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Tis I, Lord Podcast. Are you yearning to equip yourself with the confidence to record?

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Elijah, the skilled podcast professional, is preparing himself for a tale of tools and

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skill that only a mighty podcaster may employ in one's podcast journey. Elijah, I do believe

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that we shall teach our weary wanderer the confidence that they strive to achieve. Shall

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we start a podcast? We shall. It's settled. Let's start a podcast. Let's start a podcast.

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Shall we? Season two is here. If you didn't catch the first episode, then you'll definitely

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want to check that out. Why do I say that? Because I talked about recording. You're

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talking about microphones, you're talking about audio interfaces, the cables, and all

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the things behind the scenes you got to look out for. So you can play engineer, figure

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out things that kind of get in the way of your sound quality, but you don't think of

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them. And that's on episode one for season two. So check it out. If you want, go to

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docpodcastwithme.com slash podcast. How to think about my own website. What are you

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going to do? Lots of podcast resources, interviews, and the backlog of episodes to check out just

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in case you missed them. Also in the backlog is from season one, Michael, the Hobbit, as

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he calls himself. He's a podcast legend and experienced manager of experience at RSS.com.

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One of the host providers that'll be talking about disclosure. I'm a customer. Try not

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to favor them too much, not to have bias, but I want to disclose that for you. I do have

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the podcast all in one solution that they call about $12 a month. So I wanted to get

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that out there, but I'll be as fair as I can. More experience with RSS. Used a few of them

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in my time, been a while since I've started the podcasting. And back in the day, I used

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to do the RSS feed, which I'll talk about. That's kind of the automatic way to discover

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your podcast. Apps will connect to this feed. It's magical. The host takes care of it for

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you. And back in my day, I'd create it all. You had to do the tags. You had to get it

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right. And if it's just a hair bit wrong, no way. It's gone, errors, it doesn't get

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up. You have to stay up till two in the morning, figure things out. I did. It wasn't fun.

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And this is where the podcast host really kicks in. It's internet storage or cloud storage

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for your podcast audio files, or maybe it's for your video, depending on the platform,

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kind of like Google Drive or Apple cloud, whatever Apple calls it these days, storage

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with a bunch of features built for podcasters. Upload your audio podcast with the click

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of a button, distribute your podcast through that feed I'm talking about, which I'll get

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more into that blog at talkpodcastwithme.com slash podcast, all the resources, including

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this excerpt, the explainer guide, all that fun stuff to help you understand what the

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heck's going on. Some of the podcast hosts will connect automatically through apps and

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then send out through distribution as they call it through these feeds. I'll get into

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some of the comparisons later, but you can add a title and description, which is great.

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And you can add some cover art even for each episode, which is a newer feature coming out

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with Apple and podcast 2.0. Also get to that in a moment. Sometimes a microsite is included.

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The word for saying it's a mini blog website. You add a description or a longer version.

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Some people add their transcript in there or some thoughts and ideas to complement the

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audio podcast for SEO and all that fun jazz that goes along with the fun of creating the

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podcast. And some will allow you to create this magic to record right on the spot within

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the platform or host program, if you will, and then even do some simple edits. So it

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depends on what you want, all inclusive solution, or if you're hiring somebody to do it, you

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like to do all that separate and you just want a host to provide you with storage and

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a distribution. There's so many things to choose from, but it's really comes down to

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what you want. And maybe even you want a little bit of analytics and the degree of analytics

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and how many people ate an apple during the three minute break that you had when you did

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the, I don't know, commercial break or whatever it is. It's silly analogy, but that's kind

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of the level of details you can get into. Again, some are free. Some are not. It'll

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cost you some cash all the way up to, you know, hundreds of dollars a month, especially

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if people have a network or a bunch of podcasts, maybe you're like an agency and you just host

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a bunch for people. You put them up there for your clients and you take care of it all.

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And that would be beneficial for you to have a hundred dollar a month fee, charge a bit

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to upload everything and make it happen. And then it's all taken care of one app. No problem.

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No problem. Podbean, Buzzsprout, Libsyn, Simplecast, RSS.com, Spotify, podcast, maybe megaphone

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that you heard of, Wix podcast player and transistor are some of the more popular ones.

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And you're like, I don't care. They're just names and really they are. They're just hosts

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to get you on your way and making things happen. Additional perks you can get is unlimited

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episodes and downloads. So some people will cap or hosts, sorry, not people, will cap

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the number of episodes you can upload, the length of them, the storage, because it's

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all, all amount of data that's stored, right? And it costs them money. So it, unfortunately,

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costs us money. You can do the downloads. Some people call it listener traffic. The

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movement and the activity costs money. Sometimes that's unlimited. Sometimes it's capped. You

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can do transcriptions, upload them on your own or create through AI generated transcriptions

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is more popular with hosts now. Podcast 2.0 features I keep teasing, but I'll get into

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that chapters, sound bites, adding a website and email or the hyperlink sort of thing is

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available to accompany your podcast more integrated now. Monetization, dynamic ads, subscription

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features, maybe links together or more integrated with a podcast, Apple subscriptions, you see

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those sometimes 499 with Apple or Spotify. That's a whole another nightmare because you

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have to sub to each app and that I don't know. What's the answer? Maybe we'll talk about

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monetization later. Should really. Audio enhancements, different corrections or noise cancellation

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or bettering your sound to make you your voice sound oh so sweet and beautiful via AI. Uploading

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video affide and of course just with a click of a button that goes to YouTube does the

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description all that stuff borrowed from what you've put in on the host and then goes into

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things just for you. It does it all the magic, the things, the technical terms, the Wicham

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McColletts all done. It's nice and then of course it'll cost more money to do all that

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blah blah blah but the options are there. So before I dive into popular host providers

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and go through all their benefits again talkpodcastwithme.com slash podcast for more resource interviews

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and of course let's start a podcast episode blog. Backlog blogs. I love blogs. I think

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I have it stuck in my mind. What are you going to do? I also want to ask did you know I'm

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podcast professional? I have my tongue tied because I'm excited but I am pretty good at

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editing episodes, mentoring people, doing launch strategies, directing and guide you

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and maybe some conversational tips in real time. I kind of prompt you for some new ideas

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if you're really stuck. You just want to hit record. I can do that too. Maybe create,

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produce some cool intros and trailers just like the adventure style one I did for let's

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start a podcast. Even full service options called white glove. Just project manage the

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whole thing for your podcast. You show up, I do everything else and it's fun. If you

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want to go to talkpodcastwithme.com slash contact schedule appointment or chat maybe

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through email if you still even email anymore DM and socials all those links mentioned links

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in the podcast subscription just for you. The list, the features, let's do it. Okay,

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pod me. I've used this some time ago and it's really cool. They started having a community

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and involved on Facebook and Reddit and really got into people's minds. They want to really

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figure out what's going on. They have a decent free plan. It's unlimited listener traffic

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or downloads anything coming and going. Don't have to worry about how many people listening,

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what activity they covered it. A blog you can do they call the microsite. You know that

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area that kind of compliments have your own little white website monetization options.

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of different plans and options you can tie into. That's kind of a cousin to pod bean

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and they'll direct you through their website. Affordable tiers for beginners or maybe podcast

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pros want a little more and you get all those extra features. Like I was talking about,

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they have network options. You can go in and have a bunch of podcasts set up and they have

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those tiers and plans for you. A lot of times they'll encompass a lot of not what you need

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but kind of what they assume the podcasters want and then give you a monthly tier based

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on that. You subscribe, pay a monthly fee or a yearly plan to save a few bucks and then

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go from there. Check it out at pod bean. I'll link them as well in the description. Next,

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we have Libsyn. They've been around forever. I think the early 2000s. They have a bunch

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of plans and a lot of it is a la carte, which can be awesome, which means you pay for what

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you want, but it can get really expensive really fast. The features and video storage,

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all that can go up to like 99 bucks a month or more. Plus the $5 a month for this, $10

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a month for that, better analytics. It reminds me of how Apple does things. Respectfully

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to Libsyn, they have, you know, Apple has an iPad for 300 bucks and they're like, oh,

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you need extra memory or storage. Okay. Well, a hundred bucks more. Okay. Great. Now you're

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at $500. Oh, you need the newest, shiniest one, a new gen. Oh, well, that's going to

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be $600. You need a bigger screen. No problem. That's $700. Oh, wait, you need whatever else

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it is, 5G instead of just Wi-Fi. That's $800. And then that's kind of how it feels. It's

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a great idea. It's a great business model. You get unlimited listener traffic. There's

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monetization options. Custom mobile app is pretty unique to these podcast hopes. Hosts.

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So you can have the private podcasts that you've always dreamed of and people go to your app

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just give them the link or they can download it, however it works. And here you go. Podcast

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in one happy place, especially if you have a great following and you're organizing a

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community, kind of like crime junkies. I guess you could say they do that sort of thing where

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they have everything contained. Then you get them buy and merge and all that stuff. And

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Bob's your uncle. That's pretty cool. But yeah, think about it. If you want to do monthly

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or if you want to do Alucard and going through all these websites is a bit of a slog, but

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at least you get an idea. You get a short list of what you want to do and where you

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want to go and who you want to be your provider. If you have any questions, of course, description,

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links, hit me on the DMs and the socials. Happy to help out and clear things up if you need

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it. Captivate isn't something that I've heard about too often, but it's newer as far

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as I am concerned. I've been around for dinosaurs age, but there's always a tech that keeps

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coming up new providers, new options. This is interesting because you can post as many

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podcasts as you want, usually a higher monthly price for teams or podcast networks. So that's

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kind of standard, but just something to look out for unlimited team members. This is cool

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because this is rare with a lot of podcast hopes. So if you have an agency, you have

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podcast editors, you have people working for you, you have a VA, virtual assistant, and

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you're going through as a small business. This is super cool because you can add people

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to access your dashboard or your Captivate hosting account and they can go in and do

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all the stuff for you, which is super cool. Or you can just help each other out. Maybe

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you have co-host, maybe you're on, I don't know, a dungeon crawl, TT RPG or ghost exploration.

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them are hard to use. And most importantly, Captivate does not have a free tier. It's

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about 20 to about 100 plus a month. So although you get some cool stuff, you have a lot of

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options for the amateur, for someone just starting, unless you beat the odds and have

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a great budget as an amateur podcaster, maybe not. Maybe you have to second guess this one.

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is cool. Website adds integrations. YouTube auto posting, 14-day trial, as I mentioned,

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in host multiple podcasts. So again, if you have that network or you have a lot of podcasts,

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no problem. Private podcasts, they pitch as something very useful and it is. If you have

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a, maybe a podcast paywall, you have courses, you have extra stuff behind the scenes, you

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have maybe a corporation or a small business that you just want to have a message from

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the CEO. They have that. That's kind of what the private podcast is. You give this feed

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link to someone that pays the subscription and then you just go in and add this to your

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app. The person does that paid the description and then they get the feed. It's like a private

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feed, just for you. VIP treatment, you know? It's kind of neat. It might be kind of cool

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too to have a private podcast if you're doing edits for people to get a non-explicit tag.

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extra for a longer episode that's not chopped up and curated. Maybe you have it behind that

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private paywall. Private podcast and unlimited storage is a thing for people who are not

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transistors as well. So that's super cool and nice to have. So you don't have to worry

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about, oh, I've had five episodes. I want to have a bonus. I have to wait till next month

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to pay a different amount. Forget it. It's nice that way. Spotify for podcasters is cool,

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but it's very limited. It's super free. Everything is free about it. You just upload and go.

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of things, but the manual distribution is the complaint I hear a lot. It'll go to Spotify

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automatically, but you have to go and manually insert all the integrations. Some people think

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that's annoying, but for free, you log into Apple. You provide that feed that I talked

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about, that RSS or that feed, that magic that connects all of your apps, and then you just

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provide that information from Spotify. They go in a Spotify that is, you provide that

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into Apple. So Spotify, they connect each other. You have a login for Apple. You have

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the feed from Spotify and they connect, but you have to make that magic happen. Some clicks,

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some passwords, it's not bad. If you don't mind a bit of work for super free, that's

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fine. You have some analytics. It's okay. You have the basics that cover you. The weird

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thing is that Spotify likes to cover off impressions. It's a weird thing, kind of like social media

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where on Facebook, you see, oh, I have 4 million impressions, but only, I don't know, 30 downloads

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or something. Means whoever's seen it in your feed kind of misleading for some, but it gives

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you an idea of the interest. So if you're trying to improve your podcast or understand

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what your audience is liking, maybe they just fly by and don't like cover art or that particular

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episode doesn't interest them. I also like the message feature. You can go in and there's

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a poll. So in the Spotify app, when you're listening, they'll say, what did you think

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about this episode? You can customize that. You have a poll. You can get people talking

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hit the voicemail and they play your silly response on the air. This is kind of the same

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thing. You can ask questions, you can be heard and be more interactive. So that is something

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cool. A caveat here is that a Spotify did change its terms and conditions for audiobooks,

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saying you give away your life, so to speak. So be sure to double check the terms and conditions

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to understand what creative rates you may be losing or gaining when you upload to Spotify.

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likely to be able to claim some rights so they can make some money or sell something,

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your content or some of the idea or some of something. Just just be careful. Okay. I'm

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not saying it's a bad thing, but some people don't love to have their creative freedom

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taken away. Some people are good with some compromise. Some people don't love that. So

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just keep it in mind, but especially Spotify, they're changing things to be catch all you

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upload it, it's ours screw you like that's their choice. Is it yours? That's up to you.

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RSS.com. This is the hosting provider that I'm with currently I pay for. Just want to

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let you know that that is the service currently I use as a disclosure. Also again, Michael,

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the Hobbit, he's the manager customer service experience for RSS.com. He talks about a little

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behind the scenes and that's in the talk podcast with me.com slash podcast, all the backlog

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in there for you. Michael talking about awards. He's one community. He's built the grassroots

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efforts of RSS and what podcast 2.0 chapters are and all those things that podcast 2.0

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of five. And it's just basically a movement, if you will, an open source or a collective

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agreement to get things going and evolving in a good way for podcasters.

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Nonetheless, RSS.com. It sets you up for free, but there is eventually a time where you have

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to pay. Students only get away with five bucks a month, which is incredibly awesome and affordable.

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And it goes up to 11 and 20 from there. But you have the option at least start for free.

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Once you're ready to go and launch to the world, then that's when you start paying.

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It's kind of nice. You kind of get a feel. You get to play around and you get a sense

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of what goes on before you hit the go button and during the wallet. So to speak, you know,

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not much, but just a little bit. And you can do the yearly thing and I'll save about 20%

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on the subscription instead of monthly, which is decent. I'll take it.

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You can do transcripts auto upload to YouTube, the podcast 2.0 features, chapters, sound

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bites and all these other things. And I'll go what these mean in a minute.

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Simple website landing page. Although it uses RSS.com branding, which is purple and yellow,

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but doesn't work for you and you're a branding enthusiast connoisseur. It might not be for

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you, but at least it has the feed. The distribution is mostly automatic. You can share social

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media, which is awesome. I just hit a click and poof. And then you can also connect to

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Apple Spotify. Sorry, Apple podcast subscription support. I want to name all the apps. I'm

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sorry, but Apple subscription, you can get all that started right through the RSS host,

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which is really cool. They have great customer support 24 seven cross platform analytics.

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So they'll get Apple and Spotify and all these apps collect them and say, Hey, this is what's

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going on with your listeners. So yeah, Michael customer experience manager all over this thing.

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He's talking about his area. He's coaching and mentoring people. He's winning awards.

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He's having a good time. And RSS sounds pretty cool because there's just a couple of dudes

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starting it out, having a good time and why they are doing what they're doing. Talking

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shop with him was kind of fun too. Talk podcast with me.com slash podcast. Go on, check it

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out. And a bit of a behind the scenes blog to accompany that. So the podcast 2.0 features,

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which you've been dying to hear about, there was an MTV VJ and software developer. They

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wanted to help evolve features and accessibility podcast. They really wanted to make it a free

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speech still to be available. There's a lot of rules, especially in Canada, kind of taking

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that away from us. So it's nice to have people that have our backs and we can kind of speak

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your mind within a reason and have things open and available to us to kind of share

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that message to start conversations and to share our passions. Just like starting a podcast,

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it's my passion. I want to help you out. Did you know that the word podcast came from combining

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iPod and broadcast way back in the early 2000s when iPods were a thing? I still have one.

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I take it on the train with me or public transit. Sometimes I just want to listen to podcasts.

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That's all I need. It's tiny. It's great battery life. I'm old, so I don't always love having

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my cell phone around. I like to unwind and just space out and stare at the world around

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me. Listen to podcasts. Pretty cool. But yeah, combo is iPod broadcast. That's how we got

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podcast word. Cool, right? Podcast 2.0 is cool. Yes, but it's new, meaning that it's

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not widely adopted. So that can be a bit of a problem. You go through all these things

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with the podcast, add them, but is it really worth it? Go through all these effort. Like

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I said, you have YouTube, you have the chapters, item doubt. You have other features that are

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super cool like soundbites. Give a little teasers. But if the apps that you're connecting with

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or distributing to don't use these features, then it's kind of like a lot of work without

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nothing. It's still cool. I think it'll catch on. It just needs to take a bit of time and

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seeing that trend happen. And podcasting has been around forever. Good couple of decades

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almost. That's nice to see it evolving. A follow that you'll see is now instead of subscribing.

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Subscribing kind of gives the impression that you're paying. You're not always with follow.

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It's kind of like the bell notification on YouTube. That's a good way to go about it.

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So if you're not following this podcast, let's start a podcast. Wherever you get this and

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listen to it, hit the follow button, please. And thank you. That way you won't miss and

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you'll be able to hear all the good tips. I'm giving you podcast index is the open censorship

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resistant directory of podcasts. And that hopes to preserve podcasting as a free speech

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platform like I was talking about. Namespace is kind of like essential tags. That's the

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category for it. Additional information like chapters, transcripts, speakers, links, sound

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bytes, email and website link, the author detail, copy protection. That's a nice thing

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to have a location so you can change the location for each podcast episode if someone's in Africa,

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someone's in Canada, someone's in the United States, somebody's out of Hawaii. Maybe you

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want to have that location item because then people around that location that are looking

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and searching for this podcast will find it easier. Hones in on them like a beacon, if

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you will, podcast beacon, it'll have a trailer option, the author, a license for rss.com value

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for value is an integration with Bitcoin. So it has this integration with a payment

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processor. I don't know off the top of my head if it's all Bitcoin, but this is how

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RSS decides to go about it, which is kind of nice and amenity for some people that enjoy

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that be able to support the podcast as they may podcast host. What is it somewhere to

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store your internet files from your podcasts, and then just distribute it to everybody,

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the masses easily, and then have everything in one happy place like a home for your podcast

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on the internet and ready to go. If you want to do the video thing, there's YouTube, I

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know Spotify will do some videos that's becoming more popular with hosts, but still primarily

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audio and just a whole bunch of features and bits and bobs to company how much you want

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to pay depending on how pro and excited you really are. I like to talk about many things,

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but if you haven't already, again, check out the first episode of season two talking about

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recording. I went through about six different microphones rambled about how I just detest

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USB technology for microphones. I'm a truest. I like quality and control. I like that. I

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like that. I explain what XLR is, what an audio interface is, what the cables do, and

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what happens again. That's on episode one of season two. You'll check it out on the

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podcast player or talkpodcastwithme.com. I'm on LinkedIn. I'm on Instagram. I'm on threads.

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I'm unhinged all over the internet. So enjoy it. I tend to have an unpolished feel, but

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an honest, professional ish and a big kid sense of fun. So if you want to be entertained,

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I try my best to keep up with it, but I am just a one person show. Do my best.

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Listen, have fun, enjoy the adventure, and I'll see you soon. I'm Elijah. Cheers.

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Let's start a podcast.