![]() #1 on Amazon: An Ebook Marketing Guide for Self Publishers Last updated on November 20, 2017 It’s no secret that ebooks have taken over the world thanks to Kindle and the iPad. In fact, I am turning my story about being fired from Facebook into my own little eBook. Recently, Scott Britton sent me an email with 3 tactics for successfully promoting an eBook on Amazon. Your Kindle isn't just restricted to reading books from Amazon. Here's how to convert various other ebooks formats for the Kindle, and where to get free ebooks. ![]() ![]() ![]() All of the tips were original and made me rethink how I will launch my own book. Since then I’ve bribed Scott to share his tactics and knowledge about eBooks with OkDork readers. Scott himself has been creating amazing content and he’s here with some great marketing tactics to promote an eBook and get 40,000+ downloads on Amazon. (Read all the way to the bottom to get his ) Here’s Scott ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today I’ll share my exact results for a recent Kindle book that made me $1,000 in the first 8 days and give you 10 juicy marketing hacks to get you similar results for promoting Kindle ebooks all the way to the top of Amazon. Whether you have your own eBook planned or want to help someone else promote their book, the tactics all apply. To be upfront, a few of the marketing strategies I share will be enhanced if you have some initial advantages like a social media presence or network of friends willing to help you. However, many of these don’t require any of those things to get excellent results. Results From A Recent Book Release A little over 2 weeks ago I launched my first Kindle book:. Using the program, I gave the book away for free for the first 5 days. After 5 days of giving the book away for free, over 41,000 people had downloaded it. There’s been some research done by Digital Book Today that on the best day to do a free promotion on Amazon according to traffic on Free Book sites. Monday had the highest percentage of traffic and also seemed like the best day I can blast my friends and family for help to leave a review so I decided to run the promotion from Monday to Friday. After the 5-day free promotion, I started charging $2.99 for the book. I chose 2.99 because this was the minimum price I could charge while still getting a 70% royalty. Royalties drop to 35%. When a digital book is priced below that in the. At the onset of selling the book, I wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to buy it so that I could climb the store rankings while not totally sacrificing monetary interests. After the first week it went on sale, I made $926 selling 555 books. That’s more than $130 a day. Here’s the sales distribution by day during the first week. A lot of people just think of Amazon as an opportunity to make money selling books on their site. That’s not true. There’s plenty of opportunities to expand your business beyond Amazon’s direct revenue. For example, using a small call to action at the end of the book, I added 125 people to my mailing list after 2 weeks. Here’s the call to action in the book: To be candid, the number of email subscribers should and could be much higher given the amount of downloads and purchases I’ve had. On average only 10% of people who buy a book finish it. I made a huge rookie mistake by not including more call to actions and bonuses throughout the book, especially early on. I plan on adding these soon which is pretty easy to do using the KDP uploading system. But dude isn’t changing a book hard to do? I mean it’s already published Kindle books can be uploaded in a including Microsoft Word. So adjusting content in your book after it’s published is as simple as modifying the content on your computer and re-uploading it to Amazon. Long Term Results? It’s unclear how much of a drop-off there will be in sales and downloads over the long haul.
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