How Do I Engage with People Who Buy My Book on Amazon?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today’s question comes from Byron: How can he optimize or maximize marketing for a book on Amazon? What service could he use to manage the post-sale follow up? Byron’s site is https://bmxteacher.wordpress.com. Do you have a question about marketing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today’s sponsor is FreshBooks. Go to http://www.freshbooks.com/askpat and enter “Ask Pat” in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:01.0	AskPath.
0:05.0	AskPath.com.
0:06.0	Dot com.
0:07.0	Askpats.
0:09.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:11.0	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 939 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. All right. Now, here's today's question from Byron. Hi, Pat. This is Byron TGI Friday.
0:27.8	I'm at BMX Teacher.com. My question is regarding optimizing your marketing for Amazon book
0:35.3	pre-sales. I've recently purchased three books on pre-sales. I recently purchased three books on pre-sale, and the marketers did not
0:44.0	leverage any kind of technology for pre-marketing or post-sale marketing. No follow-up anything.
0:51.5	It seemed like there was a lot of opportunity to engage with the person who pre-bought the book on the pre-sale.
0:58.9	I'm curious your thoughts about how to optimize or maximize your marketing if you're using Amazon.
1:08.3	What service would you use to manage the sale manage the post sale follow-up
1:17.4	etc so that you can engage with that person that bought your product thanks so much you
1:23.0	you rule you're so helpful and your smart passive income is incredibly valuable. Thanks so much.
1:32.6	Hey, Byron. Thank you so much for the question. I appreciate you and all the amazing support.
1:37.2	Thank you for that. Now, the trick is, how do you know who's buying when somebody buys on amazon and that's why authors struggle
1:46.7	with amazon especially during the pre-sale phase is because amazon doesn't tell you
1:50.9	amazon does not give you a list of email addresses they don't give you access to any names
1:56.4	of the people who buy your book ahead of time, at least as far as I know.
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