The Picture Worth A Thousand Words!

[Cliff Ravenscraft]

I so wish I had time to write up the full announcement about what this picture means.  Though I am done working for the day.  I'm sure that if you look at it, you'll be able to figure it out... Though, I will hopefully be able to post more about it in a gspn.tv Community Blog update very soon!

Just quick bit of info:
Top row shows the release date of episodes
The rest is pretty self-explanatory.



Thursdays are going to be fun days... All Live - All Day 9am to 5:30pm

[ProfessorAlan]

so you would record most of them on one day, and then release a couple per day over the following week?  Am I reading that right?

If so, it's a pretty efficient system, and would give flexibility on the other days for consulting, other work, etc .... is that the point?  Interesting.  But .... as someone who's job it is to speak in front of groups of people (students, in my case), that sounds like a LOT of talking on one day, and are your sure your voice can take it? 

and .... no lunch on Thursdays?

[Dan Ottey]

and .... no lunch on Thursdays?

I had that same question!

[LeeAndrew]

ProfessorAlan pretty much summed up what I was going to post. :-)

[Cliff Ravenscraft]

About Lunch

With the exception of the occasional Tuesday when DG & I go to lunch together and the Wednesday's that Stephanie and I go out to lunch together, Almost all my days have been packed tightly with a quick run upstairs to grab a healthy lunch.  A majority of the time, this has taken 15 to 20 minutes and I'm usually right back down in the studio at work.

Keep in mind that not all our shows are an hour in length.  In fact, I'd like to get as many of them down to 30 minutes as possible, with the exception of a few of them.

I can see me grabbing lunch  on Thursdays around 12:40 after the Weekly Lost Podcast or in between any of the other shows.

What this does is allows the rest of my week to be wide open.  Originally, Stephanie didn't want to move Family From The Heart to Thursday because she always enjoyed going out to lunch and having our business meeting after the show, which obviously wouldn't work as nicely in the Thursday time slot.

However... When I explained that I would still SCHEDULE our lunch weekly and even EXTEND our time together for lunch on Wednesdays since we didn't have to record the show that day, she was IMMEDIATELY on board with that.

DG and I have also talked about our "lunches" and we've also stated that we would still commit to having lunch together another day of the week, as often as we have.. About 2 to 3 times per month.

If I can pull this off... This will open some opportunities for me in my schedule.   There's a Business Networking Group that meets for lunch on Tuesdays that I've been wanting to attend.  Moving the ATC podcast to Thursday opens this up for me as well.

So, while 20 minutes may not seem to be a PABL approach to a lunch break... Condensing the experience of a 20 miunute lunch break from 3 to 4 days per week down to 1 day per week is actually very much a PABL move.


Record most shows on one day, & release throughout the week?

Yep.. The only exception is that on Monday, I'd continue to record the short PABL Weigh In Monday show and release it that day. I'm thinking this episode would be more like 15 to 20 minutes and I'd record it early in the AM just after getting off the scale and during my morning walk.

All my other shows will be SHOW PREPPED, and RECORDED, and PROCESSED, and UPLOADED on Thursday.  They will sit on my web hosts server until their scheduled day of release. 

So if it was Friday, I'd wake up, spend 30 minutes releasing the three episodes scheduled for that day, and the rest of the day is open for a lot of the other things that are a part of running gspn.tv. 


Efficiency & Flexibility on the other days for consulting, other work, etc

That's exactly it.  Up to this point, I've been so busy working in this business.  Doing all the day to day stuff.  I've committed to a great number of shows. I've done so as a means of sowing the seed for what I hope will follow in the future.

Reviewing things... I notice that I need to take a bit more time to work ON my business...  I need to have a day where I can work a day each week on building a solid business plan, and once accomplished, that day each week would be a day where I evaluate where I am in relation to that plan.  A day for dreaming up the "NEXT THING" that we'll be doing.

Also, I've been doing this (Podcasting, Equipment Sales & Consulting) for over a year and a half as my sole income.  Right now, over 2/3 of my income has come from Consulting and Equipment Sales and 1/3 of my income has come from Podcast Production.

I'd like to see that reversed over the next couple years.

As it stands... I'm currently spending 2/3 of my time in Podcast Production and only 1/3 of my time in consulting and equipment sales.

With this change, I think it's going to open up a lot of great opportunities to really be more strategic and to even strengthen all the efforts that I'm currently putting my energy towards.


A LOT of talking on one day

When I was an insurance agent, I AM NOT EXAGGERATING when I tell you that I talked, NON STOP, from 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday Through Friday.  Our insurance agency was massively under staffed.  We ran our agency with four people (My mom, My dad, My sister, and Myself.)

Our agency produced and generated premiums in line with an agency with an average of 12 to 14 employees.  The four of us handled non stop calls fro more than 8,000 clients.  So talking all day, it not that big of a deal. 

During the 24 hour podcast marathon, I podcasted - NON STOP for 22.5 of the 24 hours.  Now THAT WAS TOO MUCH!...   The editing on those Community Voice episodes took FOREVER because I was so Loopy!  But this is not a solid 8.5 hours.

HIGAM = .75hrs
ATC = .75hrs
SMS = .9hrs
FFTH = .75hrs
WLP = .5hrs
PAM  = .3hrs
PABL = .5hrs
ADD = .75hrs
(I'm still working through the time limits, but these are my 1st rough drafts)

That's about a total of 5.2 hours of Talking During The Podcasts...

I feel pretty confident about it at this point.  We'll give it a run and if it doesn't work, we try something else. 

I think I'm going to devote a total of 3 to 5 hours for pre-show production/preparation.  This means that content, materials, links, audio clips, etc will all be prepared before the show begins.  No more late starts while I'm searching for feedback, etc...

As I said, we'll see how this works out.  But I'm pretty excited about it and I feel it's perfectly in line with Pursuing A Balanced Life at this time.


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I value everyone's thoughts.. For those of you who have responded here in the forum, on Twitter, and on Facebook.

I'm looking forward to seeing if this goes as well as I hope it will.

[ProfessorAlan]

this actually might be easier for us who like to watch the podcasts live  ...  I had to drop FFTH because it was hard to schedule 3 separate days/times for this (w/ ATC and FTM)  -  having them on just one or two days might be esier for me to work around.

[Cliff Ravenscraft]

I think it will be good for folks in all the different time zones.

[Edith S. Baker]

I'm OK with anything you produce. But just keep FTM on Fridays, as I intend to one day be able to watch it. Once I go back to work (Sept 1), Friday will be the only day I can work from home and be able to watch the show.

[Cliff Ravenscraft]

I'm OK with anything you produce. But just keep FTM on Fridays, as I intend to one day be able to watch it. Once I go back to work (Sept 1), Friday will be the only day I can work from home and be able to watch the show.

This is something I can't promise unfortunately.  That is the one and only show that I have absolutely no control over any aspect of the show.

I know that Stephanie and Sarah definitely will not be doing the show at the same time it's currently on as it will conflict with school schedules.  However, I'm not sure if they'll pick another time on Friday or if they are going to do another day of the week.   I have heard them mention other days as options.

I'll suggest that Fridays have been working very well, but beyond that, they'll just have to do what works best with all the craziness of their weekly responsibilities.   

[John aka jportier]

While I realize that GSPN.tv is not CNN.com or anything, the only potential roadblock that I see with this schedule is the fact that some of the content you release is time sensitive.

Other than that. I like the fact that Thursdays are Live days! It's a good schedule.

Almost like you were getting to work that 4 hour work week, if that makes sense!

[Cliff Ravenscraft]

I don't know about any four hour work week, "which has never been a goal".

On Thursday alone, I'll be working a 12 hour day, starting at 5am and ending at about 5:30pm


And of course, I'll continue to Mon - Friday and some consulting jobs Sat Mornings. 


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As for time sensitive....   The most time sensitive schedule would be that of Help I Got a Mac and it's being released the day we record it.


I've something if something time sensitive comes up, I could still publish sooner.

[John aka jportier]

I don't know about any four hour work week, "which has never been a goal".

On Thursday alone, I'll be working a 12 hour day, starting at 5am and ending at about 5:30pm


And of course, I'll continue to Mon - Friday and some consulting jobs Sat Mornings. 


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As for time sensitive....   The most time sensitive schedule would be that of Help I Got a Mac and it's being released the day we record it.


I've something if something time sensitive comes up, I could still publish sooner.

Let me clarify Cliff, I didn't think you would work a 4 hour workweek. It's not in you and you don't operate that way.

It's good that you factored in time sensitivity in with release schedule. It was my only hiccup in your new plan, not that it matters that much!

[Erik Fisher]

Just to jump in, I think this is great! I will be able to listen live more now than before, and listen to all the other shows (while working) and then record Social Media Serenity.

Will you be able to create a whole wordpress post, and then schedule it to automatically publish at the time you set? That would be awesome!

[Cliff Ravenscraft]

Erik, I've used the Publish at a later day option in the past.   However, I had experience an issue in the past.  Instead, I plan to simply schedule the release of the shows as the first thing I do in the morning.

[Jori aka Destiny]

Some of those times are great for me, it was always difficult to join live shows if you need to deal with time differences, but these time slots are a lot better for me. I'd probarbly manage to join the LOST podcast everyweek (it's after our dinner, and that's the time I use to relax and game/do nothing/listen to podcasts) and an hour later is soccer training. Enough time to be there . I'm not sure about the other shows, but it starts in my afternoon till 11 o'clock.  Which suits me so much better.
I am excited about this.