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June 2, 2025

Using Your Podcast as a Jumping-Off Point for a Book – PCI 444

Using Your Podcast as a Jumping-Off Point for a Book – PCI 444

Use your podcast content to your advantage — and turn it into a book!

If you’ve ever felt like your podcast could be more than just a weekly episode—maybe even the start of a book—you’re not alone. This week, we’re explaining how podcasters can transform their content into a published work. From identifying core themes and organizing episodes into chapters to leveraging transcripts and using your show to promote the final product, we’ll walk you through how your podcast can lay the groundwork for your next big creative endeavor. Whether you’re thinking print, eBook, or audio companion, we’ll show you how Blubrry’s tools make the transition from podcaster to author smoother than you think.

Today’s Hosts: MacKenzie Bennett and Todd Cochrane

1. Identify the Core Theme in Your Podcast

If your podcast centers around a consistent topic, story arc, or mission, it may already have the foundation of a compelling book.

How to do it:

  • Review your last 20–30 episodes to find common threads.
  • Identify high-performing episodes using Blubrry’s IAB-certified podcast statistics.
  • Use audience feedback and questions to help refine your message.

💡 Blubrry Advantage: Stats help you find your most popular, share-worthy content to shape into chapters.

2. Use Transcripts to Jumpstart Your Writing

Transcripts save time by turning spoken content into editable text—the perfect starting point for a manuscript.

How to do it:

  • Transcribe your solo episodes or structured interviews.
  • Highlight and organize segments into written form.
  • Edit transcripts for clarity, flow, and structure.

💡 Blubrry Advantage: All Blubrry hosting plans offer optional AI-powered transcripts—easy to enable and perfect for repurposing episodes.

3. Organize Episodes Into Chapters or Sections

Turning a group of episodes into a book means outlining and arranging content in a reader-friendly structure.

How to do it:

  • Group episodes by topic or theme.
  • Remove repeated content and tighten messages.
  • Create a clear beginning, middle, and end.

💡 Blubrry Advantage: Use your Blubrry-hosted podcast website to browse episode archives, search by topic, and spot thematic groupings.

4. Choose a Publishing Path

There are many ways to publish your book: digital, print, or audiobook—and multiple tools to help you launch.

How to do it:

  • Decide on self-publishing (e.g., Amazon KDP), traditional, or hybrid publishing.
  • Consider starting with an eBook or downloadable guide.
  • Explore using your podcast as an audiobook companion.

💡 Blubrry Advantage: With full ownership of your RSS feed and content, you can repurpose episodes without platform restrictions or licensing hurdles.

5. Promote the Book Using Your Podcast

Your listeners are your most loyal potential readers—use your show to build anticipation and drive sales.

How to do it:

  • Tease the book in intros and outros.
  • Run a short “book launch series” or bonus content episodes.
  • Offer giveaways or early access to email subscribers.

💡 Blubrry Advantage: Promote your book on your free podcast website, and link it directly in episode show notes using Blubrry’s publishing interface.

6. Use the Book to Grow Your Audience

Books can introduce your podcast to new people, especially in professional, nonprofit, or educational spaces.

How to do it:

  • Use the book as a lead magnet in speaking engagements or webinars.
  • Include links to your podcast in the book’s intro and chapters.
  • Encourage readers to subscribe to your podcast for deeper insights.

💡 Blubrry Advantage: Your podcast site can serve as a central hub for cross-promotion, with direct links to episodes, email capture tools, and stats to track engagement.

7. Stay Consistent With Your Brand and Voice

Ensure your book feels like a natural extension of your podcast so fans stay connected across both mediums.

How to do it:

  • Keep the same tone and point of view you use in your podcast.
  • Mention episode references or inside jokes your audience will recognize.
  • Include a “from the podcast” introduction or section.

💡 Blubrry Advantage: Blubrry’s fully branded podcast websites and flexible hosting tools allow you to maintain brand consistency and control from podcast to print.


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00:00 - Introduction to Podcast as a Foundation for a Book

01:36 - Using Your Podcast Content to Write a Book

02:47 - Analyzing Episode Performance for Chapter Ideas

03:41 - The Importance of Outlining for Book Writing

05:15 - Leveraging Transcripts and Quotes for Content

06:12 - The Writing Process Made Easier with Technology

08:06 - Exploring Different Publishing Formats

12:06 - Promoting Your Book through Podcasting

15:26 - Cross-Promotion Opportunities with Other Podcasters

19:04 - Consistency in Branding Across Mediums

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Hey, everyone. I'm Todd Cochran, founder of Blueberry

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Podcasting. And I'm Mackenzie Bennett, Blueberry's marketing specialist.

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Welcome to Podcast Insider. Today, we're gonna talk

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about how your podcast could be the foundation

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for your next big project,

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AKA

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a book.

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You're listening to Podcast Insider hosted by Mike

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Dell, Todd Cochran, and Mackenzie Bennett from the

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Blueberry team, bringing you weekly insights, advice, and

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insider tips and tricks to help you start,

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grow, and thrive through podcasting,

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all with the support of your team here

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at Blueberry Podcasting.

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Welcome. Let's dive in.

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Whether you host interviews, teach a process, or

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share stories, you might already have the content

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that you need to become an author. And

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sometimes

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you don't.

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Yeah. I I remember having started my podcast

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in October then getting an email in November

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from a company called Wiley Publish. So, hey.

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We want you to write a book.

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And at the time, I didn't have a

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college degree. I had to start my journey

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hence, I had done later. I got my

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bachelor's degree, but I I sent a reply

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that was, well,

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probably not politically correct.

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Because, you know, when I was in high

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school, the English teacher had a lot of

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fun with the red pen.

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do it. Yeah. You know? And I spent,

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you know, four months writing a book. I

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think things can be turned out. But here's

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the thing. If your podcast is set around

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a topic, story, or mission.

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You've already got the foundation

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for a compelling book, and

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every episode you record,

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more stuff, more chapters, more information.

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of content that you've already created.

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or something like that. You know, that's that's

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where you're able to look at the stats

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of wherever you host your podcast. They're gonna

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have that information of which ones do the

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best. Yeah. And it's really easy to just

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go off of that. And hit because sometimes

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might not reflect in the numbers.

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this is because everyone now or at least

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this gives you the

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the written data to be able to turn

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that spoken content into edible text. And, you

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know, it's it's it's really awesome because

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if here's the key to a book. A

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book is not hard to write, but it

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what it does, it requires an outline. If

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you can do an outline,

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let's say you've got 30 episodes and you've

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got the titles for those episodes, you might

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develop that outline from those episode titles and

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the content to really come up with for

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of before Yeah. Where you're like this you

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type of format. Yeah. So maybe there was

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something that you wanted to do before that

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just didn't work for an audio podcast or

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a video podcast and but this is the

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perfect way to do it instead.

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Yeah. So you can organize those segments Mhmm.

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That you've got from transcripts and those conversations,

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and you can edit the transcripts.

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So you've got quotes from a guest. Now

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a release.

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book, and maybe it's a good idea to

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have a re a a a release from

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that content when you're

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interviewing people.

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point in the show. I don't think we've

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ever talked about releases.

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Mhmm. But have all that

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legal available content to be able to use

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to have this flow, build a flow and

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structure.

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point. You know, all of your podcast content

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is already yours. Yeah. So none of this

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is you know, you're not gonna get in

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any type trouble for using someone else's type

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of content, anything like that.

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in and edit it. But if you get

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book. No. And no one wants to read

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a book by

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ChatGPT either. And and, you know, there's copyright

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issues with that. But you can use it

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to organize your thoughts and your segments and

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again, an organized flow. And and doing that

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with AI asking for or, like, buying a

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template from someone's website or, you know, from

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some publisher or something like that, all of

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that can really help people because majority of

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the time, they have the content down. It's

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the organizing. It's the structuring. It's the making

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it into a book Yeah. That is difficult

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for a lot of people. Yeah. And, you

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because I had this flow. That's the part

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people like. You know, chapter one, a b

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c d e f g, chapter two, and

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b and, you know, I just all I

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because it's all in your head, and you

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Oh my god. Unbelievable.

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So, you know, again, you can group episodes

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by topic or theme.

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Tighten Actually, please do that.

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And tighten up the tighten up the message.

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I I think that's fantastic, but, you know,

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it is not that difficult. And it's always

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cover art for it. You know, there's always

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and it was a different publishing method because

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I signed the contract. They own the copyright,

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you know, and I just basic and I

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but then it came with a team.

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Right. And I had a editor

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and, boy, the editor. My god. Did did

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she had fun? You know, she was like

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my English teacher on steroids.

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It was just word check then. You know,

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a tool like Grammarly then, you know, twenty

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years ago. But, again, you can decide how

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you're gonna publish this. And, again, you can

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premium podcast. There's all kinds of

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ways to do it. Yeah.

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in the middle there. Yeah. It's great to

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or a podcast.

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it's a biography or, you know, like, if

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it's, like, a Steve Jobs biography or, you

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know, somebody famous, I'll buy the book.

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Right. And but I'll actually never crack it

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because I'll buy the digital version. But I

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want that, you know, that physical copy on

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my bookshelf.

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know. Maybe it doesn't make me look smart,

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but at least you

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like the physical book as well,

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I you know? And what I found books

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are $30 a pop. Yeah. You're reading reading

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a book a week. I'm not doing that.

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always doing is once they got a little

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older and they were coming in looking at

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my because I had a couple of bookshelves

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in my office, and they're coming in and

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what's this about? And I'm like, oh, that's

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about such and such that happens certain certain

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and off it goes, and they come back

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a couple of weeks later. So I think

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there's always this opportunity with the with

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the printed, but at the same time,

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I just read everything on a on a

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It's easier. I don't have to carry a

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whole book back now. I think Bill Gates,

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he has constantly

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I think I saw something in his biography

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where he has 10 to 12 books consistently

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that he's reading,

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all the time. Going through. Yeah. So I

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I don't know how he gets through that

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many, but he must be a speed reader.

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But, again, starting with an ebook or downloadable

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guide, you know, explore using your podcast as

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an audiobook companion to, you know, make it

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a premium.

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Mhmm. And, again,

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with the advantage here at Blueberry, you you

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have full ownership of your RSS

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and your content,

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and you can repurpose episodes without platform restrictions

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or licensing hurdles.

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When you put stuff up on Amazon,

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then, you know, you still own control of

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the copyright, but you have to enforce copyright,

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and you have to,

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you know, whatever the split is with Amazon

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and other folks,

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you know, you wanted to get out to

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a lot of people. You know, the goal

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is and I was lucky. I had, again,

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I had a publisher.

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So we sold 45,000

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copies. I made a New York Times bestsell

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list. I made something that new with because

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Amazon was pretty new at the time for

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a tech book. Amazon, you know, there was

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no I didn't make the New York Times

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top 10 fiction.

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You know? I made the New York Times

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top 10 technical, which

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probably wasn't too hard to break into.

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Still.

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You know, but it was Who cares? It

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was it was bragging rights at the time.

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Yeah. And and I I got a free

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dinner out of Amazon out of it. So

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they Yeah. There you go. Yeah. So that

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was good. But,

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again,

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how was my book successful?

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In this, there's a whole story. I won't

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get into too much details, but I said

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to my aunt, I got this big secret

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I'm gonna reveal on, I think it was

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episode

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76 or something like that. Mhmm. And, of

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course, there's a whole other story backstory about

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how we were first how I got the

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first podcasting book. But and when I told

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my audience

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and let them know I had gotten paid

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to write a book, I lost half my

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audience because

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at the time,

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everyone was like, you sold out. You took

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money.

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You didn't do it for the love of

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the industry. And I'm like, what is this?

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So I lost half the audience, and it

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it really set me up later when the

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sponsor come on

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because all the naysayers that didn't want me

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to make money were gone. You know? Right.

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All the people that were already angry were

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Yeah. Were already gone. Yeah. So, you know,

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imagine someone being mad because you're making money

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on a book. I can't believe it. Yeah.

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It was, yeah, a different time for sure.

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Well, that does lead us into the next

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part, which is you have this book. You've,

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you know, decided on a publisher. It exists.

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Now you have to promote it.

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So that's exactly what you were saying. You're

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like, hey. I technically got on the New

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York Times list for top 10. That is

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part of promotion.

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That really is.

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So a good way to do this is

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tease the intro and the outro, you know,

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how you're gonna hook them in and what

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they're gonna learn at the end or enjoy

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or whatever it is, what content.

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A giveaway is a really easy one.

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Your podcast,

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like your book that you did, Todd, was

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about podcasting. Yeah. So that was really easy

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to promote. That was

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incredibly easy, you know, to promote to your

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listeners saying, hey, if this is something that

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you wanna do, especially back then when you

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put the book out and podcasting was so

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new. Yep. That was That's why it was

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so successful, and that's why it was important

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to be first. So Yeah. Yeah. There was

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you know, that was an advantage. And to

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that extent,

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it really was because we sold, like, 45,000

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copies of that. So

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I will say, I did find your book

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at the Columbus

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library. At the library?

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Yeah. It was available in Franklin County. That's

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funny. There was there was one, and it

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was checked out.

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You know what also happens is later

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when books aren't sold

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and you have a physical book and they

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went out to all the distribution places,

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people return those and then you get your

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because I was getting a very small amount

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of what do they call it?

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Anyway, it's it's basically Royalties. Royalty check. Well,

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then you go into negative.

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Yeah. Then your your royalty report for ten

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years shows minus $892,

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minus a thousand of the return books. So

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yeah. So you there's that side of it

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too. But and there's nothing cooler than having

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a box

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of 10 of your own books where you

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or a hundred, and you can go to

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an event and hand out.

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And that's another thing. It's a big calling

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card. Make it a Yeah. For sure. Make

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it a prize for your audience or something

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to that effect, you know.

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Give it away. Do a do a launch.

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Depending on the content. Maybe you could even

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be one of those authors that's in a

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bookstore. Yeah. You know, I've gone to plenty

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of those in my lifetime.

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And, you know, again, the book can be

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a lead magnet. And for me, for many

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years, it led to speaking engagements,

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paid speaking engagements.

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Yeah. And,

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obviously, I I had pictures of myself in

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the book. You know, I had hair then.

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So, you know, and I I you know,

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it was very amateurish taking pictures of me

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walking around my community with a with ear

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pod you know, with earphones and listening on,

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you know, a little handheld recorder before the

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iPad was so super popular. It's just, you

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know, funny, but, you know, it it it

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is comical.

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It does work. But getting kids of readers

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to subscribe your podcast for deeper insights and

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in the podcast is is the ultimate

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promotional vehicle for your for your book and

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actually can lead to book too because then

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people wanna be on

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and talk to you because you're a published

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author now. And Especially because,

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you know,

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podcast listeners are loyal. Yeah. That's that's been

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that way since they,

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you know, came to fruition,

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and it's still relevant today. And your podcast

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site can really serve as a central hub

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for cross promotion. And the beauty thing of

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it too is if you've got friends that

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are podcasters,

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giving them a book, and they cross promote

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it on their website. It really

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you know, it's it's them it's that seven

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degrees of separation. It really helps a lot.

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Well, and that cross promotion is part of

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what we're trying to help with Guestmatch Pro

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that we're released later this year is, you

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know, if you're already a creator, you could

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sign up to be a guest as well,

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and that's perfect to promote anything. But, specifically,

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promoting a book on a podcast is very

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popular. So, hopefully, that'll that'll help some people

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out. Yeah. When Wiley came back and asked

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me to write the second book and they

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wanted to to cover the topics they wanted

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me to cover, I

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basically couldn't. And it was because at the

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time,

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we were doing things that I did not

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want to be publicly known. I didn't wanna

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write this tell all, here's the corporate secrets.

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So the reason I didn't have a at

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the time, didn't have a book to, which

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they wanted,

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was largely because I would have really had

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to have sold all the secrets company, and

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I just wasn't going to do that. So

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Yeah. Your situation may be different

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in your content, and maybe it's not tied

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to something that's that's confidential.

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But one thing's for sure is

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your book can be a natural extension of

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your podcast, and fans stay connected across both

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mediums.

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And sometimes people will buy it and never

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read it. They just wanna buy it to

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support you.

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Yeah. For sure.

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Or, you know, they'll they'll listen to the

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audiobook just like you and still buy it

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by the physical. Right. Yeah. There's there's a

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lot of different ways to do this. But

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one thing

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is stay consistent with the brand and the

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voice and make sure that if you're trying

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to relate this to your podcast,

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to

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keep that level across the board.

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There might be something that

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you wanna feature

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in the book that you can't really do

492
00:17:21,950 --> 00:17:23,650
the way that you want in the podcast,

493
00:17:23,710 --> 00:17:24,210
but

494
00:17:24,924 --> 00:17:27,404
there's only so much leeway that you have

495
00:17:27,404 --> 00:17:29,724
before people are like, Why are these so

496
00:17:29,724 --> 00:17:30,224
different?

497
00:17:32,684 --> 00:17:35,085
Oh, yeah. So the tone. I got it.

498
00:17:35,085 --> 00:17:37,005
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think the tone

499
00:17:37,005 --> 00:17:38,545
and the point of view,

500
00:17:38,990 --> 00:17:40,690
whenever you start to change that,

501
00:17:41,230 --> 00:17:42,990
people are like, Oh, well, this is not

502
00:17:42,990 --> 00:17:45,090
exactly what I was expecting. I was expecting

503
00:17:45,470 --> 00:17:46,130
an expansion

504
00:17:46,670 --> 00:17:48,850
of what the podcast already is. So

505
00:17:49,390 --> 00:17:50,609
if you're gonna change,

506
00:17:50,910 --> 00:17:53,115
I think that's, in my opinion, that's kind

507
00:17:53,115 --> 00:17:54,975
of a go big or go home situation.

508
00:17:55,115 --> 00:17:56,475
Yeah. And I and I, you know, and

509
00:17:56,475 --> 00:17:57,215
I even

510
00:17:57,914 --> 00:18:00,315
unbeknownst to the publisher, I had a Easter

511
00:18:00,315 --> 00:18:01,375
egg in my book.

512
00:18:01,914 --> 00:18:03,535
And, again, it was

513
00:18:04,279 --> 00:18:06,859
typically directed to a group of listeners

514
00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:09,099
in my show. And,

515
00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,119
you know, a few of them got it

516
00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,839
over over time. But, yeah, if you have

517
00:18:14,839 --> 00:18:15,899
those insider

518
00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,240
jokes that your audience will recognize, they'll appreciate

519
00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,304
that because you'll feel like you're talking to

520
00:18:21,304 --> 00:18:21,845
them. Mhmm.

521
00:18:22,945 --> 00:18:25,684
And, yeah, there was a a time when

522
00:18:25,744 --> 00:18:27,744
there was listeners of my show that said

523
00:18:27,744 --> 00:18:29,205
that they they called my

524
00:18:29,585 --> 00:18:32,164
destruction of the English language, Tadaisms.

525
00:18:33,179 --> 00:18:35,339
And so the Tadaisms and I think you

526
00:18:35,339 --> 00:18:37,419
were familiar with the Tadaisms in my writing

527
00:18:37,419 --> 00:18:39,359
at some point. But the Tadaisms

528
00:18:39,819 --> 00:18:41,119
made it into the book

529
00:18:41,659 --> 00:18:42,859
and not as a

530
00:18:43,579 --> 00:18:44,859
it was just kind of a fun thing

531
00:18:44,859 --> 00:18:46,845
to put it in there reference to. Yeah.

532
00:18:46,924 --> 00:18:47,984
You can be successful

533
00:18:48,525 --> 00:18:49,505
and and not necessarily

534
00:18:50,204 --> 00:18:53,585
always be the best speaker. So Totally. Yeah.

535
00:18:53,884 --> 00:18:56,284
But, again, I think that you've got the

536
00:18:56,284 --> 00:18:56,784
ability

537
00:18:57,404 --> 00:18:59,404
with, you know, having if if you have

538
00:18:59,404 --> 00:19:00,304
your own website

539
00:19:00,829 --> 00:19:03,470
and it's branded and the book follows the

540
00:19:03,470 --> 00:19:03,970
brand,

541
00:19:04,910 --> 00:19:06,210
you have this consistency

542
00:19:06,509 --> 00:19:07,170
and control

543
00:19:07,950 --> 00:19:08,450
from

544
00:19:09,150 --> 00:19:11,470
podcast to print. I think that's a kind

545
00:19:11,470 --> 00:19:12,369
of a cool

546
00:19:13,515 --> 00:19:15,595
term. We should we should we should make

547
00:19:15,595 --> 00:19:17,055
sure we use that more often.

548
00:19:17,674 --> 00:19:19,835
But Yeah. It's you have a website. It's

549
00:19:19,835 --> 00:19:21,055
probably gonna have your

550
00:19:21,434 --> 00:19:23,195
podcast on it. It might have blog posts.

551
00:19:23,195 --> 00:19:25,115
It might have other, you know, these are

552
00:19:25,115 --> 00:19:27,195
the services that we provide. This is what

553
00:19:27,195 --> 00:19:29,009
you can pay me for. That type of

554
00:19:29,009 --> 00:19:29,509
stuff,

555
00:19:30,210 --> 00:19:32,529
instead of a podcast website, and then a

556
00:19:32,529 --> 00:19:33,990
book website, and then

557
00:19:34,450 --> 00:19:36,070
a whatever website of

558
00:19:38,049 --> 00:19:39,670
some type of content that you do.

559
00:19:40,049 --> 00:19:42,105
I prefer to all just be on one.

560
00:19:42,265 --> 00:19:44,424
I'd rather have, like, a loaded up website

561
00:19:44,424 --> 00:19:46,125
than have to go to three different ones.

562
00:19:46,345 --> 00:19:48,025
You know, I truly believe there's a book

563
00:19:48,025 --> 00:19:49,625
in everyone, and it may not be a

564
00:19:49,625 --> 00:19:51,964
book that would be for consumption of

565
00:19:52,265 --> 00:19:54,365
thousands. You know, I did a biography.

566
00:19:54,664 --> 00:19:57,000
I did, like, a mini book for my

567
00:19:57,059 --> 00:19:59,859
grandparents in the history after like 20 some

568
00:19:59,859 --> 00:20:02,980
in hours of interviews about how they met,

569
00:20:02,980 --> 00:20:05,619
how they, you know, all these things that

570
00:20:05,619 --> 00:20:08,179
really would be lost over time. And I

571
00:20:08,179 --> 00:20:10,740
put that into it's not long. It's like

572
00:20:10,740 --> 00:20:11,720
twenty five pages,

573
00:20:12,055 --> 00:20:12,875
but it's basically

574
00:20:13,494 --> 00:20:15,815
more of a biography historical type thing. And

575
00:20:15,815 --> 00:20:17,654
we never published it, but it's available for

576
00:20:17,654 --> 00:20:19,815
the family. Yeah. It's a family book. Yeah.

577
00:20:19,815 --> 00:20:23,255
So everyone has a book in them. Mhmm.

578
00:20:23,255 --> 00:20:24,875
And I think every podcaster

579
00:20:25,494 --> 00:20:28,180
probably has two books in them. And there's

580
00:20:28,180 --> 00:20:30,100
there's lots of companies out there actually helping

581
00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:30,600
podcasters.

582
00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:33,059
My friend had a company send me an

583
00:20:33,059 --> 00:20:34,580
email the other day that said, hey, here's

584
00:20:34,580 --> 00:20:36,039
the first chapter of your book.

585
00:20:36,420 --> 00:20:38,740
And it was all chat GPT generated and

586
00:20:38,740 --> 00:20:39,640
I kind of giggled

587
00:20:39,964 --> 00:20:41,404
And I, you know, I kinda linked to

588
00:20:41,404 --> 00:20:43,484
my original book. I said, thank you, but

589
00:20:43,484 --> 00:20:45,265
no thank you. I don't need a robot

590
00:20:45,325 --> 00:20:47,664
writing my book or my biography.

591
00:20:48,365 --> 00:20:48,865
But,

592
00:20:49,325 --> 00:20:51,244
you know, I think they're again, everyone has

593
00:20:51,244 --> 00:20:53,244
a book in them. Just, you know, don't

594
00:20:53,244 --> 00:20:55,265
be don't be shy to try.

595
00:20:56,029 --> 00:20:58,109
It's the same as starting a podcast. Yeah.

596
00:20:58,109 --> 00:21:00,690
People are like the they say the podcast

597
00:21:00,990 --> 00:21:02,130
industry is oversaturated.

598
00:21:02,829 --> 00:21:04,289
You could say the same thing

599
00:21:04,589 --> 00:21:07,230
about books and writing. Yeah. And neither of

600
00:21:07,230 --> 00:21:09,169
them are. But it's awful

601
00:21:09,549 --> 00:21:12,765
nice to have that that printed paper and

602
00:21:12,765 --> 00:21:14,544
that smell, that fresh ink.

603
00:21:14,924 --> 00:21:16,605
There's just something about see your name on

604
00:21:16,605 --> 00:21:19,325
print? Yeah. It's fantastic. Yeah. You know? I've

605
00:21:19,325 --> 00:21:21,005
got a copy of it behind me. You

606
00:21:21,005 --> 00:21:22,065
can't see it,

607
00:21:22,365 --> 00:21:23,325
of course. But

608
00:21:24,019 --> 00:21:26,359
and I still have eight or nine,

609
00:21:26,740 --> 00:21:29,539
you know, original copies in a box. Everyone's

610
00:21:29,539 --> 00:21:31,379
thinking, what is that box? I open, oh,

611
00:21:31,379 --> 00:21:31,879
yeah.

612
00:21:32,259 --> 00:21:34,339
Yeah. So, you know, and, you know, who

613
00:21:34,339 --> 00:21:36,179
knows? Just a little piece of history. Yeah.

614
00:21:36,179 --> 00:21:38,179
Just a little. But get your book out

615
00:21:38,179 --> 00:21:39,240
there. Write a book.

616
00:21:40,085 --> 00:21:42,085
Alright. I think that wraps up this episode.

617
00:21:42,085 --> 00:21:43,845
Thanks for listening, everyone. Yeah. And if you've

618
00:21:43,845 --> 00:21:45,684
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620
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621
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625
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