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4 Places You Might Find a Great Podcast Editor
Episode 12 • 21st November 2022 • Hiring a Podcast Editor • Bryan Entzminger
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Find a great podcast editor (for you) doesn't start with where you're looking. It starts with knowing what you want and need. That's why we started with that. But where you look is INCREDIBLY important.

If you've been following the process we've talked about in the previous episodes, you already know what you want and need, what you can pay and what you'd prefer your budget to be, and even whether you want to work with an individual, a team, or an agency. Knowing that puts you WAY ahead of the game when you start looking. But where should you look?

Listen to discover 4 general places - or categories of places - you can look.

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If you want to find a great podcast editor for you, you need to make

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sure that you're looking in the right places.

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Listen to discover four places you should consider.

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Welcome to Hiring a Podcast Editor.

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My name is Bryan Entzminger.

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I'm a podcast editor and manager at TopTierAudio.com.

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This show is intended to help you be able to find the right podcast editor for you.

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Whether you're looking for your first editor.

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Or your next editor in season one, we're going to help you get clarity on what you really want before you

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start connecting with editors, and then provide you with the tools to make the right decision for yourself.

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This show is sponsored by TopTierAudio.com, where we provide podcast production services for

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multi-passionate coaches, trainers, and consultants.

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Be sure to stick around to the end and I'll tell you how you can get a free tool to help you organize

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your thoughts and make sure you don't miss anything.

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Before I get started, I do want to mention that I'm going to be talking about finding a great podcast editor for you, but

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that actually would also apply for a podcast producer or a podcast manager, somebody involved in servicing your show.

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I'm just going to call it a podcast editor Now, finding a great podcast editor for you.

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Doesn't just start with where you're looking.

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I mentioned that we're going to talk about where you're looking, but it doesn't actually start there.

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It starts by knowing.

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What you want and need, and that's why we started with that when I started with this podcast.

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But also where you look is critically important and I'm going to give you a little bit of a spoiler today.

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I'm going to share with you some places you might want to consider looking, and some of

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these places are actually my competition.

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You might be thinking to yourself, well, you're an editor.

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Why would you do that?

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And the reality is, I realize that I'm not the right person.

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My business is not the right business for everybody that needs a podcast editor.

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And so, because I want you to make sure that you're finding the right person or the right

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company for you, I'm going to share some resources.

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And frankly, some of those are my competition because they might actually.

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The right choice for you.

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Now, if you've been following the process we've been discussing for the last 11 episodes, you already probably

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have a pretty good handle on what you want and need, and you probably already have an idea what you can afford

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to pay and also what you would like to pay for bringing an editor into your business or into your podcast.

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You might even have an idea of whether you would prefer to work with an individual or a small team.

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Full on agency, you've probably got all of that stuff.

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And so because you know all of that, you're already way ahead of the game when it comes to when you start looking.

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But then the question becomes, where should you look?

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I'm going to pause right here.

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If I'm talking about this and you've not listened to the previous episodes and you don't know those, I would encourage you to go

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back to episode one and just kind of work through the process.

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Uh, it's not intended to be tedious, but it is intended to help bring a little bit of clarity.

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And so I would encourage you to do that today.

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I'm going to share.

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For general places or categories of places, in fact, where you can look, and I'm going to share actually some specific options.

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This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list, but it does include some people that I know and

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believe would actually be able to take care of you.

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It's not an exhaustive list.

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Don't feel constrained by this list and don't assume that these are the only options.

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I'm just going to share these with you.

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Here are the four categor.

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Of places that I think you should consider looking depending on the kind of editor or

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the kind of business that you're looking for.

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The first one would be a personal referral or a recommendation.

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The second would be a web search and editor websites.

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The third would be using some kind of written application so that you can take advantage of a community or a, a place where people.

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Looking for work.

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And then the final would be a freelance marketplace.

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And I'm going to kind of go through each of these and share a little bit of my perspective on these, and then you'll need

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to be the one that decides where you're going to go looking.

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The first one, and I put this first because I think it is potentially the most valuable,

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would be a referral or a recommendation.

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And what I'm talking about, a referral or recomme.

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I'm talking about somebody that you know who has some kind of information or knowledge, and you trust their opinion,

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and you would go to them and say, I'm looking for an editor.

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Who do you use or who do you recommend?

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Typically, this is going to be another podcaster or somebody who's involved in the podcast production process, who

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knows people, knows their reputation, knows their skill, and can provide you with a high quality recommendation.

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I'm not saying that you should go to a Facebook group with thousands and thousands of people

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and say, who should I hire as an editor?

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Because the reality is if you do that, you might get a good recommendation out of that.

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But what you will also likely get is hundreds of dms from people saying, Hey, I can edit your show or look at what I can do, and.

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That might seem great, but it's also pretty overwhelming to try and weed through all of that.

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So when I say referral or recommendation, I'm talking about a recommendation from a person or from some

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people that you know and that you trust their opinions.

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Now, the danger of this, of course, is that you're getting a limited set because.

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I don't know everybody.

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The people you're talking to probably don't know everybody either, but this is a good way to get a

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recommendation from somebody you know, or trust.

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So that's option number one.

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The second one, and I think this is kind of next on my list, is going through some editor websites or podcast

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producer websites, and this might involve a Google search.

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What you're looking for here is going to be pretty dependent on whether you want to work with an agency

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or an individual, but I would just maybe recommend going and looking for podcast editor websites.

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You could also potentially go through some of the Facebook groups and see if there are

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editors who are providing value in those groups.

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And then look and see if they have a website, if they offer services.

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See if those are something that you might be interested in.

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I'm going to give you a list here.

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This is a very short list of a few people that I know who might be options for you.

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The first one.

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Is me, right TopTierAudio.com is where I am.

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If you're looking for somebody to edit your podcast, I'd be glad to talk to you.

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Also, my friend Carrie, over@yayapodcasting.com.

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She does a lot of narrative style or scripted podcasts where she does dialogue editing and some sound design.

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She's got a lot of cool stuff going over there.

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My friend Jennifer over at Bourbon Barrel Podcasting, she focus.

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Particularly on the community of podcasters from Kentucky, but you can find her at Bourbon Peril Podcasting, and

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all of these are going to be linked up in the show notes.

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My friend Daniel over@rothmedia.audio offers podcast production for coaches.

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And so I would recommend that you check him out if you're a coach or a consultant.

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And then if you're looking for something more on the agency side or a larger team, my

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friend Mike Wilkerson runs Editor Core, which.

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Editor core.com.

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Again, all of this is linked up in the show notes.

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So if you're looking for somebody with a team or a a larger agency style business, I would recommend that you talk to him.

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There are certainly more people, but those are some of the specific individual people or websites that I might recommend.

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That would be worth checking out, but that's the next place.

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The third category of places is where you might want to put together an application.

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Now, this could take a couple of forms.

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If you have a business and you're looking to actually hire somebody for your business, you're probably

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going to want to create an application and go through whatever HR processes you already have in place.

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If.

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You would like to get an application up in front of a bunch of freelancers, I would recommend my friend over@stevestewart.me.

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He has a page designed for helping you get an application together that you can then

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get in front of a community of up to 8,000.

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Podcast editors.

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Steve runs a large community of podcast editors and he is able to provide these kinds of job opportunities for people.

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If you just go through that process, he'll get that application out there, try and cut out a lot of the dms, so that's another

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place that you might consider getting an application out.

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The last place I'm going to suggest that you look and I have a bit of a love hate relationship with this is

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a freelance website, someplace like Fiverr or Upwork, and those are the two that I'm going to suggest.

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Now, I mentioned that I have a bit of a love hate relationship with these, and here's the

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problem that I have with them a lot of times.

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It feels to me as a freelancer that these websites or using these websites starts to treat a freelancer

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as though what they do is a bit of a commodity to just kind of be bought and sold based on price alone.

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And the reality is that there's also an art to what we do.

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And so I have a bit of a philosophical thing.

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However, if you're looking for somebody to do a one-off project for you, And you don't want to have to go

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through the process of vetting a bunch of people.

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You just want somebody to take care of a project for you.

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This might be the right place for you to look, or in all honesty, if you're just looking

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for low price, that might be the place to go.

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The the challenge, of course, is that it can become a bit difficult if you want to start developing a partnership.

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I don't want to.

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Impossible, but it can start to become a little bit difficult to develop a sense of partnership with the

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editor or the producer that you're bringing into your show because these websites often have policies in

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place that keep them in the middle of the relationship.

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So just kind of go into it knowing that.

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However, it's your show and it's your choice.

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You're the one that has to work with this.

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You're the one that has to pay, and so of course, that's your choice.

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When you've decided where you want to look, then go through wherever it is that you're

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looking and start making a list of options.

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Maybe start a Google sheet or maybe start a document or whatever, and start listing out the contact information

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and the people or the businesses that you're interested in.

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And then do a little bit of research.

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Get on their website.

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Well, first off, do they have a website?

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If they're on a freelance marketplace, they may not, but do they have a website?

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Can you figure out what they offer?

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And does it appear like what they offer?

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We'll meet your needs now.

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Don't feel like you should be constrained to specifically what you're looking for.

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It's okay to flex up and flex down a little bit because not everybody lists everything that they have on their website.

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Not everything they list might be something that you need, but maybe there's a way.

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That you can work out something that works for you and for that person.

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That said, though, it is okay to be a little bit choiceful in what you do, you don't have to keep everybody on the list.

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This isn't a friends list.

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This is a list of people that you're going to invest a little bit of time in to get to know them and to understand what they

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offer and to evaluate which one or which ones you might want to go a little bit further in terms of knowing who they are and

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what they offer so you can finally make the right decision for.

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You.

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With that said, make sure that you come back next time.

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Once you've got that list, it's going to be really important to have some kind of process

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in place to evaluate who you're talking to.

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And so next time we're going to start talking about some of the topics and questions that you'll probably

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want to cover when you're talking with an editor or producer about potentially being involved with your.

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If you'd like to be able to get the clarity you need in order to avoid making a hiring mistake, be sure to download our guide.

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15 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Podcast Editor.

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You can find it at HireAPodcastEditor.com/15Questions.

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It'll be linked up in the show notes.

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It's totally free.

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We don't require an email address or anything like that.

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We just want to make sure that you have the tools that you need to make the right decision for you.

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That guide has the questions we'll talk about on this show some instructions and.

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Even a place to take notes.

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If you want to get even more out of it though, be sure to subscribe to this show at HireAPodcastEditor.com/listen

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