I noticed, for example, that during the promotion Amazon added a badge saying lowest price in 30 days. Maybe something's going on with Amazon itself promoting their books to readers? This could also be causing diminishing returns with paid promos. In other words, the price drop alone sold books without the promotion. The weird stuff-I sold about ten books before starting my promotion the minute my book dropped in price to $0.99. But this week I sold a third of my usual with them. ENT and Robin Reads are still, in my opinion, top notch (even the low numbers I got this week are still higher than the sells of other promo companies out there). I continue to love these companies and appreciate them whenever they approve my books, but it was a disappointing run. Both underperformed on a book I successfully ran a year ago. Both are, to me, the best promotion companies out there under BookBub. I just had one of the worse promo runs I've had in years. All the promo companies are getting more expensive with diminishing returns If you're looking for budget, consider BK Knights. Oh well.įKBT can garner around ten to twenty $0.99 sales for me and I like them a lot, but they're a little pricey. And I'm no old lady who doesn't know how to use her email - I'm a techie, and that makes it all the more interesting. Been using promo sites for 5 years, first time something like this happens.

But now I know which promos to use in the futureĮdit: I received a reply from FKBT (didn't expect such a service to be managed by a single person), and according to their stats, everything's okay. Of course, there was some trickle effect from previous promos, plus social media, newsletter, Goodreads, etc. The series isn't written to market, so overall, I'm satisfied with the results. Needless to say, I won't be 'promoting' with them again.ĮNT was underwhelming at best - 34 sales 1600 KENP.īook Raid was a pleasant surprise - 18 sales 1500 KENP - 48 clicks (pay per click) - only paid $3.5 Thirty bucks is a lot of money where I live. Curious if anyone who's recently promoted with them checked the newsletter. While the book was posted on their blog, I didn't receive their newsletter (or the one before, subscribed and confirmed 2 days prior to the promo). It's an urban fantasy action adventure, over 100 reviews, 99c. I've relaunched an old book (rewritten, new title, new cover, with 2 more books ready for release). So I thought I'd share my results (modest as they are) as a way to contribute.

Before booking paid promos, I looked up some recent threads on Kboards to decide which sites were still good.

All for One by Alexandra Engellmann