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Want to collaborate with other podcast hosts to grow your own show?

Well, podcast guest swaps are a super fun and effective way to do it.

But before you pitch a guest swap, how can you show the other host at a glance that your show is the must-guess destination?

Hi, I'm Kim, and I'm so excited to be here today to share with you five elements of a swap-worthy

podcast. So the first element is host a great show.

I mean, that should be a no-brainer to podcast host, right?

That's what we all want to do, and that's what we try to do, right?

But how can you make it in the other person's eyes?

The other host eyes, at a quick glance, how can they see that you host a really great show?

And the first place they typically look is at your listener reviews.

Now, this isn't about the number of reviews on your show necessarily,

but it's really just about are you getting listener reviews?

Like, do you have a really great show?

People can't help but leave you a review, right?

And more importantly, do you have current reviews? So if you've been podcasting for a couple of years

and your most current review is from several years ago, maybe when you launched your show,

it's really going to make us scratch our heads, right?

Do you really have an audience that you're serving?

And so you want to show that you do have current reviews, just at least like in the last couple of months, that someone has reached out and given you feedback on your show.

So also, another aspect of hosting a great show is, you know, when I click play and listen to a sample of some of your

episodes, what will I hear? You know, am I going to hear this long, drawn out conversation

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