The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. If you want to stay in touch, sign up for my free Author Blueprint here , subscribe to The Creative Penn podcast on your favorite app, or follow me on social media. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 20, 2023

You can also listen to a recent episode with Thomas on Novel Marketing and Christian Publishing on The Creative Penn Podcast. She also runs the award-winning podcast that's been running even longer than this one, the Creative Penn. And if y'all have not yet checked out The Creative Penn Podcast, it is excellent. That's right.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

Does it help you creatively? So yes, it's funny how we do that, but I do think it helps creatively. And if you're paying for ads, that can be a real problem. So it really does help you manage the physical copies. So I have a bunch of different ad types. Joanna: That's great. Steve: Absolutely. Steve: For sure.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

Mark Dawson is the award-winning USA Today best-selling author of the John Milton series and other thrillers, with over 6 million copies sold. Different ways to monetize your brand to make ads profitable. The effect of Apple's privacy rules on Facebook ads. Get your free Author Marketing Guide at draft2digital.com/penn.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

And I also have to admit that Amazon ads was a huge game changer for me. But then with the rise of Amazon ads, suddenly, I could multiply my sales by 20. And it was the same thing, really Joanna, since four and a half years, I do one hour a day of an Amazon ads. Now, you've mentioned the ads. Very easy.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. The key to this is not to do this analysis to simply copy it – but to come away inspired to apply some of the principles that others are using in your own writing.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

I started to hear about this self-publishing thing, and I may have started listening to The Creative Penn podcast and a few other podcasts around that time as well. If it's a special edition, or like a premium cover, it could be over $100 per copy. Being an independent author is now a much bigger and more creative prospect.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I did exactly this, back in 2008 or 2007, something like that, I printed a load of books, I had them in my living room, and I thought, Oh, I'm going to just sell them all in five minutes and make loads of money. What I've discovered that is working for me indirectly is boosting the ads to my Nordstrom reads.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. The key to this is not to do this analysis to simply copy it – but to come away inspired to apply some of the principles that others are using in your own writing.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Did you have to learn how to be a marketer, as well as the creative side? How can people change their mindset around marketing and business, as well as focus on creativity? But my first book, Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman , it climbed to the top thousands on Amazon, it's done well, a lot of celebrities actually had a few copies.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I got it selling there, but of course, I had a thousand copies offset run, which was fairly expensive because I didn't know what I was doing. And if you're doing Amazon ads, who benefits from that? So, you run an Amazon ad, you're sending people there. I use conversion ads, not traffic ads. Costs of selling direct.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

How can you use automation and tools to help you streamline your creative and business processes so you can get back to the writing? I feel like we definitely do not compete in terms of books and readers, but we do compete on things like ad spend, and pay per click, and all of that kind of thing, but that's quite different.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

In the intro, Alliance of Independent Authors Indie Author Income Survey results ; Experience of book to TV show [and previous episode, Johnny B Truant's creative pivots ]; Michael Anderle expands on his AI-assisted goals [ 20Books To 50K Facebook ]; Loop earplugs. Do we put it in the post with a copy of our book? Or do we email it?

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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? Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

With Ingram, I'm able to get them in bookstores and order copies for school visits or different events. So it's a forum where authors talk about how we need to value ourselves as creatives in our work, and not to sell ourselves short out here. Tonya: I do Amazon ads. I had been on Kindle Unlimited, and I do Amazon ads.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

When she makes contact with an executive, or someone connects with her, she sends them a free copy of her book. He didn’t have a list, but he was savvy, so he added an email sign-up to his website and collected names and email addresses for people who would be interested in finding out when the book launched.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

So you can just order a single copy to yourself. A couple of things there, one is—and amusingly, I said five by eight there, which is in inches if people don't know—and I think you've now added a toggle, haven't you, so that it's centimeters and inches. So on a single copy basis you can do sprayed edges books as well.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I was a creative writing major in college, and I went straight into a publishing job right out of college. But when they crunched the numbers, they saw that it was about, I want to say 25% of titles don't sell more than a dozen copies. They have recently been stymied by changes in Facebook ads, it's become a little more difficult.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How can you embrace book marketing as a creative part of your author business? Yes, I have my creative time when I have on my stretchy pants, and I have my work marketing time when I am treating my business like a business. You're going to print copies of the book, and you're going to give it out to market your business.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, the internet and mobile phone value-added services. He served as CEO of Twitter from 2008 to 2010, during which time the platform exploded in popularity. one of the largest Internet companies in China. com (NetEase).

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

Without a reputation, referrals or testimonials to convince people to hire you, you have to be creative and work extra hard on getting your name out there. His blog hasn’t been updated since 2008. Freelancers are creative people and can come up with some pretty creative solutions that don’t involve a blog.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

There’s a company called Music Radio Creative that can give you the whole package with the music and the intro, the outro, and the sounds and the sound effects and stuff. Don’t copy paste from previous episodes. She talks about Facebook ads quite a bit. But email list, being added to is important too. Change it around.

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