If you do, you’ll enjoy the following hacks. If you don’t have one already, you know what to work on next.
#How to use a kindle book for marketing free#
Create 'reader magnets' to promote your bookīefore you can send links to your mailing list, you’ll need to have readers subscribed to it! If you’re not familiar with reader magnets, they’re basically a free something (usually a book) you give readers in exchange for their signing up to your mailing list. You can’t put a price on that kind of convenience (except you can, and it’s $0). Just paste a clean link to your book in there, and Books2Read will generate a link that will automatically send readers to their preferred store and country. There are several tools you can use for that, but the one that we generally recommend (because it’s free!) is Books2Read’s Universal Links: Well, you can: by sharing a universal Amazon URL. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just remove this step for them? I’m guessing your readers aren’t all in the US, are they? So if you send everyone to the store, those who are outside the US will first have to switch stores before they can buy your book. That’s the clean URL: the one you can (and should) share with your readers. To make it even shorter, you can even remove the title: Fundraising-Field- Guide-Founders- Handbook-ebook /dp/B012CZT24U/ Just remove everything that’s after the “/ref=”: Instead, you should clean up this link before you send it. Not only is that link unnecessarily long, but it also includes information that could be detrimental to you if you share it with your readers. In this case, it indicates that the book was found after a search for “fundraising field guide”. Pretty ugly, right? Well, everything after the “?” in the URL is generally superfluous. If you search for your book on Amazon, you’ll end up with a URL that looks like this: So your book is out, and you want to share the good news with your mailing list (and maybe ask them for reviews). You can learn more about Amazon categories in our ultimate guide here. ⚠️ Important: This is not a numbers game, so don’t try to get your book in as many categories as possible! Only include the most relevant ones, or risk the consequences of also-bought pollution. Send only one email per book, and include all the categories you want your book added to. Then, just head to KDP Support and select “Update Amazon Categories” in the sidebar.
#How to use a kindle book for marketing how to#
If you're selling exclusively through this marketplace, consider checking out this post about how to promote your book on Amazon.