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Originally Posted by Darqref
One perspective on promotion: Read through the weekly business blogs at Kriswrites.com
The best thing you can do to promote your book is simple. Write the next one. If you only have one book on the market, nothing you do is going to make a long term difference. If it takes off, you probably won't have much to do with it (except for the part about writing a *good* book.) Don't think about selling one book, thing about selling a career. Write. then write some more. When you've got a shelf-full of books, then playing around with marketing gimmicks can make a difference.
If I find your book and like it, great. Then, when I can't find the next one (that you haven't written yet), I'm off to the next author. If there are several, the probability that I'll even mention it to someone else (let alone recommend it...) goes up.
More books give you more keywords that a search might find. They need to be good, but they *have* to be finished.
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That's truly excellent advice. It's a long term plan, and from all of my research the best plan.
As for getting on amazon - the sooner the better. 99.99% of my sales are on amazon. I have the same book published on smashwords and so far I sell more books per hour on amazon than I do in a month on smashwords. Amazon is the 500 pound gorilla and the other formats are the 99 pound weaklings.