Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Just look at Facebook’s audience growth since late 2008. In other words, for every 100 interactions with your Facebook ad, nine will convert into a lead or sale. Want to reach a wider social audience to generate more leads or drive more sales? Despite a couple of small blips, it’s all up and to the right: The net result?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Introduction On 8 December 2008, I published my first blog post on www.TheCreativePenn.com. The Creative Penn home page in 2008 This is my third website. Consider the pie of sales income for a particular book. Do you have any questions? You can leave a comment below, or email me here. The podcast logo changes as I age!

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Phoneburner – Best for Remote Teams VanillaSoft – Best for Outbound Sales Voicent Cloud – Best Standalone Auto Dialer Software Mojo – Best for SMB Sales RingCentral – Best for Compliance Kixie – Best for Local Presence. These are: Sales Engagement Platforms Contact Center Software.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2020

For example, in China the virus caused retail sales to drop by 20.5% But what I’ve learned from going through two crashes (the dotcom crash in 2000 and the real estate crash in 2008) is that the best time to double down is when others are not. and the unemployment rate jumped to 6.2 in February.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 26, 2022

Conversion Rate Experts – Best for Turning Leads into Sales. In addition to talent management and celebrity influencer acquisition, Bukhash Brothers also offer services for digital content creation, social media consultancy, creative concept development, and sales consultancy. Column Five was officially founded back in 2008.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 13, 2024

However, many of the most profitable affiliate websites are those that refer sales. In other words: find a product or service you like, promote it to your blog’s readers, and earn part of the profit on each affiliate sale. eBay Partner Network (EPN) The 411 on eBay Partner Network Founded in 2008. Back to Top 6. Quick payments.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

is a large format, 8 ½ by 11-inch book with 250 pages of distilled best practices and details that cumulatively can help you enjoy thousands of dollars in increased sales. They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today’s Digital Consumer by Marcus Sheridan.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Also as a speaker, you can do back of the room sales. Sales are very low, and I'm making the book as readable and delightful as possible, but I'm just becoming aware that it could be more than just a calling card. Maybe you sell 200 in the first week or month, but I've been doing this since 2008. That's your average mid-list.

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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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Ann Handley

JUNE 17, 2023

* * * The concept of a Sentient Toaster Oven (or another household appliance that has gained consciousness or a personality) is a common theme in science fiction/fantasy/gaming—stretching as far back as 2008, as far as I can tell. ChatGPT obviously pulled in the reference from somewhere, since it’s not capable of truly original thought.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Among the benefits – shorter sales cycle (no. How does marketing without talking about or promoting our product/service help us create leads and sales? That calculus varies based on your product sale point, obviously, but the base principle is still the same. How do we measure content’s influence on sales and revenue?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 31, 2022

“ It feels like 2008 all over again, like the early days of digital when we didn't really know what we were doing, but it was a hell of a lot of fun, and those who embraced the changes built a career on that technology. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 31, 2018

Metadata is essential to managing these assets, providing useful information about the content, such as: “Older woman holding a baby, photo, taken by Phil Smith, January 5, 2008.” #contentstrategy Click To Tweet. But it doesn’t only have to be ad content.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 7, 2021

They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today’s Digital Consumer. The book is also available in audio format. Does your current marketing strategy need a refresh? If so, this book is for you.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 15, 2021

Through a highly-effective advertising campaign that played on their shoes’ sustainable credentials, sales have exploded, and today the company is worth $1.4 Airbnb was founded in 2008 and was valued at over $100 billion when it went public in 2020. Take Allbirds shoes. Be Upfront and Honest in Your Paid Ads Targeting Millennials.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 28, 2023

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. Jo Frances Penn: It's interesting because of course we all have our boundaries, right?

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ContentWriters

MAY 10, 2023

Spotify, arguably the most popular music streaming platform in the world, has been growing rapidly since its inception in 2008. They beefed up the partnership by including exclusive merchandise and access to pre-sale concert tickets for Spotify users.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. I went with Shopify as they are developing an ecosystem with web 3, enabling sale of NFTs as well as cryptocurrency payment methods, so I have confidence they will be a scalable platform for the decade ahead.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 29, 2024

It's not for sale at all right now. When you have a site as old as mine (started 2008), there's always backlist content to update or archive. I use ChatGPT and Claude for brainstorming, help with organising ideas, and also for writing sales descriptions. But it was a truly limited edition. Not a fun job, but necessary!

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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). However, compared to its benefits, knowing how much your content marketing budget should be is often harder to pinpoint.

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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. I grew my direct book sales which means a greater percentage of profit for a lower number of book sales. I offered it, but I didn't focus on it. I also only offered digital formats.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Since 2008, spending on SEO from 2008 to 2020 has grown over 7x from $11.5 As part of your SEO campaign, let’s say you spent $100 on localized SEO efforts for other counties near your business’s location, and it netted you $300 in sales as a result. What is SEO? SEO is an essential component of any marketer’s strategy.

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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. It's about more profit per sale. Well, there is!

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. 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. Then in 2010, I launched the Nonfiction Writers Conference. What are the other ways?

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Moz

APRIL 2, 2020

This is much bigger and worse, at least this spike of it is, than the Great Recession of 2008. And that is what that research shows, right, that essentially folks who invest in marketing, in sales during a recession tend to outperform and more quickly outperform their competition as markets resume. We have a sale."

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

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. So it's called cross-channel effects. It's kind of like bonus money.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

How do you ensure secure cash flow and profits, instead of focusing on short-term spike sales? But I also came out of business of 13 years IT consulting, and I arrived as well, in sort of 2008 I started, but you know, really when indie started taking off. And back in 2007/2008, there were a lot of sucky, scammy things.

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Ben Settle

JANUARY 17, 2024

I stopped doing salutations probably around 2008 or 2009. In my experience if you get those two right then salutations not only don’t help or matter one way or the other as far a sales go… but might even hurt depending on the market/list/people on that list 7. You go right into it. Did you once greet the subscriber by their name?

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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. Joanna Penn: And just on that, so the direct sales model, software is another thing. I just blog because I blog, if you know what I mean. It was a way of me getting thoughts together.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

The paperback version for sale on Amazon and Ingram has a plain B&W interior. Only available in the Kickstarter and also for sale on my store, CreativePennBooks.com. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy. I used Bookfunnel to deliver all ebooks and audiobooks, as per usual with my direct sales.

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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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Income Diary

MAY 4, 2024

10 million of the $22 million Musk made from the sale of Zip2 went to founding X.com (later PayPal). 100 million of the $165 million made from the sale of PayPal went to founding SpaceX. 10 Leadership Requires Putting Yourself Forward Musk’s leadership was tested like never before on August 2, 2008.

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Income Diary

MAY 4, 2024

10 million of the $22 million Musk made from the sale of Zip2 went to founding X.com (later PayPal). 100 million of the $165 million made from the sale of PayPal went to founding SpaceX. 10 Leadership Requires Putting Yourself Forward Musk’s leadership was tested like never before on August 2, 2008.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

So if you had a free download, that counted pretty much the same as a sale in terms of the algorithm. So those will be the primary levers that you can pull as an author to start generating sales or finding readers. But it feels to me like the Wild West when 2007, 2008, the early days of digital in general, which was just brilliant.

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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

APRIL 19, 2017

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. Here are a few of my favourites: How Creatives Should Negotiate via Tim Ferris. How Ramit Sethi Launched a Product That Generated $5m in a Week via The Hustle.

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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. And being that I'm a marketer, and I'm doing direct sales, I always kind of refer to products, and by products, I mean books. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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