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Comment by Judith Newton on June 11, 2013 at 10:31am

For one second on June 7, the second day of my giveaway, Tasting Home was 171 in the memoir rankings.  Fun, if nothing else.

Comment by Jennifer Richardson on June 10, 2013 at 11:31am

Thanks for sharing, Judith. Lots of great tips there. Please keep the info coming. I think I will do one around August...

Comment by Judith Newton on June 10, 2013 at 11:29am

Dear All,  A report on my giveaway.  I gave away 2414 books which is good but not great--not the 23,000 that other authors report. See this article on giveaways: http://www.squidoo.com/going-free-kindle-ebook-promotional-campaign....  I read it this morning and it gave me ideas about what to do with the remaining two days of giveaway that I have.

Here's what I would change.I would start a month ahead so I could get on Pixel of Ink which requires a month's lead. I don't think I got on the Kindle Daily Deal because I didn't have enough lead time.  I would definitely get on this list.  I didn't know about amazon's Meet the Author Forum and would get on that too.  Also, I think I would pay the fee that some sites charge for guaranteeing that you'll be featured.  There are so many giveaways now that I think it pays to fork over the 10 or 20 dollars just to be sure your book will appear.  I'd do the Fiverrs again.

It's too soon to see if this will have any effect on sales, but my ranking in memoir went up 2000 some points (That is it went down, which is up on Amazon). I notice that the author of the article above used his daily ranking to get more people on board.  That's it so far.  Webwire.com has a list of all the sites they post to.  I didn't put myself on some of their sites because the Freebie sites looked like Dollar Stores and I couldn't stand to appear there. Let's see if this makes a difference in sales.

Do share your own strategies.

The one downside of giveaways, according to this author and many others, is that giveaways can produce bad reviews.  People download things they aren't interested in and then give the books bad reviews. We'll see how this goes. 

Comment by Linda Joy Myers on June 7, 2013 at 3:52pm

Just downloaded, Tweeted, and FBd about your book Judith! Technology makes all this so easy!! Hope you get lots of sales from it too. I'm setting up my giveaway for June. The rest of you--your plans?

Comment by Judith Newton on June 7, 2013 at 2:57pm

Thanks so much, Tracey!  I think I'd like to be in wireless zone for a bit!  Enjoy!

Comment by Tracey Barnes Priestley on June 7, 2013 at 2:33pm

Judith - I love technology. Bouncing along in our truck, on our way to our cabin, and I just tweeted your Amazon, free Kindle offer! I'm about to disappear into the wireless free zone of the mountains but I couldn't let this one get by me!! Happpy weekend!

Comment by Judith Newton on June 6, 2013 at 2:17pm

Caitlyn, thanks!

Comment by Caitlyn Levin on June 6, 2013 at 12:29pm

Hi Judith,

I put your Kindle up on our Twitter!

-Cait

Comment by Lone Morch on June 6, 2013 at 9:06am

Got your book Judith !!! Thanks for sharing this ride, it gives me encouragement to do it too - maybe at my b-day in July. It's the 6th Brooke!!

Comment by Jennifer Richardson on June 6, 2013 at 6:12am

tweet and download done!

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