This has been one crazy month. Tuesday I had zero sales. Wednesday I told Julie that I thought the sales excitement for the month was over and asked how could we bring it back. We tossed a few ideas back and forth for December, but I doubted it would bring the excitement of November.
When we got done talking, I checked my stats and noticed VH had an unusual uptick in free downloads on All Romance. I checked my email and saw that VH and the rest of the series had been mentioned in the All Romance newsletter. The excitement was back on!
VH got hundreds of downloads and I got over thirty actual sales for the other two books. Sales on Amazon also had a small surge. I busted through averaging 4 sales a day. From here on out if I get two sales a day for the rest of the month, I’ll average 5 sales a day for November!
Unbelievable.
I’m not sure what my goal for December should be. November has been so unexpected. I’m sure sales will drop, but I don’t want them to drop all the way to zero. Maybe averaging two sales a day in December is a good goal and hope for 3 sales a day. I can’t seem to get any traction at Smashwords. I don’t know what the secret is there. All Romance is my number one place. I love their ease of uploading and the multiple ways readers can see an author’s work. Amazon is my second place for sales, but I haven’t figured out how to get seen there. It’s still luck as far as I can tell.
I wrote 5000 words this week and need to do 5000 more quickly. I have a couple of blogs I want to post, but they might not be going up until December. Sorry for the neglect of this blog I’m juggling the best I can, but I know I’m letting some balls drop.
How did you guys do?