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The Drone Trainer Podcast

Summary: Are you looking to have a successful drone business? Join The Drone Trainer, Chris Anderson, as he interviews other successful drone pilots from around the world. In these weekly interviews, you'll hear about everything from marketing your drone business to flight tips, and a variety of ideas that you can use to help your drone business really take off! Yes, that pun was intended! Subscribe now :)

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Podcasts:

 TDT 047 - Real Estate and Solar Panel Drones with Keith Perry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:35

Keith Perry, as you may remember from a video blog post that I shared a few weeks ago, is flying a Mavic 2 Zoom. He was one of the first drone pilots that picked up a Mavic 2 Zoom, so with how passionate he is about drones I wanted to chat with him on the podcast as well! Keith's company is Hudson Valley Drones, based in upstate New York. Keith is concentrating on real estate, but is also working in solar panels and surveying for solar companies.

 TDT 046 - Riptide Prints Creator Michael Brown | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:44

Michael Brown is an Australia based drone pilot, who identified a need to help drone photographers get their work on walls around the world. Michael found that there are creators that are producing some excellent materials, but don't have an easy way to market, print, and ship their work around the world. His response? He created Riptide Prints!

 TDT 045 - Drone Landscapes with Tyler Leipprandt | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:13

Tyler Leipprandt is a Michigan based drone pilot, who is working in real estate and also shooting landscape photos with his drone. Tyler was a teacher for 5 years, and then made the transition into instructional technology. From there his love of drones and tech grew, and the rest has been history.

 TDT 044 - Construction Progress with Kyle Ventler | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:07

Kyle Ventler is flying out of the Seattle area, flying construction sites to capture progression footage. He has been taking standard photos and videos of construction sites, and has now come up with a new technique to count anchor bolts at construction sites. He's developed this technique based on a drone mapping combination of Drone Deploy and Agremo. Yes, Agremo is marketed as an agricultural product, however Kyle has found a way to utilize it in his construction drone work. Very cool and innovative!

 TDT 043 - Drone Augmented Reality with Chris Brisendine | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 19:05

Chris Brisendine has developed an augmented reality solution for drones, that he envisions will be used heavily in public safety response. He has a connection with emergency management in Paris Tennessee, which has allowed him to access useful data to utilize in his app. There is 911 information, home values, colour of houses, and more, but the real value comes in his ability to create overlays. Roads, dropping pins, and damage assessments can be done in real time using Chris' augmented reality solution.

 TDT 042 - Selling Drone Prints with Merr Watson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:54

Merr Watson was born in the Philippines and moved to Perth about 8 years ago. She is a content creator, who is using her drone to capture stunning photos and videos at the beach. Merr was approached by Mike at Riptide Prints who offered her the opportunity to easily sell her prints online. Riptide takes care of all the printing, framing, and shipping, while still providing Merr the majority of the profit. Think she is a fan of that? YOU BET!

 TDT 041 - Connecticut Drone Pilot Ryan Hargraves | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:34

Ryan Hargraves has been a photographer for 10 years, and has now added drones to his arsenal. He takes a lot of real estate photos, and adding the drone to his business has been very financially beneficial to his business. Ryan owns the DJI Mavic, Inspire 1, and Phantom 4 Pro, and discusses why he chooses one over the other based on the type of job that he's doing. Since he has a few smaller capable units, you're probably not going to be surprised to hear why his Inspire 1 is sitting around.

 TDT 040 - Drone Insurance with Evan Garmon | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:34

Evan Garmon is an insurance agent based in Indiana, servicing drone pilots from all across the United States. Evan has been working in the insurance industry since 2013, and started to specialize in drone insurance in 2015 with Harpenau Insurance. His description on their website says that Evan loves drones, reading, fitness, and pumpkin carving. Rest assured, we're only going to talk about the first point in this interview ;)

 TDT 039 - Manchester Drone Pilot Ella McKendrick | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:26

Ella McKendrick is a recreational drone pilot who is also using her drone to promote her lifestyle brand. Listen in as she discuss her editing process, Instagram advertising strategies, and why she is shooting JPG instead of RAW photos! When speaking about Instagram ads, Ella gives us tips on how to best target your ads so that you're not just throwing your money into the wind. Strategies discussed include age, gender, and location targeting based on your desired audience.

 TDT 038 - Solar Panels and Drones with Sinuhe Montoya | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:47

Sinuhe Montoya is a drone pilot who saw an opportunity to use his drone to help get solar panels installed. How does that happen? Well, he actually doesn't invite any of the installers with him, but instead he runs everything through his business DroneQuote. How does that work? Well without giving it all away, he saw a need to eliminate painful in home solar panel sales calls by pre-shooting with his drone. Once a home has been shot, he sends the opportunity out to other installers who then bid on the job!

 TDT 037 - DJI Mavic 2 Pro Review | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:22

Who else was excited with the announcement and immediate release of the DJI Mavic 2 series drones! We all knew it was coming, but now that it's finally here we can get some real world reviews of the new series as they've already started landing in people's hands around the world. Elijah Browning, a commercial drone pilot from Michigan was one of the lucky ones to get his hands on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro right away after release, and he's been awesome enough to hop on the show and share his thoughts on it!

 TDT 036 - My turn to be the guest! Hey, it's The UAV Digest! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:40

The tables have turned a bit in this episode, in that I'm not the host but rather the guest as I have a chat with Max and David over at The UAV Digest! The UAV Digest is a great podcast for finding out the latest industry news, and I wanted to share it with all of you! Have a listen as I'm on the other side of the table, discussing trends in the UAV industry, as well as our predictions for the future. I really think that you're going to enjoy the episode! Subscribe to both of us now!

 TDT 035 - Flying Drones in Belgium with Halil Berisha | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:31

Halil Berisha is a drone photographer based in Belgium, who is looking to turn commercial. In this episode, Halil discusses the difference in drone licensing in Belgium, and why he is looking to obtain his license in a neighbouring country instead.

 TDT 034 - Flying Drones for NBC with Paula Sullivan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:58

Paula Sullivan is in the fortunate position to be able to fly under contract for NBC news in the Boston and Connecticut areas! Listen in as she discusses how she flies her gigs, and also how she connected with her company, Photo Flight Aerial Media!

 TDT 033 - Drones in Real Estate and more with Benjamin Holmes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:46

Benjamin Holmes has been working in the drone industry for about a year now, and has been really putting his nose down over the past 4 months. So far he's been working in real estate, shooting top down photos of his client's properties, and is looking at getting into mapping and modelling in the near future.

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