The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From the headlines this week, “Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories.” [ The Guardian ] and “Hundreds of AI-written books flood Amazon.” [ The Independent ]. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. But as ever, the headlines are clickbait and we need to have a more nuanced approach.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

billion Zhang Yiming (41) founded ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social media platform TikTok. In 2005 these shops were sold to Coral for £40 million which also paid off the loan to RBS. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

This not only gets a good number of comments – it gets readers DOING something quite involved which is a sign of real reader engagement. The other good thing about showing results is that you signal to your whole readership that others are engaging with you. In short forums benefits are: Increasing Reader Engagement.

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ProBlogger

JULY 7, 2016

When Should You Publish Your Blog Posts. Today I am talking about when you should publish your blog post. It matters when you publish social media, but I’m not sure if it matters with blog posts that much anymore. In Today’s Episode What Time of Day is Best to Publish to Your Blog. Social Fresh.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. ” Over the next little while I’d like to suggest some ways to increase reader engagement and would love to hear how you do it on your blog too in comments below. I’ve seen this numerous times on my blogs (but also social media accounts).

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

This not only gets a good number of comments – it gets readers DOING something quite involved which is a sign of real reader engagement. The other good thing about showing results is that you signal to your whole readership that others are engaging with you. In short forums benefits are: Increasing Reader Engagement.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2020

Engage with your audience, and find out what they need. Not did help me build engagement and relationships with my readers, it also helped me understand who they were and what they needed. The best way to grow your blog is to engage with your readers and build a relationship with them. So how do you build engagement?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. ” Over the next little while I’d like to suggest some ways to increase reader engagement and would love to hear how you do it on your blog too in comments below. I’ve seen this numerous times on my blogs (but also social media accounts).

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Pete had an interest in new technologies and how social media was increasingly changing the way people related to one another. Pete had an interest in new technologies and how social media was increasingly changing the way people related to one another. It was founded in 2005 by the same person. How did he do it?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Every day I networked with other bloggers, submitted content to other blogs, engaged in forums on my topics, commented on other blogs, learned about SEO and much more. At the time as there were so few social networks this was largely done through commenting on other people’s blogs and email. Networking. Pitching Other Blogs.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

In today’s episode I want to share my keynote at this year’s Social Media Marketing World – 9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging that Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog. Take ownership of building engagement with your readers. And here are 9 accelerators to grow your blog faster: Understand and engage with your audience.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 11, 2017

You might even think email is dead (or at least old-fashioned), and that you’re better off building connections through social media. We use our email to direct people to some of the social media accounts that we’re building community on, to drive engagement. Which is nothing new, by the way.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 27, 2013

This not only gets a good number of comments – it gets readers DOING something quite involved which is a sign of real reader engagement. The other good thing about showing results is that you signal to your whole readership that others are engaging with you. In short forums benefits are: Increasing Reader Engagement.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

I want to pick up, highlight and expand upon 3 of the points John mentions but also want to share something I’ve noticed about many of the social media marketing bloggers that I follow that fascinates me. Last week on ProBlogger, we published a fantastic post by John Stevens, a guest post. Let’s get into today’s show.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

I want to pick up, highlight and expand upon 3 of the points John mentions but also want to share something I’ve noticed about many of the social media marketing bloggers that I follow that fascinates me. Last week on ProBlogger, we published a fantastic post by John Stevens, a guest post. Let’s get into today’s show.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2018

The sky’s the limit when it comes to offline promotion, and engagement is sometimes much stronger. Offline methods to promote and grow your readership: Events (conferences, conventions, and meetups): Go to events (or create your own) to speed up engagement and build relationships. I’m going to talk a little bit about that.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 25, 2013

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. ” Over the next week I’d like to suggest some ways to increase reader engagement and would love to hear how you do it on your blog too in comments below. The impact of adding more and more opportunity for community engagement on the site was immediate and big.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Since a blog is a form of social media, even if—or especially if—it’s a business blog, it only makes sense to design the blog in a way that will maximize interaction. One of the great benefits is that an engaged community promotes your blog, providing word of mouth marketing. How to shower attention on your community.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2017

087: 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Hitting Publish On Your Next Blog Post. It should inform the content you create, the product you create, the way you engage with people. And then you write it and then you bang, publish, and it goes out. That’s the way I used to publish content. Full Transcript. Describe that change.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 6, 2016

Today your challenge is to publish a ‘How to’ post. How to Build an Efficient Social Media Workflow to Increase your Traffic. The Challenge: Create your ‘how to’ post – publish it. Today, your challenge is to publish a piece of content that is how to in nature, a how to whatever it is that you write about.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I think from memory I talked about creating products for your blog, I talked about email and starting an email list of building engagement on your email list by using autoresponders. I talked about optimizing your use of social media. We’ve published over 8,000 posts. I talked about creating a resource page for you blog.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I think from memory I talked about creating products for your blog, I talked about email and starting an email list of building engagement on your email list by using autoresponders. I talked about optimizing your use of social media. We’ve published over 8,000 posts. I talked about creating a resource page for you blog.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

It ’ s a couple of months ago that I published that. The first ebook on Digital Photography School was a Portrait Photography ebook which was largely a compilation of posts that I ’ ve already published on the blog with a little bit of new information. I think it was back in 2004, 2005. As I record this, i t’ s September.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I think from memory I talked about creating products for your blog, I talked about email and starting an email list of building engagement on your email list by using autoresponders. I talked about optimizing your use of social media. We’ve published over 8,000 posts. I talked about creating a resource page for you blog.

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