The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

In the intro, I mention the 6 Figure Author Podcast , The Writers Well Podcast , and Reid Hoffman's new Possible podcast. 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.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well. Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well.

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Content Hacker

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Cue another Terminator GIF… What Happened When I Compared ChatGPT to a Content Hacker Writer. 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.

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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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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph: Okay, well, you know how superheroes have origin stories, I have a very strange writer origin story. I had finished reading something, a thriller by a fairly popular thriller writer at the time, and absolutely hated it. But I know you as an indie writer. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

We are only at the beginning of the opportunities of AI for wider society as well as for creativity and art, and it’s important that authors, writers, and other creatives be involved in order to shape the future as we want it to be. The development of photography might be the closest comparison to where writers are now. To do the work.

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Bramework

DECEMBER 1, 2023

16 Powerful Steps to Build Brand Awareness for Your Blog Business By demonstrating ongoing value beyond sales pitches , you can form meaningful connections with your audience in today’s competitive digital landscape. Influencer marketing spending was projected to reach $15 billion by 2022. Influencers will proliferate.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 6, 2023

I actually think that type of job is going to be an emergent one in the future because it's like a project manager role, really. I feel like when we both went full-time, both of us it was 2011, wasn't it? I found a blog post about the launch of my first novel back when it was called Pentecost in 2011. And it was like, yay!

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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. When it comes to generating sales, 70% said SEO gives them better results than PPC (pay-per-click). When it comes to sales funnels, 69% of content is created for the top of the funnel. Incredible, right?!

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

You see it all the time with TV shows and other creative projects that, it just goes from bad to worse and people are so attached, and they just can't let go. Joanna Penn: And just on that, so the direct sales model, software is another thing. What is its projected value? So yeah, you finish one chapter, you open another.

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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. Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2011

Being a writer isn’t just about knowing how to construct a great sentence or how to format a blog post so that readers can engage easily. Being a writer is about sharing your thoughts, ideas and experiences with the world. That ebook you’re frantically finishing off this week could be launched and on sale next Monday.

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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. Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. The site has since become one of the premiere destinations on the web for writers.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

And the idea was that they would encourage their employees to spend up to 20% of their time on basically more speculative projects, things that were outside the scope of their official responsibilities. And I often stress there are multiple streams of income that business and entrepreneurial writers have.

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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 a freelance writer, you might not have total control over what you write about – but you can choose to specialise in something that’s important to you. There’s no real energy or excitement behind our words.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2011

All writers are paid the same, all web designers are paid the same, and all web developers are paid the same too. Imagine that satisfying feeling of knowing you have a good shot at winning the project – a great shot. Imagine winning the project because you’re that great. Imagine a world where the whole game has changed.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Do you know of someone that has really stood out in 2011? Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. In 2011 he created the Million Dollar Blog Project and launched his case study blog, Expert Enough. Maria Popova. Kristi Hines.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 22, 2012

They say that if you write a compelling ebook, you’ll juice up your sales. You offer your ebook as a free download… and get hired for a $5,000 project by a client who was impressed by your excellent expertise. After all, you don’t consider yourself a writer. The rumors are true: Ebooks equal power. All the pros tell you this.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

It must have been 2011, maybe 2010. How that’s looked has changed to reflect what projects I might be doing or what that focus is. For about a year, late coming up to this 12 months, I actually paid writers to write. You’re doing a lot of those sales via email to your list and Facebook group I presume?

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

It must have been 2011, maybe 2010. How that’s looked has changed to reflect what projects I might be doing or what that focus is. For about a year, late coming up to this 12 months, I actually paid writers to write. You’re doing a lot of those sales via email to your list and Facebook group I presume?

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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. We’ve looked at direct ad sales, affiliate promotions, other advertising networks, I wrote a book. Then, I got a sale. Evolve: Training Day. Jeff Goins.

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