That’s a good point, but actually, the monthly statements just allow me to do a good analysis of the impact once I’ve finished. I don’t know my June sales, for example, until later this month–by which time I’ll be mostly finished. I’ll be able to analyze June and July, the months during which the project happens, in August some time.

For actual tracking, I’m going to be using the same measures anyone else can, as mentioned in the interview. Also, though I didn’t mention it, I’m looking at Amazon sales via http://www.novelrank.com, a tool that estimates actual sales from sales rank fluctuations, and pretty accurately too, from what I can see. That’s a tool anyone can use.

Lack of access to monthly royalty statements shouldn’t deter anyone from trying something like this.

Thanks for the follow-up!
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Thank you for posting about my experiment. I think I’ve got about another three weeks to go, and I’ll let you know how I think it turned out.

For now, just want to add an observation I made after you asked me those questions. There’s a widespread assumption that there’s less of an audience on Twitter on the weekends, and even on Monday and Friday, than there is during the core days of the workweek. And when I started, I followed the conventional wisdom with the tweets in the #cigpcb experiment–I tweeted several times on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, less on on Monday and Friday, and hardly at all on the weekend.

Then I decided to keep going at the several times a day level this past weekend. And I got as many clicks on the links in my tweets, and as many retweets, as I have on a good weekday! There may be fewer active tweeters on the weekends, but there ARE people listening, and there’s far less competition for ears. So anyone planning a Twitter compaign should experiment and see how the weekends are for them, and not just write them off…