Showing posts with label promotion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label promotion. Show all posts

Thursday, January 5, 2012

The Experimental Girl


December was an experimental month for me. In November, I published a dystopian short story, THE WAY LIFE WAS FOREVER, at $.99. At the end I included the first chapter of THE HALO CHRONICLES: THE GUARDIAN. Then I dropped THE GUARDIAN from $2.99 to $.99 to participate in a holiday promotion called Book Lovers Buffet.


For the purposes of this analysis, I am going to use my Amazon sales.

December 1-24 results:
THE WAY LIFE WAS FOREVER $.99: 4
THE HALO CHRONICLES: THE GUARDIAN $.99: 66




I decided to make THE WAY LIFE WAS FOREVER free to promote THE GUARDIAN. It went into effect just after Christmas.




December 26-31 results:
THE WAY LIFE WAS FOREVER $.00: 617
THE HALO CHRONICLES: THE GUARDIAN $.99: 53

January 1-4 results:
THE WAY LIFE WAS FOREVER $.00: 767
THE HALO CHRONICLES: THE GUARDIAN $.99: 27



 The results are so phenomenal that I am going to keep THE WAY LIFE WAS FOREVER free.
Now my dilemma, the promotion for THE HALO CHRONICLES: THE GUARDIAN  ends 1/15/12. Should I keep it at $.99 with much lower royalties or take it back up to $2.99.

What do you think?

Thursday, September 15, 2011

50 Things Under $50 to Promote Your Book

As a result of some exciting developments, the blogs been a bit quiet recently. Soon I hope to be able to share details.

In the meantime, check out Penny C. Sansevieri's great report: