🎯 Best Use of Your Time as a New Podcaster (and How Blubrry Helps) – PCI 445

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Hi, everyone. I'm Mackenzie Bennett, marketing specialist at

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Blueberry. I'm Mike Dell, VP of customer relations

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here at Blueberry, and welcome to Podcast Insider.

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If you're a new podcaster feeling overwhelmed by

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everything you could be doing, then you're not

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alone. Yep. Today, we're gonna break down

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where your time is best spent in the

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early stages of podcasting and how Blueberry's tools

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can help you stay focused and grow without

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burnout.

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You're listening to Podcast Insider, a weekly podcast

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bringing insights, advice, and insider tips and tricks

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to help you start, grow, and thrive through

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podcasting

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with the support of your team here at

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Blueberry Podcasting.

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Welcome. Let's dive in.

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I heard a good comeback to somebody that

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said, I'm burned out, and the person came

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back and said, you were never on fire.

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It feels like it, though.

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It absolutely

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feels like it. Self induced,

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you know, incineration

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sometimes.

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Yep. Yep.

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Especially when you were starting a podcast sometimes.

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Yep. Yep. And if you're feeling overwhelmed,

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you know, you're not alone at all.

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I mean, you know, we've all of us

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started podcasting.

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It, you know, of course, back then. Including

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the two of us. Yeah. You know, it's

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just there's just so many things

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that you have to, you know, it it's

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not hard.

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It's just a lot of things.

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Mhmm. And, you know, and we're gonna talk

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about, you know, what to focus on and,

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what's the, you know,

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what's the thing to, to worry about and

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the thing not to worry about.

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And the

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so called what are the right things that

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you should be worrying about, and those are

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a little bit different for everyone. So

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we're gonna go through, you know, some of

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the ways that you can take the pressure

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off of yourself, I think, and just kinda

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maybe focus.

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Yeah. Definitely.

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So, what

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the number one thing we got written down

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here is, create consistently good episodes. Now that

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doesn't mean perfect,

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but Yeah. You want it to to

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be decent. You know, no one will stick

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around for crappy content.

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You know, no matter how well it's promoted,

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you know, you got to have clear audio.

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We had a little,

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little little thing. I'm in a different location

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than I normally am.

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Took a little bit to figure out the

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audio situation, but I think we did alright

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or I did alright.

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And, of course, Mackenzie's got a brand new

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computer, so we're all on different hardware than

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normal.

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Yeah. The we spent a good couple minutes

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this morning just kinda fiddling around with our

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own equipment together.

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Yep. You know, while on Zoom together saying,

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okay. Does that sound any better? Because it

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does on my end, but it doesn't matter

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if it doesn't on your end. Right. Exactly.

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So but, you know, thing you gotta do,

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you know, with with Blueberry, how we can

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help you is reliable podcast

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hosting. You know, we have no limits on

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the

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the bandwidth. You know? So if you get

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a million downloads, you're not gonna pay any

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more than if you get 10.

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You know? And you can have as many

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episodes as you want within the the limit

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of whatever plan you sign up for. And

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if if you're

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wondering how to do that to you know,

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what what level of plan you need, let

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us know, and, we can walk you through

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that.

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And one of the best things that Blueberry

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offers, in my opinion,

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is AI generated transcripts.

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whether you're using this for your actual content

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or not,

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to

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make something else out of it.

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Todd and I just had a good episode

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about using your transcripts to create a book.

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They're they're wonderful for accessibility. So in my

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in my book,

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it has to be accessible to be considered

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good.

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Yep. And then, you know, one thing we're

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really good at is our stats.

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You know, you really wanna know, you know,

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how how many people are downloading or listening

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to your show or

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and it it's good it's a good way

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to measure success. It it lets you know,

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you know, hey. There's people out there actually

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listening to me. Cool. You know, helps motivate

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you as well.

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And, you know, that is that is one

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of those things,

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when you're starting your podcast, people say, yeah.

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But I only have 50 downloads. And then

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you remember,

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could I be giving the same presentation in

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front of 50 people, and would I think

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that is a small amount? Right. Exactly. Definitely

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keep that in mind as you're going through

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your stats dashboard. You know, like, you know,

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a room full of 50 people, and you

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gotta entertain them for an hour. That that's

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harder than you think.

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You know? The the podcast you know, podcast

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is nice because,

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you know, you're not live in front of

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a bunch of people.

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You can, edit. You can, do, you know,

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do all kinds of things to, make the

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content good. Again, don't overthink the edit. You

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know? People do breathe. People do make weird

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noises once in a while. And if you

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edit all of those out, you're gonna sound

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like an AI.

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You don't wanna sound like an AI.

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Definitely don't do that, but, we do want

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you to have good audio quality.

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So try to get a good setup before

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you actually actually record. And then

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if you don't wanna do

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editing,

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you know, to the max after that,

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that is one of the reasons that we

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have partnered with Auphonic for media mastering. It's

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just an add on. It, you know, finalizes

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your media file when you are uploading it

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to Blueberry and, just

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clear cleans it up is what we call

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it. Yep. You know, getting getting it as

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good as possible in the raw recording, of

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course, helps. But, you know, Auphonic will will

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help a a bunch too, you know, through

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our media mastering. And, you know, our our

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podcast here that we're recording this morning will,

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be run through Auphonic at some point in

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the edit process, and

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and that makes it sound better because, you

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know, maybe the recording, Mackenzie's not as loud

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as I am or vice versa.

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And, it levels it all out. You know,

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if the dog barks in the background, well,

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you're gonna probably still hear that, but, it's

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still gonna be okay.

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It is a helpful tool.

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one of the next things that we wanted

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to talk about, which is semi related

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to media mastering,

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that you can guest on other podcasts, you

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know, or they can guest on yours.

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sure that you sound okay.

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is kind of a neat way to,

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you know, expose your podcast to other,

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audiences. You know?

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You know? So, you know, somebody that listens

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to a podcast about podcasting like we're doing,

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they're likely gonna be listening to James Cridland

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and Sam Sethi or Todd on his new

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media show

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or, you know, a bunch of other podcasts

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about podcasting.

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And so, you know, being a guest on

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that type of podcast

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may gain you some listeners, you know,

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and always having more listeners helps.

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Yes. Yes. It does.

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But definitely something you don't wanna forget is

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when you were getting all of those new

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listeners,

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your website. Yeah. You know, what are you

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putting on your Blueberry gives you a free

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podcast website if you would like one. It's

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totally optional to use and at no additional

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cost. So we recommend that you use that.

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You add a you know, you can use

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the media kit that we provide, which is

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great for trying to get guests or being

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create an about the host page. You know,

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you can send this to people saying, like,

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this is what my show is about. Here's,

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here's what we generally talk about. This is

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just a little bit more info about me.

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It just it helps cut down on that,

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on that convincing because you already have something

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that'll do it for you. Right. And, you

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know, and the thing about having your own

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website,

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we always preach around here, is, you know,

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you gotta give them some place to go

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that's not reliant on what technology they have.

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Everybody's got a web browser. You know? Not

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everybody has Apple Podcasts. Not everybody has Spotify.

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You know? They can get it, obviously, but,

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you know and and then share individual episode

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pages,

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or your, you know, your posts. So if

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you're, you know, publishing on WordPress,

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one of our free sites or your own

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WordPress site,

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send them to that page for that episode,

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that is a direct

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way of, getting him to that episode. Make

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sure there's a player on there and, you

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know, robust show notes. You can see an

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example of that over at podcastinsider.com.

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Amongst the blog posts, you'll see podcast episodes

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with players.

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if you're doing your show notes correctly,

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then it's gonna be even easier for

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specific episodes to show up in search results

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as well.

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So that that'll help you in the long

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run too.

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Right. And that I think the next thing

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you got, and this is kind of in

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your wheelhouse, but market one episode really well.

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you get overwhelmed with

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creating a

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show with longevity

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that, you know, you're like, every single episode

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has to be perfect.

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but trying to get people to listen to

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every episode can be really difficult. You know?

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There it's and it's probably gonna be broad

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in topics.

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So trying to get

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one episode some really good exposure

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is, a lot of the time, will what

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lead people to listening to the rest of

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your catalog.

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really well, then they're gonna be able to

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to understand what your show was about and

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decide based on those episodes if they wanna

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major platforms for that, and that you have,

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that website that we spoke about earlier.

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not using the Blueberry

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website, you can use any website. You know?

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Mhmm. And, you know, with our publisher,

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you can grab an embedded player to stick

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on a page on your site. You know,

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so, you know, whatever you're using, Wix or

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or, you know, hand rolling your own RSS,

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whatever, you can you know, it doesn't have

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to be the built in website from Blueberry,

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but we do offer that for this reason.

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And then Yeah. Make sure you track what's

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working. Again, back to the stats. We have

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IAB certified stats, which means that,

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your stats are you know, we don't care

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what the number is as long it is

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it is the number.

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And, you know, we make sure that we're

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not counting bots and all this, so you'll

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get, you know, the true

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measure of how many people are consuming your

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content.

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Yeah. You know what's also cool is when

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you're trying to do,

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like, a campaign of sorts for a specific

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this date range with the event tracker in

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our stats dashboard

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to keep an eye on what happens in

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this time period I where you're calling out

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these specific episodes, and you're really able to

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see,

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is this working? You know? So that you

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don't have to, like, go back to that

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specific episode and try to figure things out.

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You can just call it out already, and

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we will Yep. Look at look at that

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event, and it'll tell you, you know, what

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happened,

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you know, during that time period that you've

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been promoting.

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Yep. Exactly. That's a I think that's an

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underrated feature that, I don't know if people

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really know that much about. Well, maybe we'll

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have to do a

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office hours about that at some point.

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That would be a great idea. Yeah. Might

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might might be good. Anyway,

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look for the email shortly.

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Again, as we say, you know, document. Don't

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overthink.

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You know, so many people wanna start a

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podcast, and they spend all their time

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on things that really don't

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help. You know, they they make it,

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you know, like,

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they call it, you know,

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I forget what the term was, but, basically,

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you get locked up worrying about little piddly

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details, and you don't ever get any content

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out. So don't do that. You know, don't

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be perfect.

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That

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analysis

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paralysis.

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That's what I was looking for.

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Yes.

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Yes. But, I

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I think, podcasting

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sometimes requires a little bit of false bravado.

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You you just need to, you know, convince

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yourself it's all gonna be okay. Yeah.

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Yeah. So so many people get the imposter

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syndrome. Well, I'm not good enough to do

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this. Well, yes. You are. You know? That's

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that's the thing. You know? It's

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you know, listeners will appreciate,

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you know, that you're there every week or

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every month or whatever your your cadence is

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and, you know, and just

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you don't have to be perfect. Just be

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yourself and, and, you know, and things will

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improve. I I tell people that, your episode

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might suck a little,

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and your next episode will suck a little

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less and so on. It'll be okay.

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And it gets better as you do it.

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You know, I'm 400 and something episodes into

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my personal show over twenty years. Jeez. That's

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slow cadence there. But,

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you know, I get on the microphone, and

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I just talk. I I don't worry about

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perfect.

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You know, I on this show, we we

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try for a little bit more perfect, but

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it still doesn't always work.

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We yeah. We try for

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the consistency,

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I think, that, you know, you always call

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yourself out on for not having with your

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own personal shows. Yeah. Exactly. But, you know,

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we're yeah. We're putting out episodes

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that

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every week, but some are better than others.

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We understand that. We're and we're we're not

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trying to delude ourselves that, you know, some

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aren't.

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So we just we use our tools the

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best that we can

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and,

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you know, try to put out good content

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and just

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combine all that together and don't overthink it.

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Yep. Yep. So

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let's see. Set up systems early. And and

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what that means is

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you kinda get your workflow figured out. You

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know, you record, you do a, you do

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b, you do c,

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you know, and

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if you get that all kind of in

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a checklist form, I guess, or, you know,

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make it a habit,

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that'll save you time later because you'll you'll

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be able to, you know, whip through that

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workflow

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a lot quicker or at least,

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you know, at the same amount of time

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rather than, you know, being stuck on something

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that, oh, oh, I forgot to do this,

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and I had to go back. And,

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you know, it's just having those habits

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built in early definitely helps.

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You know, have one login for hosting and

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distribution and stats, and that's, us.

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Website will have a different login, but,

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if you use the website. But,

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you know, have that all kind of figured

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out, and it's it's not hard once you

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do it couple times. It'll be,

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as we say in the flying world, muscle

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memory.

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So This this definitely relates to the don't

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overthink it because we set all this just

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all of this stuff up,

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for your success, then you're not then you're

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gonna have less things to overthink. Yeah. You're

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you're essentially

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making it sell making it easier on yourself.

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Right. But, you know, with with Blueberry, we,

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you know, we have all we have built

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in episode

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scheduling. So say you, you know, record once

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a month but put out a weekly show.

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So you record four, you edit four, you,

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you know, do the do the show notes

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for four, you know. We kinda do that

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here sometimes.

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We batch it up. If we can, I

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absolutely love to do that? Yeah. If we're

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ahead enough, then we do for sure. Yeah.

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And then, you know, that way, you've got

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that taken care of, and it takes a

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little pressure off you, you know, as far

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as planning for the next batch of episodes

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or or whatever.

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And it could just really helpful during the

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summer when you go on vacation or any

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time of the year when you're just not

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gonna be there and don't wanna have to

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think about it. You know? Sure. Sure. Yeah.

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There there's you and Todd to release the

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episode if I'm out on a Monday, but

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I prefer to just schedule it so that

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you guys don't have to. Yeah. And that,

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that is the way that that is the

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better way, and it it you know? But

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you don't have to batch episodes, you know,

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if you're just, on the fly, you know,

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pick a time once a week or once

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a month or whatever your like I said,

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whatever your normal schedule is

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and, you know,

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spend x number of minutes, hours, whatever it

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is, you know, creating your episodes.

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And,

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you know, once you get that cadence down,

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you know, Todd always says battle rhythm, but

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that's a military term.

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But it it is kinda it is kind

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of appropriate because,

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you know, like with me, you know, I

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I've never been able to do that. What

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the thing is is I'm not as motivated

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for my personal show as I am for

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this show

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Yeah. Because,

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you know, you know, I've got a few

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listeners here and there, and, and and that's

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fine. It's a hobby for me. But, you

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know, if you're trying to be consistent and

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grow your audience and all that stuff, you

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know, that's one of the big things. And

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and having, you know, batching episodes or scheduling

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or, you know, just just having a

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checklist of sorts to, to produce your episodes

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is fine. Of course, later on, you can

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go to, you know, some optional stuff like

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private podcasting and other monetization things once you

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grow an audience,

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and so that's something to look forward to.

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Absolutely. That's one of the best things about

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Blueberry is that you can use

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a variety of tools that will help you

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just do this as a hobby, a very

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carefree podcast,

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or you can do it as a professional

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and and make money back and have it

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be part of your actual, you know, business

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on a day to day basis. Yeah. And

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I I tell people when I'm talking to

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them on the phone, you know, for sales

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or whatever, and they ask me all these,

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what's this do? What's that do? What's the

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other thing do? And and and I say,

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yeah. We have a lot of tools, but

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not all tools are for everybody at a

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particular time.

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You know? You you you don't want a,

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b, d, and f and not, you know,

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maybe not a couple of the other options.

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But, you know, you can always move into

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those if you need to or want to.

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So, you know, don't get overwhelmed with making

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decisions right at the beginning.

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Yes. That is our final tip is so

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that if you are feeling overwhelmed, it is

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to just start small. You know, focus on

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making a handful of solid and engaging episodes

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and decisions

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in that in that same sense.

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Yep. And then, like I said, promote the

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best one, at You know, you always wanna

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promote each episode, but, you know, maybe go

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whole hog on on a particularly good one

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and, you know, get get it out there

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to people. And,

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and as we've talked about earlier, you know,

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be a guest on some relevant shows or

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have guests from relevant shows. That's another thing

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we didn't write down here, but,

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you know, I've I've found that inviting

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other people in your genre to your show,

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to to guest

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is also, you know, something that, you know,

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they'll promote it most of the time, and

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and that helps a little. Yeah. All of

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these types of decisions are gonna help you

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set up your overall infrastructure for your podcast,

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which means you can just focus on your

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voice and your content.

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Right. That's a wrap for today. Thanks for

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listening.

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Remember, whether you're focusing on good content, smart

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promotion, or guesting on other shows, you don't

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have to do it all at once. Yep.

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