Tips and Tricks for Making Money with Interviews

Membership site owners are making more videos, audio files and podcasts than ever before. It’s a terrific way to add depth and fresh content to your subscription site on a regular basis.

The trouble is that the quality of that audio can be so bad sometimes, that it interferes with the message. But it doesn’t need to.

I shot a quick video recently about how I do my telephone interviews using a digital hybrid. I’ll be the first to admit that getting great audio from an interview is tough. A lot of variables go into it and much of it depends on the quality of the phone line connection you have. You’ll never realize how crummy most phone connections are until you try to record it.

I recently signed up for Ryan Lee’s Inner Circle membership and purchased the archives of his Recurring Revenue Report during the upsell (his upsell procedure was great – got me to buy in and I’m a tough sell, cynical dude).

I’m getting a ton of great information from the past interviews, but the audio levels between Ryan and his caller/interviewee force me to ride the volume on my car stereo while I’m listening – turning it down when he talks and up when his guest talks. And when I forget to do it or when Ryan surprises me an jumps in – WHAM – eardrum pain.

Regardless of what you decide to use – Mac or PC, Skype, digital hybrid, IM, OoVoo.com, etc – there is one tool everyone should be using: The Levelator.

Our friend Doug Kaye at the Conversations Network offers it for free and it takes your audio file and “levelates” the audio so that your caller and you are at the same volume. Drag your .wav or .aiff file onto the Levelator and it spits out an even audio file in the same folder as the original. It’s the last step I take before I turn any recording into the final mp3 version.

It’s great for making conference calls or teleseminars, where inevitably one presenter is 10 times louder than another, sound a heck of a lot better as well. Even with videos, I suggest you split the audio out, Levelate it, and mix it back into your video – your viewers and listeners will thank you.

Simple, elegant, FREE and no more eardrum pain.

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