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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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. I grew my direct book sales which means a greater percentage of profit for a lower number of book sales. I offered it, but I didn't focus on it. I also only offered digital formats.

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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. Do we put it in the post with a copy of our book?

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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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And I use social media extensively to find illustrators. So I looked all over social media sites. 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.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

If you use Grammarly or ProWritingAid for aspects of editing, Google for research or Maps for navigation or email with auto-anti-spam, Amazon for publishing or advertising or shopping, Facebook or TikTok or Twitter for social media, Spotify for music discovery, or Netflix for TV, you are using AI-assisted platforms and tools.

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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. billion Zhang Yiming (41) founded ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social media platform TikTok. Dommermuth trained as a banker, before moving into computer sales in Montabaur, Germany.

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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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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

How do you ensure secure cash flow and profits, instead of focusing on short-term spike sales? 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. Joe Solari discusses key aspects of your author business. That's a big one for me.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And diving into social media during that time, it was Myspace. 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. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. ” Joanna: I love that.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have readers, email subscribers, and a social media following. 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.

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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

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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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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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Link your social media profiles to your email unsubscribe. Want more ideas to integrate social media and email? Check out Buffers post 6 Creative Ways to Combine Social Media and Email. This can increase sales. Social Media.

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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 like that you mentioned geography, actually, because you made me think there because I have always focused on global sales. And social media, to be honest. So geography is one of the factors. Joanna: I like that.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2023

There is a real sense of fear and confusion in the media and amongst different kinds of creators. Has it actually led to book sales? Oliver: So when it comes to book sales, right now, I'm in the middle of a huge project because I decided that the story that I wrote in my first few books, I felt the scope was too small.

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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.

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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. Those are really the only two social media sites that I use anymore.

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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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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. Easy integration – Amazon provides some good tools and widgets to help you integrate the sales channel into your website.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

The web became a much more interactive space and this is the beginnings of social media. Every time you respond to a comment, every time you respond to an email, every time you engage with someone on social media, you’re building the asset of your blog. It takes time and it takes persistence.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But you know, pursuing social media and maybe taking that social media step a little bit further by creating a little quote card and there’s other tools out there now that’ll let you create a movie file that embeds your audio in it really quickly. Don’t copy paste from previous episodes. You have this email list.

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