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Post by jaydax on Nov 13, 2015 7:01:28 GMT -8
Smashwords offers a far better affiliate marketing system to Amazon. The difference being that Amazon's affiliate scheme offers 4-8.5% and Smashwords offers 11 - 70.5% of the retail price. Other differences are that Amazon only accepts those with an active web presence whereas Smashwords accepts everyone. Amazon's affiliate payments come out of Amazon's share of the retail price and Smashwords affiliate payments come from the author's royalty. You might find giving up some of your royalties unattractive but it could also be a way of increasing sales by getting readers who like your books to actively promote them. I'm giving it a go and have put together a web page for readers to tell them about it. It's at avestedinterest.info/SmashwordsAffiliates.htm Feel free to copy and modify the content to fit your own requirements. What do you think? Is it worthwhile to give up part of your royalties to get increased sales? Did you know that if you do nothing you already have given up 11% of your royalties? Are you getting a return from that? |
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Post by David Ellis on Nov 13, 2015 17:52:50 GMT -8
Thanks
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Post by Ted on Nov 14, 2015 3:23:39 GMT -8
You might find giving up some of your royalties unattractive but it could also be a way of increasing sales by getting readers who like your books to actively promote them. I'm giving it a go and have put together a web page for readers to tell them about it. It's at avestedinterest.info/SmashwordsAffiliates.htm Feel free to copy and modify the content to fit your own requirements. Jaydax, thanks for sharing your excellent information on your web page. Would I need to offer 50% royalty or more to attract affiliate marketers because most of my ebooks are 99 cents? |
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Post by serbanvcenache on Nov 14, 2015 5:07:40 GMT -8
If you can find them, that is.
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Post by Ted on Nov 14, 2015 9:54:11 GMT -8
If you can find them, that is. True. They're certainly not on Amazon. Thankfully they are available at my main sites for sales; B&N, Apple, and Kobo. I never bothered with Affiliate Marketing for my works due to their low price. I didn't think any AM agent would bother earning 20-40 cents when there are many authors offering works at $2.99 and up where an AM agent could probably earn a dollar per sale or possible more. I could be wrong. Any AM success for members here who are 99 cent authors? |
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Post by jaydax on Nov 14, 2015 10:11:24 GMT -8
The thing is that people who have liked your books may well be more active in promoting them if they can earn 'just a little bit' from sales. What you need to consider is would it be worthwhile to offer them anything at all. If you do nothing, you are already offering 11% If you withdraw your book from affiliate marketing - you get 85% royalty. You might also lose some sales. Data on affiliate marketing seems sparse so it's difficult to make a decision.
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Post by Ria Stone on Nov 15, 2015 7:37:23 GMT -8
Smashwords offers a far better affiliate marketing system to Amazon. The difference being that Amazon's affiliate scheme offers 4-8.5% and Smashwords offers 11 - 70.5% of the retail price. Other differences are that Amazon only accepts those with an active web presence whereas Smashwords accepts everyone. Amazon's affiliate payments come out of Amazon's share of the retail price and Smashwords affiliate payments come from the author's royalty. You might find giving up some of your royalties unattractive but it could also be a way of increasing sales by getting readers who like your books to actively promote them. I'm giving it a go and have put together a web page for readers to tell them about it. It's at avestedinterest.info/SmashwordsAffiliates.htm Feel free to copy and modify the content to fit your own requirements. What do you think? Is it worthwhile to give up part of your royalties to get increased sales? Did you know that if you do nothing you already have given up 11% of your royalties? Are you getting a return from that? John, I was looking at that program. How long have you been in the SW affiliate program? |
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Post by jaydax on Nov 15, 2015 15:20:31 GMT -8
II registered as an affiliate some time ago but didn't pursue it. Then I realised it's an incentive for readers to promote books. Seems a very much underused feature. The page I constructed is actually the second page. The page which links to it as an incentive is designed to encourage people who like my free e-book to write a review. avestedinterest.info/ReviewAndGetAFreeBook.htm |
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Post by Ria Stone on Nov 16, 2015 9:13:45 GMT -8
Jaydax:
I did not realize it but I already am a Smashwords Affiliate but I found it hard to impossible to find a book in their list of eBooks in the program to find your book or any book I was familiar with.
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Post by jaydax on Nov 24, 2016 3:30:12 GMT -8
If you can find a book at Smashwords just add ?ref=[yourScreenName] code to links where [yourScreenName] is the bit after www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ on your 'My Smashwords page' at www.smashwords.com/profile Even if you have a free or $0.99 ebook, it's worth doing since a reader may go on to purchase other books at Smashwords and you'll get commission on those too. …and promote your links and affiliate deal too. Feel free to copy my page at avestedinterest.info/SmashwordsAffiliates.htm and use images like this one to draw in affiliates:  |
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Post by Ted on Nov 24, 2016 19:52:14 GMT -8
Great information on your web page. Thanks jaydax.
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