The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. And if you're doing Amazon ads, who benefits from that? Costs of selling direct.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Other things you might want to quit: social media platforms, blogging, an author name, a book series, writing a book that's taking forever, marketing a book that isn't selling, a business model, a day job, being a full-time author, a city or even a country. What is its projected value? Getting over sunk cost fallacy.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

And I also have to admit that Amazon ads was a huge game changer for me. But then with the rise of Amazon ads, suddenly, I could multiply my sales by 20. And it was the same thing, really Joanna, since four and a half years, I do one hour a day of an Amazon ads. Now, you've mentioned the ads. Joanna: That's brilliant.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

You’re in control of the site and your sales pages, with no other ads on your page to distract potential readers. I’ve been selling ebooks, audiobooks, and online courses since I started online in 2008. Home page of TheCreativePenn.com in Dec 2008 from the wayback machine. Imagine this…. Why I switched from Payhip to Shopify.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki started Styling You in July 2008 and today – 9 years later – she’s not only grown her audience, but she’s built a pretty amazing business around her blog. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? With the social media that it’s around now, it’s a very different possibility with that. Nikki: Thank you.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki started Styling You in July 2008 and today – 9 years later – she’s not only grown her audience, but she’s built a pretty amazing business around her blog. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? With the social media that it’s around now, it’s a very different possibility with that. Nikki: Thank you.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. We didn't have social media, or podcasts, or any of these things, Joanna, back when you and I were starting. There's still a lot of fear around social media for a lot of writers. So social media, to me, is rented real estate. We never despair, do we?

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Quick Sprout

JULY 26, 2022

They consistently rank as the best search engine marketing companies in North America, and have won awards in email marketing, SEO, paid media, social media, conversion rate optimization, and more. Whether you need strategy, software, or help with project planning, Ignite Visibility is ready to help.

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Digital Marketing Marketing Agency Search Engine Optimization 144

ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. These are 20 people who stood out to me this year. Lingerie Addict.

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Express Writers

MARCH 7, 2023

This is the highest amount in the history of the CMO survey (since 2008). This is especially relevant with the decline of traditional marketing mediums like television and radio ads. This typically includes paid ads, promoted social media posts, and sponsored content. How much will you post on social media?

Content Marketing 81

Content Marketing Marketing Content Content Creation 81

BKA Content

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Our professional writers draw on keyword research to craft original articles, scheduled blogs, social media posts, email marketing campaigns and web pages for your clients. Some reviewers remark on project delays and difficulties communicating with support staff. Some reviewers report that SEO.co

SEO 84

SEO Agency Social Media Insurance 84

ProBlogger

JULY 4, 2010

He, you know, Darren hosted a group writing project and I didn’t know what this was but I thought ProBlogger’s a big site so if I can somehow maybe get a link or something on the site, that would do wonders for my blog. So I sat down and I kind of, you know, I hammered out a post in maybe an hour. And we kind of said “Okay, let’s do that.”

Finance 39

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

Projects 41

Projects Social Media Blogger Engagement 41

ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

Projects 41

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google.Brin and Page are trying to help solve the world’s energy and climate problems at Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. 5 Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6

Engineering 52

Engineering Finance Education Entertainment 52

The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 2023

And so I'm much more comfortable in that kind of distilling something down and removing words, rather than adding words or making up words. Joanna: So maybe with that, you were kind of virtually traveling every day because that was such a huge project. And I've always been like, wow, that's a completely different project.

Projects 98

Projects Writer Creativity Social Media 98

ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

Projects 38

Projects Social Media Blogger Engagement 38

The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

So when it came time for the third book, when I was finishing it up I did go back to her, and she was busy with some other projects. I remember when I started out self-publishing and talking about things back in almost like 2008/2009, and I did a bit of consulting back then, and I started really low, like 99 US dollars for an hour.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

For example, I jumped into Facebook ads way before they became a thing, but because I jumped so early, I also jumped out early and so I missed the real benefit. The benefit of Facebook ads and Amazon ads, same thing. Here's one from 2008! Was your first published work, Stone of Fire , the first project you wrote?

Creativity 98

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

For example, I jumped into Facebook ads way before they became a thing, but because I jumped so early, I also jumped out early and so I missed the real benefit. The benefit of Facebook ads and Amazon ads, same thing. Here's one from 2008! Was your first published work, Stone of Fire , the first project you wrote?

Creativity 98

Creativity Writing Hospitality Writer 98

The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I started self-publishing way, way back now in 2007, 2008. As much as it really pains me to say it, one of the only ways I found to get real traction with fiction is paid advertising , whether that be paid newsletter, promos, like Bargain Booksy, or Freebooksy, that kind of stuff, or things like AMS ads, Facebook ads.

Writing 98

Writing Insurance Writer Creativity 98

Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The Guardian explains their stategy very well: [link] O’Reilly TOC also provided in 2008 (this how long this discussion has been going) some insight… How Do Publishers and Authors Get Paid in a “Free&# World? Or work on passive income projects. to end free content on the paper’s Website. Workplace or soap opera?

Blogger 48

Blogger Post Publisher Publishing 48

ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With social media platforms becoming the online communication too du jour, and with smartphones and other devices becoming for many the preferred platform, blogs have fallen to the wayside in favour of shorter, punchier messages specifically tailored to hit a reader’s buttons. People Interact on Social Media, Not Your Sites.

Blog 55

Blog Blogging Social Media Advertising 55

The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

There will also be regulation, safety guidelines, legal shifts, and guardrails added to the technology in the coming months and years as things develop. For example, we had Microsoft Bing’s Sidney for just a few weird days, and now they have added guard-rails to stop it getting too creative. [ And why did you create it?

Text 98

Text Creativity Publisher Publishing 98

Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have readers, email subscribers, and a social media following. If she lands a project, it’s typically in the $50,000-$80,000 range. In 2008, Ries started a blog, and one of his first posts was entitled The Lean Startup. Take The Julie/Julia Project , for example.

Blog 59

Blog Blogging Proofreader Consulting 59

ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

You can add into that a whole heap of social media posts as well. There’s over 8,000 posts alone on ProBlogger, blogpost and podcast added together. Evergreen content is the type of content that you can continue to share and re-share in social media. There’s over 6,000 on Digital Photography School.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

You can add into that a whole heap of social media posts as well. There’s over 8,000 posts alone on ProBlogger, blogpost and podcast added together. Evergreen content is the type of content that you can continue to share and re-share in social media. There’s over 6,000 on Digital Photography School.

Blogger 31

Blogger Social Media Long Form Content Publisher 31

The Hoth

JANUARY 19, 2023

So if your company only uses paid ads, you can still benefit from Semrush. Semrush first came about in 2008 as the brainchild of Oleg Shchegolev, their current CEO. It’s where the tool lets you know how much it would cost to replicate a website’s organic traffic with paid ads. What’s that? Guru Plan: $229.95

SEO 108

SEO IT Keywords Search Engine Optimization 108

Grammarly

APRIL 18, 2024

The name DALL-E was inspired by a combination of the names of two well-known figures: the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and WALL-E, the robot in the 2008 Pixar movie of the same name. It can also edit existing images. Work smarter with Grammarly The AI writing partner for anyone with work to do Get Grammarly Who created DALL-E?

IT 86

IT Architecture Text Creativity 86

ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

The web became a much more interactive space and this is the beginnings of social media. Every time you respond to a comment, every time you respond to an email, every time you engage with someone on social media, you’re building the asset of your blog. It takes time and it takes persistence. We had sliders.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

Audience: Women Topics: Style, Food, Design, Travel, Relationships, Parenthood Monetization: Affiliate marketing, product sponsorship, display ads Top Blog Post: Gift Guide: Men Instagram: @cupofjo 5. Open and honest dialog is a key component of this blog’s successful relationship with its highly engaged community.

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