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Boost Your Podcast Following with a Custom Bio Link
When it comes to growing your podcast, making it easy to follow is one of the best ways to do that, which is why in episode 17, I shared some options that are available for that. However, that's just for the podcast. But another way is to use a custom bio link.
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Boost Your Podcast Following with a Custom Bio Link
I'm Danny Brown, and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you like exclusive tips just for your podcast, as well as early access to all episodes, become a premium subscriber at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode.
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Boost Your Podcast Following with a Custom Bio Link
So for your social media profiles, instead of just having one link that goes to your podcast website or maybe Apple or Spotify, a custom bio link allows you to not only share your podcast, but certain episodes, a newsletter and more. And depending on what bio link software you use, you can even embed episodes and videos.
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Boost Your Podcast Following with a Custom Bio Link
Again, making it super easy for listeners to check out your show before following it. And the good thing is there's a few options out there so you can choose the one that's best for you. There's Linktree, there's BioLink, there's a new one I'm checking out at the moment called PodBio, and others, and I'll be sure to leave links in the show notes for you to check them out.
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Boost Your Podcast Following with a Custom Bio Link
The great thing with custom BioLinks is you're not limited to just one podcast. If you've got multiple shows, you can add them all there, highlight popular episodes, and more. It's a great way to share as much detail as you can about your podcast with just one link. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening.
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Boost Your Podcast Following with a Custom Bio Link
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Podcast Length: What’s the Perfect Duration?
To be honest, there's no right or wrong answer for this one. Arguably, the world's most famous podcaster, Joe Rogan, has episodes that are three hours long. Other podcasters have episodes between 20 minutes and an hour, sometimes more. Then you have something like this show, that's only a minute or so. The main thing to ensure is that no matter how long your episode, it's as tight as it can be.
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Podcast Length: What’s the Perfect Duration?
I'm Danny Brown and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you like exclusive tips just for your podcast, as well as early access to all episodes, become a premium subscriber at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode. How long should your podcast episode be?
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Podcast Length: What’s the Perfect Duration?
Cut out any extra stuff that doesn't really add to the episode. So, if it's an hour long, but you spend the first 15 minutes of ads and shooting the crap, that's possibly 15 minutes that isn't needed. Your listeners only have so many hours in the day and yours won't be the only podcast to listen to, trust me. So make it compact and with no filler. Until the next time, happy podcasting.
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Podcast Length: What’s the Perfect Duration?
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Top 3 Editing Options for Great Podcast Audio Every Time
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Top 3 Editing Options for Great Podcast Audio Every Time
If you're a regular listener to the show, you'll know how often I talk about the listener experience and why good audio is key to making that experience the best it can be. While there are a lot of tools to help with that, here are my top three options to use no matter what editing software you have. Number one, EQ or equalization. This lets you adjust the frequencies of the audio.
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Top 3 Editing Options for Great Podcast Audio Every Time
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Top 3 Editing Options for Great Podcast Audio Every Time
So, for example, if you want to lower or increase deeper sounds like bass, or you want to emphasize higher frequencies like treble or mid-range based on a speaker's voice, Number two, compression. And this helps move the overall levels of your audio, which makes it a lot easier and more comfortable to listen to. And number three is normalisation.
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Top 3 Editing Options for Great Podcast Audio Every Time
Podcasting has a setting called LUFS, L-U-F-S, and that's the default loudness for the majority of the industry in podcast apps to help all audio stay at the same volume. The defaults are minus 19 LUFS for mono audio and minus 16 LUFS for stereo. And I've spoken before about LUFS and why it's important in episode 92, so I'll leave a link to that in the show notes so you can check it out.
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Top 3 Editing Options for Great Podcast Audio Every Time
While there are other options you can use, de-esser for example, if you have a more sibilant tone to your voice, these are my three go-to options I use on every edit to ensure a consistent and hopefully enjoyable listening experience. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening.
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How to Improve Your Podcast Audio with Auphonic
When it comes to the audio quality of a podcast, many podcasters use plugins like iZotope, Waves, AccentEyes, and others like them with their preferred editing software. This helps both optimize and repair audio after an episode has been recorded.
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How to Improve Your Podcast Audio with Auphonic
I'm Danny Brown, and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you like exclusive tips just for your podcast, as well as early access to all episodes, become a premium subscriber at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode.
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How to Improve Your Podcast Audio with Auphonic
But for podcasters who may not be confident when it comes to audio quality, there's a great online tool called Auphonic that does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. This includes leveling the volume of all speakers, ensuring music and background noise isn't too loud, noise removal and reverb reduction, setting the EQ so each voice isn't hard on the listener's ears and more.
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How to Improve Your Podcast Audio with Auphonic
They also provide show notes, chapters and transcripts, which means you've got pretty much everything you need when it comes to creating a great episode. You can have two hours for each month and then either choose a monthly plan or one of credits as you need them. And I'll leave a link in the show notes so you can check Ophonic out for yourself.
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How to Improve Your Podcast Audio with Auphonic
It's a great time saver and it really makes a difference to your audio. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy One Minute Podcast Tips, be sure to share with your friends and other podcasters so they can enjoy it too. Until the next time, happy podcasting.
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Why Headphones Are the Most Important Podcast Gear
When it comes to podcast equipment, a lot of the discussions are usually around mics or interfaces or software or other tools. But for some reason, you rarely see headphones mentioned, and yet they're probably the most underrated piece of equipment around. When recording, you can hear any unwanted sounds, noise artifacts, uneven levels and more.
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Why Headphones Are the Most Important Podcast Gear
I'm Danny Brown, and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you like exclusive tips just for your podcast, as well as early access to all episodes, become a premium subscriber at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode.
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Why Headphones Are the Most Important Podcast Gear
During editing, you can pick out the tiny details you'd otherwise miss, including where the mix might need improvement. So I always recommend a good pair of headphones when it comes to podcasting, and to make sure they're monitor headphones with a neutral sound. You don't want heavy bass for music headphones, for example.
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Why Headphones Are the Most Important Podcast Gear
I use the Sony MDR-7506, while the Sennheiser HD200 Pros are also really good, and I'll leave links to those in the show notes so you can check them out. So the next time you're looking at podcasting equipment, make sure your headphones are at the top of the list. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening.
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Why Headphones Are the Most Important Podcast Gear
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Why You Should Use the Correct LUFS Setting for Your Podcast
Until the next time, happy podcasting.
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Why You Should Use the Correct LUFS Setting for Your Podcast
When it comes to the listening experience of your podcast, it's important to understand LUFS and why you need to use the correct one. So what is LUFS? Well, LUFS stands for Loudness Units Full Scale. And basically, it's a standardized way of measuring loudness. Now, I won't get too technical on this, but basically there are two types of LUFS, short-term and integrated.
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Why You Should Use the Correct LUFS Setting for Your Podcast
I'm Danny Brown, and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you want more specific tips just for you and your podcast, check out the Magic Mike membership at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode.
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Why You Should Use the Correct LUFS Setting for Your Podcast
Short-term gives us a peak reading of the last three seconds of audio, while integrated is an average of the whole audio mix. And it's how we measure loudness for film, music streaming, radio, and podcasting. To get an idea of important how LUFS is, ask yourself if you've ever listened to an episode and the ads have been much louder than the episode audio itself or vice versa.
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Why You Should Use the Correct LUFS Setting for Your Podcast
Ideally, you want every part of your episode at the same level, whether that's you and a guest, your ads, your intro, your outro, etc. Makes it a lot more comfortable to listen back to. Generally, there are two settings to work by. Mine is 16 LUFS for stereo and mine is 19 LUFS for mono. Now, a lot of editing software has LUFS settings built in.
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Why You Should Use the Correct LUFS Setting for Your Podcast
I use Hindenburg Pro, for example, and when I export the audio, I can set it to minus 16. And I do this for all my ads, sponsor messages, intro, outro, music, and more. This ensures that every part of my audio is exactly the same level.
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Why You Should Use the Correct LUFS Setting for Your Podcast
There's some great resources for LUFS, including a detailed explanation of what they are and how to use them, and I'll leave links to those in the episode show notes, so be sure to check them out too. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy One Minute Podcast Tips, be sure to share with your friends and other podcasters so they can enjoy it too.
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What Should You Call Your Podcast's Paid Content Options?
For podcasters that offer a premium option, so where you can get stuff like exclusive content, early access to episodes, bonus content, etc., one of the things that can be a problem is what to call it. Do you call it memberships? Do you call it premium listeners or premium members? Do you call it premium subscribers or even just subscribers?
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What Should You Call Your Podcast's Paid Content Options?
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What Should You Call Your Podcast's Paid Content Options?
While it can come down to your own preference, as well as what you think your audience will understand better, the most recognisable option is probably to call it something where subscriber is the main term. And this is for one simple reason. People already associate the word subscriber with paid content. So, Netflix, YouTube Premium, newspapers, streaming services, etc.,
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What Should You Call Your Podcast's Paid Content Options?
all of them use the word subscribe when it comes to getting content only made for paid subscribers. So it makes sense to use the same for your own premium content, whether that's Patreon, Substack or memberships from Captivate where I'm head of podcaster support and experience.
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What Should You Call Your Podcast's Paid Content Options?
So when it comes to your paid content, think about switching to using something like become a paid subscriber for premium and exclusive content and see how that goes. The best thing about podcasting is you can easily experiment and see what works and what doesn't and change it up pretty quickly. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening.
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What Should You Call Your Podcast's Paid Content Options?
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
Defining success and how to achieve it will ensure you grow realistically and don't get put off by chasing unrealistic goals. And the third is to listen to what your listeners are telling you. So, for example, what kind of content resonates, what length of content, what kind of takeaways, etc.
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
You can get this information from your analytics, reviews, the percentage of your episodes that are listened to, what calls to action are acted upon, and more. By creating content that you believe in, but that also meets the needs of your listeners, you're going to set yourself up for a podcast that connects and is fun and rewarding to make week after week.
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
Now, there are more ways to continue podcasting past year one, two, etc. But these three tips are the ones that have helped me and they're also pretty easy to manage too. So I hope they do the same for you. Thanks again for letting me bring this podcast to you and for helping it reach episode 100.
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
To celebrate, I'll be having a special live stream on Saturday, October 26 at 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific, 6pm UK time, where you can ask me any podcasting questions you might have. You can set a reminder by going to oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash 100. That's the number 100 100. I'd love to see you there. Until the next time, happy 100 episodes and happy podcasting. Thanks for listening.
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
Hey, Danny here, and welcome to this special episode of One Minute Podcast Tips. Today sees the show reach episode 100, which is kind of weird to say as I wasn't sure if the idea for the show would work or not when I first came up with it. After all, could podcast tips in a minute or less work and, more importantly, offer value?
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
I'm Danny Brown and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you like exclusive tips just for your podcast, as well as early access to all episodes, become a premium subscriber at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode.
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
Well, thankfully, with the feedback and reviews that you've been kind to share, it would seem so. So thank you so much for that. So in this special episode, I wanted to share some tips on podcast longevity. The first is to plan ahead. While it's relatively easy to start a podcast, it can be harder to keep it going, with many podcasters stopping by episode 7.
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
This can be down to a few reasons, but the biggest is often not having a plan from the start. So, plan your show out. Format, length, frequency, making sure you have episodes in the bag for when you can't record etc, so you know exactly what you need to be doing each week, or whatever your publishing frequency is.
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
The second thing is to identify what success looks like to you and how you're going to get there, which can also tie into the planning stage. Is it downloads, listeners, being invited on other shows, reviews, monetization, etc.? Or is it simply recording and publishing consistently for a set amount of time?
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Top 3 Ways to Create a Podcast for Longevity
Decide what success looks like and then work back from there to set out stages of that success. If it's listeners, for example, how many do you want to try and achieve within six months, then a year and so on? And how are you going to get those? So where and how will you promote the podcast, for example?
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3 Alternatives to Social Media for Growing Your Podcast
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3 Alternatives to Social Media for Growing Your Podcast
While social media can help from a word-of-mouth perspective, and I've seen some podcasters have great success with it, I find it generally isn't very effective at growth for your podcast. It's great for building a community around doing your show, but harder to drive actual listens. So, instead, here are three options I found more effective. Number one, trailer swaps with podcasts in your niche.
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3 Alternatives to Social Media for Growing Your Podcast
I'm Danny Brown, and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you like exclusive tips just for your podcast, as well as early access to all episodes, become a premium subscriber at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode.
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3 Alternatives to Social Media for Growing Your Podcast
reach out to podcasters similar to your niche and ask if they want to run a trailer swap. This is where they play your trailer on their show and vice versa. Because the audience is similar and listeners will generally be on an app already when listening, it's easy to click open your show from my episode show notes or search for it directly on that podcast app and follow.
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3 Alternatives to Social Media for Growing Your Podcast
Number two, pitch your podcast to industry newsletters. One of the best ways to grow awareness and listeners around your show is to submit to interesting newsletters in your niche. This can be for any event you're creating or attending, special episodes, new season launch, and more. I've had great success for this show by being featured in the likes of PodNews, PodBam, PocketCasts, and more.
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3 Alternatives to Social Media for Growing Your Podcast
Number three, start your own newsletter. There's a reason newsletters have been around for so long. They're one of the most effective ways at growing an audience that wants to hear from you and what you have to offer, whether that's exclusive content, behind-the-scenes info, or an online course.
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3 Alternatives to Social Media for Growing Your Podcast
This offers value to your subscribers and also keeps your podcast front and center to those subscribers. These are just some of the ways I find to be really effective, and the added bonuses are little to zero cost involved except your time, which is always nice. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening.
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Dynamic Content: Keep Your Listeners Coming Back for More
When it comes to dynamic content, most podcasters use this for sponsor messages or ads. So you may have a sponsor and you insert them as a pre-roll, which is at the start of your podcast episode, or a mid-roll anywhere within the content itself, or even a post-roll once the episode's finished.
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Dynamic Content: Keep Your Listeners Coming Back for More
I'm Danny Brown, and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you like exclusive tips just for your podcast, as well as early access to all episodes, become a premium subscriber at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode.
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Dynamic Content: Keep Your Listeners Coming Back for More
And this is a great way if you're looking to monetize your podcast or work directly with advertisers and sponsors. but you can also make your podcast really engaging with dynamic content and use it for more than just sponsored messages or ads. For example, a past guest has a new book out, so you could get the affiliate link and drop a quick audio snippet promoting the book.
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Dynamic Content: Keep Your Listeners Coming Back for More
You might host a geek podcast about Star Wars, but you're going to create a new miniseries podcast about the Ahsoka TV show. So you could upload a snippet that promotes this new podcast across all your back episodes for your current show, or just the ones that mention Ahsoka.
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Dynamic Content: Keep Your Listeners Coming Back for More
If you're on a true crime podcast and new information has come to light, you can add a snippet with the most up-to-date info about that case featured in a past episode. There are lots of ways you can use dynamic content to ensure your listeners have the most recent details about the topic, guests and more.
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Dynamic Content: Keep Your Listeners Coming Back for More
And it's a really simple way to make a show as contextual as possible for those listeners, which can only help when it comes to growing your show more. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy one minute podcast tips, be sure to share with your friends and other podcasters so they can enjoy it too. Until the next time, happy podcasting.
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How to Find Follower Numbers for Your Podcast
When it comes to podcast numbers, a lot of the times podcasters just look at downloads or listens. And while that's good for an overall view, you can get useful data like follower numbers on different apps if you know where to look. So, for example, if you log on to Apple's Podcast Connect, Spotify for podcasters, and Amazon for podcasters, that will show you your follower numbers on these apps.
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How to Find Follower Numbers for Your Podcast
I'm Danny Brown, and you're listening to One Minute Podcast Tips, the show that helps you be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. If you like exclusive tips just for your podcast, as well as early access to all episodes, become a premium subscriber at oneminutepodcasttips.com forward slash support. And now, this week's episode.
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How to Find Follower Numbers for Your Podcast
These are the listeners that have hit the follow button for your show, so they get each new episode as soon as it's released. Another great resource is Refonic. By creating an account there and claiming your podcast, you can see follower numbers for podcast apps like Podcast Addict, CastBox, TuneIn, and more.
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How to Find Follower Numbers for Your Podcast
Combine this with the details from Apple, Spotify, and Amazon, and you can start to see exactly how your audience has grown on these apps, which can be useful data to share with sponsors and advertisers. And I'll leave links to those in the show notes, so be sure to check them out. Until the next time, happy podcasting. Thanks for listening.
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How to Find Follower Numbers for Your Podcast
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