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Listen While You Work
The effects of music on productivity and concentration were first studied in 1878 after CPA Chester O’Bannon finished an entire tax season’s filings in record time. When asked how he had sailed ahead...
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Death to the Website: Booklaunch
We love all of the cool Gumroad integrations that come along from outside of our HQ, because everyone benefits when connecting creators and audiences is a shared mission. While exploring Booklaunch.io...
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4 Ways to Sell Courses with Gumroad
From cigar box guitar construction to the fundamentals of a new programming language to the ultimate half-marathon training plan, chances are you have something to teach. Courses (and educational...
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Rentals from Gumroad: Enjoy the Show
We’re seeing more and more creators using Gumroad to sell their films and video content. Rental functionality is really important to them, so we decided to build it. It was the first big project I’ve...
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Start Small
This’ll be quick. You’ve heard it before:It’s better to start now, and start small, than not start at all.— Justin Jackson (@mijustin) February 8, 2015Actually launching a product, no matter how small,...
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From Consultant to Author with Balint Erdi
Balint Erdi is an Ember.js consultant from Budapest, Hungary. After making a screencast series about how to build an Ember app, he transformed and expanded the content and released it in book form,...
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Advanced Reading
We’ve made some improvements to the reading functionality in your Gumroad Library. For PDFs and EPUBs, when you click Read in your Library or on a receipt, you’ll see new navigational elements on the...
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5 Ways to Get Repeat Buyers
You’ve heard that it’s easier to sell to a previous buyer than get a new one. It makes sense—your current audience knows you, trusts you, and wants to support you. We were curious how common repeat...
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Celebrate Creativity at IFCC Croatia
Part of our mission at Gumroad is to shorten the distance and divide between hobbyist and professional, and it’s exciting to find, meet, and scheme with other groups on the same quest. There is likely...
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Tools for Formatting Your Ebook
You’ve written your book. You thought the hard part was over. And then you learned about PDFs, EPUBs, and MOBIs, with their “reflowable content”, “frontmatter”, and a bunch of other mumbo jumbo that...
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Launch Strategy: AZEDIA on Making Tracks and Eating Data
No names, no faces. Wait, how am I supposed to write about these guys? Here’s what I do know and can share: the production duo AZEDIA met at school in Southeast England and started doing bootleg...
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Reaching out in Style: Formatting Updates and Workflows
Updates and Workflows are two great ways to build a relationship with your audience. Updates are perfect for notifying your audience of a new version or, well, update of a product. Use Workflows to set...
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The 15 Habits of Highly Effective Creators
We started digging into all of the types of things that creators can do on Gumroad, from profile tweaks to social account linking, from different types of products to what goes in them, from changing...
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Sell more products automatically with Gumroad + ConvertKit
We’ve talked about using Workflows to automatically email buyers with everything from a thank you to a dripped-out course. But if you need to level up your marketing or filter and organize your...
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Judging Books (and More) by Their Covers
In the great county fair of life, you have an instant of an instant to grab the judge’s attention. A great zucchini should speak for itself, right? Great. Done. Just set it up and walk away.Or maybe...
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Introducing Email Analytics
Lately we’ve been working a lot on Updates and Workflows to help you better reach and maintain a relationship with your audience. We’ve made a couple of changes to your Customers tab. You’ll find...
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Workflows are great for sending out automated updates and full courses over a span of weeks or months.Here’s a quick Workflow that you can set up in a minute or two that will strengthen your connection...
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Choose from Existing: Your File Library
Great news on the upload front, especially for filmmakers and other creators with massive files. There’s a third option for file uploads. If you need to create multiple products with the same file(s),...
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9 Tips for Beating Procrastination
Most of us do it. I put off writing the introduction to this post until just before it was supposed to go live. Listen, the cereal containers weren’t alphabetized, and there was a ping pong redemption...
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Workspaces that Work
How many times have you woken up thinking today I’m going to be super productive, only to find yourself on the couch in the late afternoon wondering what even happened for the past eight hours? Yeah....
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