Jackie Weger of eNovel Authors At Work (#eNovAaW) recently shared her experience promoting her book using free days. Even though Bookbub has repeatedly accepted her, she wanted to learn if indie authors could earn out in less costly promotions. Her first experience, which you can read about here, was positive. So, now was the time to repeat the experiment and see which promoters offer the best value for money. She has ran two promos so far:

The First Promo

Jackie ran a 5 day Free promo on her romance novel, No Perfect Fate, in January 2017. Total units moved: 7,316. She spent $431.00 advertising that and earned $689.30, plus 98,931 KENP pages read and 127 crossover sales of 2.99 priced books. When that is added, it was a nice return on investment–a bit over $1000.

Jackie promoted with the following promoters:

• eReaderIQ
• DigitalBookToday
• Kindle Romance Deal and…