{"id":1509,"date":"2013-01-08T14:54:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2013-01-08T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:54:41","slug":"kdp-select-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/kdp-select-program\/","title":{"rendered":"KDP Select Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/kdp-select-program\/kdp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1511\" alt=\"KDP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/KDP.png\" width=\"123\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first experience using the KDP selects process.<\/p>\n<p>Like all other indie authors \u2013 I thought about marketing AFTER I had already published my book. A simple Google search will reveal numerous avenues that an indie author could use to pimp out their book.<\/p>\n<p>The number one way was Social Media, which includes Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However, I was introduced to the KDP select free days. Now, like everything else in the marketing world for indie authors \u2013 I\u2019m behind the 8-ball \u2013 late for the game.<\/p>\n<p>A trend in the indie publishing world is the amount of sites popping up to take advantage of the growing number of self-publishing authors. Mass Twitter feeds, advertising days, Facebook feeds; all charge a price to advertise something you have free.<\/p>\n<p>I did a few $5 spots on a couple of sites to get the word out about my free download. In the 4 days of my free offering around Christmas time, I moved about 500 copies. I was hoping for at least 1000. However, I can\u2019t complain.<\/p>\n<p>What a majority of authors do not understand about the free offering \u2013 is that if your material is enjoyable, readers will pass this along to other readers \u2013 who will hopefully buy it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a few sales after the initial free offering \u2013 which I\u2019m pleased as punch about.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m working on some more short stories and actually putting a marketing plan together this time around<\/p>\n<p>Guess we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Leo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first experience using the KDP selects process. Like all other indie authors \u2013 I thought about marketing AFTER I had already published my book. A simple Google search will reveal numerous avenues that an indie author could use to pimp out their book. The number one way was Social Media, which includes Facebook, Twitter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}