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How to Get Free Publicity for Your Amazon KDP Select Free Days
If you have published your book on Amazon and have signed up for the KDP Select program, you are probably wondering how you are going to let the world know that you have giveaway days coming up.
There are two steps to this process. First, you need to make sure your book has reviews. Many of the sites that advertise Kindle giveaways require a minimum number of reviews (three, five, ten or, in some cases, more than twenty).
How do you get reviews? Send out a press release, well in advance of your book's publication, to any groups, online media, and reviewers who might be interested - including everyone you have ever known or met. Offer to send them a free PDF file, and make sure you have a dynamite summary that will get them interested. (Pester the people who have promised to write a review until they do. This is not the time to be shy.)
Now choose your free days on KDP select.
Once you have booked your free days. Send out notices to these sites. (Read their guidelines now. Many require advance notice):
Author Marketing Club (join, and then use their free marketing tool)
It’s Write Now (fill out form on Author Marketing Club Submission Tool)
Free & Discounted Books (fill out form on Author Marketing Club Submission Tool)
The Kindle Book Review (fill out form on Author Marketing Club Submission Tool)
Orangeberry (3 reviews needed)
Ebook Lovers (10 reviews needed)
On the day your book is free, submit here:
And post on these Facebook Sites:
https://www.facebook.com/KindleUtopia
Do you have any other ideas for free publicity? Let me know at http://www.ericaverrillo.com/ or
http://publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-to-get-free-promot...
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Comment by Erin Bell on August 9, 2013 at 10:19am
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I like this post. Yes, getting reviews is maybe the first step of spreading the word about your book. Not to mention that many promotional sites require that the book has at least 4 stars on Amazon..
I would add that if you want to reach your audience, you should know it very well - what do your potential readers like, where do they hang out etc. There are many readers forums in the net. You can register and start posting in them. But you shouldn't just promote your book(s), but also try to build your image, share opinions, discuss other books. Otherwise you will be considered as a spammer.
So,interaction with the readers on forums, social media is essential for your image as a writer.
Another way to gain publicity is to become a guest blogger.
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