The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. Almost) eleven years ago, in Sept 2011, I left my day job to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. Now I want to make it my focus.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Why is editing a memoir so challenging and what should you keep in mind around publishing and marketing choices? But despite all my published work, I still had a desire to write travel, and so in 2019, I started BooksAndTravel.page , with articles and photos about travel and books, as well as a bi-monthly podcast.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

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. The paperback version for sale on Amazon and Ingram has a plain B&W interior. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy.

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Quick Sprout

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Our recommendation for the best website broker is Empire Flippers because of its reliable preliminary sales screening, excellent track record, and prompt assistance. Launched in 2011 as “AdSense Flippers,” Empire Flippers has come a long way, having realized deals over $400+ million and having a claimed success rate of 79%.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

How can you shift your mindset from catalog sales to selling direct? His latest book is Direct Sales Mastery for Authors , co-written with Monica Leonelle, launching as this goes out on Kickstarter. His latest book is Direct Sales Mastery for Authors , co-written with Monica Leonelle, launching as this goes out on Kickstarter.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hourly and project-based freelance writing work is also available. On her site, you’ll find long-form posts on copywriting for sales and business. Starting with “nothing but a hope, dream and $75,” Julia McCoy founded Express Writers in 2011. But it’s not impossible. The platform offers both short and long-term contracts.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 12, 2011

Welcome to the 2011 list of bloggers to watch. Blog lessons aside, I believe that How to Get a Grip should be required reading for everyone wanting to focus on the important stuff in 2011. Last year, he became community manager of the Beyond Blogging Project and moderated the Treating Your Blog Like a Business panel at BlogWorld.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 30, 2023

How can you reinvigorate your writing process, breathe life into your backlist, and prepare your author business for the rollercoaster that is publishing? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. Tracy Cooper-Posey gives her tips.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When I started what was to be my content marketing journey in 2011, I had NO idea what kind of explosive growth was in store. Several years back, HubSpot published a report that finally answered a burning question: “How much should you blog?”. It was found that companies with over 400 published blogs get 2x more traffic on average.

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Buffer

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

  Another metric we care a lot about is our content output — we aim to publish new blog content four times a week, Monday through Thursday.  Our blog has been around since around the time of Buffer’s inception in 2011, and production on the blog slowly ramped up as the team — and the product — grew.

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Content Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The overhead is much more reasonable, and you get to pay per project – making it a breeze to stay within your profit margins and predict costs. Take the time to find the right fit for your brand, the secret weapon who will help you bring in more traffic, leads, and sales. Plus, this is getting simpler and simpler to do by the minute.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Amazon.com is currently the world’s largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web and earns $386 Billion a year. After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001 in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. Dommermuth trained as a banker, before moving into computer sales in Montabaur, Germany.

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Bramework

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Helps Build Brand Awareness and Loyalty By consistently publishing helpful content , brands can organically reach and engage more potential customers. How to Copywrite for Success in 2024 Ultimately, quality content attracts and engages qualified audiences, while effective calls-to-action convert interest into leads and sales.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph Nassise talks about his writing process, how he diversifies his business across different publishers, different products, and different technologies, as well as how he is embracing new options for his books. So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So welcome to the show, Joe.

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Fat Joe

JULY 21, 2023

Here’s why: Expand Production Capacity Back in 2011, the average blog post was around 300-500 words. A recent survey by Semrush found the need to scale up production was the number one reason for outsourcing content writing: Outsourcing is how smart agencies handle large content projects without compromising on quality.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 6, 2023

But because they're shorter books, I've still been publishing as much. And I'm sure you could become like Kris and Dean ( WMG Publishing ) doing their monthly Kickstarter, like the way I am releasing on Amazon, like, oh, it's no big deal, it's just another series. And now I'm just like, yeah, screw that, maybe 5,000.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Joanna Penn: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Alliance of Independent Authors Advanced Self-Publishing Salon with me, Joanna Penn, and Orna Ross. I got much more serious about poetry publishing, which was much more fun and much better integrated with the busy schedule that I had in those years. Transcript of the discussion.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

I have covered the topic as it relates to authors regularly since then and even written a short book on the impact of AI on authors and publishing. I write books and I record and publish audio, although I also do some professional speaking and teaching as well. and I have been a full-time author entrepreneur since 2011.

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Content Hacker

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I’ve been in content since 2011. Since then, I’ve been behind over 40,000 content projects, which have generated over $5M in sales to my businesses, and much more to my clients’ businesses. This is what I’ve found from 10 years and 40,000 content projects. But beware. Topic Generation.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From the headlines this week, “Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories.” [ The Guardian ] and “Hundreds of AI-written books flood Amazon.” [ The Independent ]. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. But as ever, the headlines are clickbait and we need to have a more nuanced approach.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 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. And what I find difficult, and I think a lot of people find difficult with their creative projects, is saying no to work after 7pm is one thing, but what if you have all these ideas?

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. I featured Alexis as one of the 20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012 describing her as a “publishing powerhouse.” Neil Fahey.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I know that Jon Morrow, who runs the very successful Smart Blogger blog, got a huge surge in traffic when we published his post How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise and Get Paid to Change the World back in 2011. 8: Increased Sales. One straightforward way to get this benefit is through a guest post. 2: Raised Profile.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 5, 2012

If your sales page is poorly constructed and riddled with grammatical errors, you’re going to put people off. If you’re working on a big project like an ebook, try taking a whole week away from it. That sales page which is honest and forthright will reach your ideal customer. Yes, the technicalities of writing are important.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

As Michael Stelzner said at Blogworld, “You’re not a blogger, you’re a publisher!”. Do you know of someone that has really stood out in 2011? In 2011 he created the Million Dollar Blog Project and launched his case study blog, Expert Enough. Alexis Grant is a publishing powerhouse. I love his blog.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 1, 2012

So we started publishing our Christmas posts a couple of months early, like a youth work session to include young people when planning Christmas activities and ideas for organizing a Christmas card fundraiser. Having identified the popularity of these activities, we published our second book, 52 Scavenger Hunt Ideas.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

At the end of 2010, I hadn’t done it and I came to write my goals for 2011 and actually found this in another notebook. There at the top of my list of goals for 2011 was start a podcast. Of course, 2011 came around and life got even busier. We’ve published over 8,000 posts. We had a new baby, our third boy in the house.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

At the end of 2010, I hadn’t done it and I came to write my goals for 2011 and actually found this in another notebook. There at the top of my list of goals for 2011 was start a podcast. Of course, 2011 came around and life got even busier. We’ve published over 8,000 posts. We had a new baby, our third boy in the house.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

At the end of 2010, I hadn’t done it and I came to write my goals for 2011 and actually found this in another notebook. There at the top of my list of goals for 2011 was start a podcast. Of course, 2011 came around and life got even busier. We’ve published over 8,000 posts. We had a new baby, our third boy in the house.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. When I first published it, I didn’t look like this. I published my first post and then, my next feeling was, “How am I going to get people to read the post?” Nicole is there as well.

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