Spring Clean Your Podcast: What to Fix, Update, or Remove Right Now – PCI 478
Spring is a natural time to reset — and your podcast is no exception. If things have started to feel a little scattered, outdated, or harder to manage, you’re not alone. Most podcasts don’t struggle because of one major issue, but because of small things that quietly pile up over time. In this episode, we walk through how to “spring clean” your podcast — from refreshing your show details and fixing broken links to simplifying your workflow and setting yourself up for growth. These are practical, high-impact updates you can make right now to improve your listener experience, boost discoverability, and make your podcast easier (and more rewarding) to run.
Today’s Hosts: Mike Dell and Dave Clements
Why “Spring Cleaning” Matters
Most podcasts don’t fail because of one big issue — it’s small things stacking up
Over time:
- Links break
- Descriptions get outdated
- Workflows get messy
Cleaning up improves:
- Listener experience
- Discoverability
- Monetization readiness
What to Fix First (High-Impact Updates)
- Show Description & Episode Titles
- Are they clear? Keyword-friendly?
- Do they still reflect your show?
- Links & Calls-to-Action
- Old websites, expired offers, missing links
- CTA mismatch (asking for things you don’t actually offer anymore)
- Podcast Artwork
- Does it still match your brand?
- Is it readable at small sizes?
Clean Up Your Back Catalog
Older episodes still get discovered
Fix:
- Broken links in show notes
- Outdated intros (“coming soon” messages, etc.)
Consider:
- Updating descriptions
- Re-promoting strong older episodes
Workflow & Consistency Reset
Are you:
- Scrambling every week?
- Skipping steps?
Common issues:
- No checklist
- No repeatable process
Solutions:
- Simple publishing checklist
- Batch recording/editing
- Clear timeline for each episode
Monetization Cleanup
Are you still promoting:
- Old sponsors?
- Dead affiliate links?
Are you not promoting:
- Your own services?
- Newsletter, community, products?
What to Remove
- Long, outdated intros
- Segments you don’t enjoy anymore
- Overcomplicated formats
Key Takeaways
- Small updates make a big difference.
You don’t need a full rebrand — fixing descriptions, links, and workflows can immediately improve your podcast.
- Your back catalog still matters.
Older episodes continue to get discovered, so keeping them updated helps with long-term growth.
- Consistency comes from systems, not motivation.
A clean, repeatable workflow makes publishing easier and reduces burnout.
- Monetization starts with clarity.
Make sure your calls-to-action are current and actually lead somewhere meaningful.
- If it’s not helping your show, remove it.
Outdated segments, long intros, and unnecessary steps only slow you down.
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00:00 - Intro & Hosts
00:26 - Episode Topic: Spring Cleaning Your Podcast
01:17 - Why Spring Cleaning Matters
02:39 - Episode Titles & File Organization
04:31 - Show Notes, Links & Calls to Action
06:54 - Podcast Artwork & Image Specs
10:55 - Back Catalog, Ads & Reruns
13:11 - Workflow, Checklists & Reducing Friction
18:21 - Format Simplification & Segment Overload
20:06 - Key Takeaways, Monetization & Closing
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Welcome back to Podcast Insider. I'm Mike Dell,
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the VP of customer relations here at Blueberry.
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And I'm Dave Clements, Blueberry support and media
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specialist.
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Yeah. This time of the year, everybody's thinking
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about spring and spring cleaning. Although we just
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had a blizzard here, so I'm thinking about
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all this damn snow needs to melt. But
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it's also a great time to clear things
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out and get your podcast organized.
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Yeah. I just spring cleaned and redid my
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entire office, but your podcast probably needs the
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same thing probably more often than you think.
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Exactly. So today, we're gonna be talking about
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how to spring clean your podcast and what
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to fix,
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what to update, what you might want to
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remove altogether.
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And some of these are quick wins, and
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some of them are going to take a
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little bit more time, but all of them
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are gonna help your podcast perform better as
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you
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go. You're listening to Podcast Insider hosted by
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Mike Dell, Dave Clements, and Mackenzie Bennett from
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the support of your team here at Blueberry
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Podcasting.
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Welcome.
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Let's dive in.
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So why does spring cleaning matter?
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A lot of podcasts
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don't fail because of one big thing. It's
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usually a bunch of small things stacking up
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over time.
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So, you know, you have broken links on
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your website, descriptions get outdated.
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You know, your workflow might get a little
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messy.
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One thing that I run into a lot
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it starts to feel stale, and you typically
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don't realize why. And that these things
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are kinda sitting in the background. So some
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of the things that
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cleaning
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your podcast up improves
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would be things like listener experience,
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discoverability,
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and then you can get ready for monetization.
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And we've talked a lot about monetization lately.
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Yeah. And a lot of podcasters don't really
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care if they monetize or not. It's a
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hobby. So, you know,
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whatever you're into, that's just fine.
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stuff that really help you stay motivated
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and
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give a better listener experience is, you know,
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make sure your show description is still accurate,
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and you make sure your episode titles, you
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know, don't change past ones. But
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the way you're doing episode titles, are they
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clear, keyword friendly?
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Do they still reflect what your show is
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all about? Yeah. One thing that I did
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fairly recently with one of my shows was
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I was putting episode numbers at the beginning,
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and I realized I don't need to do
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that because most people don't care what episode
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it is because it wasn't a serial
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show. So even something simple like that, you
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can go through, remove those numbers,
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and just clean things up a little bit.
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depending on how you rewrite those titles or
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descriptions, it might catch the attention of someone
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new. Yeah. And, you know, the other thing
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about putting episode numbers at the beginning
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is a lot of apps cut off your
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episode titles.
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so many characters, and I don't have an
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exact number or anything and what apps do
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which. But
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if you put unimportant stuff at the beginning
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of the title, such as your episode number,
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that's really only important to you in most
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cases these days.
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show that, you know, the the the episodes
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go in a certain order and it's kinda
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good for people to know, you know, okay.
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This is episode one. This is episode two.
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Whatever.
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That's not important
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to your podcast.
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at the end of the title. I recently
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did that with my main show.
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episode numbers in the titles.
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will use the episode number you put in
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the settings. And at Blueberry, we have in
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both PowerPress and
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number your episode. You don't need to put
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them in your titles anymore,
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and they'll sort them
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automatically most times.
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names, which most people don't see,
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number in them, and that's mainly so I
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don't duplicate an episode file name. Exactly. You
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know, that's the main reason for that. It
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kinda serializes it. So that and it also
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keeps me,
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like, you know, I look at my files.
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I say, okay. The last the newest one
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here is, you know, 467.
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468.
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worry about, oh, what am I gonna call
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this? No. Have I used that name before?
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But that's not something you do spring cleaning.
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That's what you do all along.
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You know, either date it. You know, like,
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with this show, we put the date
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in the title or in the file name,
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not the title, the file name.
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you know, kinda rethink how you wanna keep
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organized. You know? The more, the merrier that
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way. Some of your links and calls to
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action, you know, I've no. You know, years
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ago, I was
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advertising
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Citrix,
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which Citrix,
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I think, is out of business.
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Some of their products still exist, but those
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links that I had in my show notes
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are probably really old.
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WordPress site, for instance, go through and search
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for dead links. There's a plugin you can
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like that
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or broken link checker, I think.
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with, you know, current
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links to whatever it was you were linking
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to, or if that doesn't exist anymore, take
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the links out.
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You know, you could still leave
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the episode in the description and talking about
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that product, you know, because you don't want
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our episodes either.
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of the show notes. You know, it's a
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bad look when you even, you know, someone's
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going to a five year old episode and
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they click a link and the link's dead.
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this, Mike, because we've been doing this long
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enough. But, like,
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we I would say a lot of podcasters
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got involved in affiliate
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marketing
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and sales and things like that through their
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podcast.
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promo code or that offer that I had
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for three weeks back in
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2017,
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that doesn't work anymore. I should remove that.
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people astray, and then you get that email
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or whatever that's like, hey, you I can't
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get 35%
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off of that really cool product that you
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were talking about in this episode,
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and you don't really want that.
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you gotta kinda maintain stuff is, I guess,
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the takeaway for that. You know? And same
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thing with part podcast artwork.
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aren't tired of looking at your artwork because
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they don't look at it very long. They
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say, oh, new episode.
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you, as the podcaster, look at that thing
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all the time.
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that artwork a little bit. You know, make
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sure it still matches your brand or your,
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you know, your subject matter or whatever,
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or just looks cool. Whatever. You know? It's
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totally
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not,
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you know, something you know, people get used
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to whatever you put there.
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consider is depending on how long you've had
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your artwork and your show,
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you know, we're looking at high definition
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screens now. Like your phone, your monitors, your
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TVs. They're all high definition
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four k,
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those images
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are gonna look different now than they did
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years ago when you started doing your podcast.
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it was pretty pixely intentionally,
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but it just the resolution wasn't there. The
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quality wasn't there. So always, like, stop and
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look at that image,
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you know, in a monitor. If you can
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put it on your TV, whether it's
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through, like, an Apple TV or,
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you know Google. Screen share or something like
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that was about video games and had a
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you know, pixely looking thing. Now we're gonna
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a little bit more modern just because that's
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what we're talking about more. Right. But don't
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there's still technical specs
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that you need to have for your podcast
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artwork.
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what you paid for it.
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there there's no instance that I can think
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of where you need 3,000 pixel square.
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different size screens, of course, and also shrink
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bunch of text in your episode artwork,
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small for anybody to read. One inch or
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two inch sized display on the phone.
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like, put the banner in your yard or
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something like that. You know, we have one
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of those programmable
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billboards down the street, you know, where they
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it switches every so often. I always often
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thought maybe I'll throw my podcast up on
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that billboard. Well, okay. Maybe I'd give them
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a 3,000 image for that, but I would
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you don't need to make a billboard out
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of your podcast artwork. Well, maybe Mhmm. Wonder
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what that costs.
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then we already talked about some of this,
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you know, with cleaning up your back catalog
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with the broken links and outdated stuff. But
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I don't ever think that you really need
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to go rerecord an old that episode unless
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you make it a new one.
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topic.
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Mhmm. Make that a new episode. Leave the
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old one there. That's me. Another thing that
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you might consider, and I've done this some,
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is, you know, promoting older episodes. Maybe, you
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know, find one that you really liked in
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your back catalog and promote that on social
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or in your other show. Hey. Go back
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to this episode and check this out, you
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know, something like that. Yeah. Another thing you
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could do is, you know, kinda thinking about
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I have monetization on the mind right now
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because that is very much what we're focusing
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on here at Blueberry as far as marketing
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goes. You know, if you've used baked in
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ads
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within your episodes, it might be a good
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idea to go back and cut those out
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and just reupload
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that episode without those ads
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or, you know, something like that. That's just
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something to think about, not a necessary thing.
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wanna lead people astray thinking that you have
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an offer
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that you don't have anymore.
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back, but especially if you're gonna promote an
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older episode, listen to it. Maybe edit a
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little bit more.
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Get rid of outdated
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calls to action, whatnot. But, again, you know,
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I wouldn't you know, I've got, you know,
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nearly 500 episodes on my show. We've got
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nearly Sure. Episodes on this show.
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We're not going back and changing anything.
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there are some that are egregious, you know,
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like Yeah. People change or, you know, businesses
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just don't exist anymore. And, you know, maybe
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it just doesn't align with your show anymore.
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It's just something to think about.
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Yep. And, you know, another thing, this really
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doesn't have anything to do with spring cleaning.
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off for you from your show like we
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did last week, run a rerun. We did
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that last week. Mhmm. Information was still good
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and and all that. So that's another thing.
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Change the file name. You know? And you
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could put the same episode out. Maybe put
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an edited intro at the beginning, something like
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that. But that's not so
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we'll we'll move
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on. But, you know, your workflow, you know,
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publish,
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you know, maybe that needs a little bit
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of tweaking. You know? Like, with us, sometimes
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we are scrambling to put out an episode.
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Mhmm. Do we need to rethink how we're
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doing this? Maybe.
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some workflow issues. There's all kinds of of
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ways of doing it and in what order
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and all that. I'm constantly doing that with
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my daily show. I was just telling Dave
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before we started recording, I've been playing with
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AI a little bit, trying to make the
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show prep a little quicker, and, yeah, so
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far limited success.
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to
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step back and look at what is the
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entire process from start to finish for an
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episode.
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can you trim the fat? Where can you
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make things work for you instead of against
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you? That was always a big thing that
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with,
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you know, doing a show by myself
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I had to move the obstacles out of
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the way for me to actually sit down
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and record
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the episode.
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you just gotta analyze. There's not really a
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one size fits all approach. So just step
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back and go, what is the thing that
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gets in my way the most? And then
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start to work on that. And maybe that
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is I gotta think of, you know, five
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and then work on an outline one at
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a time before I can record or something
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like that. You know, you're gonna be the
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person that knows what hurts the most when
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you get by in the microphone.
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Yeah. For sure.
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I'll do show prep,
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record, then I'll do the art episode artwork,
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and then I'll publish, You know? Mhmm. In
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that order. And then sometimes what I'll do
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is I'll start with the artwork.
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I won't even do show prep. I just
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know what it's gonna be about, so I'll
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play around and get the artwork the way
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I want it. Then I'll go back and,
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you know, do prep and then
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and edit and whatever.
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Edit. Yeah. Right?
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But,
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you know, how that goes, it just
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you know, I you change it up once
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in a while. You know? Yeah. And don't
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be afraid to throw in a checklist,
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you know, and tear that checklist up, restart
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it. Do that as many times as it
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takes to get comfortable
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doing it. Like I said, over and over
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again, remove the obstacles
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because that is what is gonna slow you
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down, and that's what leads to pod fade
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and burnout and things like that, which we
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talk about,
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but I think everybody's afraid to change anything
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even if it hurts.
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Right. Yeah. And, you know, the thing is
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if you're doing a podcast, let's say you're
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doing a weekly or, you know, whatever
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whatever
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cadence you do,
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you have a way of doing it, and
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maybe that's getting a bit old. You know,
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change it up maybe just just for the
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heck of it. Maybe add a segment to
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your show that you didn't do before. I
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meant that you're doing that's like, oh, I
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gotta do that again.
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Yeah. So,
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you know, just clean it up. Spring cleaning.
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Mhmm.
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Talk about monetization
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since you guys have been in marketing, been
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talking about that a lot.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. And we I guess I kinda touched
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on these. I jumped ahead in our show
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notes unintentionally.
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check. Are you still promoting old sponsors? Do
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you have dead affiliate links on your site
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or in your show notes?
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Is there something that you're not promoting that
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you should be? Maybe since you've started your
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podcast, you've started to
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offer a service or a newsletter or, you
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know, you've started a Patreon or something like
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that, and you haven't thought to put it
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in your show notes or really talk about
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it. Definitely do that. Yeah. Also, you know,
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intros, that's that is one thing I would
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go back and edit
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depending not very far. You know? I whenever
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it's usually last 20 episodes. I'm not going
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500 episodes back.
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Right. Right. You know? But maybe
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if, you know, my intros were garbage, I
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might rerecord an intro or, you know, have
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a whatever.
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just just be mindful that people do listen
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to the old episodes,
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and that's okay. Maybe it's nostalgic.
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It might that's what it is. You know?
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I like to go back and listen to
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one of my episodes from 2006.
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Twenty years ago, I was talking about that,
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and that's still an issue? Or, oh my
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gosh, what were we worried about? You know,
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whatever it was.
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the time to go back and listen to
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some of your old stuff and see if
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it's
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still applicable and, you know, you might wanna
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just cut down your feed and get rid
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of 100 episodes. You could do that.
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You don't have to,
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but Right. You might want to. You never
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know.
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Overcomplicated
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formats.
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I can kinda speak to that because I
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am a person who likes to dabble.
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I wanna I'll I'll watch something or I'll
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hear something, and I'm like, oh, how do
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I apply that to my show? And then
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before I know it,
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you know, my
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twenty five minute podcast has, like, 15 different
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segments, and I barely have enough time to
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breathe. And then it's just not enjoyable.
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But usually, you can see if your audience
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doesn't because your stats will start to dip.
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I've done that a lot. And so sometimes
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you just have to go, no. We're gonna
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take it back and,
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you know, we've got three segments.
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And that's gonna be it for a little
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while just to kind of reset. You don't
534
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have to, like, fully, like,
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blow up your show in order to do
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that. You're just gonna okay. We're gonna just
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trim things down a little bit and make
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it easier.
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00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,640
Right. Well, we you know, we've tried different
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formats
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on this show
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Mhmm. Years and, you know, and then, of
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course, you know, titles changed,
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what, four times.
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That and, you know, that might be something
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to think about. You don't have to rebrand,
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but maybe you need to. That's another
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possibility.
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Mhmm. But, you know, like with us, we've
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tried all these formats, and we always end
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up coming back to we're gonna flip the
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recording on. We're gonna talk about something,
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and that's really it. We don't have a
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00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:44,539
dedicated format anymore.
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00:19:45,134 --> 00:19:47,934
And Mhmm. I think that's better for the
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style of show that we do here. And,
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personally, that's what I do on my shows
558
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is, basically, I flip the microphone on and
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I talk
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and Right. Give it a whole lot of
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thought. Now that's not probably the best way
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to do it, but that's the way I
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do it.
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00:20:04,839 --> 00:20:06,220
Some of the key takeaways,
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00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,480
you know, kinda sum it up. You know,
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small updates can make a huge difference.
567
00:20:12,775 --> 00:20:15,255
And again, you don't need to rebrand. Maybe
568
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you don't. But fixing,
569
00:20:16,775 --> 00:20:19,414
you know, fixing stuff like descriptions and links
570
00:20:19,414 --> 00:20:22,615
and how you do things could immediately improve
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00:20:22,615 --> 00:20:26,230
it. Yeah. And then also, like, still understand
572
00:20:26,230 --> 00:20:28,490
that, you know, you may be at episode
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300, but your backlog
574
00:20:30,630 --> 00:20:31,369
still matters
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because
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old episodes are still gonna get discovered by
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people whether you plan for it to or
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not. So try and keep them as updated
579
00:20:40,765 --> 00:20:41,505
as possible.
580
00:20:41,965 --> 00:20:44,605
Again, that evergreen content, we've talked about that
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a lot over the years. And, you know,
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00:20:48,365 --> 00:20:49,825
evergreen also means
583
00:20:50,285 --> 00:20:52,445
what does your links look like and stuff
584
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like that.
585
00:20:53,484 --> 00:20:54,705
Right. Right. You
586
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:55,980
know, consistency
587
00:20:56,519 --> 00:20:59,319
is one of those things that really help.
588
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You know, if you can do a clean,
589
00:21:01,319 --> 00:21:05,159
repeatable workflow that makes publishing easier, reduces all
590
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your burnout,
591
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you know, go for it. Do it. Yep.
592
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And going back to monetization,
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which is the theme for the 2026,
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you need to be clear about
595
00:21:17,325 --> 00:21:19,804
what your show is, but also what are
596
00:21:19,804 --> 00:21:22,000
your calls to action. If you are gonna
597
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,240
monetize your show, people need to know how
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you're doing that, whether that's, hey. Come
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join my Patreon for a dollar a month.
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Go support
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this sponsor or
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this business or this course.
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You have to direct people
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somewhere meaningful
605
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in order for them
606
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to help you monetize your podcast.
607
00:21:42,134 --> 00:21:44,775
So, basically, if it's not helping your show,
608
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get rid of it. Outdated segments, long intros,
609
00:21:48,055 --> 00:21:48,555
unnecessary
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steps, you know, that kind of stuff slows
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you down. I always dreamt when we first
612
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started doing podcasting. When I first started doing
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podcasting, it always seemed like it took me
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a really long time to get set up
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to the point where I turn the microphone
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on.
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Now
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it's awesome. I walk in here. I fire
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up a program.
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I fire up the Rodecaster.
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I hit record, and I talk.
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And that's the fun part of podcasting.
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All this other stuff is you know, can
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be fun for some, but
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if the less friction you have,
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the better, and springtime is the best time.
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Yep. If you haven't reviewed your podcast in
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