Goodreads ad
I have been a fan of Goodreads nearly since the beginnings of the site in 2008 but never tried to advertise with them. The price per click is higher than Amazon, hopefully, because it’s more effective. We shall see.
Category Archives: marketing
Amazon Marketing Services
I’m submitting an ad to the Amazon Marketing Services http://ams.amazon.com. The service works like an auction. You provide your bid for the per-click price, and your bid competes with other bids for the same location. As the name implies, you only pay when users click on your ad. I set mine to 36¢ US with the total budget… Read More »
First draft of the press release
I decided to splurge on PRWeb.com. I’ll post the results. This post has the first draft of the release. I will post the final draft and the link to the release itself. Do we live in a democracy or representocracy? The ancient Greeks believed elections to be the instruments of tyranny and corruption. They practiced sortition and selected… Read More »
Using social media for book promotion
I have mixed results, to put it mildly. I self-published several books under a pen name and initially embraced the social media strategy with enthusiasm and vigor of the newly converted. Before I knew it, I was spending an hour a day maintaining my social media presence. The number of sales I got was about two a week.… Read More »