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. I did this recently, I looked at 2012. I had like three diaries or journals from 2012, and I went through them all.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

And so those books have sold more than a million copies worldwide, have done very well for me as an indie writer, where they didn't find the audience that I had hoped they would have found back as a traditional published work. And so I look at projects and decide, okay, where am I going to get the best return for my time and energy?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2017

However, some brands have taken this concept further by developing full-fledged classes and curricula for their audiences. Let’s look at eight brands that give their audience opportunities to get an education in unique and entertaining ways. Renasant Bank: Marketing strategy takes step above boring classes. It’s a key market for us.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 13, 2017

As a blogger, you regularly produce valuable content that your audience loves. For instance, you could share your expertise and knowledge with your audience through online courses and webinars or other e-products – they can be a great way for your blog to reach new audiences and make more money. Available only for U.K.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

Check out the top 20 posts on ProBlogger in 2012 and notice that over 50% of the most read posts that year had personal words in their titles. Another recent example would be our recent Group Writing Project here on ProBlogger. Run Projects and Challenges. Since 2005 there have been many such projects run around the blogosphere.

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Content Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

It also helped me get a VP role at Content at Scale AI , which in turn led to a promotion to President a month later! Content that attracts your audience is THE way to sell in the 2020s. Accepting and leaning into that gift is how you’ll attract and retain an audience that devours your products or services. It’s my new reality.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Then comics are really expensive, and they take forever, so I started writing books in the interim between comic projects. Is that why you favored graphic novels and why you still do a lot of very visual projects? Then I did another one, I think, in 2012. But the problem is you can sell anything and find an audience.

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ProBlogger

JULY 13, 2016

One of the things we’re always told is to build community – it makes all the difference between traffic who don’t care and an audience who are invested in you and your story. If you have a blog or online following, and you want to take it to the next level, it’s having an engaged audience that will do it.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 24, 2021

In 2012, the site netted him $500,000. In contrast with Jonah Berger’s research results, he emphasizes short content, audience rapport, and visuals. So are we kidding ourselves and insulting the intelligence of our audience when we assume things need to be short and simple? Very few people are that obsessed.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

Check out the top 20 posts on ProBlogger in 2012 and notice that over 50% of the most read posts that year had personal words in their titles. Another recent example would be our recent Group Writing Project here on ProBlogger. Run Projects and Challenges. Since 2005 there have been many such projects run around the blogosphere.

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Moz

JUNE 29, 2020

Putting link building in the corner of a one-off project or campaign-led activity is not going to encourage habitual link building. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve come a long way, especially since April 2012 (can you really believe it was over eight years ago?!) Driving the right behaviors. It’s not just about results. All was well.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 6, 2013

It has been a blast exploring this project over the past 4 years. She has been around for years and most of her projects don´t concern the blogging industry. She shows what you can achieve with your blog, and your life, if you step outside of the echo-chamber and pursue creative projects. Tina Roth Eisenberg. Well, I disagree.

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Moz

JUNE 29, 2020

Putting link building in the corner of a one-off project or campaign-led activity is not going to encourage habitual link building. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve come a long way, especially since April 2012 (can you really believe it was over eight years ago?!) Driving the right behaviors. It’s not just about results. All was well.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Early in 2012, after I got my first Kindle and read about self-publishing in the writers magazines that I used to buy, I decided to take the plunge. Joanna: It is a brilliant creative project, but let's carry on with the difficulties. How much time did this project take you? I got a bit quicker as time went on. Joanne: Eight.

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Backlinko

AUGUST 17, 2023

With this data gathered, you can create intricate target audiences for future social media and Google Ads campaigns. For example, these AI metrics can help you create an audience consisting of site visitors who are likely to return and spend $50 in your e-commerce store. On both versions, you have a data limit of 2,000 properties.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

I curated Bloggers To Watch column here on Problogger for four years and it is phenomenal how much has changed since I wrote my last post in 2012. His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. Neil has taken a different approach to meet the needs of his audience.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 29, 2017

It’s has been customized for ProBlogger readers and is an excerpt from my new book, Master Content Marketing: A Simple Way to Cure the Blank Page Blues and Attract a Profitable Audience. Creative “blindness” happens when you’ve been staring at the same project for too long. Over the years, my audience grew, slowly but surely.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 29, 2017

It’s has been customized for ProBlogger readers and is an excerpt from my new book, Master Content Marketing: A Simple Way to Cure the Blank Page Blues and Attract a Profitable Audience. Creative “blindness” happens when you’ve been staring at the same project for too long. Over the years, my audience grew, slowly but surely.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Or you can make it happen now, giving you more time and energy to put towards increasing your conversion rate , improving your social presence — and, of course, writing and promoting great and useful content. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather get my sites indexed as quickly as possible because it gives me more time to build my audience.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

I know things, and I’m mildly amusing, so as long as I’m creating content, it will find an audience, even if that audience – and the way they find and digest that information – may change. Whereas a post written for a A-grade blog in 2012 might generate 300 hits to my site, these days it might only generate 30.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In January of 2012, however, we put up this page: This page was built with Launchrock in about 30 minutes. While your mileage may vary by the size of your engaged audience and those willing to help you co-market your product, I believe that you as well can see success in getting pre-buy-in for your product launch using Launchrock.

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ProBlogger

JULY 22, 2014

This is a guest contribution from digital media project manager Sandeep Sharma. Pinterest grew 4,377% in 2012 and continues to expand with 25 million users. Meaningful interactions with audience in your niche prove your credibility and will lead to more authority links. . Twitter has over 550 million accounts. Source: Google.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 1, 2013

Heck—it disrupts everything, including you and your happy audience’s normally scheduled (and expected) activities. I promoted a promo webinar at the bottom of every single blog post. You must warn and inform your audience. Imagine you’re about to do a big life project. So that’s exactly what I did.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2012

Conversely, a site that has built an audience can withstand any rank drops because a thriving following does not depend on search traffic. A successful execution recently was the Social Media Examiner prediction post for 2012 , which featured 30 social media experts stating their predictions for the coming year.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 19, 2012

It seems like every day you read a story about a blogger who released a product to their audience and made a ton of money overnight. But then after you read more details about their story, you learn that they already had a popular blog with a huge audience. While I wanted to replicate their success, I didn’t have an audience.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 17, 2023

So Kickstarter, I think it's very good to sort of, I mean, I'm not a Kickstarter expert, but it's very good to reach new audiences and market and do new things. And you can always—well, you can't always persuade them—but you can often persuade those sorts of people to promote your book. They all drink in the same bar. Jon: Exactly.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 27, 2013

Check out the top 20 posts on ProBlogger in 2012 and notice that over 50% of the most read posts this year had personal words in their titles. Another recent example would be our recent Group Writing Project here on ProBlogger. Run Projects and Challenges. Since 2005 there have been many such projects run around the blogosphere.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 24, 2012

I began blogging in 2005 (my promoted blog was founded in 2009) and have never looked back. Post videos to present the brilliance of your last feature film project. The year 2012 is different. Blogging is by no means a perfect media channel as its audience depends upon your activities.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Youth Workin’ It has a global audience. In the first two weeks of November 2012 we had close to 300 people find our site through Christmas-themed search terms, suggesting this trend will continue. I’ve also been approached about another blogging project which looks set to be an amazing and fun opportunity.

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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 how Nikki built her audience and how to stand out in a competitive niche. It’s almost nine years to the date. I contacted her the next week.

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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 how Nikki built her audience and how to stand out in a competitive niche. It’s almost nine years to the date. I contacted her the next week.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2018

It’s unlikely that you’ll need to apply each insight to every project but having these models in mind is likely to be useful when you want to create content that converts. A 2012 study showed that visitors judge a website in 0.05 Gather and promote testimonials. Promote earned media in your content.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

I interviewed Pat on stage and there’s a bit of Q&A with our audience as well. Then, this is what I do to promote those posts.” Then she starts pitching other people to write more content for them that promotes her post and her goal is to write two guest post to promote her post on her blog for every post she writes.

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CoSchedule

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How to Emulate the Shopify Blog Figure out which topics resonate most with your audience. link] is Pat Flynns platform where he shares tips and tricks to grow your audience. Listen to your audience. Matthew Woodward Matthew Woodward started his blog back in 2012 and currently focuses on topics primarily related to SEO.

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