Calling all authors, journalists, publishers, and promotional firms:  Conducting interviews while researching or writing your book or article? Promoting writers, books, or articles?

Evoca makes it easy for you to record interviews using any phone or Skype and then post interviews to websites, blogs, and social media sites.  For your online visitors, real voice recordings bring words, photographs, and writers to life.

Evoca saves your interview as an MP3 recording to your Evoca account. You can keep it private to use while researching or drafting or you can use it in your online marketing campaigns.

How to record an interview using your phone:

• Call your interviewee
  • “Hi Brenda, this is Fred. As planned, we’re going to do the interview today by phone. I’m going to start the interview as soon as I bring in the recording service.”
• Dial your favorite worldwide Evoca phone number
  • Save your favorite Evoca number to speed-dial it any time.
• Join the three lines together to record your interview
  • This phone feature is known as three-way dialing on your Blackberry, iPhone, and most mobile phones and landlines.
  • If you want to interview two or more people at the same time, it’s a conference call. Once you get all the interviewees on the call, add Evoca as the last party on the call.
• End the call and your interview is instantly saved as an MP3 recording in your Evoca account.

How to record an interview using Skype:

Skype™ is a free call recording service that works from your computer. You can host and save an interview recording using the Evoca-Skype call recorder. Add it to your Skype contact list.  Since Evoca is a web service, our Skype recorder doesn’t require any software downloads (or permission from your IT department).

• Make a free Skype call to your interviewee
• Add in the “Evoca Skype Call Recorder” from your contact list to begin recording
  • It’s especially convenient and affordable for international interview sessions and also handy for within-country calls.
  • Interviewee not a Skype user? Make a Skype Out call at Skype’s low per minute rates.
  • If you want to interview two or more people at the same time, it’s a Skype conference call. Add as many people (Skype contacts) to the call as you wish.
• End the call and your interview is instantly saved as an MP3 recording in your Evoca account.
  • Evoca sends you a Skype chat message so you can access it in your account, email or download it instantly.

How to use interviews in your online marketing campaigns:

• Post your interview player widget on your websites, blogs, and social media sites
• With the viral “share” button, invite your fans, readers, and supporters to post the recording widget to their blogs, websites, and social media pages
• Add e-commerce and other promotional links inside the viral player headers and footers
• Email it to your interviewee, editor, colleagues, and followers

Try an Evoca Express free trial subscription. No credit card is required to sign up. During your 30-day trial period you get 15 minutes of recording storage time. Need to start recording an important one-hour interview now?  Sign-up for your Evoca Express Pro subscription to conduct an interview of any length. You get 10 hours of recording storage time and can  add “buckets” of 10 hours any time.  You can also just click to order a transcription online from right inside your Evoca Express account.

Hint #1:  To make it really easy to use the recording or find it later on, create Albums named for your books, articles, or authors. You can easily add each new interview recording to the appropriate album.

Hint #2: Practice an interview recording before you record your first “real” interview. Once you’ve recorded your first interview using Evoca;  it’s like riding a bike, you’ll be able to do it again and again.  You can also bookmark or print this blog article.