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226: From Passion Project to Over $100,000 in Advertising Revenue – a Dating Ideas Blogger Shares Her Story

ProBlogger

Links and Resources for From Passion Project to Over $100,000 in Advertising Revenue. She has grown that blog, which started as a passion project, with no real intent of making money. I started Orlando Date Night Guide in 2007. It’s a total passion project. I actually started with a book that published in early 2007.

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A Content Marketing Love Letter

Content Marketing Institute

The content marketing blog I started in April 2007 was really taking off, and the audience was anything but shy. The @cmicontent blog I started in April 2007 was taking off & the audience anything but shy. Jodi Harris came on to help Michele with the blog and our content projects. Mo Wagner brought her social media savvy.

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The AI-Assisted Artisan Author With Joanna Penn

The Creative Penn

If you use Grammarly or ProWritingAid for aspects of editing, Google for research or Maps for navigation or email with auto-anti-spam, Amazon for publishing or advertising or shopping, Facebook or TikTok or Twitter for social media, Spotify for music discovery, or Netflix for TV, you are using AI-assisted platforms and tools.

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A Creative Approach To Generative AI In Book Cover Design With James Helps

The Creative Penn

So there's an interesting thing of there needs to be a concept at the start of any sort of project, or two thirds of the time, it's that concept. So that can be done, but that's because that was that project and it was something that was in my head. That concept takes imagination. So it is changing, and it's just the way it is.

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Selling Books Direct On Shopify With Morgana Best

The Creative Penn

Back then, you couldn't even run ads to the retailers, but I already I was so used to doing it myself and I knew all the benefits to doing it myself, and I wasn't too happy to hand it over to the retailers when that happened, when Kindle happened in 2007. Shopify starts at $5 a month if you only want to sell on social media.

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Why Bloggers Need to Do More Than Just Trademark Their Blog Name

ProBlogger

He maintains a website, including a blog, in addition to a wide presence on social media. He started the blog on his site in 2007, long before Huffington Post launched its project. ” Again, he believes that this is merely a formality, given that he started the blog in 2007.

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7 Neuroscience Sales Tips That’ll Skyrocket Your Sales

Neil Patel

He’s a sought-after public speaker and social media influencer. Most of his posts have fewer than 200 words, like the one below , but the social sharing and engagement for these posts is amazing. Volusion.com has a unique value proposition that simply and strongly projects the core benefit of its software.

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