It’s All About Balance

As I write this, it is Sunday afternoon. I have everything set up for a volleyball match, for the job that pays the bills. Working in college athletics can be a hectic business, and made even more hectic by my outside jobs as well.

After the volleyball match, and posting the story, then it is time to get busy on jobs two and three. Hosting two very succesful podcasts take a lot of planning. It is all about juggling schedules and looking ahead.

For example, my One Tree Hill Podcast has scheduled guests through mid november. In fact, interviews have already been recorded for three of the next five weeks of podcasts. The other two interviews are already in the books, they just need to be recorded.

As for my podcast for Southern Gothic Productions, well, that is about balancing schedules for four people. Kelly Tenney and I usually touch base once or twice a week about people’s schedules and we work around the hectic time table of writer Nick Gray and co-owner and actress Hilarie Burton. There are times it has been extremly difficult to get us all together. There is an annoucement in the works that will elevate some of the stress of scheduling and make things fresh for when we post a new podcast.

Also on the books today is editing. I will edit and clean up any audio for the podcasts and then cut intros and exits for the One Tree Hill Podcast. For the Southern Gothic Productions Podcast, I will also incorporate the two artists we have chosen to intro and exit the podcast. Not to mention input the intro and exit recording from Hilarie Burton.

Then the social media implementation begins. For One Tree Hill, I spend the days after posting the previous podast reminding listeners a new one is coming up and also about the upcoming guest.

For the Southern Gothic Productions Podcast we go a step further. On Monday, we do a #musicmonday tweet on Twitter highlighting one of the artists on the podcast that week. We also post a preview of the podcast on Tuesday on Twitter and then send out a twitter message on Wednesday that the podcast has posted.

I also cross promote both podcasts by posting a new episode on various message boards and fan boards.

It is something that I have found keeps your podcasts in the minds of your listeners.