The problem is
the way sales ranks get calculated.
Which is in
a way a sales rank but not a copies sold rank... But I think they've changed it a few times.
Not exact matches
While being
ranked on one of these lists is a huge testament to the employee and leadership team's hard work, it's also a good
way for
sales teams to narrow down their prospect list.
It has powered its
way up the
rankings of the global smartphone industry primarily through
sales on its home turf but has considered a U.S. foray of late.
Working his
way through the
ranks, he became executive vice president of
sales and marketing in 1996, before being named the network's fifth president in 1998.
In addition, the
rankings give self - published authors a
way to prove that their
sales can sell every bit as well as an established writer.
I know many do this to gain ratings and increase their
sales rankings, but for me, it just isn't the
way I want to gain an audience.
My
sales rank dropped 2,000 today to go all the
way to 7400.
To me, that is sort of like keeping track of our
sales, in that obsessive sort of
way so many of us do, and our author
ranking.
Either
way, this is a very healthy
sales rank.
Keeping a strong
ranking in at least one category is how you get consistent
sales every month and the only
way to do that is to jumpstart your book with a strong launch.
We recommend pre-orders as a
way to capture readers» interest prior to the book's launch and build up a powerful boost to your
sales rank on release day.
That's probably the
way I'll do it — after I replace the short read with the full book, it won't show up in short reads anymore, but it'll stick higher in the
sales ranks.
Although gaming the system this
way could boost your
sales rank and attract new readers, it also taints your success.
By making your book free for a short time at Amazon it works a similar
way — you are aiming for more traffic, better
rankings and, later down the track once it goes paid again: higher
sales.
Running an book promotion via email and social media is the easiest, quickest and most effective
way to build your following, boost your book downloads, and increase page reads,
rankings and
sales, when it's done right...
When my debut novel, The Heir, was on
sale for.99 c, Bookzio was a great
way to get the word out and it helped improve my
ranking.
After last year's fiascoes (deleting w / no warning books people had purchased and removing
sales rankings of books they deemed inappropriate), I didn't want to get locked into The World According to Amazon with no
way to get out.
With the ease of launching a pre-order platform for a specific title, there's no reason not to take advantage of the potential for discoverability and the possibility of increased initial
sales ranking as a
way to stand out.
Besides the traffic you send directly to your Amazon product page, there are really two
ways you make
sales: through the website's search or through Google search... either
way, it's all about your search
ranking.
What I didn't know was the difference between the
Sales Rank, the Recommendation Engine, Bestseller Lists, Popularity lists, Top - Rated in Categories, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers and all the other ways you can target the lists and prime the sales
Sales Rank, the Recommendation Engine, Bestseller Lists, Popularity lists, Top - Rated in Categories, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers and all the other
ways you can target the lists and prime the
sales sales pump.
That
way the author doesn't risk later having to re-upload the book as if it were an entirely new product, losing
sales rankings and reviews in the process.
But the
way I look at it, it's not a complete loss — not if that $ 10 got me reviews, improved my
sales rank and visibility and hopefully,
sales of other books (if people click on links at the end of my book).
I'm just glad Amazon & B&N do reveal overall
sales ranks so we can measure their mix of
sales that
way.
I believe this will be a powerful
way to boost
sales rank — the best
way I've found.
When I wrote this article I said: «As an easy
way to seriously bump your Amazon
sales rank a TON... actually the best
way to do it, hands - down, Amazon giveaways seems like a pretty epic book marketing hack.»
KU books tend to have a higher
sales rank on Amazon (for their algorithm, a KU borrow = a
sale, regardless of whether the borrower reads the book) and since it's effectively a closed system, the only
way to have access to the readers who are 100 % KU is by being in Select.
I'm kind of a data person so I've got spreadsheets with my book, my bestseller
ranking, the number of
sales, and I've tracked many other books in my genre the same
way, to get an idea of what's going on and how much the bestseller
ranks fluctuate.
The current
sales rank, along with the
way customers are finding your book, can influence future
sales in a surprising number of
ways.
Most of the books that I have mentioned above, had a
sales rank way below 20,000 (somewhere between 1000 - 3000 in fact).
The
way Amazon determines
sales rank for books, and therefore best sellers, is indeed a murky business.
Unfortunately, over the past few days, the books have slipped all the
way to around 1500
sales rank.
Oh, one last thing, unless we do it her
way, any awards,
sales rankings, monies made aren't done the right
way because we didn't sell our creative soul in the process.
Broadly speaking, as an author (or a publisher) wishing to get onto that bandwagon and follow the trend — the ONLY figure he has is Amazon
sales ranks (which are already weighted in strange
ways).
When all the reviews are glowing, when the number of reviews seems high for the amount of
sales (this can be gauged by comparing the
sales rank and publication date to the review tally), or just the
way recruited reviews are often worded may trigger buyer suspicion.
Although gaming the system this
way could boost your
sales rank and attract new readers, it also taints your -LSB-...]
Way to work the system, not that it is a bad thing, but every
sale counts into the
rank system.
You could look at bare book
sales, but with author
rankings by genre, Amazon does that for you in a clearer
way that doesn't allow you to fool yourself with short - term variables.
It will probably mean that self - publishing authors will have to dip into promotions no matter what, because it will be the only
way to get far enough up the
rankings to get recurring
sales.
Now I understand there's simply no good
way to compare the two because the
sales ranks were compiled under significantly different situations.
Pre-order
sales influence the
ranking of your book before it's even technically available, which is a fantastic
way to boost exposure to more readers.
You are compelled to check your
sales rank because that's the only
way you know if your book is selling.
As an author, you feel compelled to check your
sales rank because that's the only
way you know if your book is selling.
To put it another
way, my considerable experience with the relationship between Kindle Store
sales rankings and actual units sold says that there are fewer than a handful of all Kindle blogs that are currently averaging more than 1 or 2
sales per day.
About a year later, the publisher put the ebook for
sale at $ 2,99, and its
ranking went all the
way to the low 2,000 s (about * fifty * books a day or more).
In fact, Amazon is the quickest and most accessible
way for anyone to get a snap shot of book
sales (although you'd need to take the numbers with a grain of salt since they only reflect online
sales rankings — not
sales, per se — on one site).
One
way to move the needle quickly in terms of
sales and
ranking is by using paid promotion sites that have lists of avid readers who might be interested in your book.
Perhaps it was a
way to increase
sales rank for these preorders.
Use Amazon.com's
sales rankings, provided for each item sold on Amazon's website, as an easy, free
way to tell how quickly an item will sell.
But is the
way to such advocacy through
sales and
ranking analysis?