The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

Joanna: Just an introduction to the audience, back in 2007 I read your book, From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur , which helped me decide to start my own author business. It's so funny, people are like, oh it was so easy for you back then when you published in 2007. So welcome back to the show, Stephanie. Thanks for having me.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Direct ad sales – Advertisers were targeted my site. I knew Google took a cut, so I reached out directly to advertisers. $20 Added other advertising networks. 2007 – First ProBlogger Event – These have a lot of expenses, but they are an income streams. The first one was direct ad sales.

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Income Diary

MARCH 31, 2024

All you do is identify a product, sign up for its affiliate program, promote it, generate sales, and get paid commissions. Likewise, if you Buy Traffic (pay-per-click or Facebook advertising) you need to know your audience and what motivates them! So many affiliates just do a Copy and Paste – don’t do that!

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That was my first introduction to direct sale, to be honest, because I did not understand CreateSpace, Amazon KDP did not necessarily exist for print. And being that I'm a marketer, and I'm doing direct sales, I always kind of refer to products, and by products, I mean books. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

How do you ensure secure cash flow and profits, instead of focusing on short-term spike sales? Of the copies I did sell, it seemed like most of them were to this group called 20Booksto50k, and I had authors reaching out to me asking me questions. You have to pay that advertising immediately. Look at where you're ranking.”

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Income Diary

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Write believable copy that people love and respond to… Get our best copywriting info – available now as a PDF eBOOK. Request your Copy Now. So, every time he sold a copy to a client, he told them the book has typos that he had missed. In 2007 I paid $15,000 to join an elite coaching program. Let’s get started!

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

Advertisers want to advertise on blogs that have engagement. ” I was like, “Hey, let’s test this,” so I created the ebook and I put it on sale, thinking maybe it would sell $100 or so because all of the content was already on the blog for free. I wrote it in 2007. I knew I should do it. No problem.”

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 29, 2018

That eBook sold tens of thousands of copies. Longtime listeners will be familiar with that name, I originally ran 31 Days to Build a Better Blog in, I think, it was 2007 or 2009. You know when you’re doing a sales page and you’re just, “Ugh. We use it obviously for our Christmas sale at the end of each year.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 27, 2024

So I was in the build up to the second book in my Spirit Beast series, as it was called then, and sales weren't anything breathtaking. By the end of January, I'd made 100 pounds without spending a penny on advertising. Let's aim to continue to get at least X amount of sales every day for a whole month, or X amount of page-reads.

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