The Creative Penn

MARCH 11, 2024

There are more options for publishing and reaching readers than ever before, and the indie author business models are splintering and diverging, so how do we know which path to follow? 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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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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Neil Patel

JULY 23, 2021

SlideShare is a content-sharing platform that allows you to upload media presentations and share them on your website or social media profile. Acquired by LinkedIn in 2012 , the company was later bought by the audiobook subscription platform Scribd. Let’s get started. What Is SlideShare? Add a Call-to-Action (CTA).

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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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Intergrowth

MARCH 24, 2023

ShareASale Affiliate marketing starts with building partnerships with sites in need of sales. ShareASale connects publishers to advertisers who are looking for help driving sales. Publishers can get paid per phone call, lead, or website visitor that they drive for the advertiser.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 8, 2023

Michael Anderle (LMBPN), Joanna Penn (The Creative Penn), and Dan Wood (DRaft2Digital) at London Book Fair, April 2023 Dan Wood is the COO of Draft2Digital , which helps authors self-publish alongside excellent support. He's also the co-author of many more with other authors under his company LMBPN Publishing. Both: Hello.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JUNE 20, 2023

Make sure you’re aware of how much of a cut the site will take from your sales. You’ll need three things: A website or social media account that’s attracting a reasonable volume of visitors Engaging content that’s relevant to the site you’re partnering with One or more affiliate links on your site As you can see, it’s quite a simple idea.

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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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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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Neil Patel

MAY 19, 2020

An easy first step for you to take is to install Crazy Egg and run a heatmap to see where people click so you adjust your design and copy to get more sales. Then you remarket them throughout the web with ads that prompt your products or services and send them to a landing page that will drive sales. I publish one new blog post a week.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Medium is a unique publishing platform that enables content creators to share their work, and get paid. While you may not be able to rely on Medium to generate a full-time income, there are other benefits you can reap by publishing on the platform. Are you ready to publish on Medium? What is Medium? Image source.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Medium is a unique publishing platform that enables content creators to share their work, and get paid. While you may not be able to rely on Medium to generate a full-time income, there are other benefits you can reap by publishing on the platform. Are you ready to publish on Medium? What is Medium? Image source.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 6, 2023

But because they're shorter books, I've still been publishing as much. Joanna: Well, just on the Kickstarter, I mean, your social media posts are often just interesting things with dragons on them, right, like lamps and random stuff with dragons. So for me, one of the things I'm really questioning at the moment is social media.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That means you want search engine spiders to find your new content as quickly as possible after you hit publish. Doing your best to publish valuable, interesting, and useful content and then doing everything you can to make sure that your potential customers see it. What Website Indexing Factors Matter? Here’s an example.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The team at Ultimate Bundles has put together the best resources on all the topics that matter to bloggers – mastering social media, monetization, creating and selling products, time management and productivity, growing an email list, and so much more. Natalie Sisson – How to Build a Sexy Sales Funnel That Sells.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The team at Ultimate Bundles has put together the best resources on all the topics that matter to bloggers – mastering social media, monetization, creating and selling products, time management and productivity, growing an email list, and so much more. Natalie Sisson – How to Build a Sexy Sales Funnel That Sells.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2023

I see marketing, strategy, outreach, UX, development, product, customer service, management decision-making, sales, PPCs — basically everything that makes an e-commerce business viable. Back in 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shocked the tech world by admitting that Amazon doesn’t make a profit on Kindles. Be responsive.

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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.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 18, 2024

In the intro, will TikTok be banned in the USA, and how will this impact authors and publishing? Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital , self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. When did you start self-publishing? So that was fun.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

A screenshot from semrush, showing the growth of traffic since 2012. The blog is caloriesecrets.net , it was established in April 2012 and by the end of April 2013, monthly traffic from Google was 102,944. It helps you see at a glance your traffic details and the relationship between number of published posts and traffic.

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Moz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Consider: In 2012, small businesses made up 99.7% Bring creativity to bear in publicizing your most compelling reasons to shop local on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other social media platforms. of US employer firms. SMBs with 500 or fewer employees are the backbone of the US economy.

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Backlinko

AUGUST 17, 2023

With this data gathered, you can create intricate target audiences for future social media and Google Ads campaigns. Not only will you find reports on e-commerce purchases, but you’ll also be able to review the user purchase journey as a whole, and how publisher ads and promotions helped secure the conversion.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. I speak from review experience, as I’ve been sharing the plusses and minuses of content marketing books since 2012. Here are some of the best options published in 2018 (and, in one case, the closing months of 2017).

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

What Happened to Me in 2012 Penguin Updates. My site, WebHostingSecretRevealed.com, was hit badly during the Google Penguin update in 2012. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. Share the page on your social media pages and forum signatures to increase the chances of being seen.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 13, 2017

In 2012, Barclays launched the mobile app Pingit , a mobile payment service that lets users transfer money easily through their mobile phones. Soon after the app was launched, Barclays made the most of its social media buzz to collect real-time user feedback. Available only for U.K. marketplace. and the U.K.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 28, 2012

In fact, these days, even social media sites can become lucrative platforms for affiliate marketing campaigns. offers affiliate, media, and tracking services and provides either a self-management or company-managed option for your affiliate relationships. This guest post is by Charles Dearing of WhoIsHostingThis.com.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 10, 2015

In 2012 I commenced a worldwide open-ended nomadic adventure with my husband and two children, and blogging seemed like a great idea. So once you have built your followers on social media, newsletters subscribers and regular visitors, how do you turn those into an income stream month after month? Keep reviews honest.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 3, 2017

In 2012 I commenced a worldwide open-ended nomadic adventure with my husband and two children, and blogging seemed like a great idea. So once you have built your followers on social media, newsletters subscribers and regular visitors, how do you turn those into an income stream month after month? Keep reviews honest.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

As blogs are increasingly recognized as business assets—or businesses in their own right—more entrepreneurs and publishers are looking to enter the blogosphere by buying a blog. While blogs are often bought and sold privately, to get a reliable overview of the blog sales market, we spoke with Andrew Knibbe, Operations Manager of Flippa.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

What Happened to Me in 2012 Penguin Updates. My site, WebHostingSecretRevealed.com, was hit badly during the Google Penguin update in 2012. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. Share the page on your social media pages and forum signatures to increase the chances of being seen.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Social Media. Take for example some recent posts here I have shared: How Our eBook Launches Have Evolved (after 235,000 eBook Sales) – reflections on what I’ve learned over the last 5-6 years. Questions come from a variety of sources including: Emails from readers. Comments on blog posts. Webinar Q&As.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Really the idea was to find a way to put that eBook and the other two that we launched since on sale the week or so before Christmas because I was thinking it might be something that people might give to friends and is just is a good time of year to be promoting something. I would just put them on sale for a week.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You blew up social media. Zero hour arrived and you waited patiently as the sales began to trickle in; a good sign at first. But as the day went by, the small flurry of sales never became the avalanche you’d hoped for, and by the end, you were left wondering what the hell just happened. Self-Published Author- Me.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

To promote his business, he does what good marketers all do well: he’s active on social media, publishes a blog, and contributes content elsewhere. The consumer industry has sales seasons and so too should review blogs. . Research is newsworthy. Matt Landau is like any other entrepreneur trying to make a living.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 1, 2012

So we started publishing our Christmas posts a couple of months early, like a youth work session to include young people when planning Christmas activities and ideas for organizing a Christmas card fundraiser. Having identified the popularity of these activities, we published our second book, 52 Scavenger Hunt Ideas.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 15, 2013

But in January of 2012, I decided to begin giving back to the world that’s educated me for the past ten years. Flashy sales pages. You know what I’m talking about – these types of sales pages were “flashy” in the “pay-attention-to-me-or-else” way, and not the “good-looking” way. That will be the easiest sale you’ll ever make.

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