Behind the Scenes of a Sale

Hello again!

Seeing as both Black Friday and Cyber Monday happened over the last few days, I thought this would be a good time to look at what goes on behind the scenes of a sale!

(Obligatory note that this is the last day of my Cyber Monday sale for The Passageway of Memory!)

Prepping the actual sale on KDP is really quite simple, all I really need to do is decide when I want to have the sale, make sure it's in the middle of my KDP enrollment (I can check this while setting up the sale,) prep the details, and schedule it. This takes all of about five minutes.

Once this is done, it's time for me to worry about the promotions. As I've said a hundred times before, and I imagine I'll say a hundred times more... I HATE self-promotion! I'm not very good at it, and it makes me feel more than a little self-conscious. But it is a necessary part of being an Indie author.

I prep and schedule posts for my Instagram and Facebook author accounts, and I prepare the details for the promotions I share in my Facebook book promotion groups. I finalize the pictures and words I use in the promotions, so that, on the day of the sale, all I need to do, is press "post" 

And... that's about it. With all the posts prepared ahead of time, all I really need to do is sit back, and hope that the sale brings a few actual sales, (yes, it is sadly true, that often, even a sale brings in a "stunning" 0 sales.) But I still hope that this is the "before" part of my own story and that one day, I will be able to find a way to get regular sales.

Have a great day, and keep writing!