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Negging is defined as: an act of emotional manipulation whereby a person makes a deliberate backhanded compliment or otherwise flirtatious remark to another person to undermine their confidence and increase their need of the manipulator's approval.

But I define it as: attacking one's peers or competitors in order to benefit one's own production, business, or product.

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Found a New Thing Fridays (FNTF) is a new weekly segment where I feature a new cool thing I found that I think you, as podcasters, might want to know about. This weeks it's Audea.io. What is that? Well, says their website:

"Audea is a platform to upload and discover audeas, or audio-ideas. You can download our mobile app (iOS only right now) or use us on the web to search for anything and get audeas as results to those searches or recommended to you on the homepage, customized for each person using the platform."

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Checkout Audea.io: https://audea.io (https://audea.io)

Watch the Audea.io Explainer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JswR9LREE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JswR9LREE)

Anchor gets a lot of hate, but is deserved? Was it ever? Is it still? And should you be afraid of using Anchor as a podcast hosting provider? Those questions, and others, answered on this morning's episode of Podcasting Sucks!

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References LinksMy thoughts on Spotify's acquisition of Anchor: https://blog.tannerhelps.com/spotify-the-soon-to-be-podcast-king-abbc572ca009 (https://blog.tannerhelps.com/spotify-the-soon-to-be-podcast-king-abbc572ca009)

My writeup on Spotify Ads: https://blog.tannerhelps.com/spotify-ads-for-podcasters-the-good-the-bad-and-the-potential-f6ee63e7e8c2 (https://blog.tannerhelps.com/spotify-ads-for-podcasters-the-good-the-bad-and-the-potential-f6ee63e7e8c2)

My FX Chain Video: https://vimeo.com/608715113 (https://vimeo.com/608715113)

What are some tools that made podcasting more streamlined, or more easy for me? That's today's question from Ana Xavier of The Podcast Space in Dallas, Texas. I share the tools that helped me become more proficient. Hopefully they are new to you and will help you to become more proficient as well!

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Links from the episode:Follow Ana Xavier on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaxavierr/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaxavierr/)

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YouLean Loudness Meter: https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/ (https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/)

RX8 Elements (It's on sale right now for $29!): https://www.izotope.com/en/shop/rx-8-elements.html (https://www.izotope.com/en/shop/rx-8-elements.html)

Presonus Studio One: https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One (https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One)

Waves Vocal Rider: https://www.waves.com/plugins/vocal-rider (https://www.waves.com/plugins/vocal-rider)

Deep breath (or not): in today's episode I answer a question from a listener about how to deal with breaths in our podcast recordings.

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In today's episode we'll talk about Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), mic technique, and how, if you're being mindful of both of these things as an amateur podcaster in a non-studio environment, you shouldn't be using condenser microphones - Blue Yeti or otherwise.

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Resources:Sweetwater Article: https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/what-difference-between-dynamic-condenser-microphones/ (https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/what-difference-between-dynamic-condenser-microphones/)

Rode on SNR: https://www.rode.com/blog/all/what-is-signal-to-noise-ratio (https://www.rode.com/blog/all/what-is-signal-to-noise-ratio)

Shure MV7: https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7 (https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7)

Audio-Technica ATR2100x-USB: https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/microphones/wired/type/usb/atr2100x-usb (https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/microphones/wired/type/usb/atr2100x-usb)

In this episode I review Eric Skwarczynski's Top 10 tips for growing your podcast to 40,000 downloads per week (he's achieved this in just 18-months, he says). Who is Eric Skwarczynski? I have no more an idea than you do, but he's got some decent tips and I'd like to talk about them.

After that you'll hear questions from Christian Smith and Fuzz Martin. Then you'll hear my answers to those questions.

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Notes Important Correction: 40,000 downloads per month, not 40,000 subscribers. Eric publishes once per week. That's 40,000/4.3 = ~9300 listeners.

Eric Skwarczynski's article https://medium.com/@TheEricSki/how-i-grew-my-podcast-to-40-000-downloads-per-month-ten-tips-e00612f64d50 ([link])

Eric Skwarczynski's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-skwarczynski-8aa28689/ ([link])

Bear Notes https://bear.app/ ([link])

Todoist https://todoist.com/ ([link])

Feedly RSS Reader https://feedly.com/ ([link])

Inoreader https://www.inoreader.com/ ([link])

Answer the Public https://answerthepublic.com ([link])

Descript https://descript.com ([link])

I'm at my best when asked targeted questions; perhaps that's because I'm an engineer at heart and not an orator, but regardless of the reason, I'd love you to ask me you toughest podcast questions and to use Podinbox to do it.

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Math TL;DR With 100% sellout of three 60-second ad spots at a $25/CPM each, in a weekly podcast, you'll make:

~$60K/yr NET with 30,000 followers

~$30K/yr NET with 15,000 followers

~$20K/yr NET with 10,000 followers

NET = after 45% self-employment tax

In today's episode we'll talk about audiograms and how they're best used as content fodder for your existing audience and not as tools for generating new listeners or subscribers.

Video mentioned: https://vimeo.com/608622708 (https://vimeo.com/608622708)