The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. You’ll use different elements for each launch, as well as for long-term sales. Short term versus long term New authors with only one book will often focus on short-term sales because they can’t yet imagine a future with more books.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

Joanna: So I think that that was around 2009. But you were starting from zero, right, back in 2009. Does it help you creatively? So yes, it's funny how we do that, but I do think it helps creatively. 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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Neil Patel

JUNE 7, 2021

Launched in 2009 , the engine serves up lists and tables, providing users with specific, numeric-based answers to their questions. While on traditional search engines like Google and Bing , you’d be hard-pressed to find a sales tax comparison for three United States cities, but Wolfram Alpha serves up this data quickly and easily.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 26, 2022

Here are some of the valuable services they offer: One unified cross channel marketing strategy driven by best-in-class creatives. Conversion Rate Experts – Best for Turning Leads into Sales. Column Five media specializes in creative content creation for businesses. >> Compare Quotes. >> Compare Quotes.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Beth Kempton talks about The Way of the Fearless Writer in this wide-ranging interview on the creative mindset. She also runs multiple creative businesses, and is a podcaster, speaker, course creator, and also co-hosts retreats. Joanna: This podcast has been going since 2009. So welcome, Beth. Beth: Thank you so much.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If you buy through my link, I receive a percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What did you do differently with your second book in terms of the creative writing side, since you must have learned a lot? Really, it is creative work reaching readers. You can also find the links at SelfPublishingFormula.com.

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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. I was a creative writing major in college, and I went straight into a publishing job right out of college. How has the pandemic and increasing online sales changed the more traditional publishing industry?

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 6, 2018

Between 2009 and 2018, they were actually able to increase their market share from 9% to 18%.”. Google’s new landing page report , found in context in AdWords with your familiar targeting and creative reports, can help you answer that. Again, is the investment worth it? “As Beyond speed (each second). Landing page performance report.

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Income Diary

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Without further ado, we present “The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Website in 2024” – a comprehensive roadmap designed to steer you through the intricacies of readying your site for prospective buyers, negotiating a fair price, and ultimately maximizing your profits after the sale.

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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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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How does a creative career develop over the long term and when do you need to take a step back to consider how to move forward? Please complete my Creative Penn Survey 2022 here (by 7 Oct). First of all, this creative team. How did you attract your creative team? How can you adapt your novel into a comic or graphic form?

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The Creative Penn

JULY 8, 2024

Joanna: I say I'm a multi-passionate creative, so don't put me in a one-genre box! Is it a matter of developing creative confidence over time? Joanna: In 2022, I rewrote my first three novels which I had self-published in 2009/2010. Should we also include elements of our sales, our platform? Renee: Sure, why not?

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Everybody told me you need to be an engineer or do something proper, and not be just creative. In 2009, I started my self-employment right after the university. I actually had my first book traditionally published, and it was a huge failure in terms of sales. And luckily enough, that was a good fit for me.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 15, 2023

In the intro, Chokepoint Capitalism [ Decoder ]; Direct sales [ Kris Rusch ]; Amazon Ads for Authors by Ricardo Fayet; Ads for Authors course ; Why I Ignored Target Reader Feedback for my Book Cover Design ; ChatGPT for teachers [ Hard Fork ]; Pilgrimage Kickstarter. Joanna: So let's just come back on this word, trust.

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ProBlogger

JULY 11, 2016

Similarly our Product sales revenue is higher than Affiliate Commissions but once we pay for the cost of production of the products the profit is not as high. Each year on Digital Photography School we run big promotions with our 12 Days of Christmas Sale and our Mid Year Sale. Product Sales.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2020

My first blog was just a place where I could be creative and talk about things that interested me. We want people to take their amazing cameras out of automatic mode and give them full creative control. In our case, it’s “… a blog that takes people from automatic mode to having creative control of their cameras.”.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

How can you use automation and tools to help you streamline your creative and business processes so you can get back to the writing? Especially as creatives, I hear a lot of people say, “I just want to write the book.” I started on Twitter in 2009, and I really got into a rut of what that was for me.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After many years of people saying, “AI can never be creative, AI could never write fiction (i.e. How can we use the tools to achieve our creative purpose in an ethical manner, and understand that we need to curate, edit, and take responsibility for any usage? Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy.

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The Hoth

JUNE 12, 2023

Bing is in the sweet spot of having enough users to generate traffic & sales while not having enough competitors to make SEO too challenging. Bing optimization also works for Yahoo Ever since July 2009, Bing has been the power source for fellow search engine Yahoo. How does this affect Bing SEO?

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ProBlogger

JULY 11, 2016

Similarly our Product sales revenue is higher than Affiliate Commissions but once we pay for the cost of production of the products the profit is not as high. Each year on Digital Photography School we run big promotions with our 12 Days of Christmas Sale and our Mid Year Sale. Product Sales.

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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 organic reach back then was literally you'd upload a book and people would buy it. It takes years. That was great.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Anyone who follows that advice to a “T&# seriously limits online connections and life beyond direct sales. You’re Out of Your Niche – And Still Making The Sale I’ve made countless sales from meeting people who weren’t actively searching to get in shape. You made a sale without having to sell.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

But that's when the Kindle came out, right around 2009, so I've been in the industry for almost a decade. So I didn't go into it expecting to learn a whole bunch, especially where MFA programs, Master of Fine Arts and Creative Writing, are focused so much on literary fiction, and I don't write literary fiction.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals. Embrace multi-passionate creativity — and optimize for curiosity — as we move into The Creative Future. The Creative Penn website and podcast. Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now.

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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. A decade ago, you mentioned 2010, I first got on Twitter in 2009. Look at The Creative Penn.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 20, 2024

So my multiple streams of income, obviously, my biggest stream of income is my book sales. I would say book sales are my most prominent stream of income. My YouTube channel, The Creative Penn is mostly audio only with an image on top. I mean, I had a TikTok blow up and get over 2 million views, but it didn't get me book sales.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

When you get right down to it, I’m in sales. That fascination is one of the reasons why I’m now so interested in sales and marketing. Good sales copy can make people happy, sad, worried, frustrated… anything you want. I’m in marketing. And in order to make that all happen, I have to understand how the human mind works.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Henri @ Wake Up Cloud December 21, 2009 at 4:20 am I can’t speak from a freelancing standpoint but I can completely relate from someone who has hired many writers. 8 Ways to Be Heroic Reply I Left a Keyword instead of a Real Name ( @[link] ) December 21, 2009 at 4:33 am this is a heavy situation. Meier´s last blog.

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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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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Gillian - Google SEO November 25, 2009 at 4:10 am I agree that working long hours should be the exception rather than the rule. Reply Eliza ( @MakeWayForBiz ) November 25, 2009 at 6:26 am @Gillian – I have a similar challenge in my 9-5-er. He thinks he’s lucky to get you. And you know what? Comments Read below or add a comment.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

It was about 2009 that we launched Bookvault, and that was to serve our traditional publishers that we'd been working with, mainly in the academic sector. We offer a range of apps for direct sale stores on Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce, Zapier, and there's a few other ones. We call it more of a stepping stone to direct sales.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 2, 2018

found a creative outlet. Since 2009 we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of eBooks, courses and Lightroom Presets on my main blog – Digital Photography School. And just as many sales of other people’s products as an affiliate. identified, sharpened and deepened my ideas and opinions. refined my voice. built discipline.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2020

found a creative outlet. Since 2009 we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of eBooks, courses and Lightroom Presets on my main blog – Digital Photography School. And just as many sales of other people’s products as an affiliate. identified, sharpened and deepened my ideas and opinions. refined my voice. built discipline.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Before I ever became a blogger, I was a self-employed artist for more than twenty years, with a successful production studio, and subsequently, I was a sales representative for an art publishing company. I got into blogging sheerly by accident back in 2009, after I took a free course held at a local community college.

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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? It's an experience, and it's a creative outlet for a lot of people who don't really get a creative outlet these days. You get the royalty.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

When I started as a blogger back in 2009, he was one of those guys that I wanted to be when I grow up. It was a place where I could have a creative outlet and talk about the things that interested me. We are going to take people from being in automatic mode with their amazing camera, to having full creative control of that camera.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

If you join the community, you get an extra solo Q&A show monthly, as well as behind-the-scenes videos on AI and creative business, plus, discounts, early access, and more. She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. At the time of writing this, the show has had over 9.3

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