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Retail Promotion

Planning around retail features, merchandising, and placement opportunities across the platforms where your book is sold.

Visibility where readers actually buy.

Retail platforms sometimes offer features, categories, or merchandising placements that can help a book stand out. Understanding how these work, and positioning your book to be considered, takes planning.

Phoenix can help review your retail listings and plan the steps that may improve visibility on the platforms where your book is sold, always subject to each retailer's own programs and criteria.

What we can do

  • Listing Review

    Review your current retail listings for completeness and presentation.

  • Category & Keyword Check

    Review category placement and discoverability on retail platforms.

  • Feature Opportunity Research

    Identify retailer programs or features that may be relevant to your book.

  • Submission Preparation

    Prepare materials for any applicable retailer program submissions.

  • Promotion Timing

    Plan timing around retailer sales periods or promotional windows.

For authors improving retail visibility.

  • Self-published authors managing their own retail listings
  • Authors unsure whether their book is properly categorized
  • Authors planning a promotion around a retail sales period
  • Series authors coordinating listings across multiple books
  • Authors wanting a professional review of retail presentation

How it works

  1. Step 01

    Tell us about your book

    Share your book, stage, audience, timeline and the help you're looking for.

  2. Step 02

    We review your goals

    Our team looks at what you want to achieve and where your book is today.

  3. Step 03

    We recommend the right approach

    You get a clear recommendation, scope and custom quote — no obligation.

  4. Step 04

    We create or execute the work

    Once you approve the plan, our specialists deliver the work and keep you updated.

  5. Step 05

    We review the next steps with you

    We go through what was delivered and whether there's a sensible next stage.

Why Phoenix

We look at your book as a whole, not one task in isolation. The same team can connect retail promotion with the editing, publishing, marketing or media work around it, so each piece supports the next. We explain what we recommend and why, agree the scope with you before starting, and never promise sales, rankings, coverage or reviews.

Custom packages available

Built around your project.

Every author, book, audience, timeline and goal is different. Tell us what you're trying to accomplish and we'll recommend a suitable approach.

  • Your book
  • Manuscript length
  • Number of assets
  • Campaign scope
  • Timeline
  • Platforms
  • Audience
  • Geographic markets
  • Level of ongoing support
Get a Custom Quote

Start with a conversation

Tell us about your book. We'll help you decide what you need.

Share your book, your goals and your timeline. Our team will review it and recommend the right services with a custom quote.