The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

” As in, was it a mom pitch or was it a writer pitch? Because obviously, I get a lot of writer pitches. 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of my mind was, what if some journalists think, oh, you're trying to promote arranged marriages or some kind of archaic out-of-date tradition. Because back in 2008, I did all of this.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

I mean, you have this business and this podcast around helping people learn to be successful writers, you have written like a ginormous number of books yourself and in multiple genres and things like that. Starting an email list early, I started mine in 2008. I am intending to promote The Long Game for five years.

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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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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. He is a prolific writer and content curator and shares so many useful resources via his Twitter account. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes.

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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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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. I was willing to take the risks because I knew the industry well so I knew what to ask from my writers. Step 6: Promote Your Work (besides Social Media).

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

Stephanie Chandler is the author of multiple nonfiction books, a professional speaker, and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association and Writers Conference. It turned out I was a terrible fiction writer , I just did not have the imagination. So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. Thanks for having me.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rachael Herron ]; My Pilgrimage Kickstarter pre-launch page ; History Quill Writer's Conference ; Get 33% off my ebooks, audiobooks and courses for the rest of 2022. Jane Friedman is the author of The Business of Being a Writer , as well as other nonfiction books. Why backlist sales are so important. Show Notes. Jane: Thank you.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 23, 2012

They’re not long or hard posts, but I know from experience that clothes sell out, particularly if they’re on sale, so they do have to be timely. For example, my first post, every workday, recommends an item of clothing that is available for online purchase. I also thanked them, hopefully a lot. I used Tweetdeck.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. 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. Kristi Hines.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

It probably is, apart from actually writing the book, which is one struggle, many writers also struggle with marketing. It's like, well, I'm not a salesperson, I'm a writer. 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. Joanna: I love your accent!

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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. LA: I mean, I'm kind of the cliche writer who's been writing since I could hold a pen up right. That was 2008, and it just never stopped. Witt Joanna: L.A.

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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. This whole economy is built on what I call the reader-writer relationship.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And that's really how I got started, I made every mistake that we caution against in our books for writers. And I feel like a lot of nonfiction writers do this better than fiction, for sure. Do you schedule your time differently for Honoree, the writer, and Honoree, the businesswoman? Can I come on your show? Honoree: Oh, sure.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Tim Boucher is a hyperrealist AI artist and writer specializing in questionable alternative realities. Check Writer Beware for years of them, most of them prior to generative AI. Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Are you the artist as well as the writer? So I am the writer. 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. Or how did you find your illustrator?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

This is a guest contribution from author and freelance writer Steff Green. Jason Kottke , writer of one of the longest-running blogs on the web, states that the blog’s demise came about because the fundamental purpose of blogging was no being fulfilled with other media. Image via Flickr user Spondle.

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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

JUNE 26, 2019

Kelly Exeter (writer and editor) . I look around this room and I know I’m not the best writer in this room. I’m not the best writer out there. Then, this is what I do to promote those posts.” Evolve: Training Day. Evolve: Mastermind. Jeff Goins. Real Artists Don’t Starve by Jeff Goins .

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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. I was just recently researching various tactics and strategies – what worked in 2008 versus 2009 and today. Thanks for being relevant, Amy. 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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