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One of your fears when you start podcasting is, what if you change your mind? What do I do with my gear? I recently cleared out a closet and found tons of stuff I had bought over the years that were sitting there depreciating, so I have decided to list it on Sweetwater.com's used gear section called "Gear Exchange."

In the same way that eBay charges a fee, so does Sweetwater. From their website, "Gear Exchange transactions have a 2.5% transaction fee and a 5% seller fee.

When you choose a Sweetwater Gift Card as your payout, we will waive both fees! That means more funds available for you to use on purchases at Sweetwater.com.

If you choose Hyperwallet as your payout, then the total seller fees are 7.5%.

Of course, they offer a "No hassle" return policy. From their website:

"No Hassle" Return Policy:

We want you to be completely happy with your purchase. If you are not satisfied with any new product, for any reason, you may return it for a refund of the purchase price or an in-house credit, or you may exchange for another product within a fair amount of time from the shipping date (usually 30 days). If your purchase was eligible for free shipping, the shipping cost will be deducted from your credit or refund.

There are also places like eBay, Facebook Marketplace to sell your gear (and let's not forget, for those getting started, a great place to BUY used gear).

If you're happy with the way you sound, move on. Focus your time on making good content.

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You've been podcasting for a while, and you notice that all those files are starting to chew up your hard drive (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE DOING VIDEO). So today, I have a free resource to start (and eventually, it will be almost free).

Backblaze is a service I use to back up computers. I once had a hard drive crash, and they saved me. They also offer a cloud storage option. These are for files that you probably will not use but don't want to delete (I store old YouTube videos, podcast files, etc). The price is 0.005 per GB

Currently, my show Your Podcast Consultant has over 100 episodes, and EVERYTHING COMBINE is 23 GB, so I could store that show for 12 cents/month, and if I later wanted to download all those files, it would cost 23 cents. 

Their backup tool is also affordable at $5.83 per month if you buy a year's worth of hosting. It is a service I've never regretted. When my hard drive crashed, I thought I had lost 18 years of episodes. I would've been devastated. 

If you use this link

https://supportthisshow.com/backblaze 

I get a free month, and so do you.

But wait, there is MORE!

The first 10 GB are free.

Your hard drive, thank you.

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 AI Tools for Podcasters: Exploring Efficiency and Assistance

Welcome to another episode of Podcasting and Resources, the podcast that helps you discover the tools and resources to enhance your podcasting journey.  In today's episode, we dive into the world of AI tools, particularly those aimed at assisting podcasters in various aspects of their workflow.

A Quick Note About AI
Before we begin, it's important to clarify that AI tools like Chat GPT are powerful assistants but not substitutes for human creativity and expertise. They can take you 80% of the way, but ultimately, you'll need a human touch to deliver your best work.

During my research, I stumbled upon an intriguing blog post about podcast networks that raised some eyebrows. The article mentioned a podcasting discoverability problem dating back to the 90s. Now, we all know podcasting wasn't around in the 90s, so it's crucial to fact-check sources and question inconsistencies.

If you tell me four things and one of them is a lie, I'm not believing the other three.

CastMagic
First up is Cast Magic, offering a $39 per month plan for 200 minutes of usage. However, a lifetime deal for the same price is currently available on AppSumo. Cast Magic provides impressive services such as transcription, title generation, keyword suggestions, time-stamped overviews, discussion questions, and even clip finders. It also offers Magic Chat, allowing you to generate content based on your transcriptions.

SwellAI
Swell AI, starts at $29 per month for five hours of usage. Swell AI generates show notes, transcripts, articles, summaries, and social media posts. It also includes a feature called Swell Chat, similar to Chat GPT, where you can ask questions and receive AI-generated responses. Swell AI supports over 100 languages, making it a valuable tool for translation purposes.

PodSqueeze
Pod Squeeze offers a free account for 50 minutes of podcasting each month, making it suitable for short-form shows. With the paid plan starting at $15 per month for 160 minutes, Pod Squeeze generates show notes, timestamps, newsletters, and more. The platform supports various languages, making it ideal for multilingual podcasters.

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No matter if you are doing a live stream, a webinar, or a special meetup, you want to make sure your audience doesn't forget. Add Event is a great service that makes it super easy to provide links and buttons for your audience to click on and then add it to their calendar no matter if they are using  Google, Apple, Office 365, Outlook, Outlook.com, and Yahoo.

The best part is you don't need to learn any code.

Add Event Website (aff)

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In the last episode, we mentioned mailerlite is a powerful email list and more affordable than some competitors. But what if you want a free solution?

For me, after using Mailerlite for a while, it dawned on my that I don't need all the marketing tools it provides. My newsletter is more for communicating with my audience. I started using Substack.

The exciting part of Substack is on a normal week, I might have 3-5 new signups, and Substack seems to do a great job of cross-promotion. Your newsletter is also on a web-based version of it. You can turn a chat for your newsletter.

The surprising thing was that I was playing with the premium tool. This enables you to sell access to premium posts in your newsletter.  Without promoting it, I had someone sign up for a yearly account.

In terms of using Substack as a marketing tool, their terms of service, "Substack is not an email marketing platform. We don’t permit publications that are set up with the sole purpose of advertising an external product or service, distributing offers and promotions, or similar activity."

So I think the key phrase that could get you in trouble is the phrase "Sole purpose" of advertising. 

It also has an app to read/listen to posts on your device. When I say listen, you can record and use substack as a free tool for a podcast. For me, I uploaded a version of my summarizing the newsletter topics for that episode.

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I've tried many different email lists from Sendfox to Aweber, Convertkit, and Mailer Lite. I used Mailerlite for a while about a year ago. It had one problem. It was slow. Fast forward and they've released a new version and not only is it fast but it has an AMAZING feature set. I was paying $50 for Convert and I'm paying $17 for Mailerlite.
I can send broadcasts, make pop-ups, landing pages, and a ton more. When you use Mailer Lite they not only give you access to a great product, but their support is amazing along with a huge knowledgebase delivered in bite-size chunks (their YouTube channel has tons of great tutorials.

You can set up your RSS feed to go to Mailerlit and when you publish an episode it turns it into an email and sends it to your subscribers.

The benefit of email is you are no one click away from having your audience take action.
You can try it for free, but if you use THIS LINK, you can save $20 off a paid plan (and I get $20 for referring you).

see https://supportthisshow.com/mailerlite

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I've read tons of books on story writing but almost NONE of them are "how to tell a story" but more "You should be telling stories."

Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling is THE BEST book on storytelling. It is also available as an audiobook read by the author. 

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I've used Otter for transcriptions and they recently changed their pricing and more importantly reduced the amount of time you can upload files to be transcribed. So I began to search for a replacement. I found Scribie.

Scribie is great for audio or video transcriptions.

• 24-hour turnaround time for Human transcription at 80 cents per minute
• Free SRT files for subtitling
• 4-step transcription process designed to achieve a 99% accuracy
• Choose to be a Pay-as-you-go customer or for more discounted rates subscribe to our Pro Plan or a custom plan

From their website:

It takes around 8 hours to transcribe a 1-hour file by hand as per industry standards. We plan to cut it down to 10 minutes.

We believe that accuracy is the most important requirement of a transcript. A low-accuracy transcript is a waste of human time and effort. We have therefore reimagined transcription for the digital age and built it from the bottom up with the goals of quality, consistency, and repeatability in mind. Our system is an assembly line where the transcript is prepared collectively by our transcribers following a well-defined process

More Information on Their Website

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You've heard me talk about Podpage.

You've heard me say how you can create a great-looking podcast website in minutes.

You've heard me say how powerful it is, and yet, you don't like technology.

Now you can learn podpage absolutely free and I will walk you through all the features and be right there if you have questions.

Check it out at www.learnpodpage.com

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In a previous episode we talked about Surfer SEO, and today I found a new resource that is very simliar.

Right now there is a lifetime deal at App Sumo.

The tool is called NeuronWriter and I bought this one and it reminds me A LOT of Surfer SEO except for one thing. there is a lifetime offer on this for $59.

More information.

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