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. Author Mark Paul, he's a memoir writer, he has sold 45,000 copies of his memoir using nothing but Amazon ads. I love just seeing projections and numbers.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 17, 2023

Show Notes Combining traditional and indie publishing Deciding which route to go with each project The locus of control with indie publishing Publishing a series — indie or trad? How do you know what to do with each project? It was really one of the most joyful projects I've ever written. Rachael: Oh, it's such a good question.

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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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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. If she lands a project, it’s typically in the $50,000-$80,000 range. When she makes contact with an executive, or someone connects with her, she sends them a free copy of her book.

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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 my next project after Spear of Destiny is going to be a high-quality photo coffee table book on Gothic Cathedrals. Joanna: Wow.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

So when it came time for the third book, when I was finishing it up I did go back to her, and she was busy with some other projects. With Ingram, I'm able to get them in bookstores and order copies for school visits or different events. Are they a percentage of your sales now? Joanna: Let's come back to these trailers.

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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. Page is the inventor of PageRank and an investor in Tesla Motors.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

I intend to do more beautiful books and I have loads of ideas about future projects, potentially working with AI-assisted artists as well as my existing team. It’s not just all about branding, or on-message photos like the kind generated by fake media purely for sales purposes. I know this is hard.

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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

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. Behind The Book Campaign: How to Sell 30,000 Copies in Six Weeks. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. Normally, such figures would put me off recommending him. Neil Fahey.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

The one thing that excites me the most is like all of the art pieces I made using an artificial intelligence image generator , which I believe adds a little bit of like weirdness and mysticism, if you will, to the whole project. Has it actually led to book sales? And that's something that AI cannot copy. Can you tell?

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy. I first self-published in 2008, and every year since, I have learned about and used new tools that help me improve my craft, write better books and run a better creative business. Joanna Penn Tell us more about the lost Books project, What is it?

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

We’ve looked at direct ad sales, affiliate promotions, other advertising networks, I wrote a book. It took me four months to write it, to get it ready for launch, to write the sales page, to get the emails ready to launch the thing. Then, I got a sale. Then, nine minutes later, another sale came in.

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