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    Sell, Design & Tour Your Book: 200 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales
    Sell, Design & Tour Your Book: 200 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales
    Sell, Design & Tour Your Book: 200 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales
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    Sell, Design & Tour Your Book: 200 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales

    By Greg Strandberg

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    Get all your eBook needs in one place with 3-in-1 marketing books for Amazon. Yes, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to create a book people want, but countless authors are doing just that each day. Be one of them when you master eBook marketing, design, and touring with these wonderful sites. 

    Sell Your Book 

    Are you having trouble selling or even giving your book away? I know how you feel, and that’s why I researched 75 different eBook promotion sites that’ll get your book the attention it deserves. 

    You’ll get: 

    30 sites that promote your book for free; 
    15 sites that promote your book for free and give you paid advertising; 
    30 sites that offer paid advertising promotions. 

    That’s 75 sites that will get your book in front of hundreds of thousands of people! 

    I’m not going to lie to you; you can get all this information free online. I mean, all these sites are out there, and I give you the links to them. 

    But why give yourself the hassle of surfing the internet for hours or days to find them all? Wouldn’t it just be easier to get them in one simple book that provides the complete rundown? After all, you’ll be able to use the time you save to finish your next book. 

    Get your book downloaded, sold, reviewed, and admired. Finally make your self-publishing dreams come true! 

    Design Your Book 

    Are you having trouble selling or even giving your book away? Think your cover’s to blame? 

    I know how you feel; for the longest time I had homemade covers on my books and they went nowhere. That’s why I researched 75 different eBook cover design sites that’ll get your book the attention it deserves. 

    You’ll get: 

    7 sites for under $50; 
    27 sites between $50 and $100; 
    25 sites between $100 and $200; 
    3 sites between $200 and $300; 
    6 sites between $300 and $400; 
    3 sites between $400 and $500; 
    4 sites between $500 and $1,000; 
    50+ additional design, artist, illustration, photo, and map sites. 

    That’s more than 125 sites that will give you a great eBook cover! 

    Dozens of sites listed in this book will give you a mesmerizing cover for under $50. You’ll literally see thousands of premade eBook covers when you visit all these sites. And the custom cover options are as limitless as your imagination. 

    Make readers stop in awe and have strangers share your cover. Get your book sold, reviewed, and admired. Finally see those self-publishing dreams come true! 

    Tour Your Book 

    What do you do when you publish a book and no one cares? How can you possibly get noticed when you can’t even sell a single copy? And how on earth are you going to get BookBub to advertise your book when you don’t even have a single review? 

    It’s frustrating, I know! I’ve had books that go months without a sale and I’ve had some out for more than a year without ever getting a single review. Those books have no hope – no one will advertise them, no one will buy them, and no one will ever read them. All that effort was for nothing. 

    Thankfully that’s just not true, and this book shows you why. Instead of kicking yourself and feeling sad, why not visit a few of these 50 eBook tour sites that will get your book anywhere from a few to dozens of blog appearances. 

    What are you waiting for? Download this excellent Amazon eBook marketing box-set today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Strandberg
    Release dateMay 20, 2016
    ISBN9781533743855
    Sell, Design & Tour Your Book: 200 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales
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    Greg Strandberg

    Greg Strandberg was born and raised in Helena, Montana. He graduated from the University of Montana in 2008 with a BA in History.When the American economy began to collapse Greg quickly moved to China, where he became a slave for the English language industry. After five years of that nonsense he returned to Montana in June, 2013.When not writing his blogs, novels, or web content for others, Greg enjoys reading, hiking, biking, and spending time with his wife and young son.

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      Sell, Design & Tour Your Book - Greg Strandberg

      Sell, Design & Tour Your Book

      200 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales

      Greg Strandberg

      Connect with Greg Strandberg: www.bigskywords.com

      Copyright © 2014 Big Sky Words

      Kindle Edition

      D2D Edition, 2016

      Written in the United States of America

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Also by Greg Strandberg

      Fiction

      The Jongurian Mission

      Trouble in Jonguria

      The Jongurian Resolution

      The Warring States

      The State of Chu

      The State of Qin

      Tarot Card Killer

      Black Walnut

      Room 223

      The Hirelings

      Wake Up, Detroit

      Ale Quest

      Nine Amusing Tales

      G.I. JOE: The Dreadnoks

      G.I. JOE: JOE Team-13

      G.I. JOE: After Infinity

      G.I. JOE: To Its Knees

      Florida Sinkholes

      Bring Back Our Girls

      Lightning

      Fire

      Dulce Base

      Colter’s Winter

      Flight 370

      Colter’s Hell

      Non-Fiction

      Tribes and Trappers: A History of Montana, Volume One

      Write Now! 20 Simple Strategies for Successful Writing

      English Rocks! 101 ESL Games, Activities, and Lesson Plans

      Tarot: The Mystery and the Mystique

      Write to the Top: A How To For Website Content Writing and Increasing Website Traffic

      English Last: True Accounts of Teaching in China

      Ten Minute Tarot

      Priests and Prospectors: A History of Montana, Volume Two

      Sell Your Book: 75 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales

      Design Your Book: 75 eBook Cover Design Sites That Increase Amazon Sales

      Visit My Site, Bitch! Unconventional SEO Tactics for 2014

      Please Say Something! 25 Proven Ways to Get Through an Hour of ESL Teaching

      Tour Your Book: 50 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales

      Teaching Abroad: Making the Move To and From ESL Teaching

      Teaching English: 25 ESL PowerPoint Ideas That Get Students Talking

      Teaching English: 10 Proven Ways to Make Shy Students Talk Now

      Bilingual Teaching: Making Your Students Ready for America Fast

      SEO & 80s Movies: An Old School Approach to SEO and Content Marketing

      Bilingual English: 25 More ESL PowerPoint Ideas That Get Students Talking

      Braves and Businessmen: A History of Montana, Volume Three

      Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games

      From Heaven to Earth: Ancient Chinese History, 8500 – 1046 BC

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      Hustlers and Homesteaders: A History of Montana, Volume Four

      Keeping Sane: English Teaching Strategies for ESL Teachers

      How to Write: Tons of Tips, Tactics and Tirades on Writing

      Stand Out: Your 2015 SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing Guidebook

      Social Media Politics: Using the Internet to Get Elected

      Feds and Farmers: A History of Montana, Volume Five

      How to Write Fantasy

      Sell Your Book Table of Contents

      Introduction to 2nd Edition

      Part I – Promotional Strategy

      1: Why All Promo Sites Aren’t Created Equal

      2: Breaking Even on Your Advertising

      3: How Much Will You Get Paid from Amazon?

      4: When Will You Get Your Createspace Royalties?

      5: Optimizing Your Amazon Author Page

      6: 10 Simple Tips for a Successful Promotion

      Part II – Promotional Sites

      7: Top 10 eBook Promotion Sites

      8: 30 Free Promotion Sites

      9: 15 Free and Paid Promotion Sites

      10: 30 Paid Promotion Sites

      11: 40+ Facebook Promotion Groups

      Conclusion

      Design Your Book Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Finding Your Perfect Cover

      Under $50

      $50 to $100

      $100 to $200

      $200 to $300

      $300 to $400

      $400 to $500

      $500 to $1,000+

      50+ Extra Design Sites

      Conclusion

      Tour Your Book Table of Contents

      Introduction – What is a Blog Tour?

      Blog Tours & Exposure

      Blog Tours & Sales

      Blog Tours & Reviews

      50 eBook Tour Sites

      $0 - $25 Sites

      $25 - $50 Sites

      $50 - $100 Sites

      $100 - $200 Sites

      $200 - $500 Sites

      $500+ Sites

      Miscellaneous Sites

      Conclusion – Eggs & Baskets

      About the Author

      Introduction to Box-Set

      Thanks for checking out this box-set, which contains my three Amazon marketing books. If you’re just starting out you’ll find just about all you need to avoid months of dead-ends and useless hassles. If you’ve been at this awhile, maybe you’ll find a few sites you didn’t know about or may have overlooked.

      Overall, I’m just trying to give you lots of useful information in one easy to find place. With a box-set like this you won’t have to search through Google for hours. To me that’s worth a lot. I hope you feel the same way.

      Happy selling!

      Sell Your Book

      75 eBook Promotion Sites That Increase Amazon Sales

      Introduction to 2nd Edition

      This book is 2-years old, I can’t believe it!

      I put this book out on September 22, 2013. That’s just over 2 years ago now and the book has done well.

      It’s September 2015 now and this book has sold 213 copies, making it my 4th most successful book overall.

      Here’s how my books break down for sales:

      I’m not shy to report this as I’ve done so on my website many times.

      Hey, I’m not the biggest author in the world – yeah, who would have guessed!

      So those are my best-selling books, all 15. I have more than 50 books now, but some don’t sell that well.

      Actually, quite a few of them don’t sell at all.

      What can I do to change that?

      I don’t think I can do anything – many are too short, some are in Kindle Worlds (a program that doesn’t allow me to adjust the book’s price, making it nearly impossible to market), and some just shouldn’t have been written to begin with.

      Yeah, I went off on tangents, writing what I wanted as opposed to what readers wanted. That’s why I got no sales.

      Sometimes crappy covers and poor editing was to blame. Maybe it still is.

      More often than not, however, it was just that no one knew these books existed.

      Yep, I did no marketing, none whatsoever.

      My books have been collecting electronic dust because of it.

      Don’t make those mistakes – do some eBook marketing. This book is designed to teach you what that is and how it can help you.

      There are 75 sites profiled, but like some of the reviews say, not all of them will earn you sales. Some aren’t worth anything, to be completely honest.

      I’ve went through this book and pruned the list down. In fact, take a look at what the original Top 10 sites were:

      – BookBub

      – eReader News Today

      – Pixel of Ink

      – Kindle Books and Tips

      – Kindle Fire Department

      – BookSends

      – Kboards

      – Kindle Nation Daily

      – Frugal Tips and Freebies

      – Freebooksy

      I think many of those sites are still great, but some don’t deserve to be in that list anymore...if they ever did.

      The new list will be presented shortly, and many of those sites are still on it. BookBub is still #1 by far, and I have 17 rejections to prove it.

      Yeah, I’ve never been chosen by BookBub. That’s a shame, as I can’t show you my results.

      The updated version of this book has my marketing campaign results, at least for the following sites:

      – Kindle Fire Department

      – BookSends

      – Kboards

      – Freebooksy

      – Book Basset

      – Goodreads

      – Fiverr

      – Facebook

      I’ll have my campaign results in the free and paid sections of this book. I also talk a lot about email marketing through MailChimp as well as general content marketing through your website.

      I discuss all of these things on my own website, www.bigskywords.com and you’ll find even more information in my other marketing books for authors.

      Yes, we’ve come quite a long ways since 2013. The industry has changed, earnings are different, and more and more people are choosing to self-publish with Amazon.

      You can be one of those people and I’m sure you already are. That’s why you know that anyone can do it, but not just anyone can make their book sell.

      I’ll tell you right now that my books aren’t the best-selling but they do sell. I’ve been a full-time, professional writer since April 2013. That means I make my living from writing alone.

      My Amazon books account for a good chunk of that income, and while they’re not all best-selling books, many of them sell quite well.

      Go ahead, check out my profile on Amazon and look at some of the rankings.

      I’m sure you’ve done that already, however.

      Do you know what they mean? It’s alright if you don’t, let me explain it to you.

      This is a really good Amazon sales chart that gives you a general idea of how many sales you need in order to achieve a certain rank for your book.

      So if you want to be #1 on Amazon you’ll need to sell 7,000 books.

      That’s hard to do, but if you want to have the #1,000 book on Amazon you’ll need to sell about 140 books.

      That’s a lot easier, and that’s pretty respectable money. For 140 sales of a book priced at $3.99 you’ll get about $372 in income.

      That income will come 2 months or 60 days after those sales, and I’ll show you how to calculate that in a minute.

      The real trick is getting those 140 sales in one day so that you can zoom up the Amazon charts, getting closer to that #1 spot.

      Sites like BookBub can give you those sales easily, and they’ll probably give you more...if your book has a great cover, is edited, and is a good read.

      What you need to do before that marketing campaign starts is go to your genre and look at the #1 book and the #100 book. Here, let’s use the Fantasy genre as an example.

      Here’s what that genre looks like on Amazon, on the left-hand side of the screen:

      Those are the genres you can be in if you’re a fantasy book. You’ll need to set your categories and keywords accordingly to get into those genres. That will be explained later.

      For now, go ahead and look at the #1 and the #100 book in each, and then make up a list that looks like this:

      What that tells you are the most competitive and the least competitive sub-genres in the Fantasy genre.

      As you can see, Fantasy is the hottest, though many others have the exact same book as the #1 book.

      What’s really important are the #100 books. If you don’t achieve a rank of at least #100 you’ll be off the charts. No one will see your book, you’ll have zero visibility.

      If I’m going to do a promotion, therefore, I want to have an idea of how many sales I’ll need in order to rank.

      I’d like to rank in the Top 20 so I’m on the first page of the 5-page genre listings. Sometimes that’s hard to do, like that Paranormal & Urban sub-category and the Epic Fantasy sub-category.

      If I’m in something like Alternative History, it’s a lot easier. Still, people don’t buy from those genres as much. But you get the visibility.

      It’s a toss-up, and when you’re not doing a promo you might want to move yourself to a less-competitive sub-genre.

      It’s tricky, and that’s why there are so many author services sites that are willing to take your money, doing this for you or at least saying they’re doing it for you.

      Don’t get scammed – it’s a lot more affordable to buy a few Amazon author sales and marketing books to learn the self-publishing ropes than it is to do some crappy promotions that give you nothing. There’s just too many books to compete with.

      The average day on Amazon sees thousands of free books offered. That’s a huge pool of books for your free or discounted title to compete against, and it’s why you need to do a lot of marketing footwork.

      Marketing Footwork

      What does that mean exactly, marketing footwork?

      Well, it’s a term I like to throw around a lot and it pretty much means you have to spend a lot of time going around the internet to various sites.

      In the old days this used to be quite time-consuming. You’d have to go to Google, type in something like Free Book Promotion Sites, and hope for the best.

      This book’s done a lot of that marketing footwork for you. Instead of having to find all the sites, they’re provided right here for you.

      Now all you’ve got to do is go to each one and enter your book’s information. That should save you hours if not days or weeks.

      Alright, before you read any further, I want you to know one thing: you can get all this information online for free.

      That’s right! It’s all out there; you just have to visit these sites. In fact, you can even find lists out there online that’ll include many of the sites in this book.

      So why buy this book?

      Because I’ve given you all the information you need about these sites in one simple place.

      You won’t have to spend hours and days going surfing the net, scouring forums, looking at old blog posts, and generally making your eyes red from all the time spent staring at your computer. After all, that’s time you could be using to write your next book, right?

      I also want to make it clear that I’m in no way affiliated with any of these sites.

      Before I began researching this book I hadn’t even heard of most of these sites. And my own website offers no promotional tools at all for authors, other than useful advice.

      My only goal with this book is to give authors struggling with sales some answers, and to make a little money for myself in the process. I think it’s a win-win for both of us.

      I’ve divided the book up into sections: Free, Free and Paid, and Paid.

      In each section sites are numbered by which are the best. So what makes a site the best in its category?

      That’s simple: the number of people on its mailing list, the number of social media contacts it has, or the visitors it gets each month. After all, the more people that see your book, the more effective your promotional work will be.

      Lots of sites don’t always list this information. Some sites do and I use what they have listed. This could be true and it could be exaggerated.

      Lots of sites list their traffic, or how many people visit the site, and I’ve listed that when available.

      Some sites show how many fans, followers, or likes they’ve received on Facebook, and I’ve listed that as well. And every once in a while a site will list how many people are on its mailing list, and I definitely list that; I and many other authors think that’s the most important.

      Now, those numbers could be big and they could be small. Paid sites will usually have smaller numbers than free sites, as most people give likes or visits to free sites in exchange for a listing.

      You’ll have to create a list of sites that you think will work best for your book and then visit them. Check them out, see what they can do for you, and if it’s worth your time, and money.

      When you do that, and especially if you’re doing paid advertising, make sure that you coordinate all of your advertising campaigns.

      If all of your ads, mentions, and email send-outs can happen on the same day or staggered over a

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