Every month I spend XXX -
dollars on book promotion via FB ads, or sites like BookBub or ENT or BookGorilla, often with mixed results.
Not exact matches
It's very hard to equate
dollars spent
on book promotion with
book sales.
Since then I've spent tens of thousands of
dollars on book marketing and
promotion.
As a self - published author there's no way you can compete with huge publishing houses that have billions of
dollars to spend
on marketing and
promotion in an effort to launch, grow and maintain robust
book sales.
You can spend thousands of
dollars on promotion and do everything right marketing-wise, but if your
book is not intended for a specific, target market — or if it's not a fit for the market you're incorrectly targeting — you won't sell it.
You'd think that if a house were taking
on a new author and
book that they would include a certain amount of money geared for
promotion, but the reality is that the publisher spends generic
dollars on promoting their line of
books or other authors» work and hope readers will notice your
book in the process.
I value Carlson Gold points somewhere around 0.4 cents each so, if you have the Premier Rewards Visa card, the
promotion would see you earning 20 points /
dollar spent at Carlson properties which is essentially an 8 % rebate
on your
booking.
Under this
promotion, you stand to earn 6 points per
dollar spend
on hotel
bookings, double the usual 3 points per
dollar.
Or if you're already a TrueBlue member, you could register for the current JetBlue double points
promotion (again, make sure to sign up before
booking), which means through the end of February you'd actually accumulate 9 points per
dollar for a total haul of 5,391 TrueBlue points earned
on that $ 599 flight.
Without the
promotion, TrueBlue members automatically earn 3x points per
dollar spent and an additional 3x points for travel
booked on JetBlue.com, and with this
promotion, you'll be earning 9x points per
dollar spent after the other two bonuses.