tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15462854.post4276732260145775475..comments2023-07-29T10:22:53.006-04:00Comments on Elysabeth's Writing Emporium: Finally Home - 1 week statselysabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052446855668120700noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15462854.post-78923491043586702442011-12-06T17:31:31.807-05:002011-12-06T17:31:31.807-05:00All great suggestions, Susanne. I was on a virtua...All great suggestions, Susanne. I was on a virtual tour blog when Writers on the Move was actually doing that. We've changed our format so that now each person contributes to the main blog once a month. I'm open to guest posting on other people's blogs as well as hosting other folks here. I do need to run a contest so maybe in the next couple of weeks I can drum something up. Thanks for giving us some new avenues to explore - E :)elysabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07052446855668120700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15462854.post-26156549522970616542011-12-06T14:42:26.679-05:002011-12-06T14:42:26.679-05:00Are you doing guest posts on other blogs? Great w...Are you doing guest posts on other blogs? Great way to get your name out there and meet new people.<br /><br />Do you do any of the blog hops? I did a Christmas one last year and it was a lot of fun. Great way to get new followers.<br /><br />Maybe run a contest where you give away a free ebook or some swag. Stipulate that participants must be a blog follower to be entered in the contest. Give extra entries to anyone who posts the giveaway on Facebook or Twitter. More chances for new people to hear about you and your books.<br /><br />Are you doing virtual book tours? I hear that some of these can be quite successful. I enjoy hosting authors/their books on my blog for the tours.<br /><br />Blog at least once a week so that you keep your blog updated. A regular schedule will keep people coming back and may help add new followers.<br /><br />Best wishes with your book promotions!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15462854.post-26021042180645189732011-12-04T13:00:04.878-05:002011-12-04T13:00:04.878-05:00Sybil, when you find the secret to getting listed ...Sybil, when you find the secret to getting listed with Scholastic as a book fair book, let me know so I can also jump on that bandwagon - lol. I think that is a capital idea and one that needs a little exploring. I may get with the 6th grade teacher I work with online to see if he knows how one goes about getting with Scholastic as he's written some articles for them before and he does the Scholastic things every month. <br /><br />Thanks for giving me another road to try to take advantage of - E :)elysabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07052446855668120700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15462854.post-50634434395710040462011-12-04T09:56:49.305-05:002011-12-04T09:56:49.305-05:00Mail chimp is free and makes excellent looking new...Mail chimp is free and makes excellent looking newsletters. Not sure why your books aren't selling or what else you can do. You're definitely targeting your market. I think we both need to figure out how to get in on those scholastic book fair things. My daughter brought home one of those catalogs when they had the fair at her school and I couldn't help but wish my book was on there.Sybil Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02062481133754431468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15462854.post-48455114637911864892011-12-02T16:40:10.205-05:002011-12-02T16:40:10.205-05:00Thanks for the encouragement, Sybil. I want to ha...Thanks for the encouragement, Sybil. I want to have sales like you do - heck I'd be happy for half the sales you get a month. Your book, Ain't No Sunshine, is awesome. I highly recommend it to others. Truly twisted and unexpected ending, and I can't imagine it not selling any copies the first couple of months out. I will probably run a half price sale for kindle and nook for Christmas on the <b>Finally Home</b> - I'm thinking the week before - see how sales go.<br /><br />The thing is I have other books out and have been published for 3 years and even my state stories aren't doing well; almost all (okay all that I know of, since the first three were published by a publisher and I've recently re-released the first one and have tracking ability on that now) have been personal sales at book events and such. And as many homeschool conferences, teachers' conferences and book events as I do, there have been many with 0 sales. I like telling people about my series and the comments are always the same - "Wow, that's a great idea" and "Wish someone had done that when I was in school" and teachers love the concept but none of them buy books (I probably have sold less than 10 copies of all the copies sold directly to teachers or schools). <br /><br />I had been doing a newsletter originally when I first was published but that fell by the wayside as it was time consuming and I didn't have many folks sign up for the newsletter. Maybe I'll subscribe to one of those newsletter sites and start that up again. The biggest problem with me is funds - I don't have the funds to really pay for a newsletter site.<br /><br />Blogging? - hahaha - as you can see from my blog I don't post every day like some folks do, but I do try to post something at least once or twice a month and depending on what is going on with me, more often.<br /><br />I did receive one of your newsletters and entered the little contest; not sure if I won or anything but it was fun participating. <br /><br />I am looking forward to the SC school librarians' conference in March where hopefully we will all do well. - thanks for stopping by and commenting - E :)elysabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07052446855668120700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15462854.post-581495244308469662011-12-02T16:17:02.847-05:002011-12-02T16:17:02.847-05:00Don't get discouraged by poor sales to start w...Don't get discouraged by poor sales to start with. My first book was Ain't No Sunshine and it sold exactly 0 copies the first two months. Now I have over 1600 sales and it is my best seller. I think what really skyrocketed my sales was letting the book go free for a while. This technique only works if you have several books out though. When I let Ain't No Sunshine go free, I sold 600 copies of Guardian of Eden that month. I also garnered 100 reviews that month. Now that it's back to paid, it still outsells all of my other books.<br /><br />I am the worst about blogging. I find it so time consuming. I have an awesome blog set up for Priscilla and yet I don't have time to post. That's one of my major goals for 2012. I want to visit other blogs and post articles on both my blogs regularly.<br /><br />Here's another tip. When you do school visits, take a sheet of paper and have the kids sign up for your newsletter. I got a big boost in newsletter recipients that way. I used to send out newsletters monthly with prizes and updates. That's another thing I have to get back into for 2012.Sybil Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02062481133754431468noreply@blogger.com