So, I now published my book on Kindle!

Congratulations. I admire anyone who puts in the work and takes the leap.

Now, generally, for Kindle books, I would say market on Goodreads and Shelfari, especially fiction books. They are two communities of book lovers and strive on recommendations. Getting involves with groups on these sites that are related to your niche/topic and their owners can often pay off big time. But, as your book is a how-to book, I'd definetely hit up forums and Q'n'A sites about warranties or customer service. For Kindle, the more reviews the better, so I'd highly reccommend giving it away to a few people for free in return for a review. If your book is good, it will get some great reviews and possibly some word-of-mouth recommendations.

Well done on publishing your first book

You should definitely create a Facebook fan page, and also a Twitter account to try and spread the word about your book. It may also be a good idea to sign up to various book and authors forums and promote on there.

Congrats on taking action! You're ahead of 80% of the people out there!

I’m collecting information about Kindle even before finishing my first ebook.

Here is an interesting link about how to promote your ebooks:

How To Get Massive Publicity For Your Book Without Spending A Cent | Bestseller Labs

Congrats! You could have some book reviews done and put them with your book on Amazon, put up a You Tube video, blog about it, put the book on Pintrest and of course Tweet about it. Also, remember to do some FB PPC using your target audience.

Have fun with it! I wish you success galore!

Congrats on taking action.. I published my first kindle book a few months ago and got a little boost from posting it on fb and a few of my friends promoting it without me asking because i've built really good relationships on fb..

Keep up the good work and don't stop at 1..Keep going..

Good luck,

Gengis

For this niche (getting ticked off customers an actionable solution,) how could I best start and run a Facebook fan page?

Hi Jeremy:
I saw your advice and it was -
Get Reviewed By High-Profile Book Bloggers.

OK this is good advice, but they are drowning in good books now.
First get some reviews from friends, then get some sales.


Well, now you can go after bloggers that are medium size. Then push your book using free book sales and other tactics to get a lot of exposure. Finally, you get into the "HOT NEW RELEASES" section from amazon.


OK so now go after bloggers with big names.

Who are some medium sized bloggers?

Get reviews for your Kindle book. Send review copies to top Amazon reviewers and ask them to rate your book. Ratings can boost Kindle sales.

Embed some links into your book to inspire backend sales. All sales made by Kindle, they keep the customer info and you dont get access to them. So Amazon will backend sell to these people and make a killing in the process. Good luck tho and congrats.

Well done for getting your first book published!

It is quite a unique subject, and 'how to' books work well with YouTube promotion. Make a short video (or get someone on Fiverr to do it) that offers a few tips to getting better customer service, mention your book at the end, upload to YouTube with title and keywords relevant to your book, and link to your book in the description.

I hope that helps!

Jeremy,
Now that you have your book up on the Kindle, it's HUSTLE time!!!

You'll need to market and promote your book via a blog, social media, giveaways, an optin list, and other promotions etc. Don't make the mistake that 99% of authors make...which is publishing their book and hoping for the best.

Put yourself in the 1% and build an author brand and implement some solid promotion and marketing funnels behind it all.

Do a press release, and circulate it to all publications (both online and offline) in your niche.

Twitter is a huge for customer service. You should join Amazon's affiliate program and then promote your book. Go to bitly and get a short link.

I would target people who are complaining on twitter and send them a message like:

@soandso Just saw your post and went through something similar. I wrote a book on what I learned and it might be useful to you: bitly.com/yourbook

https://twitter.com/search?q=worst%2...rvice&src=typd

Hope this helps!
Sean

Way to go Jeremy - your topic just oozes publicity, seems to me you want to create the ultimate platform for people to vent...should be all about interaction as this will draw a crowd and give you the traffic, attention, captive audience you need.

Here are some suggestions...

1. Setup a YouTube Channel dedicated to people sharing their stories about being mistreated
2. Setup a discussion forum - same thing, allow people to share their stories, separate it into sub-categories like "Overcharged", "Not Accepting Returns", "Bad Service", etc...
3. Start a blog and post daily about experiences - these could be stories in the press that you talk about, your own stories, publish other people's experiences, etc...
4. I would even look at paid advertising - there have been many times I've been seething after being poorly dealt with by a company and just wished it was easy to find a way to vent publicly so the widest # of people would see.

From these venues you can drive them into a sales funnel where you give some content for incentive and then expose them to your ebook.

Jeff

Congrats! I'm working on an ebook project right now myself, so I know the work that goes into it. Keep us updated on how your book does.
Take care,
Christina

Get some quick reviews to your book. Find friends or associates and offer to buy them a review copy, so that you have 5 or more good reviews.

Then use your KDP free days, make sure that you find a good list of places to post your free days at, you can get a free list here: Kindle Free Days | Income Now.

Use your social media, people that you interact with will want to know that you published a book.

There are a number of author groups on facebook, you may be able to exchange reviews with people there.

Fill out your Amazon Author page, get on Goodreads, create your facebook fan page. Those will all help.

1. Look up a very popular book in the same niche as yours, one that's selling like hotcakes on Amazon.

2. Advertise that popular book inside yours (at the beginning and the end.) Make it easier to the reader by linking to that book's sales page.

3. *IF* enough readers actually buy the book you recommend, theoretically, your book could eventually be displayed within the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section for the popular book. As a result, your sales should increase for as long as that other book remains popular.

Since I haven't personally tried this (yet), you might also want to experiment with a semi-popular book instead (as opposed to a hugely popular one) and see if your book shows up a lot easier this way.

Other notes: Perhaps enrolling your book into KDP Select would be a good idea to accomplish this specific goal. Otherwise, place your book permanently free by first publishing it elsewhere for free (B&N, etc etc etc.) The idea being that as long as it's free (whether you use KDP Select or the other method) more people would grab it and (hopefully) buy your recommended book in the process.

Good luck.

Congrats on launching your first book, the hard part is done! I would definitely recommend setting up a Facebook page. Try set up other social media accounts as well. You could even pay people to buy and rate the book, which will help boost sales. Use forums in the books area as well to drive traffic to the book.

Congrats on the leap of faith. Takes a lot to do that.

I'm good with YouTube marketing so I would suggest figuring out what your target market is looking for in Google and get a video ranked on the first page for it.

Maybe a video with you speaking on:

1. The pain that people in their position deal with
2. Why your book will be the solution for them
3. Some testimonials or proof that you know your stuff
4. Make them SEE the end result. (Ex. After you will never have to ____ and be able to spend more time with your family)

Wow . . . That's nice . . .

Ok, you need a Facebook page, Twitter and some few people to test your book. Let them give your reviews. You can start by promoting your book for free for a very limited time.

I would maximize sales with FB ads run ads going directly to your offer / sales page also contact people in slimier niches as you and offer your product . good luck i know many that have accomlished best seller on kindle with using my approach that i have mention but you need to be very specific with your targeting . also a fan page on Fb would be a good idea

Jeremy,
I also publish books on Kindle, and I've been quite successful on Kindle (with non-fiction so far, but I'm currently having my first fiction novel written) I will tell you what I have learned from the past two years of Kindle publishing. From what I've read so far on this thread there are lots of people telling you to build a social presence; sorry but that doesn't work!
Can social media explode your sales? Absolutely, so why am I saying it doesn't work? You are writing non-fiction, and something to fix a very specific problem. Unfortunately, not very many people share these kinds of books with their friends on Facebook, and creating a Facebook page and Twitter page is NOT the way to go. Try to get some good reviews by giving out free copies, and more than anything else, get a killer description written that sells the reader and a beautiful cover done.
From my 2 years of experience and many thousands of dollars in non-fiction book sales on Kindle, this is what I can offer you for advice. Your cover is truly the difference between a $10,000 book and a $100 book in terms of sales, and there are tons of places where you can get one done cheaply. One thing to try is looking over on Fiverr, I know, not the most professional place to go, but you can find some gems there (my bestselling guide currently uses a five dollar cover from Fiverr).
Make sure to click sort by High Rating when you're on Fiverr searching for cover design and check through their samples to see what kind of covers they're designing. As for descriptions, you can find copywriters on this forum, on Fiverr, or just write it yourself. For descriptions I would also recommend using HTML (so you can make headings, subheadings, bold text, italicize etc. etc.) but don't overdo it (here's a useful link to learn how to use HTML in your descriptions on Kindle from this forum http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ook-sales.html).
That's it for now, and good luck with your books! If you have any questions, feel free to PM me and I'll try to get back to you ASAP.
Good luck,
Alex.

It`s not really related to the subject but does writing kindle books make you earn any money ?

Congrats on your book. Hit up redflagdeals and other deal type forums where people love to complain about bad service, start threads in those forums sharing some of the book, give them a coupon code for a discount and then allow the community to contribute to the book so they feel ownership. Then ask them to support the book by purchasing a copy