How Do I Tactfully Decline A Request From An Audience Member To Be On My Show?

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2014

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Dana asks a really great question that many podcasters struggle with: how do you tactfully decline a request from an audience who wants to be on your show? Dana's site is http://www.diaperdirt.com/. If you have a question about a sensitive challenge with your own business, record it for me at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to Zip Recruiter for sponsoring today's episode. Go to http://www.ziprecruiter.com/pat to get started posting jobs today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What is up, ask pat.com.
0:11.0	What is up everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 82 of Ask Pat. I'm so happy you're here. Thank you for listening in. I also want to thank today's sponsor, which is zip recruiter.com. ZipRecruiter is a
0:23.5	great site because if you're looking to hire anybody in your business, the best place to do it is
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0:31.7	your requirements for your job, you can just put it on ZipRecruiter. They posted out to the 50 top job sites out there all with one click
0:38.4	and they highlight the best candidates for you, making it easy for you to hire the right person
0:42.2	fast. So again, that's ZipRecruiter.com slash Pat. That's my referral link. Now, on to today's
0:49.1	question from Dana. She's asking a question about audience members who want to be on her show or on her podcast.
0:56.5	So let's take a listen.
0:58.3	Hi, Pat. It's Dana Ryan from the Diper Dirt Podcast, which is a podcast all about parenting young children.
1:04.9	And I've recently started doing interviews and they've been going really great.
1:08.9	And I have actually been getting some requests from some people to be on my podcast.
1:15.0	And I don't really feel that they would be a good fit.
1:17.7	However, they're still a part of my community and I have a relationship with them.
1:21.5	Do you have any advice on how I could tactfully decline an interview with someone
1:25.5	in a way that is nice and also maintains the relationship? Thanks so much for all you do. Bye-bye.
1:33.2	Hey, Dana, thank you so much for your question. And first of all, congratulations to you and your podcast. I checked it out on iTunes. It seems to be doing very well. You're keeping up with it. And you have 10 reviews, all five star reviews,
1:45.1	which is perfect. And that's awesome. So congratulations. And it's awesome that you're at a point in your
1:49.6	business or in your blog or podcast now where you're getting people coming to you to want to go on
1:54.1	your show. I'm at that point now as well. And I do have to decline a number of people who want to be on the show. And there are different
2:01.1	ways to do this obviously, but I think no matter what the case may be, you also want to be
2:04.4	always honest with those people. But you also want to somehow thank them for wanting to be on
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