I also wanted to tell you that if I ever ever become very extremely successful at KDP publishing, I want to be transparent and tell people how to honestly how to do this, so they can be successful as well, so thank you so very much for being genuine and sincerely wanting to help other people to do as well as you are! I greatly appreciate it.
Don't wait to get an answer how people sell their books that bad. No one will tell never. I have been watching more than 100000 videos in this issue kdp and how running ads... But I didn't get any answer. But lately I figured it how. It is just so easy to figured it out as easy as you can imagine. When you start really analyzing those books you will get it. That strategy I think just few people who do it.good luck
Chris, as always, you explain things with such clarity and it leaves few questions, at least for me. I have always said that KDP is NOT a get rich quick scheme and it is unfortunate, (at least when I started over 2 years ago) that is how it was always promoted. Just like you said, hundreds of "Gurus" out there wanting to sell a course or an affiliate program. Rarely would you find the person who actually has had the discouraging feeling of doing everything as suggested (by others) and it yields no sales. There are a handful (3? 4?) of folks that I follow for KDP and you of course are one, who have maintained transparency and given the good with the bad. All of this to say, thank you! I appreciate your experience and knowledge. I look forward to your videos and have gained a lot by watching and following them. Looking forward to your next project, and as always, thank you!❣
These vids from you are great because they're down to earth and realistic. None of this make $10k a month with KDP hype like it's just some easy thing to do.
Absolutely amazing content!! Three things: 1. Your videos are so informative that when they are shorter than 25 minutes I'm wanting more. 2. Can't wait to watch that in-depth case study you are making, especially excited about learning how to run ads. 3. I'm joining your FB group and getting that free ads course as we speak. Thank you for trying to enlighten people on all aspects of KDP!!
You're right, you have to watch out for these content creators that are only making videos about kdp for views and ad revenue on YT. I have had to block several people that obviously just recreated someone's tutorial. I appreciate your channel because you are actually in "the business" and it shows. Thank you
You are the only person I listen to about KDP now...You tell it exactly as is...I could listen to your voice for hours so looking forward to next video already 😜
I've been trying to learn as much as I can on KDP for the past 6 months or so as I feel like it's a good outlet for my illustration and Graphic Design background except all the videos I came across made me feel pretty disheartened. Not when most of them were either trying to hock some pay for plug-in or some get quick scheme by spamming KDP with a bunch of need no skill- slapped together online-website-clip-art-books uploaded en mass. I have to say your videos have felt the most honest and they have been refreshing.
Thanks for this video Chris, I stuck around until the end and really enjoyed your in-depth overview of kdp as a whole. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you
This is the first video of yours that I have seen. All I can say is THANK YOU! I am going to subscribe to your channel. You sound like you have a more practical approach to publishing on KDP than a lot of the other people I have watched. I am a beginner at publishing word search books. I did my own research before starting this project. I am learning with every book, what not to do again, and how to improve as I go along. Anyway I need to look into the ads, for at least one of my books, to start with. So I can see how it all works.
Thank you so much. 🙏🏾 This is a refreshing video. So few are transparent with the side hustles. Especially KDP. I just published my first book on KDP. It’s a workbook and journal. The first 40 pages are unique continent on how to structure, organize and achieve your goals. So many UA-camrs were talking about medium content books. I thought my book was medium content until Amazon made it clear to me that there is no such thing. It’s either low-content or it’s not. Because the majority of my book is journal pages, KDP classified it as low continent. I’m ok with that and I’ve made a few sales but I have no clue what I’m doing and haven’t done ads yet because I don’t know how. I can’t wait for your course to drop. I joined your Facebook group and I’m excited to learn more. ♥️♥️♥️
Mr Raydog, I’ve watched lots of your videos (always good). This one though really struck a cord. I love the advice and knowledge you have shared and it resonates with what I’ve been thinking for a while - but it’s so great to hear it from a pro! I’ve put off publishing my 1st coloring book as it really needs time spent on it to make it a little different but also at least as good as what’s out there. Thanks for being honest with us. best wishes.
Thank you for this honest take on lined notebooks. I have 24 lined notebooks and journals and let's just say they are not paying the bills, lol. I spent a lot of time making the artwork for the covers. Each cover design is targeted toward a specific demographic with its subject matter & style. I did niche research for all of them. They've been on Amazon for 5 months and I've sold a total of 46 units. Most of those sales are from ads. I'm basically breaking even because I had to spend so much on ads just to get those sales. I'm hoping those sales will lead to more organic sales in the future but, so far, lined notebooks are definitely not a money maker.
can you use the covers for other 'matching' items ie people might want a notebook and a log book and a diary with the same cover? You could create one interior for each 'other' project then you'll have 24 x 3 (or 4, 5...) extra products without having to do too much work to the existing covers ie just change the wording on the front.
@@Lea_1113 You would have to change some things about the cover, such as the title. I wouldn't recommend using exactly the same cover, but you could make a "matching" cover using the same colors and some of the same decorative elements, just rearranging them in a different design and adding/subtracting some elements. A lot of people do this when they create brands.
@@ComedorDelrico I think Leah was suggesting this as a way for YOU to make more from your initial effort without going to a great deal more effort. If the artwork on each cover already targets a specific demographic, then don't change a thing but the titles. Lined Notebook for Oldies welcomes Wide-Rule Lined Notebook for Oldies and Graph Paper for Oldies. You see?
@@WeaselWorks Oh, I see what you're saying. I thought they were asking for advice. 😂 I prefer to just make new covers, as I feel using the same cover over again would cheapen my brand.
It is amazing to me that anyone would be anything but happy with the information that you share. IMHO people don't understand the way to make anything work is to jump in and try it, fail at it, try it again, do better but still fail, take all you learn and jump in again. People don't want to do that. I watch a lot of KDP creation videos and from the comments it seems what is wanted is a cookie cutter way to make $5000 a month, some of it is the content creators fault with the ludicrous claims of mantra from the sky falling in abundance and some of it is the society that we live in now. I just have fun, ride the ride and make a few books. It ain't your fault they aren't selling it is a shark infested market. Sometimes the little fish make it and sometimes they don't. Thanks for the information and the time taken sir!
Thanks for your awesome videos Chris. So refreshing to hear someone who tells it like it is, rather than how much money we can make and how quickly. All the best ;-)
Excellent video! I was hooked from start to end - and it is exactly what all would-be self-publishers of any kind of book should be watching and studying. I followed your advice from your free ads course and, over a couple of months, I have been monitoring and tweaking the campaigns and have made around 100 sales from the ads... so they do work! However, as you say, it takes time and is an ongoing learning curve. Thank you so much for your generosity and honesty.
Nice to hear from you, Leanne! Good work with the ads. Definitely be careful with the ads during Q4 though, the spend for me last year was pretty mad...
@@ChrisRaydog Hi Chris, funny you should say that! I've been receiving emails from Amazon about quarter 4 ads, and I've been wondering how to go about it. I was thinking that you probably have a video on the subject!
Thanks so much for this vid! I started my journey around a year ago and watched countless UA-cam vids, all of which were a load of rubbish. Your the only one that I watch now… I enjoy the design process and that’s my strength, the other stuff has taken some hard work but you have explained everything so well! Can’t thank you enough!
Can’t thank you enough, I fell initially for the ‘make passive income videos’ even tho my area of expertise is online marketing 😅. I uploaded two crappy notebooks and thought this isn’t right. I made a colouring book which I love (took forever to get on KDP), and then created a series of 12 branded and very niche notebooks, saw one of your videos and started experimenting with ads and got my first sale 3 days after going live! May be a fluke but I can’t wait to start this journey. 🎉 thank you for your honest approach!
I fell for the UA-cam hype and went forward with creating low-content books. I put a lot of effort into the covers using my own photography to create them. Had lots of fun and I guess I have around 60 books sitting on Amazon. My fallback was not understanding how to research a niche well first and not understanding the keywords entirely. I also did not advertise so yes I made quite a few books that have just got lost on Amazon. I purchase my books for gifts sometimes and I have been pleased with the look of each and every one. I also have sold 8 books without even trying. Maybe I might try to advertise one or two of them and see what happens.
Niche research and keywords are very important, also your Title, subtitle and description are very important, without these 5 keys, it will be very hard to sell anything on Amazon
I just saw a great video explaining why your low content books may not be selling. You already started the process so keep learning and doing research! Starting any type business takes time, patience, and persistence so keep going! ua-cam.com/video/LJlNunphpeQ/v-deo.html
"Consider advertising if you sell 2 copies organically." That's a tip I heard from another channel. A possible indication of demand is selling any number amount without advertising. Take this with a grain of salt, because I am just starting out on this "low-content" journey.
@@quadren4 No, you're right. If you put something out that found its way into someone's shopping cart without doing anything to advertise it, and then it happens again(!), that is a very good sign that you'll see multiple sales if you do put some ad spend behind it. Just two things to consider... First, make sure it's not your mom buying the books! And second, how long did it take to get those first two sales? The tip behind Raydog's advice to run ads and get sales as soon as possible has to do with your date of publication. You want everything about your book to look good to potential buyers - sales copy, quality of product, reviews - including, whenever possible, evidence of multiple sales in a short a period of availability as possible. "Wow! This has only been out two weeks and it already has three 5-star reviews; it's probably been purchased about 10 times!" Whereas, if it takes 6 months for you to get those two sales, and let's say neither of them give your book a review, and THEN you throw it up in ads, they're not going to be nearly as lucrative for you, because people will see it's been sitting there for 6 months with no evidence of being popular. Of course, it's not automatically a lost cause, either. Either way, good luck to you.
As far as a niche being saturated, just check out the publishing dates of books making sales. Best selling books in every niche I've seen have publishing dates from a couple of years ago to a couple of months ago. Have any notebooks sold that were published last month? I bet they have.
Thank you Chris. You really pointed out some important issues. I love that u have told us to make our book 5% better than last one!! Should follow this thing. And can I still get that FREE COURSE?
Regarding the end of the video, what you describe is completely in line with Stephen Jay Gould's book Full House. As more people enter a field, the performance standard shifts and it takes so much more to stand out. The unstated truth in those pushing new trends is that it's just a newer field with so little competition that the standard hasn't shifted yet. But you seem to be pushing to perform above that shifted standard when others would look at it and decide it's not worth it because the field is "saturated".
Great advice in this video! And I appreciate your transparency in showing the steps, especially how running Amazon Ads is an important part of this process. With ads do you know upfront how much you will be spending or are you billed at the end of the month after clicks are added up? My fear is using ads and then at the end of the month being surprised with a bill for a lot more than I was expecting to spend.
Thank you for another brilliant video! Question please: Do you always start with the lowest price possible for books when you publish them? And if so - do you do it to all kinds of books (no, low and medium)?
New subscriber here! When creating the composition notebooks and regular notebooks is it ok for them to have just the lined pages or do you need to make them have some sort of design on the inside pages to stand out? I know the covers need to be different but does the inside as well? I have created a hardcover and softcover journal already, and have had no sales on them so far. It's discouraging but I have never been one quick to give up. I appreciate your honesty in this video. I learned a lot.
No, the idea for notebooks (by which I assume you mean lined paper) is generally not to have any extras on the interior pages. Stand-out cover, quality interior (with the lines being equa-distant and uniform throughout, etc.), solid sales copy on the product page, good title laden with well researched, excellent keywords, and all of that in a tight, popular sub-sub-niche. Then, run it in a couple good ads.
Thank you-some of these vids are motivating but at the same time, they are the reason quality and creativity is going downhill on various sites. Etsy (super generic stuff sold as homemade, handmade etc) and amazon (where half the listings are epic generic BS under different non-brands and also on temu for 1/2 the price)...
Chasing trends with book publishing is fine, cause when you are done with the book, it lasts forever. So if the trend comes again, it will pick back up.
I have a coloring book that is up on sale since 4 days. 2 days agoI started ads and nothing is happening. I used settings people recommended in yt and it only got 2 impression and 0,03 cent spend and it froze there. I put the daily limit to 7 usd, but amazon isnt using my money at all. Do you know why?
Does this work (the ads campaign when you niche down) when you don’t have any reviews too? Because many people say you need to have reviews since day one if you want to rank and sell books. So I was wondering if this strategy works for you without having reviews too.
What is your opinion about current situation in world of notebooks, if I would like to create those, what size and price should be ? . Amazon printing cost are much heigher , so notebooks that were selling well with popular format 7.5x9.25 and price about 7.$ currently won't make any money ?
Do you have any tutorials on how best to fill in the two Categories fields and the seven Keywords fields, particularly for notebooks and composition notebooks? KDP says don't repeat what's in your title and description, so what should we do?
Nice video Chris, Thank you…. I want to ask you about the following issue that a got recently for submitting my book to amazon KDP. Before submitting my book to KDP, it was uploaded in Draft to Digital (D2D). Now in the review process, KDP wants me to show that my book is actually my book, because they see it in KDP system (obviously because it was uploaded from D2D print) otherwise they will suspend me after 5 days. I tried to explain that I use D2D and the book that they see in KDP is from me but from another platform. Their support simply does not listen and they do not reply to me, just pointing me to the link “Kindle Direct Publishing Terms and Conditions”. I do not know what to do? they accuse me of violation of the copyright of my own book!!!
Question: Why would you sell journals on Etsy as well as Amazon? Wouldn't that be competition? Also, Etsy wouldn't be print on demand like Amazon. You'd have to buy author copies to sell on Etsy, correct? Or am I missing something-- like is there a way to do print on demand books on Etsy?
I just started my kdp journey a few months ago. After my 8th notebook, I went to go search for one of my notebooks on amazon and I saw that it was at the top of the search results, excluding the sponsor ones. Is that a good thing?
Some of my book's prices are not the same as in my listing. Is this normal? Should I increase the price in my listing to match? I looked and it said they have the right to change the price but they only pay royalties on my list price. Has this happened to anyone else?
Amazon will sometimes lower your price as a promotion, but you will still get the full royalties based on the price you selected. (For example, I have a book that sells for $5.99 and I make $1.44 in royalties. Amazon temporarily lowered the price to $5.20 and I still received my full $1.44 for sales during that time.)
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One thing I don't understand and I have a question about, is how can someone say they created a book, a medium content book like you say, when they've had someone else design it, how can you claim that that is something you created when somebody else did it? that's just confusing to me, it's like presenting something that really isn't yours or that you didn't do yourself. Like when someone tells you that they have this great idea that they have and then you turn around and take their idea and claim it as your own, and then you get the accolades when it wasn't your idea to begin with.
The person who designed the content designed it based on the creator's input. That automatically makes it the creator's design, not the person who was hired to design it. If that were the case, no movie studio could claim that they ever made a movie. The design ONLY exists due to the creator's input.
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I also wanted to tell you that if I ever ever become very extremely successful at KDP publishing, I want to be transparent and tell people how to honestly how to do this, so they can be successful as well, so thank you so very much for being genuine and sincerely wanting to help other people to do as well as you are! I greatly appreciate it.
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Don't wait to get an answer how people sell their books that bad. No one will tell never. I have been watching more than 100000 videos in this issue kdp and how running ads... But I didn't get any answer. But lately I figured it how. It is just so easy to figured it out as easy as you can imagine. When you start really analyzing those books you will get it. That strategy I think just few people who do it.good luck
Hi, how your journey was?
Chris, as always, you explain things with such clarity and it leaves few questions, at least for me. I have always said that KDP is NOT a get rich quick scheme and it is unfortunate, (at least when I started over 2 years ago) that is how it was always promoted. Just like you said, hundreds of "Gurus" out there wanting to sell a course or an affiliate program. Rarely would you find the person who actually has had the discouraging feeling of doing everything as suggested (by others) and it yields no sales. There are a handful (3? 4?) of folks that I follow for KDP and you of course are one, who have maintained transparency and given the good with the bad. All of this to say, thank you! I appreciate your experience and knowledge. I look forward to your videos and have gained a lot by watching and following them. Looking forward to your next project, and as always, thank you!❣
These vids from you are great because they're down to earth and realistic. None of this make $10k a month with KDP hype like it's just some easy thing to do.
Preach, Chris! Preach. Please don’t apologize for the length of your video. It’s all pure gold. Thank you ❤
Absolutely amazing content!! Three things: 1. Your videos are so informative that when they are shorter than 25 minutes I'm wanting more. 2. Can't wait to watch that in-depth case study you are making, especially excited about learning how to run ads. 3. I'm joining your FB group and getting that free ads course as we speak. Thank you for trying to enlighten people on all aspects of KDP!!
You're right, you have to watch out for these content creators that are only making videos about kdp for views and ad revenue on YT. I have had to block several people that obviously just recreated someone's tutorial. I appreciate your channel because you are actually in "the business" and it shows. Thank you
No, please don’t apologize. The longer the video the more info. Thank you so much. I am encouraged to continue because of you. ❤
You are the only person I listen to about KDP now...You tell it exactly as is...I could listen to your voice for hours so looking forward to next video already 😜
Thanks maz!
I love your long rambling videos Chris ..thanks for the insight ...FREE COURSE
I've been trying to learn as much as I can on KDP for the past 6 months or so as I feel like it's a good outlet for my illustration and Graphic Design background except all the videos I came across made me feel pretty disheartened. Not when most of them were either trying to hock some pay for plug-in or some get quick scheme by spamming KDP with a bunch of need no skill- slapped together online-website-clip-art-books uploaded en mass. I have to say your videos have felt the most honest and they have been refreshing.
Thanks for this video Chris, I stuck around until the end and really enjoyed your in-depth overview of kdp as a whole. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you
This is the first video of yours that I have seen. All I can say is THANK YOU! I am going to subscribe to your channel. You sound like you have a more practical approach to publishing on KDP than a lot of the other people I have watched. I am a beginner at publishing word search books. I did my own research before starting this project. I am learning with every book, what not to do again, and how to improve as I go along.
Anyway I need to look into the ads, for at least one of my books, to start with. So I can see how it all works.
For what? Stealing your time by deliberately ranting on without any information at all?
Thank you so much. 🙏🏾 This is a refreshing video. So few are transparent with the side hustles. Especially KDP. I just published my first book on KDP. It’s a workbook and journal. The first 40 pages are unique continent on how to structure, organize and achieve your goals. So many UA-camrs were talking about medium content books. I thought my book was medium content until Amazon made it clear to me that there is no such thing. It’s either low-content or it’s not. Because the majority of my book is journal pages, KDP classified it as low continent. I’m ok with that and I’ve made a few sales but I have no clue what I’m doing and haven’t done ads yet because I don’t know how. I can’t wait for your course to drop. I joined your Facebook group and I’m excited to learn more. ♥️♥️♥️
Hi Chris, i'm just new in KDP self pub.. thank you so much for this well explained content. I've learned a lot from you. Cheers!
Mr Raydog, I’ve watched lots of your videos (always good). This one though really struck a cord. I love the advice and knowledge you have shared and it resonates with what I’ve been thinking for a while - but it’s so great to hear it from a pro! I’ve put off publishing my 1st coloring book as it really needs time spent on it to make it a little different but also at least as good as what’s out there. Thanks for being honest with us. best wishes.
I am brand new to KDP and totally confused about keywords as different people say different thing. THANK YOU for your wisdom!
Thank you for this honest take on lined notebooks. I have 24 lined notebooks and journals and let's just say they are not paying the bills, lol. I spent a lot of time making the artwork for the covers. Each cover design is targeted toward a specific demographic with its subject matter & style. I did niche research for all of them.
They've been on Amazon for 5 months and I've sold a total of 46 units. Most of those sales are from ads. I'm basically breaking even because I had to spend so much on ads just to get those sales. I'm hoping those sales will lead to more organic sales in the future but, so far, lined notebooks are definitely not a money maker.
can you use the covers for other 'matching' items ie people might want a notebook and a log book and a diary with the same cover? You could create one interior for each 'other' project then you'll have 24 x 3 (or 4, 5...) extra products without having to do too much work to the existing covers ie just change the wording on the front.
@@Lea_1113 You would have to change some things about the cover, such as the title. I wouldn't recommend using exactly the same cover, but you could make a "matching" cover using the same colors and some of the same decorative elements, just rearranging them in a different design and adding/subtracting some elements. A lot of people do this when they create brands.
@@ComedorDelrico I think Leah was suggesting this as a way for YOU to make more from your initial effort without going to a great deal more effort. If the artwork on each cover already targets a specific demographic, then don't change a thing but the titles. Lined Notebook for Oldies welcomes Wide-Rule Lined Notebook for Oldies and Graph Paper for Oldies. You see?
@@WeaselWorks Oh, I see what you're saying. I thought they were asking for advice. 😂 I prefer to just make new covers, as I feel using the same cover over again would cheapen my brand.
This is an absolutely excellent video. Very impressed Chris.
It is amazing to me that anyone would be anything but happy with the information that you share. IMHO people don't understand the way to make anything work is to jump in and try it, fail at it, try it again, do better but still fail, take all you learn and jump in again. People don't want to do that. I watch a lot of KDP creation videos and from the comments it seems what is wanted is a cookie cutter way to make $5000 a month, some of it is the content creators fault with the ludicrous claims of mantra from the sky falling in abundance and some of it is the society that we live in now. I just have fun, ride the ride and make a few books. It ain't your fault they aren't selling it is a shark infested market. Sometimes the little fish make it and sometimes they don't.
Thanks for the information and the time taken sir!
Thanks for your awesome videos Chris. So refreshing to hear someone who tells it like it is, rather than how much money we can make and how quickly. All the best ;-)
Appreciate it, thank you
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Excellent video! I was hooked from start to end - and it is exactly what all would-be self-publishers of any kind of book should be watching and studying. I followed your advice from your free ads course and, over a couple of months, I have been monitoring and tweaking the campaigns and have made around 100 sales from the ads... so they do work! However, as you say, it takes time and is an ongoing learning curve. Thank you so much for your generosity and honesty.
Nice to hear from you, Leanne! Good work with the ads. Definitely be careful with the ads during Q4 though, the spend for me last year was pretty mad...
@@ChrisRaydog Hi Chris, funny you should say that! I've been receiving emails from Amazon about quarter 4 ads, and I've been wondering how to go about it. I was thinking that you probably have a video on the subject!
Great video, Chris, thanks. You covers are great, really clean and professional-looking
Goodstuff!! Your transparency is always refreshing
Thanks Chris - your honesty & transparency is refreshing. Each book needs to be better - we need to work on our business.
Very good video. I liked the video. You explained everything very easily in this video. Highly recommended everyone to watch the.
Thanks so much for this vid! I started my journey around a year ago and watched countless UA-cam vids, all of which were a load of rubbish. Your the only one that I watch now… I enjoy the design process and that’s my strength, the other stuff has taken some hard work but you have explained everything so well! Can’t thank you enough!
Can’t thank you enough, I fell initially for the ‘make passive income videos’ even tho my area of expertise is online marketing 😅. I uploaded two crappy notebooks and thought this isn’t right. I made a colouring book which I love (took forever to get on KDP), and then created a series of 12 branded and very niche notebooks, saw one of your videos and started experimenting with ads and got my first sale 3 days after going live! May be a fluke but I can’t wait to start this journey. 🎉 thank you for your honest approach!
how is it going now? 8 months later, do you still need to advertise? are you selling books?
LOVE your videos Chris! Good to hear from you and looking forward to your big project! ❤
Thanks Chris, excited to hear about your new project!
I fell for the UA-cam hype and went forward with creating low-content books. I put a lot of effort into the covers using my own photography to create them. Had lots of fun and I guess I have around 60 books sitting on Amazon. My fallback was not understanding how to research a niche well first and not understanding the keywords entirely. I also did not advertise so yes I made quite a few books that have just got lost on Amazon. I purchase my books for gifts sometimes and I have been pleased with the look of each and every one. I also have sold 8 books without even trying. Maybe I might try to advertise one or two of them and see what happens.
Niche research and keywords are very important, also your Title, subtitle and description are very important, without these 5 keys, it will be very hard to sell anything on Amazon
I just saw a great video explaining why your low content books may not be selling. You already started the process so keep learning and doing research! Starting any type business takes time, patience, and persistence so keep going! ua-cam.com/video/LJlNunphpeQ/v-deo.html
"Consider advertising if you sell 2 copies organically." That's a tip I heard from another channel.
A possible indication of demand is selling any number amount without advertising.
Take this with a grain of salt, because I am just starting out on this "low-content" journey.
@@quadren4 No, you're right. If you put something out that found its way into someone's shopping cart without doing anything to advertise it, and then it happens again(!), that is a very good sign that you'll see multiple sales if you do put some ad spend behind it. Just two things to consider... First, make sure it's not your mom buying the books! And second, how long did it take to get those first two sales? The tip behind Raydog's advice to run ads and get sales as soon as possible has to do with your date of publication. You want everything about your book to look good to potential buyers - sales copy, quality of product, reviews - including, whenever possible, evidence of multiple sales in a short a period of availability as possible. "Wow! This has only been out two weeks and it already has three 5-star reviews; it's probably been purchased about 10 times!" Whereas, if it takes 6 months for you to get those two sales, and let's say neither of them give your book a review, and THEN you throw it up in ads, they're not going to be nearly as lucrative for you, because people will see it's been sitting there for 6 months with no evidence of being popular. Of course, it's not automatically a lost cause, either. Either way, good luck to you.
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Free Course :) Brilliant Vid again
Keep making long videos! I find them so informative and relisten to them!
Thank you for the video, I just searched boho composition notebook and your book is the second one listed in the USA! Yay😃
That’s good, maybe it will get some sales over q4
@@ChrisRaydog I love boho style and I thought the design was quite nice!
Free course! Thanks Chris !
This was refreshing, thank you!
Free course.
Great content as usual
Thank you for sharing this advice. Absolutely amazing teaching. You're a great teacher.
I appreciate that!
Thank you. Love your videos.
Great video Chris. Thank you!
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Thank you for this video! Gave me a new perspective! Subscribed!
As far as a niche being saturated, just check out the publishing dates of books making sales. Best selling books in every niche I've seen have publishing dates from a couple of years ago to a couple of months ago. Have any notebooks sold that were published last month? I bet they have.
Excellent videos thanks, do you have a video on creating ads?
Thank you so much for another great video! Free Course!
Thank you for your video. Interested in your course!!
Another super video, thank you! I'd love information on your free course!
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Thanks for the great and honest contents! Free course!
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Thank you Chris. You really pointed out some important issues. I love that u have told us to make our book 5% better than last one!! Should follow this thing. And can I still get that FREE COURSE?
Love the way you're transparent about your books. A rarity. Thanks for the video(s), and please keep it up.
I so Agree with you! Thank you for your time!
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Regarding the end of the video, what you describe is completely in line with Stephen Jay Gould's book Full House. As more people enter a field, the performance standard shifts and it takes so much more to stand out. The unstated truth in those pushing new trends is that it's just a newer field with so little competition that the standard hasn't shifted yet. But you seem to be pushing to perform above that shifted standard when others would look at it and decide it's not worth it because the field is "saturated".
Great advice in this video!
And I appreciate your transparency in showing the steps, especially how running Amazon Ads is an important part of this process. With ads do you know upfront how much you will be spending or are you billed at the end of the month after clicks are added up? My fear is using ads and then at the end of the month being surprised with a bill for a lot more than I was expecting to spend.
Very helpful as always. Free course would be fab.
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Thank you for another brilliant video! Question please: Do you always start with the lowest price possible for books when you publish them? And if so - do you do it to all kinds of books (no, low and medium)?
Hi Chris, have just seen your current ? video I enjoyed it, do you have any information on how to publish books on Etsy for example?
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I loved your design! of the composition notebook 20:09
Great video, that was really helpful, Chris. And "free course"? :)
New subscriber here! When creating the composition notebooks and regular notebooks is it ok for them to have just the lined pages or do you need to make them have some sort of design on the inside pages to stand out? I know the covers need to be different but does the inside as well? I have created a hardcover and softcover journal already, and have had no sales on them so far. It's discouraging but I have never been one quick to give up. I appreciate your honesty in this video. I learned a lot.
No, the idea for notebooks (by which I assume you mean lined paper) is generally not to have any extras on the interior pages. Stand-out cover, quality interior (with the lines being equa-distant and uniform throughout, etc.), solid sales copy on the product page, good title laden with well researched, excellent keywords, and all of that in a tight, popular sub-sub-niche. Then, run it in a couple good ads.
Thanks for this, Chris. Free course?
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Well done 👍❤ can you please guide if I can I make a colouring book based on any tv series or any idol or band?? Thankyou
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i know many people will copy your book now!
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Thanks for video!
Hey Chris? Whats your add strategy? Individual adds or the lottery approach?
Thank you-some of these vids are motivating but at the same time, they are the reason quality and creativity is going downhill on various sites. Etsy (super generic stuff sold as homemade, handmade etc) and amazon (where half the listings are epic generic BS under different non-brands and also on temu for 1/2 the price)...
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Just stumbled upon you. Will definitely follow for more. Would love to be considered for your free course!
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I like your statement the trend isn’t important it’s the approach. Too late for Free course?
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Chasing trends with book publishing is fine, cause when you are done with the book, it lasts forever. So if the trend comes again, it will pick back up.
Great video
I have a coloring book that is up on sale since 4 days. 2 days agoI started ads and nothing is happening. I used settings people recommended in yt and it only got 2 impression and 0,03 cent spend and it froze there. I put the daily limit to 7 usd, but amazon isnt using my money at all. Do you know why?
Thanks mate l appreciate it
Where do you run your ads. Sorry of I missed. Thanks.
The ad information is going to be real helpful. And Chris, it’s not possible to join the Facebook group through the link. How do we do that?
Hey winter can you check the first comment I pinned and try that?
Does this work (the ads campaign when you niche down) when you don’t have any reviews too? Because many people say you need to have reviews since day one if you want to rank and sell books. So I was wondering if this strategy works for you without having reviews too.
What is your opinion about current situation in world of notebooks, if I would like to create those, what size and price should be ? . Amazon printing cost are much heigher , so notebooks that were selling well with popular format 7.5x9.25 and price about 7.$ currently won't make any money ?
I couldnt find composition books this school year to save my life with solid cover that is school required.
and thank you for this video
Really amazing video, Free course?
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Do you have any tutorials on how best to fill in the two Categories fields and the seven Keywords fields, particularly for notebooks and composition notebooks? KDP says don't repeat what's in your title and description, so what should we do?
Nice video Chris, Thank you….
I want to ask you about the following issue that a got recently for submitting my book to amazon KDP. Before submitting my book to KDP, it was uploaded in Draft to Digital (D2D). Now in the review process, KDP wants me to show that my book is actually my book, because they see it in KDP system (obviously because it was uploaded from D2D print) otherwise they will suspend me after 5 days. I tried to explain that I use D2D and the book that they see in KDP is from me but from another platform. Their support simply does not listen and they do not reply to me, just pointing me to the link “Kindle Direct Publishing Terms and Conditions”.
I do not know what to do? they accuse me of violation of the copyright of my own book!!!
The books BSR is 1,000,000 now, can you tell us what happened?
Question: Why would you sell journals on Etsy as well as Amazon? Wouldn't that be competition? Also, Etsy wouldn't be print on demand like Amazon. You'd have to buy author copies to sell on Etsy, correct? Or am I missing something-- like is there a way to do print on demand books on Etsy?
Hi Chris
Can u pls help me with ' targets not delivered ' section of ads.
Is it going to work if I change the bid to suggested bid
Useful and motivating.
Thank you~
I will do every of my new books 5% better than last book..
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im new to this and have a question..how /where do i go to post and add?
I just started my kdp journey a few months ago. After my 8th notebook, I went to go search for one of my notebooks on amazon and I saw that it was at the top of the search results, excluding the sponsor ones. Is that a good thing?
Are running ads always essential? How soon after publishing should you be doing that?
Some people actually do it almost immediately after publishing their book. Some do it before publishing their book.
Did you just publish your book?
@@comfortakinwale9245 I did! I wasn’t sure how much it was worth it at the start or if I should do trial and error first organically
So you want to start with marketing now right?
@@vanillacrush Are you ready to go for it now at your budget?
Some of my book's prices are not the same as in my listing. Is this normal? Should I increase the price in my listing to match? I looked and it said they have the right to change the price but they only pay royalties on my list price. Has this happened to anyone else?
Amazon will sometimes lower your price as a promotion, but you will still get the full royalties based on the price you selected. (For example, I have a book that sells for $5.99 and I make $1.44 in royalties. Amazon temporarily lowered the price to $5.20 and I still received my full $1.44 for sales during that time.)
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One thing I don't understand and I have a question about, is how can someone say they created a book, a medium content book like you say, when they've had someone else design it, how can you claim that that is something you created when somebody else did it? that's just confusing to me, it's like presenting something that really isn't yours or that you didn't do yourself. Like when someone tells you that they have this great idea that they have and then you turn around and take their idea and claim it as your own, and then you get the accolades when it wasn't your idea to begin with.
The person who designed the content designed it based on the creator's input. That automatically makes it the creator's design, not the person who was hired to design it. If that were the case, no movie studio could claim that they ever made a movie. The design ONLY exists due to the creator's input.
Pls can I model and summarize books on Amazon using same account?