Spoiler Alerts, a lot of movies are coming out based on books. I've found places where I can get spoilers for these. The books they were based on.
It turns out the authors of the books have given out spoilers in great detail. Thousands of words of spoilers.
You can go see the upcoming Romeo and Juliet, but some guy named William Shakespeare already gave out the ending. Spoiler Alert: They die at the end.
It's the same with a lot of upcoming movies.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith already gave away the ending in a book and a graphic novel.
With the sequel to the Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins gave away the ending in her book.
Even worse, Movies based on historical events. Most Universities have entire departments dedicated to giving out spoilers.
I've been watching the series Spartacus, it turns out there are many Professors at several universities that have based their careers on giving out spoilers for this series.
The only way to avoid spoilers is to never read books and never study history, that way you won't know the ending to “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”
By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Evil Minion Sales Force
I have to apologize to my evil minions. I didn't think their sales pitch would work but yesterday my book SHOWGIRLS AND ALIENS shot up to #45 in Amazon's Sci-Fi Adventure category. So they must be really selling the hell out of it.
At least that's why I think it's going so well.
Why do you think it's more people are downloading it.
It's free this week.
Matt's great Review
My Evil Minion Sales Force
All of the above.
As always vote on the upper left side of the page.
By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE
At least that's why I think it's going so well.
Why do you think it's more people are downloading it.
It's free this week.
Matt's great Review
My Evil Minion Sales Force
All of the above.
As always vote on the upper left side of the page.
By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Marketing Fails
In case anyone didn't know my new book: SHOWGIRLS AND ALIENS is free this week on Amazon. It is already #94 for free adventure ebook in Kindle store.
One thing that writers hate is Marketing, I'll share some Marketing tactics that didn't work for me.
SOCKPUPPETS:
I can see why this doesn't work. I grabbed a Sock and made a puppet out of it. I started talking to it about my book. I'm getting all excited telling the sock about my book when he interrupts me and tells me socks don't read.
I told him socks don't talk either.
He asked me how I was hearing him if he can't talk.
I didn't have a response, so I said he was an insane piece of cotton that was born in a sweatshop.
We got in a yelling match over who was more evil, the product of a sweatshop or the consumer who buys the product.
Finally my wife came in and broke up the argument. She put the sock in the sock drawer as time-out and made me write on my next novel as my time out.
LESSON LEARNED: If you are going to talk to a Sockpuppet about your book, make sure you find a friendly one.
ANNOYING E-MAIL CAMPAINS:
I thought about emailing everyone I know saying, “Buy my book”. As a former marketing guy I know the importance of testing these things first. So the first email I sent was to myself. I proudly hit send and went back to look at the copy of what I had written. Then I got an email interrupting me. It was from Darrell B. Nelson asking me to buy his latest book.
Annoyed at being interrupted I emailed him back saying to stop Spamming me.
Looking at the results of my first test, I found 100% of the people I sent emails to asked me to stop with the spam.
SENDING OUT A SALES FORCE:
I gathered my evil minions and told them to tell everyone about my book. I was just about to set them loose to spread the word, when I remembered that I should try a role playing exercise. I pretended to be the customer and listened to their pitch.
“Meow.”
Okay that's good, but doesn't really get to the heart of the matter. Let's try again:
“Purrrrr.”
Still not mentioning the product enough, but it was really cute.
Then they started needing ear rubs and petting. Before I knew it the afternoon was gone.
Looking at the numbers, sending out evil minions didn't really help with sales.
Those are some of the Marketing Ideas I tried, your results may vary.
By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE
One thing that writers hate is Marketing, I'll share some Marketing tactics that didn't work for me.
SOCKPUPPETS:
I can see why this doesn't work. I grabbed a Sock and made a puppet out of it. I started talking to it about my book. I'm getting all excited telling the sock about my book when he interrupts me and tells me socks don't read.
I told him socks don't talk either.
He asked me how I was hearing him if he can't talk.
I didn't have a response, so I said he was an insane piece of cotton that was born in a sweatshop.
We got in a yelling match over who was more evil, the product of a sweatshop or the consumer who buys the product.
Finally my wife came in and broke up the argument. She put the sock in the sock drawer as time-out and made me write on my next novel as my time out.
LESSON LEARNED: If you are going to talk to a Sockpuppet about your book, make sure you find a friendly one.
ANNOYING E-MAIL CAMPAINS:
I thought about emailing everyone I know saying, “Buy my book”. As a former marketing guy I know the importance of testing these things first. So the first email I sent was to myself. I proudly hit send and went back to look at the copy of what I had written. Then I got an email interrupting me. It was from Darrell B. Nelson asking me to buy his latest book.
Annoyed at being interrupted I emailed him back saying to stop Spamming me.
Looking at the results of my first test, I found 100% of the people I sent emails to asked me to stop with the spam.
SENDING OUT A SALES FORCE:
I gathered my evil minions and told them to tell everyone about my book. I was just about to set them loose to spread the word, when I remembered that I should try a role playing exercise. I pretended to be the customer and listened to their pitch.
“Meow.”
Okay that's good, but doesn't really get to the heart of the matter. Let's try again:
“Purrrrr.”
Still not mentioning the product enough, but it was really cute.
Then they started needing ear rubs and petting. Before I knew it the afternoon was gone.
Looking at the numbers, sending out evil minions didn't really help with sales.
Those are some of the Marketing Ideas I tried, your results may vary.
By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE
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