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. Sudowrite is set up very, very well to put some text in there, click a button, do a thing. So welcome, Leanne. Leanne: Hi, thank you for having me.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

I feel like this is so important, and that what I don't want to happen is what happened when I first became an author back in 2007/2008, when there was this, ‘self-publishing was evil, self-publishing was a load of crap,' a tsunami of crap, it was called. Or are you going to concentrate on text?

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. And you might see the sort of feedback loop of, “How could that publisher have done that?

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2012

If you’re missing a vital statistic or fact, just jot down [note to self] in the text and highlight it in yellow so that you can come back to it later while editing. Day 7: Design and Publish Your Ebook. Avoid a sea of plain text. Use bullet points and bold text, just like you would in a blog post. Add page numbers.

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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

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

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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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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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2018

? ?. This text and the accompanying 30-minute video comes from my Content Marketing World 2018 keynote presentation. 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.

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Income Diary

MARCH 31, 2024

Promo Materials, Login & Password – While affiliate products on ShareASale have their banners and suggested text links on that affiliate network, products on other networks such as Clickbank and E-junkie tend to have offsite promotion material links. The more you could make, the more you will probably want to promote it!

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I've been following the industry, more so on the music side than publishing, but also just always straddling that line and seeing what can I take from the music industry and bring it into publishing and vice versa. I mean, like you mentioned with the drum there, I think it's exactly the same with text. I've been purchasing NFTs.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. ProBlogger Book Published by Wiley. 2007 – First ProBlogger Event – These have a lot of expenses, but they are an income streams. They started out back in 2002, a lot of them were text based ads. I was earning a few cents a day.

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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. Now, when you hit publish on your blog post, it will appear in Google search results in less than 30 minutes. Link exchange requests come in various forms.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Google AdSense – Text based ads that I started putting on my blog. ProBlogger Book Published by Wiley. 2007 – First ProBlogger Event – These have a lot of expenses, but they are an income streams. They started out back in 2002, a lot of them were text based ads. I was earning a few cents a day.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 19, 2017

You can just create text links but you can also develop little icons and widgets that you can put in your sidebar and even a shop that you can build as well. 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.

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Moz

MAY 6, 2019

There are thousands of blog posts being published every minute, so it’s safe to say you’re not the only resource out there competing for attention. Optimize image alt-text. Rather, they look for images with alt-text. From image and text CTAs to placement of the CTAs, we’re always looking for ways to improve clickthrough rate.

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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 12, 2018

Experienced bloggers who’ve been around for a while that might explain a little bit why they’re not publishing as much, yet they’re still building traffic to their blog. The work has been done, I’ve written the post, it’s published, it’s now working for me. I used to write these big large slabs of text.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

I published almost 19,000 articles on my two main blogs, and two of them have been co-authored posts. That’s why some of these gadget sites publish 20 or 30 articles a day because they just need to pump out lots of content to keep the traffic coming. I wrote it in 2007. I’ve updated that every six months since 2007.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Unfortunately, it’s no longer 2007. Populating a blog with quality content is the hardest part of growing a blog; video, text, audio—everything adds to a blog’s growth, yet content creation is time-consuming, and one of the biggest reasons to find ways to make money from WordPress without having to run a blog. You have a specialty.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 7, 2017

Episode 87 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Hitting Publish On Your Next Blog Post. For me, one of the things that I struggled with in 2006, 2007 on ProBlogger, was coming up with ideas to write about. We were publishing ebooks. I didn’t know about publishing. Episode 54 3 Questions to Ask When Facing Fear. Dallas Event.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

If folks want to be published and paid, you have to keep climbing the mountain even if you get rejected. I did NaNo in 2007, thinking of doing it again this year, depending what stage my other writing projects are at. I am a character out of Fahrenheit 451, and no words come out of me except text from the book. My philosophy?

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2013

However – after doing some reconstructing of my earnings I’ve put together the following chart of (the years 2003-2007 are based upon earnings numbers mentioned in previous posts here on ProBlogger but are not exact). I knew the reader so I was confident the review would be OK to publish. Buy Now Buttons.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2017

087: 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Hitting Publish On Your Next Blog Post. It was my worst subject in high school and I was incapable of making text bold on that blog for three months after starting it. Anyway, I did meet some people who knew how to make text bold and they eventually redesigned my blog for me.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 22, 2012

Infomovies usually include slides accompanied by text and images, and a voiceover too. And, just like a search-optmized text article, your video script should include the main keywords for your topic. In the experiment, a unique text string was included in the captions file. “CC” Stands for closed captions.

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