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I think the Hairy Biker cooking in Egypt, BB2 Monday. helped my book sales :)
On Monday BBC 2 the Hairy Biker was in Egypt and looking at Egyptian dishes and how to make them. (Many of the recipes are in my book 'A Taste of Egyptian cookery' )
The day after the prog I had sold 5 copies in the UK! I hardly ever sell any on the UK Amazon site so I think the prog might have helped here? I tend to sell a couple of copies a month but usually on the USA Amazon site. I'd like to make a paperback copy but with all the colour photos it makes it very expensive to publish.
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Well done
Any ideas?
Would local newspapers/radio be worth a punt? Also, don't know if supermarket magazines are worth contacting...?
Something I learnt yesterday from the social media and marketing session at the romance festival was appealing to the reader, but not doing it in a blatant buy my book way.
Perhaps a couple of ingredients, and a snippet about a particular dish, might need to do a couple of tweets, and include your book link or be blatant, and ask if 'anyone saw the Hairy Bikers in Egypt, and great to see the sort of recipes used that feature in my book, and link to the page'.
Need to put the idea in their mind- perhaps use the cover photo, so even if they only click and go and look they may come back and but in the future.
I'll pop over to Twitter and check and RT.
I do think that we watch programmes and go off on a tangent, via Google and Amazon. I know I do. There's a good lesson for us all - keep an eye on the TV listings and create promotions to suit.