The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

If it's a special edition, or like a premium cover, it could be over $100 per copy. It's very difficult to promote your stuff because you don't know. The maturity of the industry that I started self-publishing in 2008, and then 2009 was really when Kindle really started taking off. But essentially, it's just a book.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 17, 2023

When I have a book that is traditionally published, I always, always, always expect it—because I think writers are just these hopeful unicorns—I expect it to rise to the top and to sell a bajillion million copies, and when it doesn't, and we're talking about a traditionally published book, there is nothing I can do. It was ready to go.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy. Learn about the platform from experts I’ve been publishing and selling books through online retailers as well as my own store since 2008. Only available in the Kickstarter and also for sale on my store, CreativePennBooks.com. Limited to 10. Nohelty and Monica Leonelle.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

Marc: Actually, I copied Mark Dawson. A nonfiction author can buy any course of a fiction author and copy. Copy is not literally copyright, but you copy. Marc: That's also great that you said it because even that I copied. But in these other language markets, it's like 2008/2009, all over again.

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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of my mind was, what if some journalists think, oh, you're trying to promote arranged marriages or some kind of archaic out-of-date tradition.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. Or do we email it?

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I’m an introvert and self promotion and networking does not come easy to me – but he’s right. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. By seeking the advice of others, I know for a fact that my eBooks sold more copies.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I’m an introvert and self promotion and networking does not come easy to me – but he’s right. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. By seeking the advice of others, I know for a fact that my eBooks sold more copies.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Behind The Book Campaign: How to Sell 30,000 Copies in Six Weeks. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. The following posts have helped me immensely: From Zero to 35,000: How I Built A Big Email List Exclusively About Books I Liked. Find out SujanPatel.com. Neil Fahey.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

This can prove very useful when you need the extra motivation to start writing you next post.The above table is a copy from my notes. 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. Step 1: Get to know your niche.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Promotional products are also a way of making money. In 2008, Europe’s soccer elite scored around $800 million from merchandizing. Most promotional products, though, are given away free. Club a faux-fox-tail tie to promote Fantastic Mr. Fox. “As But not everyone’s use of promotional products is quite so fantastic.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Can you cross promote with them? Create keyboard shortcuts so you don’t have to copy and paste all your hashtags from notepad. Many people recommended Rescue Time to help them discover where their online time went. Know your best hours to work.

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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. And in three hours, we sold eight copies.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m an introvert and self promotion and networking does not come easy to me – but he’s right. When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. By seeking the advice of others, I know for a fact that my eBooks sold more copies.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Just look at Facebook’s audience growth since late 2008. In a nutshell, organic social reach is all about creating and nurturing an audience without paid promotion. percent , which means roughly one in every 20 fans sees your page’s non-promoted content. For instance, organic reach on Facebook is now just 5.2

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ProBlogger

MARCH 28, 2011

Back in 2008, I was running a flailing start-up. He also explained that he had a new book coming out called Enchantment , and asked if I’d like him to send me a review copy. So how did a little fish like Firepole Marketing land a giant ocean liner like Guy Kawasaki? It all started with Jon… Jon Morrow, that is. A free book!

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Leadership Award for Global Integration to the “technology guru” and inaugurated him into their Hall of Fame, which honours those who promote economic and social development in Germany. He was hired as an assistant by Elton Rule, then west coast head of ABC who was promoted to network President.

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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. So a new book or promotion, anything.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

She supported me and promoted me with having my first school visit. With Ingram, I'm able to get them in bookstores and order copies for school visits or different events. And talking to you, maybe I do need to promote those more because they're cheaper to produce. So she said, this kind of fills a niche. Joanna: Than the books.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 18, 2018

Treat every post you write, every attempt you make to promote your blog and every tool you use as learning experiences that shape your future. This course is an updated version of our incredibly best-selling ebook, the best selling ebook I’ve ever launched, 31 Days To Build A Better Blog, which I launched I think it was back in 2008.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 7, 2023

How can you leverage the tools available for authors to sell more copies? So the creative, the ad copy, the targeting, and we're able to leverage a lot of the audiences that we have and the data we have to actually be more effective at running some of those ads, then maybe an author could do on their own. I saw that.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

Well, if you have a relationship with a big name person or business, why not offer them some free work in exchange for a link or promotion? His blog hasn’t been updated since 2008. It also keeps me sharp and disciplined having to turn out copy, be up on the news of my industry, and providing good advice and ideas.

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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 apparently Nordstrom is all about promoting small businesses that align, obviously, with what it is they're doing.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But unless the book is getting one of these really big advances, there is just a lot of waiting and seeing, rather than proactive marketing and promotion. But when they crunched the numbers, they saw that it was about, I want to say 25% of titles don't sell more than a dozen copies. So is she actively marketing and promoting that?

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You're going to print copies of the book, and you're going to give it out to market your business. I think what doesn't work is haste, being solely promotional, and not adding value to people. I have a pretty interesting production calendar that reminds me to do a quarterly promotion , like do a free book promotion, or do whatever.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Mark started blogging in 2008 in the dating space, before pivoting to personal development in 2011. MM: Before I started my dating advice blog back in 2008, I had been arguing about politics and culture and music and technology on internet forums for years. What does that journey look like? I know: ‘What a dick.’ Has this panned out?

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

Of the copies I did sell, it seemed like most of them were to this group called 20Booksto50k, and I had authors reaching out to me asking me questions. 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. Joanna: So interesting.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

If you have quality content and the marketing prowess to promote it, then by all means charge. The Guardian explains their stategy very well: [link] O’Reilly TOC also provided in 2008 (this how long this discussion has been going) some insight… How Do Publishers and Authors Get Paid in a “Free&# World?

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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

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. Promoting an epic fantasy novel is really hard. And here's why.'

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

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. Tim decided to aim to sell 10,000 copies of that book in the first year. I copy sections and paste them in under each of those subheadings I created.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

Twelve months after that blog post was published, in 2008, it was getting two-hundred to three-hundred page views per day. The ten things that I mention are all as relevant today as they were back in 2008 when I published this post. I’ll share an example in a moment from Copy Blogger that fits into that category.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

Twelve months after that blog post was published, in 2008, it was getting two-hundred to three-hundred page views per day. The ten things that I mention are all as relevant today as they were back in 2008 when I published this post. I’ll share an example in a moment from Copy Blogger that fits into that category.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2013

10 Years and $420,000 later… I’d love to be able to calculate exactly how much I’ve earned from Amazon in that time but their current reporting system only goes back as far as 2008. Thanksgiving to Christmas can be a particularly profitable time to promote. Try promoting relevant books, CDs and DVDs instead.

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The Hoth

JANUARY 19, 2023

Semrush first came about in 2008 as the brainchild of Oleg Shchegolev, their current CEO. Important note: A downside here is that Semrush doesn’t always provide the number of backlinks and instead lists general advice like, “you need better on-page SEO, link-building, and promotional efforts.”

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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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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.”

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When women were crowding bookstores to get copies of EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey , the press said the books appealed to “bored housewives” (which makes the women sound silly or desperate). You’ve been publishing in the genre in one way or another since 2008. But, as I said, people are gonna people. What can you do?

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