I had a long hard day today. My job was depressing. Enough about that.
I took my wife out to our local Irish pub for dinner. Sounds like her day sucked too. The hospital where she works is going to require a grey uniform from now on. She must have five hundred unique scrub outfits that make her happy. Now we have to buy all new stuff that fails to make her happy. This does nothing to improve customer service, but tastes like micro management.
The best part of the day was many Smithwicks. My attitude has improved. Tomorrow is another day, and it almost has to be better by default.
I found out about Goodkindles today. This sounds like something I need to investigate. I bookmarked the website for later. If anyone has some input on this promotional site I'd love to hear it.
That's about it. I'm going to go now before I make a tasteless joke about Theon Greyjoy/Reek and Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner.
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I can so relate to your wife. The nursing home I once worked for did a survey and all the residents said they liked the variety and cheerful colors of the unique scrubs, so they left us alone, but a psych hospital, of all places, that was once street clothes, so as not to be intimidating, got a micro managing administrator and went full cranberry uniforms. Not a color that looks good on everybody.
Tried GoodKindles and was not impressed. I think I still have their required widget on my blog. I used both banner ad and side bar ad. I sold four books that month.
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Oops…wasn’t finished. They were expensive for the results. I can do ENT one day and sell 200-400 books over four or five days. Problem is that they don’t market their site as a reader’s site. It’s just authors selling to authors. They could do better marketing and get their name out to readers. May have improved since I was there. They were relatively new then.
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How do I find this ENT site? If you don’t mind. This kind of promoting might be my next research project.
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EReader News Today, Down at the very bottom of the page it tells authors how to submit. You may have to submit more than once to be accepted and you have to have a certain number, I think 8 or 10 , positive reviews first.
http://ereadernewstoday.com/
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I appreciate that. I can tell I’m making a folder tonight and saving all these links. Lots of research ahead, but it’s perfect timing for me. I don’t have an active work in progress.
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Interesting. Still might be worth it for exposure.
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Sorry to hear about the scrubs. You’d think a hospital would want some color to cheer the place up. As for Goodkindles, it’s one of my big promo sites and I’ve done postings and sidebar ads. Keep in mind that I use sites in conjunction with each other, so it’s a team effort instead of one site having power. Still I get some good results from it and it’s actually cheaper than a lot of stuff out there.
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This is the kind of stuff I don’t see all over the blog world. I still have a lot to learn.
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The promo sites are really strange. I’ve yet to see one that works across the board. Take ENT and Goodkindles for example. Susan has had great success ENT and none with Goodkindles. I’ve had the opposite with pings from Goodkindles and maybe 1 book with ENT. It might have to do with genre and timing. When I used ENT, the book on the ‘cover’ of the post and several within had been done a few times before. So many people passed over it instead of seeing if there was something new. Also I don’t think it’s got a big fantasy audience. Goodkindles has some of everything, so I’d factor in genre if you look into a marketing site.
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Good to know. There must be a blog post in there somewhere for someone who knows the ins and outs. I really appreciate the tips.
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http://legendsofwindemere.com/links/book-advertising-sites/
That’s the list I maintain on my blog. I probably have a lot of posts scattered about the last two years, but this is the comprehensive stuff. Though some of the prices may be different and a few of the sites might be gone. Hope it helps.
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Thanks, Charles. I will probably spend tonight checking it out. It’s time for my commute.
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Have fun. Before I forget, here’s a free one that I haven’t gotten around to putting on the list. You list your books and they do occasional tweets. http://www.philipsmith.eu/
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Awesome, thanks.
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Hmm, I left a comment last night but don’t see it today. In it I said I never had much luck with Goodkindles. But I don’t remember it costing much so that was good.
Maybe my comment went to spam. That’s been happening of late.
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That’s strange. You’re always welcome here. I like Charles’ idea of using several different sites. I’d probably have to do one at a time so I could make comparisons.
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Yes, that way you know which one makes a difference and what doesn’t. I can’t see my sales–my small press gets the numbers–but I could base things a bit off my Amazon ranking. But it was a couple years ago I used them.
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I had to look up Goodkindles. I was alarmed when 12 didn’t know anything about it. You know how 12’s are, they usually think they know everything…
I can’t believe GRAY scrubs! GRAY?! Ugh. What a way to suck joy from everyone in a hospital. Ick.
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I hope your day today is better than yesterday–and your wife’s too. That’s a shame about her having to go out and buy new scrubs.
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She’s pretty bummed about it. She already has a bunch of fun ones. It will probably put one small business under in this valley too. Today is better. It almost had to be. Thanks.
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*hugs* to your wife. Gray is so bland to wear day after day, especially when you’re already around sickness. I’d be depressed too.
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Oh that stinks for your wife! Taking away her individuality can be so depressing! 😦 I had a VERY sucky day at work today too. Almost quit over the crap that went on.
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Work is often like that. Hope your weekend is better.
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Thanks. Unfortunately with my Asperger’s brain, just because the work day ended, the brain didn’t shut off. GRRR! 😦
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