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Marie Silk: the value of permafree?
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Jan 23, 2017 05:31AM
Suggestion on the business cards: Have friends who are actually going to cons of your genre hand them out? Just a thought!
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Awesome news on your sale! That's a great number! Glad to see it was worth the effort.
Wow! That's fantastic, Marie! Congrats!
Thank you, everyone!Well, the plot thickens. ENT just sent me an email to say they are featuring my freebie book in 3 days, which happens to be the last day of the countdown on the sequels. Good thing I checked my email in time to schedule the free day (and I had a free day to spare) lol. I was not expecting this at all!
I've been following a couple threads on pros and cons of Kindle Select and I think today makes a good case for a benefit of being enrolled. Without Select, there is no way I could have done the price match thing in time to get this ENT promo since I only knew 3 days in advance. I think Select also helps the countdowns to pack a bigger punch.
We should make flags and banners and a cheer.Marie Marie
Her book is out for free
She'll get it every hamlet
and every shiny tablet!
Y'all are awesome.Haha Nat, that's brilliant.
Marie wrote: "My business cards arrived today...and they are adorable! Oh my goodness!I went with the "vertical folded business card" so it would look like a miniature book. I am so so happy with how they tu..."
That is such a cool idea!!!!!! I"m going to have to try something like this. =-)
Hi Marie!! Forgive me if this was already asked, but did you layer the price cut of your books in the series for the countdown, or did you make them all 99cents each at the exact same time for all five days??? Also, do you think ENT was worth the money? I realize you still have time on your deals, but so far, what do you think?
Briana wrote: "Hi Marie!! Forgive me if this was already asked, but did you layer the price cut of your books in the series for the countdown, or did you make them all 99cents each at the exact same time for all ..."Hi Briana!
I scheduled a free promotion for the first book of the series for Sunday only and scheduled the other five books for a Kindle countdown to also begin Sunday and run through Thursday.
In the past, my results with ENT have been somewhat minimal but I think it's because they featured my book in the young adult category. This time they are featuring it as historical fiction so I'm hoping for a bigger turnout (more subscribers). I'm really happy with the countdown so far! I recommend booking features with as many promotions sites as possible for the best results :).
Oooh, I'm stoked to hear your ENT results. I totes dig em! Hope it goes fantabulously amazeballs for you!!!
Marie must be doing well in her sales because I've seen her books on a few sites and a few people have told me their reading books in the Davenport House series. Whatever your doing, keep it up! It's working.
Marie wrote: "Update on the big sale :)"Yessss!!! Fantabulously amazeballs, Miss Marie!!!!!
Wow thanks, Justin, that's great to hear!Aw, thank you, Amie!!
Annie, I am so grateful for your shares and support!
Today is Day 4 of the promotion and still going strong. Tomorrow will be the last day of the Big Sale, and I'm planning on it going out with a bang :).
Hey look what arrived today! I have bookmarks! These are from Got Print and I love how they turned out :) I ordered them January 13 with standard shipping and they arrived today, January 25. 
I am late to the business card conversation, but I wanted to let you know they look fantabulous!
Amazon says I'm the #87 author in historical fiction :O It gives me an entry on a "most popular authors" page and everything. Way cool!
p.s. today is the last day of the promo and it is going awesome!
Fame. And so young. *leaves a congratulatory bouquet and skips off*
I'd be lying if I said these Davenport books aren't peeking my interest ;)
Thank you, Erica!Thank you, Nat!
Thank you, Kay!
Thank you, Jane!
Thank you, Justin!
Well the author rank was short-lived haha, but awesome while it lasted :)
Over the 5-day promotion, my books managed to see 700 sales and 10 new reviews ♥ Thank you, everyone, for your encouragement and well wishes!
That's awesome Marie! (The sales and reviews! Not the other thing!!) lol
That's awesome Marie! I was taking a webinar this week on Top of the Mind marketing and sounds like you are definitely getting your stamp on the world out there. By the way, are you on Twitter as an author? There are a few Marie Silk peeps on Twitter but I was gonna follow ya.
Thank you, Christina!Thank you, Ember!
Thank you, Amie! I don't have a Twitter account, but one of these days I should probably get one. I'm just...scared lol. I don't know much about how Twitter works. I do have a Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... I've used Facebook for 7 years so I feel like I somewhat know what's going on there :D.
Get on Twitter! Seriously! I retweet your Ask David promos when I see them, but being able to actually retweet *you* will probably catch people's eyes more often.
Thanks for retweeting my stuff, Christina ♥ I'll try to get set up with an account when I can muster up the courage. I don't really know what I'm looking at yet when I see a Twitter feed lol.
That is great! I'm excited that things went so well, and 87 is sweet!!!
Thanks, Nat!! :)I hope everyone is surviving the week okay :) I wanted to share the news that this book review blog called Lil Book Lovers featured me for its 100th post! You can check out my author interview and Rafflecopter giveaway with them HERE
Pssst...this blog has been great for book reviews and author interviews! You can follow them on Faceook here https://www.facebook.com/lilbooklovers/ and maybe even get interviewed or a book review :)
I hope everyone is having a good Taco Tuesday!
Oh man, how do I always forget what day it is??? We had waffles and bacon :P
Amie wrote: "Oh man, how do I always forget what day it is??? We had waffles and bacon :P"Hey waffles and bacon sound pretty good too :D and thank you soooo much for the review, Amie ♥
Fold the waffles in half, put bacon in the middle... Taco!
Christina wrote: "Fold the waffles in half, put bacon in the middle... Taco!"This. So much this.
Bloody brilliant "Brinner Tacos" ❤️❤️❤️
Congrats on the awesome bookmarks and a whopping 700 sales! I can't even imagine how that feels! Go get some tacos and champagne! lol
Christina wrote: "Fold the waffles in half, put bacon in the middle... Taco!"That's a unique, but viable taco.
Loving all this taco talk. Keep it coming, folks :D Thank you, Lyra!!
Never thought I'd see the day. *cries tears of joy*
Thank you so much, reviewers!! ♥♥♥
Congrats Marie. That's so great!*claps enthusiastically*
*sneaks in with large plate of chocolate chunk cookies*Congratulations
Congrats, Marie! That must feel wonderful! 
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Wow! Congratulations! I have *one* review and it's exciting. I can't even imagine! :)
Aw I love these gifs. Thank you for the encouragement, everyone! I pursued roughly 25 of these reviews through bloggers and volunteer reviewers (that was a bit of work lol) and I think two or three reviews came from Goodreads giveaways. The rest are organic :).
Way to go, Marie! That is truly wonderful.
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