Podcast Overview

Are you looking for a way to bring more exposure to your company? Are you the type of person that believes in helping other by openly sharing your expertise?

If so, we’d love to have you as a guest on our podcast.

Being a guest on the Bright Ideas Podcast will give you exposure to a large audience of entrepreneurs & marketing professionals from a variety of industries.

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Our Audience

Our show is downloaded about 15,000 times a month and the audience consists of the following segments:

• CEOs & CMOs of fast growing companies
• Marketing professionals
• Small business owners
• Venture-backed Startups

To ensure maximum reach our podcast is listed in iTunes & Stitcher. We also transcribe the interviews and chop them up into blog posts that are published on our blog, as well as syndicated to a number of high traffic sites (like Business2Community.com) across the web.

What Types of Interviews Do We Do?

#1: Topic Based Interviews: The interview focuses on a specific topic that is of interest to our community. The interview will consist of three phases:

1. Your perspective on the subject
2. Advice for our listeners on how to put your advice into practice (including recommended tools and resources)
3. The types of mistakes you see being made most often and how to avoid them

If the flow of questions that I’m going to ask is going to be significantly different than the above, we will notify you in advance.

#2: Entrepreneur Success Stories: The focus of this interview is to get you to share your entrepreneurial journey. We’ll ask you about what you do today, what you did previously, how you got started, and lessons learned (from mistakes made) along the way.

For this type of interview, the questions that he asks generally follow this format:

1. Who are you and what do you do?
2. Please tell me about your company as it is today.
3. How did you choose the niche you are targeting?
4. What are some of the ways you are generating leads?
5. Does content marketing play a role?
6. What does your sales process look like?
7. What are some of the things you’ve tried that didn’t work?
8. What advice would you give to other entrepreneurs who want to achieve what you have?
9. What are some of your favorite blogs, books, and tools?
10. How can people get in touch to learn more about you?

Technical Bits

Our show is an audio only podcast and we will be conducting the interview over Skype. For the best sound quality, please be sitting in a quite place and have either an external mic that plugs into your computer, or have a headset with a built in microphone.

If you do not use Skype, Trent will call your regular telephone.

Trent’s Skype name is trent.dyrsmid. Please be sure an add him to your contact list.

We’ll need a window of about 60 minutes to do the recorded interview.

Get a Caricature

To date, we’ve had over 150 guests on the show. All guests will receive a complimentary caricature as a token of our appreciation for being on the show.