GoTV:
Yes you can be a billionaire by washing linda's skirt and pants. Lazy over grown bed bug sucking on his sister's sweat. A shame to manhood and hardworking men.

It's unfortunate that you think like this. The boy did not choose to be Linda brother.

He was fortunate to be born into the family the same way you were fortunate to be born into yours

Most children will teeth till about 10years old. At this point, they are definitely able to express themselves so it should not be as stressful as when they were babies

whiteTORTIISE:


Her crimes are as follow

1. flying an illegal and unregistered aircraft between Benin, Edo state to Sapele, Delta State.

2.illegal boundary crossing.

3. Illegal route taking.

4. illegal and unregistered means of transportation.

5. illegal use of Nigeria owned sky

6. Illegal landing that is called plan crash.

7. illegally landed on Nigeria Government property (police station).


All these are the charges against her in court today

Really

PrettyCrystal:
According to reports, a woman has been taken into custody after it was alleged she fell from the sky this morning in Sapele area of Delta state. An eyewitness and policeman, Ilechie Collins who claimed to have witness the said incident - said that it happened at the police barracks in the area - to the surprise of everyone present.

The police officer claimed to have witnessed the event for the first time in his life as the woman purportedly "landed from above" before she was taken into custody.

The police officer took to Facebook to share the shocking news as he wrote; Happening Now:This woman fell from the sky this morning in Sapele Police Barrack to the surprise of everybody. I saw her live..

Another eyewitness identified as Ejime Twin claimed he saw the woman at the police barracks. He wrote; Is true story, I saw her at the police barracks but she will be taking to the court..

UPDATE; The woman has been arraigned at the magistrate court in Sapele where she confessed that she flew from Benin city in Edo state and was brought down from the sky after fire burnt her.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/06/woman-allegedly-falls-from-the-sky-in-delta-lands-in-police-barracks-photos.html

Watch Video of her shocking confession HERE

Question is this : what is her offence?

This woman is suffering from some form of mental illness and should be treated.

Fakemiracle:

so let me call him and tell him am no more interested

Life can be difficult but don't do it. This will teach you that you need to be steadfast in everything you do.

No matter the difficulty you are facing now, this might just be the final test before your break through.

EmagNig:
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA has revealed that its agency arrests no fewer than 880 motorists daily over breach of traffic rules.

Mr Chris Olakpe, LASTMA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, told NAN in Lagos that each of the 44 zones of LASTMA made no fewer than 20 arrests daily.

“When we are talking of arrest, it is a daily occurrence; we have about 44 zones of LASTMA, and not less than 20 arrests are made daily by each of the zones.

“The arrests are done by serving court summons on erring motorists,’’ Olakpe said.

According to him, mobile courts hear and determine the cases and give fines.

He said that LASTMA had established a protocol of arrest to ensure that arrest were made in a polite manner.

“No Nigerian citizen will like to be arrested without resistance; it is worse with commercial drivers in Lagos. This poses a challenge to us.

“In fact, it a herculean task. As you raise a hand to stop them, they put their vehicles in reverse; in the process of trying to escape, they hit vehicles behind them.’’

On commercial motorcyclists plying highways, Olakpe said that the agency was working with the police to carry out enforcements.

On alleged extortion and selective arrest by the agency's personnel, the chairman said that discussions were ongoing to ensure that erring personnel would be punished.

“We are creating a spotlight and investigating the allegation,” he said.

The agency boss also mentioned that the agency had warned its personnel against jumping into vehicles they intended to arrest.

He said that LASTMA would punish personnel doing so.

https://lailasnews.com/see-number-of-people-lastma-arrests-daily-over-traffic-offenses/

Not less than 20

That is not a figure . The man surely does not know the total arrested. Estimated

BrainnewsNg:




https://www.brainnewsradio.com/habits-that-might-ruin-wizkids-career/

We would all know how his career pans out

onyi25:
Big Brother Naija 2018 winner, Miracle Ikechukwu aka fly boy is getting sexier by the day..

The young pilot shared these wet hot photos of him after working out under the rain and it has gotten the whole female fans drooling!

View more Photos here;

https://www.mimidoris.com/2018/06/bbnaija-2018-miracle-gets-wet-flaunts.html

nice pictures

Bigmugu:
@NAIRATREND

Celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji Shares hilarious story of a Car she couldn’t afford back in 2007.

Read story below :-

I bought this car in 2007. It cost 700k back then but I made a down payment of 350k to pay the remaining 3 months later. After 3 months, I’d been able to pay only 100k of the remaining 350k & the car owner came to my house one day to seize the car. Lol. I can laugh now but it wasn’t funny back then. I remember my dad followed me to the man’s house to beg for him to return it to me and give me more time. The man refused. So I was carless for about 2 months but because I knew how important having a car was to my business (I was always running around), I knew it was top priority to raise the balance..
I had a modeling agency back then and so I started going to bother all the ad agencies owing me money.

I became a nuisance at their offices…lol. Before I’d wait for them to call and ask me to come collect my cheque but now, I wanted the money now now. Some managed to give me, some didn’t but I was finally able to raise the 250k balance & got my car back.
Fast forward to 5 years later. Between 2012 to 2018, I’ve probably bought about 15 cars for family, friends and staff. And none was 700k…lol.

Seeing this photo again brought back memories and reminded me of how God works. And how your life can change from not having enough to having so much, you can share with others.

You life can change for the better in an instant and that instant can last forever. Just remember to always hold on to God. He’s watching. He’s seeing your struggles and one day, He’ll hold your hands and never let go. .
.
God is holding my hand so much right now that I was able to solely finance lindaikeji.tv from advertising money made from another platform he blessed me with…lindaikejisblog. All the crazy equipment we have, studios, office, mansion, content, manpower etc was solely financed 100% by LIB.



God works in ways we sometimes don’t understand! He can make you wait. I waited for 14 years. He hasn’t forgotten you. Be patient. He listens. He’s watching. And He will eventually come to hold your hands when it’s your turn. And when he does, your life will never be the same. Just never stop believing in Him. Your time is near. I declare God’s enormous blessings into your life. Say amen!


https://www.instagram.com/p/BkXJ3NFD5Dj/?hl=en

Inspired to take action

This is very sad.

May the Lord continue to bless his soul

CastedDude:
The wife of the immediate past Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, Lara, has been spotted today at the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja after being out of the public eye since her exit from the Edo government house. It was rumored that the couple had divorced, a report which was denied.

Beautiful Lara was spotted beside her husband as she attended the convention where her husband, Adams Oshiomhole, is already guaranteed a chance to emerge as the next national chairman of the party after all contenders to the office stepped down for him.

About 6,000 delegates to the national convention holding in Abuja will elect 42 men and women to steer the affairs of the ruling party for the next four years.

Of the number, 20 have been returned unopposed, leaving 22 positions up for grabs. One of the positions that will not be contested for is that of the national chairman.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/06/adams-and-lara-oshiomhole-spotted-at-apc-convention-in-abuja.html

Will he be the incoming chairman

buske:


Thank you very much. You understand!

Like...I am very concerned about that her vulnerability. Sometimes... I can't even trust her wit herself.

I think you should give your relationship another chance to work.

One lesson you should have learnt from this is that women are very calculative and you out can be easily deceived if you don't know their tricks.

Look at it, she gave someone all the cash for her new phone while some person just took her phone in broad daylight and there was no resistance or noise from her.

It just doesn't add up.

Show your partner love and support but question anything you believe is out of place else she will just continue to play you while you remain in love blindly.

Good day

I am having problems accessing www.firstimedaddy.com

I have dropped a ticket but it's taking forever

stephenduru:
A man has been disgraced after he was caught trying to sleep with his friend's wife.According to the trending video,the man was pictured begging his friend with Igbo to forgive him.However,his friend named Kevin told him that he will upload the video in internet and make it go viral.The culprit was also said in the video to have cause marital problem of another of his friend because he slept with his wife.


Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2018/05/nigerian-man-caught-trying-to-sleep.html?m=1

But why?
Why her?
Why him?

donstan18:
A mother beats up her daughter because she was drunk.


Please all English gurus, who is drunk?

Answer with a profound prove and explanation.

More like the mother.

This is because of the context

How to Market a Kindle / CreateSpace Book


While eBooks can go viral on their own, why leave it to chance? Marketing a Kindle eBook does not need to be stressful or expensive. And it is never too early or too late to promote.After all the work you have put in to write the book, it only makes sense to do some promotion along with the efforts you have put in.

Some of the wonderful steps you can take include the following:

Prelaunch List Building – If you are a blogger there is a good chance you already have a growing email list. If not, this is a great time to open an AWeber account and start collecting those email addresses. This will allow you to build anticipation, communicate your progress, and announce your eBook’s release to those interested. While pre-ordering may not be available, you can certainly pre-sell your audience.

Giveaways – One of the big perks of Kindle Direct Publishing is the giveaway. Amazon allows you to make your eBook available for downloading free of charge five days every 90-day period. This is a great opportunity to get a little free promotion and hopefully reviews when you first release your eBook. There are dozens of websites that announce free Kindle eBooks.

Guest Blogging – I don’t know that every eBook is suitable for a virtual book tour, but if your ebook solves a problem you should not pass up this opportunity. Submit actionable guest posts to blogs in that niche. And this isn’t a limited time thing. Any time that you guest post on a relatable topic, link to your eBook in your author byline if allowed.

Marketing your Print Books

Hello everyone.

Hope you are doing great? How do you market your print books? I came across a website that I believe would be beneficial to all of us on this forum.

The thing is that you can also use it for ebooks too.

The site is: https://www.indiesunlimited.com/2018/05/06/print-books-for-may-2018/comment-page-1/#comment-3488092908471512017

This site allows you to post your hard cover books as long as they are not above $15.

I just came across it today and I have made a post there. Presently, It is awaiting moderation

Marketing your Print Books

Hello everyone.

Hope you are doing great? How do you market your print books? I came across a website that I believe would be beneficial to all of us on this forum.

The thing is that you can also use it for ebooks too.

The site is: https://www.indiesunlimited.com/2018/05/06/print-books-for-may-2018/comment-page-1/#comment-3488092908471512017

This site allows you to post your hard cover books as long as they are not above $15.

I just came across it today and I have made a post there. Presently, It is awaiting moderation

Source: wishpond.com

How to Market your Amazon Ebook: Pre-Launch


When you self-publish on Amazon (or any other ebook publishing platform), you’re more than just the author. You’re also the publisher. And that means you get to do the work of any good publishing house team of book editors, graphic designers and marketers. This article is about the marketing side, so I’ll be sticking with methods on how to get your creation viewed, loved and downloaded into the right ereaders.

Aside from the book editing (best to get at least one fresh set of eyes on it), the book title (very important to selling your book as well as SEO) and the book cover (yes, people do judge a book by its cover), there’s a number of pre-marketing steps you need to take.

1. Create a Blog
Hopefully you already have a website and you write blog articles related to your subject matter regularly. If you don’t, start one now.

A website gives you a ‘home’ online. These days, creating your own website is really very easy. There’s lots of places you can get free sites from (just Google it - my personal fave is the free ), and most make it very basic to upload design templates and images, so you can create a site that’s reflective of your book and resonates with your audience.

Make sure your site has a blog on it. Why? A blog gives you a chance to showcase your writing, engage with future readers, and (once published) drive traffic to your ebook landing page. And besides, you’re a writer, and a blog gives you a pretty cool outlet to write and write often.

Be sure to enable comments and include social share buttons on all your blog posts to encourage reader engagement.




2. Start to Market with Pre-launch Landing Pages
I know, I know, you’ve read all about the value of building up a great email list - even before you start to publish. Every book I’ve read about ebook publishing told me this too. And it’s true.

Collecting emails is the smartest and most effective way to keep in touch with your future buyers. It’s also a really cool way to start generating interest in your book with pre-launch promotions.

The best ways to do this is through email-gated landing pages (don’t know what a landing page is, but were too shy to ask? Check out my article “ What is a landing page?” - you’re welcome.)

There are tons of pre-launch campaigns you can run on your website landing pages. For example, you can generate leads and excitement about your upcoming ebook by:

Getting people to choose a book cover (with an email-gated vote contest)


Hosting an email-gated sweepstakes to give away a free copy of your book
Engaging your audience by asking for their input about your book characters if it’s fiction (such as a choice your main character must make)
Engaging your audience by asking for subject matter advice if it’s non-fiction (you can motivate responses by including the best quotes in your book)
Pre-launch promotions can help to start generating that all-important buzz - before you even publish. The more excitement you can generate leading up to your launch, the better chance of success your product will have.

Keep in mind too, that Amazon has lists of top 100 bestselling books. If you can generate a groundswell of interest leading up to publication your book just might make it on to a genre specific list.


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Aside from the dream of being on a bestselling book list, getting into a top 10 spot also helps to sell more of your books. People looking for a new read are more likely to buy a popular choice on a bestseller list.

3. Hyper-target your Reach with Facebook Ads
I hope you’re already marketing your author profile on Facebook and Twitter too (and Good Reads - you definitely need to be networking on the site to connect with your niche readership).

Now, you might be getting lots of engagement on your blog already through your website’s social functions (yes, some websites, like the sites, let you follow fellow bloggers), and you might be getting lots of engagement and click-throughs on your social sites too.

But, you probably want more site visitors, right?

That’s where advertising on Facebook comes in.


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Now, I only recommend that you spend money on Facebook Ads if you’re really serious about selling your ebook. If writing that book was a hobby and you really just enjoyed the process and the people you met along the way, don’t spend lots of money trying to advertise it. The average ad on Facebook costs about $0.50 per click, so do the math for your book (or series of books) to determine if they’re worth it for you.

Having said that, Facebook Ads can be a super effective method of promoting your pre-launch ebook campaigns, get more Likes for your Page and raise awareness about your ebook. The ability to hyper-target your advertising to reach your exact demographic also makes Facebook Ads an incredibly reasonable ad spend.

You can target by:

All the demographic data Facebook has (such as age, gender, relationship status, location and occupation)
Pages people Like (such as other books or subjects similar to yours)
Friends of Fans (to reach Facebook Friends of people who already Like your Page)
And tons more
Use Facebook Ads to drive Likes on your page and traffic to your email-gated pre-launch website landing pages.

4. Send out Email Marketing Automation Campaigns
When you start to get lead information from people who are genuinely interested in your upcoming book, it’s the perfect opportunity to stay in touch.

Send out regular emails to keep people posted on the progress of your book, more pre-launch campaigns you’re running, new blog posts and to ask people to connect with you on your social sites too.

You can even send out pre-written emails to be triggered and delivered at timed intervals with email marketing automation campaigns. That way you can pre-plan your emails and not have to worry if you got busy with the many other tasks you have going on in your life and happen to, uh, forget to send out your bi-weekly or weekly messages.

The more people get to know you and your work, the more likely they will want to buy your book to support your efforts.

Additionally, from a marketing perspective, email marketing automation campaigns keep building up the buzz about your book launch. If you can do it well, more people will be lining up to buy your book on that all-important first day. And, as mentioned above, the more sales you get in a short time, the better chance you have of getting noticed on a bestselling list.

How to Market your Amazon Ebook: Launch
Okay, so now that you have an excited, intrigued and super-engaged future readership, you’re getting close to having a successful book launch. It does take about 24 hours for your book to go live on Amazon - and other sites like iBookstore, Nook Press and Kobo can take a bit longer. Be prepared with a few more steps to take, just before you press that ‘publish’ button.

5. Make an Ebook Landing Page
Create a landing page (now that you know what a landing page is) on your website where you give your ‘book blurb’ showing the benefits of your book and creating the hook. Include your book cover image and book trailer (if you’ve made one).

If you have ecommerce or payment gateway abilities on your site, link the Call to Action button (your ‘buy now’ button) to it, so people can buy directly from you. Or link it to your Amazon KDP book page once it’s live.

I’d highly recommend you make your landing page in advance to your launch. That way you’re not super stressed and rushed to make a last minute marketing page. Keep it private until the big day.

(Click on the landing page)

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Once your book has been vetted through KDP and is live, make your ebook landing page public.

By having an ebook landing page on your website (whether you’re selling you book directly or through Amazon), you give yourself more marketing opportunities to promote your book and drive traffic to your site. You can make Google Adwords or Facebook Ads that link directly to your website, for example.




6. Announce your Book Release
Just like a traditional publishing house would, you should promote your ebook with a press release or at least an article on your blog announcing the official launch of your KDP ebook.

Pitch your book to publications that are read by your specific niche readership. This could include:

Online publications in your niche (if your book is about surfing - pitch to surfing sites, for example)
Popular (or engaged) blogs related to your book subject matter (get in touch with the main bloggers to pitch)
Local newspapers and online publications (create a press release with a ‘local author’ spin)
Advanced tip: You could also syndicate your press release through PR sites (there are generally costs associated with these), or sign up for HARO (help a reporter out) to pitch your release when a journalist is looking for a story just like yours.

Be sure to send out your announcement to your email contacts to share your great news and generate a buzz with people who are already interested in your work.

7. Promote your Amazon KDP Ebook to your Email Leads and Social Media!
Once you’ve hit the publish button on Amazon KDP, send out a series of personalized emails to your entire prospect database.

Send out your first email before your book is live. Let your engaged readership know that your book is just hours away from being shipped to the Kindle store. Build anticipation by reminding your readers of the hard work you’ve done and the benefits they’ll get from reading your work.

As soon as your book is live on Amazon, send out a second email, with a link directly to your NEW book! Now’s the time you really want to push the sale. If you can get even 30 books to sell on your launch day, you’re likely going to make it to a best selling list (and you already know the benefits of getting on that list).


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Over the next few days, keep sending out emails with your excitement. Tell your readers about any updates you’ve had with your launch. If you received press coverage - brag about it. If a reader reviewed your book, tell people about it (and encourage other customers to do the same).

Promote your launch on all your social media sites too. Include the link directly to your Amazon page to make it easy to immediately buy your book.

How to Market your Amazon Ebook: Post-Launch
Once your book is launched, and you’ve successfully made it on at least one sub-genre bestselling list_ (you can do it!)_, you still have tons of opportunities to keep promoting your masterpiece. In fact, the marketing is just beginning.

There are hundreds of ways to promote your ebook online. I’ll give you my top three best methods of connecting with the right readership and getting more copies of your book sold.

8. Set up a “Review your Kindle eBook” landing page
There’s nothing so rewarding as getting your first book review (and hopefully it’s a good one!). To persuade people to write good things about you, you could send out your ebook to review sites or ask your friends. Both of these are great methods, particularly the former. There are lots of great book review sites (including reviews within the GoodReads site - which show up on certain ebookstores too). Find your review sites within your genre and submit your book.

There is a more advanced way to get reviews too. I’d suggest you do this, as you’ll likely get reviews back. And those reviews will be from genuine fellow authors who already hold you in a good light.

What’s this advanced method?

Offer to review other authors’ ebooks - for free.

Create a landing page on your author blog, where writers in your niche can submit (or link) to their work. Let them know that you will review their book, and post that review on your blog (with a linkback to their site and book page).


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When you offer to give reviews, you can also ask fellow self-published authors to reciprocate. They’ll likely be more receptive and willing to give you positive feedback.

The more you can connect with your community and niche of fellow self-published authors, the better marketing potential you have. If they share your ebook with a review on their blog, you’ve just exposed your market reach to their audience too. It’s a very ‘pay it forward’ type way of getting your name out there - and you may just sell more books by doing it.

Example of a few reviews on the GoodReads site:


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9. Schedule a Virtual Book Tour
You’ve heard about the elusive yet alluring traditional book tour. Maybe you’ve been to a few, to see your favourite authors. Maybe it’s been a dream of yours to actually go on one of your own.

There’s now a modern version, that’s some smart indie authors do. I call it the virtual book tour.

A virtual book tour is a pretty cool method of getting out the word for your ebook. It takes the concept of the old-school in-person book tour, removes the costly travel expenses, and gives you the opportunity to speak to more of your audience in a shorter time.

It’s best to schedule a book tour with back-to-back interviews, podcasts, webinars and Google+ Hangouts (G+ hangouts are particularly great for sci-fi or tech related books).

A short time frame gives you a rapid, condensed hit to your book title (and hopefully book sales). And, as you know, if you can get your book onto the top bestsellers within your particular genre (no matter how small a niche it is), your book appears on Amazon’s top 100 list. This can exponentially increase book sales and awareness.

How to make a book tour:

Contact influential and highly engaged bloggers within your niche.
Pitch your book and ask for an interview - offer the interviewer something in exchange such as an interview swap, book review or guest blogging opportunity.
Try to schedule your ‘tour’ within a one week or day time period.
Promote your book tour on your social sites and to your email subscribers.
Take your book tour a step further by making recordings of your interviews and sharing them on a “book tour” page you create on your website. Include links back to your influencer’s sites.

10. Promotions and Referral Coupons
Just like in a bricks and mortar bookstore, a great promotion can send your sales through the roof.

Kindle has exclusive book promotion offers for its authors. Take part in these, when you can. A few times a year (or so), KDP authors can give away their books for free - for a limited time.

Now, you may think this goes against your goals of making money from your creative work, but it actually helps to spread the reach to your readership. I’d suggest you take part in these sitewide offers when you can.


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Free promotions are particularly effective if you have a series of books. Give away your first book for free and promote your additional books with images of your book covers on the last page of your free book.

Another great promotional method is referral coupons. You may know the concept of referral coupons from large multi-national retailers. Starbucks frequently uses them, for example, as have traditional walk-in bookstores. Why do you think they deploy marketing tactics that get people motivated to spread the reach of their product and bring in new customers? They work, and have been working to increase sales for decades.

What’s new about referral coupons is that they’re now very easy to make yourself, and you can easily make them online.

To make a referral coupon, uh, use a easy software tool (like Wishpond). Then set up your coupon directly on your website or Facebook Page.


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Make an offer to give away your book for free, for example, if a participant refers and gets three people to buy your book.

This is the best kind of word-of-mouth marketing. Your dedicated and loyal audience will tell their friends about you. Friends tend to trust the advice of friends, particularly when they’re recommending something personal, like a book.

Conclusion
Thanks for reading my two part series on how to market your Amazon KDP ebook. I hope you’ve enjoyed it and that you learned something new.

Publishing your own ebook is a great experience. Although you’re not likely to sell a million copies and retire on a yacht somewhere, reaping in the royalties, you never know! Remember, the average self-published author is lucky to sell about 100 books.

Mcslize:


Not at all. No marketing.

Don't you think it would drive more sales for you

More strategies for pricing your ebook


1. Price your paperback high.
Amazon always compares the price of the paperback version with the Kindle version on a book sales page by putting a strikethrough line across the print book price above the Kindle price. It makes it look like a discount. So, why not make it look like a bigger discount by increasing the price of your paperback?

2. Increase the price before your free ebook days.
If you use KDP Select and have five free ebook days per enrollment period, increase your price before you start offering your ebook for free.

This is especially important if your normal price is $2.99 or less. Set your price to $3.99 or even a little higher to make your free ebook offering look like a real steal for free.

Update note: If you are enrolled in KDP Select, your ebooks are available for Kindle Unlimited readers. Pricing your ebook a little higher could make your book look like a very good deal to KU readers.

3. High and low.
A high price will return more profit, but a low price will deliver more readers, or at least that is the common logic. However, it is worth seeing if this is true for your own ebook.

If your ebook is $2.99, try changing the price to $0.99 for two weeks, followed by two weeks at $4.99. You might be surprised at the result.

Summary
There are no concrete rules for an ebook pricing strategy, except that doing nothing will probably result in the same.

So by experimenting with your ebook price, often in combination with your online book promotion, you will be taking proactive action that can only help in the long run.

The aim is of course to sell more copies of your ebook, so the price is of secondary importance, as at any price a bestseller is a bestseller.

More strategies for pricing your ebook


1. Price your paperback high.
Amazon always compares the price of the paperback version with the Kindle version on a book sales page by putting a strikethrough line across the print book price above the Kindle price. It makes it look like a discount. So, why not make it look like a bigger discount by increasing the price of your paperback?

2. Increase the price before your free ebook days.
If you use KDP Select and have five free ebook days per enrollment period, increase your price before you start offering your ebook for free.

This is especially important if your normal price is $2.99 or less. Set your price to $3.99 or even a little higher to make your free ebook offering look like a real steal for free.

Update note: If you are enrolled in KDP Select, your ebooks are available for Kindle Unlimited readers. Pricing your ebook a little higher could make your book look like a very good deal to KU readers.

3. High and low.
A high price will return more profit, but a low price will deliver more readers, or at least that is the common logic. However, it is worth seeing if this is true for your own ebook.

If your ebook is $2.99, try changing the price to $0.99 for two weeks, followed by two weeks at $4.99. You might be surprised at the result.

Summary
There are no concrete rules for an ebook pricing strategy, except that doing nothing will probably result in the same.

So by experimenting with your ebook price, often in combination with your online book promotion, you will be taking proactive action that can only help in the long run.

The aim is of course to sell more copies of your ebook, so the price is of secondary importance, as at any price a bestseller is a bestseller.

Mcslize:


Ya...but in D2D.

Do you do any marketing for your books?

Twitter is a nice place to get the word out about your books.

I try to tell short stories and put the link to my books along with it.

Your main aim is to get authors and book promotion handles to re tweet your tweets.

You do not necessarily have to ask. Just take the following steps.

1. Follow them
2. Retweet their tweets
3. Like their tweets
4. Tweet about your book to them.
5. Repeat the process.

Doing this will get you retweets from them and also follows.

Note that this does not guarantee sales. A good book cover and high quality content will do that for you but you would have gotten more exposure for your books.

Try it.
Look at a retweet I just got.

Twitter is a nice place to get the word out about your books.

I try to tell short stories and put the link to my books along with it.

Your main aim is to get authors and book promotion handles to re tweet your tweets.

You do not necessarily have to ask. Just take the following steps.

1. Follow them
2. Retweet their tweets
3. Like their tweets
4. Tweet about your book to them.
5. Repeat the process.

Doing this will get you retweets from them and also follows.

Note that this does not guarantee sales. A good book cover and high quality content will do that for you but you would have gotten more exposure for your books.

Try it.
Look at a retweet I just got.

LaCremy:


Hi, thanks for your prompt reply.
I have only published it on Kindle, nowhere else.

You mean, I should delete it and then work on it again and then re-upload?

If it's on Amazon, there shouldn't be any complaints from Createspace .

Did you make any changes from your kindle before uploading to createspace (this shouldn't even be a problem)?

Experts, Pls assist.

Mcslize:


Ya...but in D2D.

Nice.

Mcslize:
I started writing 1 September,2017. I have published 4 books so far. I am about to publish my 5th book but no single sale yet. This is getting me discouraged. mk82

Hello

Have you started making sales yet?

LaCremy:
This is what I got from createspace after publishing.

How can I go about this please?
Thanks

Its a case of copyright infringement.

Have you published this material somewhere else before.?

It might also be that you used too much material from your research without modification.

If this is true, just reply and say you uploaded an incomplete manuscript.

And have it deleted.

Then correct the final output.

Good luck

4 ebook pricing strategy ideas you can try.


1. Down and Up.
This method may help you in finding the best price point for your ebook. Reduce your ebook price by $1.00 every three days until you reach $0.99. Wait three days, and then raise your price in $1.00 increments up to say $4.99.

If you see an increase in sales at a certain price point, repeat the same exercise again to check if the same pattern occurs. If you don’t see enough sales to form a conclusion, try again with a longer frequency of perhaps five days.

2. Increase your price.
This may sound odd if you are struggling with sales, but a higher price can work on two fronts. One, a higher price often gives a potential buyer the sense of a better product (or ebook) and secondly, sales at a higher price will increase your ranking much faster.

3. Different US and UK prices.
These two ebook markets are very different and particularly when it comes to price sensitivity. I wrote about the differences between US and UK ebook prices in another post, and how UK ebook buyers are far more reluctant to buy ebooks priced over £1.99.

In fact, the majority of ebook sales in the UK are at £0.99. As Amazon UK is a geo-locked store, there is no problem with offering your ebook at a lower price compared to the US store, as only UK buyers can purchase ebooks from Kindle UK.

You can set different prices in your KDP pricing page by turning off the setting, ‘Set UK price automatically based on US price.’

4. Make book one very cheap.
If you have published a series, sacrifice the price of the first book in the series at say, $0.99 to hook new readers, and then set each subsequent title in steps of $1.00 more up to say, $3.99 for the latest title in the series.

4 ebook pricing strategy ideas you can try.


1. Down and Up.
This method may help you in finding the best price point for your ebook. Reduce your ebook price by $1.00 every three days until you reach $0.99. Wait three days, and then raise your price in $1.00 increments up to say $4.99.

If you see an increase in sales at a certain price point, repeat the same exercise again to check if the same pattern occurs. If you don’t see enough sales to form a conclusion, try again with a longer frequency of perhaps five days.

2. Increase your price.
This may sound odd if you are struggling with sales, but a higher price can work on two fronts. One, a higher price often gives a potential buyer the sense of a better product (or ebook) and secondly, sales at a higher price will increase your ranking much faster.

3. Different US and UK prices.
These two ebook markets are very different and particularly when it comes to price sensitivity. I wrote about the differences between US and UK ebook prices in another post, and how UK ebook buyers are far more reluctant to buy ebooks priced over £1.99.

In fact, the majority of ebook sales in the UK are at £0.99. As Amazon UK is a geo-locked store, there is no problem with offering your ebook at a lower price compared to the US store, as only UK buyers can purchase ebooks from Kindle UK.

You can set different prices in your KDP pricing page by turning off the setting, ‘Set UK price automatically based on US price.’

4. Make book one very cheap.
If you have published a series, sacrifice the price of the first book in the series at say, $0.99 to hook new readers, and then set each subsequent title in steps of $1.00 more up to say, $3.99 for the latest title in the series.