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 29, 2024

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. It's writing plus a little bit of game design. Paddy: Exactly. So it depends.

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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.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

Show Notes Halima's writing and PR journey Finding the “story behind the story” Pitching your story from different angles Balancing PR and protecting personal stories/privacy Tailoring your press release How to prepare for an interview Is PR worth it? Halima: I always wanted to write. And it did great.

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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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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Dark and paranormal romance author Kitty Thomas discusses negative attitudes toward the romance genre (including her own before she came to love it), whether writing to a formula is as easy as all that, why she thinks sex scenes are the most difficult thing to write, the heartbreaking nature of publishing, and more.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

Why Bloggers are Perfectly Positioned to Become Successful Authors You’re a blogger, which puts you in a perfect position to write a book. You, on the other hand, are blogging, which means you are writing. You have a writing habit. More valuable than your existing content is the writing practice you’re developing.

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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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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

He continued writing programs while attending Harvard University in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and began his career as an engineer at OPNET Technologies. He was hired as an assistant by Elton Rule, then west coast head of ABC who was promoted to network President. He served as a lead developer at Batiq.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

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. Then what about foil?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tell us a bit about you and how you got into writing and publishing. And of course, everyone would always say, “You must write a book. You must write a book.” Joanna: And I feel like part of this mindset shift is, you know, when I'm writing my book, I'm the person on this side of the equation.

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The Hoth

JANUARY 19, 2023

Semrush first came about in 2008 as the brainchild of Oleg Shchegolev, their current CEO. Important note: A downside here is that Semrush doesn’t always provide the number of backlinks and instead lists general advice like, “you need better on-page SEO, link-building, and promotional efforts.” What’s that?

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After many years of people saying, “AI can never be creative, AI could never write fiction (i.e. Eventually, we stopped talking about it and just got on with writing books and reaching readers. Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy. I have been writing for publication since 2005.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I’m an introvert and self promotion and networking does not come easy to me – but he’s right. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. By seeking the advice of others, I know for a fact that my eBooks sold more copies.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Mark started blogging in 2008 in the dating space, before pivoting to personal development in 2011. He attributes most of his success to the fact that he is very seriously dedicated to the craft of writing. I should note here though, so people don’t get super impressed or anything: I wasn’t writing the entire six months.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I’m an introvert and self promotion and networking does not come easy to me – but he’s right. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. By seeking the advice of others, I know for a fact that my eBooks sold more copies.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Behind The Book Campaign: How to Sell 30,000 Copies in Six Weeks. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. Mid 2013, she launched her new blog The Write Life. The following posts have helped me immensely: From Zero to 35,000: How I Built A Big Email List Exclusively About Books I Liked.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

This can prove very useful when you need the extra motivation to start writing you next post.The above table is a copy from my notes. In my case, I was blogging about fitness since 2008 so I knew the industry very well and I believe this is one of the reasons that the blog’s traffic increased so quickly.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Promotional products are also a way of making money. In 2008, Europe’s soccer elite scored around $800 million from merchandizing. Most promotional products, though, are given away free. Club a faux-fox-tail tie to promote Fantastic Mr. Fox. “As But not everyone’s use of promotional products is quite so fantastic.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

Action: write down three tasks you can batch process. I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Stop writing that type of content. Create a list of posts you can write that will make life easier for your readers. Write down 100 ideas for blog posts. Can you cross promote with them?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m an introvert and self promotion and networking does not come easy to me – but he’s right. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. By seeking the advice of others, I know for a fact that my eBooks sold more copies.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2013

10 Years and $420,000 later… I’d love to be able to calculate exactly how much I’ve earned from Amazon in that time but their current reporting system only goes back as far as 2008. I share these results because, over the years, I’ve heard many many bloggers write off the Amazon Affiliate program as not being worth the time. *

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ProBlogger

MARCH 28, 2011

Back in 2008, I was running a flailing start-up. One day, a lesson arrives in my inbox in which Jon explains that the easiest kind of guest post to get onto a popular blog is a list post, because it just takes so much work to write them, and they tend to be very highly rated because they’re so bookmark-able. Jon Morrow of Copyblogger.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 18, 2018

Write content, update archives, and drive traffic. Treat every post you write, every attempt you make to promote your blog and every tool you use as learning experiences that shape your future. It takes time to learn about your niche and to find your writing style, to find your voice. Seeming to do is not doing.”.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

“If you could only write one type of content on your blogs – what would it be?” I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. Full Transcript.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

“If you could only write one type of content on your blogs – what would it be?” I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. Full Transcript.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

All it takes is some time to write helpful posts. If you can’t write helpful advice a few times a month about the problem you aim to solve as a freelancer, you might just be in the wrong business. You can even write the non-winners and thank them for entering. Your blog is essentially a marketing tool for your business.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

He’ brilliant on that particular topic and a really great teacher when it comes to writing and communicating on a blog. We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. On day one, when I wrote that first blog post, I knew that I needed to write content.

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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. If you have quality content and the marketing prowess to promote it, then by all means charge. So, would I feel betrayed? Some bloggers feel they are entitled to payment regardless of the quality of their content.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

I loved blogging because I can write and delete and edit and write and delete and edit again. This something that actually helped promote in my last launch for the podcasting course. If there are important things like quotes you want to mention, write those down or specific like five items that you want to cover.

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