{"id":2837,"date":"2010-09-21T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T06:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2015-06-25T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:39:12","slug":"how-to-set-up-bookbuzzr-amazon-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-set-up-bookbuzzr-amazon-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set up BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve discussed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/book-marketing\/are-you-wasting-time-checking-your-amazon-sales-rank\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a>, checking Amazon Sales Rank can be a major time waster for most authors.<\/p>\n<p>So we went ahead and developed an automated sales rank reporting tool which sends you an email only when your book&#8217;s sales rank improves.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been astounded by the number of authors who have adopted the <strong>BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts<\/strong> service. This article explains how to set up BookBuzzr&#8217;s Amazon Alerts service for your book. Please note that this service is available only to BookBuzzr Pro subscribes (i.e. authors who have subscribed to BookBuzzr)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:\u00a0<\/strong>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookbuzzr.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.bookbuzzr.com<\/a> and sign in. This takes you to your book marketing home page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Click on &#8216;Amazon Alerts&#8217; option under &#8216;Book Marketing Tools&#8217; section:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14551\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1426584535213screensave.jpeg\" alt=\"Book Marketing Home page\" width=\"1004\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1426584535213screensave.jpeg 1004w, https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1426584535213screensave-300x204.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a BookBuzzr subscription, you need to first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookbuzzr.com\/plans.php\">subscribe<\/a> to BookBuzzr plans\u00a0for this feature to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:\u00a0<\/strong>Enter your ASIN number and click on &#8216;Activate Amazon Alert&#8217;. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Standard Identification Number<\/a> (ASIN) is a unique identification number assigned by Amazon.com and its partners for product identification within the Amazon.com organization. Each product sold on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a> is given a unique ASIN. For books with 10-digit ISBN, the ASIN and the ISBN are the same. Books without an ISBN are also assigned ASINs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon Alerts set-up\" width=\"745\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Picture1.jpg 745w, https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Picture1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:\u00a0<\/strong>Sit back and relax. You will receive automatic emails giving you information about your Amazon Sales Rank.<\/p>\n<p>Note that there are two types of BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts. You can choose either or both of these alerts:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Daily Alerts:<\/strong> These emails arrive once a day and give you information about how your book&#8217;s sales rank has moved over the last 24 hours (records only positive changes &#8230; i.e. improvements in your sales rank. The bold numbers are the ranks indicating improvement.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/download1.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Alert\" width=\"734\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/download1.jpg 734w, https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/download1-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Hourly Alerts:<\/strong> These emails arrive every time there is an improvement in your sales rank. If your sale rank gets worse, you won&#8217;t receive an email (bad news can be demotivating for authors!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1426585850741screensave1.jpeg\" alt=\"Hourly Alert\" width=\"865\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1426585850741screensave1.jpeg 865w, https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1426585850741screensave1-300x87.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good luck and happy book-marketing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve discussed in an earlier post, checking Amazon Sales Rank can be a major time waster for most authors. So we went ahead and developed an automated sales rank reporting tool which sends you an email only when your book&#8217;s sales rank improves. 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