Hey everyone! Today is the fourth anniversary of Lola’s Blog Tours!
It’s been four years since I took the leap and started this business of mine and I am so happy to see what it has grown into. First off let me give a big thank you to my awesome banner designer Michelle from Limabean Design! I can’t design at all and I can’t express how amazing it is to have a friendly and reliable designer who is always ready to design my tour banners. She also designed some discount graphics for me this year and they look awesome.
Secondly I want to thank all the authors who took a chance on me and Lola’s Blog Tours and toured one or more of their books with me. Here’s to many more tours! And I want to thank all the awesome bloggers out there who signed-up as a tour hosts or participate in my tours. As a blogger myself I know how much time and effort goes into maintaining a blog and I really appreciate all your help spreading the word about the books I tour.
And thirdly I want to thank the two amazing authors for whom I do assistant work! They are part of the reason I can keep doing this as my full time job and I can’t thank them enough for that!
What happened this year
Just like last year this year saw very little big changes. I build my mailing list for non-fiction tours and since a few months I am now also organizing tours for non-fiction books :). I am currently building my Bookstagram Blitz list after organizing a successful bookstagram blitz for Natalie and the Nerd by Amy Sparling and officially started organizing bookstagram blitzes. A big thanks to Amy Sparling for helping me figure out what a bookstagram blitz would contain. Cover Reveals remain free for now and they turned into my most popular tour, with the book blitz right behind it.
I also started doing more frequent discounts and ran a discount on my review opportunities, all tours and blog tours last year. I definitely plan to keep doing a discount now and then as they prove to be successful so far and I enjoy doing them :).
I maintained my author newsletter and send out a new newsletter approximately once a month. I sent out newsletters featuring tips and info for authors, links to my Lola’s Advice posts and let them know when I was doing a discount. You can sign-up for my newsletter for authors here.
Stats
I always like looking back each year to see how much events I have organized so far. So I included some stats below. These are the total amount of tours I’ve organized in the past four years.
- Blog Tours: 57 blog tours organized
- Book Blitzes: 79 book blitzes organized
- Bookstagram Blitzes: 1 bookstagram blitz organized
- Cover Reveals: 107 cover reveals organized
- Review Opportunities: 59 review opportunities organized (44 of those are still open for sign-up).
The Giveaway – win a book of your choice!
I have a giveaway for everyone! Readers, bloggers, authors etc are all allowed to enter this giveaway. Two winners will each win a book of their choice from The Bookdepository up to $10. If we go over the 1000 entries in the rafflecopter widget I’ll up the giveaway to three winners. Prizes will be given away by Lola’s Blog Tours.
The rules:
Read my giveaway policy here. Extra rules for this giveaway is that you need to live in a country where the Bookdepository ships to
For a chance to win, enter the rafflecopter below:
a Rafflecopter giveaway
The Discount – All blitzes $20 off!
All book blitzes that are booked from 13 September till 13 October will be $20 off. So Book Blitzes will be only $60 instead of the normal price of $80 and Book Blitzes Deluxe are discounted too and will cost only $80 instead of $100!
The Rules
- To make use of this $20 off discount you have to book a Book Blitz or a Book Blitz Deluxe with Lola’s Blog Tours.
- The discount is only applicable on the following type of tours: Book Blitzes and Book Blitzes Deluxe.
- Your tour has to be booked between 13 September till 13 October 2017 and the tour must start within 2 months of booking. So if you book a tour on 13 September, the latest the tour can start is 13 November.
- You need to book a book blitz at least 2 weeks in advance and a book blitz deluxe at least 3 weeks in advance.
- You can book as many tours as you like.
- This discount cannot be combined with other discounts or won giveaway prizes. Lola’s Blog Tours has to right to decline any book that isn’t a good fit to this company or end the discount early.
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