Automate Your Podcast Workflow
Did you know that if you learn how to automate your podcast workflow, you could knock 12 hours off your podcasting process? If you’re overwhelmed with creating a workflow that fits into an ever-expanding schedule, podcast systems coach, Joe Casabona has some surprising tips.
He offers invaluable insights for streamlining your guest booking process, making it one of the first steps to mastering podcast automation. And while Joe acknowledges that the process is different for everyone, he found that automating guest booking tasks made his life easier especially when dealing with multiple time zones.
But even if you don’t interview guests, identify which standard operating procedure (SOP) in your podcasting process you can automate. Watch the video as Joe recommends some tools to help you automate your podcast workflow whether or not you host a solo podcast.
Finally, Joe cautions us to be mindful about thinking that we are the only ones who can perform all the tasks involved in producing our podcast and refers to this tendency as being a prideful podcaster in his article Overcoming The Seven Deadly Sins of Podcasting.
The above video is an excerpt from this week’s podcast episode entitled, How to Automate Your Podcast Workflow to Save Time.
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0:00 Yeah, this is a really important question, right? Because I think it's going to be different for everybody. But the thing that I ended up automating first was my guest booking process. So, you know, I think I used a scheduling link for you, but a lot of podcasters will still do the kind of manual outreach, which is good. But then they do the back and forth of the time zone dance. Hey, what time works for you? I'll create a link. That takes up so much time. It leaves room for error, right? Because we're in different time zones. You know, now it was like a pretty easy conversion for us. But if I was interviewing somebody in Arizona in November, right, that's really confusing because like Arizona doesn't change time.
0:46 They change time zones. They don't change their clocks and there's a part in it. So like they have their own system, right? Yeah. With a booking link, like Calendly or Cal.com, that does all the time zone math for you. But then to take it one step further, you can also...