What you are actually buying

Assets: trailers, audiograms, vertical cuts, cover motion, banners, quote cards — the material a campaign spends.

Distribution: paid placement, social posting, radio and podcast spots, mailing lists, press outreach. Reach is countable; buying it is a known cost.

Time: someone scheduling, cutting and reporting week after week. Most campaigns fail from stopping, not from the wrong idea.

What no honest service can promise

Sales, bestseller placement, review counts and algorithm favour are outcomes of a market, not deliverables of a contract. A service that guarantees them is either bluffing or buying something you would not want bought.

Judge a proposal by what it hands over and where it runs — the number of assets, the platforms, the weeks, the spend. If a proposal cannot be counted, it cannot be checked.

The house's campaign

Marketing is an add-on to a build here, sold in three weights — Kindling at $5,000, Wildfire at $9,000, Conquest at $13,000. Each is a defined quantity of cut content and placement across social video, audio and radio.

Every claim we make is about effort and reach, never about sales, rankings or reviews. You are told what was made, where it ran and how many people it reached.

Before you spend anything, the free instruments in the Workshop will produce your trailer cuts, audiograms, vertical plates and a posting calendar at no charge.

Asked and answered

How much do book marketing services cost?

The trade runs from a few hundred dollars for a handful of assets to five figures for a sustained campaign. Here it is a defined add-on: $5,000, $9,000 or $13,000 by weight.

Can a marketing service guarantee sales or a bestseller list?

No. Sales and rankings are market outcomes, not deliverables. A guarantee of either is a warning, not a selling point.

What can I do for free first?

Cut a trailer, make audiograms and vertical plates, test your blurb and title, and build a posting calendar — all free in the Workshop, with nothing to buy and no account to open.