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Name: Books Go Social
Address: 5 Dame Lane, Dublin
Rating: 3.51

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Books Go Social 1 star review on 13th June 2022

Chet Novicki

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I want to thank BooksGoSocial for the excellent service I received. You go to great lengths to help authors find a new audience for their book. Laurence O’Bryan's replies to my emails were prompt and supportive. The Book Trailer created was amazing and what a great job you did with my promotional tweets. BooksGoSocial are well organised and professional. Highly recommended! Kevin J Villeneuve”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Books Go Social does as advertised. They send a tagline of your book through all of their numerous Twitter feeds. For the better part of a week a myriad of twitter posts within their network advertised my book. This, however, did not translate into sales or anything of the sort. I can attribute zero sales to Books Go Social marketing. My money would have probably be better spent buying a copy of my own book and trying to sell it for one dollar more (as that would have been more profitable than using Books Go Social). The Book Go Social advertising blast I paid for went unnoticed in the constant barrage of updates every Twitter user gets on a daily basis. The owner of Books Go Social is affable and seems like he cares, but all warm and fuzzy feelings aside his service did not net any sort of quantifiable exposure or sales.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Horace, I am sorry you were disappointed. We do have long term promotions, which I hope you can take advantage of. The two that may interest you are, your book in an email to our reader list, once a month, if your ebook is under $5 and has 5 reviews on Amazon with an average of 3.5. Plus, extra Tweets for blog posts about your book, if it's written in a readable style. We provide guides to that, which are intended to help you find readers by meeting these requirements. We do push you to meet requirements, which will help you sell your books. We need you to work with us to help your book sell more. Please email me if you want to get involved in these. Laurence O'Bryan BooksGoSocial.com lob@yourasms.com

Posted 9 years ago

“I've been with BooksGoSocial since the beginning. I've seen it grow and extend its reach and improve its promotions. After 2 years with BGS my books have been selling steadily. Okay, my book sales have declined slowly from 50 per day to about 15 per day, but I believe my sales would have died out completely long ago if it hadn't been for BGS promotions (mostly on twitter). I dropped out of BGS for a couple of months during those 2 years and experienced an immediate drop in sales. I would recommend the service to anyone with a decent, well-edited book to sell - and preferably more than one. JJ”

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Posted 9 years ago

“As a self-published author, but with a background in marketing and PR, I thought I would have a smooth ride when it came to launching and marketing my work. Although my knowledge has helped, I've still made mistakes and the amount of help, support and imparted knowledge that has come my way from Books go Social has proved invaluable. The community and service is growing, and there are growing pains, but having access to a group of international writers means that even in the wee hours of the night, somebody is there to respond to a query or post. With access to nearly 400,000 twitter users, trackable data, social media promotion, blog endorsement and access to the thoughts and ideas of nearly 2,000 other independent authors, I would encourage anyone to join the community. It is certainly the most interactive one I have come across so far.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Signing up to #BooksGS has been the singular best marketing intiative I've taken since the release of "The Zebra Affaire". Besides access to the significant "horn" Laurence has created in order to broadcast far and wide information about my novel, I've really enjoyed the collaborative experience with fellow writers. Writing can be isolating, so having the ability to engage with peers, worldwide, and work together on cross-promotions, writing skills, etc. has been an unexpected, but wonderful bonus. Thank you.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Service was professional and prompt.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“The follow through by this company is poor at best. They make promises, but then don't come through. They also change the rules for their promotions to be more difficult for authors to use. Don't waste your money.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Jordan, happy to give you your money back. We can get people to a book on Amazon, but we can't force people to buy it. Just email me and you will get it back in 24hrs.

Posted 9 years ago

“Very friendly initial guidance given for my book promotion as I am a complete novice at marketing and they showed great patience with me. No sign of increase in sales yet but patiently awaiting results. Would also appreciate some ongoing help and constructive criticism.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Ron, thanks for your patience. Email me your Amazon book page link and I will have a look at it, and provide advice, free. Some things may need to be changed.

Posted 9 years ago

“I was very pleased with the service and would recommend it to others.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Thanks for your review, Consuella.

Posted 9 years ago

“I love how fast the market was hit for the social networks. I personally had $0 in sales increase. I will try again.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Bill, thanks for your feedback. Email me your Amazon book page link. We will give you some advice, free. I hope that helps.

Posted 9 years ago

“I don't know that there was any response to the posts. They were the same posts over and over and I think people got turned off by that.”

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Posted 9 years ago

C, We don't get negative comments on Twitter, maybe one a month. At most 5% of our followers are online at any one time, so over a week, most would only see a Tweet once or maybe twice. I think we would expect a lot of people unfollowing us if they were unhappy, but the opposite is happening. I hope you will email me your Amazon book page, so I can see if you need to make any changes there. We get people to your Amazon page, but what they find there has to be appealing.

Posted 9 years ago

“No affect.... very few hits, little response.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Don, If you want your money back, please email me and you will get it back in 24hrs. We ask people to think long term, to look at the appeal of their book, the price, cover, reviews and descriptions. If you want to work with us over the long term email me your Amazon book page and I will get back to you with suggestions. If not, no quibble, you can have your money back.

Posted 9 years ago

“I like the way how Burt Harding is explaining spiritual matters and how he is explaining the difference of consciousness versus awareness - thought versus spirit. The confusion many seekers have in knowing the difference is made clear.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“The mentoring service is very good. The advice of my mentor is quite useful. Thank you.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Very pleased! Books Go Social promotes with vigor. I strongly endorse them.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“The Tweets, Favorites and Retweets have been great to literally tens of thousands of followers and frequently!”

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Posted 9 years ago

“did not see any improvement in sales--did seem to get the impression that holders of twitter accounts were annoyed with spam-like tweets which all seemed to be repetitious..Received offer to spend MORE money to have e-mails sent out to prospective readers..But just started this service in December maybe things will improve--I can only hope...”

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Posted 9 years ago

Jim, I am sorry you haven't experienced any uplift in sales. We are offering a variety of free promotions over the next 12 months, so I hope you will get some extra benefit over that time. Please also email me if you would like me to look at your Amazon page and recommend any changes. lob@yourasms.com Laurence O'Bryan

Posted 9 years ago

“BooksGoSocial did a good job, no question, with an impressive number of Tweets from January 12 to 18 or so, to their 345 000 followers. Some of them (with thousands and sometimes tens of thousands, retweeted (and I duly thanked them). But the bottom line: 3 sales (yes: three) during that week. Although it can't be proven they've bee generated by BGS, I would give them credit for that. But this experience, coming after a few others, proves for me that Twitter is useless to promote books.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Florian, Thanks for your comments. We are offering free promotions through Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and by email over the next year, which I hope you will take up. Twitter doesn't work for everybody, but we do have other options, which deliver potential readers to your book. Laurence O'Bryan

Posted 9 years ago

“Service was quick, responsive, and user-friendly. I've always been satisfied with Books Go Social.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Tanya, Many thanks for your review. We are planning even more free services for our author members in the year ahead. I look forward to delivering even more to all our authors. Laurence O'Bryan

Posted 9 years ago

“In the six months since I've had books go social as a promoter for my book Infinite Possibilities: Chronicles Vol.1 awareness of the book has increased and sales have gone up and I've recommend Books Go Social to my fellow authors. Keep it up, I'm really happy with everything.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Tanya, Many thanks for your review. We are planning even more free services for our author members in the year ahead. I look forward to delivering even more to all our authors. Laurence O'Bryan

Posted 9 years ago

Joe - apologies for the wrong name on my reply! Many thanks for your review. We are planning even more free services for our author members in the year ahead. I look forward to delivering even more to all our authors. Laurence O'Bryan

Posted 9 years ago

Books Go Social is rated 3.5 based on 178 reviews