It’s been a while without a lot of new responses. I have a few new entries, and I’m going to try to make this guy fit in the window. Rosa Sophia, please let me know if it’s still cut off for you!
**These ratings for book marketing companies are all based strictly on customer experience and opinion. This is a running list and I will be happy to add other customer opinions of book marketing companies to this list. To include your ratings, please comment on this post or email me at katepolicani@gmail (dot) com.
| Company Name | Type of service | Pass? | Costs | Comments |
| 99 cent Network | Listing | Fail | $45 | No obvious return for money and no visibility of book on site. No answers to emails inquiring about where to find the book |
| AtoMr Book Blog Tours | Tours, Book Buzz | Pass | $99 | Did ” an awesome job” “super happy with the results” “booked blogs that get awesome traffic and have a lot of avid readers” |
| Bewitch-ing Blog Tours | Tours | Fail | “half the people who signed up didn’t post and only 3 did reviews even though it was supposed to be 15” | |
| Book-Daily | Listing | Fail | $49 | “amount of sales doesn’t seem to be worth cost” |
| Book-Whirl | SCAM | Fail | Scam Report |
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| Goddess Fish Promos | Tour Reviews | Neut. | $30 | “didn’t break even” but supplied publicity |
| Inno-vative Online Book Tours / Reading Addiction | Tours, Amazon Reviews | Fail | $100 | “A big flop, didn’t follow through as they had promised” “Three blogs didn’t post at all. The ones
who did post had very low followings, and NONE of them posted their review on amazon. Lame excuses from staff.” Bloggers posted ebook giveaway when customer didn’t offer them/wrong day. The ones who did post the correct giveaway all posted separate rafflecopter forms, preventing a fair winner or forcing customer to send 20 prize packs “Hasn’t given me any sales OR amazon reviews. Stay away from them.” |
| Kindle Daily Nation | Listings | Fail | $160 | “no results” (used to be great but saturated with too many books) |
| Kindle Promo Indie Book Listing Service | Tweets | Pass | £15 | “actively promotes books” |
| Nurture Your Books | Tour, Promo, Nat. Press Release | Fail | $995 | Paid for services and “nothing happened” Multiple calls and emails got no reponse. Emails to everyone in the company finally got a response and offer of the book tour but couldn’t make the other person contact me. Customer resorted to refund through the credit card company. |
| Orange-berry Summer Splash Tour | Tours | TBA | $25 | TBA |
| Partners in Crime | Tours | TBA | TBA | |
| Pump Up Your Book | Tours | Fail | Ripoff Report | |
| Promo. Book Tours | Tours, Release parties | Pass x2 | Facebook Page Increased by 700 fans, Twitter increased by 450 Follows, newsletter increased by 150, “booked blogs that get awesome traffic and have a lot of avid readers” | |
| Shades of Rose YA | Tours | Fail | $7.50, $15 | Newer company with small following, had trouble filling tours, do refund when cannot fill tour. |
| Sizzling PR | Tours | Pass -1
Fail -1 |
$15 -$75 | “Nice people and very affordable.”
“90% of the blogs were adult blogs/romance/erotica for a YA book” |
| Smith Publicity | Var. | Neut. | “Stellar results, high prices.” |
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