6 Ways to Use Feedback Effectively in Order to Improve Your Kindle Books.

Many authors are reluctant to receive feedback as they are scared of what they might hear. I argue that running away from feedback doesn't make the things any less true. Inviting feedback and processing that feedback healthily can really be the difference between success and failure. In this article, I break down the main ways you can use feedback to improve your Kindle books.

1. Make It Easy For People To Leave Feedback

First and foremost, you have to make it easy for your customers to leave you feedback. Most authors rely on Amazon entirely, however, it is important to have an active profile on the major social media channels, especially Facebook, where people can leave reviews.

Additionally, it’s important to have an active profile on sites like GoodReads, frequented by thousands of readers a day, so reviews can be left on there.

2. Ask For Feedback, Routinely

In addition to have an active profile on multiple sites/platforms where readers often write and read reviews, an equally important thing is to ask for feedback. Simply put, the more you ask for reviews, the more you will get reviews.

Be sure to ask politely but firmly. You want to encourage the customer to leave a review, but not be so forceful that it has the opposite effect.

3. Collect Feedback In A Table.

In addition to have an active profile on multiple sites/platforms where readers often write and read reviews, an equally important thing is to ask for feedback. Simply put, the more you ask for reviews, the more you will get reviews.

Be sure to ask politely but firmly. You want to encourage the customer to leave a review, but not be so forceful that it has the opposite effect.

4.  Highlight All Criticism.

Once you have all the reviews in a table, now is the time to comb through each and every one of them and highlight all the criticisms throughout the reviews.

It is a painful task but will prove very useful when it comes to improving your Kindle book writing for the future.

5.  Group Common Criticisms.

Once you have highlighted all criticisms across all reviews in the table, now is the crucial step of grouping common criticisms together.

This task is vitally important. The goal is to find out what the main criticisms are – the things that most people complained about, so you know where to focus your improvement efforts.

Doing this will allow you to prioritise fixing the things that are most complained about.

6.  Come Up With A Strategy To Address The Most Common Criticisms.

Once you have grouped all the criticisms across all reviews together and can easily see which things are complained about most, you can now set out a clear and well thought out strategy to improve the things that are most complained about.

This allows you to very efficiently and effectively use the negative comments in your reviews to vastly improve your Kindle writing, so your future books lead to higher satisfaction, and thus, higher sales.