FAQ's for Melissa

Smashwords is a distributor. They distribute to Apple, Sony, B&N, and many other outlets. I would distribute to B&N separately through PubIt if you are not located in Canada, so you can have the control of quick pricing changes. SW tends to have a very long lag time (weeks) for making changes). That being said, they do offer a valuable service for distribution and a coupon service for discounting books. 

It's a personal decision, but at least that info can help.

Hi Lacerant,

Yes, you can join our Reader-Author forums and chat with both readers and authors there. Click READERS on our menu, then click FORUMS. 

You can also join our Sci-Fi author forums, and list your blog in our Cross-Promotion forums--both forums can be found under AUTHOR FORUMS.

We do not use the Paypal buttons because there is no easy way to redirect back to the site. You can go to your Paypal account, click "Send Money" at the top of the page, and send the required amount to WLCafe@Yahoo.com. As the registration page notes, please jot down your Transaction ID from Paypal, as you will need that to complete your registration. 

Hi Donna,

Constant Contact works with Wordpress, and you might try MailChimp or Vertical Response. 

Hope this helps!

Hi Marilyn, the Kindle copy is a .mobi file, if you can submit one of the three files (.mobi is included) with the registration form, you are good to go!

Hi Deborah, Social Media Book Buzz books very quickly. You'll need to complete the registration form and speak to our SMBB coordinator to tell you if your requested dates are available. We now are able to feature two SMBB features per day. We also offer Today's Hot Titles, a new promotional opportunity, and there are more openings in that feature for more books per day. 

The key to successful marketing is a consistent presence, therefore, we strongly recommend that you do at least one promotion per month, and if you are able, then I would do two - Social Media Book Buzz and either Today's Hot Titles, or for new releases, the New Release promotion offers a full week of exposure, as does our Read and Review program. We also offer Nook promotions, as well as free book exposure.

You might also check out our Free promotions.

I hope this helps! Congrats on your book!

Melissa

The dashboard is called Tweet Deck. There are many different schedulers. Hootsuite, Twuffer, Social Oomph, Tweet Adder, etc. With Tweet Deck you can only schedule one tweet at a time, but many people love it. 

Hope that helps!

Thank you so much, Phil. I just zipped off an email to you. We will continue to audit the Tweet Teams to insure participation. We are so glad you are with us!

Phil, you had posted in the wrong area. You posted in the WLC tweet area, you need to post in the Tweet Team area. HERE. 

We sent you an email about it (Gerria did, probably via private message here on the site). I think you were just confused as to where the actual teams were located. No worries!

You might want to read this: TWEET TEAM INFO.

​Hope that helps, and so glad you are here!

I'm so glad you are happy with the Tweet Teams! Yay! Thanks for the note - you  made my day.

Hi Donna, there are pros and cons about KDP Select. Right now, it appears that going with KDP and doing one free day per 5-6 weeks, followed by a layered promotional system, and with the increased exposure of promoting your free days across social networks, can increase your sales significantly the days following your freebie. What you need to be aware of is that if you are on KDP Select, you cannot get picked up on any of the big bestseller lists because you need to be on two reporting venues. 

If you are selling less than 200 books/mo on other venues, then you might make up those sales in the lending library at KDP Select (you get paid for borrow). 

It's only a 90 day exclusive period, so you can always try it and back out after the 90 days. 

With regard to Smashwords, go to your dashboard and click "unpublish" - voila, you are done. Note that it can take 2-4 weeks for B&N and Kobo to remove your book. Also,  I highly recommend publishing through PubIt to B&N next time. It's easier than SW and your changes are reflected within 24 hours (usually). 

I hope this helps.

Thank you for letting us know

Hi Lisa, our Free Ebook Friday program runs from roughly 8am-10pm EST on Fridays. Based on the time of this post, the promotion was over. I did notice that a few people had tweeted that today, in error, and unfortunately, we can't control RTs that happen after the promotion is over.