How To Win Sales And Influence Algorithms
Very interesting thoughts/ideas on author collaboration to help with sales and promotion of books. Thanks to Annie Person (http://anniepearson.com/) for linking me!
Originally posted on David Gaughran:
I���m hosting a discussion today between two authors who are using��creative ways to share audiences, something��which has the happy side-effect of increasing their respective sales.
As I said on Thursday, I think creative forms of collaboration ��� especially in terms of marketing strategies ��� are��going to be big this year.
Traditionally published authors may have to compete with each other ways that may not be relevant/important��to self-publishers ��� like agents, deals, grants, prizes, or co-op. But self-publishers have nothing to fear from cooperating with authors they are nominally competing with, and everything to gain.
The market is so large that no writer��will ever reach all the readers out there, and the��odds of��getting noticed can improve greatly with the right kind of cooperation ��� as many authors with box sets saw last year.
If you are still skeptical, consider this: Amazon���s recommendation engine can drive sales like nothing else.��The Also���
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