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I'm trying to learn the marketing aspect as I go, but it doesn't feel like those efforts have paid off much yet.
So far my marketing efforts have involved the following:
- Free promotions & .99 cent promotions
- Post to Facebook wall
- Post to two .99 cent groups on Facebook
- Post to my local military community's FB
- Signature links on forums (still need to build them for this forum)
- Minimal Twitter posting
- Submitted to sites that have mailing lists for book promotions
- Links to mailing list built in the books
- Changing categories
- Changing book covers
- Changing blurbs (still need work in this area.)
- Giving away free copies to friends & family
- Directly asking for reviews.
That last one is mind boggling because I've had a number of people tell me they would leave reviews, some who were given free copies of the book, and some who planned to buy it. Yet of all of my books only one has any reviews and it only has two. I did notice that this book was selling slightly more copies than the others.
Things I have not yet tried:
- Building a Pinterest following
- Submitting to children's book blog sites for review
- Submitting to Twitter accounts that promote books
- Purchasing reviews to jump start sales
- Blogging book reviews about other children's books
- Probably a lot more ideas that I can't think of right now
Time is the biggest challenge with marketing.
One of my bigger goals is building a solid library of books under my author name.
This way when I finally do hit the nail on the head with a book that takes off, it will theoretically drive sales to a number of other products.
In an ideal world I will have created a system of minimal marketing, where the books sell themselves.
So far my marketing efforts have involved the following:
- Free promotions & .99 cent promotions
- Post to Facebook wall
- Post to two .99 cent groups on Facebook
- Post to my local military community's FB
- Signature links on forums (still need to build them for this forum)
- Minimal Twitter posting
- Submitted to sites that have mailing lists for book promotions
- Links to mailing list built in the books
- Changing categories
- Changing book covers
- Changing blurbs (still need work in this area.)
- Giving away free copies to friends & family
- Directly asking for reviews.
That last one is mind boggling because I've had a number of people tell me they would leave reviews, some who were given free copies of the book, and some who planned to buy it. Yet of all of my books only one has any reviews and it only has two. I did notice that this book was selling slightly more copies than the others.
Things I have not yet tried:
- Building a Pinterest following
- Submitting to children's book blog sites for review
- Submitting to Twitter accounts that promote books
- Purchasing reviews to jump start sales
- Blogging book reviews about other children's books
- Probably a lot more ideas that I can't think of right now
Time is the biggest challenge with marketing.
One of my bigger goals is building a solid library of books under my author name.
This way when I finally do hit the nail on the head with a book that takes off, it will theoretically drive sales to a number of other products.
In an ideal world I will have created a system of minimal marketing, where the books sell themselves.
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