Freelance Writing Jobs

MAY 30, 2023

Does it sound like the author is trying to drive traffic or promote a product or service? First published in November 2009; updated May 2023] Does the author have an agenda? Does the article sound like an angry, bitter hate piece? It’s probably not a reliable article. It’s probably not a reliable piece.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

Traditional versus indie publishing Short term versus long term Income versus brand building Paid versus free The book versus you as the author Stand-alone versus series Exclusive versus wide publishing Publish fast versus publish slowly Write to market versus write first, market later Online versus offline.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 23, 2021

In 2009, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey wrote an op-ed on Obama healthcare reform , which caused a controversy among WF customers. It did not come from competitors or illegitimate attackers, but from people in Motrin’s target audience who felt offended by their promotional content. is better than a late reply with more information.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In 2018, at least two major Fortune 500 brands will hire former publishers and/or media executives to serve as their chief marketing officers. 2 major Fortune 500 brands will hire former publishers and/or media execs as CMOs. Apple will buy Disney in a few years, says @JoePulizzi. Predictions2018 Click To Tweet.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 27, 2022

One common reason for lulls in traffic is that a blog has had a lull in new content being published. Promotional Activities. As I look at some of the rises and falls in traffic to my blogs I know that some of them can be directly tied to my own marketing and promotion of my blogs (or the lack of promotion that I’ve done).

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

In the intro, publishing trends for 2023 [ Written Word Media ]; Apple AI narration ; ChatGPT into Bing [ The Verge ]; Comments on Audible [ Brandon Sanderson , Audiblegate ]; TikTok ban and problems [ Reuters , Rolling Stone ]; my Pilgrimage Kickstarter. I published 2012 was my first book. So it's weird.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 9, 2018

Try to publish 3-4 new products on your blog each year, whether they’re courses, software, ebooks, templates or updates. Figure out what products to create, redo or replace, as well as what promotions to include. This is a system that we’ve been using since about 2009, previously in ebook format.

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ProBlogger

MAY 27, 2020

Within 24 hours of releasing my first ebook I was approach by a publisher who wanted to publish it. affiliates promoting your product. When I was approached by the publisher to write the first ProBlogger book I’d already been blogging about blogging for a while. And that credibility can lead to all kinds of opportunities.

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Quick Sprout

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Outbound links to resources from 2009 are irrelevant and won’t be as effective for your SEO ranking. Do not promote your business or link to your website. Now, you cannot overtly approach an influencer and request that person to promote your content. Influencers receive hundreds of content promotion requests every month.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph Nassise talks about his writing process, how he diversifies his business across different publishers, different products, and different technologies, as well as how he is embracing new options for his books. So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So welcome to the show, Joe.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. A blog is no longer used to merely publish blog type content. Quick advice: combine web publishing and other media to reach your audience. But for most of us, here are some cost effective tips and strategies for content distribution and promotion.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Melissa gives plenty of examples of problematic brands, including the 2009 story of the self-proclaimed “friendly skies” airline, United, refusing to replace a passenger’s guitar damaged by its employees. (As A zombie-like (haphazard, self-absorbed) company that pretends to be otherwise has a problematic brand. Is your org a zombie?

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From the headlines this week, “Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories.” [ The Guardian ] and “Hundreds of AI-written books flood Amazon.” [ The Independent ]. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. But as ever, the headlines are clickbait and we need to have a more nuanced approach.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 27, 2022

One common reason for lulls in traffic is that a blog has had a lull in new content being published. Promotional Activities. As I look at some of the rises and falls in traffic to my blogs I know that some of them can be directly tied to my own marketing and promotion of my blogs (or the lack of promotion that I’ve done).

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The Creative Penn

MAY 20, 2024

First up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So let's just talk about publishing before we get into all the marketing side. So with an audience like you have, and you're marketing savvy and everything— What did you think about when you were publishing the first book?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2014

I’d never written, designed, marketed a product of my own before… I didn’t have a shopping cart system… I didn’t know if my readers would buy… In short – the dream of creating and selling an eBook of my own stayed in my head for two years until 2009. in sales in 2009.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. A blog is no longer used to merely publish blog type content. Quick advice: combine web publishing and other media to reach your audience. But for most of us, here are some cost effective tips and strategies for content distribution and promotion.

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ProBlogger

JULY 11, 2016

This has risen since the last time I produced a report like this, as we’ve put more effort into affiliate promotions at dPS. Each year on Digital Photography School we run big promotions with our 12 Days of Christmas Sale and our Mid Year Sale. Product Sales.

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ProBlogger

MAY 28, 2013

Work hard on promoting their blogs and finding new readers. Each post I publish could potentially generate an income for me, on the day it’s published but also tomorrow, next week, and next month. Those posts were published in 2007, five and a half years ago! They: Post content on a daily basis.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This podcast is sponsored by Written Word Media , which makes book marketing a breeze by offering quick, easy and effective ways for authors to promote their books. I mean, seriously, that was 2009. You can also subscribe to the Written Word Media email newsletter for book marketing tips. I've been purchasing NFTs.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Forced to close her real estate business in November 2008 because of the mortgage meltdown, Susan launched her digital information business in January 2009 with a mere $200 in startup capital. Published nearly four years ago, it still makes $600-$3,000 a month in online sales. Buy some cheap ads on Google to promote your product.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s also currently working as a promoter and a waiter to pay the bills. jstainer ( @joel_stainer ) November 18, 2009 at 1:35 am An interesting perspective, but I’d be fine succeeding. Reply Kimmo November 18, 2009 at 3:00 am This article is so true. Reply DiscoveredJoys November 18, 2009 at 5:50 am Me? Absolutely.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. It was about 2009 that we launched Bookvault, and that was to serve our traditional publishers that we'd been working with, mainly in the academic sector.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

On dPS we do two big promotions every year. In 2009, I decided to invest time into creating my first products which were eBooks. It ’ s a couple of months ago that I published that. I do some affiliate promotions on both. Over on Digital Photography School, we do two really big promotions every year.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Henri ( @henrijunttila ) December 14, 2009 at 3:33 am I don’t even have a degree, but after reading this it feels like I do. How to Overcome Procrastination Reply Bothersome Words ( @BothersomeWords ) December 14, 2009 at 5:12 am Long-time lurker, first-time commenter here. 69 Responses to “Is Your Education Useless?&#

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Oren Pardes ( @OrenPardes ) December 9, 2009 at 1:41 am Thanks for not charging to read this! Reply RichardM ( @Geek_News ) December 9, 2009 at 2:11 am Interesting read, as a blogger myself I can see both sides of the fence. Reply Melinda | WAHM Biz Builder ( @superwahm1 ) December 9, 2009 at 3:59 am LOL Amy, I thought that too!

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Joanna: This podcast has been going since 2009. But to come back to the perfection in the books, I'm incredibly lucky that my publisher do such a beautiful job with them. Obviously, I'm consulted on the cover, but the outside of the book is really the publisher's responsibility. So, I'm grateful, absolutely, for….

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 19, 2014

Should you spend more time writing blog posts, promoting the posts, networking, responding to readers, working on social media etc? So I’ll share them in no particular order and give them equal weight: Promoting Content. if it is new or more established). Once a blog is launched, this area becomes a fairly major focus for me.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 2, 2018

Since 2009 we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of eBooks, courses and Lightroom Presets on my main blog – Digital Photography School. There are many more, such as using the profile a blog can bring to promote your existing business or to sell your own services as a freelancer, coach, speaker, etc. Blogs allow you to: grow your profile.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2020

Since 2009 we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of eBooks, courses and Lightroom Presets on my main blog – Digital Photography School. There are many more, such as using the profile a blog can bring to promote your existing business or to sell your own services as a freelancer, coach, speaker, etc. Blogs allow you to: grow your profile.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 20, 2011

When I first started my travel website in 2009, I just wanted to get my travel writing out there, because I was frustrated with the way traditional media worked. Considering I only started my blog in 2009 with virtually zero knowledge of how the Internet worked, that’s pretty good! This is what I’ve learned from my experiences.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

By the end of the 31 steps you’ll have: published a variety of different types and styles of posts. promoted your blog in a variety of ways and found new readers. Many thousands of ProBlogger readers have invested in edition 1 of 31DBBB but as it was written back in 2009 I felt it was time for an update. … and much more.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 19, 2016

I first met Mike at a blogging and social media conference, in 2009, where he interviewed me and quite a few other speakers at that conference. In 2009, Mike was brand new to the scene. In this interview, we take a step back in time to 2009, and I ask Mike about that first conference. It would have been 2009.

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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. A couple of months ago I published a review on my blog for a book called Social Media Analytics. He was a CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) representative in 2009 and completed an internship with Microsoft last year.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

When I started as a blogger back in 2009, he was one of those guys that I wanted to be when I grow up. Simply understanding that gives me ideas for content, but it also gives me a way to promote my blog as well, and to drive traffic to it. We promote servers and web press tools along the way. Back in 2009, I created this ebook.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 19, 2017

They’re some of the reasons that I hear Amazon being critiqued and they’re valid reasons but I still like Amazon and I still like to promote on Amazon. Another thing I like about Amazon is that particularly around holidays like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, they are very well optimized and they often have really good promotions on them.

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ProBlogger

JULY 18, 2019

The piece of content you publish today can potentially have a positive impact on people in ten years’ time. If I review a new camera, I can probably promote it on social media for a couple of months before it becomes less relevant. For example, some of my podcast episodes started out as pieces I’d already published on the blog.

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