New podcast? Your analytics are lying to you!
Every new podcaster does it. You launch your show, then spend the whole week refreshing your hosting dashboard analytics like it’s going to magically change. And when those first week podcast download numbers trickle in, they feel… embarrassingly small. Here’s the truth: those numbers don’t matter. Like, at all. In…
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