Interviewing Podcaster Greg Galant of Venture Voice
January 19, 2007
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This afternoon I had the pleasure of interviewing Greg Galant, producer of www.venturevoice.com podcasts about entrepreneurs. Greg is also the CEO/Founder of www.radiotail.com. For a while I’ve wanted to chat with Greg about how he got started as a podcaster (he used to be with CNN.com) and how he’s been so successful at interviewing top entrepreneurs (such as Guy Kawasaki) as well as up and coming ones. Since I would like to do more podcasts for Start Up Princess, I wanted to go to the top and ask one of the best podcasters for some advice and “Fairy Godfathering.”
I interviewed Greg via SKYPE and used a mic and headset–kinda ghetto. In general it worked, but it was a bit frustrating because SKYPE dropped the call a few times so editing the show will be a bit challenging since the interview had stops and starts, but Greg was very kind about it and patient. If I do a lot more of these, I will have to get some better equipment!
Greg said his favorite interviews were with people who were “authentic”, who weren’t afraid to say that they failed, that stumbled…that they were human. Greg also said that to be a good podcaster/interviewer that you should be curious, prepared (google them, read what you can about them) be informed, but still ask more basic questions because your audience might not be as informed about the guest or their technology or product. That you should always test and try their product and he believes that when you can, you should interview them in person…it makes a difference. He said his average podcast takes about 10 hours to put together because of the quality and usually there is travel involved.
I’ll make you wait for the rest of the details of the show…however 
here’s Greg’s Magic Wand tip: He said that to be a successful entrepreneur you need to be bold. That’s certainly true of Greg! How else would you be able to interview busy entrepreneurs? Thanks, Greg!
Great post Kelly. I’m really glad things are working out for Start-Up Princess. Here is a link to a website that has a podcasting package for $250. It has everything you need, mic, mixer-if you want to interview more than one person. Cammon bought it and has done a few interviews with it and it works great!
http://www.bswusa.com/podcast.asp
Hope this helps,
Lorri Randle
Oh yeah, and here is a podcast we did in person with the genius behind the BlendTec Total Blender “Will it Blend” Series, the one where their blender blends everything from iPods to marbles: http://www.copperrain.com/coppercast/?p=43
You can check out their homepage here: http://www.willitblend.com/
Thanks Lorri, great to see you on the site…excellent suggestion from a fellow podcaster, thanks! I should interview YOU what you and Cammon have learned.
I love that marketing campaign for Blendtec, smart and low cost to post up on YouTube, eh?