How to Optimize Your Podcast Editing Workflow, Fire Clients, and Launch New Businesses

02/18/22 • 59 min

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Producing a podcast is a LOT of work, and it can be confusing. Fortunately, there are editors like us who not only take on some of the workload, but also bring our expertise and structure to the process. And as an added benefit, we are always looking for ways to improve what we do, for our benefit and our clients.

We focus on improving our processes, get better at identifying issues, improving client relationships, and more. However, that doesn't mean that every client is a fit for us and sometimes we have to make the tough call - to decide that it's time to part ways with a client.

Of course, even in parting, how we do it matters.

Join us as Mike Wilkerson of EditorCorps.com and VoiceFarmers.com shares how he not only practices these himself, but also helps other editors get their businesses up and running ... in a way that benefits everyone and gets another pro editor out into the wild :)

Listen to Discover

Signs that it might be time to part ways
Whether it's worth adapting to match a client's processes
Why Mike started EditorCorps.com and how it can help podcast editors get started

Links And Resources

About Mike Wilkerson

Mike Wilkerson is a former certified Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf, then a Marketing Automation Director for a large St. Louis-based Computer company. He now conjures content of all kinds for a growing client listing across the nation. Mike has been hosting, producing, concepting and enhancing podcasts since 2005. While his interests are definitively pop culture-based, the bottom line is: It’s ALL About Perspective. Whether it’s being captured inside of one of Mike’s Podcast Capture Studios (based in the St. Louis area). – Podcasting is Captured Perspective. Mike also runs a Podcast Editing Team & Academy (The Editor Corps over at EditorCorps.Com) and a Voiceover Team (The VoiceFarmers over at VoiceFarmers.Com). If you're looking for lightbulb moments, education and perspective - Mike is the OG Podcaster you'll want to connect with.

Editor

This episode of the Podcast Editors Mastermind was edited by Alejandro Ramirez. You can find him on Facebook if you're interested in talking with him about editing your show.

Be a Guest

If you're a podcast editor, we'd love to see if you'd be a fit for a future episode. Fill out this form to let us know you're interested, and we'll contact you to see if it's a good fit.

Your Yetis Are

Daniel Abendroth | Roth Media
Jennifer Longworth | Bourbon Barrel Podcasting
Carrie Caulfield Arick | YaYa Podcasting
Bryan Entzminger | Top Tier Audio

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Of course, even in parting, how we do it matters.

Listen to Discover

Signs that it might be time to part ways
Whether it's worth adapting to match a client's processes
Why Mike started EditorCorps.com and how it can help podcast editors get started

Links And Resources

About Mike Wilkerson

Editor

This episode of the Podcast Editors Mastermind was edited by Alejandro Ramirez. You can find him on Facebook if you're interested in talking with him about editing your show.

Be a Guest

If you're a podcast editor, we'd love to see if you'd be a fit for a future episode. Fill out this form to let us know you're interested, and we'll contact you to see if it's a good fit.

Your Yetis Are

Daniel Abendroth | Roth Media
Jennifer Longworth | Bourbon Barrel Podcasting
Carrie Caulfield Arick | YaYa Podcasting
Bryan Entzminger | Top Tier Audio

This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

Previous Episode

Can Podcast Editors Quit Social Media?

It seems like there's always this pressure to do everything. To be everywhere. And that applies not only to (sometimes) taking clients who aren't a great fit, but also to the idea of "being everywhere."

But do we actually have to be everywhere? Do we actually have to do everything?

Do we HAVE to be on social media? Or can we operate and grow our businesses without being on social media?

Listen as Chris Curran shares what happened when he disappeared from social media and Carrie shares what happened when she took a break from it.

Listen to Discover

In what ways can social media be healthy for us and our businesses?
In what ways can social media be unhealthy for podcast editors?
What was it like for Chris when he left Facebook?
Has being off Facebook slowed down Chris's business growth?

Links And Resources

About Chris Curran

Chris Curran is a podcast engineer and the founder of Podcast Engineering School, where he teaches serious podcast producers how to produce professional quality shows by doubling down on their knowledge of audio production fundamentals, engineering remote recording sessions, and full professional post-production. He's also the host of the Podcast Engineering Show, where he interviews audio professionals about how they produce professional audio so that all of his listeners can take the best of what they learn and use it to continually improve what they do.

Editor

This episode of the Podcast Editors Mastermind was edited by Alejandro Ramirez. You can find him on Facebook if you're interested in talking with him about editing your show.

Be a Guest

If you're a podcast editor, we'd love to see if you'd be a fit for a future episode. Fill out this form to let us know you're interested, and we'll contact you to see if it's a good fit.

Your Yetis Are

Daniel Abendroth | Roth Media
Jennifer Longworth | Bourbon Barrel Podcasting
Carrie Caulfield Arick | YaYa Podcasting
Bryan Entzminger | Top Tier Audio

About the Podcast Editors Mastermind

The Podcast Editors Mastermind is for professional podcast editors who want to grow their business and get more clients. We’re creating a community of like-minded professionals that are passionate about the art and science of editing podcasts.

Our goal is to help you build your business by providing tools, resources, and support so you can focus on what matters most—your craft. This isn’t just another group where everyone talks about how great they are at podcast editing; we show our work!

Follow or subscribe and take the Podcast Editors Mastermind with you today!

This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

Next Episode

Raising Your Podcast Editing Rates

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Raising your podcast editing rates...

It's scary.

It's necessary.

It can lead to GREAT conversations.

But if you're like me (Bryan), you might find those conversations hard to think about and even harder to start. Join us for this live recording of the Podcast Editors Mastermind as we share our experiences and perspectives and hope to hear yours, too.

We want to see ALL of us get paid what we're worth so that we can provide great service to our clients and customers and also live well, knowing that what we do matters and that we're compensated well for it.

Listen to Discover

Why raising rates can be scary
How many clients your Yetis have lost due to raising rates
One tool that can help make it easier to start the, "My rates have gone up" conversation

Links And Resources

Podcast Editor Academy

Editor

This episode of the Podcast Editors Mastermind was edited by Alejandro Ramirez. You can find him on Facebook if you're interested in talking with him about editing your show.

Be a Guest

If you're a podcast editor, we'd love to see if you'd be a fit for a future episode. Fill out this form to let us know you're interested, and we'll contact you to see if it's a good fit.

Your Yetis Are

Daniel Abendroth | Roth Media
Jennifer Longworth | Bourbon Barrel Podcasting
Carrie Caulfield Arick | YaYa Podcasting
Bryan Entzminger | Top Tier Audio

About the Podcast Editors Mastermind

Follow or subscribe and take the Podcast Editors Mastermind with you today!

This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

Podcast Editors Mastermind - How to Optimize Your Podcast Editing Workflow, Fire Clients, and Launch New Businesses

Transcript

Daniel Abendroth00:00:05.190

How much is that,

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and welcome to the podcast. Editors mastermind the podcast dedicated to the business side of podcasts. And all the things that we don't or don't want to talk about. So let's get this started. My name is Daniel droughts. You can find me at Roth media audio joining me as the hosting, this shindig below me.

Bryan Entzminger00:00:37