Sales are tanking?

[Marti Talbott]

After suggesting it would be otherwise, my sales and KENP have been strong during this holiday.

I saw a headline earlier mentioning brick and mortar retail is having a poor season (20% down). Maybe more people this year are home shopping online.

Mine are starting to pick up again finally. Maybe the bots don't hate me personally after all. 

[dgcasey]

Well, I finally bit the bullet and signed up for Mark Dawson's Ads For Authors course. By the end of this year (next month) I shall have made around $350 for the entire year, which was more than the year before, which was more than the year before that. I told Honey Bunny I intend to tack two more digits on that number up there (and no, it won't be $350.00).

So, here's to planning to get through the course and have a bangin' 2020.

[Marti Talbott]

Well, I finally bit the bullet and signed up for Mark Dawson's Ads For Authors course. By the end of this year (next month) I shall have made around $350 for the entire year, which was more than the year before, which was more than the year before that. I told Honey Bunny I intend to tack two more digits on that number up there (and no, it won't be $350.00).

So, here's to planning to get through the course and have a bangin' 2020.

Let us know if you find any pearls of wisdom that you don't already know. Best of luck to us all in 2020!

[notthatamanda]

After suggesting it would be otherwise, my sales and KENP have been strong during this holiday.

I saw a headline earlier mentioning brick and mortar retail is having a poor season (20% down). Maybe more people this year are home shopping online.

Wednesday through Saturday my ad spend lost me money versus sales on those books.  I debated turning them off prior to the holiday, but decided not too.   Higher than usual downloads on my permafrees, which I haven't advertised since May (by advertising I mean Freebooksy type newsletters, not AMS).  Maybe people were willing to take a chance on a free book while traveling.