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Writer's Haven => Marketing Loft [Public] => Topic started by: R. C. on December 16, 2022, 05:42:50 AM
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... a/o 07:00 CT - 19 Dec
Cold Star - Book One of the Carina Reality - 1,677 Downloads - and a few sales of books in the series
Peak Rank:
Best Sellers Rank: #165 Free in Kindle Store
#1 in Hard Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
#1 in Galactic Empire Science Fiction eBooks
#1 in Hard Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
#2 in Science Fiction Adventure
Now, hope. AKA - Follow-on sales.
R.C.
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Man, you are prolific! I haven't seen these covers.
Bought one. Now you have more downloads grint Good luck with your promotion!
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:banana-riding-llama-smiley-em :banana-riding-llama-smiley-em :banana-riding-llama-smiley-em
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The real trick to is see if there's follow through to sales. People will download freebies, likely never read them, and never actually buy anything.
But, that's a higher number of downloads than I've seen in a while, so that's awesome. Hard to get so many these days.
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The real trick to is see if there's follow through to sales. People will download freebies, likely never read them, and never actually buy anything.
But, that's a higher number of downloads than I've seen in a while, so that's awesome. Hard to get so many these days.
I do have some permafree wide books but now I concentrate on free promos for KU books because you get page reads and if you promote the freebies well the reads can explode. This year I will be alternating KU free days and doing one backlist book a month. I have a huge backlist and heard others do free promos monthly so I figure it will bring my catalogue a lot of attention and probably be more useful than discounting to 99 cents and promoting. I got the idea from Alessandra Torre (a multi-time NYT bestseller) and other successful romance authors. I had been thinking of trying this for a while and 2023 is the time.
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... a/o 07:00 CT - 19 Dec
Cold Star - Book One of the Carina Reality - 1,677 Downloads - and a few sales of books in the series
Peak Rank:
Best Sellers Rank: #165 Free in Kindle Store
#1 in Hard Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
#1 in Galactic Empire Science Fiction eBooks
#1 in Hard Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
#2 in Science Fiction Adventure
Now, hope. AKA - Follow-on sales.
R.C.
Congrats! :band: :banana: :dance: :cheers
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...I concentrate on free promos for KU books because you get page reads and if you promote the freebies well the reads can explode...
I gave up on freebies as a promo tool b/c they generated few follow-on sales BUT do you mean that, even tho' you've freebied an ebook, that ebook's KU reads are paid per page? If that's so, I need to re-think (when just thinking about marketing is hard enough).
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The real trick to is see if there's follow through to sales. People will download freebies, likely never read them, and never actually buy anything.
But, that's a higher number of downloads than I've seen in a while, so that's awesome. Hard to get so many these days.
I do have some permafree wide books but now I concentrate on free promos for KU books because you get page reads and if you promote the freebies well the reads can explode. This year I will be alternating KU free days and doing one backlist book a month. I have a huge backlist and heard others do free promos monthly so I figure it will bring my catalogue a lot of attention and probably be more useful than discounting to 99 cents and promoting. I got the idea from Alessandra Torre (a multi-time NYT bestseller) and other successful romance authors. I had been thinking of trying this for a while and 2023 is the time.
Thanks for the strategy.
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...I concentrate on free promos for KU books because you get page reads and if you promote the freebies well the reads can explode...
I gave up on freebies as a promo tool b/c they generated few follow-on sales BUT do you mean that, even tho' you've freebied an ebook, that ebook's KU reads are paid per page? If that's so, I need to re-think (when just thinking about marketing is hard enough).
Yes. People will read it in KU even though it's free. Because you are an author new to them, they'd rather not clutter up their Kindles, I presume. That happened when I did a free run of my box set last year. Then there was a tail of reading and purchasing the other books in the series.
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...I concentrate on free promos for KU books because you get page reads and if you promote the freebies well the reads can explode...
I gave up on freebies as a promo tool b/c they generated few follow-on sales BUT do you mean that, even tho' you've freebied an ebook, that ebook's KU reads are paid per page? If that's so, I need to re-think (when just thinking about marketing is hard enough).
Yes, you still get KU reads when you do a KU free promo.
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Yes, you still get KU reads when you do a KU free promo.
This is a correct statement. KU reads jumped with the promo.
R.C.