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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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

What are some of the fundamentals behind self-publishing success? James Blatch shares tips and insights as well as introducing the Launchpad course from Self Publishing Formula. He’s also the co-founder of Self-Publishing Formula, Fuse Books, Hello Books, and the co-host of The Self-Publishing Show. Show Notes.

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BKA Content

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Blogs published in your name should reflect your personality and overall company philosophy and mission. A well-written company blog post helps you establish an individual online personality that people will come to know through regularly published posts. 10 Reasons Why BKA Content Is the Right Blog Writing Service for You.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the intro, investment firm KKR will buy Simon & Schuster [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Subscriber Surge Giveaways [ Written Word Media ]; Key Book Publishing Paths [ Jane Friedman ]. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

How can you use paid advertising as part of your book marketing strategy? 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.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 16, 2023

Knowing the Geographic regions of your readers can be helpful as you think about content but also is useful if you’re dealing with advertisers, knowing the screen resolution and browsers people are using to view your site is good from a design perspective etc.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the intro, Amazon changes ebook return policy [ Society of Authors ]; Spotify introduces audiobooks [ Spotify ; FindawayVoices ; Publishing Perspectives ]; Neal Stephenson on The Sword Guy podcast. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Show Notes.

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ProBlogger

JULY 11, 2016

Up until 2009 all of my income was generated from running advertising on my blogs and from a little affiliate marketing on my blog. But in 2009 I decided to invest some time into creating my first products on both ProBlogger and Digital Photography School. Product Sales. Watch this space.

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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. There were a few direct placement advertisements we also had to update.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Oren Pardes ( @OrenPardes ) December 9, 2009 at 1:41 am Thanks for not charging to read this! Reply RichardM ( @Geek_News ) December 9, 2009 at 2:11 am Interesting read, as a blogger myself I can see both sides of the fence. Reply Melinda | WAHM Biz Builder ( @superwahm1 ) December 9, 2009 at 3:59 am LOL Amy, I thought that too!

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In 2009, I decided to invest time into creating my first products which were eBooks. On dPS we offer sponsorships to advertisers who want to work directly with our audience. It ’ s a couple of months ago that I published that. But in 2009, I decided to invest a little bit of time into creating my first product.

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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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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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ProBlogger

JANUARY 24, 2012

Competition is rife and the top advertised jobs receive hundreds of applications. I began blogging in 2005 (my promoted blog was founded in 2009) and have never looked back. Friends of mine have posted client work showing advertisements and band music videos. Surely only post-graduate degrees now hold credibility?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the intro, We used to do that [Seth Godin ]; Penguin Random House has acquired Hay House [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Business for Authors ; Your Author Business Plan ; OpenAI has announced a partnership with Axel Springer , the first publishing house globally to partner with them to integrate journalism with AI technologies.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 19, 2014

In 2009 – three years after launching dPS – I launched our first eBook and wrote about how it generated $72,000 in sales in a week. Depending how much content you have ready to publish from your pre-launch work, you’ll need to keep creating content in the launch phase. Launch of a New Blog – 0-3 Months.

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The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

With thousands of dollars in cash prizes and numerous opportunities to secure a publishing contract, you’re sure to find the right free writing contest for your work. (If This boutique publishing firm offers cash prizes and promotional packages to winning authors. Disclosure: Inkitt is an advertising partner of The Write Life.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 19, 2017

For example, I found talking to many bloggers who blog about spirituality of different faiths or politics that advertising doesn’t always work so well on some of those, particularly advertising with advertising networks like Google’s AdSense. Number four is related to that because it’s still advertising.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 31, 2021

However, regardless of what we might think, consumers aren’t always fans of data-targeted advertising. Concerned about the implications of advertisers capturing vast quantities of consumer data with no checks or balances in place, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began an investigation into the practice in 2009.

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ProBlogger

JULY 21, 2011

To boost sales through certain affiliate partners, and help our members save on pet supplies or supplements for their dogs, we started specific Anything Goes forum topics where we frequently post coupon codes, sale notices and other promotions we find through our affiliate advertisers. The network creates community.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

Why might using your face to advertise your books be a good idea? 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. Joanna: So I think that that was around 2009. Steve: Thank you very much.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. Page views won’t matter as much to some readers of ProBlogger as others but for those of you monetizing your blog with advertising you might want to take note. Community Makes Your Blog More Attractive to Advertisers. Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash.

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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

MAY 20, 2024

First up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So let's just talk about publishing before we get into all the marketing side. So with an audience like you have, and you're marketing savvy and everything— What did you think about when you were publishing the first book?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. Page views won’t matter as much to some readers of ProBlogger as others but for those of you monetizing your blog with advertising you might want to take note. Community Makes Your Blog More Attractive to Advertisers. Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash.

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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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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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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 15, 2023

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. And I love that you say that because so much of the indie space, particularly, and the traditional publishing space, is about making the sales. And I guess we have to trust that too, right?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 25, 2013

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. Page views won’t matter as much to some readers of ProBlogger as others but for those of you monetizing your blog with advertising you might want to take note. Community Makes Your Blog More Attractive to Advertisers. Community Increases Page Views.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2020

My total AdSense (now programmatic advertising) earnings since 2004 is around US$2,800,000. Since 2009 we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of eBooks, courses and Lightroom Presets on my main blog – Digital Photography School. And others shared how they’d build significant businesses through coming across things we’d published.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

When I started as a blogger back in 2009, he was one of those guys that I wanted to be when I grow up. Advertisers want to advertise on blogs that have engagement. At the end of 2009 when I did it, my readers said, “Hey, we really would love it if you could create a PDF version of this.”

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 2, 2018

Since 2009 we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of eBooks, courses and Lightroom Presets on my main blog – Digital Photography School. Of course, monetizing blogs through advertising, affiliate marketing and selling virtual products is just one way to make money from blogging. It’s certainly not an overnight thing.

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ProBlogger

MAY 28, 2013

Work hard to maintain their income streams (whether that be by liaising and working with advertisers or developing and launching products). Each post I publish could potentially generate an income for me, on the day it’s published but also tomorrow, next week, and next month. Build relationships with other bloggers.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 14, 2014

A number which has consistently grown from 52% back in 2009. Or to showcase your products a little bit more, all while still offering value to your readers and not just babbling advertising copy. I’ll bet my lunch that it’s not an advertising catalog or a constant “look how awesome we are”. Presenting your products.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 27, 2012

I’m thrilled that blogging’s got me to where I am today—with a successful full-time business, a bunch of ebooks, a membership site, guest posts on major blogs, two speaker appearances at BlogWorld, and a published book Publishing E-Books For Dummies). In 2009, I launched a new blog, Aliventures. And waited. Learning point.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 19, 2016

I first met Mike at a blogging and social media conference, in 2009, where he interviewed me and quite a few other speakers at that conference. In 2009, Mike was brand new to the scene. In this interview, we take a step back in time to 2009, and I ask Mike about that first conference. It would have been 2009.

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