The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. Disrupting my creative process with generative AI tools Disrupting my publishing and marketing process with Kickstarter and Shopify How much do I rely on Amazon for book sales and total business income? ” Ring any bells?!

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Grammarly

APRIL 18, 2024

DALL-E is one of the innovative generative AI platforms blurring the lines between human- and computer-generated creativity. The name DALL-E was inspired by a combination of the names of two well-known figures: the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and WALL-E, the robot in the 2008 Pixar movie of the same name.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. You’re in control of the site and your sales pages, with no other ads on your page to distract potential readers. The main reasons for selling direct are creative and financial freedom. Imagine this…. Why sell direct?

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ContentWriters

MAY 10, 2023

Spotify, arguably the most popular music streaming platform in the world, has been growing rapidly since its inception in 2008. Spotify Isn’t Afraid of Ads As mentioned earlier, Spotify is able to use the data collected on each user to provide targeted ads relevant to each user.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

in September 2008, the Google maps mobile app was launched on Android. Paid marketing avenues: Local search ads and Google Maps Ads. Google has previously experimented with ads inside maps and pushed AdWords location extensions. But, at the Performance Summit , Google released new forms of local search ads.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

She's also an award-winning podcaster of the wonderful The Creative Penn Podcast , a creative entrepreneur and an international professional speaker. I have added in AI prompts in different parts of the book to help people use AI tools in an ethical and practical way. And I felt that even my creative process had changed.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does HuffPost make money with blogs, but its revenue consists of online ads and money from corporate investments. goop is a wellness and lifestyle brand started by actress Gwyneth Paltrow as a weekly lo-fi newsletter back in 2008. Yaro: Building Revenue Through Ad Space.

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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.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

My books related to this interview: Career Change , How to Write Non-Fiction , Your Author Business Plan , Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives, and Other Introverts. So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. Also, Joanna, I've become a big fan of Amazon ads. And I think as creative people, I relate to this as well.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. She's also the founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors, a professional speaker and creative coach. You mentioned it before, that your creative non-fiction books, you put years into these.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 28, 2023

We have all our lines and of course I do share, I share a lot and have done since I was online in 2008. I might put a few ads on and so I haven't really launched a book in so long that this feels very, very weird. Penn first appeared on The Creative Penn. Like you both, I'm quite low-key. So, yes, it does feel like a risk.

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Backlinko

JANUARY 8, 2024

Cocomelon’s videos were added to Netflix in 2020, and hold the top spot in the kid’s category with popular songs like “Baby Shark” The most viewed YouTube video is called, “ Bath Song | CoComelon Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs “, which has 6.5 Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes (172.12 Colors TV (66.34

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 20, 2023

You can also listen to a recent episode with Thomas on Novel Marketing and Christian Publishing on The Creative Penn Podcast. She also runs the award-winning podcast that's been running even longer than this one, the Creative Penn. And if y'all have not yet checked out The Creative Penn Podcast, it is excellent. That's right.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

Different ways to monetize your brand to make ads profitable. The effect of Apple's privacy rules on Facebook ads. But then they added different abilities and different mechanisms that enabled you to reach different segments of your potential readership, and the advertising platform was built. It takes years.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. If you want to stay in touch, sign up for my free Author Blueprint here , subscribe to The Creative Penn podcast on your favorite app, or follow me on social media. Was it worth it? Will I do another Kickstarter campaign?

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

I use and recommend Sudowrite as part of my creative process. You can try Sudowrite through my affiliate link: www.TheCreativePenn.com/sudowrite Amit Gupta is a science fiction writer, entrepreneur, and founder of Sudowrite, an AI-powered creative writing tool. It's almost like a creativity booster. Amit: Thanks, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Did you have to learn how to be a marketer, as well as the creative side? How can people change their mindset around marketing and business, as well as focus on creativity? He started to say how well the ads were converting over to Shopify. I wrote it, and I also had a copywriter who helped us write some of our ads.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I did exactly this, back in 2008 or 2007, something like that, I printed a load of books, I had them in my living room, and I thought, Oh, I'm going to just sell them all in five minutes and make loads of money. What I've discovered that is working for me indirectly is boosting the ads to my Nordstrom reads.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

Does it help you creatively? So yes, it's funny how we do that, but I do think it helps creatively. And if you're paying for ads, that can be a real problem. So I have a bunch of different ad types. I've tested probably thousands of different ad variations at this point. Joanna: That's great. Steve: Absolutely.

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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. How can we use the tools to achieve our creative purpose in an ethical manner, and understand that we need to curate, edit, and take responsibility for any usage? Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Back then, you couldn't even run ads to the retailers, but I already I was so used to doing it myself and I knew all the benefits to doing it myself, and I wasn't too happy to hand it over to the retailers when that happened, when Kindle happened in 2007. And if you're doing Amazon ads, who benefits from that? Costs of selling direct.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. These might include an email blast, paid ads, deals in a store or supermarket, or help with pitching media for interviews and live events. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

And I also have to admit that Amazon ads was a huge game changer for me. But then with the rise of Amazon ads, suddenly, I could multiply my sales by 20. And it was the same thing, really Joanna, since four and a half years, I do one hour a day of an Amazon ads. Now, you've mentioned the ads. Joanna: That's brilliant.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

I started to hear about this self-publishing thing, and I may have started listening to The Creative Penn podcast and a few other podcasts around that time as well. It's an experience, and it's a creative outlet for a lot of people who don't really get a creative outlet these days. So I think it's appealing to a lot more people.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For example, I can personally think of podcasts that inspired me to eat better and exercise, and probably added years to my life. For example, at Digital Photography School we teach people how to move from being stuck in Auto Mode with their cameras, and help them get creative control and take better photos. Here’s the thing.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. This article was first published on March 16, 2008 and updated March 3, 2022. The post How to Grow Your Blog with Viral Content appeared first on ProBlogger.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 2023

How can we build a creative life based on following our curiosity? There are some words, even though there are 9000 images as well, but that was a matter of, you know, its labeling rather than creative writing. What are some important attitudes to hold that will help us with a sustainable life and career?

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

So it's a forum where authors talk about how we need to value ourselves as creatives in our work, and not to sell ourselves short out here. I'm not saying that people who do things for free aren't offering something of value, it's just that we're creatives , as you say, and we need to value our own time and getting paid for these things.

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ProBlogger

JULY 4, 2011

There’s a reason most of the biggest blogs on the Internet often have multiple writers—this allows the blog to be a little more manageable by the owner, while also allowing a new, fresh perspective to be added to the website’s content. Creativity is obviously absolutely critical to getting content to go viral.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

In the intro, Alliance of Independent Authors Indie Author Income Survey results ; Experience of book to TV show [and previous episode, Johnny B Truant's creative pivots ]; Michael Anderle expands on his AI-assisted goals [ 20Books To 50K Facebook ]; Loop earplugs. Because back in 2008, I did all of this. I was in Australia.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Readers have started to get smart to the methods of blog advertising – they might avoid affiliate links, scoff at “sponsored content” and glance over your sidebar ads without a single click. I’ve been blogging since 2008, and I’ve seen many different trends rise and fall.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I was a creative writing major in college, and I went straight into a publishing job right out of college. They have recently been stymied by changes in Facebook ads, it's become a little more difficult. Because I feel like choices are incredible for creatives these days, those who want to look at their choices. Joanna: Yes.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Maria Popova describes herself as “interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with design, science, storytelling and combinatorial creativity” She is the editor of the much-loved Brain Pickings , which she described as a “a destination for indiscriminate curiosity.” Maria Popova. Lingerie Addict.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I was on YouTube in 2008. That was very exciting to me because, obviously, we can do paid ads, but the idea of generative search around much more nuanced things , I think is very interesting. Look at The Creative Penn. Do you have an idea of what might be retirement, financially or creatively? I can't remember how we met.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How can you embrace book marketing as a creative part of your author business? Yes, I have my creative time when I have on my stretchy pants, and I have my work marketing time when I am treating my business like a business. I think what doesn't work is haste, being solely promotional, and not adding value to people.

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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? It’s almost nine years to the date. Nikki: Thank you. I am the accidental blogger though. Nikki: Yes.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 9, 2024

How can you use click testing on Meta to help refine your creative and book marketing ideas? No, Collective Intelligence [Ezra Klein with Holly Herndon]; AI may take our jobs, but not our creativity [ Claire Silver on The TED AI Show ]. Steve Pieper explains in this interview. So I think that's the first part of it.

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