Why I turned off my Facebook page messages and how I marketed my book!
After every book is live there comes the next steps suck as promoting a book. I dropped my new book in reader groups specifically reverse harem then I was bored so I dropped it everywhere else. But that is my mistake since besides the usual so many stupid book marketers kept messaging me daily. Heck today got to a point where when I blocked one the dickhead then messaged me on his other profile to say to not block him. The dude was bashing my banner and then said my book trailer wasn’t one the worst part is I was at work. The jackass was trying to convince me of his services and whats worse is those book trailers had an AI voiceover. Like no my book trailer is targeted toward my genre.
I also have a mock up and I already know how to promote my books. I’m not paying for book promotion since when I tried it I didn’t get any sales. Heck I’m sticking to promoting my book on X, Tiktok, Instagram, Youtube. Everywhere I can I even told friends and family about it and everyone. You can always tell if it is a scam book marketer the dumbass this morning had 2 guy first names and a girls picture. They are idiots like most of them can’t read I have my links on my page, the genre on my page, how many books I’ve written which is 24.
Also, they usually say drop links, ask about challenges, how many books you have written it goes on and on. Like I made my book trailer from Canva pro and they totally shitted on it saying that is not a trailer and some of the examples they gave me was an AI voiceover and some broll. Like quit being mean about my book stuff just because you want to bash it to sell me stuff. I am not paying money for one of their shitty, boring book trailers they don’t know how to market worth shit. It is BS when they say they can produce massive sales too. I hate them so I turned off my Facebook messages for now so they will get the hint to leave me alone. I’m pretty much publishing a book a month at this point and the sales and reviews comes with time. It is annoying how they were commenting about why a month old book doesn’t have reviews it takes time to gain a following. You can’t just promote one book and expect it to take off this takes time which is what these idiots don’t understand. I do have a Facebook group for readers and a discord the links are in the back of the book. I got so sick and tired of all these marketers asking for the link to my book since it is a new one and they weren’t going to buy it anyway. Instead one of them was jerky and pointed out it wasn’t doing well due to marketing and promotion. It is a new fucking book that stuff takes time.
Heck not just those but fellow authors too. But they just messaged me to promote their stupid marketer. I have gotten sick of those too like just because you wrote a book doesn’t mean you need to connect with me just because I write. Those authors were most likely fake profiles too set up to suggest their bs marketer, get money and disappear. Why is someone who is traditional published contacting an indie author anyway it doesn’t make sense? Also, one made fun of my little reviews and was saying your sales aren’t going well compared to my own I have more then 6,000 reivews. Okay, I don’t care lol. Also their whole thing was to sell me to get to use their marketer not all of us has money for the stuff. Like really leave us authors alone about marketing books some of us have plans and free ways for it. Done with ranting since ever since my book released people are annoying me about it. I don’t want to drop a link for review I want readers and not people trying to sell me their stupid services.
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