Express Writers

MARCH 7, 2023

The benefits of content marketing are clear: it can help any organization boost brand exposure, increase sales, and improve customer loyalty. This is the highest amount in the history of the CMO survey (since 2008). This is especially relevant with the decline of traditional marketing mediums like television and radio ads.

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Content Marketing Marketing Content Content Creation 82

The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

Different ways to monetize your brand to make ads profitable. The effect of Apple's privacy rules on Facebook ads. But then they added different abilities and different mechanisms that enabled you to reach different segments of your potential readership, and the advertising platform was built.

Advertising 98

Advertising Marketing Ads Social Media 98

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? Paddy: Actually, we were running some ads, and we got in lot of trouble with some of those ads. Paddy: I am. Joanna: You're allowed to do this.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Retail Consulting Sales 98

The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

She supported me and promoted me with having my first school visit. 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. So she said, this kind of fills a niche.

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Income Diary

JANUARY 29, 2024

Social and Referral Traffic: Understanding the traffic originating from social media platforms and other external sites is important, though it can be influenced by paid promotions and partnerships. Can indicate robust social media strategy or paid promotions. Suggests strong brand presence and customer loyalty.

Website 52

Website Lead Generation Social Media Engineering 52

BKA Content

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Anticipate Marketing and Sales Needs With Blogging If you’re looking for a low-cost evergreen solution to marketing during a recession, our monthly blog writing service is the answer. With consumers relying on ad blockers to improve their internet experience, companies need alternative ways to attract buyers. Learn More.

Digital Media 52

Digital Media Government Advertising Social Media 52

The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

How do you ensure secure cash flow and profits, instead of focusing on short-term spike sales? But I also came out of business of 13 years IT consulting, and I arrived as well, in sort of 2008 I started, but you know, really when indie started taking off. Joe Solari discusses key aspects of your author business. Joanna: Yeah, me too.

Insurance 98

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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. I used Bookfunnel to deliver all ebooks and audiobooks, as per usual with my direct sales.

Retail 98

Retail Projects Social Media Sales 98

The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. 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. Nonfiction authors don't just make money with book sales or change lives with book sales.

Writing 98

Writing Social Media Publisher Publishing 98

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.

Management 99

Management IT Digital Media Digital Marketing 99

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

Engineering 52

Engineering Finance Education Entertainment 52

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.

Publisher 98

Publisher Publishing Publishing Sales 98

The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

I have been blogging since 2008, year in, year out , and just always did, and then, I just thought, you know what, I'm going to let go of the blog. Joanna Penn: And just on that, so the direct sales model, software is another thing. It might be time to stop doing a particular form of promotion and change into something quite different.

Creativity 98

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

So with my books, the back of my mind was, what if some journalists think, oh, you're trying to promote arranged marriages or some kind of archaic out-of-date tradition. However, I was prepared for those questions that might come up and how I would answer it, and say, well, I'm not actually promoting it at all. I was in Australia.

Marketing 98

Marketing Publisher Publishing Publishing 98

The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 8, 2023

This podcast is sponsored by Written Word Media , which makes book marketing a breeze by offering quick, easy and effective ways for authors to promote their books. That was 2008, and it just never stopped. So I tend to have a solid outline, but then I just keep adding to it as I go. I just recently started doing direct sales.

Writing 98

Writing Projects Writer Sales 98

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.

Marketing 98

Marketing Writing Social Media Publisher 98

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.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sales Blogger Copy 40

ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

I hadn’t made any money and then the second year, I started to dabble with some Google AdSense ads on my blog, some Amazon affiliate income. But 2008, it plateaued, it was steady, and then it took off again. AdSense, for those of you who don’t know, is Google’s ad network. You couldn’t have exactly the same types of ads.

Blog 51

Blog Blogging Promotion Advertising 51

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. [ It has kind of a different focus, though.

Text 98

Text Creativity Publisher Publishing 98

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.

Social Media 26

Social Media Sales Blogger Copy 26

The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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. And I have to pick and choose which venues I'm choosing to promote the books on. Joanna: I like that.

Marketing 98

Marketing Publisher Publishing Publishing 98

The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

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. We offer a range of apps for direct sale stores on Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce, Zapier, and there's a few other ones.

Retail 52

Retail Copy Publisher Publishing 52

ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

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. It was a huge step, one that added risks and extra costs to a blog that was not making any money yet, but it was a necessary step. Step 1: Get to know your niche.

Blog 54

Blog Blogging Keywords SEO 54

ProBlogger

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Forced to close her real estate business in November 2008 because of the mortgage meltdown, Susan launched her digital information business in January 2009 with a mere $200 in startup capital. Published nearly four years ago, it still makes $600-$3,000 a month in online sales. Buy some cheap ads on Google to promote your product.

Electronics 46

Electronics Blog Blogging Sales 46

ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki started Styling You in July 2008 and today – 9 years later – she’s not only grown her audience, but she’s built a pretty amazing business around her blog. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? If you go back to 2008 when I started, Facebook business pages started not long after. I’m thinking October 2008.

Blogger 42

Blogger Blog Blogging Social Media 42

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. 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.

Blog 63

Blog Blogging Proofreader Consulting 63

ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

The use of feeds has diminished since Google Reader was laid to rest, and I think when Gmail and other clients started filtering promotional material away from the “Primary Inbox”, blog updates via email became less important. I’ve been blogging since 2008, and I’ve seen many different trends rise and fall.

Blog 55

Blog Blogging Social Media Advertising 55

ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki started Styling You in July 2008 and today – 9 years later – she’s not only grown her audience, but she’s built a pretty amazing business around her blog. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? If you go back to 2008 when I started, Facebook business pages started not long after. I’m thinking October 2008.

Blogger 36

Blogger Blog Blogging Social Media 36

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.

Social Media 52

Social Media Sales Blogger Copy 52

ProBlogger

JULY 21, 2011

And we were doing our best to monetize the site with your typical affiliate programs, text link ads and PPC campaigns. For details about the fledgling Tripawds site, don’t miss my submission for the 2008 ProBlogger Video Mashup. We give users 25MB of upload space for their free blogs which display banner ads.

Landing Page 42

Landing Page Ads Promotion Sales 42

ProBlogger

JANUARY 13, 2013

DSG: I started in 2008. So 2008 and 2009, it was really for local entrepreneurs in St. Also, we’re constantly working on ways to promote our content in a higher way. That’s really the best way anything spreads, not asking people, “Can you promote this for me?” It’s better to ask “How can I promote and help other people?”.

Blog 42

Blog Blogging Promotion Advertising 42

ProBlogger

AUGUST 23, 2012

They’re not long or hard posts, but I know from experience that clothes sell out, particularly if they’re on sale, so they do have to be timely. I used Tweetdeck. Facebook, at that time, did not have post-scheduling capabilities.). In theory, this all sounds great, but how’d it go? Share it with us in the comments.

Blogger 39

Blogger Hospitality Consulting Blog 39

ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Her book, Blog Post Promotion , is extraordinarily in-depth for a book at its price point, and is something I’d strongly recommend to those who need help getting more attention for their posts. He is always adding new ways for his community to engage with his site and, as a result, is creating an increasingly passionate readership.

Blogger 53

Blogger Storytelling Social Media Consulting 53

ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

” If we all put aside time to write content, we put aside time to engage with our audience, we put aside time to promote our blog, but most of us don’t put aside time on a regular daily basis to monetize our blog, at least a lot of bloggers don’t. Then, this is what I do to promote those posts.” We had sliders.

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Blog Blogging Blogger Architecture 24

ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

First of all, asking authors or people coming out with promotions of some kind, they’re likely going to say “Yes” during those times so you can ask them because they’re going to be wanting to get in front of as many people as possible. This something that actually helped promote in my last launch for the podcasting course.

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