Express Writers

MARCH 7, 2023

The benefits of content marketing are clear: it can help any organization boost brand exposure, increase sales, and improve customer loyalty. This is the highest amount in the history of the CMO survey (since 2008). This typically includes paid ads, promoted social media posts, and sponsored content.

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BKA Content

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Anticipate Marketing and Sales Needs With Blogging If you’re looking for a low-cost evergreen solution to marketing during a recession, our monthly blog writing service is the answer. Resiliency in a recession is about promoting authority and authenticity regardless of the economic climate. Learn More.

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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

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

AUGUST 7, 2023

The reason that we recommend waiting 90 days, or at least 60, is we want to make sure that we have enough new readers on there so that you're going to see great performance every time you promote with us. So let's say you spend $30 on a promo for lit fic on Bargain Booksy, the expectation is you will make that back in sales.

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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

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. Joanna Penn: And just on that, so the direct sales model, software is another thing. It might be time to stop doing a particular form of promotion and change into something quite different.

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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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Buffer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

  All of the promotion on social media led to a smashing success, making The Last of Us the most successful case of a video game making the leap to a show.   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) The tour is the first ever to cross the $1 billion mark in ticket sales, selling 4.35

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

The paperback version for sale on Amazon and Ingram has a plain B&W interior. Only available in the Kickstarter and also for sale on my store, CreativePennBooks.com. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy. I used Bookfunnel to deliver all ebooks and audiobooks, as per usual with my direct sales.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. 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. So we're able to now promote our members over on that site as well.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2023

How do you ensure secure cash flow and profits, instead of focusing on short-term spike sales? 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. Joe Solari discusses key aspects of your author business. Joanna: Yeah, me too.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 31, 2018

They may use digital assets as part of a marketing campaign to reach a specific audience in a specific form, such as a digital or physical brochure, an email promotion , a movie trailer, or a website landing page. contentstrategy Click To Tweet. But it doesn’t only have to be ad content.

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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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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. I was in Australia.

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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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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. Last time I did the analysis of where sales of our eBooks came from I found that more than 90% of our sales came from emails that we sent to our readers. Please digest that.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Starting an email list early, I started mine in 2008. I mean, yeah, it's a nice piece of social proof, but you want to continue promoting this book on an ongoing basis. I am intending to promote The Long Game for five years. But you mentioned that you're going to promote The Long Game for five years, which I think is brilliant.

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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. Last time I did the analysis of where sales of our eBooks came from I found that more than 90% of our sales came from emails that we sent to our readers. Please digest that.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I like that you mentioned geography, actually, because you made me think there because I have always focused on global sales. I think what doesn't work is haste, being solely promotional, and not adding value to people. And I have to pick and choose which venues I'm choosing to promote the books on. Joanna: I like that.

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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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The Creative Penn

JULY 17, 2023

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. My agent, Susanna Einstein, we started working together in 2008. When you decided it wasn't the series, that's when you decided to do traditional for this book.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But 2008, it plateaued, it was steady, and then it took off again. I started to promote affiliate products, other people’s courses and ebooks. We talked in a few episodes ago that Thrive Architect as a tool that we’re using to create landing pages, that will allow you to split test different versions of a sales page.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

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. Here are a few of my favourites: How Creatives Should Negotiate via Tim Ferris. How Ramit Sethi Launched a Product That Generated $5m in a Week via The Hustle.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Forced to close her real estate business in November 2008 because of the mortgage meltdown, Susan launched her digital information business in January 2009 with a mere $200 in startup capital. Published nearly four years ago, it still makes $600-$3,000 a month in online sales. Buy some cheap ads on Google to promote your product.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

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 6: Promote Your Work (besides Social Media). Step 1: Get to know your niche. Build your link profile slowly and avoid any kind of shortcuts.

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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.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. This can increase sales. Can you cross promote with them? Ask yourself: Can I integrate others into the sales process? Once you have finished your sales page, take a break. Action: write down three tasks you can batch process. Lunch time?

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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

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

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. Last time I did the analysis of where sales of our eBooks came from I found that more than 90% of our sales came from emails that we sent to our readers. Please digest that.

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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 2008, Ries started a blog, and one of his first posts was entitled The Lean Startup. Price for sales. Be sure that you love it enough to take on that commitment.

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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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