Sentences with phrase «promo days»

But few — only 26 % — that use free promo days actually buy advertising to promote those days.

I got 3,000 + downloads during the first 3 free promo days where I used all of the above three paid promo services.

To use scarcity marketing for more downloads, here's the first thing to remember: Don't use all five of your free promo days at once.

You'll also get double the big points offers on special promo days.

Because free promo days are a great way to get people to give you a try.

Write one book, publish it and use the KDP Select Promo days efficiently.

Well thought of by her peers, she has achieved international success as an author and marketing expert but she is also a busy work - at - home mother, organizer of Promo Day, the world - wide marketing conference day for writers, freelance writer and teacher.

Publishers aren't doing promo these days, authors are.

Around the same time, Amazon launched KDP Select, which I thought was a great idea because it came with the exclusivity, which was somewhat of a downside, but the upside was it gave authors five free promo days within a three - month period.

Hi, I still find KDP select works for me with promo days but free all the time does very little except devalue your product.

Another advantage of Select and promo days over permafree is that the Select book is generating real sales outside of its promo period, so it's usually much more visible in the Amazon catalog, and when it flips to free, many more people will find it.

I figured I would be able to duplicate the formula, but since then the effectiveness of the Select promo days has dropped, as more people get on board (and people's kindles are full of other freebies!)

Will your book have to compete with a big - time, irresistible best - selling author's book on your promo day?

The best thing about the post free promo days was Kindle Prime, and the hordes of people that downloaded Saving Grace for a free Kindle read via their Prime membership.

The promo days allow authors to list eBooks for free for up to five days in the 90 day commitment period.

In addition to the five free promo days, our books are available to Amazon Prime members in the new Lending Library.

I believe the addition of the Countdown program played a role in this growth by giving established books a better alternative that free promo days.

When I signed up, I began to utilize my given five «promo days» right away.

I have heard a number of authors say that the free promo days that are part of KDP Select are less effective than they used to be.

Last week, my dynamite little relationship book, How to Screw Up Your Marriage: Do - Over Tips for First - Time Failures, did less than 400 downloads in its three free promo days, but it went to # 1 in Divorce and # 1 in Marriage, and I was delighted.

I got 500 + downloads on the second 2 free promo days.

Then, during the first three free promo days, I sent this email (notice the «ClickToTweet» and the CTA to review — props to Nick Loper for that one):

But look at the sales after the promo days!

I had wondered if you could do the same thing to get around their KDP Select free promo days but hadn't put it to the test.

However, if you'd like to get the benefits of KDP Select — 5 free promo days, Countdown Deals and borrows — then the book has to be exclusive with Amazon.

I am probably the most inept writer at self - promotion and the use of the free promo days have been a Godsend to me and my work.

Insinuating that we are giving up on our craft and devaluing our hard earned work by using the free promo days is simply wrong in my humble opinion.

The contemporary chapter's promo day is Tuesday so I limited my asking until then.

While we're on the subject of Amazon's changes, I thought I'd report on my recent experience with KDP Select Free Promo Days, which suggests that initiative may be on the way out.

I have enjoyed working with you, Carolyn, from day one of my Promo Day event and I was especially honored to be a speaker at the Rome Retreat you sponsored with Eve LaSalle Caram.

The copy should tout the free promo days.

If you can avoid it, do not choose a date for the promo days first.

Blog posts about Amazon KDP Select free promo days are as common as bad drivers on I84.

I wonder why Amazon allows us to run countdown deals only once every quarter even if we have not utilized all the promo days?

But here's the thing, in May 2013 Amazon tweaked its algorithms yet again, and now free books see little sales bump after the free days, and some indie authors have even reported that their books dropped lower in the sales rank than they were before the free promo days.