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Old 06-04-2012, 04:53 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by wilsonharp View Post
Greetings everyone,

My name is Wilson Harp and I am very new to this whole business. I was wondering when I should start promo-ing heavily.

I don't want to pester people if I don't have a strong library of writing available, and yet I still want to strike while the fire is hot.

I have two short stories currently live on the Kindle store and I am about 10 days from having a novel put up.
My advice, don't bother. Put your energy into writing instead. If you're any good people will find you by themselves sooner or later. Put yourself around in forums like this or in Facebook groups, but make sure the signal to noise ratio is at least 95% signal. If you're just spamming people will tune you out.


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I am planning on putting up the first four chapters of my novel as a teaser preview for $.99 and then setting it for free for five days (under the Kindle Select option) when my full novel goes up (still at the editors now). Is that a good idea?
Very bad idea. Either people wouldn't notice it was a sample and review appropriately, or they would notice and click onto the next book. Even if you put it up free on Smashwords you would get people complaining.

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I am also wanting to continue to put up short stories in my series and was thinking of putting up a different one free each week for two days. Good idea or a way to lose sales by people just waiting until they go free?
People would need to know who you are before they started waiting for things to be free. As for KDP Select, it's probably not really worth doing now they have changed the algorithms.
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