The next decision I want you to make is what's going to be the technical format of your talk show. These days, you have so many choices, and a lot of them are extremely inexpensive. The simplest way you can do a talk show these days is just interview people through Skype video. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't need a big fancy studio, the person you're interviewing doesn't have to go anywhere, you can do it all from home. And there's no travel expense. You don't have to have a big studio because there's only one shot on you and the person you're interviewing has to have their own Skype camera though they're on webcam.

Now. It's unlikely you're going to make millions from a show like that or even generate millions of views. But that's okay. You've got to decide what works for you. If you have your heart set on being on broadcast TV, you may have to spend a lot of money on a big fancy pilot, I wouldn't recommend that it's very hard to break in to hosting the These days by just creating a pilot, you also may want to just do not live but recorded interviews, one on one. And you could even do that with a cell phone these days.

You could also have a simple studio with one camera a little fancier. With three cameras, you could do it in a cable access place, or you could just do it in your own living room. But are you going to be live and take calls? If so, technically, that is harder, but with with YouTube, with their live function, other live stream, there's a lot of ways you can do live talk shows. And it's not hard technically. But you've got to decide.

So I want to know, are you going to do it live or not? Is it going to be something that is an internet based show first? Or are you trying to have sort of the bigger fancier production values of traditional broadcast TV and I realized that those blinds are changing all the time with things like Netflix But you can get away with simpler production values. If you're going to be launching this on YouTube first or your own corporate website, I'd like you to decide what's the set going to be? Is it just going to be the same place each time? Where you're in a chair?

And you're across from a table from someone else? Or you're just sitting next to each other? Or are you going to be on location, interviewing people in different offices in different places out in the field? So these are fundamental decisions you have to make? Are you going to be interviewing people through Skype? Is it going to be in person?

Are you going to shoot this on your cell phone camera, which you can do? Is it going to be a webcam, consumer grade cameras, big fancy broadcast quality cameras. These days, the the higher expensive camera production guys don't necessarily translate into bigger audiences or more money. So be careful how you go off and start spending money. Figure out Exactly what the structure is going to be, technically, and also the length of your show. So figure that out right now.

Let's come up with a plan and write it down.