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The idea being is that you can do everything

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from the place where you're listening and you're

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not having to be directed as we've talked in

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other things about you go to the Patreon or you

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go to the link that they say that then your affiliate

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link it's putting it all in the place where somebody

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can very easily get to it while they're listening

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to the show that's the goal very very good Welcome

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to Fanzone, your bite -sized guide to getting

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the most out of the TrueFans podcast app. In

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each episode, we'll discuss an aspect of the

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app and hopefully answer any questions you may

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have about it. Plus, when you listen to Fanzone

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in TrueFans, you can earn as you listen and

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use your earnings to support your favourite podcasters.

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I'm Clare Waite Brown, independent podcaster

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and all -round podcast enthusiast. And I'm Sam

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Sethi, the CEO and founder of TrueFans. We are

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going to talk today about the final three tabs

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on the show screen. So this is a podcast level.

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We're talking about the whole show. The final

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three tabs, we've got events, blog and merch.

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Now, I know what those words mean, obviously,

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but what do they mean in my TrueFans podcast

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app? OK, so one of the things that TrueFans

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wants to be is a destination portal for creators,

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not just a podcasting app. So the idea is that

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you can drive fans from anywhere to this page.

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And yes, they can see what episodes you've published.

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But we wanted to add more function to this page.

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So events is a great way. You can have offline

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events, real world events or online events. So

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you might have a live event online and you can

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publish the event date, time, location, if it's

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a paid for event or if it's free. And again,

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this gives your fans the chance to either see

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a live event online with you. And when we bring

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the live chat in, maybe comment in live real

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time with you. Equally, it may be that you've

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decided to do a meetup somewhere, or if you're

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a comedy podcaster, maybe you've got a club that

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you want to do a real live event to. So again,

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if they're on this page, they can see the event,

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they can indicate that they're coming to the

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event. And also at the same time, if it's a paid

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for item, they can pay it from their wallet directly

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in sats or fiat. And then, yes, that money goes

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directly into the creator's wallet. And we're

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seeing a lot more of these podcast events, individual

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podcasts taking part in them. So as a listener,

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this is a really cool way to see if your favourite

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show is doing an event that you could go to in

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real life. Yes. And one of the things that's

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really exciting about this is we have submitted

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this as a extension tag to the RSS feed. So the

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idea is that hosts in the future will also allow

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you to create events in your host. But at the

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moment, you can only do this in your creator's

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admin dashboard on TrueFans. Okay. Blog and merch.

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I'm assuming then that you can publish blogs

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on this page and you can sell merchandise. Is

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that what we're talking about? Yes, so blogs

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are active. So in your creator's admin dashboard

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in TrueFans, you can go to the blog tab, you

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can write a blog post. And what's exciting about

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that is the blog post also tells you who read

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your blog post and also how long they read your

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blog post. So how far down the page they go.

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So you get metrics back from your fans. The fan

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can also heart that blog post so they can leave

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it with a payment or no payment. And they can

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also leave a super comment. So again, we've taken

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the technology that we use for podcasting and

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applied it to blogging. So people can give you

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a small micropayment. I use it now with Podnews

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Weekly. Buzzsprout, who is our host for Podnews

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Weekly, they have a service called Co -host and

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it produces our transcripts and our show titles,

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but it also produces a blog post of the episode.

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from the audio and I copy and paste that into

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my creator's dashboard to create a blog post

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that is complementary to the episode that we

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just listened to. Yeah. So that one's live. Is

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merch live? Merch is not live. That's coming

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very, very shortly. So the idea, again, is that

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you'll be able to upload images of mugs, caps,

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whatever it is you want, and you'll be able to

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display a merchant store and you'll be able to

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buy those things using your wallet. both in sats

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or fiat. And we are in the process of working

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on that one. Okay, brilliant. This is something

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we've talked about generally and... The idea

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being is that you can do everything from the

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place where you're listening and you're not having

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to be directed as we've talked in other things

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about you go to the Patreon or you go to the

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link that they say that's then your affiliate

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link. It's putting it all in a place where somebody

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can very easily get to it while they're listening

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to the show. That's the goal. Very, very good.

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That's the goal. Yes, you can support the show

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just as like you would with Buy Me A Coffee or

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Patreon, but you can do it directly in TrueFans.

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You can have events, blogs, merch. The other

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thing we are bringing out is a masked domain.

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So the idea is that eventually you'll be able

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to personalize that domain to one of your own

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domains. So instead of it saying TrueFans slash

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name of podcast, it will have a domain that is

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yours. And so you can direct your fans to that

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URL and they will just land on your podcast page,

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which is actually your podcast portal rather

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than just a podcast page. Brilliant. So it sounds

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like we've got a few things to talk about in

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the Creators Series, or the Creators Dashboard

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Series of Fanzone. So we will be explaining a

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lot more about these features very shortly. And

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also you talked about not going to Patreon, and

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then we're going to talk about funding in the

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next episode of Fanzone. So thank you very much

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for that, Sam, and I'll see you shortly. Bye.

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Thanks so much for listening. There are lots

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more episodes of Fanzone for you to get stuck

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into and that show you how to make the most of

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the fab features that this forward -looking podcast

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app has to offer podcast listeners and creators

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alike. We'd love to hear from you. You can send

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us a comment on True ans. More about that in

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the Fan Zone episode on comments or email support

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@truefans .fm.