ARC Readers: How to Get Reviews Before You Launch
You can do everything else right and still launch a book to crickets if you don’t have reviews on day one. Readers scroll past books
Explore practical marketing techniques including book promotions, launch campaigns, reader engagement, advertising, and sales optimization.
You can do everything else right and still launch a book to crickets if you don’t have reviews on day one. Readers scroll past books
Amazon is the biggest bookstore in the world, but a book uploaded to KDP does not sell itself. Most books published on Amazon sell fewer
Amazon controls the largest book retail market in the world. Most independent author book sales happen there, most discovery happens there, and most paid advertising
A few years ago, marketing your book meant hiring a publicist, running ads by hand, and writing every email yourself. That work is still useful,
Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest ways to earn money online, and books are one of the easiest products to start with. Readers buy
Most authors think public relations is something traditionally published authors have done for them by publicists. Indie authors often skip PR entirely, assuming it’s too
Book giveaways look simple from outside. Free books drive interest. More entries means more readers. Run more giveaways and grow faster. The reality is more
Most authors have great cover designs that sit alone on Amazon listings. Then they wonder why their social media posts and marketing materials look flat
Most authors think of book marketing as one-time pushes. Launch the book, promote for a few weeks, move on to the next project. The book
Your book description on Amazon does more work than most authors realize. It’s the full pitch a reader sees after clicking your book listing, the