If there’s one thing we almost never turn down, it is being interviewed. If the audience fits, and the timing works for our schedule, it doesn’t matter if you’re a new site, blog, podcast or whatever we will say yes.

Over the years we’ve appeared in many different places. From Internet radio shows to podcasts to webinars and teleseminars. Sometimes we would be given a list of questions, at other times we only get a gist of what we will be talking about.

Either way, generally I like to prepare some kind of talking points before the show. This is usually brainstormed on a piece of paper because I think better that way. Still, I have to (embarrassingly) admit that my scrawls aren’t always the neatest. There have been times in the middle of talking, I couldn’t make sense of what I wrote earlier and completely lost my train of thought. *Sigh* Not good.

Now that Evernote is our best friend…

I actually enter my talking points into Evernote. Sometimes, I skip the paper altogether and at other times I just use my Livescribe (best friend #2) then export the notes into text which is pasted into Evernote.

So far, I’ve only entered them with headings and bullets to guide my eye to main points and related thoughts. But I think I’m actually going to organize that into tables and put checkboxes next to the points so I can track where I am. Yeah that sounds like a plan.

The nice part about all this:

• I no longer have pieces of paper everywhere
• I can read it
• It can easily be re-purposed into an article since it’s already typed. Simply flesh it out and polish it up.

Next time you are facing an interview or even preparing for one – try planning it with Evernote. I can already imagine how I’d use it to manage a multi-expert speaker webinar.