12 Days: My Self Publishing Journey (12 and a half of 12 and a half)
Okay, I was supposed to write my last post in my self-publishing journey last Monday. It didn’t happen. I decided to write my 3rd book and couldn’t tare myself from the creative flow.
Now that’s it mid day and I feel I must finish what I started…well…here I am. I’m excited to report that I feel the entire promotion was a success. I’ve sold a lot of book 2 with my book 1 promotion efforts. I’m actually listed on a category, when before I wasn’t.
Back to “How I Did It!”
In the first couple of posts I wrote exactly what I did before the actual promotion and I’ll copy and paste them right below here:
Reviews are very important
Those wonderful, incredible reviews. They’ll either bring you warmth and happiness or rip your heart out. They’ll also be very difficult to obtain–at first.
I don’t want to explain every single way to get a review, so if you’re an author, then go here: PageLily - How to Succeed on Amazon (they are my favorite ebook conversion/formatting company–cheap and professional). PageLily has partnered with a company called “AMC” that will help you get reviews, morally, without paying for them or badgering people to review your book in order to get them. So, watch the AMC video after you click the link above.
Also, on Facebook I found a group that focuses on reviews. I tell the review group that I’m in need of a review and someone or a lot of someones will reply, saying that they want my book for free in exchange for a review. It doesn’t always work, but sometimes I’ll get one or two people to take me up on giving a review. The group is called Review Seekers.
Exposure4all
I signed up with Stewart over at Exposure4all. He has over 380,000 twitter followers and I chose the program that sends 30 of my tweets to his followers over a 6 day period for only $7.60. To me, that was a great deal and I feel lucky he went forward with my book and helped me with my promotion. I created a link with bit.ly that tracks how many of those 380,000 followers actually clicked on my tweet and looked at my book. I had over 700 clicks, which most likely led to downloads of my book.
World Literary Cafe
I went over to the World Literary Cafe and signed up to their social media book buzz program. I think it worked well.
From the World Literary Cafe, themselves: “WLC has partnered with FreeBooksy to help promote author’s free titles for the month of July/August. If your book is free, you can gain the exposure listed above (Standard Social Media Book Buzz without the excerpt) IN ADDITION, 30 lucky authors who purchase a Social Media Mania promotion for July and whose book is free will ALSO be included in Freebooksy’s daily email. The email goes out to thousands of readers who own Kindles and have specified their genre interests. FREE titles may purchase this option only once/month per title. The Standard package may be purchased for multiple days.”
The rest of them…
I went to BookBlast and signed up for their genre specific emails. They have subscribers/readers who are looking for certain genre’s to read. I signed up for their “Fantasy Subscriber List”. There are over 8,000 on that list. Fabulous customer service.
I signed up with Kindle Fire Department where they advertised my free book, “The PureLights of Ohm Totem“, to 52,000 of their fans. Excellent customer service.
I signed up with Kindle Nation Daily and advertised to their 170,000+ subscribers. They rocked it for me and had great customer service.
What can I say? I loved all of their customer service.
Well, thanks for reading. That’s what I did. I’ll keep you updated. My next goal: Sell 100 books a day. I’m going to research that now.
I’ll keep you informed! 
