Fiverr Advertisers

 When you are a self-published author, quite often you do not have any marketing support.  If you want to publicize your book, you do it yourself.  If you have no experience in that area, you learn!  OR  You find the money to invest in marketing.  

Being with Amazon KDP, they do offer paid advertising.  It is a bit costly, but is it worth it?  I do not know.  I did try a week with a VERY SMALL budget and noticed some traffic increase, but quite frankly, I do not have the money yet to invest any more.  So, I looked at Fiverr.

My goodness you can find someone to do most anything on that site!  There are a good many that claim to be able to help advertise your book as well.  I just did not get a good feeling about any of them though, so I never made a move.  But then a dear friend bought me a $50 advertising plan with a woman who claims to be based out of the Chicago area.

At this point, I really have no idea who this person really is.

I haven't noticed any increase at all for the $50 and no big sales jump.   They were advertising in Pinterest, Instagram and LinkedIn.  I checked out their ads, and quite frankly, I have done better.    (I included their ad here)

On any of their advertised books, there have been 0 to few pins, very few likes in Instagram and no likes in LinkedIn.  So I did some digging.  Their Instagram account in based in Pakistan.

*SIGH*

Can you trust anything you see on the net anymore?