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Should You Timestamp Your Blog Posts?

ProBlogger

ProBlogger posts include the date they were published, whereas Digital Photography School posts don’t. In most cases, including the publish date on your posts is a good thing, especially if you’re regularly creating new content. But your readers may be distracted if they see the date it was originally published. Decision time.

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

The Creative Penn

I think Google, at a certain point, scanned all the books, and all those books that were scanned were used for machine learning to do things, to understand the structure of text. It was one prompt on DALL-E, and then I used Canva to put some text on. James: Yes, it was one of the Lotus Desktop Publishing. James: Yes, completely.

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The AI-Assisted Artisan Author With Joanna Penn

The Creative Penn

I have covered the topic as it relates to authors regularly since then and even written a short book on the impact of AI on authors and publishing. I write books and I record and publish audio, although I also do some professional speaking and teaching as well. There is much more at stake.

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How to Write a Free Ebook in Just 7 Days

Men With Pens

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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Multi-Six Figure Book Sales And The Power Of Daily Habits With Marc Reklau

The Creative Penn

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 Ultimate Guide To Creating Evergreen Content For Your Blog

ProBlogger

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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3 Life and Marketing Success Resolutions for 2019

Content Marketing Institute

? ?. 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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