Will Amazon giveaways increase sales? This needs to be explored.

The most important thing in increasing sales is by getting your product (your book) in the hands of the consumers. By giving away free books you increase your audience. Ideally, by receiving and reading the free book the consumer then goes on to read other books you have published. To inrease sale you must increase your audience and giving away free books will increase your audience and put your books directly in the consumers hands.

A big thanks to Chris Werkman who sent me an email about the Amazon giveaways. It works much the same as the Goodreads giveaways.

Do Giveaways help sell books?

By entering your book into a giveaway  As with the Goodreads giveaway the Amazon giveaway is also free, well at least partially free. You don’t have to pay for the giveaway. With Amazon and Goodreads the author can decide how much to spend. The amount spent is calculated by the number of books you want to give away. I entered my book Straight to Heaven. It is on sale for 2.99. I decided to give away two copies. The cost will be 5.98 not counting taxes. I forget about sales tax since I live in Oregon where we don’t have one.

How do you enter giveaways?

First, search for your book on Amazon. Scroll down past the statistics and click on ENTER GIVEAWAY. Next, you will need to fill out the information required for the giveaway then enter. Amazon will charge you for the number of books you choose to enter into the giveaway. In addition you will also have to fill out a description of the giveaway, but Amazon has the questions for you. All the author has to do is fill in the blanks.

Your book will be promoted on Amazon and through Facebook and Twitter.

Once again, I hope all of you will take some of these tips to heart and use them. I love the free one and we all know, getting your book where people can see it will help sales. I will be entering all new releases in both an Amazon and a Goodreads giveaway. We will see if this helps sales.

If you have questions, please ask, and if you find another source for social media, please send the information along to me.