Comments on: Manage your expectations https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/ Do-it-yourself book marketing tips, tools, and tactics Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Sandra Beckwith https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21804 Sun, 27 Mar 2022 20:49:54 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21804 In reply to Arabella McIntyre-Brown.

Thanks, Arabella. Nobody’s disappointed when a friend buys dozens of their books as gifts, so no need to manage expectations in that situation. I’m curious about something else in your comment, though. Do you ask friends outright to buy your book?

Sandy

]]> By: Arabella McIntyre-Brown https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21803 Sun, 27 Mar 2022 14:09:14 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21803 Good advice. But even if family and friends don’t read your books, some of them may either recommend them, and/or buy them as gifts. One friend of mine (bless his little cotton socks) has bought dozens of my books to give to his clients, friends, new friends. He gets me to sign them, and they make good introductions for him. Win-win. Some friends expect freebies, and get moody when I ask for a slice of their weekly wage packet because I’m their chum. They don’t always get the point, and even if they do they still never buy a book…

]]> By: Sandra Beckwith https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21802 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:35:03 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21802 In reply to Katharine.

That’s generous of you. I like it!

Sandy

]]> By: Katharine https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21801 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:27:05 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21801 I also am one to give my books to family. I would not want to be the one they cringe to see b/c I might dun them about a book.

Again. 🙁

]]> By: Sandra Beckwith https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21800 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:41:07 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21800 In reply to Rebecca J. Wetzler.

I’m glad it struck a chord with you, Rebecca. As you’ve realized, your goal is to reach the RIGHT readers, and that isn’t always the people closest to you. It’s not personal — it’s just life. We’re all different and because of that, we have different interests.

Whether or not somebody buys and/or reads your book shouldn’t be a friendship test, right?

Sandy

]]> By: Rebecca J. Wetzler https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21799 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:27:40 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21799 Thank you for this encouragement, and reminder that not everyone who knows an author will be interested in reading what they write! That has been slowly dawning on me since my book was published. Some say they will buy it, but really don’t. Others have bought it, and it really is ministering to them. Which is what the goal is anyway.

]]> By: Sandra Beckwith https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21798 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:14:04 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21798 I’d want to read a relative’s memoir, too, W.M., just for fact-checking purposes!

Sandy

]]> By: W. M. Raebeck https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21797 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:17:49 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21797 Good article. But I was thinking just the other day that [some of] my family and friends seem the MOST interested in my books. I write memoir—maybe they’re just checking to see if I renamed-then-bashed them, or they’ve seen me scribbling forever and wonder what all the practice has amounted to. Some are also loyal reviewers (with prodding), and they do seem to earnestly enjoy the books. But your point about finding appropriate readers holds true in my case just as much. We want being ‘a household name’ not to mean ten households.

]]> By: Sandra Beckwith https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21796 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:57:23 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21796 In reply to Gail Baugniet.

Thanks!

Sandy

]]> By: Gail Baugniet https://buildbookbuzz.com/manage-your-expectations/#comment-21795 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 05:07:27 +0000 http://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=5382#comment-21795 I tend to give family and close friends my published books. Those interested in writing a review are greatly appreciated but mostly they offer verbal comments.

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