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MicTv - Episode 2: Game of Thrones, S8 E4 “The Last of The Starks” Daenerys doesn’t listen to good advice. Jon trusts his sisters/ cousins to keep a secret. Sansa proves she can’t keep a secret. Arya heads south with The Hound. Brienne is very happy, then very sad. RIP Rhaegal and Missandei.   Follow us on Twitter @MicTV1 @LisaKraus @autopritts SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! http://www.atlantapizzagyro.com/  https://mondaynightbrewing.com/  https://www.hoffandpepper.com/  FRIENDS! DON'T MISS THE WILDER RIDE!   https://thewilderride.com/  #GameOfThrones #Arya #TheHound #Cersi #JonSnow

Radio Labyrinth presents:  Mic TV, ep. 1, Game of Thrones, Season 8, episodes 1-3, with your host, Mic TV herself and featuring Autumn Fischer.  This is the debut episode of Mic TV, with Lisa Krause (aka, "Mic TV"). Each episode covering Game of Thrones will appear in the Radio Labyrinth podcast feed, eventually migrating to its own hosting site / RSS feed. #GameofThrones #HBO

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Welcome to episode 350 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris. Content calendars, content calendars. Yes, I love them. Yes, I talk about them a lot. It's because of very, very important reason. Are you ready? They are critical to your consistency, and thus your success when it comes to not just content marketing, not just email marketing, not just social media marketing, but all of these things. When you can be consistent with your content, you can impact more people, you can grow your reach, you can grow your business. Why Use a Content Calendar Here is why content calendars really matter, because not only do they allow you to be consistent in execution, they let you be consistent in messaging across these different types of marketing, meaning I'm able to really easily keep the same consistent message across my social media channels, across my content, across my guest content meaning podcast guesting, guest posts, LinkedIn Publisher stuff, as well as my emails. All of it really relies on each other. We talked about this on a Facebook Live last month. Really these pieces work best together when they're reliant on each other and they're feeding off of each other. Building a content calendar really, really helps that because again, they're all spending time supporting each other instead of my email list gets one message, and my social media channels are getting another kind of message, and my content's talking about this other third thing over here, and none of these things support each other. It's really hard to fully convey a message because yeah, multiple touchpoints, that's right. You knew I was going to say it. You probably said it already out loud. Maybe people in the coffee shop are looking at you strangely, or that guy you just ran by, or wherever else you listen to this show. When you have a content calendar, it's really easy to say, "Oh, these all say the same thing," or, "Yeah, I need these guests posts to out this month because this is what we're talking about on the podcast," or, "This is what we're doing the Facebook Lives about," or, "This is what the email series is going out." That's why I want you to take the time to figure out your content calendar. It really comes from your marketing plans, your larger marketing plans, your larger launch plans. When we are doing a push for Hit the Mic Backstage, our content all supports that. Spoiler alert. This fall, I'm going to have a big, cool thing to share with you guys without that spoiler because I'm not going to tell you what it is yet. I'm going to have some cool things happening this fall. The content will start supporting that and priming you guys for that probably, let me look at my calendar here, in September. In September, you guys will start getting more information about this because in October the first phase of this cool thing we're doing in the fall is going to roll out and it will roll right into some cool stuff we're doing in November, and then we will build off that momentum for a launch we're doing in January for another round of the Backstage Amplifier Mastermind, which is happening right now as well. All of this stuff will feed off of each other, and I know that because I have my launch calendar, I have what I'm doing for the next 12 months already laid out. In addition to that, I have my content calendars, yes, for already next year laid out to support those launches so that I can, again, I can have content start going out in September priming you for what's happening in October. All of my content will be priming you for that because I know what's coming. Then when it launches in October, it will continue to get you ready for what's happening, evolving through October and into November. I know I'm being annoyingly vague here, but I just want you to understand the premise. I want you to understand one fundamental step. All of this is possible because I sat down and figured it out. However, however, it doesn't mean it has to execute that way. If something crazy happens and I need to share with you guys a change to a network or who knows, maybe a brand new network that's going to take out all of the current networks will launch in November. Then guess what? One of the episodes that I have planned for you will probably be about that instead of whatever is planned. It's the way it is, and it happens that way for a reason. I have that flexibility there for a reason, because I do share content from an industry that changes all the time. That's one of the things I love most about it. However, that doesn't mean I have to live not knowing. It doesn't mean I have to live episode to episode going, "Okay, so what should I talk about now? Okay, what should I talk about now? Okay, I've got to figure this out because we've got podcasts going out Tuesday. I need to figure that out." No, I can still have a structure in place that supports my larger business goals and launch plans while making space for things that come up. For you, maybe you're in an industry that doesn't change all the time. But you know what? Sometimes inspiration strikes. Sometimes you have a conversation with a client and you're like, "I need to tell all the people about this. All the people need to know," and that's okay. You can make space for that. Tools to Create a Content Calendar I've talked a lot about why content calendars are the bee's knees. What I want to talk about now is tools because one of the most common questions I get when I do one of these episodes about content calendars is, what do I use? I actually keep it really simple. Full transparency, this is not going to be high tech mumbo jumbo here. I use a Google Calendar. Legitimately, guys, it is a Google Calendar. I don't use my primary calendar. I have several calendars set up in Google Calendar in my account, one of which is called an editorial calendar. All the Facebook Lives go in there, all the guest posts go in there, the LinkedIn Publisher stuff goes in there, the podcast goes in there. Podcast guest appearances, when those episodes are going to go live, they go in there because that's what feeds my social prep because I know I need to promo certain things at certain times. I even put in affiliate pushes in there because hey, guess what? If we're doing a launch as part of an affiliate program or for supporting an affiliate launch, that's got to go on the editorial calendar because I'm going to need to create content supporting that affiliate promo. It's just a Google Calendar. Now, it doesn't have to be a Google Calendar. For a long time I used a paper planner. I had a physical paper planner that I used as my editorial calendar because I liked being able to write things down and move things around. I know people who use wall calendars and Post-its. They'll have content on Post-its and they'll just move it from month to month, or week to week, or whatever works for them. When I did the old structured YouTube show, Hit the Mic TV, we ran that show for about a year, we used Trello to manage the editorial calendar because it worked best for the team as far as our video editors and things like that. I have clients that use Trello with their team and it works really well for us. I really encourage you to find the tool that works best for you. I've even experimented with, and I couldn't let go of my Google Calendar, I like the idea of this but I couldn't let go of my Google Calendar because it works so well for me, is actually doing it inside of my project manager. We use Asana as our project manager. Instead of just podcast for Tuesday, it would be podcast, and the name, and the episode number. It worked really well, it functions really well. I really like having it in my Google. It's a comfort to me, I guess, in a weird way. I don't know. It's what works for me, and that's all I want you to care about when it comes to choosing how you're going to manage this. Again, and I can't stress this enough, for years, multiple years, I used a paper planner. It was all in there. I just got sick of physically having to erase and rewrite things. It's easier in Google Calendar. I can just move it from date to date when it needs to change. Really it's just laziness. Pick what works for you. Remember that this is only a part of your content puzzle. You also need to schedule a time to create the content. Listing out the 52 episodes of your show or the 52 blog posts you want to write because you want to do one a week for a year is great. Making time to record those things or write those things and then promote those things and repurpose those things, that's valuable. I mentioned earlier, on my content calendar we have guest posts and we have the LinkedIn Publisher stuff. That's not new content I've created. Honestly, I don't touch it. My team does it. They take my transcript and repurpose that content into guest posts and the LinkedIn, but it's still on the editorial calendar so that I know this is what's going out where all the time. Again, on the social side of things I know what to promote, but I also know we've made space for this content. We have content going out all the time, but it's not all brand new, crazy, exciting ... It's always exciting, I shouldn't say that. It's always exciting content, but it's not always brand new from scratch. Oftentimes, in fact more often than not, it's a repurposed piece of content. Factor that in as part of your puzzle. You need to make time to repurpose. You need to make time to create. I probably should've flipped the order of that. Create and then repurpose, not only XYZ's going to go on XYZ. Just putting, "I'm going to run on this day and this day," does not actually mean I've gone for the run. It just means I've allotted the time for it. Make sure you are actually going on the run, to keep the metaphor going, all right? You have more questions about stuff like this, be sure to come over to the private community at Hit the Mic Backstage. It's the best way to connect with me and the rest of the community of listeners to this show and members of that community, all right? I will see you next week. Have a good one. Resources Join us inside Hit the Mic Backstage Connect with Me Connect with me on Facebook Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

Welcome to episode 334 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris. Oh my gosh guys, so we're going to talk about content again today. For the last time we're wrapping up our month of content focused content, and we're going to talk about types of content, and what type of content you should create. I love me some podcasting, but it's not for everybody's, because it's just not what everybody likes to do. That's cool guys. Let's jump in, and let's start with talking about what types of content are there. First off, big picture. There's live and recorded. Any of the things I'm going to talk about you could do ... Although, maybe not blogging. That would be hard to do live, right? You can do content live, and then repurpose it into recorded content. You could do pre-recorded, prepped, edited, shay content. I like a mixture personally. It's how I like to create. Again guys, it's cool if you want to do something different. You don't have to do what I do, and nobody does. Live or recorded, that's really your first choice. Second choice, blogging, podcasting, video. I really can't think of any other options, but I'm sure there are some that I don't know about. Illustrations, photography, there's a ton of kinds of content. Pick what works. We're going to dive in next on how to choose that, but I wanted to start with really just talking about the types of content. There's short form content, there's long form content, there's all kinds of content. What I want you to do is make sure that you are providing value for your audience, in whatever way fits. That could be blogging, that could be live content that gets repurposed into whatever else. It could be a million things guys. I really want you to create content. Do me a solid, create some value for your audience. It is a freaking game changer. Yes I said, "Freaking," because I don't want this episode to have an explicit label on it, okay? Okay. Number two, how do we pick which of these options is right for us? First of all start with whatever. Don't worry about picking the quote on quote, "Right one." I hate this idea that some things are right, and some things are wrong. It just fires me up, and I'm going to try not to rant about it really hard. Start with something. For the first year of my business, well for the entire first year I was in business. When I was still doing On Demand Virtual Assistant we did written content super inconsistently, super low skill level. In retrospect it's embarrassing and I'm so glad none of it exists anymore, although it's the internet so I'm sure somewhere it's still in existence. We won't talk about that, cause I'm blocking it out. Then for the first, probably six-ish months of Hit The Mic Backstage, which is of course now, "The Stacey Harris," we also did written content. Again, incredibly inconsistently and maybe only slightly better than when I did it as On Demand Virtual Assistant. Then I went, "Why am I not podcasting?" I was into mastermind's at the time, and someone else who was in the mastermind was launching a podcast, and was a podcaster. I was like ... I was talking to her and I was like, "Yeah, I love to edit. I went to school to be an audio engineer. That's my background, and I love audio. I could talk for days. Blog posts are just exhausting." She looked at me square in the face and went, "Why aren't you podcasting? You have the skill set, you have the expertise, it's what you prefer to do. Why aren't you podcasting?" I went, "I don't know." It was genuinely because I didn't think I could. I didn't think I was far enough in my business to podcast. I don't know why podcasting seemed to have this illusion of expertise that I did not yet have. Really I was better equipped to podcast than a lot of other people I knew that were podcasting well. Not like badly, they were doing a great job. I was just, I had the expertise and the skill set to do it. I don't know why I wasn't doing it sooner. For me content got consistent when I started podcasting in, oh God, that's gotta be 2013 now. 2013 or 2014. It's gotta be 2013. It was the way I prefer to create. It was the way that worked for me from a creation standpoint, from a consumption standpoint, from an ease standpoint, from a joy standpoint. It checked all the boxes. I want you to look at not just what you think you should do, and I'm totally doing air quotes that you can't see right now. I don't want you to just think about what's possible, what you're allowed to do. I want you to take a second and think about your favorite way to create. Now, I don't think anybody is immediately comfortable creating any kind of content. I don't think anybody gets behind a mic doing a podcast and is like, "I am awesome at this." I don't think anybody gets behind a camera, or in front of a camera doing video as like, "I am spectacular." I don't think it's possible. The same is true with hitting a keyboard and writing a blog post. I think all of us having done any amount of content are like, "Oh my God, those first whatever amount are embarrassing." I will not listen to the first 100 episodes of this show, maybe ever. I don't even know if I'd listen to the second hundred. Here we are in the third hundred, right? Pay attention to how you feel actually creating it from the perspective of not that you think you're doing it excellently, but that it's lighting you up. That connects. It really does. The way you feel when you're creating is felt by the people who are consuming. Again, start with what you enjoy. Then yes, look at your ideal clients. Look at your community. How do they consume content? This was a big reason we had our transcripts, because I had a ton of people in my audience who were like, "I think you doing a podcast is great, I just don't have time to listen. I really wish I could real this." Now there's transcripts. Seriously, that's why there's transcripts. Total random side note, it has been killed from an SEO perspective. I'm seeing way better organic search results since we launched the show notes. Just as an FYI, totally random side note. Look at how they consume. If they want to read but you really want to be a podcast, great. Use Rev.com, get the transcripts, and there you go. Now you have created content in a way you prefer, and you're connecting with two groups of people. Maybe they really love video, great. Record the video, pull out the audio. Whatever it is, you can really check all of the boxes from wherever you want to consume, or wherever you want to produce I should say, excuse me. Look at those two things though. It's got to be looking at how you feel best when you create, and how they best like to consume. Ideally those two things match up. I will say that there is sometimes where you're going to create outside of your comfort zone. For me that's video. Some of you who are listening to this may know for a year we did a show called, "Hit the Mic TV." It was pre-recorded, edited video show. It went out once a week on Sunday's. It was not my favorite thing to create. I way prefer podcasting to doing video. My audience really liked it. You guys enjoyed the show, I always got really great feedback on it. It still drives traffic thanks to YouTube, to my website, and to the membership site. We may be rolling out more pre-recorded video this year, I haven't decided yet what it's going to look like. We are for sure rolling out live video via weekly over on Facebook Live. We've done it every week this month. Once a week we go live over on Facebook and that gets repurposed for all of the other channels. Guess what guys? Seriously, video content, you can't ignore the power of it. Yes, sometimes we have to create outside of our comfort zone, but ultimately if you're starting from nothing, just get started somewhere. Wherever you're most comfortable. You can add things later, you can diversify later, you can repurpose later, you can change your mind later. Get started somewhere. The best place to get started is if you can find a place where your comfort, and your preference in creating, and your audiences preference in consuming come together. That's ideal. The third place I want you to really note is really building on the same thing, is honestly providing value matters more than anything else. Whatever you're creating, whether it's video, or podcasts, or blog posts, or recorded, or live, or some combination of all of that, make sure it's valuable. If you give your audience something value to consume, valuable to consume. If you give them something worth paying attention to, they will pay attention. They will respond. Focus on the value, not the road you're getting there on. Focus on the result you're giving them, focus on the action item you're giving them, focus on the content you're giving them. Worry less about the shine. Worry less about the vehicle, and focus again on solving a problem. If you can solve the problem, they'll forgive a whole lot of other stuff, all right? All right. Thanks for listening. Hey guys, thanks for listening to another episode of Hit the Mic with the Stacey Harris. If you loved this episode, if it gave you what you need to get to the next step in your content, or your social media marketing, join us backstage. Backstage really is where we have all of the next steps for exactly what we talk about in this episode, and all of the other amazing episodes inside of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris. We'll talk social media, we'll talk content marketing, we'll talk running your business. It really is your one stop shop for moving forward this year, and in all the years to come. Join us at HittheMicBackstage.com.

Welcome to episode 320 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris.  All right, so recently we talked about repurposing content and recycling content for social media. Today I want to talk about actually breathing life into the content that's on your website. Finding new ways to drive traffic to it or just straight up reviving it, updating it, repurposing it. That's what we're going to talk about today because your value continues to be valuable. I want to make sure that you are getting every last drop of value for your own business out of the value you're providing your community because the struggle is real when it comes to creating content. As you may know, if you've listened to this show for a while, I'm actually recording this at the very beginning of November and this will go live at the very end of November and I am in ... This week has been back to back to back to back recording days where I'm recording 4, 5, 6 episodes a day of the podcast. That just reminds me how important it is for me to literally get all the use out of the stuff that I create, because as much fun as it is for me to create this content, the real fun is when you guys use the content and you get value from it and you see results from it and it works for you, whatever that is in that episode. I got to find as many ways as possible to get it in front of you, so that's really what breathing life back into your content is all about. We're going to talk about 2 ways to do this. We're going to talk about updating your content, and we're going to talk about repurposing your content. Both of these are parts and options when it comes to knowing that your content can get seen again , can be valuable again, and can really help website traffic and things like that. Cool? Cool. Let's start with updating. Depending on the way you put your content out, updating can actually look like a couple of things. Let's start with just the bare bones simplest. Let's start with blog posts. Written blog post, the best way to update it is to go in and just update it. Change any links that might be broken. Change any facts that may have changed. A great example of this is if you are somebody who like me who is in the social media space, things like Facebook measurements, graphic measurements, or tools you're using, or things like that. That stuff can get outdated because I'm discovering new things, networks are making changes, new things are coming out all of the time. That information evolves quite frequently and so that's going to be your simplest thing. Go in and just straight update the facts, update links and thinks like that. The next way to update might be to add to it. Maybe you have learned something else. Maybe you found another tip. You can always just add a couple of sentences. Change one of the points, update one of the points, give one of the points more priority than you did. You really are just going to go in an straight update the text. Now when it comes to updating something like a podcast or a video series, it can be a little trickier because you now have media that you have go and edit and things like that, but there's still a way. Really, the best way you can do it is to update the text that's on the page that is alongside your video or alongside you're audio. We're doing this right now by going through and adding transcripts to the show notes. For the last, maybe 40 episodes, we've done transcripts with every episode, but we are just starting to go back and work through some of our most popular episodes and give an update to those show notes by adding a transcript of the show. Again, this is great from an SEO perspective because we're adding more keywords, but also it's great from and SEO perspective because now all of that look like new content. In addition to that as it gets seen again, it's got more value, it's got new value and there's going to be people who are a fan of listening to that episode and who want to use it as a resource. That was actually one of the biggest requests I got from people when they ask for transcripts, it was really about, "Hey, these are great but I wish I had a reference so I can bookmark something or highlight something. I didn't have to listen to the episode to find one point you made." That's a big part of the reason the transcripts exist. That's why going back and adding those back in the past episodes is going to be such a valuable way to update it. Again, there's SEO value for me, there is incredible value for the audience in that fact that it's a new way to consume that content. Also there are people who are starting to find my site who don't particularly want to listen to me, which is fine, and if you're one of them, you're totally reading this and hello. Now you don't have to listen to me. You can skim a podcast and find the points you need instead of listening to me with all of my charm and wonder. For those of you who are listening, thank you. That's a really valuable thing I can add as far as updating and breathing new life into the first, I think we started at 280, so the first 279 episodes of the show. The other way we can do that with video is again, add transcripts but also updating our resources, updating those links, updating the information that we added in the resource section a lot like we do when we update a blog post, making sure those links still work. That's probably one of the biggest things that I'm probably really terrible at doing, which is going through and checking our broken links and making sure that those links that are on past show notes episodes are still working because we have had guests on the show in the first year or so whose websites aren't around anymore because they've changed their domains or they've gone out of business or whatever. That's an important thing to factor in. Once we have updated them, how can we drive more traffic? Well A, you can do things like recycle your content, which I'll leave a link in the resource section on the show notes page over at The Stacey Harris to the episode we talked about recycling social media content. We're driving traffic to old episodes of this show all the time, especially through Twitter and LinkedIn and Google+, which yes, I still use Google+, I just don't actually use it from a social perspective, just as a broadcast tool, but that's a whole other episode. I can continue to drive traffic to that. On the flipside, I can do other things. I can, for example, take these transcripts that I have from my episodes, write guest posts using that transcript and then use that to drive traffic back to the original podcast episode. That's right, I'm now using this to drive traffic as well as build my credibility and expose myself to a new audience. Even as I was saying that, it felt wrong, but you know what I'm saying. Getting in front of new people, showcasing what we do here on this show to a group of people who maybe haven't heard the show yet. That's a really powerful way to repurpose content and ideas and value I've already created. The same can be done with a blog post. Take a section of that blog post, maybe build off of it a little bit, tweak it, make it a guest post, and you just have to drive traffic back to your blog post. You can do that on a lot of sites but I think the simplest, the lowest barrier to entry, start using the LinkedIn publisher platform to do that. You can build it right there on LinkedIn, it goes out, your connections all get a notification and voila, you're not driving traffic back to your site using value you created a while ago in some cases. That's a really powerful way to repurpose your content. On the flipside, if there's one way you have created it already, create it in another way. For a long time, in addition this show, we also had Hit the Mic TV which was a video show we did on YouTube and a lot of those episodes were parts of things we talked about here on the podcast because it was a smaller show. We kept it under 10 minutes, usually. I think most of time it came under 5 minutes. A lot of times it would be a smaller idea or a piece of something we talked about here on the podcast. Again, I wasn't reinventing the wheel, I was just creating the same value in a different medium so it could connect with a different group of people, just like when I used the transcripts to create guest posts, maybe that don't link back to the podcast page. I'm still using that same value to connect to an audience in a different way. Now we're doing it through a written blog post instead of a podcast, but guess what? The value point, the connection, the content is quite often the same, it's just a matter of saying hey, this is the value in a way that you prefer to consume it. This is a way you can connect with someone where maybe the don't already know you exist or maybe they don't like podcasts or maybe they prefer not to read blog posts or whatever it is for them and for you. Really look at ways you can take that same value you've already created and use it in a new way on a new site. That's really what it comes down to when it comes down to how to breathe life into content that maybe hasn't seen the light of internet days in a while. Okay, so update it and repurpose it. That is the way to go. Of course head over to the show notes page, TheStaceyHarris.com is where you'll find it and check out the link to recycling social media content because that's a great way to continue to drive traffic to these old posts through social. I will see you guys on Friday.   Resources Join us inside Hit the Mic Backstage 3 Things You Must Know About Maximizing Your Content Connect with Me Connect with me on Facebook Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

Welcome to episode 300 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris. I am so, so excited to be celebrating 300 episodes with you. I'm really excited. We're going to talk about 300 episodes, some of the lessons I've learned, some of the gear I've used and why you don't need to make it super complicated. We're going to talk a little bit about what's next and my commitment to you as the community. Then I'm going to be announcing a little giveaway which I'm really excited about because I love this community and I am so, so grateful for you guys listening each and every episode, each and every week. Whether you've been listening since the beginning or if maybe you're brand new, I am so grateful that you've taken the time to listen to the show and use the show and take action on what you listen to, right? Yeah? We're doing that? Awesome. I'm amped. Thank you, thank you for listening to the show and for taking the time out of your day to celebrate with me here live on this episode 300 day. I'm so excited. I can't believe it. It feels a little nuts, a little nuts. We actually won't celebrate three years of the show until November. I think November was when we first went live with episode one, November of 2013, but we hit 300 episodes. That's the joy of doing two episodes a week. I'm just saying. Okay. Let's jump in. I want to talk about some of the lessons I've learned over the course of 300 episodes because that's a lot of content to create. It's a lot of being in the creation space and a lot of having to show up and do it. The number one thing I've learned is consistency matters more than anything else. It's not always easy. I have been really, really consistent with the show. It has gone out twice a week every single week, come hell or high water, with holidays, vacations, impromptu moves, everything, every week, twice a week for the entire 300 episodes. A lot of that came from a really strong commitment to actually doing that. There has been no acceptable excuse to me to not get the show out, but also it's been about planning in a lot of cases and just doing the work. I've talked a lot about taking December off and the planning I do for that. We've done episodes about it. By the way, if you want to catch up on any of the first 300 episodes, hitthemic.com, there's a whole list of them. There's amazing search function coming to the website soon. Yay! Those are almost easy because I see that time change coming or I need to prep for it. That stuff is easy. What's been hard is the stuff that I didn't plan for: being sick, especially ... I learned this probably my first year, maybe my second year. I went on vacation and I had pre-planned the show and pre-recorded the show and it was totally good to go except I didn't anticipate being sick when I got back. I had taken December off and we had gone to California. We lived in Arizona at the time. We'd come to California for vacation over New Years' Eve. I was going to be back in the office on Monday. The next podcast episode was supposed to go out Tuesday. Well in pre-recording all of my content I recorded all of December in November and October, but I hadn't planned on recording any January because I was like, "Oh, I'll be back in the office then. I can totally just wing it and I'll get caught back up. I don't need to go that far in advance." Well, we got back from vacation and I was really, really sick. I had no voice. I couldn't keep anything down. I was really, really intensely sick. It was a couple of years ago when that really horrible flu virus was going around. I had to suck it up and get it done and do the work and record that podcast. I sounded God-awful on the podcast because I had no voice. It took me forever to record because I kept having to pause. I felt awful. I had no energy. I had no excitement. It was awful, but I had to get it done because A, I was committed to getting it done, but B, I learned a larger lesson which was don't just plan for the days you're going to be gone but give yourself a buffer when you get back. That's been a lesson that's stuck with me for a long time which is always plan a little bit further than I think I'm going to need and to make sure that I don't run too often into the, "Oh no, content needs to go up tomorrow," which I do probably more than I'd like to, but the more I can avoid that the easier it is for me to consistently get the show out, but ultimately it comes back to that commitment and knowing this show is going out. My first year in business I was blogging. I wasn't doing the podcast. I was horrible at consistently getting out my newsletter and consistently getting out my content. That was where I had a lot of issues as far as my marketing because I had a lot of peaks and valleys because I didn't have that consistency. At the beginning of 2013, when again, I was still blogging, I said from now on this is going out X, Y, Z. The podcast came around later that year and it was again, I'm committed to this is happening. That commitment to myself, to you guys, to creating something, to my business, to my marketing, it really is the critical piece to staying with it and doing it each and every week. It doesn't have to be twice a week. If you're thinking about starting a podcast or you want to do a blog you don't have to create content twice a week. It's a little nuts. I really like it. It works for me. It worked for my show. It worked for my audience. There are absolutely people who don't listen to every episode of this show. In fact, I don't listen to every ... Well, I listen to it when I edit it so technically I do listen to every episode of the show, but there's not a lot of podcasts where I listen to every single episode. I don't have an expectation that you guys are listening to every single episode. If you are, then you're my favorite, but for me it allows me to get enough variety of content out, that it serves everybody it needs to serve, but again, consistency matters. It's not always easy. Sometimes it's really freaking hard. That was probably one of my biggest lessons, probably the biggest lesson I've had in the 300 episodes of this show. Again, if you guys have questions or comments or you just want to say hi, hit me up in the chat box right below this video. I would love to hear from you or see from you or read from you or whatever. I really like engaging with you. That really goes to my second lesson. I didn't realize how much I would love engaging with the audience of this show. I'm a little bit of an extrovert, little bit. I really, really enjoy getting to meet you guys at events and connect with people when I speak and go to events and connect on social. I didn't realize how much fun I would have talking to the audience of this show on Snapchat and Twitter and Facebook and getting your Facebook messages and getting your emails. I love when you guys respond to the emails on Tuesday. It's my favorite. It's so fun for me, even when they're just little short notes or they're questions or whatever. I have so much fun getting to connect with you guys. I really didn't realize how much I would enjoy that. Thank you, thank you for all of your snaps and tweets and all of that good stuff. I absolutely appreciate it. I read it. I respond. I love it. Thank you for being a part of this community because that's been one of my biggest lessons is how much fun that is to really cultivate that community. A lot of that involvement you guys have had with the show is why I teach so much about community, because it makes it all a lot more fun. It makes it all a lot more entertaining. It makes it a whole lot easier to do when you guys are there connecting and engaging and hanging out. It really does make all the difference in knowing that you're there and you're a part of it and you want to be there and that it's helping and that it's entertaining. It really is the best part. It's my favorite part. All right. My next big lesson, and this is one I wish I would've learned so much earlier: Re-purposing is your best friend. When you create this much content there's a lot of stuff that I have out there. There's just a lot of stuff to consume on the website. When I can re-purpose it and I can make it consumable in a new way and I can make it new again ... One of the projects we're currently working on behind the scenes is actually going through and getting transcriptions for all of the past episodes of the show. For the last maybe 10ish episodes of the show there's been a transcription that went live with the episode. It's not an opt-in transcription. It's right there on the episode. You don't have to give me your email address to get it or anything. It's just right there on the episode. The show notes all have full transcripts now, for the last 10 episodes. One of the projects we're working on now is getting that back log, getting that first 290 episodes done because A, Google, they love it. It's already had an impact on my search topics. Two, you guys seem to really like it. There are some of you who really like being able to ... You know, you hear me say something and you want to go and you take a screenshot or you copy it and paste into your Evernote for your notes or whatever. It gives you a reference point. I think that's really cool. I can also take those transcripts. This is something I started doing a while ago before we started including the transcripts for the show. I would actually get the podcast transcribed and then I would turn that into guest posts on Huffington Post and YFS Magazine and different places like that. That's really cool except now I'm also sharing it with you guys, which is really cool, but that's a great way to re-purpose your content. If you're currently podcasting or you're doing videos, get it transcribed. Share that content with your audience. In fact today, this episode, it will get transcribed and the transcription will go not only on this page after it gets transcribed, but it will also go up on the YouTube channel where this video will stay because again, that's keyword heaven for the Google search box. Find as many ways as possible that you can maximize your content. That's actually what we talked about on Friday's episode so if you want to hear more about this, go to thestaceyharris.com/episode299. We just talked about it, but it's a great way to really maximize the time you're spending. One of the things people talk about when they tell me they're nervous about podcasting is that it's going to take a ton of their time. They follow people that are doing seven day a week podcasts or five days a week or even with me, two days a week. They're like, "I don't know if I can create that much content." Here's the thing. You don't have to create that much content but you do need to maximize whatever content you're creating. If you want to do once a week or twice a month or once a month with video or podcast or blogging, plan that out. Build your law of synergy, but then just make sure you're using that content to every last degree. You're using every inch of that content to really get it in front of your audience because it makes all the difference. Cool. I'm trying to see if ... Oh, the last lesson I want to talk about is that it's okay to change your mind. This is one that I don't think podcasters talk enough about. We talk a lot about gear. We'll talk about gear a little bit in a second, but it's okay to change your mind. This show has always been twice a week because I really like twice a week, but this show has not always been on Tuesdays and Fridays. We've done Tuesdays and Thursdays. I think for a very brief time we did Sunday and Thursday or something like that. I didn't like the weekend days. For a while we had Hit the Mic TV. For about a year we did Hit the Mic TV which was a weekly web show that went along with this podcast that did go out on Sundays. I had content going out Sunday, Tuesday and Friday. It's okay if you decide it's not for you. It's okay if you launch a podcast and do it for six months and then decide it's not for you or decide you work better in seasons or you work better once a week or you want to go to seven days a week. It's okay to make changes and adjustment. There are things ... Quick anecdote: I refused to marry my husband until I had lived with him. This was just a rule, because there's something you learn about people when you live together that you do not learn just spending the night or weekends away or just dating. There are things that people learn about each other when they live together. I feel like content creation and business and all of it is the same way. There are things you learn when you're just executing. There are things you learn when you're working one-on-one with clients that help impact the marketing and the onboarding and how you work with future clients. There are just things you learn through going through it. Don't feel like you're committed to the decisions you made before you experienced any of it. Feel free to change you mind. A, most of your audience will not notice or care. Tough love. I know, the ego wants us to go like, "Oh, they'll just be devastated if I go to once a week." No. Most of them will not care, not at all, not a little, not even kind of. Some of them probably won't even notice. In fact, I am sure that if I disappeared tomorrow there is a section of listeners of the show who would never realize I was gone. There are some of you who would email me. I like you guys best, but there are some people who would just never notice. That's okay, but it's also kind of freeing because it means you can make changes. Feel free to change your mind. It's okay. It's good. Make the best decisions for you and your business and your sanity, whatever those are. Cool? All right. Those are my lessons learned: consistency, connecting and community is still my favorite, re-purposing is magical, and that it's okay to change your mind. Those are my big four lessons for 300 episodes. I get a lot of questions about my gear. I'm going to answer those once again. If you guys ever have questions about the tools I use in my business, over on the website, the page you're on right now, if you go up to the top and hover over Meet Stacey ... Oh no. Hover over where it says Podcast. Right below that is Resources, or if you just go to thestaceyharris.com/resources you will actually see a list of all of the things I use in my business. Full disclosure: Some of these are affiliate links, but I only recommend what I actually use. I have my Samsung Meteor Mic which you can actually see right here. It's on a mic stand which is called On Stage Desk Stand, right on my desk. I edit using Garage Band. My host is Libsyn. When I do interviews, which is not very often anymore, but I actually use these for my client calls as well, we use Ecamm Call Recorder because I have a Mac. We do those via Skype. You can also use things like Zoom or Google Hangouts. If you have a PC and you want to record your Skype calls there's a software called Pamela that works really well. It doesn't have to be the stuff I'm using, but I get a ton of questions about what I use. That's what I use. I'm actually shifting into what's next for Hit the Mic. I'm actually upgrading my gear. I just ordered my new mic. We're moving to a Rode mic. Rode mics have long been my favorite mic brand. I'm excited to upgrade and make this change to the new gear so you'll start hearing episodes with the new gear probably in about a month you guys should start hearing those, maybe six weeks, but yeah. I'm so excited, but that's what I'm doing to celebrate 300 episodes is we're upgrading the gear. As far as what's next, there's not any big changes planned for Hit the Mic because this community is amazing. I love the format of the show right now. Again, guests will continue to be by invite only. Fridays will continue to be three things episodes. Tuesday will continue to be whatever it is that needs to be talked about then, and you know, occasional live shows like this. Ultimately, this show is for you. This show is for the people who listen and hang out and enjoy and connect and learn from this show. If there's something you would like to hear, there is something you need help with, let me know. I'll add it to my editorial calendar. I'm currently making some final tweaks to the last quarter's editorial calendar before I go and do my massive quarter four production schedule. I'm trying to actually get most of October and November done by the end of this month. I originally had hoped to get my content done for the end of the year but the editorial calendar is still going to need some tweaks because I want to make some changes, but if you want to hear something this year now is really the time to tell me. Tell me in the chat box below right now. Tweet me. Snap me. Send me an email, whatever. This show is ultimately for you guys. If there's something ever you want to hear, let me know because I love to do that. Also, I wanted to let you know Hit the Mic Backstage has made a little bit of a change. When we celebrated the one year anniversary in August the price did go up. It's $40 per month now or $400 per year, but also this week, actually on Friday, they got a brand new website. I'm really excited to share it with the community. They got to see it on Friday when it went live. You guys are seeing it now. If you'd like to join us inside Hit the Mic Backstage I would love to have you. Love to have you. It's over at hitthemicbackstage.com. To wrap it up, because we're hitting right about 20 minutes which is actually a little bit long for one of my episodes, I wanted to let you know I'm going to be giving away over the next week, I'm going to be giving away two 30-day passes to Hit the Mic Backstage. Two lucky winners are going to get to join us inside of Hit the Mic Backstage totally free for 30 days. No commitment to join after that, just a really cool way for me to say thank you and for you to get to check out the new environment. Check that out. 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We know how important it is to create change in our business, but it's also really easy to stick to something even when it's not serving us anymore. That's what happened to me with my video show, Hit the Mic TV. In this episode I'm sharing why I decided to stop doing pre-recorded video content, and what I'm doing now.   Resources Join us inside Hit the Mic Backstage Connect with Me Get YOUR question on a future episode Email me at hello@thestaceyharris.com Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

That's one reason I LOVE Canva, it's brought basic design work to the every business owner. For those of us who could end up losing HOURS to Photoshop to create a basic Facebook cover image we're saved. Now I will say I don't think Canva is a replacement for graphic designers (in fact that's exactly what I said in the Canva episode of Hit the Mic TV, but it's still a powerful tool to have for quick jobs.  Today I want to talk about Canva for Work, the paid upgraded version of Canva and some of the extra special things you can do using it.     Resources Join us Backstage Canva for Work Connect with Me Get YOUR question on a future episode Email me at hello@thestaceyharris.com Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

When I launched my podcast I got asked if I worried about doing TOO much free content. That concern grew when I launched my weekly web show, Hit the Mic TV, through it all though I've always felt the same way.  Find out why I produce the content I do, and why I'm NEVER worried about TOO much free content. Resources VIP Community Social Pro - Get on the list Connect with Me Get YOUR question on a future episode Email me at hello@thestaceyharris.com Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

Video is a powerful tool to get your content in front of your community. In this episode you're going to get 3 pieces that your YouTube channel and videos need to really make the most of it.   A little about Kelita... Kelita is a digital marketing strategist who helps ambitious entrepreneurs make their online marketing simple but extremely effective. Breaking the norm of coaching practices she offers done with you services which maximizesthe results her clients receive. She got started online as an affiliate marketer and dove into coaching after being asked by several others in that niche for coaching. After acquiring her first coaching client she fell in love with coaching and being able to help others who otherwise would have struggled with technology and probably failed. Kelita specializes in simplifying online marketing for the non-techy entrepreneur who does not have the time to figure it all out and wants to shorten their learning curve.   Resources Hit the Mic VIP Hit the Mic TV on YouTube Holly G Episode Video Challenge Connect with Me Get YOUR question on a future episode Email me at hello@thestaceyharris.com Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

Now that you've reviewed 2014, it's time to get knee deep in planning 2015. There are a few things I suggest figuring out FIRST, for example look at what your priorities are for 2015, not just in business but in your life. I won't say balance (because I don't believe a 50/50 split always works all of the time, but you do have to have a split that works for you. For me that split isn't always the same. There are times I'm 70/30 with a focus on family, and there are times where that spit favors work. That's what works for me. I do have certain priorities when I look at my business though, do I enjoy what I'm doing, is it making the money I need to make to support my family (especially important now that Charles is going to be full time starting in January), and is my community engagement on track with the growth I'm seeing in the community. Those priorities are key as I plan the next year. I'm diving in on this and a lot more in this episode. Even sharing exactly how I plan out my year (down to my editorial calendar).   Resources Hit the Mic TV on iTunes Hit the Mic TV on YouTube Build a Better Business in 2015 (Free Webinar) Erin Condren Life Planner Whitney English Day Designer Business Amplifier Mastermind (Application Open Now) Connect with Me Get YOUR question on a future episode Email me at hello@thestaceyharris.com Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

Since launching Hit the Mic TV more than a few folks have asked me why I added MORE content. Especially since this show already goes out twice a week. There has been a lot of questions about the idea of creating "too much content" today I call bullshit on the idea that you can create too much content and get real about why! Someone ready my soapbox...   Resources Grow Your Community with Webinars Hit the Mic TV Connect with Me Get YOUR question on a future episode Email me at hello@thestaceyharris.com Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

I talk a lot about networking online, you know I'm all about the power of connecting with people via social media. Here's the thing though those relationships can be made even stronger if you cement those relationships in person. Essentially using the two pieces of networking together makes your networking SUPER effective. Also it makes those quick connections at events go the distance because you're able to continue your conversations online. Dive in and listen to today's episode I'm sharing a few things, first up the latest here at Hit the Mic including a little more talk of the BRAND NEW Hit the Mic TV but also a few other places you can find me RIGHT NOW. Also I'm spilling the beans on what's happening on episode 100 which is about a month away! Resources Episode 2 of Hit the Mic TV - Facebook Scheduling. My One Woman Shop Instagram takeover recap Connect with me on Google+   Connect with Me Get YOUR question on a future episode Email me at hello@thestaceyharris.com Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show