Quick Link: This is Why Your Books Aren’t Selling: 4 Ways To Improve Now

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Happy Friday! Today’s post has Rachel Thompson aka BadRedhead Media giving some tough love on why your book isn’t selling. There is some really good marketing advice and encouragement. When do you decide if it is time to give up?

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This is Why Your Books Aren’t Selling: 4 Ways To Improve Now

Frustrated writerBy Rachel Thompson

Your Books Aren’t Selling

“My sales are awful, and I’ve done everything. I give up.” 

I heard this from three authors this week, and it’s not an uncommon sentiment right now. As an imprint director, book manager and book marketing consultant, my first questions are always:

  • What do you mean by everything?
  • How do you define “awful?”
  • What do you mean by ‘giving up?’

Let’s deconstruct four ways to improve on that!

1) What Is ‘Everything’ RE: Book Marketing?

Your definition of ‘everything’ and my definition are probably quite different. When I asked one of these authors what he’d done, he said he’d:

  • placed a few Facebook ads,
  • sent out a bunch of tweets during his free days,
  • placed a FreeBooksy promo (cost: $45). That’s about it.

To me, that’s barely scraping the bare minimum of ‘hardly anything,’ but in his mind, that’s more than he’d ever done! When I asked him what he had achieved in his marketing plan, he replied: what marketing plan?

Read the full post on BadRedhead Media

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