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How Our eBook Launches Have Evolved (after 235,000 eBook Sales)

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This week on my main blog – Digital Photography School – we launched our 24th photographic eBook ( a guide to post production of portrait images ) and it got me thinking back about some of the changes in my blogging since I started back in 2002. A Few Stats on our eBook Sales. My First eBook Launch.

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Why You Need to Make ‘Starting’ a Mindset

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You might be thinking of launching a course to teach others what you know, or perhaps putting all that knowledge in an eBook and selling it. In November 2002 I received an email from a friend with the subject line “Check out this blog”. I started writing eBooks. Later it became an eBook that sold more than 20,000 copies.

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7 Habits of Lucky Entrepreneurs

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On a rainy Friday afternoon in November 2002, I received an email from a friend. Looking back on all the products, eBooks, courses and events we have created on ProBlogger and Digital Photography school, nearly all of them came about because of a tweet, Facebook update or blog post. Let us know in the comments.

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How I Created My Profit Streams and Became a Full-Time Blogger

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product sales (ebooks, presets, course and printables) – 31%. I started blogging in late 2002. Other bloggers were creating their own ebooks, and I joined some of their affiliate programs to promote their eBooks and other products (and earn a commission for each one). Let us know in the comments. AdSense – 8%.

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9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster

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As you may well know, I started blogging back in 2002. I can still remember getting my first comment (well, the first one that wasn’t from my mom). The comment included his email address, and I thought that meant I was supposed to send one. So I did, and wrote something along the lines of, “Thanks for your comment.

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243: Tools and Techniques to Blog Effectively on the Road

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Mobile phones were certainly around when I first started blogging but when I started blogging in 2002, there weren’t too many smartphones. That’s what I did back in 2002, 2003. Engaging with people on social media, responding to comments, responding to emails, those are the types of things you can’t really schedule.

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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

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November 2002 : I started my first personal blog almost nine years ago, without even the faintest suspicion that it’d be anything more than a hobby. I took on Lara Kulpa to help with the administrative load (Lara still contracts with me today to help with comment moderation and community management on ProBlogger.com).

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