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by Feb 25, 2014Books, Marketing0 comments

As an experiment, I advertised on Facebook between 2/22/2014-2/24/2014 to see if I could increase sales of A Warrior’s Path. My dollar limit was set pretty high at $25/day for the first two days and $15 for the third day. I targeted the ad to include people from the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and India who were interested in popular fantasy/sci-fi authors like Robert Jordan, Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, and Brandon Sanderson as well as Game of Thrones and ebooks. Overall, the target audience was listed at 42 million. Pretty big I thought.

Also, I made sure the ad linked directly to the Amazon page for A Warrior’s Path

When I first started the ad, it was included in my timeline as well as a right-hand ad. At first, almost everything I got was a click to the timeline ad, and people didn’t go on to the Amazon page. So the ad increased awareness, and I even got some more ‘Likes’ for the FB page, but I don’t know if it did anything for sales.

The next day, I deleted the inclusion of the ad as part of my timeline and left it solely as a right-hand ad. I can’t say I noticed much of a change even then in terms of sales.

At that point, S.G. Night, author of Attrition: The First Act of Penance (btw Sam is only 18, but my goodness, his writing is so much more mature. He has a wonderful future ahead of him and his future might be now) suggested some changes I make to the ad. Sam has had success advertising on FB, and he had some good advice on changes I should make to my target audience.

Thus, further changes to my ad campaign were made on 2/24/2014 to be implemented on 2/25/2014. I got rid of Game of Thrones and readers of ebook , and went with George RR Martin and many, many more authors, such as Janny Wurts , Stephen R. Donaldson, and Jennifer Roberson. My audience went from 42 million to 2 million. That’s also when I dropped the daily total I was willing to pay to $15, but kept the max bid for an ad at $0.60/click – I ended up paying $0.24/click for the entirety of the campaign.

So. Did advertising work?

I’m not sure. My sales were at their peak about two weeks ago, and since then have steadily trended downward, although they’re still healthy. Nevertheless, I wanted to see if I could halt the decline. On 2/22/2014-2/23/2014, my sales were about the same as they have been over the past week, or possibly even a little lower, but on 2/24/2014, I had a slight bump in sales. I’m not sure what to make of such short trends and small data points.

Also, one rather large caveat is that I had a Goodreads giveaway that just ended on 2/25/2014, so that obviously factors into things.

The bottom line is that I think I need a lot more data points and trends to see if the FB ad can or has helped, but I’m going to keep plugging away, and I’ll keep on posting about my results.

 

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