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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Website Lead Generation Social Media Engineering 52

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

JANUARY 22, 2023

Because actually, I never had it in my life plan to become a writer. I studied people who sell lots of books, which mostly are fiction writers, not nonfiction writers. So I took everything he teaches as a fiction writer, I could apply it 100% on nonfiction, and it works. Marc Reklau shares his tips in the interview.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

Stephanie Chandler is the author of multiple nonfiction books, a professional speaker, and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association and Writers Conference. It turned out I was a terrible fiction writer , I just did not have the imagination. So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. Thanks for having me.

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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

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. Kristi Hines.

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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

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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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. From our headquarters in Ogden, Utah, BKA Content manages a distributed team of hand-picked freelance content writers based in the United States.

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Express Writers

MARCH 7, 2023

This is the highest amount in the history of the CMO survey (since 2008). This typically includes paid ads, promoted social media posts, and sponsored content. For example, if you produce a blog that gets a lot of engagement on Facebook and other social media sites, you might think it is a success.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 2023

So I've pulled out some particular quotes for writers to explore further. Kevin: I'm a discovery writer. So we kind of adopted the word ‘discovery writer,' because you know, that's better than pants. I'm a more natural editor than a writer, let me put it that way. I work with writers. That's what we call it.

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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. For example, a group of action-adventure thriller writers could get together and train a model with our work and then license it to other writers. They are like a jumpstart for your brain, a crazy co-writer, or co-creator.

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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

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.

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Projects Social Media Blogger Engagement 41

The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Shane Millar is the author of urban fantasy thrillers and craft guides for writers, as well as a story coach and editor. Joanna: Shane Millar is the author of urban fantasy thrillers and craft guides for writers, as well as a story coach and editor. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below.

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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.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Thorn is a bestselling horror and dark fantasy writer, and he also writes nonfiction for authors. He's a podcaster at Writer's Ink and the Music NFT Show. Thorn is a bestselling horror and dark fantasy writer, and he also writes nonfiction for authors. He's a podcaster at Writer's Ink and the Music NFT Show.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Here's one from 2008!

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Here's one from 2008!

Creativity 98

Creativity Writing Hospitality Writer 98

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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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? We don’t call photographers, artists, or other writers hacks when they charge for their works.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Tim Boucher is a hyperrealist AI artist and writer specializing in questionable alternative realities. Check Writer Beware for years of them, most of them prior to generative AI. If you support the show, you also get the extra monthly patron-only Q&A audio.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

This is a guest contribution from author and freelance writer Steff Green. Jason Kottke , writer of one of the longest-running blogs on the web, states that the blog’s demise came about because the fundamental purpose of blogging was no being fulfilled with other media. . People Interact on Social Media, Not Your Sites.

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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

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

Kelly Exeter (writer and editor) . I look around this room and I know I’m not the best writer in this room. I’m not the best writer out there. The web became a much more interactive space and this is the beginnings of social media. We then started to use different types of social media to engage.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

It might just be that the person you think is making it is just very good at playing the social media game, but not at making any money. But there is something sexy about completing a project that you’re proud of and that results in a happy client who refers you to someone else while you cash his cheque at your bank.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

Cupcakes and Cashmere Cupcakes and Cashmere has morphed from Emily Schuman’s 2008 “favorite things” personal blog to a thriving women’s fashion, beauty, and women’s interests lifestyle blog and online shop. Followers are blessed with succinct, motivational book reviews, reading lists, travel guides, and diy project suggestions.

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