Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Among the benefits – shorter sales cycle (no. How does marketing without talking about or promoting our product/service help us create leads and sales? That calculus varies based on your product sale point, obviously, but the base principle is still the same. How do we measure content’s influence on sales and revenue?

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Income Diary

JANUARY 29, 2024

Social and Referral Traffic: Understanding the traffic originating from social media platforms and other external sites is important, though it can be influenced by paid promotions and partnerships. Can indicate robust social media strategy or paid promotions. Suggests strong brand presence and customer loyalty.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How can we shift our mindset to thinking about a long-term creative career? To invest in something that is outside the norm of what we are “supposed to be doing” I think is really valuable, both for keeping us engaged and creative, and also pushing the envelope on something that might be the next big thing.

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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. Because back in 2008, I did all of this. It's a very nuanced view.

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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? We write series because we know that it's a longer-term game , that you're going to do promotions on the first book, and there'll be sell through and we know how that works. Rachael Herron gives her tips. Joanna: Brilliant.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

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. His blog posts are brilliant but I also love it when he is interviewed.

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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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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. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? It’s almost nine years to the date. Nikki: Thank you. I am the accidental blogger though. Nikki: Yes. Darren: Alright.

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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. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? It’s almost nine years to the date. Nikki: Thank you. I am the accidental blogger though. Nikki: Yes. Darren: Alright.

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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. In other words, for every 100 interactions with your Facebook ad, nine will convert into a lead or sale. For instance, organic reach on Facebook is now just 5.2

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

She supported me and promoted me with having my first school visit. 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. So she said, this kind of fills a niche.

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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. And I think as creative people, I relate to this as well. Because you know, creativity is what it is.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Maria Popova describes herself as “interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with design, science, storytelling and combinatorial creativity” She is the editor of the much-loved Brain Pickings , which she described as a “a destination for indiscriminate curiosity.” Maria Popova. I love his blog.

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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. 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.

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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 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

AUGUST 7, 2023

How can authors reframe marketing to be more of a positive choice, something even creative and worth investing in? I feel like this is something that authors struggle with, because on the one hand, we feel like we're artists and creatives, so we don't want to think that our book is the same as any other product.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 26, 2022

Here are some of the valuable services they offer: One unified cross channel marketing strategy driven by best-in-class creatives. Conversion Rate Experts – Best for Turning Leads into Sales. Whether your entire business is an app, or you’re trying to promote your app as an extension of your business, Moburst can help you out.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

So if you had a free download, that counted pretty much the same as a sale in terms of the algorithm. So you'd get loads and loads of visibility when you ran a free promotion for the three days that you had with Select. So those will be the primary levers that you can pull as an author to start generating sales or finding readers.

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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. I think what doesn't work is haste, being solely promotional, and not adding value to people.

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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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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 8, 2023

How can you establish a creative routine that enables you to write the books you want to write without burning out? This podcast is sponsored by Written Word Media , which makes book marketing a breeze by offering quick, easy and effective ways for authors to promote their books. That was 2008, and it just never stopped.

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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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ProBlogger

JANUARY 13, 2013

In September 2012, I launched my latest online venture, The Grand Life , where I interview creative professionals and entrepreneurs, and quickly realized that I had a lot to learn about building a successful interview site. DSG: I started in 2008. So 2008 and 2009, it was really for local entrepreneurs in St.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

The use of feeds has diminished since Google Reader was laid to rest, and I think when Gmail and other clients started filtering promotional material away from the “Primary Inbox”, blog updates via email became less important. I’ve been blogging since 2008, and I’ve seen many different trends rise and fall.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

I mean, I remember back in the day, we weren't even allowed to do pre-orders on Kindle, or as a non-American author, I couldn't even publish on Kindle back in like 2008, whenever it was. We offer a range of apps for direct sale stores on Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce, Zapier, and there's a few other ones. Joanna: Payhip as well, I think.

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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. In The War of Art , Steven Pressfield argues that resistance is what stands between procrastination and putting our creative genius out into the world. Price for sales.

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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. This something that actually helped promote in my last launch for the podcasting course. They may not be quite as self-promotional. Darren: That’s gold.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

You tell yourself you should be moving faster, working on releasing your own product sooner, spending more time on Twitter promoting your work – just like he did. Will Creativity Build or Break your Business? I was just recently researching various tactics and strategies – what worked in 2008 versus 2009 and today.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

Lifestyle blogs are magazine-like websites that share and promote daily life experiences and perspectives from an individual or group of like-minded people. There are several creative ways to monetize a blog. Most commonly, lifestyle blogs make money by advertising brands that align and resonate with the lifestyle they promote.

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