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How To Rank Higher on Amazon Without Selling Books

Seems like a dream, doesn’t it? Rank highly on Amazon, but sell no copies of your book? This very simple method of moving your book into a much more prominent position with minimal effort is the perfect way to get seen and sold.

Drowning in your Category

So why is it your book has sold a few copies, and yet you are still in the weeds on Amazon in your category? Simply, there are too many books in your category to ever be seen. The most full categories in Amazon are typically Science Fiction and Fantasy and Romance, and all […]

Cate Baum2020-06-25T08:10:33+02:00June 25th, 2020|Categories: Features|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Book Promotion Articles|

How To Win A Book Contest – 7 Pitfalls To Avoid

This year’s SPR Awards has thrown up some points that we’d like to share with you to help you avoid the pitfalls when entering your book for a contest. You can take a look at the entrants here.

1. Book Covers

Time and time again we’ve said it, and time and time again, authors don’t listen. If you are selling a book, it needs to have a professional finish. If we are staking a reputation on a book by choosing it as a winner, it must have a well-designed book cover. That probably means not using a beloved drawing or […]

Cate Baum2020-04-09T08:39:07+02:00April 9th, 2020|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Promotion Articles, Writing Tips|

All About Book Reviews and Amazon – A Quick Guide and Rules

What reviews are allowed on Amazon?

There’s been some panic in the self-publishing streets about reviews being removed from Amazon and who is going to get sued for their reviews – and a lot of outrage blogging about Evil Amazon. Here’s a quick guide to why you should stop worrying too much and start understanding the different types of book reviews a little better.

There are three kinds of reviews on Amazon:

1. Customer Reviews

These are the reviews that Amazon is exercising their right, as a private company remember, to investigate more closely. What Amazon is trying to achieve […]

Cate Baum2020-02-21T06:33:58+02:00February 17th, 2020|Categories: Features|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Book Promotion Articles, Book Reviews|

Self-Publishing Romance – Six Steps To Writing About Love

Six tips on how the best self-published romance writers make it work.

1. Niche it up.

The best romance books are those with a niche, that is, they have a definable sub-genre on Amazon. For instance, cowboy meets farm girl, billionaire meets poor girl, jazz singer meets music student, antiques dealer meets woman with an old mansion. You can also try going with a theme, such as clean and wholesome, time travel, cowboys, or even aliens… look at indie author Linda Cousine’s “middle-aged hottie” niche. It’s menopausal romance in her ‘wit lit ‘style!

2. Make your characters strong and

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Lysa Grant2025-05-12T17:51:12+02:00February 14th, 2020|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Promotion Articles, Publishing Tips and Advice|

How To Get Honest Book Reviews in 2020

Here are four simple methods to get honest book reviews in 2020. Authors are always looking for new ways to get reviews for their book, but most want an honest opinion. Attracting readers to buy your book is difficult enough, but getting them to leave a review is even harder.

Use a reader mailing list service. There are only two main services you can rely upon that result in Amazon Verified Customer Reviews (proof the reader actually bought the book) and sales within Amazon’s Review Guidelines. Both services have huge mailing lists of readers who buy, read, and review books. […]

Cate Baum2020-02-12T09:45:16+02:00February 12th, 2020|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Book Promotion Articles, Book Reviews|

How to Optimize Your Book’s Sales Page on Amazon

Your Amazon product page is your book’s final sales page. It is the page that will ultimately dictate which browsers become readers. That means, you need to make it as inviting as possible–you want to optimize your page and draw in more sales and ‘one-click buys.’ After all, authors are always looking to level up their book marketing strategy.

Luckily, Amazon does a lot of the technical work for you. If you were to create a sales page on your website, you’d have to do all the positioning and testing to see what works. When you sell on Amazon, […]

Dave Chesson2020-02-10T11:06:21+02:00February 8th, 2020|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Book Promotion Articles, Dave Chesson Articles|

Introducing Bookvertiser: Book Marketing with Results

The team at SPR has created a new book promotion service for authors: Bookvertiser.

The service is a similar process to SPR’s own Amazon Promotions, but with more flexible options, such as the ability to gain 200 sales at once, and new monthly promotions where you can attain 4-5 sales and 50 sales a month to maintain momentum.

The full list of services are:

Kindle Book Sales

We target reader demographics who are likely to buy your book, based on age, gender, interests, and other important factors. You can receive 50, 100, and 200 sales at a time, […]

SPR2020-02-04T01:32:45+02:00February 4th, 2020|Categories: Features, News|Tags: Book Marketing Advice and Tips, Book Promotion Articles|