Alexis’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2017)

Alexis’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Erica wrote: "I do have a suggestion on the dates after all. If we are going to do a weekend, I think it would be better to do a friday-sunday. I have found that I tend to get the most activity wed-saturday with..."

I think you're right Erica. It seems we need to choose between
thursday, friday and saturday
Or friday, saturday and sunday

Anyone else with some interesting feedback regarding which days have the highest sales?

M.K. wrote: "Alexis wrote: " Everyone's books have been added! Find your books, check your links, your author page etc and let me know if you find any mistakes. Please note that I've limited the amount of links..."

Fixed! YW

Jennifer wrote: "I'm honored and still surprised to see The Lover's Portrait was just named one of The Displaced Nation's 36 Top Expat Fiction Picks of 2016!

https://thedisplacednation.com/2017/0......"

Wow, that's great! Congrats!!

I got a couple of lovely messages via the contact form on website and I appreciate them but I just wanted to stress: if you've submitted your cover to R.L.'s new magazine project, I won't even see it let alone be able to add it to NI.com. I'm not involved with the free magazine ad project at all. If you want to be included on navigatingindieworld.com, make use of the thread we pinned for it or PM me questions. Or email me: alexis@navigatingindieworld.com. Whatever is easier for you.

Carole wrote: "Alexis wrote: "Carole, do you have a list of (friendly) bloggers I could contact to send a short article about our event?"

Yep- I'm home now- I'll have Brit put something together tomorrow morning..."

Perfect!

Carole, do you have a list of (friendly) bloggers I could contact to send a short article about our event?

Groovy wrote: "Question! I need your opinions. If my books are already at $2.99, and I read where some of you are listing your books at that price, should I just keep them at $2.99, or do you think I should list ..."

I would lower the lowest selling book to 0.99 and keep the other at 2.99.

Omg, I messed up ladies. I was looking at april!!!! Can we do 25/26/27 of March? I really want to it during the weekend so that everyone has time to participate.

Erica wrote: "I just released my books in an e-book version. Yay! I priced them at 2.99 in preparation for this event. That is a sale price. I will raise them to 3.99 after the event is over. Do you want us to s..."

I'd be happy if you would create that thread Erica! :D I guess first I want to know what you guys think of the dates.. 28/29/30 march.

Amy wrote: "Excellent thanks. I haven't done a price drop in months anyway. Good point with the 25% off. I'm currently listed at £2.99. 25% off would put it at £2.24 and still leave me with about £1.50ish roya..."

Yeah. I'm going to work with percentages on the website. Consumer brains have been wired to think that a % offer is better than a $ reduction, for example 25% somehow sounds more appealing than $1 off even though the money saved is the same in both cases. I'll be using that tactic on the website.
And of course the good old: LIMITED TIME ONLY.

Kiran wrote: "I had trouble copying and pasting my cover with my book information for some reason."

No problem. I'll get if from your Amazon.

Amy wrote: "I think I've got this right-because I'm also published on iBooks and therefore am not enrolled in KDP Select I can only manually drop the price. I can't do a countdown deal. So as long as I remembe..."

Great. I'll give you a small banner at the top that says NOW 0.99 or ON SALE. It's going to look so f'ing cool that it will almost (almost) compensate for having to drop the price.

Amy wrote: "So dropping the price around those three days at the end of March right?"

Yes, if you want. You can keep it regular price too, but of course, you might benefit from having it listed as "ON SALE"nWho doesn't love a bargain?

Personally:
I'm going to add something like this:
List price: 3.99
NOW: 25% off: 2.99

Amy wrote: "Is there a date we start sharing the web site or are we just going for it?"

The deadline for submissions is March 5.

I will then ask everyone to give me the details for their book: e.g.which books will be on sale, free, on Kindle Unlimited, or regular price.

Each book will then get a small banner on top stating whether it's a free, a bargain or on KU (or regular price). I'll finalize the book pages on March 8 then.

Next, I plan to have all my promo material ready for March 12. I will ask for your opinions on what type of promo to make AND WOULD LOVE TO RECEIVE IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR DESIGNS. (Everyone can make their own as well, but I'll have some pre made images for FB, Twitter and blogs..)

I was thinking we could make it a 3 day event; 28,29 and 30 of March. Let me know what you think before I copy and paste this into the NI "All you need to know" thread.

Thanks guys!!
Remembers, we still need a name!

Yvonne wrote: "Don't change a thing, Alexis! This site looks fantastic! I love the clean look. I also just emailed Carole, offering my help with website building or whatever you need. Just let me know! You can em..."

Thank you!!

Amy wrote: "If it's 5 (I've got 4 at the mo) can you please add

https://twitter.com/WriteNaughty to Amy J Hamilton.

Thanks again."

Added!

Everyone's books have been added! Find your books, check your links, your author page etc and let me know if you find any mistakes. Please note that I've limited the amount of links to social media/GR/Amazon etc to a maximum of 5 links. Thank you.

J.B., I'll add yours as soon as you get back to me, :)

Alex wrote: "Alexis wrote: "Ahhh. Week 2.

1. Make 5 banners for NI.com
2. Set up newsletter html form for NI.com via mailchimp
3. Approve 3 blog articles for NI.com
4. Set up rafflecopter for NI.com
5. Forget ..."



No, yours is much hectic! I hope to be done with 1-4 today.

Ahhh. Week 2.

1. Make 5 banners for NI.com
2. Set up newsletter html form for NI.com via mailchimp
3. Approve 3 blog articles for NI.com
4. Set up rafflecopter for NI.com
5. Forget about NI.com
6. Finish last 10.000 words of In Flagrante Delicto.
7. Start with the final draft.
8. Blow dust off alexiswills.com with a blog article.

Good luck everyone!!!! :D

So.. whistles.. can books on pre-order be added to the site as well? Like an erotic contemporary multicultural romantic suspence with a very very sexy cover to be released in April?

ETA: Nevermind. I see that Alex' book is a pre-order too so I won't be breaking any rules.