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. We didn't have social media, or podcasts, or any of these things, Joanna, back when you and I were starting.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

How can we use AI tools in our creative and business processes while still keeping our humanity at the core of our books? She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. What is the AI-Assisted Artisan Author? She has sold almost a million books across 169 countries and 5 languages.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 15, 2021

Run Ads on the Social Media Platforms Millennials Use the Most. A huge percentage are active on social media, but to make the most of this, we need to understand what platforms millennials are using. Today there are dozens of social media platforms, with new ones popping up every day. They’re easy to use.

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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. Getting over sunk cost fallacy.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

Sometimes the key to viral content is luck – the right person reading it at the right time and linking up can send it to the top of every social bookmarking site there is – but many times it’s the result of good research, creative thinking, clever writing and getting the right people to promote it.

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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. And you have to I guess tell people more often , like email more than once a month or do some videos and maybe do social media every day and yeah, all this stuff that I haven't done, like probably ever.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

How can you use automation and tools to help you streamline your creative and business processes so you can get back to the writing? Especially as creatives, I hear a lot of people say, “I just want to write the book.” Another one that's interesting right now is social media. ” I mean, you just can't.

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ProBlogger

MAY 30, 2024

Whatever you want to achieve by blogging – money, a fully-fledged business, recognition in your field, a creative outlet, or sharing your message with the world – you need to write. I did a whole MA in Creative Writing in my early twenties, and I have no regrets. There’s no way around it. Blogging is writing. Short on Time?

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 17, 2024

Sign up using one of your social media accounts. Instagram: Best Platform for Visuals A photo and video-sharing platform that’s owned by Facebook, Instagram is one of the largest social media sites in the world. You get an extremely popular social media platform that’s perfect for microblogging. No problem.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But I feel like a lot of the social media has changed. I was on YouTube in 2008. No single social media hub. So what have you done with social media? It's not social media anyway to me. Look at The Creative Penn. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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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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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

Sometimes the key to viral content is luck – the right person reading it at the right time and linking up can send it to the top of every social bookmarking site there is – but many times it’s the result of good research, creative thinking, clever writing and getting the right people to promote it.

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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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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. It often signifies strong brand recognition.

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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. So the process of the creative process is that work as well. Kevin Kelly shares some Excellent Advice for Living.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

The Lead Machine: The Small Business Guide to Digital Marketing : Everything Entrepreneurs Need to Know About SEO, Social Media, Email Marketing, and Generating Leads Online by Rich Brooks. Evaluate your website analytics, email reports, and social media to see what’s working and what’s not working.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

But on the organic reach — so I should I suppose we should probably say organic reaches effectively publicity that you don't have to pay for on social media. Joanna: But of course, it is not just social media or Facebook or wherever. And people kept saying, “well, social media will kill email.”

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ProBlogger

MAY 30, 2024

Whatever you want to achieve by blogging – money, a fully-fledged business, recognition in your field, a creative outlet, or sharing your message with the world – you need to write. I did a whole MA in Creative Writing in my early twenties, and I have no regrets. There’s no way around it. Blogging is writing. Short on Time?

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The Creative Penn

JULY 14, 2024

I came into fanfiction during a very rough time of my life, in about 2007/2008. So trying to charge up that creativity and lean into it , rather than saying, “Okay, so now this person has to have this. So talk a bit about that and how— These choices we make creatively are based on our voice and how our brains work.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

How can generative AI tools augment and amplify your creativity? The creative appeal? But now you are using these generative tools as part of your creative process. In the past, I would buy custom stock art for the shareable image, for social media, but now I just generate a custom piece for each show.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

in September 2008, the Google maps mobile app was launched on Android. Users are loyal to their favorite social media and review sites. One more creative way for travel businesses to use Google maps is give out travel itineraries to their audiences, through custom maps.

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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. And social media, to be honest. How can you effectively market your backlist over time?

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Yet, to be truly creative – and offer something different and worthwhile – we need to deliberately do activities that make the greatest difference. To be truly creative, we need to deliberately do activities that make the greatest difference. Does your brain spontaneously combust creativity? Michele Linn , Mantis Research .

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 3, 2018

The Creative Penn Blogger Joanna Penn. I started my site, thecreativepenn.com, in December 2008 as a way to share my journey and my lessons learned about writing and self-publishing my first book, as well as the ups and downs of marketing, something where nobody knows who you are. I had a vision of this life back in 2008.

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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? It is more nuanced than that.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

What were the challenges in the craft of writing a full novel after very different creativity in the past? People get offended, and they can put bad reviews, or they can tear people down on social media. That was only 2008, so it's not like it was eons away. I was thinking about Benny Hill. That was great.

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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. That's just my thing.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And diving into social media during that time, it was Myspace. 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? ” And I was posting on social media.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Shopify starts at $5 a month if you only want to sell on social media. And of course, you mentioned it has integration with social media. I've had a YouTube channel since 2008, so I'm quite interested to do that integration. Also there's a $9 plan where you can put buy buttons on your store. That was amazing.

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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. That particular statistic got shared all over social media and it raised people's hackles. Because I feel like choices are incredible for creatives these days, those who want to look at their choices. It's great.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With social media platforms becoming the online communication too du jour, and with smartphones and other devices becoming for many the preferred platform, blogs have fallen to the wayside in favour of shorter, punchier messages specifically tailored to hit a reader’s buttons. People Interact on Social Media, Not Your Sites.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

On August 14 and 15, more than 700 bloggers and online creatives descended upon the RACV Royal Pines on Australia’s Gold Coast for two days of learning and networking at the ProBlogger Training Event. I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Link your social media profiles to your email unsubscribe.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In 2008, Cartly Heitlinger was a freshman in college doing what most of us do in her situation – studying a subject they don’t like in order to get a degree they do. So she started a blog as part distraction, part creative outlet, writing about things she was interested in – study breaks and bows on shoes, to name a few.

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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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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have readers, email subscribers, and a social media following. In The War of Art , Steven Pressfield argues that resistance is what stands between procrastination and putting our creative genius out into the world. In 2008, Ries started a blog, and one of his first posts was entitled The Lean Startup. 0.99-$1.99

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals. Embrace multi-passionate creativity — and optimize for curiosity — as we move into The Creative Future. The Creative Penn website and podcast. Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now.

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