Understanding your dashboard

Your dashboard is your home base in BookSparker. It surfaces what needs your attention, shows how your marketing is performing, and puts every tool one click away. Here is what each part does.

Needs your attention

When something is waiting on you, a banner appears at the top of the dashboard. Each row covers one type of action, shows how many items are waiting, and its Review Now button takes you straight to where you handle them. When more than three things need you at once, the rest collapse behind a more items link.

It can surface pending swap requests, swaps waiting on a confirmation, upcoming swaps that still need your book link, group promo applications and edit requests, unread messages, and swaps on hold. Once you have handled everything, the banner disappears on its own.

Your stats at a glance

Below that, four cards give you a quick read on how your marketing is going.

• Readers reached is how many readers your books were put in front of across swaps, group promos, landing pages, and links.
• Clicks on your books counts clicks through to your books across every channel.
• New subscribers is how many readers joined your mailing list.
• Response Rate is the share of swap requests you responded to over the last 12 months. Letting requests expire without responding lowers it, so try to reply even when the answer is no.

Choose View all in Analytics to open the full Analytics page, where every channel gets its own breakdown and you can dive into a single book.

Upcoming commitments

The calendar strip shows your next few scheduled swaps and promotions. Select any day to see the details, or choose View Outgoing Calendar to see everything. This area stays empty until you connect a mailing list, so start there if you are new.

Your assets

This section holds everything that represents you and your books.

Marketing tools

These are the ways you reach new readers.

• Book Swaps let you cross promote with other authors by featuring each other to your mailing lists.
• Group Promos let you join or host promotions with several authors at once.
• Landing Pages are simple pages you can build for any of your books.
• Analytics shows how all of it is performing in one place, from swaps and group promos to landing pages, smart links, and signups.
• Smart Book Links give you one link that sends every reader to their local Amazon store.

Getting set up

If this is your first visit, the Setup Guide at the top of the dashboard walks you through the essentials. The three highest value steps are:

• Add your first book.
• Connect a mailing list.
• Find your first book swap.

Need more help?

If something here is unclear or you run into trouble, contact our team and we will point you in the right direction.