How to deal with an interview that runs overtime

What happens when your interview is over? One of the biggest problems with recording audio interviews can be taking longer than expected.

If you want to edit a good interview from 45 minutes to an hour, I would ask for an hour and a half. If you really want to do it and make sure nothing is scheduled after that, let’s say we’re going to need two hours. This gives you extra time to make sure you get what you really need.

If you’re in doubt about doing that, you can always take what you get. Ask for an hour and settle for thirty minutes. Even if you get a good thirty minute interview with a high profile guy, that’s still valuable because you get the interview. You have yourself interviewing them. You have their name, and that will be good for driving traffic and generating leads. Just ask.

You could ask ahead of time before setting up an appointment with them and say, “Hey, how much time will you have?” This will ensure that you know how much time you will have early on and can prepare accordingly. This problem even happens to me. When I was doing an interview with Bill Bartmann, I think we were at an hour and a half and I had more questions that I wanted to ask. It was such a good interview, but it stopped me. He said, “No, we have to stop now.” So I finished the interview, but I asked, which is all you can do.