Good Morning!
Yesterday I was going to ride down to feed the goats, but I felt low in energy. So I got as far as Floral City and decided to go feed the Zebra and Donkeys instead.
I have been wondering lately why I am doing this. I spend a lot of time trying to promote the book. And the needle isn't moving much at all. I feel like a dung beetle pushing a big ball of manure up a hill.
I have advertisements up on Amazon. Do you know, when you search for an item and it pops up at the top of your list that you can look around it to see the word "sponsored". If you click on that ad, the seller gets charged for that click. But if you scroll down the natural algorithms have it there again without the sponsored. Then the seller doesn't get charged for your ad.
The more I work with Amazon I am amazed at their technological savvy AND how they have an army of millions of "wanna be" folks out there advertising and paying not only a large portion of each sale, but also the advertising fees. They are smart, so smart.
Smarter than I am on this side of the great divide.
So anyway here are some promos I have paid for in order to increase sales.
Amazon
Amazon.UK
Bookbub
AllAuthor
I think that is it.
What I am seeing is that the advertisements are not increasing my ebook sales of THE JOURNEY CONTINUES, but of the paperback and ebook of the first book in the series, Alzheimer's Trippin' with George.
Am I crazy to keep going in this direction. It reminds me of getting lost in the woods, there will be a sign or a recognizable something just over the next hill or around the next bend.
What an adventure!
Please share this blog if you know anyone who might be interested in the author's journey, the caregiver's journey, the widows journey.
See? Aren't we supposed to have focus focus focus. Yet here I am as always, dancing the salsa and the hokey-pokey at the same time.
Well, I gotta go. I will be late for breakfast at the Hen House... and I don't want to miss that!
Friend, I have no experience writing, publishing, promoting or working with Amazon. What I think I can offer is feedback. Is the journey you find yourself on meeting goals and/or objectives you have set for yourself? Because without such how do you know you met them? Maybe it's time to assess and recalibrate. Oh, I am not implying you should bail, just revisit what brought you where you are today.
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