The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

What about sales tax / VAT? Are direct sales for you? You’re in control of the site and your sales pages, with no other ads on your page to distract potential readers. Over time, you build up traffic to your store, and that effort compounds, so you start to make sales every day on a site you control. What are the costs?

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Express Writers

MARCH 7, 2023

The benefits of content marketing are clear: it can help any organization boost brand exposure, increase sales, and improve customer loyalty. This is the highest amount in the history of the CMO survey (since 2008). There might also be room for one or two larger-scale projects and social media management.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Penn Spear of Destiny , the Gothic Cathedral project, and short stories I researched, wrote and then did a Kickstarter for Spear of Destiny , ARKANE Thriller #13, before publishing it wide a few months later. Essentially, if you take photos on private property, you cannot just use those photos in commercial projects.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 31, 2022

I've been talking about this for years and I have many thousands of words in a Scrivener project, but in 2023, I will overcome resistance and (finally) write this book. I am always early, lol! Joanna Penn — Write and publish ‘The Shadow Book'. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 28, 2023

I mean, I had over a hundred thousand words in a Scrivener project. We have all our lines and of course I do share, I share a lot and have done since I was online in 2008. And yet I was reflecting on this this morning thinking, this is good because I've been publishing since 2008 when I published my first book.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Long-term listeners/readers know I have been talking about ‘the shadow book’ for years now, and that is a similar project. I’ve sold direct since starting out online in 2008, but it’s always been a secondary to trying to succeed on the various stores. As I discuss in How to Write a Novel , I am a discovery writer.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. The story is based around a book of human skin, so it was an appropriate project! Click here to see the project in detail: From print-on-demand to leather-bound original. I offered it, but I didn't focus on it.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

Show notes: Overview of the Pilgrimage campaign including rewards, add-ons, and the result Why Kickstarter for this project, and why now for me Tips for success: Learn about the platform beforehand. The paperback version for sale on Amazon and Ingram has a plain B&W interior. How did I do fulfillment?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

I say allegedly, because these other projects keep coming up. And it's really interesting because the most reliable way I've discovered to improve my Amazon sales is to just advertise my direct sales. And we see a number of authors are doing this direct sales process, and we see it over and over and over again.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

I have been blogging since 2008, year in, year out , and just always did, and then, I just thought, you know what, I'm going to let go of the blog. You see it all the time with TV shows and other creative projects that, it just goes from bad to worse and people are so attached, and they just can't let go. What is its projected value?

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 8, 2023

That was 2008, and it just never stopped. You've got direct sales on Payhip and Shopify, you've got translations, you've got large print. I just recently started doing direct sales. What are your plans in terms of trying to ramp up sales elsewhere? I'm still learning how to do direct sales, so. Witt Joanna: L.A.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. I love just seeing projections and numbers. Nonfiction authors don't just make money with book sales or change lives with book sales. Stephanie: Yeah, it's so rare that somebody actually makes a living from their book sales. I love a checklist. What's the potential?

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

So when it came time for the third book, when I was finishing it up I did go back to her, and she was busy with some other projects. Most of my sales come through print , whereas I know that many indie authors get more sales with eBooks. Are they a percentage of your sales now? Joanna: That's great.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. Normally, such figures would put me off recommending him.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

Show Notes Harnessing the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons on Kickstarter Offering physical objects to accompany your book campaign Why are direct sales and Kickstarter taking off now? Why do you think Kickstarter and direct sales is really taking off? Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. You get the royalty.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

I intend to do more beautiful books and I have loads of ideas about future projects, potentially working with AI-assisted artists as well as my existing team. It’s not just all about branding, or on-message photos like the kind generated by fake media purely for sales purposes. I know this is hard.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 17, 2023

Show Notes Combining traditional and indie publishing Deciding which route to go with each project The locus of control with indie publishing Publishing a series — indie or trad? How do you know what to do with each project? It was really one of the most joyful projects I've ever written. Rachael: Oh, it's such a good question.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With the advent of the kindle and readers coming to expect ebooks for $2.99, revenue from ebook sales on blogs have dwindled. Other writers are using their blog as a platform to launch creative projects that might not necessarily have much to do with the topic of their site. And it’s not just advertising.

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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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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

And the idea was that they would encourage their employees to spend up to 20% of their time on basically more speculative projects, things that were outside the scope of their official responsibilities. Starting an email list early, I started mine in 2008. So I used it as kind of a learning and research project.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

If you are a wide author, you are already used to not having a good Amazon rank because a borrow counts as a sale. And they had the identical sales. I've had a YouTube channel since 2008, so I'm quite interested to do that integration. And strangely, their ranking was almost identical. And Twitter I think doing an integration.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

The one thing that excites me the most is like all of the art pieces I made using an artificial intelligence image generator , which I believe adds a little bit of like weirdness and mysticism, if you will, to the whole project. Has it actually led to book sales? I've been putting stuff online now since 2008. Can you tell?

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

In 2011 he created the Million Dollar Blog Project and launched his case study blog, Expert Enough. Some of the best discussions of 2010 came from his blog and I believe that the Million Dollar Blog Project will result in a few more bloggers to watch. I love his blog. Lingerie Addict. Treacle is the founder of The Lingerie Addict.

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Income Diary

JANUARY 29, 2024

Understanding whether the website was a passion project, a side hustle, or a full-blown business can provide insights into how the site has been managed and the attention it has received. A website’s history as a side project or a dedicated business venture impacts the manner and intensity of negotiations during the acquisition process.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki started Styling You in July 2008 and today – 9 years later – she’s not only grown her audience, but she’s built a pretty amazing business around her blog. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? If you go back to 2008 when I started, Facebook business pages started not long after. I’m thinking October 2008.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

There’s more to success than book sales, however, and being “a successful author” is about defining what that means for you. If she lands a project, it’s typically in the $50,000-$80,000 range. In 2008, Ries started a blog, and one of his first posts was entitled The Lean Startup.

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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. Dommermuth trained as a banker, before moving into computer sales in Montabaur, Germany. He also had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull. Page is the inventor of PageRank and an investor in Tesla Motors.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki started Styling You in July 2008 and today – 9 years later – she’s not only grown her audience, but she’s built a pretty amazing business around her blog. Darren: I think it was 2008, July maybe? If you go back to 2008 when I started, Facebook business pages started not long after. I’m thinking October 2008.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy. I first self-published in 2008, and every year since, I have learned about and used new tools that help me improve my craft, write better books and run a better creative business. Joanna Penn Tell us more about the lost Books project, What is it?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Use filters on gmail – I have hundreds of filters on gmail – bulk for emails on products sales – keep records to serve customers – quick gmail search of transactions to see if customer purchases a product or not – emails you want to keep, but don’t want to read. Thanks for the question, Phil.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

So my next project after Spear of Destiny is going to be a high-quality photo coffee table book on Gothic Cathedrals. I mean, I remember back in the day, we weren't even allowed to do pre-orders on Kindle, or as a non-American author, I couldn't even publish on Kindle back in like 2008, whenever it was. So just a few more things.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Use filters on gmail – I have hundreds of filters on gmail – bulk for emails on products sales – keep records to serve customers – quick gmail search of transactions to see if customer purchases a product or not – emails you want to keep, but don’t want to read. Thanks for the question, Phil.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

We’ve looked at direct ad sales, affiliate promotions, other advertising networks, I wrote a book. It took me four months to write it, to get it ready for launch, to write the sales page, to get the emails ready to launch the thing. Then, I got a sale. Then, nine minutes later, another sale came in.

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Publishing Trends

JANUARY 16, 2024

She first joined S&S in 2008 after three years as publisher of Rodale Books. Cindy Yen has joined as as online and digital sales coordinator. In Agency News… Anna Llewellyn has joined as project coordinator at Brockaman, Inc. Previously, Shawver served as CTO of 360 Media Direct. Molly Gendell has joined Maria B.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

But there is something sexy about completing a project that you’re proud of and that results in a happy client who refers you to someone else while you cash his cheque at your bank. Now, back to the current project Reply Sally B ( @snappysentences ) June 10, 2010 at 5:16 am Oh Amy I can totally relate to this post. Great post!

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

Affiliate marketing arrangements with individual eCommerce programs and networks (like ShareASale or Rakuten ) enable bloggers to receive sales commissions when readers purchase products through affiliate links embedded in their posts. Posts about beauty and fashion trends, home and healthy living round out the main topics on this site.

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