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. Also, I mean, it's a strange thing because if you're going, “I'm 100% against AI in all things,” then firstly, you need to log off from social media. Joanna: Oh, I remember Lotus.

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ProBlogger

MAY 15, 2013

As I was preparing for my keynote, I was reminded of a post that I wrote on dPS back in 2007 that illustrates this pretty well. I hesitated for several days before publishing it, second guessing myself the whole time. In many cases, you simply overlook what you know because you think it is too basic to share! The post was a hit.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 11, 2018

Update the post to fit with what’s happening today (particularly if you write about software, social media, or any other area that changes rapidly). Ultimately, what matters is that you (re)publish the best post you can. I first created 31 Days to Build a Better Blog as a series of posts back in 2007.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 2, 2014

To build up a readership it’s crucial to offer your visitors to subscribe to your blog, so they get updated every time you publish a new post. Social media, despite the hype, is only second priority in terms of effectiveness. However, since Google bought Feedburner in 2007, it never got further developed.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 9, 2013

What sort of content should you publish on your blog to help you grow traffic in your first year? What follows is a selection of posts that I published in the first year of Digital Photography School (back in 2007) and some reflections on how I think they helped grow readership on the site.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 17, 2014

Walker published hers. While they currently have no published cookbooks, Against The Grain founder Nancy Cain plans to publish one in October of this year. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published Laditan’s trademark in April 2013. That would appear to give Against The Grain superior rights.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

Show Notes Changes in publishing and marketing for nonfiction authors over time and what still works How to stand out and build your community Content marketing and long-term marketing strategies Deciding what nonfiction book to write—should you stay in your lane? I sent proposals to three publishers, and Wiley gave me a book deal.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 1, 2018

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. I think Kristen started in 2007. Thanks for listening. That’s not enough.

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ProBlogger

MAY 27, 2020

And because they now knew his name they could recommend him to others, and perhaps even check out his web page and connect with him on social media. Within 24 hours of releasing my first ebook I was approach by a publisher who wanted to publish it. Busking on your blog. And learning new skills is always a good thing.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

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. Always publish new content that helps people achieve their goals more easily. Seth doesn’t waste words.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 5, 2023

You’ll find an overview of more than 12 different comparable social media platforms, and the number of users, privacy policies and feature highlights for each one. Feature Highlight Mastodon’s interface is divided into card-like columns which gives it a very refreshing appeal when compared to other social media networks.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2020

Even something as simple as setting up a cookie so you can show than the posts that have been published since their last visit can make a lasting impression. But I wrote and published the first post (the longest post I’d ever written), and people started joining up for the challenge. Use challenges to teach and engage your readers.

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ProBlogger

MAY 21, 2018

Understand social media and online communication. 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. Seem genuine and generous in helping others. Communicate well.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 29, 2013

You press “publish” and bask in retweets, praise, and a flood of comments. When I launched The Smart Marketing Blog in 2007, my posts were eclectic random. One day, a post about bus stop ads, the next day, how to set-up PDFs to open at screen height, and another day, musings on a new social network.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I’ve been using surveys on my blogs for many years (in fact here’s a post I wrote in 2007 about the benefits of running surveys that still rings true today). ‘Traditional’ Social Media. We’ve become prolific at publishing… but in doing so we’ve created a lot of noise. A Challenge.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 29, 2010

Some are from corporate entities seeking to promote blogs or sites by selling text links, though Google slashed PageRanks in 2007 in response to this tactic. Link exchanges are part of the old Internet, a system in which PageRank ruled and social media was a fancy word for e-mail. Link exchange requests come in various forms.

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ProBlogger

MAY 12, 2012

You press Publish and bask in retweets, praise, and a flood of comments. When I launched The Smart Marketing Blog in 2007, my posts were eclectic random. One day, a post about bus stop ads, the next day, how to set-up PDFs to open at screen height, and another day, musings on a new social network. Darren publishes daily.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Write and publish what you want, get paid every day for your books, and control your customer data and relationships. 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.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the intro, We used to do that [Seth Godin ]; Penguin Random House has acquired Hay House [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Business for Authors ; Your Author Business Plan ; OpenAI has announced a partnership with Axel Springer , the first publishing house globally to partner with them to integrate journalism with AI technologies.

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Ben Settle

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How many are using AI to write the ads, tweets, social media posts to promote it? That said: VSL’s are a perfectly fine marketing media if it works for you. Another, more dramatic, example: In 2007 I was hired to rewrite the wildly popular Magnetic Sponsoring offer sales letter by the boys at Magnetic Sponsoring.

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Make a Living Writing

APRIL 1, 2024

Search Engine Journal also covers social media and content marketing tips. They also cover content marketing, social media marketing, and other topics in the digital marketing sphere. SEMRush is known for their widely-shareable infographics featuring SEO tips, cheat sheets, and checklists across social media.

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ProBlogger

JULY 5, 2023

Of course part of the reason for this is that it’s the main focus of what I do – but we do cover ‘newsy’ type posts from time to time on dPS and apart from a spike in traffic shortly after it is published it rarely ever gets more than a trickle of traffic ever again.

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Income Diary

MARCH 31, 2024

Technology, SEO and Social Media are changing all the time – please accept that what works now, may work differently 6 months from now. Yes, Social Media also works, but my experience is that SEO brings the most targeted traffic. That means that just about everyone in the internet marketing industry can promote it.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 19, 2017

Traffic coming in from search engines might do better with Google AdSense but traffic coming in from social media might do better with affiliates. What I did is turn some of my previously published blog posts into the ebook and then I wrote some extra content that was exclusive to the ebook as well. We bundle things up.

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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 October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire. He is the co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc.,

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 2, 2018

Having a way to write, publish and archive on my computer without needing to be in WordPress is quite handy. I started the blog because I was living in Rome back in 2007. I’m not going to great lengths to build a huge following on social media or an audience. It allows me to manage my blog from my desktop, even offline.

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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. I published 2012 was my first book. So it's weird. Mark: Definitely.

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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. So I looked all over social media sites.

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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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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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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

” I was asked this question while on a Q&A panel back in 2007 while at a conference in Las Vegas. ISO Settings in Digital Photography – I wrote this in 2007. This is the question that I was asked back in 2007 while I was in Las Vegas at a blogging conference. In Today’s Episode Examples of Evergreen Content.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

” I was asked this question while on a Q&A panel back in 2007 while at a conference in Las Vegas. ISO Settings in Digital Photography – I wrote this in 2007. This is the question that I was asked back in 2007 while I was in Las Vegas at a blogging conference. In Today’s Episode Examples of Evergreen Content.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 18, 2015

Of course part of the reason for this is that it’s the main focus of what I do – but we do cover ‘newsy’ type posts from time to time on dPS and apart from a spike in traffic shortly after it is published it rarely ever gets more than a trickle of traffic ever again. To illustrate the case for Evergreen Content.

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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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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. I’ve seen this numerous times on my blogs (but also social media accounts). The project was so successful that I ran the project again in 2007 and then again in 2009. This post was first published on 26 March 2013 and republished 10 March 2022.

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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. Social Media Marketing World. Social Media Marketing World last year’s virtual pass. New Members Area. Starting a Blog.

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