Articles, how-to’s, opinion and tips and tricks in the self-publishing arena
How to Optimize Your Book’s Sales Page on Amazon
Your Amazon product page is your book’s final sales page. It is the page that will ultimately dictate which browsers become readers. That means, you need to make it as inviting as possible–you want to optimize your page and draw in more sales and ‘one-click buys.’ After all, authors are always looking to level up their book marketing strategy.
Luckily, Amazon does a lot of the technical work for you. If you were to create a sales page on your website, you’d have to do all the positioning and testing to see what works. When you sell on Amazon, […]
Why Authors Should Stop Blogging Now
And here’s why that’s poor advice:
If you set up a blog on your own website, and only ever post there, you risk only reaching people you’ve already reached! It doesn’t matter how engaging, fascinating, controversial, or informative your articles are. It’s irrelevant whether you blog about your writing process, share tips for other authors, take the reader behind the scenes, or offer bonus […]
Introducing Bookvertiser: Book Marketing with Results
The team at SPR has created a new book promotion service for authors: Bookvertiser.
The service is a similar process to SPR’s own Amazon Promotions, but with more flexible options, such as the ability to gain 200 sales at once, and new monthly promotions where you can attain 4-5 sales and 50 sales a month to maintain momentum.
The full list of services are:
Kindle Book Sales
We target reader demographics who are likely to buy your book, based on age, gender, interests, and other important factors. You can receive 50, 100, and 200 sales at a time, […]
Keanu Reeves and Girlfriend: Indie-Publishing Since 2011
However, speculation about this “new” relationship pretty much dissolved when web-ferrets savvy and bored enough […]
Writing a Book Through Ill Health
We all face a bout of sickness in our lifetime at some point. But what if this hits as we are writing a book?
“I was literally in the middle of a three-month sabbatical to write my book when I was diagnosed with Lupus. Plagued with fatigue and nausea, as well as insomnia, I had no idea how I was going to finish what I had started,” says Pam, a self-published author from London, UK. “And I had a deadline of less than two months. After that, I’d have to go back to work.”
Cathy had planned her time off […]