The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

Show Notes Changes in publishing and marketing for nonfiction authors over time and what still works How to stand out and build your community Content marketing and long-term marketing strategies Deciding what nonfiction book to write—should you stay in your lane? I sent proposals to three publishers, and Wiley gave me a book deal.

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Income Diary

MARCH 31, 2024

The Most Profitable Websites In The World Our first Top Earning Websites List was published in March 2009. Airbnb founded in 2008 did not make the original list but is here today. Additionally, the company generates revenue through its advertising business and sales of hardware devices such as the Amazon Echo and Fire TV Stick.

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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

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

MARCH 27, 2023

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. 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

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 those two people, I was like, I really hope they don't say I can't publish it because it's already done. Jo: And yes, because I felt like it's my story, and if they don't want me to publish it, I'm going to have to argue that.

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Neil Patel

JULY 12, 2021

Thus, you can send one welcome sequence to new senior VP-level subscribers, another one for sales folks, another one for regular Joes, and on and on. This tool is perfect for helping sales teams shorten sales cycles. Unfortunately, they don’t publish their pricing. Bizible closes the gap between sales and marketing.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I launched the book direct on my Shopify store, CreativePennBooks.com and sold it exclusively direct for a month before publishing it wide. I also wrote and published two short stories. I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales.

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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. Establish a social media presence with meaningful content. Social Media. Learn More. Company Culture. Content Marketing.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Chelle Honiker is the co-founder and publisher of Indie Author Magazine , Indie Author Training, Indie Author Tools, and Direct2Readers.com. I've been doing this a long time now, since 2008, and I feel like I have got stuck in my processes for an amount of time. Do what works for you.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

I have covered the topic as it relates to authors regularly since then and even written a short book on the impact of AI on authors and publishing. I write books and I record and publish audio, although I also do some professional speaking and teaching as well. There is much more at stake.

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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. You've been publishing and self-publishing a long time. Patricia: Giving up?!

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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? In the intro, Kobo Plus expands to audiobooks in Australia & New Zealand; Thoughts on the changing publishing environment based on Thrillerfest Audios (well worth buying!), Joe Solari discusses key aspects of your author business.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Write and publish what you want, get paid every day for your books, and control your customer data and relationships. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher.

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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. Yes, we are back.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

Plus, Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing your Career by Jason Feifer; The future of publishing is now on the Dialogue Doctor podcast; Content vs connection [Jay Acunzo on Twitter ]; Why I'm focusing on being an AI-assisted artisan author; Death of an Author, from Pushkin Press.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Ada-Ari talks about how she writes, publishes and markets her children's books based on African folk tales and African languages in the USA. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. So I looked all over social media sites.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

In the intro, publishing trends for 2023 [ Written Word Media ]; Apple AI narration ; ChatGPT into Bing [ The Verge ]; Comments on Audible [ Brandon Sanderson , Audiblegate ]; TikTok ban and problems [ Reuters , Rolling Stone ]; my Pilgrimage Kickstarter. I published 2012 was my first book. So it's weird. Mark: Definitely.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing, and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. You started before me, but when I started self-publishing there was also no Kindle. And they had the identical sales. No, I lie, I wasn't.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tell us a bit about you and how you got into writing and publishing. And then I started learning the lessons of how to professionally publish a book, and to publish a book well, and market a book well , and sell books and market with my book. Honoree: Hi, I'm so happy to be here. Joanna: I'm so excited to talk to you again.

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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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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have readers, email subscribers, and a social media following. But, you have everything you need to become one of those seemingly lucky people who do get picked, who do decide to self-publish, who do finally get it done and achieve their dream of being an author. You have an audience (no matter how small).

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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? Jason Schemmel , Harper Collins Christian Publishing. How do we measure content’s influence on sales and revenue?

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From the headlines this week, “Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories.” [ The Guardian ] and “Hundreds of AI-written books flood Amazon.” [ The Independent ]. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. But as ever, the headlines are clickbait and we need to have a more nuanced approach.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Back in 2008, I had just quit my corporate job and co-founded a startup to build a fundraising app for Facebook. When I started my blog, Facebook (and social media in general) was still in the early stage. So, I wrote a series of 12 blog posts on the topic and published regularly over the space of a month.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

There is a real sense of fear and confusion in the media and amongst different kinds of creators. I have a longer blog post coming in late Feb when I publish my first story with an AI-generated cover, which has also been edited by my cover designer. 2017 is when I published my first dark fantasy novel.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2015

I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Commit to critically assessing your blog posts before you press publish. Link your social media profiles to your email unsubscribe. Want more ideas to integrate social media and email? This can increase sales. Social Media.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

It helps you see at a glance your traffic details and the relationship between number of published posts and traffic. 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 1: Get to know your niche.

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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. As Michael Stelzner said at Blogworld, “You’re not a blogger, you’re a publisher!”. Alexis Grant is a publishing powerhouse. These are 20 people who stood out to me this year.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

No matter how large or small your business is, or how experienced you are in content marketing, these recently published books can help you take your content marketing to the next level. Evaluate your website analytics, email reports, and social media to see what’s working and what’s not working. Publishing and distributing.

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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. For those who don’t care to spend time searching the vast amount of content in our blogs and forums, we published Three Legs and a Spare , the first in a series of canine amputation handbooks.

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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. We’ve been focusing on social media, in addition to constantly tweaking our email newsletter. Besides using social media channels and things like that, I made sure that I networked with all the major media sources in St.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2016

Use filters on gmail – I have hundreds of filters on gmail – bulk for emails on products sales – keep records to serve customers – quick gmail search of transactions to see if customer purchases a product or not – emails you want to keep, but don’t want to read. We probably publish one or two a week at the most.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Use filters on gmail – I have hundreds of filters on gmail – bulk for emails on products sales – keep records to serve customers – quick gmail search of transactions to see if customer purchases a product or not – emails you want to keep, but don’t want to read. We probably publish one or two a week at the most.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. When I first published it, I didn’t look like this. The web became a much more interactive space and this is the beginnings of social media. We’ve got mainstream media producing amazing amounts of content.

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