Monday, January 27, 2025

January Marketing Wrap-up

I'm taking the rest of the month off on marketing, so I can try to focus on editing.  So, since I don't have any sales or freebies going on, I thought I'd wrap up the month today.  Here's how January's marketing efforts played out:

I had four freebie sessions and gave away 517 books.

In Deep Wish - 148 
Fertile Ground - 153
Unequal - 97
Ugly and the Beast - 119

From the giveaways, I also netted 21.36 in sales ($21.12 worth).  And right now, I have two different books being read in KU.  I hope to see at least a little bit more in the sales totals before it rolls over to February.  (For the record, I hate when a new month starts and all the metrics zero out.  It's quite depressing.)

I haven't checked the rankings, ratings and reviews on everything yet, but there's hope I'll see some improvement when I do.  This year, I started keeping track of that and have seen a bit of an uptick in rankings, if not one in ratings and reviews.  There's always hope.  

Next month will be my 10th anniversary of being a published author.  I published DYING EMBERS on 2/13/15.  I'll probably do something to celebrate.  Maybe offer a signed paperback to... I don't know who because I don't have many people actually following anything I do anymore.  I'll definitely make DE free for that week or something.  Stay tuned.  

Okay, that's about it for me.  Any questions?  

1 comment:

  1. Crossing fingers 🀞🏼🀞🏼🀞🏼🀞🏼🀞🏼 that all those freebies translate to sales in the series! And lots of KU page reads. I'm not sure anything I'm doing on X is working because--like you--my stuff isn't highly visible but I've had an uptick in sales this month. When I get January's deposit in March, I'll be able to buy 1 week's groceries--if I scrimp. *shrug* Still, better than November/December.

    It's just tough to be a writer these days unless you've got a big name.

    Happy almost anniversary! That got me curious. My first book was released on April 7, 2010. I've been published 15 years. Wow.

    Okay. This tab has been open since 9 a.m. this morning and I'm finally hitting publish at 2:50 a.m. Yes...SQUIRRELLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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