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.
