I know you're probably sick of listening to me talk about marketing. I get sick of doing it, but it's a necessarily evil if you want to sell books. Word of mouth can only get you so far, especially if you haven't published a new book in a while. So here I am, posting marketing copy and images every morning - and sometimes night, if I can wedge one in there. It is working. I mean, if it wasn't I wouldn't still be beating my head on this particular rock, now would I?
Anyway, here's this morning's ranking snapshot for Early Grave:
Not too shabby, eh? And that's after moving only 82 copies. Fingers crossed it turns into page reads and sales of the other books in the series.
I have about 30 groups I post to now - more or less... some of them are genre specific. And it usually takes me about 30 minutes for the posting. The generation of new images every day? Well, that takes a little longer. Yep, a new image every day minus the one day I let the link provide the image for five days straight.
Yes, you have to do the free thing for the whole five days. If you do less days, you run the risk of the book not reaching the KU magic spot where it shows your book to its subscribers. Go figger.
Now, this only works for freebies. I've tried doing it for 99c books and I get :sad crickets chirping in the background:.
An unfortunate side effect of this marketing is I am getting inundated with spammers and scammers. They're only commenting and not messaging me much. One of them emailed me. It's all easy enough to ignore. Plus, I get a chuckle out of some of the shit they try to pull. A lot of them shower you with insincere praise and then ask you to message them. ROFL According to them, I am amazing, my covers are amazing, and my books are the best thing since the sun started rising every morning. (Yeah, I'm that good.)
Anyway, that's the skinny on this marketing thing. If you'd like to join me in this death by a thousand papercuts, and have any questions, let me know. Otherwise, have a great day!
Sorry. Your light is shining so brightly I had to find my sunglasses so I could see to type. And it took my a while. 🤣😎
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think you are an awesome writer and far more people need to discover your books and read them! Also, you are far more perservering than I'll ever be on the marketin front. And yeah, those weirdos are weird and easily ignored with a click of the mouse. I just wish writing and marketing were as easy. Speaking of, I should probably stick something up on X for today. I'll get right on that. In a minute. 🥱
Later, tater.