The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Penn Spear of Destiny , the Gothic Cathedral project, and short stories I researched, wrote and then did a Kickstarter for Spear of Destiny , ARKANE Thriller #13, before publishing it wide a few months later. Essentially, if you take photos on private property, you cannot just use those photos in commercial projects. for my podcast.

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Grammarly

APRIL 18, 2024

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. It can also edit existing images. Work smarter with Grammarly The AI writing partner for anyone with work to do Get Grammarly Who created DALL-E?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I’ve been selling ebooks, audiobooks, and online courses since I started online in 2008. Home page of TheCreativePenn.com in Dec 2008 from the wayback machine. I first built it in 2008 and although I have kept it as streamlined as possible, it has thousands of pages and posts and lots of plugins, and inevitably some old code.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 28, 2023

I mean, I had over a hundred thousand words in a Scrivener project. 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 yet I was reflecting on this this morning thinking, this is good because I've been publishing since 2008 when I published my first book.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

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. Learn about the platform from experts I’ve been publishing and selling books through online retailers as well as my own store since 2008.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

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. There's still a lot of fear around social media for a lot of writers. So social media, to me, is rented real estate. We never despair, do we?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. The story is based around a book of human skin, so it was an appropriate project! Click here to see the project in detail: From print-on-demand to leather-bound original. I offered it, but I didn't focus on it.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Other things you might want to quit: social media platforms, blogging, an author name, a book series, writing a book that's taking forever, marketing a book that isn't selling, a business model, a day job, being a full-time author, a city or even a country. What is its projected value? Getting over sunk cost fallacy.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And then imported that into a new Scrivener project. I started in 2008. But in terms of Substack and Medium and all that, I also felt like I didn't want to be part of the kind of mass article making machine that I felt almost was a big thing between 2008 to 2018 maybe. Just a sort of practical tip for people.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 17, 2024

Sign up using one of your social media accounts. You can also use it for projects and e-commerce stores, which isn’t something the other free platforms can claim. 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.

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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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The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 2023

Joanna: So maybe with that, you were kind of virtually traveling every day because that was such a huge project. So my projects are a little bit like that too, where I guess I do have a fear of repeating myself. And I try to keep moving in different kinds of projects to maximize and optimize my learning. Kevin: Yes.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

If you use Grammarly or ProWritingAid for aspects of editing, Google for research or Maps for navigation or email with auto-anti-spam, Amazon for publishing or advertising or shopping, Facebook or TikTok or Twitter for social media, Spotify for music discovery, or Netflix for TV, you are using AI-assisted platforms and tools.

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The Hoth

JANUARY 19, 2023

Semrush first came about in 2008 as the brainchild of Oleg Shchegolev, their current CEO. You’ll get to view its total number of shares on social media, its current search ranking, and the traffic it’s generating. Includes 5 projects, 500 keywords, and 10,000 results per report. Guru Plan: $229.95

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. These are 20 people who stood out to me this year. Lingerie Addict.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

This is why most traditionally published authors focus on marketing through PR, literary festivals, live events, relationships with book bloggers and media, as well as trying to build an email list and social media following. Of course, most authors combine both kinds. For my fiction and memoir as J.F.

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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.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

There is a real sense of fear and confusion in the media and amongst different kinds of creators. The one thing that excites me the most is like all of the art pieces I made using an artificial intelligence image generator , which I believe adds a little bit of like weirdness and mysticism, if you will, to the whole project.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

What's changed for you in terms of your own NFT projects and what are you doing in this music scene and everything? Thorn: So I've minted two projects and the third one will be live by the time this episode airs. They are generative music projects. It's nine months later as we record this in November 2022. What are you up to?

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ProBlogger

JULY 26, 2016

Batching is not a new idea, Darren wrote about how batch processing made him 10 times more productive back in 2008, but it is still a very powerful technique to improve your productivity. Social media. This is particularly important for tasks like email, social media and blog reading, which could almost go on indefinitely!

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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.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2023

But in these other language markets, it's like 2008/2009, all over again. In my opinion, in my experience, all the people that I know have gone through times of pain also, until they finally believed enough in their project, or in the book, and write more books. Social media, I show up. No, you can't.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

So when it came time for the third book, when I was finishing it up I did go back to her, and she was busy with some other projects. I remember when I started out self-publishing and talking about things back in almost like 2008/2009, and I did a bit of consulting back then, and I started really low, like 99 US dollars for an hour.

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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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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have readers, email subscribers, and a social media following. If she lands a project, it’s typically in the $50,000-$80,000 range. In 2008, Ries started a blog, and one of his first posts was entitled The Lean Startup. Take The Julie/Julia Project , for example.

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ProBlogger

JULY 4, 2010

He, you know, Darren hosted a group writing project and I didn’t know what this was but I thought ProBlogger’s a big site so if I can somehow maybe get a link or something on the site, that would do wonders for my blog. So I sat down and I kind of, you know, I hammered out a post in maybe an hour. And we kind of said “Okay, let’s do that.”

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ProBlogger

JULY 13, 2016

I started my blog back in 2008, not long after giving birth to my own daughter. I love creating community activities, so I also run a gift exchange each year, and a happy mail project; both things bring joy to people’s lives and spread happiness around the world.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I first self-published in 2008, and every year since, I have learned about and used new tools that help me improve my craft, write better books and run a better creative business. Joanna Penn Tell us more about the lost Books project, What is it? Lost Books, it's primarily right now, my current project is doing AI Assisted writing.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google.Brin and Page are trying to help solve the world’s energy and climate problems at Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. 5 Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Each new project brings new things, and we get old, and we have different experiences. 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. Then as I stopped, he took over, and that became his role.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

You can add into that a whole heap of social media posts as well. Evergreen content is the type of content that you can continue to share and re-share in social media. If I do a review of a new camera, I can share that on social media for maybe a couple of months and it will still be relevant.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

You can add into that a whole heap of social media posts as well. Evergreen content is the type of content that you can continue to share and re-share in social media. If I do a review of a new camera, I can share that on social media for maybe a couple of months and it will still be relevant.

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ProBlogger

JULY 13, 2016

I started my blog back in 2008, not long after giving birth to my own daughter. I love creating community activities, so I also run a gift exchange each year, and a happy mail project; both things bring joy to people’s lives and spread happiness around the world.

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