The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

How can you use paid advertising as part of your book marketing strategy? How advertising has changed in the past decade. The difference between paid advertising and other forms of marketing. Why building your mailing list can be your best free advertising option. Is it worth it to advertise a standalone book?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2014

Previous to these first experimentations with eBooks, the income generated from my blogs was almost all from advertising revenue (from ad networks like AdSense and also a few ad sales direct with brands) and affiliate revenue (like Amazon and a few smaller programs). in sales in 2009. My big issue was a severe lack of time.

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ProBlogger

JULY 8, 2021

When I started Digital Photography School back in 2007, RSS was being hailed as the Next Big Thing. Which may explain why around 90–95% of our eBook and course sales come from our emails, even though we post the same offers on our blog and social media channels. Actually, there’s another reason email might work so well for sales.

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ProBlogger

JULY 8, 2021

When I started Digital Photography School back in 2007, RSS was being hailed as the Next Big Thing. Which may explain why around 90–95% of our eBook and course sales come from our emails, even though we post the same offers on our blog and social media channels. Actually, there’s another reason email might work so well for sales.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Back then, you couldn't even run ads to the retailers, but I already I was so used to doing it myself and I knew all the benefits to doing it myself, and I wasn't too happy to hand it over to the retailers when that happened, when Kindle happened in 2007. And they had the identical sales.

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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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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I considered shutting the show down a few years back as I was bored with the content — but then generative AI took off, and the rise of direct sales started, and now we have plenty to talk about again! It is harder to stand out, especially as advertising has become more expensive and the market has become ever more crowded.

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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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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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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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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! Affiliate Marketing Sounds Easy?

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Deep down they did it because they want to be ‘internet famous’ like Nomadic Matt , and fund their travels with sponsored posts, banner advertising, affiliate sales, eBooks, the list goes on. From my research, it seems like any blog that is making serious money started around 2007, give or take a year or two.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 31, 2021

However, regardless of what we might think, consumers aren’t always fans of data-targeted advertising. Concerned about the implications of advertisers capturing vast quantities of consumer data with no checks or balances in place, the U.S. There are a couple of reasons why AdChoices is such a big deal for marketers and advertisers.

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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? The other thing you touched on with the cash flow is that it's an incredibly difficult business when you think about how the payment structures work, especially if you're a big advertiser. You have to pay that advertising immediately.

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Income Diary

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2007 I paid $15,000 to join an elite coaching program. Accountable Advertising. Then give yourself a pat on the back because you’re now all set to get more sales and make more profits. And creates binge-watchers out of ordinary, decent folk like you and me. First, you need to know a little about my background in hypnosis.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 27, 2012

This was back in late 2007, when the conventional blogging advice was to choose a niche – as narrow a niche as possible. I’d been reading Steve Pavlina’s blog at the time, and he made most of his money through advertising, so I decided to go down the same route. And waited. Learning point. Learning point.

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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. No problem.”

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ProBlogger

MARCH 12, 2018

We pay a lot of attention to our sales pages because if we’re selling a product, we can optimize those, we can do better. You’ve got the potential for new readers that you could hook into your newsletter list, you’ve got potential at advertising revenue as well. It’s a post I wrote in 2007, it probably took me two hours to write.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. It’s going to be our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog course.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 24, 2021

But he’s not studying the science of advertising or market research. In 2007, a software developer named Eric Nakagawa posted a photo of a fat cat he found on the internet to his site. Investors acquired the site for $2 million in 2007. Image by The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania. He started in January.

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