As I mentioned in my last post, I setup a $100 Facebook ad for my book available on Amazon, The Light of Supremazia, to run for a week. Facebook requires a Facebook page to be linked to the ad, so I set that up as well: https://www.facebook.com/AfterlifeLessons.
I created 2 different ads for the campaign. They both had the same parameters for who should see the ad: English speaking citizens, 18+, who have a credit card. This is because the book is only written in English, and it can only be purchased if you have an Amazon account, for which you need a credit card. The only difference between the ads was the picture displayed, as shown in my last post.
The results were interesting and surprising. Here are a few overview stats:
- Click-through Rate (CTR): 1.01% – I read anything above 2% is great.
- People reached: 26,796
- Website Clicks: 336
- Cost per website click: $0.30
The Facebook ad brought people to my Amazon site, but when I checked how many books I had actually sold during the ad campaign, it was only 2. Therefore, my cost per customer is $50. Pretty sad.
For the varying pictures, there wasn’t an obvious difference between the results.
Perhaps sending the ad to the Facebook page instead of the Amazon site would have different results.
What are other authors doing to market their books?
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