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. Thomas Umstaddt Jr interviews Joanna Penn on the Novel Marketing Podcast covering tips for publishing, selling, and marketing direct to readers.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 13, 2023

Billion Standout Features & Functionality Audience Insights gives small businesses the power to leverage Facebook’s massive pool of aggregated data to help them reach their ideal audience with Facebook ads. Instagram Stories are short user-generated videos with various added enhancements and effects that disappear after 24 hours.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

I want to come back on the waiting to win the lottery thing because I feel that that actually has a parallel in publishing, in that people are like, oh, well, this one book, if I just get the agent, if I just get the book deal, if I just get the film deal, or the TV deal, I will make a million , and I can retire. But it's okay with me.

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Guide publishes a 32-page, full-color magazine each week. Listverse is the place to go for credible and entertaining top 10 lists since it was founded in 2009. Salon is a news and opinion website publishing articles on national news and politics, culture and entertainment, current events, food, and science. Interested?

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

Traditional versus indie publishing Short term versus long term Income versus brand building Paid versus free The book versus you as the author Stand-alone versus series Exclusive versus wide publishing Publish fast versus publish slowly Write to market versus write first, market later Online versus offline.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. But before we get into that− Tell us a bit more about you, your writing and publishing background, and how the hell you manage your time! Joanna: So Starcane Press is your publishing house?

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The Idea Logical Company

MARCH 9, 2021

There’s quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. Robin Gaster has done a deep dive on Amazon called “Behemoth, Amazon Rising” which he is self-publishing. Both companies had databases of published books. British academic John B. Sometimes a lot longer.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

I think people were sounding the same kinds of alarms about ebooks and the Kindle in 2009–2010. They said ebooks (especially self-published ebooks) were going to kill the printed word and put traditional authors, agents, editors, and bookstores out of business. I did the same writing copy for Amazon ads. Standards will evolve.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 31, 2021

Data is a godsend for marketers, helping us serve our audience with better, more relevant ads. Far from being excited about the prospect of seeing ads tailored to their preferences, they feel resigned to having little to no control over how their personal information is used. Theoretically, this is where AdChoices comes in.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Show Notes. Welcome, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Show Notes. Welcome, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 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. So first up — Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Joanna: So I think that that was around 2009.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 23, 2021

Hate Sites : Some people go beyond simple negative reviews and create ad hoc websites with their opinions, some of them containing illegal content. In 2009, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey wrote an op-ed on Obama healthcare reform , which caused a controversy among WF customers. is better than a late reply with more information.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 20, 2024

First up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So it's just about taking the thought dump, breaking it down into its most basic pieces, and then once those pieces all fit together perfectly, adding in all of the extra fluff and details, everything that kind of makes the story shine.

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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. Different ways to monetize your brand to make ads profitable. So it's weird.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

You can find Google Play Books at play.google.com/store/books and you can publish at Play.google.com/books/publish/u/0/. play/autonarrated – Publisher website for auto-narrated audiobooks. You were on the show in April 2021, talking about publishing on Google Play Books in general. Welcome back to the show, Ryan.

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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 published 67 episodes of The Creative Penn podcast in 2022, and I'm so pleased that the show still resonates after more than 13 years.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 15, 2023

In the intro, Chokepoint Capitalism [ Decoder ]; Direct sales [ Kris Rusch ]; Amazon Ads for Authors by Ricardo Fayet; Ads for Authors course ; Why I Ignored Target Reader Feedback for my Book Cover Design ; ChatGPT for teachers [ Hard Fork ]; Pilgrimage Kickstarter. It affects ad running. It affects marketing decisions.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2018

31, 2017, I “retired” from marketing and took a sabbatical for 2018 (which, as of this publishing, I’m still happily on). The team at CMI is nice enough to publish this so the entire CMI audience can watch and read it. My written desire was to have 100 paying customers by the end of 2009. The plan for our mental house.

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2022

They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business. In short – the dream of creating and selling an eBook of my own stayed in my head for two years until 2009. Delivering the subscription could be as simple as adding paying members to an email list (which you can do by linking PayPal with your email provider).

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2022

They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business. In short – the dream of creating and selling an eBook of my own stayed in my head for two years until 2009. Delivering the subscription could be as simple as adding paying members to an email list (which you can do by linking PayPal with your email provider).

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph Nassise talks about his writing process, how he diversifies his business across different publishers, different products, and different technologies, as well as how he is embracing new options for his books. So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So welcome to the show, Joe.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. The impact of adding more and more opportunity for community engagement on the site was immediate and big. This competition is part of an advertising bundle that we run with this sponsor (they also run some banner ads but also sponsor our newsletter regularly).

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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. First of all, on that whole lifetime deal companies, all of that, this is the same with publishers.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, the internet and mobile phone value-added services. In October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire. In 2009 Yagan and Troy Henikoff founded Excelerate Labs.

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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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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 started on Twitter in 2009, and I really got into a rut of what that was for me. Chelle Honiker gives some mindset and practical tips.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2014

Previous to these first experimentations with eBooks, the income generated from my blogs was almost all from advertising revenue (from ad networks like AdSense and also a few ad sales direct with brands) and affiliate revenue (like Amazon and a few smaller programs). in sales in 2009. That eBook generated $80,772.01

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 16, 2023

Otherwise – use what ever channel or tracking options your ad network or affiliate program gives you to help you work out which posts are performing. This post was originally published 5th of May 2009 and updated 17th August 2023.

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Quick Sprout

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Consider adding other multimedia elements such as videos, slideshows, or audio to your site. Then spend 30 minutes “beefing it up” by adding more content, charts, graphs, visuals, etc. Outbound links to resources from 2009 are irrelevant and won’t be as effective for your SEO ranking. Do not publish aggregated content.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. The impact of adding more and more opportunity for community engagement on the site was immediate and big. This competition is part of an advertising bundle that we run with this sponsor (they also run some banner ads but also sponsor our newsletter regularly).

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ProBlogger

MAY 27, 2020

When people start monetizing their blog, many of them try putting up ads. Within 24 hours of releasing my first ebook I was approach by a publisher who wanted to publish it. When I was approached by the publisher to write the first ProBlogger book I’d already been blogging about blogging for a while. Busking on your blog.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2020

Even something as simple as setting up a cookie so you can show than the posts that have been published since their last visit can make a lasting impression. But I wrote and published the first post (the longest post I’d ever written), and people started joining up for the challenge. Use challenges to teach and engage your readers.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 9, 2018

Try to publish 3-4 new products on your blog each year, whether they’re courses, software, ebooks, templates or updates. This is a system that we’ve been using since about 2009, previously in ebook format. I published approximately one per year. How often did you publish books and did you keep a schedule for these?

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ProBlogger

APRIL 11, 2018

Consider adding more detail. Ultimately, what matters is that you (re)publish the best post you can. As well as making your edits, you may want to put a note at the top of your post: This post was originally published on (date) and updated on (date). In 2012, I published an updated edition of that ebook. Flesh them out.

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Moz

MAY 26, 2020

This piece is coming from the perspective of Erika Austin, who has worked in digital marketing for Logic Supply since 2009, with special credit to Tim van der Horst in our Netherlands office who led the roll-out of the new domain and the resulting SEO recovery efforts. It was at this point in the process that our Go-Live Checklist took over.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. However, at the end of the process, you still need to take the audience back to the Web to increase ad views or complete the purchase. A blog is no longer used to merely publish blog type content. Check out part 1 , part 2 , part 3 and part 4. Social media.

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