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Do You Want a Kindle Best Seller too?
Choose Your Categories Wisely
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Today’s the Day
For some reason I woke at 5:30 a.m. and couldn’t sleep until I got online and checked my book in the Kindle Bookstore. Am I ever glad I did.
On that day my (then) new how-to book, self-published for only a little over a month, The Rewritten Word: How to Sculpt Literary Art no Matter the Genre, obtained bestseller status (top 100) in three categories at the Kindle Bookstore. (See here for info about this book winning the 2011 Global eBook award.)
This was my second book since April 2010 to each reach bestseller and top 10 status, in three categories. I took this screenshot (below) to remember this moment because status changes every 4 hours and I may not be a bestseller later today, or tomorrow. I want to help you do the same. It really isn’t hard.
Could Today be the day for YOU too?
Order the in depth book here, ebook & print here. (COMING VERY SOON!) DO NOT list another book with Amazon (print books) or Kindle (eBooks) before you read this. (The processes are different for each.) You may never never reach category best seller status. That’s right — you may not even be eligible for category best seller status without following the steps here.
This info is vital and takes a lot more thought than you’d think, though it is utterly simple and easily understood. Includes categories; one for choosing the right Kindle categories, and one for your Amazon print book categories, plus so much more information.
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In your opinion, what is the most vital element to make a book publicity campaign successful?
As a publicist, a blogger and a radio show host, I talk with a lot of authors who struggle with their publicity campaigns. They all seem to know this is a vital piece of the puzzle they are working on – how to become a best selling author. But they just don’t know what’s worth their investment of time and money.
Let’s find out. Throughout this ongoing series, I would like to hear from all who have an experience or preference of publicity do’s and dont’s. Authors, publishers, reviewers, interviewers and publicists, let’s get your input.
Leave a comment here, to allow the conversation to keep going. If your comment or question is something that needs more exploring, you may be contacted for an interview either on the blog or the new Promotion a la Carte Radio Show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/promotionalacarte.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter @PACAuthorPromo where we’ll post new questions using the tag #PACBookPub.
Did you know that it is possible to be ranked at the top of a category without ever having sold a copy of your book?
If buyers don’t know it exists, how will they find it?
When your book is listed on Amazon, you are offered the opportunity to create “tags.” A tag is a word that places your book into a category community. Then when people browse through that community, your book is there, waiting for them to take a peak.
Here at Promotion a la Carte, we are constantly working to find the industry secrets that will help authors find their place in the world, their spot on the shelf be it real or virtual, their fifteen minutes of fame.
Aggie Villanueva, President of Promotion a la Carte and a best-selling author, spent years learning, researching and putting into action the “secrets” she now shares in her series of white papers available at Promotion a la Carte.
Her latest, “Working Amazon: The Secret of Amazon Tags & How to get the Most Out of Them,” will help authors of any genre move their book up the ranks of categories available with minimal effort.
