Are In­ter­net Ra­dio In­ter­views Worth The Trouble?

From Willie Craw­ford.

When I first dis­cov­ered In­ter­net ra­dio shows, and the fact that any­one can start their own ra­dio show on­line, I won­dered how valu­able they re­ally were.

I won­dered how use­ful it would be to be­come a guest on some of these shows. I won­dered how big and how re­spon­sive the au­di­ences were.

I won­dered how use­ful it would be for me to host my own show. How many peo­ple would ac­tu­ally tune in to the live shows, and how many would lis­ten to recorded episodes in the archives.

I am very please to an­nounce that af­ter over a year of be­ing a guest on nu­mer­ous In­ter­net ra­dio shows, and of host­ing my own, I con­sider them VERY useful.

Long ago, I took a course in get­ting free pub­lic­ity by be­ing a guest on talk ra­dio shows. In that course, I learned the with some of the smaller ra­dio sta­tions you may NOT have a huge au­di­ence, but if you do things right you can still make lots of sales, and get lots of new subscribers.

I’ve dis­cov­ered that be­ing a guest on an In­ter­net ra­dio show is re­ally no dif­fer­ent than be­ing a guest on an of­fline ra­dio show.

It’s ac­tu­ally MUCH eas­ier to build your list by be­ing a guest on In­ter­net ra­dio shows though. You merely need to asks the host’s per­mis­sion to give out a free gift, and you send the lis­ten­ers to an au­tore­spon­der to col­lect the gift. With of­fline ra­dio shows your lis­ten­ers may be in their cars, or nowhere near a com­puter so it’s harder to drive them to a website.

Host­ing my own ra­dio show for over a year has also pro­vided a ter­rific mar­ket­ing tool, boost­ing my sales and name recog­ni­tion! My show, hosted and archived at https://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford/ has had hun­dreds of thou­sands of lis­ten­ers (mostly tun­ing in to archived episodes). Many of them have be­come cus­tomers, of­ten buy­ing af­fil­i­ate prod­ucts pro­moted dur­ing the shows.

I’ve also had many episodes of my show tran­scribed, cre­at­ing dozens of ebooks that I ei­ther sell or give away. You can see how I turn tran­scribed episodes of my show into free ebooks (and use them to build my list) at: https://williecrawford.com/FreeTranscripts.htm

I pro­mote those free tran­scripts via email, ar­ti­cles, press re­leases, videos, blogs and so­cial net­work­ing sites. I also of­fer some of the free tran­scripts (as „ebooks”) in free list-build­ing giveaways).

In the past year, I’ve had over 250,000 down­loads of tran­scripts from my ra­dio shows. That’s a LOT of great pub­lic­ity, and a LOT of links to a prod­ucts and ser­vices that I recommend.

My ra­dio show has be­come a con­tent gen­er­at­ing MACHINE!

I of­ten use MY af­fil­i­ate links for prod­ucts of­fered by guests on my ra­dio shows. It’s a very lu­cra­tive model.

So get­ting back to the ti­tle of this ar­ti­cle „Are In­ter­net Ra­dio In­ter­views Worth The Trou­ble?” my an­swer is ab­solutely. It’s a big part of my busi­ness model. It may be a ready source of new busi­ness that you should tap into today.

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Willie Craw­ford is a lead­ing In­ter­net mar­ket­ing and traf­fic gen­er­a­tion ex­pert. His fa­vorite method for gen­er­at­ing free web­site traf­fic is dis­trib­ut­ing videos, au­dios, ar­ti­cles and press re­leases us­ing the au­to­mated dis­tri­b­u­tion ser­vice at https://ibmm.com/epbt

To help you suc­ceed Willie has cre­ated The In­ter­net Mar­ket­ing In­ner Cir­cle, a mem­ber­ship site where he fre­quently brain­storms so­lu­tions to prob­lems such as those dis­cussed in this ar­ti­cle. Join that dis­cus­sion for your suc­cess at TheIn­ter­net­Mar­ketingIn­ner­cir­cle.