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! It is harder to stand out, especially as advertising has become more expensive and the market has become ever more crowded.

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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. How do they do it?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In terms of my personal experience, I’ve been interested in AI for creatives since AlphaGo beat Lee Sodol at the ancient Chinese game of Go in 2016, and I’ve been sharing interviews and resources here ever since. This kind of search is exactly what Amazon is currently building so users can do more nuanced search within the store itself.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 19, 2021

Why Should Certified Public Accountants Advertise Their Services? Besides the earning potential, advertising your services online has other benefits like: Instilling trust: You set yourself up as an authority and expert by having a professional website with sales pages and blog posts. 6 Marketing Tips for CPAs.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Editor’s note: Because proving the value of content marketing continues to be necessary, Julia McCoy updated her 2016 post with some fresh stats and perspective. . Consumers are fed up with in-your-face advertising and sales tactics that feel cheap, slimy, or underhanded. JuliaEMcCoy Click To Tweet.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 25, 2024

Holmes is a book marketing and direct sales specialist and the business partner of fantasy author, Lori Holmes. Matt has a great newsletter and courses for authors around Facebook ads and direct sales. Holmes is a book marketing and direct sales specialist and the business partner of fantasy author, Lori Holmes. Matthew: Hi, Jo.

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Quick Sprout

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TouchBistro – Best Overall Epos Now – Best For Accounting Integrations Shopify – Best for Combining Online and In-Person Sales Lightspeed – Best for Multiple Locations and Franchises Loyverse – Best Free Loyalty Program SalesVu – Best for Increasing Sales. This version was released in 2016.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 2, 2019

Over time it has increased, and you’ll notice that things really started to ramp up in 2016. An interesting fact is that in the United States during mid-2017, Facebook had more advertisers than inventory. Now let’s look at social media from a sales perspective. Sales is a complicated formula.

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Neil Patel

MAY 10, 2021

Data breaches and Facebook’s involvement in the 2016 US elections are causing social media users to become more aware of how their data can be used against them. Using this type of method could tighten your sales funnel and give you more qualified leads ready for nurturing. Decentralized Social Media. Transparency for Customers.

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Neil Patel

MAY 4, 2021

They don’t have the followings of a Kardashian, but they’re much cheaper and can still reach enough people to make a difference in product sales. What’s more: research shows they generate double the sales of paid ads and with a 37% higher customer retention rate. Facebook is by far the most popular, with 61% market share in 2016.

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Fat Joe

MARCH 31, 2023

SEO lets companies grow their businesses online on their terms, without the restrictions of traditional advertising or the lack of attribution from other marketing methods. By 2016, one-third (31.16 Soon after, talk began about the possibility it could eclipse traditional advertising. percent by 2021.

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Moz

JANUARY 14, 2020

In our 2016 study , the two stand-out correlations with conversion rate were: High-performing websites got more significantly paid search traffic than the chasing pack. The only advertising that performed better than search was remarketing, which inched the advertising closer and closer to that precious purchase moment.

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Online Courses and Workshops Books and Ebooks Affiliate Marketing Advertising Speaking Gigs Consulting/Coaching Selling Freelance Services In a moment, I’m going to show you a general framework you can follow to start a profitable blog from scratch. And it resulted in $126,000 in sales live on the webinar. Let’s jump in.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 12, 2023

And this was back in 2015/2016 when Facebook was still like people thought it worked. I was like, I'm not seeing these Facebook promos moving the sales needles at all. They're selling your attention, they're selling your time to advertisers. One was that Facebook did not move the numbers.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now. I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. I grew my direct book sales which means a greater percentage of profit for a lower number of book sales.

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Intergrowth

MARCH 5, 2023

It’s typically used in sales (i.e., Gated Content To get better-qualified leads, marketers and sales teams will often offer a free resource to customers in exchange for either a piece of contact info or an opportunity to chat with the prospect. Your growth (one new person and doubled sales) is lower, but your profit ratio is higher.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 30, 2018

Media, algorithms, and advertising combine to create a perpetual stream of noise often intended to incite rage and illicit reactionary anger usually shared through social media. A post shared by Stephen Crowley (@steecrowley) on Nov 7, 2016 at 3:50am PST. After that, it’s the sales team’s job to close the deal.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That was my first introduction to direct sale, to be honest, because I did not understand CreateSpace, Amazon KDP did not necessarily exist for print. What really got me into becoming known in the poetry world and so forth, it was 2016. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Why Shopify?

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 9, 2018

In late 2016, pundits declared 2017 whould be the year virtual reality won mass adoption. Some of the fashion magazines are offering opportunities for advertisers to align products with editorial in the same issue. And it’s important to remember that advertisers aren’t necessarily excluded from these types of experiences.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2022

That means, for most brands, the mass transition to digital marketing from traditional advertising is inevitable. When it comes to generating sales, 70% said SEO gives them better results than PPC (pay-per-click). When it comes to sales funnels, 69% of content is created for the top of the funnel. internet users. aged 15-35.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

DMA is an award winning international marketing agency offering full-service marketing and advertising support for growing local businesses. More than 50 percent of their clients are small, local business owners who need more traffic, leads, and sales. “We began in 2016 as a Local SEO company based in Orange County, CA.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

In 2016, when Intel iQ boasted 2 million monthly readers who averaged more than two minutes per visit, the iQ team wondered what is the additional value of a returning reader versus a first timer? In-feed native advertising like Sharethrough is used by IQ in conjunction with social platforms like Facebook for multichannel native advertising.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

00:01): An advertising blast from the past: “A show about nothing” (01:00): Robert muses on this week’s theme: Are you doing nothing? (08:31): billion in 2016, it should come as little surprise that publishers in this sector are experimenting with new ways to meet the feverish demand for audio content. Show details. (00:01):

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Content Hacker

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Since then, I’ve been behind over 40,000 content projects, which have generated over $5M in sales to my businesses, and much more to my clients’ businesses. He has since sold CMI in June of 2016 to UBM, a multi-billion dollar events and media company based in London. David Schloss: 2.5x Higher Costs from AI-Written Copy.

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Content Powered

JULY 22, 2022

Some writers (or writers' agents) will promote themselves for sale on influencer marketing marketplaces. They advertise themselves as writers for Forbes and allow you to buy their services by publishing an article on Forbes. The second option is the same as the first option, except laundered through a platform.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

Acknowledge the risks and understand the human response to change I have been talking and writing about the possibilities of AI since 2016, when AlphaGo beat Lee Sodol in what many consider as the first creative AI move. It’s not just all about branding, or on-message photos like the kind generated by fake media purely for sales purposes.

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Moz

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While only a portion of it is direct advertising, most of the focus of the page above the organic results is on people looking to buy a vacuum. Since our 2013 study (in early 2016), Google removed right-hand column ads on desktop and increased the maximum number of top-left ads from three to four. What about the big picture?

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. So many bloggers look at traditional methods of monetization such as advertising, affiliate income and developing online products. In 2016, the site was named the #1 fastest-growing private media company by Inc. Alexis Grant.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Today’s podcast is based off of this article on ProBlogger, “ My Blogging Income Breakdown for the First Half of 2016 ”. We have our 12 days of Christmas sale and our mid year/summer sale. On dPS we offer sponsorships to advertisers who want to work directly with our audience. ProBlogger Training Event 2016.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

In fact, you are also already using AI tools every day — in your car through Google or Apple Maps, if you edit with tools like Grammarly or ProWritingAid , if you publish or shop on Amazon, if you use advertising through Facebook or Amazon, if you use social media on sites like TikTok, YouTube, or Twitter. Has it actually led to book sales?

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After all, every article they publish tends to pay for itself (and then some) thanks to the traffic it brings to the website — traffic that often leads to sales of their product. For example, a headline like “How to be a freelance writer in 2016” is a great candidate for modernization. (On Don’t Be Scared of Ghostwriting.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Use outsourcing as a tool to drive sales and revenue. Critical parts of your company, like sales or hiring, are often the least fun parts of an entrepreneur’s job. 94% of marketers who automate say it has improved their company’s performance, according to MDG Advertising. The time saving to be gained is no small feat.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

So, I kept going for a long time between, I think, 2013 and 2016 I was working on it on and off as I was doing all sorts of other things and kept going back to it, kept going back to it, and then one day you said to me, maybe it's time to realize it's not going to happen, because it just wasn't coming together for me.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Well, blog-wise it’s great to know what’s happened across 2015, give you an overview of your efforts, point you in the right direction for 2016, and give you a case of the warm and fuzzies when you see how far you’ve come in 12 short months. Can you write to the advertisers and offer them a new deal? Are the ads old?

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

In 2016/2017, I was in Austin, Texas, and I went to a bunch of meetings for NaNoWriMo. How about things like direct sales as well? Direct sales, I think, is the future of publishing. So we have craft and marketing and advertising, which are different. Actually, you're a little bit at fault for this, so I'll explain that.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

eReader 2012–2016 Forecast , new models of Kindle Fire are more than likely to disrupt the market once again. Don’t forget to add a screenshot (choose the most appealing page on your blog), as it will be displayed on the Amazon sales page. As per the International Data Corporation report, Worldwide and U.S. Choose payment options.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

The advertiser count to date has surpassed 9 million. You need to attract potential buyers and funnel them into your sales funnel. AdExpresso analyzed over 100 million dollars of ad spend and determined the average ad cost for the whole of 2016. Can businesses keep succeeding with this decline in organic reach? Absolutely.

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