How to be a guest on podcasts with Alex Vita
It's the Fall of 2026 -- if you're a creative professional, do you still need a web site? That's a question I get a lot lately -- so that's one of the issues I debated on Episode 560 of the Marketing Mentor Podcast , with my guest, Alex Vita of ForegroundWeb , a designer specializing in web sites for photographers. Boy, did we cover a lot of ground in our conversation – from whether creative pros need a web site, to the state of the photography industry in 2026, to what I really wanted to talk about: how Alex gets himself on podcasts (and where podcast guesting fits into Alex’s marketing strategy.) We even put his pitch email to me under a microscope so he could hear from the market, as it were. BTW, I don’t often respond to guest pitches for the Marketing Mentor Podcast. Not because I have anything against people pitching themselves – far from it. (And that would be weird for a marketer, right?) It’s just that I have no trouble finding guests. So in essenc...