The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. 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. Limited to 10.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller and dark fantasy author as J.F. I write books and I record and publish audio, although I also do some professional speaking and teaching as well.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Over the last 18 months I’ve built two profitable businesses with the help of social media. I had been working online since 2001 and by 2008 was confident I’d accumulated enough skills and experience that finding work wouldn’t be a problem. Build a social network with purpose. I still do this occasionally today.

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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. It often signifies strong brand recognition.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I've had a draft of How to Write a Novel in my Work In Progress drive for over five years, but this year, I overcame resistance and finally finished it. Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now. I also wrote and published two short stories. I offered it, but I didn't focus on it.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

“If you just keep writing/querying/marketing/etc you will eventually be successful. Joanna Penn and Orna Ross discuss Quit: The Power of Knowing When To Walk Away by Annie Duke and give examples of what they have quit around writing, book marketing, and more. Just don't give up.” When is quitting worthwhile?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

How can you use paid advertising as part of your book marketing strategy? 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.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid , writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. 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

JANUARY 22, 2023

So first up — Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing. So I was like, if you would do for one year, any exercise, or mix, like getting up early, writing 1000 words a day, do goal setting, I'm sure in one year, you will be in a better place than you are now , or in an even better place if you're already in a good place.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

How can you research the best media and craft a pitch or a press release that might get you and your book some attention? Why is publicity still useful in an age of pay-per-click direct advertising? Today we're talking about her nonfiction book, Priceless Publicity: How to get money-can't-buy media coverage for your business.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. Earn a reputation .

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

My books related to this interview: Career Change , How to Write Non-Fiction , Your Author Business Plan , Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives, and Other Introverts. It was devastating because when you spend your whole life wanting to write, it was just really disappointing. So in 2008, I started my own publishing business.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Bethany Chambers , North Coast Media . 4), complement to paid advertising (no. Quora says the term to “describe rapid and widespread social proliferation of a meme or product” started picking up steam in 2008. As I write in this article, How Rodale Inc. We just wrote about 99 benefits of content marketing.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Join us for the price of a coffee a month at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author as J.F. Introduction On 8 December 2008, I published my first blog post on www.TheCreativePenn.com. Do you have any questions?

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. Earn a reputation .

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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. We talk about her approach to writing, where she gets her ideas for content from and her approach to planning content. It’s almost nine years to the date.

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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. We talk about her approach to writing, where she gets her ideas for content from and her approach to planning content. It’s almost nine years to the date.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Shane Millar shares tips for writing brilliant beginnings, regardless of your genre. Different writing processes for fiction and non-fiction How the basics of marketing don’t change and what is working for Shane since he started earlier in 2022, 15 years after Joanna. You can find Shane Millar at swmillar.com. Welcome, Shane.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author as J.F. You write what you want, with no concern about how an algorithm will treat your release. My How to Write a Novel Workbook is only available on my store. Imagine this….

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Like ringing up an advertiser for the first time and saying, “Hey, will you advertise on my blog?” But 2008, it plateaued, it was steady, and then it took off again. I started to write content based upon the words that I felt people would be searching google for. I learned SEO in that period.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 31, 2014

I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. Earn a reputation .

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BKA Content

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In addition to basic SEO services such as competitor analysis, keyword research, backlink building and on-page optimization, the leading white label SEO companies also offer content writing services. BKA Content Content writing is a key element of organic SEO. An in-house content production team collaborates on blog writing campaigns.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 20, 2023

CEO of Author Media, and this is the show for writers who want to build their platform, sell more books, and make a living writing books worth talking about. She writes nonfiction for authors, and she's a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author. This isn't the Facebook advertising episode! I love Amazon.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some would like to get paid but can’t be bothered to really put in the time, so the few hundred they make off advertising is enough for them. In 2008, when I started my travel blog, I could count the number of travel blogs on one hand. One of the mistakes most beginner travel bloggers make is that they write generic articles.

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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. Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing.

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ProBlogger

JULY 4, 2010

If you asked me, I would have said it’s what some teenager writes when they get home from school or something. That being said, you know, I just, I really got kind of sucked into it and the more I read other blogs, the more I was excited to write about my own and it just kind of fed off itself. I had no idea what a blog was.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How I started writing and became an indie author — you can find my timeline here The early days of writing and self-publishing, including mistakes I made and changes along the way Rewriting early books and applying lessons learned about writing Inspiration for my fiction as J.F. Like if I could write something?'.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How I started writing and became an indie author — you can find my timeline here The early days of writing and self-publishing, including mistakes I made and changes along the way Rewriting early books and applying lessons learned about writing Inspiration for my fiction as J.F. Like if I could write something?'.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

How can you use automation and tools to help you streamline your creative and business processes so you can get back to the writing? So I stayed in Ireland, and I sort of put up a bat signal for friends to write with. Especially as creatives, I hear a lot of people say, “I just want to write the book.”

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

Plus, my next book for authors Writing the Shadow: Turn Your Inner Darkness Into Words will be out on Kickstarter in October, sign up for the pre-launch here ; Great examples of creative extras in Sara Rosett's campaign Murder in the Alps ; and I'm on the Travelling Through Podcast on a walk and talk along the canal. Joanna: Absolutely.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

If you (or your boss or client) are a newcomer to content marketing, the following books provide a comprehensive, up-to-date big view of how content marketing differs from advertising-based approaches (and the terms and values). Evaluate your website analytics, email reports, and social media to see what’s working and what’s not working.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

.” [ The Verge ]; Amazon AI tool coming for writing product descriptions [ The Information ]; FTC antitrust lawsuit [ Politico ]; Amazon is “eliminating dozens of its private label brands” which may help “placate antitrust regulators” [ Wall St Journal ]; “Amazon will be disrupted,” says Jeff Bezos (in 2013) [ Insider ].

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

Show Notes The creation of the Ravensfield Collection using AI art How AI art can be used as a marketing tool for authors Available tools for an AI-augmented creative How to write AI prompts to achieve the best results Concerns about intellectual property when training models What are the different kinds of Creative Commons licenses?

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

And yet, the writing advice is still good for other things — just not targeted enough at me to pay for. Bloggers who use advertising were money-grubbing sell outs. Various types of payment models for bloggers could indeed get rid of all that Adsense and affiliate stuff and shoddy banner advertising and whatnot.

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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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ProBlogger

AUGUST 3, 2014

Facebook remains the biggest social media network on the planet and continues to grow its active user numbers at a steady rate. I’m still cautious about investing too much into advertising but it is certainly showing some great results for us so far – more on this topic later in the week. Social Media'

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2014

Facebook remains the biggest social media network on the planet and continues to grow its active user numbers at a steady rate. I’m still cautious about investing too much into advertising but it is certainly showing some great results for us so far – more on this topic later in the week. Social Media'

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