The kind of pushy I fear is what is sometimes needed to sell your product or yourself. People don't like pushy and I want to be liked. Years ago, I sold cosmetics in combination with doing colors. Getting your colors done was a fad and I was a trained colorist. Using eye color and patterns combined with hair and skin tones, I could tell you whether you were a summer, winter, autumn or spring. Your season designation told you what colors your wardrobe should be. I would then give my customer a makeover with the proper makeup colors. The whole service was free, but I hoped to sell them skincare and makeup. I operated out of a salon for a while and the owner told me I had a marvelous soft sell approach. Ha. I had a soft sell approach because I didn't like to sell - to ask or close the deal. I had the same problem when I operated a craft business with my sister. I was dynamite at creating the home decor but had a terrible time getting it sold. It just feels pushy to close the deal.
Amanda in the Summer is free still today and the link is below. Just a brief mention. Not exactly soft sell but hopefully not pushy. Is it?
http://tinyurl.com/mb5cwly
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You convinced me. I went over to get my download. Now that wasn't so hard, was it? Seriously, though, you're a woman after my own heart. I'm comfortable when I write, very uncomfortable when the time comes to promote!
See how my soft sell works! LOL thanks, Margo.
I am also afraid of being pushy...there is a fine line between relaying info and being annoying. :-) I already have Amanda in the Summer, read it and loved it! Best of luck
Got my copy. I agree about wondering where the line is. Yours is fine.
Oh yes, that invisible line. Thanks, y'all!
Downloaded on day 1. Now to find time to read! It's funny how pushy works some places for me and not others. I tweet my head off and don't care if I'm pushy. But on FB I have actual non-author friends whom I don't want to OD on promo. I think we have to pick and chose our pushy moments. You're doing just fine.
You're so right, Jannine. Social sites will tire of us real soon if we over do it.
Have my copy and recommended your book to others. Pushy is as pushy does...self-promotion is not pushy, it's recognizing your own worth. You deserve to do well! We all do! So there. That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it. (Insert grin)
Tell it like it is, Ashantay!!
I hate this whole self-promo thing. I could never sell products because I dislike being pushed into something I really don't want. So I promote to a degree and hope for the best. I'd sooner promote other writers. I can be pushy over someone else's book. LOL Great post.
Imagine how I feel. I couldn't even sell Girl Scout cookies. I just couldn't bring myself to ask someone to buy something. I haven't changed much...
I also dread being pushy and am horrible at it. I want to put my new book up for its free days soon, but I'm frozen with indecision over how to make the most of the opportunity while staying within my comfort zone. Probably impossible.
Vonnie, so right. It is easier to promo others. Oh funny RE. I lasted one year as a brownie and probably for that reason. It's a tough balance, Alison. And a lot of work. Good luck.
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