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.
Not exact matches
billy your
promo cutting
days are
over.
This spreads the
promo out
over a few more
days.
Over the 5
day period, we had a total of 431 downloads, which works out costing us about 1 cent per download (since we only spent $ 5 on the
promo).
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.
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Promo Post @...
Trends rely on data captures
over time, and future analyses will need to deal with the discrepancies in BookScan data, books being pulsed on single -
day promos, those 4 books per month whose thousands of free downloads are being counted toward the bestseller ranks, and many other anomalies.
As the above graph shows, 10/20 was the first time my «Paid Units» cracked 5 in one
day over the last 3 months, except during a cute little 99c
promo I ran at the end of August.
For instance, The Immortal Chronicles anthology, on the
day of the BookBub
promo, climbed up to the top 50 overall on Amazon thanks to
over 1400 sales in less than 24 hours.
In the past, this flashcard book always did well with the free
promo (
over a thousand books in the good old
days when KDP Select was new, and hundreds in later months), so I have something to compare it with.
So the
days of the free
promo being a no - brainer book marketing miracle are
over.
You should keep promoting for a few
days after the
promo is
over.
I chose to schedule the
promo over a weekend, although interestingly the highest
day was Friday.
AFN Clarke says: Really enjoy BookGoodies and the great
promo for THE ORANGE MOON AFFAIR, the first in my new Thomas Gunn thriller series which has gone
over incredibly well, so much so the next book in the series THE JONAS TRUST DECEPTION will be out on Amazon Kindle in a few
days time — yeah!!!
The next
day of the 3 year mark, I received an email telling me that my
promo was
over.
BMO Investorline's cash back
promo is set to expire a few
days into June, so the next offer, should there be one, is what we're looking out for
over the coming month.