FLOOR 21 Promotional: Bargan Booksy

Let's talk about advertising your book.
So today is another in week 2 of two months of promotions push for FLOOR 21. In addition to the advertisement push that I'm getting from my publisher, I've also contracted with multiple ad sites. I'm going to be reviewing each site on the day of the promotion to help let other authors know about the services offered at the site. Today, I'm covering Bargain Booksy.

Bargain Booksy offers only one tier of promotions, but the prices vary for every genre. The following is a list of prices and the number of subscribers for every genre they promote:

Mystery / Thriller	115,200	$50
Romance / Chick Lit	108,800	$70
Fantasy / Paranormal	86,200	$40
Literary Fiction	76,200	$35
Nonfiction	75,500	$40
Science Fiction	66,800	$35
Young Adult	62,800	$25
Religion / Spirituality	56,300	$25
Horror	48,600	$25
Children	44,100	$25
Erotica	42,500	$70

 
To promote your book on Bargain Booksy, your book has to be no more than $5.00. Other than that, there don't seem to be many more requirements. For your money, you get a featured place on the website in your genre, and in the Bargain Booksy newsletter. These include blurbs about your book. With some genres claiming over 100,000 subscribers, you'd be expected to really get your money's worth from this venture. 

However, my experience did not back up this claim. When I previously reviewed Many Books, I jumped the gun and proclaimed the boost to sales to be less than Just Kindle Books. However, by 10 p.m. that night, I'd been proven wrong. I saw additional ranking bumps until I cleared the 10k rank, and I have no problem declaring Many Books a success. Even when it wasn't doing so well, Many Books still helped to bump me a few thousand ranks upward. 

But Bargain Booksy? No movement, all day, in the ranks. I waited as long as 10 p.m. to make sure I wasn't jumping the gun again, but there simply wasn't the level of success I'd need to justify an investment even as small as $35 again. Not when offers a cheaper promotional and brings a lot more results. Maybe if you're in the Mystery genre you'll see some return on your investment, but I'd guess for anyone in the literary fiction genre or lower, you just won't see results. Unfortuately, this makes Bargain Booksy a dud in my book. I've done some searching on the internet, and I don't think I'm alone in my opinion.  

Again, if you're promoting your mystery novel, this may be a place to check out. You can find them at 
http://www.bargainbooksy.com/

And if you're looking for a rousing Dystopian Sci Fi read that's getting rave reviews, check out FLOOR 21

here:

http://www.amazon.com/FLOOR-21-Jason-Luthor-ebook/dp/B00UNLBJN

FLOOR 21 Promotional: Many Books

Let's talk about advertising your book.
So today is another in week 2 of two months of promotions push for FLOOR 21. In addition to the advertisement push that I'm getting from my publisher, I've also contracted with multiple ad sites. I'm going to be reviewing each site on the day of the promotion to help let other authors know about the services offered at the site. Today, I'm covering Many Books.

Many Books offers two tiers of promotions:
Basic Promo ($10)
Plus Promo ($35)

There are different requirements for each promotional
Basic Promo is for anyone advertising a book that is free or on sale for discount. Plus promo is for anyone advertising a book that is permanently free. Depending on what type of indie author you are and how you're offering your book, either one might suit you. 

Both promotions share most of the same common features. Each gets featured in the Many Books newsletter, which claims "110,000 quality subscribers." This increases exposure for your book, of course. However, the Plus Promo goes a step further. Plus Promo offers an upload to the Many Books website for download, and a featured position on the Many Books website for 1 week. 

I expect that the additional exposure of being on the website must be where Many Books gets any good reputation it has. Because FLOOR 21 is not permanently free, I went with the basic promotional. At the start of my sales day, before the newsletter, I was in the 15,000 rank. Four hours after the newsletter, I peaked a 1,000 ranks higher, but not much more. By the end of the day, I'd dipped back down to the 16,000 rank. With my previous promotion using Just Kindle Books my sales results not only increased but lasted through the end of the day. I'm assuming I saw some bump from Many Books into the 14,000 rank, but nothing I would consider earth shattering.

For the price, I suppose it's decent, but Many Books seems as if it's trying to attract authors with permanently free books more than anyone else, especially since permafree books get so much more exposure through them. If that's you, you can find them at 
http://manybooks.net/

And if you're looking for a rousing Dystopian Sci Fi read that's getting rave reviews, check out FLOOR 21

here:

http://www.amazon.com/FLOOR-21-Jason-Luthor-ebook/dp/B00UNLBJN

MASSIVE UPDATE: Nevermind, by the end of the day, FLOOR 21 had broken the 10,000 ranks. Many Books may be a lot more effective than I thought! Maybe the newsletter readers just wait until the end of the day before checking their emails or something. 

FLOOR 21 Promotional: Just Kindle Books

Let's talk about advertising your book. 

So today begins week 2 of two months of promotions push for FLOOR 21. In addition to the advertisement push that I'm getting from my publisher, I've also contracted with multiple ad sites. I'm going to be reviewing each site on the day of the promotion to help let other authors know about the services offered at the site. Today, I'm covering Just Kindle Books.sdfsdf

Just Kindle Books offers three tiers of promotions:

Budget Book Promotions ($10)

Premium Kindle Book Promotions ($25)

Premium Book Promotions Plus ($30)

Let's talk about what each of those entails.

Budget Book Promotions is the most affordable of the promo packages. For the cost, get you get homepage placement for a single day, a spot in the Just Kindle Books newsletter, and posts to multiple social media channels including Google +, Tumblr, and Delicious (Notice: NO post to Facebook, the most widely read social media site. That leaves incentive to upgrade to the next package).

Premium Kindle Book Promotions is the next tier of promo packaging and offers a top spot on the home page (increases your overall visibility), a top spot on the newsletter (again, increases visibility), a custom written Facebook post (differentiating this package from the social media offerings in the lower package and increasing visibility), as well as postings to all the social media packages offered at the lower tier.

Premium Book Promotions Plus offers the highest tier of promo packaging and includes everything in the Premium Kindle Book Promotions including a top spot on the home page and newsletter. When your spot on the homepage is over after the first day, you get moved to a Hot Books section for the next week that's located on the left side bar of the website. These are located just along side the main page posts.

So which did I opt for? I went for the Premium Kindle Book Promotions package. Why this and not the Promotions Plus package? To be honest, I believe there's a steep drop off as visibility decreases. So, what I chose to do was to buy the Premium Kindle Book Promotions package, AND THEN choose the add-on option of keeping it on the main page under the 'spotlight' section for an additional three days. The difference between the Spotlight and Hot Books section is that Spotlight retains your story blurb, and Hot Books does not. I essentially pay nearly as much as the Plus package, but I keep my book more visible over the next three days. At least, I believe so. This isn't science here, just observation.

Now! The numbers. Last week Tuesday (the first day my book started getting promos through the publisher), my sales rank was 30,000. Over the weekend it was between 20,000 and 30,000 Today it's broken the 20,000 barrier and has hit the 18,000 rank. So, I have to say my gut feeling is that there's been a positive impact from Just KIndle Books for a very reasonable price. 

Update: By the end of the day, I'd broken into the 16k=15k categories. 

If you're looking for affordable promotion for your book, you can go to Just Kindle Books at 

http://www.justkindlebooks.com/

And if you're looking for a rousing Dystopian Sci Fi read that's getting rave reviews, check out FLOOR 21

here:

 http://www.amazon.com/FLOOR-21-Jason-Luthor-ebook/dp/B00UNLBJNI