And so let's just break

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down all the moving parts to podcast. So there's recording

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the episodes. If you're doing guests, there's research and

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scheduling those guests, editing the episodes, writing show

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notes, uploading and publishing your episodes. Then we get into

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the promotion side of your podcast. So this is creating the

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content around the episodes, for example, creating a variety of

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posts, email marketing, and updating your website. Also not

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forgetting to repurpose and keep promoting all the episodes that

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you've previously released. And you know, this all takes time to

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do. We are all so busy with our work life, our family life,

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especially if you're doing a podcast, and you're handling all

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the things yourself as well as your business and personal life,

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it can feel a bit much and can get a bit overwhelming. And

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outsourcing can really help relieve that pressure. You may

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or may not know that I'm a podcast manager myself. And my

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aim with my clients is to take all those pieces, the editing,

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show notes, publishing, promotion, all those pieces,

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take them off you and do them for you, which will then create

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more time in your life. For your work for your clients, or more

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time for family life. All you need to do is send me the

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recording, and I'll do the rest. So if you think this sounds like

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you, if you're feeling overwhelmed, you've not feel

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like you don't have time for your podcast, or you need to

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create more time for you to spend in your business or your

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family take a little bit of time to to reassess what you're doing

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and how you're doing it. How much time are you spending on

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these tasks, a great way to find this out is to use an app like

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toggle, which is what I use to tie my work I did this when I

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was a VA as well. You can literally time was off doing all

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these tasks. And it gives you an idea of how much time you're

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spending on all those things. This is a really great tip for

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the rest of your business as well, to get you to realise how

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much time you're spending, working on your business, not as

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well as the client work that you're doing. So you can work

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out how much time it's taking you to do all these pieces and

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really then assess how much time you have in day to day, week to

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week. And you know, then looking at outsourcing those things.

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Then you need to think about are you comfortable handing off

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these tasks? Are you happy if somebody else does these pieces

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of work for you. And it may be that you don't need to outsource

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all of it. Maybe you just want to outsource the editing and the

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show notes and the uploading side of things and you're happy

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doing the promotion around your podcasts or maybe it's the other

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way around, perhaps you're happy doing one of those other things

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but you just don't want to do the social media side of things.

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Then you can send your content over to whoever is going to be

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doing it for you. And they can create a delivery audiograms the

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clips or social posts or the graphics around promoting your

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podcast. If you're feeling stuck and you'd like to run your plan,

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pass somebody then I'm here. I'm happy to chat and offer some

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guidance To you, you can book in a coffee chat with me. And

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there's a link in the show notes for you to do that. I hope this

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episode has helped those of you that have a podcast and are

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looking to get some support and guidance around maintaining your

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podcast and keeping going with your awesome content. As always,

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if you have any questions, please let me know. I would love

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to hear from you. Take care. Bye. Thanks so much for

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listening. If you've enjoyed today's episode, please like

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share and subscribe. Your support means so much to me. If

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there's a question or topic you'd like covering then I'd

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love to hear from you. Find the podcast on Instagram at Reggie

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Botfield and drop me a DM till next time bye