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Dr. Jeremy Weisz is the Co-founder of Rise25, a company that helps B2B business owners connect with their ideal prospects, referral partners, and strategic partners through a done-for-you podcast service. Dr. Weisz has been involved in podcasting for 11 years and was a senior producer for one of the early business podcasts; he assisted in putting all of their systems in place and helped them add volume, feature, and edify various business leaders.

Dr. Weisz has also been running his own podcast, Inspired Insider, since 2011. He has featured top entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs of companies such as P90X, Atari, Einstein Bagels, Mattel, the Orlando Magic, and many more through video interviews. Dr. Weisz also founded a nutritional supplement business and continues to run his own chiropractic and massage facility, Chiropractical Solutions & Massage.

In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran is joined by Dr. Jeremy Weisz, his Co-founder at Rise25, to talk about building thought leadership through podcasting and content marketing. They explain how a podcast helps with networking, connecting with other channels and thought leaders, and how podcast content can be repurposed into other valuable forms.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll hear:

    • How podcasting can generate thought leadership content
    • Repurposing your thought leadership content into a book or course  
    • How a podcast can help connect to new channels, media, and other podcasters
    • Networking with other thought leaders through podcasting 
  • Where to learn more about Dr. Jeremy Weisz and Rise25

 

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Sponsor: Rise25

At Rise25, we’re committed to helping you connect with your Dream 100 referral partners, clients, and strategic partners through our done-for-you podcast solution. 

We’re a professional podcast production agency that makes creating a podcast effortless. Since 2009, our proven system has helped thousands of B2B businesses to build strong relationships with referral partners, clients and audience without having to do the hard work. 

What do you need to start a podcast?

When you use our proven system, all you need is an idea and a voice. We handle the strategy, production, and distribution – you just need to show up and talk.

The Rise25 podcasting solution is designed to help you build a profitable podcast. This requires a specific strategy, and we’ve got that down pat. We focus on making sure you have a direct path to ROI which is the most important component. Plus our podcast production company takes any of the heavy lifting of production and distribution off of your plate.

We make distribution easy

We’ll distribute each episode across more than 11 unique channels including iTunes, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. We’ll also create copy for each episode and promote your show across social media.

Cofounders Dr. Jeremy Weisz and John Corcoran credit podcasting as the best thing they have ever done for their businesses. Podcasting connected them with the founders/CEOs of P90xAtariEinstein BagelsMattelRx BarsYPO, EO, Lending Tree, Freshdesk,  and many more.  

The relationships you form through podcasting run deep.  Jeremy and John became business partners through podcasting.  They have even gone on family vacations and attended weddings of guests who have been on the podcast.  

Podcast production has a lot of moving parts and is a big commitment on our end; we only want to work with people who are committed to their business and cultivating amazing relationships. 

Are you considering launching a podcast to acquire partnerships, clients, and referrals? Would you like to work with a podcast agency that wants you to win? 

Contact us now at support[at]rise25media.com or book a call at rise25.com/bookcall.

Rise25 was co-founded by Dr. Jeremy Weisz and John Corcoran who have been podcasting and advising about podcasting since 2008.

Episode Transcript

Intro  0:14  

Welcome to the Revolution, the Smart Business Revolution Podcast where we ask today’s most successful entrepreneurs to share the tools and strategies they use to build relationships and connections to grow their revenue. Now, your host for the revolution,John Corcoran

John Corcoran  0:40

All right. Welcome everyone. John Corcoran here. I am the host of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast. This is a live episode we’re doing here today and our topic today is ‘how to build thought leadership using a podcast and content marketing’. And I’m really feeling so fortunate because due to doing a podcast for many years now, I’ve been able to connect with and feature hundreds of respected business and thought leaders and mentors. All kinds from Vern Harnish to Peter Diamandis. I’ve done multiple webinars for Tony Robbins company, along with my business partner, Dr. Jeremy Weisz here, and even been invited to speak on stage alongside Malcolm Gladwell and Shaquille O’Neal. It’s all because of podcasting, and all because of a deliberate, focused strategy. So we’re gonna talk all about that here today. And with me, of course, Dr. Jeremy Weisz.

Jeremy Weisz 1:29   I want to call you doctor Corcoran. Although I don’t know if we can give a Juris Doctor But um, yeah, people can check out inspired Insider, as well. And I’ve done you know, probably 1000s of episodes at this point in podcasts. That’s right, and what are we going to talk about?

John Corcoran 1:46   We are going to talk about building thought leadership, which so many people realize the value of being a respected thought leadership having thought leadership in your field, but they’re not sure how to go about it. So we’re gonna talk about that. But first, before we do before we get into that, this episode is brought to you by Rise25 Media where we help b2b businesses get clients, referrals, and strategic partnerships with podcasts and content marketing. You’re listening, or watching a podcast right now. And if you’ve ever thought, I want to be a thought leader, or if you ever thought, should I start a podcast? Well, we say yes, I’ve been saying it for as long as I’ve been doing a podcast because of the tremendous value that flows to your life. So if you want to learn more about how to do it, you can go to our website, rise25.com, or email us support@rise25media.com. Alright.

Jeremy Weisz 2:42   So I was just trying to throw you off, because I was just trying to make you jump in, I’m gonna see if he’s gonna go back to talking about what we actually do or not trying to pass the test,

John Corcoran 2:44   you have drilled me well to make sure to not skip over the sponsor message, which we advocate doing for all of our clients, but three ways to create thought leadership. And it might not be exactly what you think. I think you might be a little bit surprised by some of the strategies for building thought leadership that we advocate. So Jeremy, to start with, of course, this is the most obvious one, creating a podcast actually generates thought leadership content, it generates a body of work, and that content can be pushed across multiple different channels. So talk a little bit about the importance of that.

Jeremy Weisz 3:18   Yeah, I’ll get a little granular for a second with thought leadership because a lot of different types of episodes you can create for thought leaders, when we say thought leadership is your internal thought leadership or your team’s thought leadership. You know, in you know, the the, the other part of that is actually featuring other people. So what we’re talking about is not featuring other people, but talking about your thought leadership. And there’s a couple different types that we recommend. And when you produce this thought leadership, it can go across as you know, with the podcast, it goes across your nose 1015. Great guests. Thanks, Bradley. 20 different channels because it goes on pi goes on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, go, you can put it on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, wherever you want. So it goes across all these channels. But what do you create? Also, what we see is, it should also help your process in your company, sales process even and, you know, you can produce an episode that is talking about, I was talking to a client this morning, and I was saying, you find yourself repeating the same thing over and over with clients. And if you do, you should produce an episode on it. So you don’t repeat it all the time. You put it across all the channels, people can hear your methodology. And you can then send it to someone who’s thinking about working with you and go, Hey, before we talk, check out this. This is my perspective on X and they can learn about it and you can then go deeper with a conversation and that person will be so much more warmed up to your ideas and so much further along in the process when they do get on the phone with you. So that’s a great point. And that relates to your Talking to another client yesterday about this the importance of integrating doing a podcast into what you’re doing already, it shouldn’t be this additional thing that you have to do, where you put a ton of work into scripting, topic, all that kind of stuff that’s too much work, it needs to make your life easier, not harder, or else, it won’t,

John Corcoran 5:18   you won’t be long for doing it, the old stop after six months, because you’ll have so many other things on your plate that you need to do. And so it’ll just lower in priority. So that was the first point. So the second point is that to build a thought leadership is you can repurpose that content. So you can take it and put it into other forms of media, such as interactive audios, which you share on social media, or you can take podcasts. And one thing you’ve done really well, Jeremy is helping people to structure their ideas. And then what you create ultimately is a book, right? Because it becomes a table of contents for your book.

Jeremy Weisz  5:54   Yeah, I mean, the first point is you can use the podcast and put it on all these channels, then you could take the content and do other things with that content, like you mentioned. So you could take snippets of it, put it on social media, you can actually if you structure properly, if you structure your thought leadership properly, in an outline, you can end up at the end result being a book. And we’ve structured that out with clients. So then the Hey, after this number of episodes, you’re gonna have a book. And also you can structure it out into a course that you end up giving away to your clients, or you can end up selling it.

John Corcoran 6:30   Yeah, digital courses can serve multiple different purposes, it can be the top of the funnel, it can be something that you can use to reactivate people that you haven’t talked to for a while it can be something that you give, it can be something that you sell and generate revenue from. It can be something that helps you to network with new people, there’s so many different purposes for it. Same thing with a book as well. Third point, you can use the podcast to connect to new channels, where you can share your thought leadership further build that thought leadership further in front of new audiences. So for example, you can use the podcast to connect with the organizers of a conference either the person who organizes the board members, volunteers who names it, you name it, so that you can get invited to speak at that conference, you can use a podcast to connect with other podcasters so that you can be a guest on other podcasts, which is a great way to build your audience. You can also use podcasts to connect with mainstream media or reporters become known in your field as an expert in your field. I’ve seen that happen so many different times where people get quoted, it’s become much more common. You see people quoted in mainstream media and in their podcast, as mentioned. So Jeremy, your thoughts on that? You might guess

Jeremy Weisz 7:44   you mentioned? Yeah, I mean, you can use it for so many, because once you’re out there and sharing your methodology, sharing your thought leadership, you’ll pick up on it. And it can you know, like you said you could be asked to present webinars to different companies, right. You’ve been featured on different webinars we’ve done webinars for for various companies, Tony Robbins’ group and sales division of Salesforce, Contactually. Then I think you’re doing for AWeber. I can’t remember. You did one for AWeber. And also speakers. I don’t know if there’s a fun story behind Malcolm Gladwell, Shaquille O’Neal. I can’t remember that story.

John Corcoran 8:23   Yes, just that I was invited to do. And I’m a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell. So you know, it was an honor to be invited. I ultimately didn’t didn’t take them up on it. But I mean, for kids,

Jeremy Weisz 8:35   I don’t know how you do anything, and you don’t tend to go to the bathroom.

John Corcoran 8:40   Exactly, exactly. So then and then just to let it wrap up. One more bonus point. And this is a slightly different point. So the previous point was using the podcast, connect with new channels, so that you can share your thought leadership through those channels, whether it’s speaking on stage, speaking on podcast, getting quoted in books, that’s another one I’ve, you know, interviewed people on my podcast, who are authors, and then they, they’re writing their next book, and they reach back out to me, and then they feature me in their book, which has happened with you as well. So it’s a really cool strategy as well. And then the fourth piece is networking with other thought leaders, who then will develop the respect for you and what you do. And when you think about it thought leadership often is developed in this sense, other experts in the field begin mentioning you as a fellow as a peer as a fellow respected thought leadership in the field. And it’s very difficult to become a respected thought leader in your field without having that respect. And so you can very much go about earning it assuming you have something important to say significant to say in your field, but you go about earning it by developing nurturing these relationships with the others who already respected thought leaders in your particular field. Any thoughts on that? Jeremy?

Jeremy Weisz 9:55   No, I think I think you’re exactly right. I mean, think, you know, it’s all about relations. and then you know forming relationships with and giving to for us it’s about relationships and giving to those relationships how do we we’re always thinking how do we give first how do we give to those relationships how do we help those people with and serve them with whatever they’re working on you know in their life or business you know i have people all the time where they say oh i this you know that’s an aside comment i this health issue i’m dealing with or whatever and i happen to have expertise in that and people say oh i have this you know this legal thing and you happen to have expertise in that so it may not even be serving that person in what we do as a business but just as a human being the human being

John Corcoran 10:37   yeah you know it’s it’s funny because there are those who think that in order to develop thought leadership you need to go retreat to your writing cabin or your office and spend months years generating content writing maybe books writing articles turning out that kind of stuff and that might work in certain fields that might work maybe in academia still but the approach that we advocate is more of a people based approach which is to build those relationships and through the building of those relationships and at the same time concurrently generating the content you will become that respected thought leader and you will have such a stronger network through that process.

Jeremy Weisz 11:22   Yeah, I think to that point John, when we think of it it’s you know you know we call it Rise25 because we believe in rising tide lifts all boats and so there’s other people who really have thought leadership around relationships that we are huge advocates for and we’re talking about them and their work and promoting their work and not just us so the thought leadership is also sharing were some of our ideas and some of the people we respect you know like you know we respect you know John Ruhlin and what he does with with his you know gift ology and his company respect Ian Garlic and what he does with helping people get their you know case stories out there and his podcasts there’s so many people we learn from him we go perpetuate what they’re working on.

John Corcoran 12:12   Absolutely. Well just to wrap things up Jeremy, where can people go to learn more about yourself and Rise25?

Jeremy Weisz 12:19   Yeah they can go to rise25.com or you can go to the About page there and then it kind of has we have a video that we created and you kept in some of the outtakes in that video so it’s pretty funny i didn’t realize that you put those in there so you can go to rise25.com check out more of the video I was talking about how do you get ROI with a podcast.

John Corcoran 12:42   Alright, thanks everyone have a great day.

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