The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

So instead of giving you a list of book marketing tactics, here are some of the opposite polarities on the marketing scale that — along with your definition of success — will help shape your book promotion choices. You’ll use different elements for each launch, as well as for long-term sales. Here are some things to consider.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Walmart launched the marketplace back in 2009 to attract online shoppers and grow its customer base. Here are some other key advantages to becoming a Walmart Marketplace Seller: Walmart consistently generates a high volume of sales. You don’t pay anything to list products for sale on Walmart Marketplace.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

I think people were sounding the same kinds of alarms about ebooks and the Kindle in 2009–2010. In The AI Author Assistant, I included an example of my asking ChatGPT to rank my books from most sales to least sales. Digital publishing-on-demand was disruptive, and the industry needed to adjust and adapt.

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BKA Content

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This will ultimately lead them down the sales funnel. Then, create a mailing list to directly mail business cards, flyers, or other promotional materials. BKA Content has served as a leader in the content marketing industry since 2009. Blogging is a cost-effective way to get more attention from search engines.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

She supported me and promoted me with having my first school visit. 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? I saw more of an uptick of sales on those at that time. So she said, this kind of fills a niche.

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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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ProBlogger

MAY 27, 2020

Last month I talked about my various profit streams , and how nearly a third of my profits come from product sales. Because he also had two CDs for sale – $15 for either one, or $25 for them both. affiliates promoting your product. Around ten minutes later I received an email telling me I’d made my first $15 sale.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 26, 2022

Conversion Rate Experts – Best for Turning Leads into Sales. Whether your entire business is an app, or you’re trying to promote your app as an extension of your business, Moburst can help you out. At the time, they were working with Mint.com before the client was acquired by Intuit in 2009. >> Compare Quotes.

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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 you'd get loads and loads of visibility when you ran a free promotion for the three days that you had with Select. So those will be the primary levers that you can pull as an author to start generating sales or finding readers.

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Fat Joe

JULY 5, 2023

Google introduced the tags back in 2009 as a way for website owners to address issues with duplicate pages. Nobody wants to end up like consultant Ryan Darani’s ecommerce SEO client and miss out on traffic and sales due to canonicalization issues (and equally, we’d all love to be able to present a win like this to a client!).

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ProBlogger

APRIL 9, 2018

Figure out what products to create, redo or replace, as well as what promotions to include. This is a system that we’ve been using since about 2009, previously in ebook format. But over in Digital Photography School, which is my main blog now, we’ve been publishing ebooks and other products since 2009. We are thinking ahead.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In 2009 when I launched my first eBooks I had never launched a product of my own before but thankfully I had already done a number of promotions of other people’s products as an affiliate. I chose to promote an eBook on a different topic so as not to cannibalise my own sale. Pick a date. Make a Plan.

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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. This has risen since the last time I produced a report like this, as we’ve put more effort into affiliate promotions at dPS. Product Sales. Affiliate Commissions.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2014

Previous to these first experimentations with eBooks, the income generated from my blogs was almost all from advertising revenue (from ad networks like AdSense and also a few ad sales direct with brands) and affiliate revenue (like Amazon and a few smaller programs). in sales in 2009. That eBook generated $80,772.01

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Yet examples abound of companies that behave in zombie-like ways, often paying the price in lost sales and damaged reputations. Melissa gives plenty of examples of problematic brands, including the 2009 story of the self-proclaimed “friendly skies” airline, United, refusing to replace a passenger’s guitar damaged by its employees. (As

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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. This has risen since the last time I produced a report like this, as we’ve put more effort into affiliate promotions at dPS. Product Sales. Affiliate Commissions.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In 2009 when I launched my first eBooks I had never launched a product of my own before but thankfully I had already done a number of promotions of other people’s products as an affiliate. I chose to promote an eBook on a different topic so as not to cannibalise my own sale. Pick a date. Make a Plan.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 13, 2017

I’m going to talk about 3 income streams in particular – AdSense Ad network (although this will be relevant to other networks too), Affiliate promotions and selling our own products. I want to talk a little bit about affiliate promotions and also selling our own products. One of them is AdSense, the Google’s Advertising Network.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 26, 2020

For both of my blogs it’s the main driver of both traffic and sales. It happened again when I did it in 2007, and again in 2009. You can promote them in: your emails. With so many options available days, you may find it hard choosing one over the others. It’s also how our most loyal readers come to us. your blog navigation.

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The Hoth

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s excellent for local businesses Bing Places is Microsoft’s equivalent to Google Business Profile, and it’s a great spot for local businesses to promote their products and services. Bing is in the sweet spot of having enough users to generate traffic & sales while not having enough competitors to make SEO too challenging.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

On dPS we do two big promotions every year. We have our 12 days of Christmas sale and our mid year/summer sale. In 2009, I decided to invest time into creating my first products which were eBooks. Number two category is product sales. I do some affiliate promotions on both. Plus links to hosting and themes.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Forced to close her real estate business in November 2008 because of the mortgage meltdown, Susan launched her digital information business in January 2009 with a mere $200 in startup capital. Published nearly four years ago, it still makes $600-$3,000 a month in online sales. Buy some cheap ads on Google to promote your product.

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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

MAY 20, 2024

They're just going to promote you and try and make you a big deal. 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. 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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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

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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ProBlogger

MARCH 13, 2017

I’m going to talk about 3 income streams in particular – AdSense Ad network (although this will be relevant to other networks too), Affiliate promotions and selling our own products. I want to talk a little bit about affiliate promotions and also selling our own products. One of them is AdSense, the Google’s Advertising Network.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Joanna: This podcast has been going since 2009. And I don't have a recollection of a single time that I've been writing and thinking about how my writing is going to be received in the world, or what I want to happen to it in terms of sales, whatever, have ever helped me. So, I'm grateful, absolutely, for…. Beth: It's amazing.

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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 19, 2014

Should you spend more time writing blog posts, promoting the posts, networking, responding to readers, working on social media etc? So I’ll share them in no particular order and give them equal weight: Promoting Content. if it is new or more established). Once a blog is launched, this area becomes a fairly major focus for me.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 3, 2014

In 2009 when I launched my first eBooks I had never launched a product of my own before but thankfully I had already done a number of promotions of other people’s products as an affiliate. I chose to promote an eBook on a different topic so as not to cannibalise my own sale. Pick a date. Make a Plan.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 2, 2018

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. But it is possible to build significant income from blogging. And these are just two of my income streams (and by no means the biggest).

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy. I started podcasting in 2009, way before it went mainstream. Joanna Penn It's helped me rewrite sales descriptions to make them more like a best-selling thriller. So far I'm not using those and I'm not doing a newsletter or anything like that to promote.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. But it is possible to build significant income from blogging. And these are just two of my income streams (and by no means the biggest).

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 19, 2016

I first met Mike at a blogging and social media conference, in 2009, where he interviewed me and quite a few other speakers at that conference. In 2009, Mike was brand new to the scene. In this interview, we take a step back in time to 2009, and I ask Mike about that first conference. It would have been 2009.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2013

There are other options that pay higher commissions (although not so many for the type of products Amazon sells), you can promote higher value products and there are programs that have longer cookies … but there are also some things I like about Amazon. Holidays are boom times – Amazon runs some good seasonal sales.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 16, 2011

My website was growing very fast until 2009. The reason I don’t put the newsletter form at the top of the page is that it harms the sales of the books I promote there, as it pushes those promotions downwards. The problem. It stopped growing when it reached 500,000 hits per month. Have one brilliant idea.

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