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Hi, I've been selling on Zazzle for years, and I think it has gotten harder and harder to compete on there, because they have nearly a million designers, and most niches are over-saturated. I took a look at your Zazzle shop, and while you have beautiful designs, I think you need a lot more products to compete successfully. Years ago on the forums people claimed that you needed 1000 products to really start seeing consistent income, but it actually depends more on your niche and how saturated it is.

Just watched a youtube video by a woman who claims she makes a six-figure income off Amazon. She was advising to not upload your content to Amazon, but instead make your own website and sell it directly. Said you make more money. I don't remember if she even said which print-on-demand company she uses.

I'm very good at reaching out when I think about someone. My problem is not responding when they ask me how I'm doing! 😂 Great lesson here, Kendall! 🙌

thank you for your honesty!

I am also down the KDP journey. I am a fictional author with already 2 books out (of the 4-book series) called Betrayal In the First Degree). This is a personal growth journey to say the least, building your strength every step of the way. This also enriches the knowledge that you could build on. As much as I would love to be more popular, that also comes with a price- the extra work you will have to push through the grind. This is something that I am striving for!! Hope we can become friends, I see we are both starting the you tube journey together. Good LUCK!!

Hello Kendall, here’s some honest feedback on your UA-cam channel. I really enjoyed watching this video. Thank you for creating this great content, really helpful. But when I clicked on your channel to watch other KDP related videos, I couldn’t read the titles of the videos - they’re too long and not displaying in full on my mobile phone. So I didn’t know what to click on. Please think of your viewers when deciding on your titles. Short, direct and easy to read is best!

After re-watching this recently, I realized I didn’t actually mention any of the dreams I’ve had! So here’s one: In college I had a dream about one of the other women in the dorms-that she was in a lot of pain. After waking up, I prayed for her to find healing from her pain. Later on I was able to chat with her in the dorms and tell her about the dream and what I prayed. She said she wasn’t in physical pain, but that her long-time boyfriend had broken up with her and she was in emotional pain from it. She was really moved when I told her that I had prayed for her!

It's a process. Been publishing through Amazon for many years. It took a half a day on most of my books, up to two days in some cases.

It's not that easy. I have been self-publishing on Amazon for over ten years. Twenty books later still there is a process, but you get used to it. Anything of value filled with creativity will not be easy.

Thanks for sharing, it's a good thing you always put on a smile, Keep it up 😊

Wow! Your gift is so cool! God bless!

This was so touching! Thank you for sharing! God bless!

Amazon KDP is another place to cheat innocent authors. I lost about 32 eBooks which were in shelf, and now vanished. I have no access to or recovery

Raise your hand if you’re a UA-camr!🙋‍♀

Kdp is a pain. Use draft2digital. Canva for the book cover. Reedsy to layout and format the book. Got about 6 on kdp and nearly 20 on draft. Making small but real money on draft. Almost nothing on kdp.

Great video

Great video and very true. New subbie

Graphics can be hard. FTI, It's called a template, not a pattern! Good luck!

Hey, read this: "It's bots, they say random names to try and detect any blocked terms by the creator because the owner of a UA-cam channel sometimes puts their real name as a blocked term and these bots are trying to find your name by saying random names until one of them gets blocked." Isn’t that so messed up?!

An absolute pleasure to watch, despite all your travails!! Hope things are going better for you, thanks for sharing, love your good humor!! 👍👏💪🙏😊

Designing your own covers and formatting the interiors is a pain in the butt. I shop it out. The best cover design company I've found is called Miblart. I've used them for multiple book covers as well as manuscript formatting. They charge a reasonable rate and their work is excellent.

What’s your experience with Udemy been like?

Very probverbish and well presented.. Makes a lot of sense in inter personal healing. I feel sorry for modern relationships that social media can harm or reharm at the click of a button. Kind of like the snake can just restrike at any moment, or another can harm you with venom that you never even met tagging on to the others abuse.

I'm so, so sorry for your loss. You're right--when you lose someone close to you it feels almost like you've entered an alternate universe. Being a believer doesn't make it easier in the here and now to not have your loved one with you anymore. It's a tough transition, even when you've been expecting it. Praying for you and your family, Kendall. And I'm happy to hear your subscribers/viewers are increasing--that's fantastic news! :)

Thank you for this , really helpfu.

Thank you! That was very needed! What a timely encouragement! God bless!

I'm so sorry for your loss 🙏My thoughts and prayers to you and your family in those difficult times 😞🙏

Thank you for making this video!! It is absolutely something that I needed to hear. I have been going through this exact problem with someone at work for about a year, and it has been such a struggle to just let things go and to not allow this person to affect my life. I sometimes do catch myself getting in a bad mood because they can sometimes get the better of me. The past couple of months seem to have gotten worse, so your timing of this video is absolutely perfect. This definitely helped me think of how I can better handle this situation and rise above it all. Thank you !!! ❤️😁

Someone out there needs to hear this…

Thank you for being here!

Ugh, I know what you mean. I have one course on Udemy (fiction writing for time-starved people) and get infrequent sales. This is mostly my fault though as I don't do anything to market it. 😄 I also have several novels on KDP and it's NOT the fast, easy money that many here on YT and other social media say it is. But both are fulfilling so it's worth it to me. I hope you get many more students (and readers when you release your KDP book!). Thanks for the great video and your honest, thoughtful perspective.

I'm currently fighting a pressing injustice with Amazon Kindle. They terminated my account, stole my three books, distributed them illegally on different platforms, and sold them at inflated prices for their personal benefit. So, avoiding this company and protecting your author rights and work is better.

Try reading the KDP documents on the website and following them step by step. I just put my first book up after years of not writing, and it was pretty easy to do the paperback, no problems, and it tells you exactly how long everything will take, no guesses. READ THE DIRECTIONS ON KDP. I didn't use Kindle Create, the reviews said it wouldn't be good for my 300 page book and a quality cover. I used Adobe InDesign for the book and Photoshop for the cover and both turned out great! However, I think I'm moving to Scrivener for the book interior, seems like it might be better for me, we'll see. I'm also using ChatGPT to ask any questions, like putting together the ISDN number and Library of Congress registration, and much more. I highly recommend it. ChatGPT makes life so much easier than when I wrote books years ago. ChatGPT is like having an expert sitting next to me.

This is all correct stuff just takes longer to happen than UA-cam people say. Just keep that in mind. Your first book will take for ever to come together. You will learn so much. It will get easier as you do it more. Good luck. Remember “Little by Little”

Thank you for your honesty. I am just starting my journey on KDP. It's nice to hear the downs as well as the ups. I wish you the best.

Ok, I feel your pain. I don't give a flying monkey's pet rat's ass what other people say about publishing with KDP being easy. It's not. It is anything but easy to deal with them. Unfortunately, they have a corner on a certain part of the publishing market that forces us to deal with publishing through them if you're looking to maximize royalties. But there is an alternative publishing outlet that you can go through if you don't mind jacking the price of your book up to get a fair return from Amazon sales. Lulu Publishing. Unlike Amazon and KDP, they genuinely are easy to publish with. They do have certain requirements for how you need to format your book, but their templates are easy to understand and work with. That is what you were trying to figure out what you had to download. You have to do it with all self-publishing outlets. I've been writing and publishing through lulu for over a decade, and if you're interested, I would be open to helping you with learning the ropes and getting your book published.

Thanks for sharing❤ very useful info

On Amz. there are many who gave it 5 stars, but the 1-star reviews sounded a lot like yours - such a weird book, I'd agree!

Sounds Alice in Wonderlandish.

Any cozy book recommendations for me? I’m always looking for suggestions!

Glad to see that i am not alone. The ordeal had me convinced i was either born stupid ir getting senile (i am 80 yo). Again, thanks for the company. Will try and keep tabs on you...

In addition to being brave, you're an engaging story teller. I wouldn't normally stick around for a twenty minute experiment from a total stranger, especially after waking at 4:40 in the morning. Usually I'd watch three seven minute videos over a twenty minute one. As a creator I'd want to go with the length people are willing to complete. Anywho, not the sort of answer you were looking for, but I hope it's helpful.

If the longer video is more of what they like to watch, they get more of what they want and so will watch longer. if it's just dragging out with fillers, it's a time suck to get just a bit of what they want when they can just watch many quick feeds in the same amount of time. Some like a direct approach, some like the story telling approach. Making both styles will get views from both types and you'll have thus increased viewing hours.

What some call loneliness, others call solitude. I enjoy strangers more than friends, because they are so much less work. I pride myself on being capable in most things and people who aren't like to use people that are.

Great story. As a watcher, in the morning I'll review what new interest content is available then usually "save to watch later" anything 15 minutes or longer for the evening. Removed TV's though, so commercial free content is more enjoyable. Once I'm looked at as sales potential, I'm gone. Good luck in your quest. Yes you were brave and protective, because they had the capability to unlock the chapel door and possibly harm those you were watching over.

Content creators, do you get more watch hours from your long videos or short ones?

What have you learned while looking for a job?

Im looking into it. I thought they said you need a great cover to sell the book, so need to hiring an artist for that. Then you need 3 books in the niche. Also your first book will be bad and its a learning curve Then you need to run ads, like $2 per day to see if you make money from it. The first 30 days you want more sales, then your book can start to go higher. Also your idea works better if you have knowledge or interest around the item, or if you are solving a problem you had and helping others. I like alex hormozi video about selling to 5 people. You give the product away to 5 people in exchange for feedback to make it better and keep making it better. So the way for it to be 1 hour a week that saun puts in is by hiring ghostwriters, artists, and basically outsourcing someone to develop your content. But you have to make some sales first! Im working on my idea #3 as my first published thing. Its a journal too. We'll see how it goes. I felt my other two ideas will take a year to develop or will cost a fortune to make! Keep us posted how it goes. Make 2 more items and run $2 of ads for 5 days to see if you will get a sale to cover the ad cost? If the ad works, then you can spend more on the ads. Thats my takeaway anyway. Just learning right now.

That was a very honest !