The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Creative Penn Podcast just hit 10 million downloads as reported by my audio host, Blubrry! Here are some fun stats, and then I share 7 lessons learned that are also applicable for authors and other creatives. Here are some fun stats, and then I share 7 lessons learned that are also applicable for authors and other creatives.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 13, 2023

Quick Snapshot Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, USA Founded: 2011 Monthly Active Users : 1.3 Quick Snapshot Headquarters: Shenzhen, China Founded: 2011 Monthly Active Users : 1.25 This is a great opportunity to tap into your creative side and engage younger audiences. Location sharing (remember Foursquare and its check-ins?)

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I can’t think of any superpower that would be more useful for content marketers than to have a sneak preview of all the important developments, trends, technologies, and key disruptors that will impact our strategic and creative decisions over the next 12 months. It will reinforce quality and creativity in content more than ever.

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Copywriter Collective

AUGUST 20, 2024

Look: In 2011, I placed product-defining and short-term keywords in my texts and used those keywords as anchors for backlinks. The age of AI content brings the enduring importance of human creativity and innovation. about the number of specific keywords you place in your article. It was enough for Google to rank such assets high.

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Express Writers

JUNE 17, 2024

I was once an online writer applying for jobs in 2011. This also gives you the advantage of being as creative as you want with your sample and writing for a company that you love. Back in 2011, I remember writing an article about trash bags for an online hardware store. They look for your best pieces before considering you.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2011

And while attending Columbia University School of General Studies and taking creative writing, he worked for Time as a copy boy for $51 a week. Thompson Can Teach You About Powerful Writing first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. You can also follow him on Twitter. What Hunter S.

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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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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2012

I started the company in 2011, after having been immersed in the blogosphere and social media for years. ” You have to tap into your creative reserves, ditch the conservative mentality, and understand that you’re not dealing with conservative people. It’s the perfect forum to support your creative video presence.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

In 2011, it raised over $6 million to study the landscape of how to create “human-free stories” (such an oxymoron to say). With this type of content creation, marketers can spend more time being creative than digging through rows and columns of figures to get an income report done. In 2013, it raised another $11.5

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Men With Pens

JUNE 12, 2011

See, here’s the thing: You may have the most creative, amazing, fulfilling idea in the world, but if you have to dig deep to think of ways to turn that idea into cold, hard cash, you don’t have a business brewing. first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Their passion. Their hobby. is… No.

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Men With Pens

JULY 15, 2012

Many small businesses get stuck here, especially freelance creative types like myself. How to Love Your Nightmare Clients first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Saying yes to every person who offers you work seems like a good strategy to keep money rolling in. It seems like a good strategy.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

While these filters have been around since 2011, they’ve taken off in recent years. If you can combine innovative use of filters with creative images and excellent text, then you could achieve exceptional results— as Opel did with their “Opel Adam” campaign. In just two weeks, the campaign achieved a 2.5x

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Content Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Let’s take a peek at exactly what to look for to find the perfect content writer for your exact needs, based on what I’ve learned from hiring and managing hundreds of content writers since 2011. Heck, I’ve used them since 2011 with the advice of a mentor who used them even before that. Get all nine in this free guide.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 9, 2012

If you want to improve your productivity, creativity or energy, one of the biggest faults is forgetting to change up your personal life. And if you feel like your professional creativity is lacking lately, try making these changes in your personal life. It becomes easier, and you’ll be more focused, productive, and creative.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

This gets your creativity flowing, and it lets you capture what’s on your mind. The 6-Step Process to Turn Ideas into Published Blog Posts first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. One effective, simple way to plan is to create a mindmap. You’ll find that new thoughts come to you easily.

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Men With Pens

JULY 28, 2011

No longer do creative types need traditional gatekeepers, especially with the help of some pretty neat sites. The site allows creative types to fund their projects, be they books, CDs, movies, works of art, or new toys. How to Kickstart Your Book Project first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

Since its 2011 launch, Scoop.it! Another great feature of Pinterest is that it can boost creativity when it comes to your content ideas. @AaronOrendorff #tools Click To Tweet. If you’re unfamiliar, Scoop.it! grew up as a lowly algorithm destined to change the way content is promoted, shared, and curated. When you’re on Scoop.it!,

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Men With Pens

JUNE 15, 2012

For many people, writing is an art, a creative talent akin to music or sculpture or painting. How to Paint Magical Words with Storytelling Impact first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. For many more, writing is simply a communication tool. I lean more towards the practical side.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 18, 2011

Second Example: 5 Big Mistakes Creative People Make With Money (ebook). I’ve chosen 5 Big Mistakes Creative People Make With Money by Mark McGuinness as the second example. A one-page introduction that sets us up for what’s to come – “[a] story about two creative people and their relationship with money (and other things)&#.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Do you know of someone that has really stood out in 2011? In 2011 he created the Million Dollar Blog Project and launched his case study blog, Expert Enough. Early in 2011, he did blog reviews of popular sites such as Chris Brogan , Think Traffic , Smart Passive Income , and David Risley. Maria Popova.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 21, 2011

Currently working as a freelance creative director and continuously starting up online projects when he's not out trying to take over the world. How to Measure Your Success first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Leave a Comment! Want to keep up with him? Go ahead and visit his website.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 5, 2012

Read more about his creative process in Ogilvy’s letter to Mr. Ray Calt. 7 Tips Pros Use To Get Words on the Page first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. And that can be downright addictive. PS: So who’s the “lousy copywriter”? Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 11, 2011

How do you take your interests, your personal stories, and use them as creative fuel? How Breakfast at Tiffanys Teaches You to Become a Classic Writer first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Consider this in terms of your website, your writing. Where do you do the unexpected?

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Around 2011, 2010, around that time, I was building out Twitter and becoming a Twitter influencer, and I started writing more inspirational content that I felt would help people. From 2011, that's more than a decade ago, so you put out your first poetry book. So 2011, I was thinking about the poetry book, but I had almost no direction.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 27, 2011

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. Most everybody I know who does interesting, creative work went through a phase of years of this. How to Fight Your Way Through the Writing Gap first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. But there is this gap.

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Publishing Trends

APRIL 8, 2024

She has been an independent publicist since 2011 and was previously deputy director of publicity at Scribner. At Aevitas Creative Management , Rubin Pfeffer Content has joined ACM, Rubin Pfeffer joins as executive agent at large, and his colleague Amy Thrall Flynn joins as senior agent. Chin-Yee Lai is promoted to creative director.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But what if you had some inspiration to jolt your creativity and ease your anxiety? In 2011, the US Senate gave the Shop Small campaign official status. With these 21 examples of excellent campaigns, and a willingness to be creative, you have the inspiration needed to create a winning campaign.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2012

You can record audio, photos, even entire webpages on Evernote, and access your collection any moment that you have some downtime or some creative inspiration. Blast Through Writer’s Block With These 3 Tools first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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Men With Pens

MAY 7, 2012

Your posts showed talent, creativity, drive and determination, and you have our heartfelt applause for having put your words out there. Announcing the DFW Writing Contest Winners first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. To all entrants, thank you for sharing a little window to your world.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 5, 2012

In the first month of my creative writing Masters, both my tutors told me that I wrote too much from the head. first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Have a gripping introduction to draw the reader in. Make sure you spell out a benefit for every feature. All of this is good advice.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2012

His eBook, You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) , is an Amazon Best Seller in books about writing and creativity. The Bastardization of Writing (and How I Learned to Live with It) first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 13, 2012

Your writing becomes effortless, ideas flow from a fountain of creativity and words come easily, on demand. How to build a font of creativity so you always know what to write. How to Smash Writer’s Block Forever first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Life’s going to change.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 4, 2011

Take a look at what I mean: Let’s say your high- energy time when you’re most creative is about 7am. How to Manage Your Energy Like a Power Company Executive first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Thankfully, our bodies are great at delivering energy. We just suck at scheduling those deliveries.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2011

Post by Jennifer Brown Banks Jennifer Brown Banks is a veteran freelance writer, pro blogger and creative consultant. 6 Reasons Every Serious Blogger Should Blog for the Big Dogs first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Leave a Comment! Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Damon Freeman is the founder and creative director of Damonza.com, creating custom book cover design and interior formatting for authors. So in 2011, I started the website, Damonza.com. I find it like a really creative, fun process. You can find Damon at Damonza.com.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Your creativity is festering. And your creativity is completely stale. If you’re looking to make your business a more engaging, creative, fast-moving place, you need people to rally to your cause. Shout it from the rooftops: this is a place where creativity flows. From the Pencil Cup Ready to get creativity flowing again?

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 17, 2024

Granted, some of those “Medium” searches could be for the TV show of the same name that starred Patricia Arquette from 2005 through 2011. Maybe it’s a photo you took on your camera, or perhaps it’s a Creative Commons image that perfectly fits your current shade of melancholy. The blue line represents the number of searches for “medium.”

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