[Patrick Skelton]

My Kindle Nation ad runs tomorrow. June has sucked for me so far....but here's to hoping!

I will let everyone know the results...

 

[Mel Comley]

Good luck, Patrick.

Let us know the results.

 

[Sam Rivers]

Your novel sounds like a great one!  So good luck on getting a lot of sales.

 

[Michael Robertson Jr]

Best of luck!

Michael

 

[Jason Kristopher]

Sounds like an interesting read. I downloaded the sample.

 

[Patrick Skelton]

Cool!  Thanks, Jason!

 

[Patrick Skelton]

Just went live an hour ago.  The e-book of the day ad looks fantastic!  Crossing my fingers...

 

[lisarusczyk]

Good luck! I always click on those.

 

[Patrick Skelton]

Sales are starting to roll in!  Cool!

 

[drewschmidt]

I would be very curious as to what type of increase you see. If you don't want to share actual numbers how about a percentage so we can see the increase?

 

[ndrake]

Good Luck Patrick!

 

[Ali Cooper]

Good luck! It looks like lots of people have had low sales - probably due to amazon promos of other books - so hopefully this will get you back on track.

 

[Patrick Skelton]

I will definitely post my numbers after the sale is over. To give you an idea, I've sold zero books all week. In the first two hours now of the ad, I've sold 11 books.  Only twenty-something more hours to go!  I'm might very well sell over a hundred books by tomorrow! That would be 200 dollars in profit, easily paying for the $120 ad.  But more importantly, it will boost my rank and get my book out there.  I've tried everything in the last few months and nothing has worked as effectively as Kindle Nation so far. I must say that Steve put a really nice ad together for me!

 

[Patrick Skelton]

Although, Amazon's ranking system seems to have not updated yet. Maybe it can't keep up with the onslaught of sales? LOL

 

[momilp]

Patrick, good luck 
Your ad looks fantastic!

 

[Patrick Skelton]

5 more book sales in the last 5 minutes!  Yipeee!

 

[Patrick Skelton]

So here are some numbers.  In a span of 24 hours I went from selling zero books for the past week to selling 42 books.  I realize that this doesn't quite pay for the 120 dollar ad (need to sell 60 books), but the sales are still coming in.  My ranking also jumped from 180K to 4K. 

I would call the ad a success.  Not a smashing success, but a success.

The real question is:  will my sales dwindle back into nothing by next week? If so, then I'd say the ad was not a waste, but more or less a neutral effort.  We'll see. I'd be happy with selling a consistent 2-3 copies a day at $2.99.  I've tried the 99 cents approach and it did nothing.

 

[Patrick Skelton]

Final results: 47 books.  Didn't break even yet on the cost of the ad, but that's fine.   Also, noticing that my ranking is gradually moving back to where it was before the sale.  Not to be a downer, but I'm guessing by next week I'll be back to selling just a few books a week.  LOL

If I would have known that the sunshine sale was going on I would have waited to run the Kindle Nation Daily ad in late fall or after Christmas. I might do another then and see what happens.

 

[StephenLivingston]

Good luck Patrick.

 

[Mel Comley]

That's excellent news Patrick, whether the results are all down to the ad is the question. Because if you've appeared on a top 100 chart this will get you more sales anyway.