Marketing activities can benefit you in more than one way.
Day 4 of the eBook Marketing
Strategies video series got off to a good start in the earlier part of the
day, but unfortunately, after a full am writing session, I experienced a minor
setback. But as you’ll see from the
following information, all was not lost and I ended up finding an awesome
writing resource. Check it out in today’s
transcript.
TRANSCRIPT:
Greetings YouTube viewers,
It’s Charm Baker, and today is DAY
4 of the eBook Marketing Strategies
video series. Today I jumped right into
my regular daily activities, so I want to touch on what those are. First, I took a peek at my Hub article that I
posted yesterday, just in case there were any comments to respond to. In the past, I would wait too long to return
and do this, and find that several people had left comments and questions, but
by then, it was too late to respond. So
I made a note to check my hub comments, and later on, I’ll even post a few
myself.
Of course another one of the first activities I decided to do in the
morning is to check my email religiously.
I did that today, in hopes of some responses to my discount coupon
offers. So far, nothing yet, so I guess
I need to start pushing the coupon offer more.
Anyway, after I didn’t receive any related mail, I clicked over and
signed into my Google Analytics
account. I’m not really all that savvy
when it comes to reading the reports, but I AM able to tell if I’m getting any
kind of traffic at all to my website, and sort of determine where the traffic
is coming from. My website was only
launched this year and I thus far, I haven’t really developed any kind of
consistency to adding content, so my visitors are scarce. But according to the analytics, at least I am
getting a few daily visitors, so I need to do something to bump that up.
I do know that one good way to bump up your website traffic is through
regular posting on your blog. In the
past, that has been one of my main obstacles to blogging – I just can’t seem to stay consistent. If you’re like me, and you have that problem
also, maybe you can use this video series to help you work on it.
Since I’m posting the transcripts from the video to my blog, that means
that I’ve committed to posting consistently for the next two months. So maybe you might want to do the same thing,
by following the video series daily, and posting any new information you might
pick up along the way. Of course, while
you’re at it, I’d love a plug about my new ebook: Shut
Up and Write! as well as any of my other publications available at Smashwords.com.
While we’re on the subject of Smashwords, I want to mention another
thing that I added to my “To Do” list for later in the week. Since I opted out of having Smashwords
distribute my new ebook to Amazon, that means I have to publish it on Amazon
Kindle separately. But here’s the thing
you future authors need to keep in mind when you have a full length novel or
non-fiction book that is eligible for print format. It’s best to set up the print version first
to make sure that your book cover will be the same as your Kindle cover. On my novel:
“Experimenting with Murder,”I made the mistake of trying to format a
cover at Createspace for the print version, after I had already published the
ebook with a great looking cover. It
turned out to be a nightmare, and I finally had to enlist the help of my
know-it-all son.
Createspace is one of the more popular free publishing formats for your
self-published print books. The upload
process for your digital covers at Smashwords is much easier than creating one
or uploading a book cover file to Createspace. Since Amazon and Createspace are
joined, if you do your print book first, they will actually generate an ebook
version and send it to Amazon for distribution.
Okay, so I posted a note to myself to be sure and upload a file for a
print version and I think I’ll let the book release date stay the same for Amazon and Createspace. Amazon has a different policy when it comes
to pre-releases, so I didn’t bother with it, but maybe I’ll try it for my next
project.
Several days ago, I came across some information about creating an
author guest post about yourself and your ebook. Somehow, I seemed to have save everything but
the link to where to submit the post. I
can’t even remember for sure if it was on the Writer’s Digest website or
Goodreads. That same day I saw the
information, I had been browsing both sites, one of which I was already signed
up for. Well today, after I spent the
majority of the day writing the guest post according to the questions they
supplied, I ended up not even being able to submit it.
Now if you’re anything like me, this is the kind of thing that could
potentially make me have a setback.
After I spent about twenty minutes bouncing between the two sites
looking for the link, I finally gave up.
So I currently have this awesome guest post with nowhere to post it. I was really ticked off at myself and about
to give up in defeat and stop working for the day. But then I decided to view at least one
writing related video before shutting down.
I came across one called: “How I
Wrote My First Book Self-Publishing Tips” I was curious about what the author
had to say, so I checked it out. As a
result, I discovered an awesome website for authors called Scrawl. You can visit my blog for a transcript of today’s
video and you’ll see the link included.
I think that the Scrawl website might be just the thing that I need to
try and get some feedback on my writing – not just “Shut Up and Write”, but for
my novel: “Experimenting With Murder.” I’ve already did a little browsing to see
what they have to offer, but tomorrow I’ll actually sign up and upload an
excerpt from one or more books.
That pretty much wraps up what activities I’ve been up to today, aside
from the fact that I tried to check my mailbox at Fiverr.com to see if the
provider completed my gig. I selected
someone who’s supposed to help get one of my promotional links out on social
media. Even if the $5 gig purchase helps
drive just a little traffic, I think it’s worth it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to log into
Fiverr today due to yet another glitch.
I honestly don’t know what’s going on with Fiverr.com the past week or
so. Yesterday I solved the problem I was
having with purchasing gigs with my debit card by simply funding my PayPal
account and using it instead. The
payment went through fine, and I sent the requested details to the gig
provider. Now, today, I can’t even log
in to check the results.
As you can see, I’ve had a few minor setbacks today. Even my blog page views went from 89 views
yesterday to just 8 views today. At
least sharing my results in this video somehow, it makes it all not seem so
bad.
Okay, as always, I invite you to check out my website and feel free to click the Join List link if you’d like
a discount ebook or any of my free promotions.
All you need to provide on the simple little form is your email address and choose one of the
promotions I’m offering. Then I’ll send
you the coupon code and you can redeem it at Smashwords where my books are
published. Since my novel is currently
exclusive to Amazon/Kindle, “Experimenting With Murder” is not part of the
promotion. Of course, if anyone is
interested in a copy, just drop me an email and I’ll work something out for
you.
Don’t forget, you can always follow me on social media so be sure to
drop me a comment when you see the name Charm Baker. If you want to specifically tweet a comment
on this video series or my new ebook, just hashtag #shutupandwrite and I’ll be
very appreciative.
Okay, that’s it folks. Once
again, thanks for listening everyone.
This is Charm Baker on the Just Charm
YouTube channel. Thanks for joining
this eBook Marketing Strategies
video series.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Scrawl website Link:
“How I Wrote My First Book Self-Publishing Tips” Video Link:
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