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40 Great Questions to Ask in an Interview

Customer Support — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:06:05 +0000

Once you have booked guests for your podcast, it will be time to start preparing for what you hope will be a great interview.

There are a number of questions to ask in each interview that can break the ice and get the interview off to a good start. These questions can apply to every guest, and open the door to a more detailed interview in which they then go on to talk about themselves and their topic in more detail.

Do Your Research First

Know who they are before you interview them, and help your audience get to know them through the questions you ask. Be sure to avoid asking any yes/no questions. Keep things open-ended.

Sample Questions to Ask

Here is a list of 40 questions to ask and make your interview a success.

1. Who are you?

2. Who do you work for/what is the name of your company?

3. How long have you been working in this niche or industry?

4. How did you get started in this niche?

5. How do you think your background influenced you to getting into this niche?

6. How has your role in this niche changed over time?

7. What are some of your favorite aspects of working in niche?

8. Describe a typical day in your life.

9. What hobbies do you enjoy when you’re not working hard?

10. What’s your favorite book or movie?

11. What accomplishments in your niche are you most proud of, and why?

12. What are you working on these days?

13. What do you think newcomers to the niche really need to know to be successful?

14. Who have been your role models?

15. What is your favorite part of your job, and why?

16. What is your least favorite part of your job, and why?

17. Tell us about a time when you got some very surprising results from a project you had been working on.

18. What is it about this niche that makes you passionate enough to keep working in it?

19. What is the main advice you would give people new to the niche?

20. What common questions do you get asked about our niche?

21. What are some of the main problems you see that prevent people from being more successful in this niche?

22. What are your strengths?

23. What are your weaknesses?

24. What attracted you to this niche?

25. When are you most satisfied in your work?

26. What can you do for your target audience that other people in your niche can’t?

27. What is your greatest success, and what did you learn from it?

28. What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?

29. How do you want to improve yourself personally in the next year?

30. How do you want to improve your business in the next year?

31. What is your ideal working environment? Where do you spend most of your time?

32. What techniques and tools do you use to keep yourself organized?

33. Was there a person in your career who really made a difference?

34. What are you most proud of?

35. What three character traits would your friends use to describe you?

36. What would you like to learn to do better in your niche?

37. What is your greatest achievement outside of work?

38. Where do you see yourself in five years’ time?

39. What’s coming up next for you in your niche that you are excited about?

40. Where can people get in touch with you for more information?

Make sure you ask these questions during each interview you host on your podcast and see what a difference it can make to your audience’s knowledge and enthusiasm.

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Customer Support — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:09:14 +0000

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How to Find Inspiration for Your Podcasts

Customer Support — Sun, 23 May 2021 16:12:10 +0000

There are many places to get inspiration for your podcasts. In the same way that you will often find inspiration for your blog posts, so too can you find inspiration for your podcasts.

1. Brainstorm

When you are first starting your podcasting, it is probably because you feel inspired to do so and have at least a couple of topics on your mind that you would like to speak about. Don’t lose those ideas and that momentum. Do a brain dump in which you write down every idea you have. Then start tackling them one by one.

2. Look at discussion boards and forums

See what the people in your niche are talking about.

3. Check out social media

What are people talking about on the networks you use? Or in the groups, such as Facebook Groups?

4. The news

What’s going on in the world that you can connect to in your podcast?

5. Ask your audience

Get them to email you or tweet you what they want to hear.

6. Bring on guests

Bring on guests who have certain niche-related things they want to talk about. You can get audience members and experts to all join in.

7. Read frequently asked questions about your niche

FAQs can offer a wealth of content to help your audience get the most out of your niche and solve their problems.

8. Pay attention to your competition

What kinds of things are they talking about on their podcasts? Subscribe to at least two or three, or search their teaser copy to get ideas.

9. Go head to head with your competition

If you subscribe to different podcasts and hear something you disagree with, or want to cover in more detail, go for it. Don’t be harsh or adversarial, though. In fact, you might even suggest that you do a podcast together so that both your audiences can benefit from it.

10. Use customer support issues

If you get the same questions coming up over and over again in your customer support email, chances are it is something worth discussing in detail.

11. Check trends online

Most of the social sites, and search engines, show what is trending. You can join in on the conversation.

12. Follow thought leaders

Follow thought leaders on Twitter, Facebook, and so on. See what kinds of things they are talking about that inspire you.

13. Your own blog posts

You don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel all the time. Leverage the content you already have to create your podcasts by using your blog posts.

14. Top Ten Listicles

Listicles are articles in a list format, with Top 10 tips, Top 10 items, and so on all listed, and then discussed briefly. We could title this article “Top 15 ways to get ideas for your podcasts”, for example. People love lists, hints, and tips.

15. Article directories

Article directories were really popular a couple of years ago when Google gave higher rank to pages that had a lot of backlinks. This is no longer quite true, but there is still a lot of interesting content that was created by pretty talented business owners and writers to try to drive traffic back to their own sites. Search for your niche and see what inspires you.

Now that you know the best places to find inspiration for your podcasts, you should be ready to start your own or perk up your existing podcast to give it whole new energy.