The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the intro, Amazon changes ebook return policy [ Society of Authors ]; Spotify introduces audiobooks [ Spotify ; FindawayVoices ; Publishing Perspectives ]; Neal Stephenson on The Sword Guy podcast. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Show Notes.

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The Idea Logical Company

MARCH 9, 2021

There’s quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. Robin Gaster has done a deep dive on Amazon called “Behemoth, Amazon Rising” which he is self-publishing. Both companies had databases of published books. It made all their sales cash-flow positive.

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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. You can also listen to a recent episode with Thomas on Novel Marketing and Christian Publishing on The Creative Penn Podcast.

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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. They said ebooks (especially self-published ebooks) were going to kill the printed word and put traditional authors, agents, editors, and bookstores out of business. But here’s the thing: it did. But here’s the thing: it did.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 23, 2021

Some people think it’s just social media monitoring, while others believe it has something to do with public relations, and still others have no idea the impact it can have on sales. The other is what I define as “online reputation bombs,” which affect your reputation and sales long term and can severely damage a business.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. So first up — Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Joanna: So I think that that was around 2009.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

MAY 30, 2023

If an article is angry in tone or sounds like a perky sales pitch, you’re not receiving all sides of the story. First published in November 2009; updated May 2023] The article presents a balance of the pros and cons Even in-depth investigations leading to a negative result will list the positive plus the negative.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

Traditional versus indie publishing Short term versus long term Income versus brand building Paid versus free The book versus you as the author Stand-alone versus series Exclusive versus wide publishing Publish fast versus publish slowly Write to market versus write first, market later Online versus offline.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 8, 2024

What are the benefits and challenges of traditional publishing? In the intro, Referencing and citations [ Self Publishing Advice ]; will.i.am In the intro, Referencing and citations [ Self Publishing Advice ]; will.i.am Key elements of a pitch package and query letter Will traditional publishers do all the marketing for you?

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2022

They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business. In short – the dream of creating and selling an eBook of my own stayed in my head for two years until 2009. But creating your own product – even a simple one – can bring in money much faster than affiliate sales or advertising. You’re definitely not alone.

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2022

They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business. In short – the dream of creating and selling an eBook of my own stayed in my head for two years until 2009. But creating your own product – even a simple one – can bring in money much faster than affiliate sales or advertising. You’re definitely not alone.

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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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BKA Content

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Blogs published in your name should reflect your personality and overall company philosophy and mission. A well-written company blog post helps you establish an individual online personality that people will come to know through regularly published posts. 10 Reasons Why BKA Content Is the Right Blog Writing Service for You.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 20, 2024

First up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So let's just talk about publishing before we get into all the marketing side. So with an audience like you have, and you're marketing savvy and everything— What did you think about when you were publishing the first book?

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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. Within 24 hours of releasing my first ebook I was approach by a publisher who wanted to publish it.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 9, 2018

Try to publish 3-4 new products on your blog each year, whether they’re courses, software, ebooks, templates or updates. This is a system that we’ve been using since about 2009, previously in ebook format. I published approximately one per year. How often did you publish books and did you keep a schedule for these?

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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. You've been publishing and self-publishing a long time. Patricia: Giving up?!

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

In the intro, publishing trends for 2023 [ Written Word Media ]; Apple AI narration ; ChatGPT into Bing [ The Verge ]; Comments on Audible [ Brandon Sanderson , Audiblegate ]; TikTok ban and problems [ Reuters , Rolling Stone ]; my Pilgrimage Kickstarter. I published 2012 was my first book. So it's weird. Mark: Definitely.

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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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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. Because that's just not how the publishing industry works.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph Nassise talks about his writing process, how he diversifies his business across different publishers, different products, and different technologies, as well as how he is embracing new options for his books. So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So welcome to the show, Joe.

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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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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Before we get into it— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. In 2009, I started my self-employment right after the university. Joanna: Well, can I also ask you about the self-publishing side? Because it's a strong feeling in Germany, I think, not to be self-published.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. 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.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From the headlines this week, “Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories.” [ The Guardian ] and “Hundreds of AI-written books flood Amazon.” [ The Independent ]. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. But as ever, the headlines are clickbait and we need to have a more nuanced approach.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2020

Even something as simple as setting up a cookie so you can show than the posts that have been published since their last visit can make a lasting impression. But I wrote and published the first post (the longest post I’d ever written), and people started joining up for the challenge. Use challenges to teach and engage your readers.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Joanna: This podcast has been going since 2009. But to come back to the perfection in the books, I'm incredibly lucky that my publisher do such a beautiful job with them. Obviously, I'm consulted on the cover, but the outside of the book is really the publisher's responsibility. So, I'm grateful, absolutely, for….

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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

MAY 6, 2024

Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Chelle Honiker is the co-founder and publisher of Indie Author Magazine , Indie Author Training, Indie Author Tools, and Direct2Readers.com. I started on Twitter in 2009, and I really got into a rut of what that was for me. Chelle Honiker gives some mindset and practical tips.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

I want to come back on the waiting to win the lottery thing because I feel that that actually has a parallel in publishing, in that people are like, oh, well, this one book, if I just get the agent, if I just get the book deal, if I just get the film deal, or the TV deal, I will make a million , and I can retire.

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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. Create a sales page. They can’t lose.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

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. It ’ s a couple of months ago that I published that. Number two category is product sales. The biggest one is our 12 Days of Christmas Sale.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 13, 2018

In her blogging breakthrough story, she describes how she started her blog in 2009 and how she got her book deal. Her first eBooks may not have sold many copies, but they got the attention of a publisher. I used YouTube videos and also was blogging, adding some content with the YouTube videos, and I started blogging in about 2009.

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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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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 I know that after publishing content every day for 15 years my blogs have made a difference to the lives of many.

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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 I know that after publishing content every day for 15 years my blogs have made a difference to the lives of many.

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