The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

Show notes: Overview of the Pilgrimage campaign including rewards, add-ons, and the result Why Kickstarter for this project, and why now for me Tips for success: Learn about the platform beforehand. Learn about the platform from experts I’ve been publishing and selling books through online retailers as well as my own store since 2008.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. I first built it in 2008 and although I have kept it as streamlined as possible, it has thousands of pages and posts and lots of plugins, and inevitably some old code.

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Income Diary

JANUARY 29, 2024

Social and Referral Traffic: Understanding the traffic originating from social media platforms and other external sites is important, though it can be influenced by paid promotions and partnerships. Social Traffic Visits that come from social media platforms.

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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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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now. I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. The story is based around a book of human skin, so it was an appropriate project! Was it worth it? Not at all.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

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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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. Why we need to reframe quitting — and why it's so hard to do.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I started YouTube in 2008 and I left those early videos there to prove a point, which is, if you look at like one of my first videos, you wouldn't even recognize my tone of voice, let alone how I speak, you know, just the whole thing. Here's one from 2008! Was your first published work, Stone of Fire , the first project you wrote?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I started YouTube in 2008 and I left those early videos there to prove a point, which is, if you look at like one of my first videos, you wouldn't even recognize my tone of voice, let alone how I speak, you know, just the whole thing. Here's one from 2008! Was your first published work, Stone of Fire , the first project you wrote?

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

It's interesting because so many people start with those type of companies because I guess you're on Google, and they're the ones who are advertising usually. 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. So what about things like advertising?

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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.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Without even advertising, because I think she's too busy churning out books and she hasn't had a chance, she's doing quite well out of that store. Shopify starts at $5 a month if you only want to sell on social media. And of course, you mentioned it has integration with social media.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

There is a real sense of fear and confusion in the media and amongst different kinds of creators. The one thing that excites me the most is like all of the art pieces I made using an artificial intelligence image generator , which I believe adds a little bit of like weirdness and mysticism, if you will, to the whole project.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

I found our friend Mark Dawson, did the advertising course , and suddenly, I sold many books. Then another game changer was me advertising my Spanish books in the US, and that's right now where most of my income comes from. But in these other language markets, it's like 2008/2009, all over again. Social media, I show up.

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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.

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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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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Before I start, I want to just mention a little personal project that I’m working on at the moment that I’m looking for a little bit of help on. If you’ve got a couple of moments, you can really help me to shape this little project that’s coming up. The reason I originally switched to Gmail in 2008 was this idea of filters.

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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.”

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Before I start, I want to just mention a little personal project that I’m working on at the moment that I’m looking for a little bit of help on. If you’ve got a couple of moments, you can really help me to shape this little project that’s coming up. The reason I originally switched to Gmail in 2008 was this idea of filters.

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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. Then, she starts advertising it. .

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Bloggers who use advertising were money-grubbing sell outs. 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.

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