Remember in my last post when I said I didn't have much of a marketing plan for my new book? That's still true, but I decided to join the 5-Day Amazon Ad Profit Challenge just to learn something about Amazon ads.
Mostly what I've learned is that I have no idea how anyone sells anything. I currently have eleven ad campaigns running. It took three days for Amazon to even show anything to anyone. (That's known as an "impression".) I don't have to pay anything until someone actually clicks on the ad.
It's been nearly a week and a half, and I have 418 impressions and 0 clicks. Most people see about 1000 impressions to get each click, so I may owe Amazon 30 whole cents sometime before the end of the year. On the plus side, this is a cheap gamble.
I did sell six books to other authors in the challenge, so I guess that's something.
Anyhow, I've learned a bunch, so it was worth the time. I'll probably stop obsessively refreshing the webpage someday soon. And maybe after I publish a few more books I'll have to start taking it seriously.
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| Pimping out my cats to sell my book probably works better... |