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. The results of my first Kickstarter project were amazing. Like Kickstarter. It worked in spades.

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Content Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The overhead is much more reasonable, and you get to pay per project – making it a breeze to stay within your profit margins and predict costs. There’s a huge pool of talented contractors with digital marketing skills willing to complete projects with you for an extremely reasonable rate. Get all nine in this free guide.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 5, 2023

2011: Facebook is slapped with charges from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for failing to keep its privacy promises, including allowing apps to access almost all of a user’s data, and sharing users’ info with advertisers. Who Should Use Ello Ello is the perfect online community for artists, creatives, and art lovers.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. Sign up for my new Kickstarter: www.JFPenn.com/bloodvintage Lessons learned from 13 years as a full-time author entrepreneur Thirteen years ago, in Sept 2011, I left my day job to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. Penn brand.

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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

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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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

And so I look at projects and decide, okay, where am I going to get the best return for my time and energy? So for example, I did an anthology project as an editor with Clive Barker, and my coeditor Del Howison. So we went that route with that particular project. I'm here to support myself and my family. And how will that work?

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 16, 2024

Caroline: Well, I think that the topic of fear evolved because there were a couple of projects I considered doing before I landed on this one. ” Most writers fear that two roads diverged in a wood, and they're going to take the wrong one for their writing project, and then everything is going to fall apart as a result.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Then I began publishing chapters of it on a blog back in, I think, about 2011. Joanna: It is a brilliant creative project, but let's carry on with the difficulties. Again, there are pros and cons with every creative decision, which I think is really useful. How much time did this project take you? Joanne: Eight.

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Fat Joe

JULY 21, 2023

Here’s why: Expand Production Capacity Back in 2011, the average blog post was around 300-500 words. A recent survey by Semrush found the need to scale up production was the number one reason for outsourcing content writing: Outsourcing is how smart agencies handle large content projects without compromising on quality.

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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. One of the kinds of work projects I was pitching on was obviously book covers, and I started getting quite a good rate on the covers.

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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. You can also use it for projects and e-commerce stores, which isn’t something the other free platforms can claim. The blue line represents the number of searches for “medium.” How Do You Get Started?

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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? Because yes, we’ve heard this all before. It is more nuanced than that.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But what if you had some inspiration to jolt your creativity and ease your anxiety? Red Bull funded the 330 million dollar project, and Red Bull branding is visible in every second of the three-hour video. In 2011, the US Senate gave the Shop Small campaign official status. Creating a winning marketing campaign is intimidating.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How can we shift our mindset to thinking about a long-term creative career? And the idea was that they would encourage their employees to spend up to 20% of their time on basically more speculative projects, things that were outside the scope of their official responsibilities. What can we do now that will make our future selves happy?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

How can you reframe the direct author business model to take advantage of creative possibilities for different kinds of products and long-term marketing? So I started my first creative business in 2004. Then comics are really expensive, and they take forever, so I started writing books in the interim between comic projects.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 7, 2024

She also writes nonfiction for authors as Joanna Penn and is the host of The Creative Penn Podcast. I wrote the first book, Stone of Fire in 2009, and then published in 2011. I did leave my job in 2011, so I've been a full-time creator author, entrepreneur since then. And to me, that's the creative challenge.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

So that led to my next kind of major project, which was a series of short stories set in Nepal. Because look, to be honest, this is the creative process, right? But that wasn't till about 2011 it really started to accelerate this interest in her. Joanna: I love this. So you're not sticking within a genre at all.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

What you might not know — and the reason BuzzSumo is one of my go-to tools for collection and curation — is you can create team “Projects” by saving specific results or uploading a bulk list of URLs: Click to enlarge. Since its 2011 launch, Scoop.it! AaronOrendorff #tools Click To Tweet. If you’re unfamiliar, Scoop.it!

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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

JULY 15, 2012

I, in return, was calm, clear, and polite, carefully getting the information I needed to complete her project, and ignoring her insulting manner. At the job’s conclusion, she told me there was more cash on the table and offered me a second project. Many small businesses get stuck here, especially freelance creative types like myself.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 14, 2024

So I did eventually get published by a small indie publisher in 2011. 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. You do bridging.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I switched to indie publishing in 2011. So I mean, I know of at least two readers of mine who've made it a project to collect everything I've ever written, and that's just two readers that I know about, so there may be more out there. It's such a soul-destroying industry, I ended up angry and frustrated most of the time. It's been fun.

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Backlinko

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the pet industry projected to grow to $368 billion by 2030 , and tons of pet owners looking to find new products for their companions, there’s never been a better time to tap into the pet affiliate marketing niche. Yet, with a plethora of programs available, identifying the best one is no easy task.

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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. For long writing projects, there’s nothing better. Bonus: Compose Huge Works of Writing with Logline. What about you? Leave a Comment! Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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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. Some of the best discussions of 2010 came from his blog and I believe that the Million Dollar Blog Project will result in a few more bloggers to watch.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. Here are a few of my favourites: How Creatives Should Negotiate via Tim Ferris. To quote from Smart Passive Income : Sol’s built his career across a dizzying number of spaces. Normally, such figures would put me off recommending him.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I’m a full-time freelance writer with a travel blog as a side project. I’d started the blog as a passion project. Working on the blog for 30 minutes in the morning also gets my creative juices flowing, makes my other writing better, and puts me in a great mood. My blog used to make me feel sad and discouraged.

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Men With Pens

MAY 31, 2011

After all, someone else has done the creative work – it’s simply our job to judge it. “Bathory’s Blood Fire Death is a groundbreaking album – a one-man project of Quorthon, who is now dead. How to Write a Kick-Ass Review first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2011

You think you’re writing project is hard? Post by Steff Metal What can a blind metalhead chick teach you about finding your audience and kicking ass with your creative business ? How to Write Without Colour first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Welcome to my 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. If you’re working on a big project like an ebook, try taking a whole week away from it. first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Have a gripping introduction to draw the reader in.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

My blog posts, articles, and writing projects have all benefited from my fiction writing experience – that means I’m better at communicating with people and clients who bring me income. If you’re not a writer or have never really tried your hand at penning a long writing project, don’t despair.

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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. Want to keep up with him? Go ahead and visit his website.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

You can find more future of creativity topics here. The other thing I'd say is, you are talking to me 15 years after I started writing, and I do still have my early YouTube videos on my YouTube channel, which is the Creative Penn with a double N. Was your first published work, Stone of Fire , the first project you wrote?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

You can find more future of creativity topics here. The other thing I'd say is, you are talking to me 15 years after I started writing, and I do still have my early YouTube videos on my YouTube channel, which is the Creative Penn with a double N. Was your first published work, Stone of Fire , the first project you wrote?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2012

Here are some examples: You’ve just finished an incredibly successful web design project for a small retailer at a local mall. ” As much as you’d probably just love to have fun in your creative work and leave the nitty-gritty of sales to some invisible person somewhere, you probably don’t have that luxury.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 23, 2012

Gretchen Rubin, of The Happiness Project , is constantly researching happiness and conducting her own personal experiments in her own life, so that she can find what works for her (and what doesn’t) and help readers by sharing that experience. Then, he gave them full access to the survey results. Lead through connection.

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