📗 If You Have a Book, or Are Writing One—Here is Your Guide to Getting Book Reviews & Social Proof to Boost Sales
As an author and publisher, I've been working with authors for 20 years, and I know most don't have a problem with writing their book; they have a problem marketing their book! Book reviews, especially, are an important piece of any successful author's marketing strategy, yet it's often the step most authors miss. From what I've seen, authors don't have a review problem. They have an asking problem. And it's such a shame! You've probably poured months - maybe years - into writing your book. You've polished the cover, agonised over the blurb, and set the launch date. Then the launch arrives, and...silence. No reviews, no sales. The Amazon algorithm passes your book over. Readers who almost clicked BUY scroll right past, because there's no social proof to anchor their decision. Many indie authors unfortunately learn the hard way: reviews don't appear because a book is good - they appear because the author asked, and made it easy for the reader. I have just finished writing a step-by-step playbook on how to 'Get Book Reviews Consistently', and it's GONE LIVE TODAY on Amazon, in eBook or Paperback, to help my fellow authors who struggle with getting book reviews. It is the Indie author's complete strategy for getting free reviews, paid reviews, and creating launch-day BUZZ! This step-by-step playbook gives you everything you need to get reviews - ethically, deliberately, and on a budget - from six months before launch through to your first year on sale. Inside the 62-page playbook, you'll learn how to: * Build an ARC team from scratch, even if you have zero email subscribers * Recruit pre-launch readers using ready-to-paste scripts for email, social, and DMs * Submit to the free trade publications that produce the most-quoted indie reviews * Choose the right paid review services (and avoid the ones that get accounts banned) * Save hundreds of dollars on review company fees * Ask for reviews without feeling awkward, pushy, or salesy * Stay on the right side of Amazon's review policy - what's safe, what's risky, what gets you delisted