Explosive Book Sales during 2020 – How? In this blog post, I show you the actions I took in 2020 and how they led to more than doubling my sales.
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Explosive Book Sales During Year 2020
In case you forgot or didn’t read my last post, After My First Book, I Got Exponential Growth – How? let’s review my 2019 sales growth, over 100%.
I won’t leave you in suspense: here are the 2020 results.
During 2020 I went from 359 to 859 books sold! What in the world happened in 2020? Let’s review the year:
During January – New Audiobook and Explosive Growth
I published the audiobook version of my disabled 7th-grade superhero book:
The audiobook proved to be so popular, I gave away over 100 review copies and used up my free audiobook codes. Don’t worry; you can still get it for free by joining Audible here.
I also began pushing all my other audiobooks. That led to many sales through the review codes I get from Audible. I get the codes for free and then Audible pays me when someone redeems them for free.
I still have a lot of audiobook codes. Get yours here.
Explosive Book Sales during March
Take a look at what happened in March.
Month Book Sales
The green color means the monthly sales are above average for my six years of book sales.
What’s going on? Take a look at my audiobook sales:
That’s 337 more audiobooks sold than in 2019! That’s half of the 139% growth. Where did the rest come from? Let’s look at ebooks.
There are another 148 ebook sales, mostly from Zombie Turkeys. Also, the rest of the Life After Life Chronicles all increased from the previous year. Then there are the sales from my two new books.
My Zombie Turkey ebook was priced at .99 and the price reduction led to new sales during 2020. Also, I changed my Amazon ad campaigns to focus on categories, not keywords. That led to me online sales than ever before.
Explosive Book Sales – Two New Books Released during 2020
During 2020 I released Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse on January 2, 2020 and Villain’s Vacation on August 27, 2020.
I now had a short story collection. I gave away free short stories to promote it. The book also promoted the rest of my series.
Also, I now had two books in my Secret Supers series. The sales of one book led to the sales of the other.
Two books, each in two formats, plus the new audiobook, gave me five new items to sell.
My fifth video:
Book Conventions
I had the following conventions in 2020:
| Convention | Date | Books Sold |
| Washington HS | 1/9/2020 | 3 |
| PeoriaCon | 3/7/2020 | 17 |
| QuadCon | 8/29/2020 | 9 |
| Total | 29 |
That didn’t seem to be the source of new sales! How about print sales during 2020?
I only sold 15 more print books than 2019, probably since I only had three book conventions, compared with seven the year before
During 2021 Book Sales were up and down
I went back to book conventions. I ended up selling fewer books (731) but making more profit. I sold more of the profitable print books, but not as many ebooks.
I attribute this to the end of the lockdowns during 2021 and being able to attend more conventions. I also introduced my Square Site where I sell my autographed books, just like I do at conventions. Click here to get your autographed book now.
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Here are the previous posts in this series:
My Sixth-Year Anniversary as a Self-Published Author
What Happened After My First Book Was Published?
Let’s close with my sixth video: