The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 8, 2023

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. You've got direct sales on Payhip and Shopify, you've got translations, you've got large print. Witt Joanna: L.A.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

I have been blogging since 2008, year in, year out , and just always did, and then, I just thought, you know what, I'm going to let go of the blog. You see it all the time with TV shows and other creative projects that, it just goes from bad to worse and people are so attached, and they just can't let go.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

She supported me and promoted me with having my first school visit. 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. Most of my sales come through print , whereas I know that many indie authors get more sales with eBooks.

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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

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? Why do you think Kickstarter and direct sales is really taking off? It's very difficult to promote your stuff because you don't know.

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. I love just seeing projections and numbers. Nonfiction authors don't just make money with book sales or change lives with book sales. Stephanie: Yeah, it's so rare that somebody actually makes a living from their book sales. I love a checklist. What's the potential?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

And the idea was that they would encourage their employees to spend up to 20% of their time on basically more speculative projects, things that were outside the scope of their official responsibilities. Starting an email list early, I started mine in 2008. So I used it as kind of a learning and research project.

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

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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. 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. Normally, such figures would put me off recommending him.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

So my next project after Spear of Destiny is going to be a high-quality photo coffee table book on Gothic Cathedrals. 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. So just a few more things.

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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

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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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? If you go back to 2008 when I started, Facebook business pages started not long after. I’m thinking October 2008.

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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? If you go back to 2008 when I started, Facebook business pages started not long after. I’m thinking October 2008.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Her book, Blog Post Promotion , is extraordinarily in-depth for a book at its price point, and is something I’d strongly recommend to those who need help getting more attention for their posts. In 2011 he created the Million Dollar Blog Project and launched his case study blog, Expert Enough. I love his blog. Lingerie Addict.

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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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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. Now, back to the current project Reply Sally B ( @snappysentences ) June 10, 2010 at 5:16 am Oh Amy I can totally relate to this post. Thanks for being relevant, Amy.

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