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Should You Include Episode Numbers in Episode Titles?

If your podcast uses episode numbers, you have multiple options for how to display them. Here’s some guidance to help you decide! But I’ll give this warning: it’s, unfortunately, more complicated than it should be!

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6 Ways to Thank Your Podcast Audience

You might think your audience should thank YOU for all the work you put into your podcast, but how often do you thank THEM?

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Why Does Your Podcast Need Its Own Domain?

Where do you tell your audience to go for the actions you want them to take? I suggest that should almost always be based on your podcast’s own domain name.

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6 Free Ways to Podcast Better by Communicating Better

Presentation is one of the 5 cornerstones of podcasting (content, presentation, production, promotion, and P.R.O.F.I.T.), and how you communicate in your podcast can make the biggest difference in whether people enjoy and benefit from your content.

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Audacity Is Improving Fast! Here Are the Top New Features to Try

The Audacity software is popular among countless podcasters at all levels of production! at some point! It’s a free, cross-platform audio-editing app, so almost anyone can use it. But Audacity has historically lagged behind other audio-editing apps until now! So here are some of my favorite new features that I think warrant giving Audacity another try.

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When to Use Trailer, Full, and Bonus Episode Types [episode 353]

A while back, Apple introduced the RSS tag to let you mark individual episodes as “bonus,” “full,” or “trailer” types. Here’s what each type means and how you should use them in your podcast-publishing tools.

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Stop Saying Brand Names in Your Podcast! Do These 5 Things Instead

We use many services in the process of podcasting and engaging our audiences, like Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, SpeakPipe, and more. But saying these brand names in your podcast can overwhelm or confuse your audience and—even worse—break their ability to properly engage with your podcast!

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How Proxies and iOS 14.5 Affect Your Podcast

In summer 2021, iOS 14.5 introduced a major change to Apple Podcasts with implications many podcasters may still not realize. With that update, your audience on Apple Podcasts is no longer getting your podcast directly from your RSS feed, but from a proxy. And that has some potentially bad implications!

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What Is Podcasting 2.0 and Why Does It Matter?

The podcasting industry has grown a lot since its birth in 2004, but the core of what a podcast could be and what it could do hasn’t changed much. Now, Podcasting 2.0 revolutionizes the industry with highly requested innovations that will help everyone on all sides of the RSS feeds.

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