Neil Patel

MARCH 15, 2021

It starts with understanding your target audience. If millennials are a key part of your target audience, then paid advertising is an effective option, because it allows you to reach these people where they’re “hanging out.” Run Ads on the Social Media Platforms Millennials Use the Most. In the past, this was pretty easy.

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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. Identify audience FAQs and respond with research-backed content. Establish a social media presence with meaningful content.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 7, 2021

In this narrative suitable for marketers of all specialties, author Al Ries addresses the challenges of marketing to a skeptical, oversaturated audience. They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today’s Digital Consumer. The book is also available in audio format.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 28, 2023

My audience thought they wanted this particular cover , sort of a commercial travel guide cover with blue skies and sun. We have all our lines and of course I do share, I share a lot and have done since I was online in 2008. I'm afraid that I will be very embarrassed because this is not aimed at my target audience.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

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. I was afraid of failure and not even making that much, plus this book falls between my existing audiences. What happens to Pilgrimage now? How did I do fulfillment?

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Today, we understand advertising is the lifeblood of all the big social networks. Paid social media has become a key component of many brands’ marketing strategies. Just look at Facebook’s audience growth since late 2008. 3 Reasons Why Social Media Is Pay to Play in 2021.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

They are so enamored by what’s new and possible that they don’t stop to ask whether it’s right for the audience, right for the message, and whether it could work. Bethany Chambers , North Coast Media . Among the benefits – shorter sales cycle (no. We just wrote about 99 benefits of content marketing. Kyle Tavares, NEPS.

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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. I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

And I thought more people need to do this because as authors, we juggle a lot of hats, and there's a lot of focus on social media, and rightly so, TikTok is blowing up. But actually, and when I say traditional media, it's not just newspapers and magazines anymore. Because back in 2008, I did all of this.

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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. I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Don’t overwhelm with the value: What is one simple thing your audience can do? Link your social media profiles to your email unsubscribe. Want more ideas to integrate social media and email? This can increase sales.

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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. We talk about how Nikki built her audience and how to stand out in a competitive niche. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? Nikki: Thank you.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 13, 2024

You introduce your audience to a product or service and, if they buy using your unique affiliate site link, you earn an affiliate commission. However, many of the most profitable affiliate websites are those that refer sales. If you don’t, and you end up promoting some subpar products, your audience won’t be happy.

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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. We talk about how Nikki built her audience and how to stand out in a competitive niche. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? Nikki: Thank you.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Introduction On 8 December 2008, I published my first blog post on www.TheCreativePenn.com. The Creative Penn home page in 2008 This is my third website. Consider the pie of sales income for a particular book. In terms of social media, since the slow demise of Twitter, I have not found a new home.

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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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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. I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings.

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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. I had an agent call and tell me, I like what you're doing but nobody knows who you are, you need to build an audience. So in 2008, I started my own publishing business.

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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. Buzzsumo can help you identify what type of content gets shared on social media, what type of titles are used and who are the influencers in a niche.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But 2008, it plateaued, it was steady, and then it took off again. Back then, there was no real social media, but today I will put more time into social media. It maybe some mentions on social media, it maybe a competition we’ve done, all of these different types of things.

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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. It's called direct sales. And specifically, direct sales online. It's about more profit per sale. Well, there is!

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. These are 20 people who stood out to me this year. I love his blog.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 26, 2022

They consistently rank as the best search engine marketing companies in North America, and have won awards in email marketing, SEO, paid media, social media, conversion rate optimization, and more. Lyfe Marketing – Best Social Media Management Services. >> Compare Quotes. >> Compare Quotes.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And diving into social media during that time, it was Myspace. My audience actually started requesting that I put a book out. And I wrote it in a way that I felt like my audience would receive it. So December 10, 2014, I published my first book, Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman , and with the audience receiving it well.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

But on the organic reach — so I should I suppose we should probably say organic reaches effectively publicity that you don't have to pay for on social media. Joanna: But of course, it is not just social media or Facebook or wherever. That will introduce me to an audience who might not otherwise have heard of me.

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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 Social media gets a lot of attention from marketers – and for good reason – but it’s still a fact that SEO gets over 1,000 percent more traffic than social media. What is SEO? SEO is an essential component of any marketer’s strategy.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

The Lead Machine: The Small Business Guide to Digital Marketing : Everything Entrepreneurs Need to Know About SEO, Social Media, Email Marketing, and Generating Leads Online by Rich Brooks. Evaluate your website analytics, email reports, and social media to see what’s working and what’s not working.

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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 typically includes paid ads, promoted social media posts, and sponsored content.

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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. With an audience that is often distraught over caring for their dog, however, we do our best to steer clear of any blatant promotion. My movie is the only one featuring a talking dog. The network creates community.

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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? 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. Then you have to find the audience that's going to commit to that.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

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. Another one that's interesting right now is social media. I was struggling to reinvent myself, and I feel like a lot of authors are also feeling that way in social media worlds, but also in other ways.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

There is a real sense of fear and confusion in the media and amongst different kinds of creators. It means we can do amazing quality products for our audience, sell directly and control the platform, as well as connect with the people who buy. But I think I felt a bit short when it came to widening my audience a little.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

Most of my sales come through print , whereas I know that many indie authors get more sales with eBooks. But just staying on the product, so in terms of your sales because the activity books are paid products, and then the coloring pages and the worksheets are kind of free downloads. Are they a percentage of your sales now?

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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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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With social media platforms becoming the online communication too du jour, and with smartphones and other devices becoming for many the preferred platform, blogs have fallen to the wayside in favour of shorter, punchier messages specifically tailored to hit a reader’s buttons. People Interact on Social Media, Not Your Sites.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Back in 2008, I had just quit my corporate job and co-founded a startup to build a fundraising app for Facebook. I hustled like crazy to build a community and following, and slowly began to attract an audience of people who found my writing to be inspiring. Let me show you how. Step 2 – Validate your content idea.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have an audience (no matter how small). You have readers, email subscribers, and a social media following. An audience is the key asset that many would-be authors don’t have when they start a blog. It takes a lot of work, and money, or a huge audience to achieve that kind of success. Name Your Audience.

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