Advertising your wares

[CeasarBoobage]

For those who sell dirty ebooks, or even your smut here on Lit, do you do any kind of advertising?

I'm sure the billboard companies and social media sites wouldn't be so eager to splash suggestive covers on their media forms, but surely there are other ways, yes? Most people don't make a ton of cash from these sales, so it would be hard to justify spending 500 for an ad that generates 50 in sales, right? Or is my guess wrong?

 

[sr71plt]

No, other than offering the books on multiple distributor platforms and the publishers' Web sites and making them available to review sites, I don't advertise the erotica e-books. The costs I see aren't going to be recovered in my view. I think my profits are generated by synergy--keep the books coming; always have one on the "recently launched" pages at distributors.

 

[lovecraft68]

Social media is your best bet, blogs, FB, twitter you can set all those up under a pen name not a real name and people swear by it...

Personally I have none of those and sell a fair amount of books, would I sell more with it? Maybe, but I won't find out.

Do not go exclusive with one venue-amazon will try to get you to do it, but don't. PUt your books on as many sites as you can find.

I second Pilot on it being important to keep putting books up there. Building a following in the pay market is a lot like getting a following here on lit, the more stories you put up the more chance to be seen and people will look at your other stories.

Whenever I get a new e-book up I always get sales on older ones. Once up they are always there. My first e-book was published in March 2011 and it still gets a sale here and there 4 years later.

ARE sends an add around to buy a place in a magazine, but no one that has done it that I know has gotten anything from it. There are book agenst who will put your print edition in new book shows open only to publishers and agents and that runs upward of $250 and again I have yet to find anyone who has gotten a bite out of it

So publish wherever you can, keep writing and if you are a social media type, go for it. OH, and you can put your books on the authors and their book threads here on lit and link them in your sig