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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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. Bizible closes the gap between sales and marketing. And that’s just on the basis of job title.

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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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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

So in 2008, I started my own publishing business. We didn't have social media, or podcasts, or any of these things, Joanna, back when you and I were starting. There's still a lot of fear around social media for a lot of writers. So social media, to me, is rented real estate. We never despair, do we?

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BKA Content

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Anticipate Marketing and Sales Needs With Blogging If you’re looking for a low-cost evergreen solution to marketing during a recession, our monthly blog writing service is the answer. Establish a social media presence with meaningful content. Social Media. Learn More. Company Culture. Content Marketing.

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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 you have to I guess tell people more often , like email more than once a month or do some videos and maybe do social media every day and yeah, all this stuff that I haven't done, like probably ever.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 15, 2021

Run Ads on the Social Media Platforms Millennials Use the Most. A huge percentage are active on social media, but to make the most of this, we need to understand what platforms millennials are using. Today there are dozens of social media platforms, with new ones popping up every day. Take Allbirds shoes.

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Income Diary

JANUARY 29, 2024

Social and Referral Traffic: Understanding the traffic originating from social media platforms and other external sites is important, though it can be influenced by paid promotions and partnerships. Social Traffic Visits that come from social media platforms. It often signifies strong brand recognition.

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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. In this accessible book from Forbes’ “most influential woman in social media,” you’ll learn strategies that can take your digital writing to the next level. The book is also available in audio format.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

The Lead Machine: The Small Business Guide to Digital Marketing : Everything Entrepreneurs Need to Know About SEO, Social Media, Email Marketing, and Generating Leads Online by Rich Brooks. Evaluate your website analytics, email reports, and social media to see what’s working and what’s not working.

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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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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Readers had just received 31 posts of high value, there was lots of goodwill and community on the site, and I think the healthy sales reflected this. I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

If you use Grammarly or ProWritingAid for aspects of editing, Google for research or Maps for navigation or email with auto-anti-spam, Amazon for publishing or advertising or shopping, Facebook or TikTok or Twitter for social media, Spotify for music discovery, or Netflix for TV, you are using AI-assisted platforms and tools.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Other things you might want to quit: social media platforms, blogging, an author name, a book series, writing a book that's taking forever, marketing a book that isn't selling, a business model, a day job, being a full-time author, a city or even a country. Why we need to reframe quitting — and why it's so hard to do.

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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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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And diving into social media during that time, it was Myspace. 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. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. ” Joanna: I love that.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

I've been doing this a long time now, since 2008, and I feel like I have got stuck in my processes for an amount of time. Another one that's interesting right now is social media. 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.

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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. I was on YouTube in 2008.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

And I thought more people need to do this because as authors, we juggle a lot of hats, and there's a lot of focus on social media, and rightly so, TikTok is blowing up. But actually, and when I say traditional media, it's not just newspapers and magazines anymore. Because back in 2008, I did all of this.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Bethany Chambers , North Coast Media . 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.

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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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Buffer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As the year winds down, it's time to stroll down memory lane and revisit the moments that defined 2023 on social media. From box office records to a near-clean sweep of the Academy Awards, each moment resonated deeply on social media, sparking discussions, celebrations, and, yes, memes. So many memes. 

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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. Shopify starts at $5 a month if you only want to sell on social media. And of course, you mentioned it has integration with social media.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Readers had just received 31 posts of high value, there was lots of goodwill and community on the site, and I think the healthy sales reflected this. I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Back in 2008, I had just quit my corporate job and co-founded a startup to build a fundraising app for Facebook. When I started my blog, Facebook (and social media in general) was still in the early stage. My readers loved the information as most people were still relatively new to using social media for business purposes.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Link your social media profiles to your email unsubscribe. Want more ideas to integrate social media and email? Check out Buffers post 6 Creative Ways to Combine Social Media and Email. This can increase sales. Social Media.

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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

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? With the social media that it’s around now, it’s a very different possibility with that. Nikki: Thank you.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I like that you mentioned geography, actually, because you made me think there because I have always focused on global sales. And if you can stay in someone's inbox for years, and I know there's some listeners to this show who have been on my email list since like 2008 , which is kind of crazy. And social media, to be honest.

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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? With the social media that it’s around now, it’s a very different possibility with that. Nikki: Thank you.

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Buffer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As the year winds down, it's time to stroll down memory lane and revisit the pop culture moments that defined 2023 on social media. From box office records to a near-clean sweep of the Academy Awards, each moment resonated deeply on social media, sparking discussions, celebrations, and, yes, memes. So many memes. 

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have readers, email subscribers, and a social media following. There’s more to success than book sales, however, and being “a successful author” is about defining what that means for you. In 2008, Ries started a blog, and one of his first posts was entitled The Lean Startup. Price for sales. 0.99-$1.99

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ProBlogger

MARCH 31, 2014

Readers had just received 31 posts of high value, there was lots of goodwill and community on the site, and I think the healthy sales reflected this. I’ve worked with sites that receive millions upon millions of visitors every month, have email lists in the hundreds of thousands, and massive social media followings.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

But then with the rise of Amazon ads, suddenly, I could multiply my sales by 20. And this brought the huge book sales that I have now. And then the answer was: I want to sell many books, I want to live off book sales. And also direct sales, little by little the direct sales. But it's okay with me.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

There is a real sense of fear and confusion in the media and amongst different kinds of creators. Has it actually led to book sales? Oliver: So when it comes to book sales, right now, I'm in the middle of a huge project because I decided that the story that I wrote in my first few books, I felt the scope was too small.

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