How To Record Telephone Interviews
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Even if you do not have your very own podcast (I don’t), telephone interviews make great content for your web site. You can further re-purpose it to be added into products or member exclusive downloads. Thankfully recording telephone interviews today is a whole lot easier than it used to be. There’s often little expensive hardware investment required.
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Many free conference call services allow you to record your calls. Do read the fine print. Some do charge or require you to be a premium member before you can record and retrieve your recording. Others allow you to do it for free.
Another method is to use Skype with Pamela or other software based recorder like Total Recorder. Skype is free, Pamela is a small investment starting at $21.25 and thereabouts depending on the exchange rate. I personally use Total Recorder which is a separate software, been using it since before Pamela and just haven’t bothered to switch.
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You have to be careful with phone interviews, and make sure that the other party knows exactly what they’re getting into. Maybe even have them sign a document indicating that they know what they’re getting into. If they claim that you recorded the interview without knowledge, or distributed private information, then you could be in legal trouble.
Skype is a great tool for doing interviews especially when you can do it as a video chat and record it.
I am on a mac and Call Recorder from Ecamm is just fantastic and under $15.
Different states have different laws. Some states require both parties to know some require only one party to know. In any case, I’m talking about recording interviews for podcasting, marketing and product creation purposes where both or more parties already know that’s the deal. Certainly not promoting illegal activity.
Thanks for sharing that resource for Mac users out there.