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Hey, very welcome to Podcast
Insider. My name is Todd Cochran.
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First I'm joined by Micah Hos, Mr.
Mike Dell. Mike, how you doing?
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Pretty good Up here in snowy northern
Michigan. We got dumped down.
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We got snow here too, and I went, had
my snow shoes put on my, uh, car today,
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. So I've got my all weather
snow tires on, so I'm ready for weather,
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whatever Mother Nature throws
us. And if you're somewhere warm,
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well think about us up here because,
uh, it looks like winter is,
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I feel it's like it's coming early.
I don't know about you, Mike, but.
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It just feels, yeah, it seems
a little early. And I, uh,
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I got a new snowblower this year and I
thought that would stave off the snow for
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a while. But.
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, you know, well, maybe, maybe
you jinx us. Hey, we've got some,
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some news. News is kinda
light right now. It's, uh,
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been that way for the past couple weeks
and I think everyone's just got their
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head down. And maybe, maybe the
economy's got a little bit to do with it.
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That's okay. We got a best practice.
We got some news from the company.
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We have a pro tip, and of
course, the question of the week,
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Right off the bat,
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some shows aka some shows
in app or being tagged.
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And, uh, what they're doing appears
is they're doing a, they're creating,
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we've known Apple's been doing this for
a while. They've been creating a, uh,
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a transcript of the shows. Now we
don't get access to that. No one does,
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but it looks like they're analyzing,
and I'm sure someone's gonna say ai,
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but some computer has been analyzing
that and they're starting to tag pod
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podcast episodes by
topics and interesting.
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They're linking back
the stuff in Wikipedia,
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which I don't understand
why they're doing that, but.
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Well, I guess it's as good a place
as any. I mean, yeah,
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it is interesting that it's only some
James over at Pod News made some,
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made a tool where you can see if
your show was tagged or not. And, uh.
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Yeah, every, every, every
show I've looked at hasn't.
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Yeah, I haven't found any either.
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Haven't found any. So it's probably
the top shows they're doing this with.
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But yeah, it,
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it does show you that what
you say in your podcasts,
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really going forward is
gonna have an effect.
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And if you think about how you do
your content and how you break it up,
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and if you are not basically kinda
stating subject changes within your
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content, then there is probably the
potential that you can help the,
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the machine learning, right? When this
takes effect for your show by saying,
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okay, we've got some
news, talk about news,
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we've got some best practice like
here, we kind of break things up.
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So hopefully the machine
learner learning engine will,
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will be a little bit smarter.
And of course they're gonna.
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It's quite likely that other
outfits are doing this as well.
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I suspect Spotify and, uh, probably
Google and, you know, who knows. But, uh,
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you know, it's just so that they
can search within the audio.
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Yeah.
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We know that Google's been doing it and
Spotify's doing it more for what they
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term brand safety, but I think it's more
for advertised targeting. But anyway,
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we'll see what Apple develops with this.
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They haven't said anything publicly
bought it, but right there it goes.
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But Alex Bloomberg has left
Spotify slash Gilet Media. Well,
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you knew that was gonna happen because.
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He's done his time over there. You know,
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it's one of those acquisition deals where
you will work for the next couple of
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years and yeah,
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he's done his time and he is out
Probably's got his money and run.
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Yeah, well, they, uh,
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they got paid 230 million for it
between him and his investors,
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so I'm sure he made out
pretty well, I would hope.
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Yeah, I would, I'd hope.
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So. This is a, a, a tweet
from, uh, Ben Mullen who,
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I don't know who that is, but, uh,
it's been reported a little bit,
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but I haven't found a, a actual story
about it. Just, uh, just the tweet there,
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so.
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Right. We'll see something about
welcome back or something like that,
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I think it said.
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Right. Yeah. Very good. Very.
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Good. Well, one of our partners, one
of our podcast partners, headliner,
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and if you are not familiar, we are
integrated with Headliner, um, Ben, for,
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for a long, long time.
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And you can go to your episode
details on dashboard to be able to,
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uh, to integrate and push stuff
over to Headliner for editing,
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but Headliner now allows people to
upload their entire episode YouTube,
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so that's cool. Yeah.
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Now this is limited to Pro
and enterprise subscribers,
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but I think anyone that signed
up over there is Pro right?
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Or they have three levels?
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Uh, well, I think you have to do the
paid one for a pro Pro, right? But, uh,
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yeah, any, uh, you know, the free
levels get so much per per month,
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and then if you pay them a little bit,
you get the Pro and a little bit more,
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you get the enterprise
and they have, you know,
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full automation even,
you know, if you want,
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you can have it automatically
post over there, I believe. But,
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uh, yeah, that's part of their
paid service and you know,
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YouTube is sort of dipping their
toes into podcasting more and more,
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so that may or may not become
important. Uh, you know, the,
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putting a real video over
there is probably a better
plan even for podcasters.
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Yeah. You know, everyone says you need
to be on YouTube, but here's the key.
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You know, we've looked at like the
top 200 shows in every category,
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and there's very few shows. There
are some mm-hmm.,
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there are very, very shoes,
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very few shows that have big
audiences on YouTube that are complete
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trans transfer, right.
So, while I don't deny,
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you probably should have something
on YouTube mm-hmm.. Um,
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I've never listened to a podcast I
couldn't watch on YouTube. What's,
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what's the use really?
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And some people say it's more about
the search engine traffic. Well.
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Yeah, that's part of it.
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, I've been on YouTube for 10
plus years and see very, very little,
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very, very little uptake even on my
video podcast. So, but I, you know, I,
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it's, it's really a podcast
and it's, it's, it's,
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but it's got a video
component. So again, um,
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I think your mileage is gonna vary.
It's not gonna hurt for sure, but, uh,
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if you wanna try it out with Headliner,
they can, they can push it over there.
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Hey, apple Podcast,
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and a matter of fact this is going on
today is hosting numerous webinars. Yep.
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November 17th and 18th. You, the
field list sedates in webinar topics,
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and they got topics such as
setting up subscriptions.
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I think that's important because
we're just about the finish line with
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Apple delegated delivery,
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and we've actually got a
number of podcasts that have
said, yes, we're opted in,
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we want to opt in for the, for the beta
test. Mm-hmm.. So if you,
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if you've thought about doing a
premium podcast, this is a great, uh,
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event to be able to sign up for now,
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you may miss it because it's
today and tomorrow, but, uh,
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we're gonna be having some instructional
stuff on the website on how you can set
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up.
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Another bunch of 'em December
1st and second. Oh, okay.
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So I think this is gonna
be an ongoing series. Yeah.
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They have it again on the
eighth and 9th of December.
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So, okay. Yeah. So there's some dates
there where they can get in down the road,
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but, you know,
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something to think about on this Apple
delegated delivery or Apple premium for,
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for those, if you've been
on the Apple Podcast app,
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is you have the ability to either
sell or put an episode out early
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for your paying audience and
then have it released publicly.
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Or you can have a version of the
show that goes up maybe with no ads
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or promotions in it, and then you
can have a public side that does,
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or you can just publish a single episode
that's a premium that only the premium
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customers get. Um, and they go through
how to set up those subscriptions.
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And again, we'll have that in our
documentation when we have the,
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when we launch with the
delegated delivery, but we're
very, very close on that.
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Matter of fact, it's, it's essentially
finished. We're, we're testing it now.
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Yeah. We're just, uh, poking around
and seeing if we can break it yet,
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and Apples poking around making
sure they can't break it. So.
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I have to last laugh
out this next one, Mike.
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Spotify releases video podcasting
in 180 countries. Well,
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video podcasting has been available
on all platforms since the
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beginning of time and
podcasting go back to 2004 now,
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no one was doing it those
early, early days. Yeah.
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And a lot of that, but a lot of,
uh, apps now, don't, don't do video,
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but, you know, video podcasting has
been around as long as audio podcasting.
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So there are number of apps,
including Apple Podcasts,
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that you can have a true video podcast
where you have your video in an
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RSS feed in its own separate
listing on Apple Podcasts,
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overcast PocketCasts, I don't know,
all the opposite support video. Right.
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Some.
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Of them, a number of them do
and not all of them do.
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Yeah. A lot, lot of the podcast
2.0 apps, the new podcast apps do,
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but what they're calling video
podcasting is really a video show on
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Spotify because it, it
doesn't go anywhere else.
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No, it's not a, it's not a tie to an RSS
feed. It can't be distributed. Again,
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it is, it's a video show on Spotify,
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and of course it's only through their,
their hosting platform. But again,
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why do that when you can have
broad distribution everywhere
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mm-hmm., uh, by doing a
video pod, a true video podcast, and I,
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and you know, there is value in doing
that. And here's the main value. Sure.
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You can put a video over on YouTube.
Sure. You can put a video over on Spotify.
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That's fine. Facebook.
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We're doing here. Yeah.
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All right. But if you have a video
podcast that's available as a podcast,
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it's yours still. You control
it, you get the stats,
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you get all the data where you're
not gonna get that data on Spotify,
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and you're gonna get the type of stats
YouTube allows, which are, you know,
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pretty decent. But it is, it's
different. It really, really is.
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But anyway, so I just kind of giggle
about some of this stuff sometimes,
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and a lot of times content creators
forget that podcasting is really audio
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video and actually, um,
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the enclosure types are much
more broad than even that.
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We don't need to even
to go into it, but Sure.
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Yeah, you can, you can, you can even
distribute eBooks and stuff, so That's.
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Right., apple holiday
schedules beginning on November 19th,
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prepare for full delays until January
of 23. Right. So are they just,
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they're off, they're basically
kind of short this next week,
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and then they're on for a couple weeks
and then they're off for Christmas,
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right?
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Yep. That's what, uh, they've been saying
now. I don't know, I think they're,
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uh, process for ingesting new
shows is somewhat automated now,
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so that may not slow down.
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Well, you can show, you can be
submitted now Yeah. And be available.
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You just won't show up in search until
you've been approved. Right. Right.
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So you can have your podcast up,
you can have people subscribe to it,
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they can listen. They just, you
may not show up in search. Right.
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Which is another reason.
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That's why it's very important
to have your own website.
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That's why we give every
one of our customers a free
WordPress site that you can
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build your brand on and you can send
people back to or out from to subscribe to
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your show. There is a, an
article by the Verge saying,
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one in five Americans listen to podcast
Daily. Where'd they get that from?
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I believe from, uh, Edison. Wow.
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I saw that as a headline with, uh,
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Sure in five In five, listen, that's,
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Let's, yeah. But 20 20%, you know,
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you know, how, how it was
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let's continue to promote podcasting
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That's the big difference here.
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there's a lot of awesome Daily news
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But you don't have to listen,
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You can fill your inventory
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So lots of stuff going on there, but
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All right. Best practice time. I'm gonna
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write your podcast and show notes for
the genre you're producing nonfiction
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writing lessons from the
Planet Money Podcast.
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This is an article about
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they go into how they go about writing
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doing the, the research,
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they just give a lot of tips
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what you should do on
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they're just talking about what they do
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they have a whole bunch of
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it was a pretty decent article, but
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regardless of what the article says,
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the whole idea is make
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for search results, but b, also useful
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you know, don't just stuff it with a
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meet that title or promote that
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you don't have to be keyword stopping
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Google prefers you writing naturally.
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we've got a blog post by Merrill who
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You look at the show notes for this
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extensive show notes. And why do we
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we want this to be indexed
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definitely check out the
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cuz I know we covered something and I
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you know, that could help your
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the blueberry team will be out Thursday
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please be patient as
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the Thanksgiving they get done
having, uh, here in the United States,
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at least they get done having their
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their nap after, after
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what do I have to do today? I'm not
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And we start, start getting support
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we may not respond until, you know, Sean
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And make sure things are good. But
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blueberry podcasting because no one's
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anyway. Cool. All right. We've
got a pro tip from Toby and,
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uh, let's go ahead. It's
about competence to podcasts.
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Hi, it's Toby Goodman here
today, the Confidence to Podcast.
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I've come to learn that there are a
few recurring themes podcasters say,
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hold them back from continuing
or even starting a podcast today.
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Confidence you wouldn't be the first
person to suffer from imposter syndrome.
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Questioning your credibility
and authority to host a podcast.
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If the voice in your head is
asking, who do you think you are,
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you have what's called the
human condition. So when
it comes to your podcast,
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keep this in mind. Your
podcast isn't for everyone.
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It can't be nothing anyone ever
really loved, was loved by everyone.
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I don't enjoy hot climates
and beach vacations,
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but the millions of beachfront hotels
around the world don't seem to care.
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It's okay if people
don't get your podcast.
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So I encourage you not to think of
your podcast listeners as people,
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but think of them as your
kind of people. When you do,
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it's way easier to make content
because you can see how these
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listeners and future listeners
are on your side. Look,
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I'm never gonna listen to a podcast
about being a vegan in Texas,
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but if that's your thing, don't let
a carnivorous Brit like me stop you.
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The thing is, the more
specific you can be,
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the more magnetic your podcast will
be. If you are a vegan in Texas,
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I imagine you're a pretty starved
for content for people like you.
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But let's take that negative
thought all the way down the road.
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Someone takes the time to let you
know they don't like your show.
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Think about it. Someone took the time,
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they will never get back to
let you know what they think.
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I'm not saying you need to respond
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but I am saying that alone is
proof that you are onto something.
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So keep the following phrase to hand
just in case someone tells you they don't
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like what you're doing with your podcast.
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Thanks for your feedback and
taking the time to listen,
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but I don't make this
podcast with you in mind.
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And my podcast exists because
I'm interested in being a vegan,
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not because I consider
myself the authority on all
elements of it. The thing is,
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we all have opinions, but when it comes
to it, how many of them really matter?
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When people take the time to
express an opinion in you,
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I'd argue it is because in
some way you matter to them.
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So don't let what others think or
say stop you from starting a podcast.
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I'm not gonna tell you podcasting is easy,
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but once you've started in the right way,
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it will only get easier and
you will build confidence for
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a non-judgmental helping hand.
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We've got everything you need to help
you get your podcast on the right track.
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Come and say hi over@blueberrypro.com.
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Hey Toby, thanks for the pro tip
and your confidence to podcast.
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All right, we got a question of the week.
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I need to get a good microphone, but
want to go with a USB to start with.
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Is it best to get something like
the M V seven USB XR just in
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case I want to add a mixer in the future,
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or can I just use a USB mic?
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a lot of mics out there that have
both and that I would suggest that
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because you never know, you might
want to add a roader or a Zoom, uh,
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mixer or a Mackey mixer or,
you know, any kinda XLR device.
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And it gives you that flexibility
in the future to, to grow with. And,
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you know, MV seven s Awesome. Mike,
you know, we're using the, uh, the,
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the, uh, professional version of that
microphone, both Todd and I here now,
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but, uh, the, uh, MV seven is awesome.
McKenzie just got one of those,
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that podcast Ments used it on a few
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Mike. Uh, you know, it's a little
pricey. A couple hundred bucks,
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a little cheaper would be the, uh,
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audio Technica ATR 2100 X,
which is their current model.
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all three of those microphones
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So you can use those in the
future, especially if, you know,
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if you go portable with a
portable recorder that has XLRs,
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you can grab the mic and
the portable recorder and,
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and go and not have to worry
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is if you are thinking about adding an
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you're gonna be having
someone that's gonna be,
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you're gonna be recording together
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two of you in the same location,
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then I would say go with an
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Yeah. I'll let you know. And
then, and you can use a mic.
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know, with the USB and XLR mic,
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remote, then you're,
you're gonna be safe with,
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with the V seven or the
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Those are all good choices. Mm-hmm.
, the ATR and the qt will,
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maybe go the ATR or Q2 U route
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well maybe think about the upgrade
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Just because if you don't continue
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and you're not regretting the purchase
and having to put it on eBay or
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something. Right.
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Use it for Zoom calls
and other things too.
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So that's true. So if you got a question
you like us to answer on the show,
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drop an email to mike@blueberry.com.
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That's blueberry without the ease
audio, text or video. And we may use it.
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You can also post a question on the
blueberry podcasting Facebook group.
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Yeah. And I got today's question from
Reddit actually. So, you know, we, we,
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I go searching for them if I don't get
any in. So send some in, we'll use it.
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Awesome. Uh, best place for support
with any blueberry product or services,
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our ticket system over at
blueberry.com/support. Uh,
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tickets give the whole team access
rather than direct emails or calls.
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And we've been coming to you this week
from the new Media production studio in
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Coldwater, Michigan. And Mike Dell's
World Studio in Traverse City,
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Michigan produce a course by the blueberry
Pro production team@blueberrypro.com.
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And we'd really love you to fill
out our listener survey over at
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surveys.blueberry.com/podcast Insider.
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And if you wanna set up your own survey,
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you can do that as well
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So one thing that I've, uh,
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had a little bit of a slow up on is
people that are looking for one-on-ones.
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So I make those available. I have, uh,
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a number of slots each week
to talk to our customers.
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So you can always schedule a one-on-one
with myself hosting customers only.
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And again, it's todd@blueberry.com.
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And I have no shortage of people
scheduling tech things with me. So, but,
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uh, I do have slots available. You
can schedule a check tech checkup, uh,
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for hosting customers only. Uh, you
can email me mike@blueberry.com.
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And you can of course send
us your, if you have one,
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a podcast sticker and a self
address stamped envelope,
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and we will send you a blueberry care
package or just send us an email to
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mackenzie@blueberry.com. Let her know
that you'd like a care package with the,
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your mailing address. And, uh,
it may take a couple of weeks,
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but she'll get some stuff
out to you., uh,
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we've got lots of cool swag in the
office that, uh, none of it's aging,
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but of it's very, very cool and, uh,
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might as well send stuff out
to those of you that want it.
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If you do wanna send us a sticker,
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our mailing address is@podcastinsider.com
within the show notes of this podcast.
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. Yeah, somebody send me
a sticker, uh, Rick over there at, uh,
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drink with Rick sent me a
sticker here at home, so that was cool.
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I've got a sticker board that is
almost, actually, I think it's full.
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I gotta buy another one. You know,
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if you send a couple of stickers in with
your stuff and just designate who you
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want 'em to go to. Well, Adam, well,
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I'll add you to my sticker board once
I pick up the stickers from the office
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when I go down to Columbus. But anyway,
that's gonna wrap us up for the day.
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Thank you so much for listening. I, what
are we doing for Thanksgiving? Are we,
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uh, still doing another show next.
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Week? Uh, I think we may do something
early. Uh, we'll see. Uh, if not,
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Hey, very welcome to Podcast
Insider. My name is Todd Cochran.
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First I'm joined by Micah Hos, Mr.
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Pretty good Up here in snowy northern
Michigan. We got dumped down.
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We got snow here too, and I went, had
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snow tires on, so I'm ready for weather,
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whatever Mother Nature throws
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well think about us up here because,
uh, it looks like winter is,
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I feel it's like it's coming early.
I don't know about you, Mike, but.
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It just feels, yeah, it seems
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I got a new snowblower this year and I
thought that would stave off the snow for
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you jinx us. Hey, we've got some,
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some news. News is kinda
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been that way for the past couple weeks
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That's okay. We got a best practice.
We got some news from the company.
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some shows aka some shows
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we've known Apple's been doing this for
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a transcript of the shows. Now we
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but it looks like they're analyzing,
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but some computer has been analyzing
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Haven't found any. So it's probably
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the machine learning, right? When this
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I suspect Spotify and, uh, probably
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you know, it's just so that they
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They haven't said anything publicly
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But Alex Bloomberg has left
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you knew that was gonna happen because.
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Good. Well, one of our partners, one
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we want to opt in for the, for the beta
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Spotify releases video podcasting
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video podcasting has been available
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no one was doing it those
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and you know, there is value in doing
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You can put a video over on YouTube.
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You just won't show up in search until
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they can listen. They just, you
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your show. There is a, an
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one in five Americans listen to podcast
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I saw that as a headline with, uh,
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Sure in five In five, listen, that's,
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let's continue to promote podcasting
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That's the big difference here.
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there's a lot of awesome Daily news
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You can fill your inventory
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So lots of stuff going on there, but
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All right. Best practice time. I'm gonna
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write your podcast and show notes for
the genre you're producing nonfiction
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writing lessons from the
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This is an article about
writing your show notes. Then.
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Yeah, it's, uh, you know,
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they go into how they go about writing
the show notes and, and, you know,
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doing the, the research,
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but writing nonfiction in a
way that covers the subject
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well and works for seo. And, you know,
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they just give a lot of tips
on what they should, you know,
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what you should do on
yours. You know, they're,
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they're just talking about what they do
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they have a whole bunch of
bullet points in here. And, uh,
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it was a pretty decent article, but
the whole, whole idea, you know,
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regardless of what the article says,
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the whole idea is make
your blog post for a,
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for search results, but b, also useful
for your human audience.
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you know, don't just stuff it with a
bunch of keywords and all that, but,
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you know, keep that in mind. Of course.
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I, you know, I've always said that you
record Peron, you're right for Google.
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Yeah. And that means good, good.
Show note. Good, good program title,
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and then a good backup
first paragraph to make,
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meet that title or promote that
title. And it's not necessarily,
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you don't have to be keyword stopping
when you're writing for Google.
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Google prefers you writing naturally.
What kinda leads into blueberry news.
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See,
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we've got a blog post by Merrill who
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So it must be a theme right now.
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Yeah. Show notes day.
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are really, really important.
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You look at the show notes for this
podcast and you'll see that we've got an
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extensive show notes. And why do we
do that? Well, we want, you know,
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we want this to be indexed
and to be picked up. So, uh,
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definitely check out the
art, the blog post as well.
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And I, I find it handy for me
sometimes doing research on a topic.
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I'll go search at Podcast Insider,
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cuz I know we covered something and I
wanted to see that article again. And, uh,
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you know, that could help your
listeners do the same in your genre.
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That's true. Well,
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the blueberry team will be out Thursday
and Friday of next week for Thanksgiving
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and, and Black Friday. And, uh,
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please be patient as
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Always seem to find that people are
in maintenance mode over the, the,
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the Thanksgiving they get done
having, uh, here in the United States,
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at least they get done having their
Turkey and they go do their, uh,
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their nap after, after
lunch, and then they say, oh,
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what do I have to do today? I'm not
going shopping. I'm hanging out.
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And they get on the computer and
start messing with their show. Yeah.
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And we start, start getting support
tickets. So just be war. We,
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we may not respond until, you know, Sean
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and I usually poke my head in the door
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weekends.
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And make sure things are good. But
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blueberry podcasting because no one's
really working anyway on Friday. Yeah. So,
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anyway. Cool. All right. We've
got a pro tip from Toby and,
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uh, let's go ahead. It's
about competence to podcasts.
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Let's go ahead and hit that off.
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Hi, it's Toby Goodman here
today, the Confidence to Podcast.
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I've come to learn that there are a
few recurring themes podcasters say,
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hold them back from continuing
or even starting a podcast today.
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Confidence you wouldn't be the first
person to suffer from imposter syndrome.
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Questioning your credibility
and authority to host a podcast.
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If the voice in your head is
asking, who do you think you are,
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you have what's called the
human condition. So when
it comes to your podcast,
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keep this in mind. Your
podcast isn't for everyone.
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It can't be nothing anyone ever
really loved, was loved by everyone.
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I don't enjoy hot climates
and beach vacations,
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but the millions of beachfront hotels
around the world don't seem to care.
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It's okay if people
don't get your podcast.
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So I encourage you not to think of
your podcast listeners as people,
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but think of them as your
kind of people. When you do,
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it's way easier to make content
because you can see how these
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listeners and future listeners
are on your side. Look,
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I'm never gonna listen to a podcast
about being a vegan in Texas,
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but if that's your thing, don't let
a carnivorous Brit like me stop you.
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The thing is, the more
specific you can be,
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the more magnetic your podcast will
be. If you are a vegan in Texas,
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I imagine you're a pretty starved
for content for people like you.
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But let's take that negative
thought all the way down the road.
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Someone takes the time to let you
know they don't like your show.
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Think about it. Someone took the time,
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they will never get back to
let you know what they think.
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I'm not saying you need to respond
or engage with these kinds of people,
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but I am saying that alone is
proof that you are onto something.
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So keep the following phrase to hand
just in case someone tells you they don't
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like what you're doing with your podcast.
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Thanks for your feedback and
taking the time to listen,
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but I don't make this
podcast with you in mind.
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And my podcast exists because
I'm interested in being a vegan,
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not because I consider
myself the authority on all
elements of it. The thing is,
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we all have opinions, but when it comes
to it, how many of them really matter?
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When people take the time to
express an opinion in you,
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I'd argue it is because in
some way you matter to them.
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So don't let what others think or
say stop you from starting a podcast.
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I'm not gonna tell you podcasting is easy,
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but once you've started in the right way,
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it will only get easier and
you will build confidence for
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a non-judgmental helping hand.
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We've got everything you need to help
you get your podcast on the right track.
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Come and say hi over@blueberrypro.com.
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Hey Toby, thanks for the pro tip
and your confidence to podcast.
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All right, we got a question of the week.
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I need to get a good microphone, but
want to go with a USB to start with.
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Is it best to get something like
the M V seven USB XR just in
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case I want to add a mixer in the future,
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or can I just use a USB mic?
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What other mic should I look at? Well.
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There's a,
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a lot of mics out there that have
both and that I would suggest that
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because you never know, you might
want to add a roader or a Zoom, uh,
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mixer or a Mackey mixer or,
you know, any kinda XLR device.
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And it gives you that flexibility
in the future to, to grow with. And,
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you know, MV seven s Awesome. Mike,
you know, we're using the, uh, the,
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the, uh, professional version of that
microphone, both Todd and I here now,
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but, uh, the, uh, MV seven is awesome.
McKenzie just got one of those,
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that podcast Ments used it on a few
episodes here recently and it's an awesome
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Mike. Uh, you know, it's a little
pricey. A couple hundred bucks,
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a little cheaper would be the, uh,
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audio Technica ATR 2100 X,
which is their current model.
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That's a really good one for
probably under a hundred dollars.
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And then the Sampson, Q2 U is a
good one for I think their 50 or 60.
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all three of those microphones
have both USB and xlr.
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So you can use those in the
future, especially if, you know,
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if you go portable with a
portable recorder that has XLRs,
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you can grab the mic and
the portable recorder and,
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and go and not have to worry
about bringing a computer
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I think it's a good all
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The only challenge really is,
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is if you are thinking about adding an
in-house co-host mm-hmm.
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you're gonna be having
someone that's gonna be,
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you're gonna be recording together
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two of you in the same location,
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then I would say go with an
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route.
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Yeah. I'll let you know. And
then, and you can use a mic.
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know, with the USB and XLR mic,
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you can use those mics in
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If you're gonna be a solo show or you
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remote, then you're,
you're gonna be safe with,
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with the V seven or the
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Those are all good choices. Mm-hmm.
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I always tell people in the beginning,
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maybe go the ATR or Q2 U route
in the beginning and then
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after some time after you,
you've been podcasting,
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well maybe think about the upgrade
to this year. MV seven. Yeah.
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Just because if you don't continue
then you don't have a big investment
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and you're not regretting the purchase
and having to put it on eBay or
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something. Right.
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Use it for Zoom calls
and other things too.
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So that's true. So if you got a question
you like us to answer on the show,
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drop an email to mike@blueberry.com.
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That's blueberry without the ease
audio, text or video. And we may use it.
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You can also post a question on the
blueberry podcasting Facebook group.
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Yeah. And I got today's question from
Reddit actually. So, you know, we, we,
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I go searching for them if I don't get
any in. So send some in, we'll use it.
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Awesome. Uh, best place for support
with any blueberry product or services,
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our ticket system over at
blueberry.com/support. Uh,
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tickets give the whole team access
rather than direct emails or calls.
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And we've been coming to you this week
from the new Media production studio in
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Coldwater, Michigan. And Mike Dell's
World Studio in Traverse City,
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Michigan produce a course by the blueberry
Pro production team@blueberrypro.com.
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And we'd really love you to fill
out our listener survey over at
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surveys.blueberry.com/podcast Insider.
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And if you wanna set up your own survey,
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you can do that as well
in the stat system.
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So one thing that I've, uh,
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had a little bit of a slow up on is
people that are looking for one-on-ones.
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So I make those available. I have, uh,
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a number of slots each week
to talk to our customers.
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So you can always schedule a one-on-one
with myself hosting customers only.
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And again, it's todd@blueberry.com.
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And I have no shortage of people
scheduling tech things with me. So, but,
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uh, I do have slots available. You
can schedule a check tech checkup, uh,
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for hosting customers only. Uh, you
can email me mike@blueberry.com.
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And you can of course send
us your, if you have one,
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a podcast sticker and a self
address stamped envelope,
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and we will send you a blueberry care
package or just send us an email to
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mackenzie@blueberry.com. Let her know
that you'd like a care package with the,
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your mailing address. And, uh,
it may take a couple of weeks,
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but she'll get some stuff
out to you.
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we've got lots of cool swag in the
office that, uh, none of it's aging,
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but of it's very, very cool and, uh,
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might as well send stuff out
to those of you that want it.
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If you do wanna send us a sticker,
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our mailing address is@podcastinsider.com
within the show notes of this podcast.
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Mm-hmm.
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a sticker, uh, Rick over there at, uh,
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drink with Rick
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I've got a sticker board that is
almost, actually, I think it's full.
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I gotta buy another one. You know,
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if you send a couple of stickers in with
your stuff and just designate who you
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want 'em to go to. Well, Adam, well,
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I'll add you to my sticker board once
I pick up the stickers from the office
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when I go down to Columbus. But anyway,
that's gonna wrap us up for the day.
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Thank you so much for listening. I, what
are we doing for Thanksgiving? Are we,
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uh, still doing another show next.
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Week? Uh, I think we may do something
early. Uh, we'll see. Uh, if not,
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we might take our first week off.
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Oh, all right. Well,
awesome. All right folks,
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thanks for being subscribed
and following the show.
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We'll see you next time here on the
podcast inside everyone. Take care.