Episode 25 1st Anniversary Episode
BUSINESS AND MARKETING 1st ANNIVERSARY EPISODE\xa0\nThank you for joining us today for episode 25 of the Select Business Team podcast. \xa0I\u2019m so exicted about this episode because it marks the 1st year of creating this podcast. \xa0Select Business Team brings business professionals together to discuss options for growing and expanding business with a focus on marketing, leadership and revenue and our podcast provides conversations with business owners on similar topics.\n\nSince today is our 1st anniversary, we are celebrating and this episode is packed full of information to help you, the business professional. The overall theme is lessons I\u2019ve learned from this first year of production, but there are several valuable ideas that I share as I\u2019m talking. The first few minutes you\u2019ll hear me thank a few people that stepped up to the plate to really help this podcast get started, then the real nuggets begin. \xa0\n\nIn addition to thanking a few people, I also share with your my personal insights about this journey. \xa0If you are looking for marketing ideas, keep listening, because you'll hear several. \xa0Here\u2019s a little bit of what you can expect:\n\n \tChallenges people have being interviewed on an podcast\n \tTime management issues of creating a podcast\n \tWhat\u2019s in the analytics - can you guess what country gets more listens than my own state?\n \tThe bigger vision for podcasts\n\nAt the very end I'll mention a new program I'm launching called Next Level Referrals. \xa0If you want to build a solid referral business, it's worth listening to the end and getting the details!\nLets get this 1st anniversary episode started.\nIt\u2019s \xa0hard to believe that it has been 12 months since we launched the podcast for Select Business Team. Today I want to share my appreciation for those that have made this journey possible and talk about a few lessons learned along the way.\n\nIt has been such an interesting experience, but in reality, this might not have ever started if it wasn\u2019t for two very special people. You see, I had been thinking about a podcast for a long time. \xa0I tried to recruit my son to help me but he wasn\u2019t interested. \xa0Then one day I was talking to Ben Piper, \xa0who is the owner of Commonwealth Consulting Group and an SBT member. Somehow we got on the subject of podcasts and he said he had one. Truly I was in awe and he could see my excitement.\n\nHe volunteered to show me how to get started. Otherwise, I might still be talking about it and not taken action! Initially, I was intimidated, but after hours of research, it wasn\u2019t as hard as I thought. The hardest part is making time, which I\u2019ll talk about shortly.\n\nShortly after showing me the equipment, Ben told me about a meetup group for podcasters and encouraged me to attend. That\u2019s where I met Charlie Birney of Podcast Village who has been a true inspiration for me. He\u2019s got a heart of gold and is always sharing his knowledge and offers his studio at a discount to members of meetup.\n\nI\u2019ve done a lot of recordings at his studio and we share ideas regularly. You\u2019ll hear him on an upcoming episode. Again, a big thanks to Ben and Charlie for helping me get started and bringing this podcast vision to life.\nTHANK YOU\nOne other person that I\u2019d like to thank is Rick Becker. He\u2019s someone I went to high school with and while we didn\u2019t really know each other then, we reconnected through a mutual friend and he\u2019s become my running partner. He\u2019s got a great voice and after a lot of convincing, he agreed to do the intro for my podcast. \xa0When we recorded the intro, I truly didn\u2019t have any idea what I was doing. I didn\u2019t know about voice levels and how to set the microphone on the recording software. We did several \u2018takes\u2019 and thanks to my amazing editor Evan, we have an intro that I love! So thanks Rick, and to his wife Susie for putting up with me and Evan for all of your hard work.\n\nWhen I first launched the podcast, the plan was to interview members of Select Business Team and use the podcast as a mem...