Ashleyn Writes

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

(Well, not yet ) Elephant in the room: will this put those of us who work in marketing writing—copywriters, content writers, copyeditors, social media managers, ghostwriters—out of a job? After reviewing and digging into these 5 tools and working in digital marketing writing since 2009, here’s my hot take: Absolutely not.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

You’ll use different elements for each launch, as well as for long-term sales. You won’t have control of your pricing, your cover, or the metadata around categories and keywords, and it won’t be financially viable to do paid ads as you won’t be able to measure sales and return-on-investment (ROI). Here are some things to consider.

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BKA Content

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Many small businesses connect with people by using social media — but as you do most of your work in non-digital spaces, you may feel behind when it comes to this aspect of your business. This will ultimately lead them down the sales funnel. BKA Content has served as a leader in the content marketing industry since 2009.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

You are getting enormous levels of organic traffic … Full of enthusiasm, you rush to your sales manager to check the sales status. And your jaw drops seeing you’ve got little to none sales from all of that traffic. You have to make consistent sales if you want to scale your business fast. No, I’m serious.

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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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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. It's called direct sales. And specifically, direct sales online. You started what 2009, 2010 way, way back. Well, there is!

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Neil Patel

JULY 30, 2021

Which one do you think looks more attractive on a website or social media post? Google’s own URL shortening tool, Goo.gl, launched back in 2009. You can shorten any link posted to social media right from the Hootsuite dashboard. You can even generate QR codes to engage customers and drive sales. How Did Goo.gl

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 24, 2021

Quora is a question-and-answer social media platform where users can ask questions, get answers, and interact with other users. It was founded in 2009, and now boasts millions of users and hundreds of thousands of questions on questions topics ranging from the “what is the creepiest text you’ve ever received?

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

With an active Facebook page , three corporate blogs , a couple of Twitter accounts, a YouTube channel , a Flickr profile and more, Kodak seems to be smiling pretty much all over the social media arena. And no, it’s not just for the sake of social media presence alone. We have embraced social media for some time now.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Up until this point my focus had very much been about making money through advertising (with some affiliate marketing) but in 2009 I began to experiment with eBooks ( read more on this evolution in my blogging income in this post ). A Few Stats on our eBook Sales. The Biggest Lesson I’ve Learned In Selling eBooks. a blog post.

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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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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I considered shutting the show down a few years back as I was bored with the content — but then generative AI took off, and the rise of direct sales started, and now we have plenty to talk about again! I started writing my first novel during NaNoWriMo in 2009, and published Pentecost as Joanna Penn in 2011.

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Income Diary

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Without further ado, we present “The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Website in 2024” – a comprehensive roadmap designed to steer you through the intricacies of readying your site for prospective buyers, negotiating a fair price, and ultimately maximizing your profits after the sale.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 7, 2021

Launched in 2009 , the engine serves up lists and tables, providing users with specific, numeric-based answers to their questions. Pie charts: They are incredibly versatile and can help demonstrate everything from budget allotment to the percentage of users using respective social media channels. Use Localization.

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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. In The AI Author Assistant, I included an example of my asking ChatGPT to rank my books from most sales to least sales. Digital publishing-on-demand was disruptive, and the industry needed to adjust and adapt.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 20, 2024

So my multiple streams of income, obviously, my biggest stream of income is my book sales. I tried to keep my sponsors writing related or social media related. I would say book sales are my most prominent stream of income. I do social media and all the stuff you do as well, but I definitely do not do much video.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Financially, I can't see any impact, but it was still personally worth it, especially as it helped me see how far my writing has come since that first novel in 2009 and the lessons helped me to finish How to Write a Novel. 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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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

Another one that's interesting right now is social media. I started on Twitter in 2009, and I really got into a rut of what that was for me. I was struggling to reinvent myself, and I feel like a lot of authors are also feeling that way in social media worlds, but also in other ways. What about social media?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Behance is a creative social media platform owned by Adobe that offers thousands of creative designers — including tons of free fonts. The League of Moveable Type has been operating since 2009. They primarily advertise their fonts for sale, but you can still download plenty of free fonts and use them for your brand.

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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. And people kept saying, “well, social media will kill email.”

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The Hoth

JUNE 12, 2023

That means adding your business name, address, phone number, reviews, social media profiles, services, and products to Bing Places – which will also make it easier for your business to appear in Bing Maps. Bing optimization also works for Yahoo Ever since July 2009, Bing has been the power source for fellow search engine Yahoo.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 24, 2021

In 2009, Matthew Inman created a webcomic called The Oatmeal. According to Jack , “When a piece of content gets shared on a social media site, or forwarded in an email, the title is usually the only thing the reader has to go on when deciding whether or not to click. In 2012, the site netted him $500,000. Why the list format?

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In 2009 when I launched my first eBooks I had never launched a product of my own before but thankfully I had already done a number of promotions of other people’s products as an affiliate. I chose to promote an eBook on a different topic so as not to cannibalise my own sale. Darren says : Shayne is spot on with this tip.

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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. But I feel like a lot of the social media has changed. No single social media hub.

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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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ProBlogger

MAY 27, 2020

Last month I talked about my various profit streams , and how nearly a third of my profits come from product sales. Because he also had two CDs for sale – $15 for either one, or $25 for them both. In 2009, having decided I needed to either kill the idea or act on it, I started spending 15 minutes each day on it.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Yet examples abound of companies that behave in zombie-like ways, often paying the price in lost sales and damaged reputations. Melissa gives plenty of examples of problematic brands, including the 2009 story of the self-proclaimed “friendly skies” airline, United, refusing to replace a passenger’s guitar damaged by its employees. (As

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ProBlogger

MARCH 26, 2020

For both of my blogs it’s the main driver of both traffic and sales. Yes, social media is important. It happened again when I did it in 2007, and again in 2009. That series of blog posts really helped us to increase our subscriber numbers, not only to our email list but also our RSS feed and social media channels.

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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. Like if you hate social media, you're not going to be good at it.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In 2009 when I launched my first eBooks I had never launched a product of my own before but thankfully I had already done a number of promotions of other people’s products as an affiliate. I chose to promote an eBook on a different topic so as not to cannibalise my own sale. Darren says : Shayne is spot on with this tip.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

Most of my sales come through print , whereas I know that many indie authors get more sales with eBooks. But just staying on the product, so in terms of your sales because the activity books are paid products, and then the coloring pages and the worksheets are kind of free downloads. Are they a percentage of your sales now?

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ProBlogger

JULY 11, 2016

Similarly our Product sales revenue is higher than Affiliate Commissions but once we pay for the cost of production of the products the profit is not as high. Each year on Digital Photography School we run big promotions with our 12 Days of Christmas Sale and our Mid Year Sale. Product Sales.

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BKA Content

OCTOBER 9, 2022

We have been crafting quality content through blog writing services since 2009, so we understand how the digital market has evolved. To determine the true worth of your blog writing, consider it as a long-term investment rather than a quick way to boost sales. Social Media. Company Culture. Content Marketing. Health Care.

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ProBlogger

JULY 11, 2016

Similarly our Product sales revenue is higher than Affiliate Commissions but once we pay for the cost of production of the products the profit is not as high. Each year on Digital Photography School we run big promotions with our 12 Days of Christmas Sale and our Mid Year Sale. Product Sales.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 9, 2018

This is a system that we’ve been using since about 2009, previously in ebook format. But over in Digital Photography School, which is my main blog now, we’ve been publishing ebooks and other products since 2009. Since 2009, when I did my first ever ebook, we’ve published I think it’s 24, maybe 25 ebooks on the site.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 13, 2018

When Andrea started getting into social media, she realized nobody was teaching it in an entertaining way. So she invented a character: ‘Grandma Mary: Social Media Edutainer’ She’d even show up at events as Grandma Mary – a great way to stand out! We received submissions from numerous bloggers.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Anyone who follows that advice to a “T&# seriously limits online connections and life beyond direct sales. You’re Out of Your Niche – And Still Making The Sale I’ve made countless sales from meeting people who weren’t actively searching to get in shape. You made a sale without having to sell.

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