Category: Marketing

Is there a Mailchimp for chimps?

I think I sent my first newsletter today to people who joined my mailing list through Instafreebie and got free books. I think I sent one. I may have sent two.

Around lunchtime, I sent a welcome to the mailing list. Then I noticed you can set it up to automatically send a welcome when someone else signs up. I may have accomplished this but I’m not at all sure. Mailchimp is complicated. But then, so are Smashwords Meatgrinder and WordPress when you first use them.

They should have chimp friendly versions of all these sites to help old people who can’t cope with new technology.

I don’t intend to pester my mailing list with incessant egotistical news but I will send a notification when I have a new book out.

Christmas Giveaway II

I just set up a couple more giveaways on Instafreebie. You can get Arnos Hell HERE and Five Little Horrors HERE. I’ve set it up so that if you get it this way you have to join my mailing list but both books should be free within a few days at other ebook retailers anyway as part of my grand Christmas giveaway.

Instafreebie is a way of getting new readers and a mailing list, the be all and end all of marketing. There’s a free plan where you can just give books away or a $20 per month plan where you get the reader to join your mailing list. This can be optional or compulsory. Instafreebie advise optional is best but other websites say make it compulsory or the readers won’t do it. I’ve made it compulsory.

I can’t give away The Brigstowe Dragons because I’m not the publisher. Presumably though, millions will read the free books and then rush to buy it.

 

 

Christmas Giveaway

To celebrate the birth of Santa Claus (is that right?) I am giving away Consarn Christmas and Other Stories on Instafreebie HERE.

I’m also giving it away at all other ebook retailers except Amazon because they don’t do free. It may take a few days for the free to come through on some so check first.

This free giveaway is partly because I am full of the Christmas spirit but mostly because nobody wants to buy it.