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An important caveat to sending your guests things to prepare is this.
The bigger, the influencer, the less they have time to prepare for interviews that do too because they have they probably do many interviews and they you know, you're you're just grateful that they're giving you some time to it.
Now the biggest influencers have assistance that could probably do a lot of the legwork.
The problem is, like, small big influencers like me.
I don't I don't have a big audience.
But to most of my interview, we sorry.
To most of the hosts that that host me, I have a bigger audience than them.
So I don't have an assistant that does all the preparation for this stuff.
I'm literally I try to live the solopreneur's life.
So I'm the 1.
I'm on my own assistant.
So, like, if someone sends me, like, a long questionnaire, I'm like, come on.
Seriously, like, I I agree to do this.
Like, I just she should be happy enough that I agree to do this.
Like, please don't maybe end to spend another 3 minutes doing this.
Right?
Like like, when I have as a host, when I'm interviewing someone who's bigger, and I don't think they have insistent.
Right?
Like, especially if I don't have the assistance email.
I do all the leg work for them.
Like, I find their photos, I find their bio, I come up with questions, and then I send it to them for their approval.
I say, hey.
Hey, Renee Brown.
I now she has probably 85 assistants.
But hey, Renee Brown.
I prepared preparation for interview.
I I I found this stuff.
I found your this is a photo I was thinking of using.
This is the this is the the bio.
I was thinking of reading out loud or how to introduce you, these question I was gonna ask you.
What what do you think?
Do you if you have any if if no worries, don't don't need to respond.
If you're busy, if you if it looks good to you, let's let's do it.
But if you have anything, So, like, that is what I recommend as a host to people that you're interviewing who has a bigger audience than you.
Sorry.
So the bigger their audience, the more you should have used this principle.
The small of the audience, maybe, like, you have a 100 followers, and they have 200 followers.
Right?
Feel free.
You know, make them answer as as everything that you want.
But if you have, you know, a 100 followers and they have 10,000 followers and they said yes, or even 5000 followers, and they said yes.
You you overreached, but they still said yes because you're friends or whatever.
Do all the legwork, do all the legwork.
Now, this is not a critique on anybody here who has interviewed me, who has made me do all the legwork.
I love you and and and thank you for interviewing me.
But but yeah.
So now now you know and and whenever I've interviewed people, I've always been very respectful of the time and try to try to unless I'm, like, helping them up and I'm interviewing them or or they're very, very similar, then I'll probably send a a simplified version of my template to them and just say, hey.
You know what?
Don't worry.
Like, I I literally say to my colleagues who have a similar sized audience in me.
Like, Don't worry if you don't have time to answer any of these.
We'll we'll we'll make it great anyway.
I probably don't prepare as much as I should, but I, you know, I I I I you know, I try I'm I, you know, I and then, you know, if we have a relationship, right, there are colleagues of mine.
I already know what questions or what interests my audience.
So, anyway, that's follow that principle and that you will have a great relationship with your with your bigger guests.
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The bigger the influencer the less you should make them prepare...
Updated Sep 19, 2023
The bigger the guest you're interviewing (the more they're doing you a favor by being interviewed by you) the more you should do the legwork and not expect them to send you prepared document of their bio, photo, questions, etc. Instead, go ahead and do it for them, and and ask for their approval on the document.
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