The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

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. The paperback version for sale on Amazon and Ingram has a plain B&W interior. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Other things you might want to quit: social media platforms, blogging, an author name, a book series, writing a book that's taking forever, marketing a book that isn't selling, a business model, a day job, being a full-time author, a city or even a country. Why we need to reframe quitting — and why it's so hard to do.

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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. Because back in 2008, I did all of this.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Today, we understand advertising is the lifeblood of all the big social networks. Paid social media has become a key component of many brands’ marketing strategies. Just look at Facebook’s audience growth since late 2008. 3 Reasons Why Social Media Is Pay to Play in 2021. Paid Social Media Boosts Reach.

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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. What’s our goal?

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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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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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Smart Blogger

JUNE 13, 2024

However, many of the most profitable affiliate websites are those that refer sales. In other words: find a product or service you like, promote it to your blog’s readers, and earn part of the profit on each affiliate sale. If you don’t, and you end up promoting some subpar products, your audience won’t be happy.

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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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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. Buzzsumo can help you identify what type of content gets shared on social media, what type of titles are used and who are the influencers in a niche.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But 2008, it plateaued, it was steady, and then it took off again. Back then, there was no real social media, but today I will put more time into social media. I started to promote affiliate products, other people’s courses and ebooks. I saw this when I began to added a job board onto ProBlogger.

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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

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

JUNE 26, 2023

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. There's still a lot of fear around social media for a lot of writers. So social media, to me, is rented real estate. We never despair, do we?

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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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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. Corbett Barr.

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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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Quick Sprout

JULY 26, 2022

They consistently rank as the best search engine marketing companies in North America, and have won awards in email marketing, SEO, paid media, social media, conversion rate optimization, and more. Lyfe Marketing – Best Social Media Management Services. >> Compare Quotes. >> Compare Quotes.

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ProBlogger

JULY 21, 2011

For details about the fledgling Tripawds site, don’t miss my submission for the 2008 ProBlogger Video Mashup. With an audience that is often distraught over caring for their dog, however, we do our best to steer clear of any blatant promotion. My movie is the only one featuring a talking dog. The network creates community.

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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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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. So a new book or promotion, anything. But as you say, those days are gone now.

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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 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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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

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 social media, to be honest. Joanna: I like that. I think that doesn't work, and it's never worked.

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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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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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ProBlogger

JANUARY 13, 2013

DSG: I started in 2008. So 2008 and 2009, it was really for local entrepreneurs in St. Also, we’re constantly working on ways to promote our content in a higher way. We’ve been focusing on social media, in addition to constantly tweaking our email newsletter. Louis, Missouri, where I’m from. Louis at the time.

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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. Price for sales.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

First of all, asking authors or people coming out with promotions of some kind, they’re likely going to say “Yes” during those times so you can ask them because they’re going to be wanting to get in front of as many people as possible. This something that actually helped promote in my last launch for the podcasting course.

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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. 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. 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. Great post!

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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. Most commonly, lifestyle blogs make money by advertising brands that align and resonate with the lifestyle they promote. But first, let’s define what we mean by a lifestyle blog.

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