The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. So you can make more money per copy, you maintain all the control over your work , and that was really important to me. Also, Joanna, I've become a big fan of Amazon ads. Author Mark Paul, he's a memoir writer, he has sold 45,000 copies of his memoir using nothing but Amazon ads.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Since 2008, spending on SEO from 2008 to 2020 has grown over 7x from $11.5 As part of your SEO campaign, let’s say you spent $100 on localized SEO efforts for other counties near your business’s location, and it netted you $300 in sales as a result. Notice the bold “ Ad ” in the top left corner. What is SEO?

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

The paperback version for sale on Amazon and Ingram has a plain B&W interior. Only available in the Kickstarter and also for sale on my store, CreativePennBooks.com. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy. This edition has a fly leaf cover, silver foil, and interior color photos.

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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

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. Joe Solari discusses key aspects of your author business. That's a big one for me.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

Show Notes Harnessing the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons on Kickstarter Offering physical objects to accompany your book campaign Why are direct sales and Kickstarter taking off now? If it's a special edition, or like a premium cover, it could be over $100 per copy. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. I grew my direct book sales which means a greater percentage of profit for a lower number of book sales. I offered it, but I didn't focus on it. I also only offered digital formats.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 31, 2018

Every day, we consume and interact with photos, audio files, video clips, animations, games, interactive ads, streaming movies, and even experiential marketing, which has gained a digital edge with the rise of virtual reality and augmented reality. But it doesn’t only have to be ad content. contentstrategy Click To Tweet.

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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. If you are a wide author, you are already used to not having a good Amazon rank because a borrow counts as a sale. And they had the identical sales. I use conversion ads, not traffic ads.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

Do we put it in the post with a copy of our book? Because back in 2008, I did all of this. And like you're talking about, okay, a mom walking and dictating, does that translate into book sales? Because it might not lead to book sales. You can add it to any ad copy for any Facebook ads or Amazon ads.

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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. Most of my sales come through print , whereas I know that many indie authors get more sales with eBooks. Are they a percentage of your sales now? I saw more of an uptick of sales on those at that time.

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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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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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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Readers had just received 31 posts of high value, there was lots of goodwill and community on the site, and I think the healthy sales reflected this. Last time I did the analysis of where sales of our eBooks came from I found that more than 90% of our sales came from emails that we sent to our readers. Please digest that.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Amazon.com is currently the world’s largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web and earns $386 Billion a year. The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, the internet and mobile phone value-added services. 8 Ding Lei: Founder of NetEase is worth $30.6

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 2022

How the pandemic and increasing online sales have changed traditional publishing. Why backlist sales are so important. How has the pandemic and increasing online sales changed the more traditional publishing industry? But print book sales were up 9% in 2021 , and for a mature industry that is astonishing. Show Notes.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

There’s more to success than book sales, however, and being “a successful author” is about defining what that means for you. When she makes contact with an executive, or someone connects with her, she sends them a free copy of her book. Until he wrote Your First 1,000 Copies , a book about selling books.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Readers had just received 31 posts of high value, there was lots of goodwill and community on the site, and I think the healthy sales reflected this. Last time I did the analysis of where sales of our eBooks came from I found that more than 90% of our sales came from emails that we sent to our readers. Please digest that.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

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. I've been doing this a long time now, since 2008, and I feel like I have got stuck in my processes for an amount of time. I absolutely love it.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

There will also be regulation, safety guidelines, legal shifts, and guardrails added to the technology in the coming months and years as things develop. For example, we had Microsoft Bing’s Sidney for just a few weird days, and now they have added guard-rails to stop it getting too creative. [ And here's why.'

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ProBlogger

MARCH 31, 2014

Readers had just received 31 posts of high value, there was lots of goodwill and community on the site, and I think the healthy sales reflected this. Last time I did the analysis of where sales of our eBooks came from I found that more than 90% of our sales came from emails that we sent to our readers. Please digest that.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

This can prove very useful when you need the extra motivation to start writing you next post.The above table is a copy from my notes. In my case, I was blogging about fitness since 2008 so I knew the industry very well and I believe this is one of the reasons that the blog’s traffic increased so quickly.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You're going to print copies of the book, and you're going to give it out to market your business. I like that you mentioned geography, actually, because you made me think there because I have always focused on global sales. I think what doesn't work is haste, being solely promotional, and not adding value to people.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 30, 2011

Ramit Sethi, used with permission Since then, Ramit has leveraged his blog’s popularity to display ads, run profitable courses, and launch a best-selling book. Here, I wanted to explain the specific strategies Ramit used to monetize IWTYTBR, and spans from his earliest trials with display ads, to his recent success with video courses.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

It used to be that I just didn’t see the banner ads, but now I don’t think that’s a opt-in as much. They’re still the big thing for some bloggers but we added the slider in. Most of them said no, but one of them said yes, and he paid me $10 a month for the ad. Maybe you need to start adding some visual.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And so, when people are binge listening to your show, if they start to hear the same exact call to action every single time, they’re going to tune it out just like we’ve tuned out AdSense ads nowadays. Don’t copy paste from previous episodes. She talks about Facebook ads quite a bit. You want to mix it up. Change it around.

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