interview
Do you have trouble interviewing people? For many bloggers, interviews are a daunting task. However, they are an important tool for boosting traffic to your blog. Thankfully, this task can prove less daunting by conducting time-efficient interviews. By being timely you won’t have to have a long, drawn out interview and you will be showing your interviewee that you appreciate and respect their time. If you have been wanting to conduct an interview for your blog but wasn’t sure how to do it, don’t sweat it. Here are some tips for conducting a time-efficient interview for your blog.
Prepare for the Interview
In order to have a timely interview, you must be prepared. Like looking in the mirror and practicing an important speech, it is even more important to practice what they are going to say before an interview. You will want to prepare a list of basic questions to ask the interviewee. These questions will give you a sort of outline on how to keep the conversation on track. This will keep the interview flowing smoothly and will also help you not forget to ask any important questions. You can’t conduct a time-efficient interview without being prepared beforehand.
Prioritize
Make sure that you hit the questions that are most important to your blog. It’s good and actually important to incorporate small talk in your interview, but don’t get carried away. Before you know it, you will have run out of time and have forgotten to ask any of your hard-hitting questions. This is why it’s important to prioritize the questions that you need for your blog. By doing so you can still get done in a timely manner while still giving the interviewee time to answer the important questions to the fullest. By prioritizing your questions, you can get the critical answers you need to make your blog awesome.
Steer the Conversation
Sometimes interviews go off topic. Don’t worry, this is normal. It’s human nature to want to have a back and forth conversation with another person. By having a back and forth conversation you will get your interviewee to open up more, which could lead to an awesome blog post. However, this back and forth conversation can sometimes go off topic and before you know it you’ve run out of time and you haven’t even hit the questions you really wanted to ask. This is why it’s your job as the interviewer to steer the conversation in the right direction. By steering the conversation, you can complete the interview in a timely fashion and get the critical answers for your blog.
While blogging is becoming increasingly popular, many bloggers find it hard to conduct interviews with the successful people in their blogs niche. Interviewing these people boost traffic to your blog, so treat their time with respect. By preparing, prioritizing questions, and steering the conversation you can conduct a successful interview.