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Okay #IndieAuthors in the #WritingCommunity while I work on getting some writing done. I& #39;m going to drop a few little snippets of information from the #indiescribable data for #indieapril so far...
How many books did you sell - BY AUTHOR (so some had only 1 book for sale others had many).
0 13%
1-5 33%
6-10 12%
10-30 11%
30 -50 18%
50+ 12%
1% no response...
0 13%
1-5 33%
6-10 12%
10-30 11%
30 -50 18%
50+ 12%
1% no response...
Of the paid advertising what methods were used?
52% Pay per click
26% Author marketing on multiple platforms
10% Twitter only
13% Multi-platform and PPC
52% Pay per click
26% Author marketing on multiple platforms
10% Twitter only
13% Multi-platform and PPC
How much did people spend on marketing (if they spent anything remember 76% of authors did not)
53% 0-30 USD
25% 30 -100 USD
9% 100 - 300 USD
13% 300+ USD
53% 0-30 USD
25% 30 -100 USD
9% 100 - 300 USD
13% 300+ USD
Did people sell more titles if they paid for advertising? Kind of a big question. Apparently, yes they did.
Paid for advertising average number of copies of each title sold - 9
No paid marketing average number of each title sold - 6
Paid for advertising average number of copies of each title sold - 9
No paid marketing average number of each title sold - 6
How many books did you sell by title (so dividing total books sold by number of books each author was selling)
0 13%
1-5 50%
6-10 9%
10-30 12%
30 -50 11%
50+ 4%
1% no response...
0 13%
1-5 50%
6-10 9%
10-30 12%
30 -50 11%
50+ 4%
1% no response...
How many authors used paid advertising?
24% of you did...
24% of you did...
