Guest Management Articles
Curated PodGlue insights and playbooks focused on guest management.
Your Guest Already Told You How to Interview Them
Your Guest Already Told You How to Interview Them
Guests fill out your intake form with the exact stuff that makes an interview feel like a conversation. Then it dies in a calendar invite. PodGlue now turns that intake into the context that writes your run of show, even when the booking came from somewhere else.
Read articleThe Best Way to Track Your Podcast Guests
The Best Way to Track Your Podcast Guests
The best way to track your podcast guests is the one that survives the moment you get busy. I walk the ladder of methods, from memory to a real relationship tool, and show you which one fits where you actually are.
Read articleThe Best Podcast Guest Management Tools in 2026
The Best Podcast Guest Management Tools in 2026
An honest look at how podcasters keep track of and book guests in 2026. Spreadsheets, marketplaces, DIY databases, and relationship tools, sorted by who each one is actually for.
Read articleNotion for Podcast Guest Management: Does It Hold Up?
Notion for Podcast Guest Management: Does It Hold Up?
Can you run your podcast guests out of Notion? Yes, and here is roughly how. I walk through building a guest database in Notion, where it genuinely holds up, and the point where a busy show starts to strain against it.
Read articleHow to Build a Podcast Guest Pipeline
How to Build a Podcast Guest Pipeline
An empty calendar on your own show is a quiet kind of panic. The fix is a podcast guest pipeline: a steady list of future guests at different stages so you never scramble again. Here is how to build one and keep it full, from 700+ episodes.
Read articleHow to Follow Up With Podcast Guests
How to Follow Up With Podcast Guests
For most podcasters, the conversation ends when the recording stops. That's the mistake. Here are the follow-ups that actually matter, and the messages I send to keep the relationship alive.
Read articleThe Podcast Guest Outreach Emails I Actually Send
The Podcast Guest Outreach Emails I Actually Send
Most guest invites fail for the same reason: they're about the host, not the guest. Here are the outreach emails I actually send, line by line, and why each line is there.
Read articleTurn Your Podcast Guests Into Your Best Growth Channel
Turn Your Podcast Guests Into Your Best Growth Channel
Most podcasters publish the episode and never talk to the guest again. But your past guests are the warmest network you have. They share, they refer, they come back, they vouch. Here's how to grow a podcast through the guests you already have.
Read articleThe Podcast Guest One-Sheet
The Podcast Guest One-Sheet
A podcast guest one-sheet is the single page that makes a guest easy to book and easy to promote. Here's what belongs on it, and why you actually need two: one you keep about each guest, and one your guest can share about their appearance.
Read articleHow to Find and Book Podcast Guests
How to Find and Book Podcast Guests
The best podcast guests rarely come from cold pitching. After 700+ episodes, here is where good guests actually come from and a booking workflow that makes it easy for them to say yes.
Read articleHow to Manage Your Podcast Guests Without Losing Track
How to Manage Your Podcast Guests Without Losing Track
Nobody teaches podcasters how to keep track of the humans behind the episodes. After 700+ episodes, here is the simple system I wish I had built on day one for managing podcast guests as relationships, not bookings.
Read articleYour Guest Isn't Flaky. Your Reminder Is.
Your Guest Isn't Flaky. Your Reminder Is.
After 700-plus episodes, the most expensive moment in podcasting is the empty chair. The guest didn't flake. The reminder got buried in their inbox. So we moved reminders to where people actually look: their texts.
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Your Guest List Is the Warmest Relationship List You Own
Podcasters treat their guest roster like a CRM of strangers. It isn't. Every person on that list chose to show up, gave their time, and shared something real. Most of them never heard from you again.
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You Had a Great Conversation. Then You Disappeared.
Your guest showed up, prepared, shared something real, promoted the episode, and then waited. Most hosts never came back. That's the moment it breaks.
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The Best Conversation You've Had Is Probably Still Waiting for a Follow-Up.
The conversation is the easy part. Showing up for it consistently, with the right guest, at the right time, that part requires something a good microphone can't give you.
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What Is Podcast Relationship Management (PRM)?
After 700-plus episodes, I kept losing track of the people I interviewed. The promises, the follow-ups, the threads. Podcast relationship management is the name I gave to the work of tending those conversations instead of forgetting them.
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