Neil Patel

MARCH 31, 2021

Data is a godsend for marketers, helping us serve our audience with better, more relevant ads. Far from being excited about the prospect of seeing ads tailored to their preferences, they feel resigned to having little to no control over how their personal information is used. Theoretically, this is where AdChoices comes in.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 16, 2021

That’s why eMarketer estimated that digital ad spending will grow to $191.01 This is on-trend with what we have seen in digital ad spend growth. Mobile ad spend is predicted to continue increasing due to a growth in mobile usage. Mobile ad spend is predicted to continue increasing due to a growth in mobile usage.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 27, 2024

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Then I spent the next two years figuring out how to actually publish them.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 3, 2023

Ad they then said ‘no, this has got a lot of human input.' And 2007 was the iPhone, first iPhone. Kathryn: 2007 was the iPhone, right. So the question is— If we use either Midjourney, or we use ChatGPT, or Sudowrite, or any of these tools, and we generate some work that we then publish and sell, is this an issue?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing, and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. You started before me, but when I started self-publishing there was also no Kindle. Morgana: I was five years old at the time. No, I lie, I wasn't.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

I want to come back on the waiting to win the lottery thing because I feel that that actually has a parallel in publishing, in that people are like, oh, well, this one book, if I just get the agent, if I just get the book deal, if I just get the film deal, or the TV deal, I will make a million , and I can retire. But it's okay with me.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the intro, Kobo Plus expands to audiobooks in Australia & New Zealand; Thoughts on the changing publishing environment based on Thrillerfest Audios (well worth buying!), What specifically got me into publishing, was my wife decided to write some books, some nonfiction books about styling. So welcome to the show, Joe.

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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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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

In the intro, publishing trends for 2023 [ Written Word Media ]; Apple AI narration ; ChatGPT into Bing [ The Verge ]; Comments on Audible [ Brandon Sanderson , Audiblegate ]; TikTok ban and problems [ Reuters , Rolling Stone ]; my Pilgrimage Kickstarter. Different ways to monetize your brand to make ads profitable. So it's weird.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 18, 2024

In the intro, will TikTok be banned in the USA, and how will this impact authors and publishing? Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital , self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. When did you start self-publishing? So that was fun.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 11, 2023

So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. I was having so much fun, and I did that until 2007 when I had my first child. Then I saw KDP, I saw that people were self-publishing, and I thought, well, I've always wanted to write a book. I'm actually coming up on 10 years published now.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Show Notes. Welcome, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Show Notes. Welcome, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I also mention the free webinar on AI Ads for Authors with Mark Dawson and James Blatch. Tips for working with your cover designer and incorporating AI Damon has some great articles on AI images in book covers here , and he also mentions James at GoOnWrite who has an article for self-published authors around AI and images here.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Ada-Ari talks about how she writes, publishes and markets her children's books based on African folk tales and African languages in the USA. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. How can you market books for children?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2024

James: Yes, it was one of the Lotus Desktop Publishing. There used to be a thing called desktop publishing software. Like Meta, for example, Meta ads. Or Amazon ads, Amazon, of course, is driven by AI. James: I'll tell you, the first job I ever got was in maybe about 1983, and it was on Lotus.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

A study conducted by Harvey Research on “ How to Sell with Ad Readership Studies ” found that “one of the primary reasons for conducting an ad readership study is to obtain research which will help your organization sell advertising.”. Most people have generated more leads through Facebook ads than Google Ads.

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ProBlogger

MAY 5, 2022

This post itself is an update from the original article published May 11, 2007 and updated May 5, 2022. I’ve written more on this practice previously (it’s something that will again suit evergreen timeless content more than blogs that are newsy and whose posts need the context of a date to be useful to readers).

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 23, 2023

Each subsequent edition considered the evolution of blogging at the time they were published. In this series, I would like to answer the following questions (plus anything else you would like me to cover): Can we learn from how blogging has changed from when we started writing the book in 2007 to now?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After a ton of trial and error, I published the first four novels in my myth and magic urban fantasy series this year, as well as the first five guides for writers in my Write Better Fiction series, I also qualified as a Fictionary Certified story coach too and that's pretty much me. I started self-publishing way, way back now in 2007, 2008.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

As we've developed, we've added all these other parts of the picture because different writers have different struggles. I think this is moving so much faster than the self-published versus traditionally published thing, which probably took about five years. So that's kind of where we've been focused with Sudowrite.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 20, 2022

At Superbowl time people go online looking for the ads that were featured during the game. The second time it was re-published, just before New Years, attracted closer to 15,000 page views. This article was first Published on July 4, 2007 and updated April 21, 2022.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. The impact of adding more and more opportunity for community engagement on the site was immediate and big. This competition is part of an advertising bundle that we run with this sponsor (they also run some banner ads but also sponsor our newsletter regularly).

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ProBlogger

APRIL 11, 2018

Consider adding more detail. Ultimately, what matters is that you (re)publish the best post you can. As well as making your edits, you may want to put a note at the top of your post: This post was originally published on (date) and updated on (date). In 2012, I published an updated edition of that ebook. Flesh them out.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 17, 2023

But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. And indie publishing came up on my radar, and I gave it a shot and was kind of okay at it. A bit like how we used to talk about self-publishing in a certain way, and now it's just accepted as a choice for an author to make. Leanne: Right.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 20, 2022

At Superbowl time people go online looking for the ads that were featured during the game. The second time it was re-published, just before New Years, attracted closer to 15,000 page views. This article was first Published on July 4, 2007 and updated April 21, 2022.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 1, 2018

Over $100,000 in Ad Revenue – a Dating Ideas Blogger Tells Her Story. I started Orlando Date Night Guide in 2007. I actually started with a book that published in early 2007. Honestly when I started, it was just because I thought how great is this that I can write something and take some photos and hit publish.

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ProBlogger

JULY 18, 2019

Back in 2007 I was asked a question: “If you could only write one type of content on your blogs forever, what would it be?”. The piece of content you publish today can potentially have a positive impact on people in ten years’ time. For example, some of my podcast episodes started out as pieces I’d already published on the blog.

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ProBlogger

MAY 5, 2022

This post itself is an update from the original article published May 11, 2007 and updated May 5, 2022. I’ve written more on this practice previously (it’s something that will again suit evergreen timeless content more than blogs that are newsy and whose posts need the context of a date to be useful to readers).

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ProBlogger

MAY 21, 2018

Six places you can find writers for your blog: Guest Posters: If you have published guest posts in the past, take a look at them. Richard mentioned that he has published guest posts on his blog in the past. Put themselves out there and look for opportunities. Are interesting and different. How much traffic did they get?

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2017

087: 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Hitting Publish On Your Next Blog Post. With this particular blog, I started to put some AdSense ads on my blog and some Amazon affiliate links to earn those 4% commissions on those $10 books. These are the reader profiles that I created when I started Digital Photography School in 2007.

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ProBlogger

JULY 23, 2020

When I started blogging about photography back in 2007 there were already hundreds of photography blogs around. While you don’t necessarily need to publish every day, you should try to establish some kind of rhythm with your posting. Even if you publish only once a week, you’ll still have 52 posts within a year.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. The impact of adding more and more opportunity for community engagement on the site was immediate and big. This competition is part of an advertising bundle that we run with this sponsor (they also run some banner ads but also sponsor our newsletter regularly).

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2018

31, 2017, I “retired” from marketing and took a sabbatical for 2018 (which, as of this publishing, I’m still happily on). The team at CMI is nice enough to publish this so the entire CMI audience can watch and read it. In 2007 I left an executive job in media to start a business. There was nothing about adding value to others.

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ProBlogger

MAY 27, 2020

When people start monetizing their blog, many of them try putting up ads. Within 24 hours of releasing my first ebook I was approach by a publisher who wanted to publish it. When I was approached by the publisher to write the first ProBlogger book I’d already been blogging about blogging for a while. Busking on your blog.

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ProBlogger

MAY 28, 2013

Each post I publish could potentially generate an income for me, on the day it’s published but also tomorrow, next week, and next month. Those posts were published in 2007, five and a half years ago! Even years into the future. and this Wedding Photography Tips post earned $222.61.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2014

Previous to these first experimentations with eBooks, the income generated from my blogs was almost all from advertising revenue (from ad networks like AdSense and also a few ad sales direct with brands) and affiliate revenue (like Amazon and a few smaller programs).

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