Authors: Have you sold 100 book yet?
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Authors: Have you sold 100 book yet?
Most authors don't sell 50 books. Yet, I have guaranteed that any author who follows the 10 Step Plan to Promote Your Book will sell at least 100 copies. So let's have a poll to help track results.
If you have read and followed all the steps in the 10 Step Plan to Promote Your Book but not sold 100 copies yet, please contact me and I will give private one-on-one help.
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Quality matters a lot more than quantity.AetherPirate wrote:I started with zero Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr follows. Working on building a network. What is considered "critical mass"? How much of your sales would you attribute to social media?
In fact, one can easily buy fake Twitter followers of Facebook Page likes for fractions of a penny. But they are useless for marketing and can be humiliating since online tools can easily reveal what percentage of ones followers/likes are fake. I once saw a Senator's page--if I remember correctly--revealed as having bought thousands of fake likes to make him look popular.
One of the tough battles you have getting started is that the first followers you get are people who are already your fans, so there is not as much value telling them about your book since you probably already have. The trick is to kind of use--and to use groups on social media (and hashtags on Twitter)--to hopefully attract new fans who never heard of before who would be particularly interested in your book. I discuss how to do this in the 10 Step Plan to Promote Your Book, but if it wasn't clear or detailed enough, feel free to contact me privately to go over your specific situation.
I'm here to help.
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Hi @TrinityWoods,TrinityWoods wrote:I like the way you write about things and explain things with promoting books as well as to just be yourself and learn from this site and possibly other sites where possible. I'm currently in a re-write and am using a free tool but not sure if I want to state what the name of it is because I don't quite know if we can on this page or not. But anyways it will be in the format of an eBook for now. I already have it out in paper format but it didn't sell very well for several reasons and I feel the main reason is because of the lack of advertising/marketing. It is on one of the best websites around but nobody knows about it so no sales or very few sales at the moment. So a re-write is necessary for this to be better and a better plan of action when it comes to marketing/promoting the book. I liked the idea of Twitter. I will be creating a Twitter account specifically for my book. This way it will hopefully land a fair amount of buyers. What other ideas do you feel could work best if not better than Twitter. I use Facebook but don't really know how to promote on their because there are so many things that they do or don't want you to do on that social site.
Thank you for your kind words.
Have you already read the 10 Step Plan to Promote Your Book? I do mention other methods of social marketing than Twitter. I'm happy to answer more detailed questions you or anyone has after reading the 10 Step Plan.
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The simple answer is that it is not worth the money, based on my experience.AetherPirate wrote:What do you think of running anAmazon ad campaign? Has anyone tried it? Worthwhile?
The longer answer is that nothing will be worth the money if your product isn't going to go viral and almost anything will pay off in the end if it does go viral. When specific illnesses spread, it's less how strong people happen to cough and more how contagious the germs in people's coughs are. A gross analogy but an important point, I think.
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I also heard that advertising on Amazon does not justify itself.The longer answer is that nothing will be worth the money if your product isn't going to go viral and almost anything will pay off in the end if it does go viral. When specific illnesses spread, it's less how strong people happen to cough and more how contagious the germs in people's coughs are. A gross analogy but an important point, I think.
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I bought and read the 10 Step Plan. And I am following it. However, the big sales boost seems to come from kindle book giveaways. I am not a self-published author. My novel was published by a smaller publishing company, but they essentially run the marketing and own the book rights etc (not copyright). sooooo, I dont think I could give away $1 kindle copies of my book in I wanted to?
And as for the kindle giveaway to boost sales ranking, does that pay off in the long run? Or is it short lived boost in amazon kindle ranking for the sake of having people read your book?