128 Podcast Answer Man – Extending Your Brand With Twitter

Hey Cliff,@reply@replies@username
Once again great content on this episode.
if they also follow that user. They can only see those if they go to your actual profile.

Here's the blog post on this released by Twitter: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/small-settings-upd...

On the other hand this created a HUGE uproar from some twitter users who liked discovering new Twitterers to follow by listening in to the conversations of people they were following. "If @GSPN talks to this guy he must be cool! I'll follow him, too!"

Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about how it came across to your followers, because most of us know that is just part of the business and we know that 99% of your tweets aren't about selling equipment. Plus, with millions of users on Twitter, the chances are pretty slim that we're following that random person who you are trying to make a sale with.

Thanks again, for the great content!

Will

Hey Cliff,@reply@replies@username
Once again great content on this episode.
if they also follow that user. They can only see those if they go to your actual profile.

Here's the blog post on this released by Twitter: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/small-settings-upd...

On the other hand this created a HUGE uproar from some twitter users who liked discovering new Twitterers to follow by listening in to the conversations of people they were following. "If @GSPN talks to this guy he must be cool! I'll follow him, too!"

Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about how it came across to your followers, because most of us know that is just part of the business and we know that 99% of your tweets aren't about selling equipment. Plus, with millions of users on Twitter, the chances are pretty slim that we're following that random person who you are trying to make a sale with.

Thanks again, for the great content!

Will

Podcasting with co-hosts can be a interesting task. While listen to this episode, I thought back to when I was looking to start my podcast. Originally, I was just going to do something solo. When I announced on my Blog that I was thinking of doing a podcast, someone asked if they might be able to join me in doing it. After some discussion, we decided to go ahead with it. We decided to generate a test Podcast. After recording it, we listened to it. It was really missing something. At the same time, we found out there was already a podcast with a similar or the same name. This almost ended the podcast right there. Shortly after this happened, I was approached by another blogger, whom I knew who also wanted to get in on it. With three members, it just started to click. We came up with a new podcast name and we should be recording episode 8 later on tonight. We record every other week right now, but we are looking at moving to a weekly format. It is all a matter of scheduling three people. Sorry for being verbose, I guess my point for your listeners is this. If you are considering adding a host, either record a test podcast with them or bring them on as a guest host one or more times to test them out first. As long as your open with the other person about what your doing and why, usually they understand. After all no one wants to be on a podcast only to find out the chemistry is just not right and then feels stuck.

Podcasting with co-hosts can be a interesting task. While listen to this episode, I thought back to when I was looking to start my podcast. Originally, I was just going to do something solo. When I announced on my Blog that I was thinking of doing a podcast, someone asked if they might be able to join me in doing it. After some discussion, we decided to go ahead with it. We decided to generate a test Podcast. After recording it, we listened to it. It was really missing something. At the same time, we found out there was already a podcast with a similar or the same name. This almost ended the podcast right there. Shortly after this happened, I was approached by another blogger, whom I knew who also wanted to get in on it. With three members, it just started to click. We came up with a new podcast name and we should be recording episode 8 later on tonight. We record every other week right now, but we are looking at moving to a weekly format. It is all a matter of scheduling three people. Sorry for being verbose, I guess my point for your listeners is this. If you are considering adding a host, either record a test podcast with them or bring them on as a guest host one or more times to test them out first. As long as your open with the other person about what your doing and why, usually they understand. After all no one wants to be on a podcast only to find out the chemistry is just not right and then feels stuck.