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Many podcasting services are too good to be true and are
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just cleverly disguised scams.
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But some new services do present leapfrog opportunities to podcasters.
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The challenge?
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Knowing the difference.
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Hello, and welcome to another Podcast Pontifications with me, Evo Terra.
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Access to information and the rebuking of disinformation.
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I had lunch with a colleague earlier this week and they were lamenting
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those two things specifically.
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And even more specifically than that, they noted that they're seeing
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an increase in the shysters and the hucksters, trying just to make a quick
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buck off of, let's say, less-seasoned and perhaps more eager podcasters.
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And this isn't a problem unique to podcasting.
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It's a problem for all growth industries.
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It's with us.
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People are always looking to get a hold of your money with the promise that you can
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cut in line or accelerate your efforts.
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All of those things, very enticing.
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Very enticing.
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And it's hard to ignore that on the receiving end, especially when the
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conventional wisdom or prevailing wisdom out there podcasting is, well, your
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second 100 episodes will sound a lot better than your first 100 or it's a
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slow burn to build a podcast audience.
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Or perhaps, you know, the top shows all spend hundreds of hours and
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thousands of dollars on each episode.
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Now, all those statements are true.
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All of those statements really are true and none of them are
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attractive to brand new people.
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Also, brand new people can't understand, not even brand new people, oftentimes
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people who've been doing this for a while at moderate success don't understand
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why those things need to be true.
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"Surely," says everyone, "there's a shortcut."
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And you know what?
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There probably are shortcuts.
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There very likely are fast-tracked ways to get ahead that didn't
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exist in years previously.
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And perhaps they're being developed right now.
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So maybe some of these things that seem too good to be true are actually true.
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Well, the problem is - back to my colleague I had lunch with - is they
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did not feel, as you may not feel, qualified to judge the quality of those
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offers because my colleague does not have, like you might not have, the
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same lived experiences that I have.
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Not just in podcasting, which mine is long, but also time spent
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running marketing and advertising agencies and departments.
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Or even the skills that I've built up as a professional contrarian
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and a skeptic over the years.
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I know I can't make you into me, so here's my offer to help.
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And that is, let me help.
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I'm going to make an offer here to let the professionals - actually, let
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me say that, even if I can't help, let me help you connect with other
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people who are qualified to judge some of these claims that you encounter.
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Now, to do this.
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I've created a brand new category in the Advancing Podcasting
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community, which is free to join, by the way, advancingpodcasting.xyz.
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Yes, you probably heard an ad for it at the beginning of the show.
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It's free to join that.
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I made a new category on the Advancing Podcasting community called Help Requests.
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And the first channel I created underneath there is called
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simply Too Good To Be True.
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So when you encounter something that you think might be too good to be true, and
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you want expert opinions on that, that's where you can post that information.
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I'm going to monitor that channel.
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I monitor all the channels, but I'm definitely going to monitor
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that channel much more closely.
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And I'll be sure to add in my own input because anybody can answer the
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question to the community, but I promise you, you will get an answer from me.
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If you ask a question, if you post anything in the Too Good
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To Be True channel, I will have input on that for you.
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If I don't have the expertise, I'll say that, and then I will commit
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myself to finding someone I'm connected with in the podcasting space who
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is qualified to say whether that thing is likely to be true or not.
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I will make sure to get them on board.
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So, advancingpodcasting.xyz, brand new section called Help Requests.
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I'll be adding more channels to that in the future.
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Now, this is the end of the publishing week for me.
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And I'm looking forward to spending some quality time with - check
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