Free book promo? Submit to 25+ sites with one click (service claim)

[Tara Woods Turner]

Came across this service and thought I'd share. I've never used it so can't vouch for it but if it is free and does what it claims it could save us all a *lot* of time promoting. Basically when you are promoting your free ebook you enter the information just once and it is submitted to multiple free ebook promo sites simultaneously. Worth a look, at least, right?

http://bookmarketingtools.com/submiss...

[Alexis]

Hmm. I wonder what the catch is. (Lool, yes I'm a bit cynical :D)

[Alexis]

I don't think it's free. The price seems to be 29 dollars and they only allow you to promote free books. https://bookmarketingtools.com/signup...

[Tara Woods Turner]

Imo, $29 would be worth it if:
1. They had at least 100+ sites participating
2. At least 40% of those sites were traffic heavy
3. The sites were dedicated free/discount ebook sites and not just blogs.

So, yeah, not sure if it is worth it but I also have no experience with this, so...

[Anna]

I've paid for similar sites and found that very few of the ones they said they'd submitted to actually carried the ad for me.

Waste of money.

[Wally]

stay cynical, it's healthy

[Anna]

The truth often is.

But this is what's good about this group. We need to know about muddy paths some of us have been sent along. Better not to go too far along those roads.

[Ken]

Robert wrote: "I came runner up in a competition. Prize was exposure on a promo site. (I didn't pay for any of this btw, they just saw my book and put it in the competition). Anyway my point is, all the tweets et..."

I generally find that free promo sites are worth exactly what I pay for them. Then again, I've been disappointed by a couple of paid sites, too. I think Bargain Booksy was one of them.

[Anthony Deeney]

I paid for one of these. 35 sites carried my free book day: Marginal results, at best.

[Christina]

The whole point of paying is to save you the time of submitting. Paying won't guarantee placement (only paying the site directly will) so it's really a matter of asking yourself if your time is worth $30. For me, eh, I would rather spend the money on a sure bet and take the time to submit to the freebie sites myself. Once you've done it enough and have an idea what info each site requires, it's easy to make a quick cheat sheet for copying and pasting, plus, with autocomplete, some sites may remember your info from a previous promotion.

[Anna]

Sound advice, Christina.

[Ray]

What is an average response to free book promotion? Recently got 200 over a two day period. Used FB, Twitter and 2-3 free book and paid distributers.

[Doug]

What about 'pay sites'? I've tried several, without much obvious success. A few books sold during the 'promo time', but no noticeable difference between normal sales.
Has anyone used a reasonably priced 'pay site' that has resulted in obvious sales improvement?

[Christina]

Hey guys, there are other threads that talk about effective promos, so you may want to search the marketing and promo folder. This thread is discussing a specific service. Thanks.

[T.L.]

Tara; I'm afraid I'm with team sceptical.
But if you do go for it, please share the outcome. I'd be interested to know.
With a full time job and a hectic life I remain hopeful that there really is an effective, low cost, time saving service.

xx

[John]

Ken wrote: "Robert wrote: "I came runner up in a competition. Prize was exposure on a promo site. (I didn't pay for any of this btw, they just saw my book and put it in the competition). Anyway my point is, al..."

I tried them and got less downloads than when I just promoted on my own through my social media and fewer reads afterwards too.

[Christina]

Again folks, stay on topic.