Promote Your Writing

Does actively using social media help you sell books and ebooks? After many years of being active on social media and having accumulated reasonable followings, I would have to say that the answer to this question is no, not directly. I don’t know how many times a day I see; check out my book, Like my Facebook…

In a word, no, Kindle Countdown Deals don’t work. I should first give you some details and background on my research and conclusion, though. Countdown Deals are only available if you are enrolled in Amazon KDP Select. But one drawback is that if you use it, you cannot use free ebook promotions during the same…

You’ve published your book at last, which is a great achievement. You want it to sell, but to be successful, try to avoid making some simple book marketing mistakes. It’s easy to believe that everyone will love and buy your book. But in reality, that won’t happen. You have to put a lot of time…

You can promote your book with links that are not only to your Amazon book page. When promoting your Kindle book or paperback, you promote your book with links on your website, blog, Facebook, Twitter, and many more sites. The chances are that you post at least a few links to your book for potential…

Does book promotion and marketing work? Yes, because the alternative is no book promotion, which naturally doesn’t work. Measuring the results of book promotion and marketing is a very inexact science. You will be disappointed if your measure of success is 1,000’s of immediate overnight book sales. Promotion is a long-term project and requires patience…

Every business, whether large, small, or sideline, has expenses. One of the essential costs for authors and publishers is to spend money on book marketing. The only problem is deciding how to spend your money wisely to promote your book. It doesn’t need to be a hefty sum. But relying on success coming to you for…

Here are five tips on how to promote your self-published book. My post title should be credited. I have been asked how to market a self-published book or how to promote a book so often. I won’t, however, because it would end up being a very long list of credits. So I apologize to all…

Social media is often ineffective in promoting books on Amazon. Using social media such as Facebook and Twitter to help advertise books and ebooks is extremely time-consuming. From my experience, social media is becoming less effective in increasing book sales. When I started using Twitter and Facebook in 2010, there was definitely some benefit. But…

If you are a new self-published author, you may not know that Amazon took a hard line on book reviews some time ago. Why did it do it? Because paid Amazon book reviews are big business, as this article in the New York Times describes in detail. The upshot was that Amazon came down heavily…

Book marketing for self-published authors is challenging, hard work, time-consuming, and can even be dispiriting. Self-publishing is no longer a new phenomenon; it is now an integral part of the publishing industry. However, one component remains a stumbling block – getting your books to sell. If that’s not enough, marketing can also be expensive. Self-publishing…