Three Conclusions and a Small Marketing Plan

 
Over on his blog, fellow indie Mark Fassett has posted three conclusions about ebook sales:

You need to write well, and make sure you have a compelling sample available.
You need to have more than one ebook for sale.
You need to be patient.

 
I'm working on the first (and hopefully making progress) and the second (coming soon). I would joke about how I'm working on the third–and how I want it now, dammit now!–but, really, I figured out patience a while back (except in regards to manuscript submissions; the whole process still irks me horribly; which is probably a clue into my "indie fiction" and "indie anything else" tendencies).
 
My marketing plan for my ebooks is pretty simple. Here is how I summed it up for another friend last week:
 
The marketing plan at the moment is to promote on Guns & Magic (of course), probably mention it on Joe Indie. Also to link to it on Facebook. There are some ebook communities on the Web that I'll wander through and see if I can make an impact. Plus, I'll be releasing more and more ebooks as the season continues. So they'll help promote each other.
 
So far, the only "ebook community" I've gone to is Kindle Boards. They're huge. And busy. Almost daunting. I have plans to look for more such communities.
 
For "Nostalgia", I've now:

Posted part 1 here on Guns & Magic;
Posted about my new "indie fiction" initiative over on Joe Indie;
Linked to both of those posts on Facebook; and
Posted an annoucement of the book to the Kindle Boards Book Bazaar.

 
There's probably something I can do over on Smashwords to promote the ebook. And, of course, there are other ebook-oriented communities around and about. I'll find them.
 
The next big promotion effort for "Nostalgia", though, will be the upcoming release of The Summoning Fire. And then the release of the next ebook. And the one after that.
 
Which means my Plan for World Domination through Fiction boils down to:
I will drown the world in words…
 
-David