TTP006 Is Tech Trouble Holding Your Business Back? - a podcast by Airial Renal

from 2019-03-05T09:00

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Welcome to the TrepTECH podcast hosted by the one and only Tech Angel, Airial Re’nal. Scott Doucet co-hosts inserting truth bombs and comedy along the way. You’re here for real, honest talk on real topics surrounding the entrepreneurial and business world. Nothing gets diluted during the TrepTECH recording sessions and you won’t believe some of the things our hosts take on as topics. This show is an excellent resource for any level of business owner. You’ll stay for the tips, strategies, stories, and chemistry between Airial and Scott. This is your new favorite podcast for successful entrepreneurs.

In this episode, Airial allows Scott to steer this ship and he directs it toward the dicey waters of technical problems and solutions. Which is brilliant because Airial is a technical specialist. They discuss some of the tech failures they have both experienced and how it affected them as far as momentum or cause for any major setbacks.

Types of Tech Fails:

Forty minutes of an amazing episode occurred when they realized they had not been recording
- Scott calls it the best episode that was never recorded
Plugging in but, are not able to hear each other during sales calls
Systems for payment
Systems for taxes
Systems not working right
Landing pages (sales funnel)
- Leading an email list
- Leading to a sales page
- Thank you page
- Client fulfillment

We need to trust other professionals and experts to do what they do. Don’t waste hours and energy you could be used to promote, record, edit, make money, doing something you can have someone else do for you. (especially if they are on your team already) Scott discusses how he creates landing pages:

Post-it note
Crude drawing
Holding it up to webcam
Letting Airial do it for him

Scott lays out one of the biggest reasons people don’t start a podcast, or even their business in the online space because they’re paralyzed by the fear of not knowing how to produce the technical side of the business. This can be the greatest weakness and a detrimental one. Airial jumps in, adding she tests out many different platforms, making sure they are user-friendly for situations just like this. Experts want to share their knowledge. Scott describes a time he put a call for help on Facebook and had dozens of people answering with fixes. One of those people was TrepTECH’s own Airial!

Typical tech concerns:

How do I set up an e-mail campaign?
What’s the best platform to use for landing pages?
What’s the best service for transcriptions?
What’s the best online video meeting platform?
How do I using editing software?

Airial makes it clear cut by explaining when you take your time and try to do something you don’t know you could end up losing money yourself. Why not go ahead and pay someone who will do it quicker and save the extra money? It is imperative that you know your own strengths and weaknesses so you can assess when to reach out for assistance. It doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg because the specialist may be able to fix it within a matter of minutes.

Airial Quotes

“It can be scary and overwhelming.”

“I have back up plans for back up plans for back up plans.”

“Servers crash, computers go slow, noise in the background . . . it happens. Just call me.”

“Just send it to me. I’ll fix it.”

“Tech is amazing. It gives us so many more opportunities”

“Airial directs people to Scott when they come to her asking questions about how to start a podcast.” (pertaining to types of equipment, what is crucial, what needs to be splurged on, and what items can take the cheap route.)

Scott Quotes

“The thing is, there’s a fix for all of it.”

“I’m not gonna try to do that. It’ll look like a three-year-old designed it on the paint program.”

“Beginner entrepreneurs are cripplingly terrified of [tech issues].”

“She didn’t get a choice. You work for us now.” (On Airial joining the Podcast Bay Productions team)

“Tech scares the bejesus out of me, but I was still able to build a business in spite of that, so you can too.”

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