OK, so our recent tweet was about enhancing your twitter grouping or TRIBE. However, I digress today. I was asked by an author friend how to place tweets to enhance my free sales on KDP.
Firstly I owe a lot to http://www.karenbaney.com/archives/1519 who seems to have found a formula for free sales. But how to put it in to practice?
You need to have built a large twitter platform, say over 1,000 followers and well thought out and genuine twitter followers too. This means you must be genuine, because if you are genuine and do friends favours, they will reciprocate and also post your book to their followers cumulating your reach.
During a free sale you need to post your tweets at well choosen times of the day that match the Amazon time zones so that globally your tweets will be seen. I post about 5 times throughout the day from Amazon UK and US and Amazon de but frankly that is because I have global friends which I would encourage. Now you need to post so you are not ridiculously spammy but enough so you are seen. In short, that is it.
I will go into the finer details throughout my posts.
Have a great day and successful twitter time.
CHECK OUT TOBY NEAL'S BUILDING AN AUTHOR PLATFORM THAT WILL LAUNCH ANYTHING which is a very fine analysis of methods used by that particular author and much of which I have found useful in my own twitter excursions.
My final result on my KDP free sale was 467 and that is after our book has been out for 7 months and has had a number of free sales. It is not our best download ever but compared to last month it is a big improvement.
More importantly it is not about downloads but about visibility. We hit 82 in US thrillers and mysteries, 77 in UK thrillers and No 2 in German psych suspense. This made us very visible in the top 100's which is where you must aim to get.
We will soon do a post on hashtags.
DECLAN MUNRO'S book is now 99c/p and can be purchased on the icon to the side with the big hand. BELLE MARSH's book similarly priced is on the icon marked Hoxton Kirby. Also check out Shardpubs.blogspot.com.
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