Dear Friends,
At 9.30 a.m IST today, my campaign officially ended and this is the mail that I got from Kindle team at 9.31 a.m
"Thank you for submitting
MIBU & The New Millennium to Kindle Scout. The nomination period for your campaign has just ended and we are reviewing your book for possible selection. "
Later this afternoon, I got the final stats updated and it looks like this.
A steep increase in yesterday's views - 334 views. I'm very grateful to Saravanan Ganesan for reaching out to RCLADM and other units in Chennai and abroad in my support on the final day. Sara, thank you for also reaching out to your friends and social circle outside of work.
My close friend Vinod Vijayakumar had assured to be my campaign manager at the beginning of this campaign and he did a very good job of devising strategies for a large reach. He pulled in people to get ideas. Provided invaluable gyan in marketing. I wouldn't have done a few things if not for his advice and I'm glad I did. He reached out to big shots for support and even changed his FB cover!
More than just a support, Mohanraj Mahi kinda owned this campaigning from the very beginning and did an aggressive marketing throughout via facebook. He also reached out to popular facebook forums to spread the word. Thank you so much Mohan!
Abishek Tripathi- the face of the people team. Thank you for repeatedly featuring my book and sparsh profile in the floor. Also thanks for sharing the campaign link in multiple forums.
Rajesh G - thanks for all the follow ups with the team to get the nominations.
Hema - thank you for your suggestion in getting this campaign featured in sparsh. It definitely added a significant contribution in the total views.
Prasad - Thanks for trying to reach out to smileSettai group for a promo.
Rija - Thank you for campaigning on my behalf at onsite.
Sumit - Thank you for your support and following up with your friends for nominations. Each of those nominations matter.
Vamsi Tellekulla - he was a regular reader of my original story and first follower in my author page. His frequent comments and feedback did play an part in giving me the courage to try a book version in the first place. Thank you Vamsi for your review as well.
Sasirekha - another friend and a reader in my Infyblogs who had given me regular feedback on my writings few years back.
Sharmistha, Rajendra and Jitha - Thank you for campaigning this in your respective DCs.
Thanks to my team members in HRSF and BNSF offshore team in general who had nominated and shared among their friends for them to nominate.
Special thanks to Vijay Anand and Sahithi for the support and sharing this among their friends.
Thanks to my friends who supported by repeatedly sharing and or liking my posts and spreading the word in facebook.
Hanitha, Maha Lakshmi, Sandeep, Sharmistha, Percilla, Sahaana, Garima, Praveen, Manjula, Madhan Viji, Hari Gara Kumar, Deb, Deepa, Brahmini, Umamaheshwari, Anand, Dinesh, Sriram, Naresh, Kalpana, Shravan, Rajendra, Surendar, Vigneshwari, Rohith. Vaishnavi, Adarsha, Ramya, Vadaga, Riya, Sharmila, Gokul, Ramnath, Suvadeep, Kavitha, Pradeep, Dakshina Moorthy,
Jay, Karthick, Rajeev, Shobhit, Pradeep, Megha and Vikram.
Apologies for I'm sure I have missed many more names. Some of you have supported silently. Thank you all for your love and support! I recommend you all liking my page
https://www.facebook.com/shanY2K/ for further updates on this book. This is also a way for me to plan sending you this eBook for free even if my book doesn't get selected.
As always with any venture, I've enjoyed support from my parents, sister and my wife. My father helped with reviewing the draft and suggested lots of corrections which I'm yet to fully incorporate. I will have to do that if this gets selected. Each one of them reached out to their circles to gather support for this campaign. I wish this gets selected for all your efforts!
