The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

What about sales tax / VAT? Are direct sales for you? You’re in control of the site and your sales pages, with no other ads on your page to distract potential readers. Over time, you build up traffic to your store, and that effort compounds, so you start to make sales every day on a site you control. What are the costs?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

Why might using your face to advertise your books be a good idea? With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. What are the benefits of selling direct? Steve: Thank you very much.

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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? In the intro, Kobo Plus expands to audiobooks in Australia & New Zealand; Thoughts on the changing publishing environment based on Thrillerfest Audios (well worth buying!), Joe Solari discusses key aspects of your author business.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

Most commonly, lifestyle blogs make money by advertising brands that align and resonate with the lifestyle they promote. Cupcakes and Cashmere Cupcakes and Cashmere has morphed from Emily Schuman’s 2008 “favorite things” personal blog to a thriving women’s fashion, beauty, and women’s interests lifestyle blog and online shop.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If you sell direct, you can produce higher quality books and products, make more money per sale, get paid faster, and reach readers directly, but there are challenges to publish and market this way. You can also listen to a recent episode with Thomas on Novel Marketing and Christian Publishing on The Creative Penn Podcast.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I launched the book direct on my Shopify store, CreativePennBooks.com and sold it exclusively direct for a month before publishing it wide. Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now. I also wrote and published two short stories. Click here to buy it direct from me.

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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. Too many businesses underestimate the value of advertising and consumer relationships during economic downturns. Learn More.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. The paperback version for sale on Amazon and Ingram has a plain B&W interior. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Write and publish what you want, get paid every day for your books, and control your customer data and relationships. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

Show Notes Changes in publishing and marketing for nonfiction authors over time and what still works How to stand out and build your community Content marketing and long-term marketing strategies Deciding what nonfiction book to write—should you stay in your lane? I sent proposals to three publishers, and Wiley gave me a book deal.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

I have covered the topic as it relates to authors regularly since then and even written a short book on the impact of AI on authors and publishing. I write books and I record and publish audio, although I also do some professional speaking and teaching as well. There is much more at stake.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Joanna Penn: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Alliance of Independent Authors Advanced Self-Publishing Salon with me, Joanna Penn, and Orna Ross. I got much more serious about poetry publishing, which was much more fun and much better integrated with the busy schedule that I had in those years. Transcript of the discussion.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

Why is publicity still useful in an age of pay-per-click direct advertising? So I didn't know anything about self-publishing. I kind of stumbled upon this whole amazing world of self-publishing, and how you can actually be in charge of your career and your author career. Halima Khatun shares her valuable tips and experience.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing, and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. You started before me, but when I started self-publishing there was also no Kindle. And they had the identical sales. No, I lie, I wasn't.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Chelle Honiker is the co-founder and publisher of Indie Author Magazine , Indie Author Training, Indie Author Tools, and Direct2Readers.com. 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. Do what works for you.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Among the benefits – shorter sales cycle (no. 4), complement to paid advertising (no. How does marketing without talking about or promoting our product/service help us create leads and sales? Jason Schemmel , Harper Collins Christian Publishing. How do we measure content’s influence on sales and revenue?

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. So many bloggers look at traditional methods of monetization such as advertising, affiliate income and developing online products. Find out SujanPatel.com.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Host blogs, hounded constantly by advertisers looking for low-cost linkbacks, have tightened their submission guidelines to the point that getting in is almost as strenuous as a job application at Google. It seems that selling advertising is no longer a way to create a viable income stream. And it’s not just advertising.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

There’s also another class action lawsuit where Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued around GitHub Co-pilot being “trained on public repositories of code scraped from the web, many of which are published with licenses that require anyone reusing the code to credit its creators. 2017 is when I published my first dark fantasy novel.

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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. Create a sales page. They can’t lose.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In 2008, Europe’s soccer elite scored around $800 million from merchandizing. As promotional gimmicks go, it’s oddly appropriate, if a little sick,” said the entertainment publisher in a post discussing promotional products they’d received. This will bring new readers to your blog, and strengthen your credibility with advertisers.

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ProBlogger

JULY 21, 2011

For details about the fledgling Tripawds site, don’t miss my submission for the 2008 ProBlogger Video Mashup. For those who don’t care to spend time searching the vast amount of content in our blogs and forums, we published Three Legs and a Spare , the first in a series of canine amputation handbooks.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Use filters on gmail – I have hundreds of filters on gmail – bulk for emails on products sales – keep records to serve customers – quick gmail search of transactions to see if customer purchases a product or not – emails you want to keep, but don’t want to read. We probably publish one or two a week at the most.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

No matter how large or small your business is, or how experienced you are in content marketing, these recently published books can help you take your content marketing to the next level. Publishing and distributing. Marcus Sheridan, also known as The Sales Lion, was one of the pioneer content marketers.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 13, 2013

DSG: I started in 2008. So 2008 and 2009, it was really for local entrepreneurs in St. Another thing is that once you start putting things for sale and you start getting some really awesome customers, they start spreading the word. Louis, Missouri, where I’m from. Strategies for growing your site. It’s a good thing.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Use filters on gmail – I have hundreds of filters on gmail – bulk for emails on products sales – keep records to serve customers – quick gmail search of transactions to see if customer purchases a product or not – emails you want to keep, but don’t want to read. We probably publish one or two a week at the most.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. When I first published it, I didn’t look like this. I published my first post and then, my next feeling was, “How am I going to get people to read the post?” Then, she starts advertising it. .

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