4 Places You Might Find a Great Podcast Editor

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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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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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