EP184: David Gaughran – How Amazon Works

David Gaughran is bestselling novelist and the author of a series of amazing guides on how to market books online. He has helped thousands of authors self-publish their books and we were delighted to welcome him to our live show for Patreon supporters to discuss the ins and outs of the mighty Amazon and he answers our Patreon listener questions. This episode is crammed full of great tips to sell more copies of your books. Here are the highlights!

Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

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In This Episode You Will Discover

The best was to use Amazon algorithms to help sell your book for you
How to get out of “Also Bought Purgatory” and become more visible on Amazon
And why you should NOT tell any of your friends and family that you have a book out!

Here are some of the links we talked about in the show…

Support us on Patreon and join our exclusive Facebook Group: https://www.patreon.com/bestsellerexperiment
Back to Reality: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality/
Support Jenni Desvaux’s book The Very Last Monster Book: http://lastmonsters.com
Buy The End of Magic: https://markstaywrites.com/the-end-of-magic/
Scrivener (20% off with the code bestsellerxp): https://www.literatureandlatte.com/
David Gaughran’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidGaughran
David’s website: https://davidgaughran.com/
David’s books: https://davidgaughran.com/books-for-authors/
David’s blog on selling books: https://davidgaughran.com/2019/04/01/%EF%BB%BFsell-books-marketing-amazon-bookbub-facebook-book-advertising/

BUY Back to Reality – the novel from the Podcast

Find out more at https://bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

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