Results of July 2017 Promotion:
This promotion was for
Safe In His Arms, the first in my Life Unexpected series.
At this point, the book had been released 14 months ago, had never been free before now, and only had one promotion ($0.99) and that was a year ago.
This promotion included having Safe In His Arms free July 12th, 13th, and 14th
The second book in the series,
Someone to Trust, released May 2017 and has never been on sale, and remained at full price ($2.99)
My sales and pages read (I'm in KDP Select with all my titles) had really fallen across the board in the last month so I'm relying on this promotion to pick everything back up.
July 12th:
Ads: ENT and My Book Cave (which will run my book through the 14th)
Other Promos: I boosted a post on Facebook, I also tweeted as well as shared it on Instagram
Free Downloads of Safe In His Arms: 4,242
Sales of Someone to Trust: 16
Total Pages Read (all books): 4,242
Results: I broke even on the cost of the ads today
July 13th:
Ads: BookBub
Other Promos: I still have the boosted post on Facebook.
I'm also a member of a group blog and posted there.
I am a guest on a FB party tonight as well where I will post about the freebie.
Free Downloads of Safe In His Arms: 23,294
Sales of Someone to Trust: 57 (and 8 of other books)
Total Pages Read (all books): 8,008
Results: I made most of the money back from the BookBub ad. I didn't expect to with only one other book in the series. I will make the rest of the money back on pages read alone the following day, most likely.
July 14th:
Ads: FreeBooksy and Book Rebel
Other Promos: I still have the boosted post on Facebook.
Free Downloads of Safe In His Arms: 8,874
Sales of Someone to Trust: 42
Total Pages Read (all books): 17,017
Results: I made enough money today to pay for the ads and the rest of what didn't get paid yesterday. In other words, I've now broken even and everything from this point on is profit!
Safe In His Arms hit #4 in Amazon's Top 100 Free books over the course of the three days.
Total Free Downloads of Safe In His Arms: 37,455
Total Sales of Someone to Trust: 115
I'll come back in a week and let you know what the week after looked like!