Reaping the Whirlwind ebook giveaway
It started out as a test based on something one of my mentors said in a class. I posted my Christy winner as an ebook on my website as a total giveaway. Since I hold all the rights to the book, that’s my prerogative. Then I offered it on Freebie Friday, a homeschooling mailout thats a feature of the Old Schoolhouse Magazine. My offer came out the morning of August 10.
Within 3 hours of the mailing my website bandwidth blew out with 720 downloads. My webhost got the site back up and we topped out 900 downloads by midnight. The hits kept coming in and a week later we’re just shy of 1400. They’re still happening, too.
Wow, you’re thinking. All that revenue gone. At $10 each that’s $14000. Ah, yes, but how many of those people would have ever purchased the book? The way I look at it, now that they’ve read my work maybe they’ll pick up a copy of my new book release in September called Colorado Christmas. Besides, my Amazon rating dropped 200,000 points this week. I’ll take that as a winning idea.
By the way, the link is still up. If you’d like to get the ebook, click on the link for Reaping the Whirlwind ebook under the Blogroll list on the right.
