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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CoSchedule

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Consistently publish content on a variety of those topics. Matthew Woodward Matthew Woodward started his blog back in 2012 and currently focuses on topics primarily related to SEO. What separates Matthew’s blog from most other SEO blogs is that he publishes well-written case studies. Get multiple voices writing on your blog.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

The underrated solution: publish your own digital flipbook. While the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported a 125% increase in digital magazine readership from 2010 to 2011 for consumer magazines, AdAge reported in March 2012 that the jump still only accounts for 1% of total paid and verified circulation. Translation?

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

It’s been nearly a month since Bloggers to Watch in 2013 was published. Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2012 – The Winners. We had a fantastic response, including some compelling recommendations via the comments section and around the web. Mark Richards. Travel Blogs Worth Reading: 2013 Edition. Over to you. bloggers aged over 60.

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Smart Blogger

JULY 14, 2023

Stay with us, because we’re about to demystify this concept, give you actionable insights, and change the way you perceive your digital footprint. Madrigal , a tech editor at Atlantic.com, in 2012 to shed light on this very phenomenon. Let’s jump in! What is Dark Social?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

What Happened to Me in 2012 Penguin Updates. My site, WebHostingSecretRevealed.com, was hit badly during the Google Penguin update in 2012. This concept is still valid two years after I first talked about it. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. Tactic #1: Content Swap.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 20, 2012

But what about those thought-leaders and renegades for whom the concept of blogging, much less computers, was inconceivable? Read every blog post he publishes and comment in a relevant, valuable way. In March of 2012, Nielsen published findings which tracked over 181 million blogs around the world. Walt Disney.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 24, 2017

Back in 2012 Domo presented research claiming WordPress users alone create 347 articles every minute. This was popularized by Brian Dean a number of years ago, and it’s still a pretty awesome concept. Getting published at notable outlets is a big deal for any marketer. But getting a publisher’s ear can be easier said than done.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 24, 2017

Back in 2012 Domo presented research claiming WordPress users alone create 347 articles every minute. This was popularized by Brian Dean a number of years ago, and it’s still a pretty awesome concept. Getting published at notable outlets is a big deal for any marketer. But getting a publisher’s ear can be easier said than done.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In this article, I am going to share a few strategies that work well for me – these are the mainly how I quadruple my site traffics ever since it got hit by Penguin in April 2012. If you are a publisher selling programming books, StackOverflow is right up your alley – at a minimum, ask your writers to stay active on the site.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve seen bloggers struggle with this concept the most, and so here’s a few ideas that I’ve found make great press releases that are effective and simple to produce. To promote his business, he does what good marketers all do well: he’s active on social media, publishes a blog, and contributes content elsewhere. The biggest catch?

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Intergrowth

MARCH 10, 2023

One of the most effective tactics for getting more of the right people to your site is SEO-centric content marketing — publishing helpful content on your website to bring more customers to your site from search engines. Both sites are being accused of plagiarizing competitor sites after they published similar content with minor tweaks.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

What Happened to Me in 2012 Penguin Updates. My site, WebHostingSecretRevealed.com, was hit badly during the Google Penguin update in 2012. This concept is still valid two years after I first talked about it. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. Tactic #1: Content Swap.

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Backlinko

AUGUST 17, 2023

Not only will you find reports on e-commerce purchases, but you’ll also be able to review the user purchase journey as a whole, and how publisher ads and promotions helped secure the conversion. Event tracking has been a part of Google Analytics since 2004, but the concept has taken on a whole new meaning and value with Google Analytics 4.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 18, 2024

In the intro, will TikTok be banned in the USA, and how will this impact authors and publishing? Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital , self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. When did you start self-publishing? So that was fun.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 1, 2013

You’ll get to see this topic through the lens of known bloggers and marketers, but I’ll also reveal my own use of each one of these strategies and concepts. When I chatted with him about it prior to publishing the series, I asked him, “So this is like an intro course to Blog That Converts? Blogger to launcher basics.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

He founded the company in 2012, and it has since become one of the most valuable startups in the world. In October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire. Wellenreuther was primarily responsible for the architecture and the concept of the SAP R/2 financial accountancy module.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The idea was that every day of the 12 days before Christmas, I would publish a blog post, announcing that day’s deal. The concept today is very similar. We still do a blog post everyday about the deal, but we still also publish the two normal blog posts we do everyday. This is a little business that started in 2012.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 29, 2018

We then turned it into an ebook which I then updated in 2012. The same concept for sure. This is what a lot of top-end publishers are doing on their sites at the moment. I always get those mixed up but I’ve done it as a series of blog posts which I updated two years after I did the first time. There’s two versions of the ebook.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. Dorie: Well, one of the concepts that I actually talked about in my latest book, The Long Game , is 20% time. And then Google popularized a related concept of 20% time.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 8, 2023

Michael Anderle (LMBPN), Joanna Penn (The Creative Penn), and Dan Wood (DRaft2Digital) at London Book Fair, April 2023 Dan Wood is the COO of Draft2Digital , which helps authors self-publish alongside excellent support. He's also the co-author of many more with other authors under his company LMBPN Publishing. Both: Hello.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. I had a bunch of publishing contracts, and they all went very badly. I don't know if I can release this book any better than these publishers, but I know for sure I can release them just as bad. Then I did another one, I think, in 2012.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2024

So there's an interesting thing of there needs to be a concept at the start of any sort of project, or two thirds of the time, it's that concept. That concept takes imagination. It takes artistic thought to connect the concept with a book. James: I think the version of Xara I use now is from 2012. It was the 90s.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I've been following the industry, more so on the music side than publishing, but also just always straddling that line and seeing what can I take from the music industry and bring it into publishing and vice versa. Are we separating the concept of an ebook or an audiobook and making NFT special editions new products?

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ProBlogger

JUNE 21, 2013

It is my honour to share the story of Torre De Roche, and her journey from blogger to author with an impressive publishing deal. I first mentioned her on Problogger as one of the bloggers to watch in 2012. I was impressed with her self-published memoir and her creative approach to blogging. Torre is a natural writer.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This question, and only this, should determine what gets published on your WordPress and what gets trashed for another day. There is an entire industry built around the concept of Work At Home Moms that stands as testament to how “ordinary” you can be while still speaking for a huge and significant crowd.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. When I first published it, I didn’t look like this. I published my first post and then, my next feeling was, “How am I going to get people to read the post?” Nicole is there as well.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 8, 2025

Photo by Hadley Stanfill Todays post is excerpted from Imagine a Door: A Writers Guide to Unlocking Your Story, Choosing a Publishing Path, and Honoring the Creative Journey by Laura Stanfill. I started Forest Avenue Press in 2012 to publish the kinds of novels I love to read. Eventually I learned to trust my instincts.

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The Write Life

APRIL 1, 2023

Or maybe you, like me, were forged in the unforgiving fires of 2012-era Tumblr and have seen loads of posts like this or this. My point is, it’s not exactly news that badly-written women are an unfortunate feature in our media.

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Fat Joe

APRIL 28, 2023

Social Media Trends – 2012 Social media is another force that threatened (and still threatens) to kill SEO, according to some. Concepts like ‘Topical Authority’ and ‘Entity SEO’ have become increasingly popular trends for strategy and implementation as a result. TikTok vs. #SEO tools search volume Trends start on TikTok.

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Backlinko

JULY 5, 2024

Since Backlinko’s launch in 2012, we’ve experimented with countless tactics to build website authority. Understanding Website Authority (Metrics Compared) Website authority is a concept in SEO that refers to a site’s overall strength and likelihood to rank high in search engine results pages ( SERPs ). Some successful.

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