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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Before you had you site as a sales point what kind of marketing or distribution points have you tried to approach?
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I contacted publishers about the original books, and could not even get read by them. When I decided on e-books, it was always my intent to sell them myself.
Actually, my site has been very passively marketed. My 1st year marketing approach has been to spend time haunting SF and e-book related web sites (like this one!), commenting in forums, mentioning my books (but not constantly), and hoping traffic and sales would be bolstered by word-of-mouth to create additional traffic and sales.
While we're on the subject<Public Disclosure Moment>: As the site's 1-yr anniversary passed last month, I evaluated the success of my passive marketing campaign. In 1 year, I sold a grand total of (drum roll, please...) about 200 books. Sure, 200 more than I would have sold if I was still trying to penetrate print publishing... but still, only 200 books in 1 year. "Word of mouth" turned out to be the noticeably absent part of my plan.</Public Disclosure Moment>
That's why I'm considering actually paying to market this year... but saddled with a small budget, I'm not sure how far I can go. I may also go talk to a publisher or agent, armed with good reviews (though not the stellar sales I hoped would go with it), and see what develops.
Of the distribution points, I've either been unimpressed with a site I examined, or I found a site that only wanted print-published works that could be converted. No, I didn't approach or examine all of them, but I never saw the distribution site that made me say, "Man! I want to sell through these guys!"