Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

There are several creative ways to monetize a blog. Lifestyle influencers (bloggers with large, engaged audiences) collaborate with brands through sponsor networks (like Activate or Social Fabric ) and receive compensation for writing and publishing sponsored posts that review and recommend products to their readers. Sister stuff!

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

But then with the rise of Amazon ads, suddenly, I could multiply my sales by 20. And this brought the huge book sales that I have now. And then the answer was: I want to sell many books, I want to live off book sales. And also direct sales, little by little the direct sales. But it's okay with me.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. What about sales tax / VAT? Are direct sales for you? You’re in control of the site and your sales pages, with no other ads on your page to distract potential readers. What are the costs? How do I get paid? Imagine this….

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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. We didn't have social media, or podcasts, or any of these things, Joanna, back when you and I were starting.

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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. Will I do another Kickstarter campaign?

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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

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

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.” Another one that's interesting right now is social media. ” I mean, you just can't.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. She's also the founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors, a professional speaker and creative coach. You mentioned it before, that your creative non-fiction books, you put years into these. Getting over sunk cost fallacy.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 15, 2021

Run Ads on the Social Media Platforms Millennials Use the Most. A huge percentage are active on social media, but to make the most of this, we need to understand what platforms millennials are using. Today there are dozens of social media platforms, with new ones popping up every day. Take Allbirds shoes.

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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 28, 2023

We have all our lines and of course I do share, I share a lot and have done since I was online in 2008. And you have to I guess tell people more often , like email more than once a month or do some videos and maybe do social media every day and yeah, all this stuff that I haven't done, like probably ever.

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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. Social Traffic Visits that come from social media platforms. It often signifies strong brand recognition.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the intro, Self-publishing's ongoing evolution [ Publishers Weekly ]; Audiobooks on Spotify and how my listening behavior is changing [ FindawayVoices ]; Author ecosystems , and an overview on the Kickstart your book sales podcast. But I feel like a lot of the social media has changed. I was on YouTube in 2008.

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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

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

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. Did you have to learn how to be a marketer, as well as the creative side? ” Joanna: I love that.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

But on the organic reach — so I should I suppose we should probably say organic reaches effectively publicity that you don't have to pay for on social media. Joanna: But of course, it is not just social media or Facebook or wherever. And people kept saying, “well, social media will kill email.”

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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. That's just my thing.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

Most of my sales come through print , whereas I know that many indie authors get more sales with eBooks. But just staying on the product, so in terms of your sales because the activity books are paid products, and then the coloring pages and the worksheets are kind of free downloads. Are they a percentage of your sales now?

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Bethany Chambers , North Coast Media . 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.

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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

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. And social media, to be honest. How can you effectively market your backlist over time?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. Shopify starts at $5 a month if you only want to sell on social media. And of course, you mentioned it has integration with social media. That was amazing.

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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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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. In 2008, Ries started a blog, and one of his first posts was entitled The Lean Startup.

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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. Link your social media profiles to your email unsubscribe.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With social media platforms becoming the online communication too du jour, and with smartphones and other devices becoming for many the preferred platform, blogs have fallen to the wayside in favour of shorter, punchier messages specifically tailored to hit a reader’s buttons. People Interact on Social Media, Not Your Sites.

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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? With the social media that it’s around now, it’s a very different possibility with that. Nikki: Thank you.

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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? With the social media that it’s around now, it’s a very different possibility with that. Nikki: Thank you.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. These are 20 people who stood out to me this year. Maria Popova.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I remember back to early 2008, when I’d just started blogging, that even though I had great ambitions, my knowledge, expertise, and confidence as a blogger was sorely lacking. Social media. Well here’s the deal, if you aren’t asking for the sale, then you’ll never get one. Tactic 7: Get comfortable asking for the sale.

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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. Louis at the time.

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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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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

It might just be that the person you think is making it is just very good at playing the social media game, but not at making any money. Will Creativity Build or Break your Business? I was just recently researching various tactics and strategies – what worked in 2008 versus 2009 and today. Great post!

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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. I think you’ve actually got a case study from him on your sales page. You can find people on Fiverr now who are great, for $5 to $10. You have this email list.

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