Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Just look at Facebook’s audience growth since late 2008. In other words, for every 100 interactions with your Facebook ad, nine will convert into a lead or sale. Want to reach a wider social audience to generate more leads or drive more sales? Despite a couple of small blips, it’s all up and to the right: The net result?

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

My books related to this interview: Career Change , How to Write Non-Fiction , Your Author Business Plan , Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives, and Other Introverts. So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. 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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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 it's really interesting because the most reliable way I've discovered to improve my Amazon sales is to just advertise my direct sales. Joanna: That's great. Steve: Absolutely. I speak of him in the third person.

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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

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

AUGUST 21, 2023

How do you ensure secure cash flow and profits, instead of focusing on short-term spike sales? So I've got a creative background. So I have this strange mix of creative and analytical , and I've been entrepreneurial my whole life. It was a book about business for creatives. So I've owned and operated multiple businesses.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

How can you leverage the tools available for authors to sell more copies? How can authors reframe marketing to be more of a positive choice, something even creative and worth investing in? So in every realm of creativity, there is an element of marketing. Ricci Wolman from Written Word Media gives her tips.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

How can we use AI tools in our creative and business processes while still keeping our humanity at the core of our books? She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. What is the AI-Assisted Artisan Author? She has sold almost a million books across 169 countries and 5 languages.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 17, 2023

How can you combine multiple options for a more creatively satisfying — and profitable — author career? I'd already had it developmentally edited and copy edited. What are the pros and cons of traditional publishing vs self-publishing? Rachael Herron gives her tips. It was ready to go. Joanna: I think that's fantastic.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

How the pandemic and increasing online sales have changed traditional publishing. Why backlist sales are so important. I was a creative writing major in college, and I went straight into a publishing job right out of college. How has the pandemic and increasing online sales changed the more traditional publishing industry?

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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

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. Joanna: 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. Transcript of Interview with Mark Dawson.

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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. And so that spurred a lot of the creativity. You can find Ada-Ari at Ada-Ari.com. Most of those boxes went to the landfill!

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

So you can just order a single copy to yourself. So on a single copy basis you can do sprayed edges books as well. Joanna: On a single copy. Also, we can make more money per copy. So again, they will be all print on demand and single copy. I need to get the habit of single copy for mugs, but single mugs.

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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? Especially as creatives, I hear a lot of people say, “I just want to write the book.” Chelle Honiker gives some mindset and practical tips. ” I mean, you just can't.

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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. 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?

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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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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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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. Dommermuth trained as a banker, before moving into computer sales in Montabaur, Germany. He also had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull. 29 Gabe Newell: Founder of Valve is worth $4.3

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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. And so, they got it nationally.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Behind The Book Campaign: How to Sell 30,000 Copies in Six Weeks. Here are a few of my favourites: How Creatives Should Negotiate via Tim Ferris. 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.

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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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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

On August 14 and 15, more than 700 bloggers and online creatives descended upon the RACV Royal Pines on Australia’s Gold Coast for two days of learning and networking at the ProBlogger Training Event. I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. This can increase sales. credit: Mick Russell.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

It’s an international best-seller, with over 350,000 copies in print in over 25 languages. David’s ongoing blog posts keep him in touch with the latest creative opportunities and threats. They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today’s Digital Consumer by Marcus Sheridan.

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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. I think you’ve actually got a case study from him on your sales page. But honestly, you don’t need that.

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