Live Radio Interview Tips
First of all – I want to state that I am definitely not an expert on radio interviews. I have on the other hand done a live television interview, a live radio interview and a recorded radio interview so what I do have is experience.
I find that when you become an entrepreneur, you become a Jack of all trades and therefore have to learn a lot of skills through being thrown into the deep end. I think this is a great way to learn as you don’t have the option to shy away from something if you are not comfortable with it. You have to roll up your sleeves and face whatever challenge is presented to you. No one is there to hold your hand so you have to be confident in your own judgement. Of course you run the risk of making mistakes but this is the ultimate lesson. If you make a mistake, you can be damn sure that you will never make it again!
Back to doing a radio interview…the main piece of advice that I can give to anyone getting ready to do an interview is to mentally prepare a list of the most important things that you absolutely NEED to get across during the interview. This is important as you only have a limited amount of time so you need to be creative with your responses to certain questions – always try and steer the conversation to what you want to talk about and plug plug plug! Also try and be natural and the golden rule is to be yourself of course.
Here is a radio interview that I did a few months ago for The ElevEase Lovely Legs Competition. In this interview, I was lucky as the presenters were easy to talk to and very friendly.