How to Create Low and No Content Amazon KDP Books - Self-Publishing Course

1. An Introduction to the Course: Hi, my name is Romney and thank you very much for joining this course about how to create low and no content books for Amazon KIP. My journey started a couple of years ago, and I've published well over 350 books. And I'm also a bestselling author across the US, UK, and Canada. Now what I want to do is teach you all the steps you need to know about publishing with Amazon API, including the business model of kVp, how it works, going through the process of keyword and niche research, how to create your title and subtitle, looking at different ways to create your cover and your manuscript, uploading your book to kj P, then the important part of marketing and promotion. These are the kinds of things that I'm gonna be teaching you as part of this course. And one of the major assignments will be to make sure that you can successfully applied your book through the kVp upload process so that your book can be live and can be ready for the world to see. Now the course designed for anyone really from a beginner through to someone that might have also previously published books before, but just wants a mixture tips and strategies to sell more books and to make sure they get into the hands of the customer. Just wanted to say thank you so much for joining this course. I do hope that I can provide a high level of value for you and you can learn as much as you need to to successfully publish and then scale your self-publishing as well, so that you can actually get your books out into the world. So thanks again and look forward to teaching you everything I know. 2. Lesson 1 - The Business Model of KDP Publishing: Let's go over now what KD pay is an introduction to how you can upload your books in how the actual process of cardiac pay self-publishing works. So let's do that now. An introduction. What is cardiac pain? Well, ADP is actually, it's a platform on Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing. And kVp will take care of everything. Now, most story for caddy pay publishing started because I had originally created the book through major publisher. But I'll also have a control in regards to what that creation process look like at the royalties. And so the royalties in fact, where actually a fraction would actually get when I or equals to publish on cardiac pain. When I person creates a book on cardiac pain, it's called print on an end. Sorry if someone orders your book, that book is printed pretty much that dy over dx, dy, this notebook sitting in warehouses. Your books are sitting in a 100 books somewhere, somewhere in the world. They are printed on the spot. And therefore amazon will print code, print on demand. Now do all the distribution for you. They take care of all the payments from customers. They take care of all logistics and all the customer service regarding returns or compliance. So something might go wrong in the mile where bookies tone and it gets returned. So you're not getting phone calls or e-mails from the customer with issues tied a PE or amazon will take care of all that for you. Once you sell your book, then what I call the creator, or the author, will receive a royalty payment. And it's based on a split share of the profit. Usually it's 60% to the credit and 40 per cent to Amazon once all those costs of taking consideration. For example, if you had a $7.99 LoadContent book, then your royalty to the author would be approximately $2. If you're selling lots and lots of books that to those ads up in particular during busy times as well. What are no content books? Well, as a couple of different areas that we need to look into. No content examples would include Night books, journals, blank scrapbooks, and the light quantity examples would be coloring books, workbooks, and log books that low content think of just a little bit of writing and information that might even be literate tracing books and things like that. Whereas the night content, typically lawn journals and no content at all. So that's the difference between both of them. What's the process and what's a starting point? Well, when you create a or an author or publisher for cardiac pay, you need to do your research to find out what books again, to be profitable on Friday paid because not every book that you publish, you can expect to sell if you create a book in a really competitive niche. And we'll go into depth in regards to niche or niche selection depending on what part of the world are in. And we also will look at the book creation process. How we create a covers your titles and the interiors and allow them or upload them to keda pain. Then once they load, then you can do some marketing. And I've got a bonus section of this course about marketing. And then you go back to niche selection again, to choose the kind of book that you want to publish intimate, decided to go for a specific nation, just do five or ten books in that nation and move on. Or you become a specialist in a particular niche. So the choice is yours. What are the pros and the cons to kinda pay? Well, of course is gonna be pros and cons. Let's start with the price. So it is free to upload your book to page. Now that has its advantages and disadvantages of means. That because it's free, there's gonna be a lot of competition. And we'll talk about that in the cones. You can create free books with software that I'll be showing you during the tutorial. You have a global distribution opportunity. So it's not just buys the new country residents, you can scale it globally. Amazon do all the heavy lifting in regards to logistics and customer service and payments, which is fantastic and you just received a royalty. There's no limit to growth. So there's no limit to the number of books or resources you can correct. We had a PE and it's an excellent passive income stream as well. What about the columns or they can be a delight result from the effort. You can create a book and then you load the KD a PE. And by the time you start to get styles, maybe a few weeks, maybe a couple of days. But when you receive your royalty, Amazon don't pay for period of 60 days. If you had a number of books are sold in January, your income or your royalties wouldn't be pied until the end of March. There's increasing competition because of the free uploading process. And for a book creation, styles can fluctuate lot. So it is not generally you want consistency in two, you have quite a few books to the selling regularly. There is no guarantee of success. Now I can show you and try and teach you as much as I can. But there's no guarantees because it depends on the quality of books you're creating. A customer is going to lie to them or they initiated a competitive. Do you have content inside That's going to be attractive to customers. So there's no guarantees success, but there's also an opportunity for you to take action, to do something like this. But if you don't take action, then of course you won't be successful at it. So they are couple of things for consideration. Now, more generally, we tidy pay. It started at the end of 2019. But really I got into things in a random that January 2020. And as you can see from here, I didn't have much success in the first three months. They not started the cell a few books, and then it really started to increase my bad October to December, which is what I call a quarter full. Then it drops off a favorite as customers stockpiling after Christmas. Then it can build up a gain again. And then certain times of the year we might have success depending on the kinds of books you have. If they're Halloween books, they might be mothers or fathers die books. They could be certain and celebrations that you can create bookstore. So it just depends on eyes. But also you might have what they call evergreen books, which are booked through the cell consistently throughout the whole year. But it's important that don't expect that you're going to be selling hundreds of books when they're very beginning. You need to learn the process. Learn from mistakes, cape evolving, keep experimenting and make sure the IQ learning content that will help you to grow. And hopefully much tutorial will step you through a number of processes that will help you to get started with your cardiac pay journey. 3. Lesson 2 - What to Expect on Your KDP Journey : Welcome to this lesson. I think it's important to be able to outline what she can potentially expect from Amazon caddy pay publishing. Because there's also a lot of noise at the image here that has successful people become very, very quickly on an Amazon card API. But also wants you to know what potentially can happen in what happened with my own journey up until where I am now, when I first started publishing, really didn't get any styles for the first three months. Are thorough, knew the right techniques, but I was probably implementing what our thought was Ross rather than what I should have been doing. As you can say, as I went through my journey, I only sold a few books in April 2020. But he can say that at least start to grow and as of December 2020. So closing in on 3 thousand books, just in the one-month a line. Now it does drop off quickly when you do move onto January as part of the new year because people have stopped buying books for Christmas and they are busiest time of the year. But you can see that the gross status increase again as we head towards the timber. And so it's important that you get an understanding of what that journey model look like. But let's have a look at the next part of what our experience as well, seven new gas to revenue. You can see here that between January 1st to March 30th, in my first year, publishing didn't make any revenue after that first month. Then I had a few books because I actually started off with what I call high constant books. Books at sort of ran it at 20 to 30 thousand words in length and published a hard content book. And so some of these actually were a book sales, not actually physical book styles. You can say, I have a couple of spots and when flat again. And collectively, during that first three months of night, a $100 wasn't a lot, particularly with the volume of work that I was doing as Pottermore publishing as well. But you can see what can happen if you continue to apply yourself this week we're publishing and the growth that you can get with your publishing if you continue to apply the rod strategies. It was probably a random bat October that I did start to get a few styles. And it was because I started dated rock promotion and marketing former books. And you can say the growth as it really started to scale up towards that December period where one of the dyes my 425 US dollars and the one guy said collectively between October and December 2311, over 11 thousand US dollars. During that period of time. It's a long way to come from making mixed and nothing or a $100 in the first three months to making $11 thousand in the last three months of the that's the journey that had gone on. Your journey might be different. But what it actually demonstrates if you do follow the process, following the steps outlined in this course. These are raising the cheek can start to build your own self publishing business to develop some good passive income for four, however you want to use it. And for a great Y of being a creative freedom within what you're doing as well, and could also be solid hobby. Either way, it's a great opportunity to have a positive impact. Both are creating great books. I'll hope you enjoyed this short lesson. Just a bit more journey, Watch can expect, remember the first raid, six months can be quite challenging. You just got to keep pushing and keep investing your time and effort and resources to try and build things so that you can scale. Because once you do the styles to start to come through and you can really make sure that you take advantage of all of your knowledge and apply it to your self-publishing through cardiac and other platforms as well. 4. Lesson 3 - Protecting Your KDP Account: Welcome to this short lesson, but it's an important, very, very important lesson. And it's about protecting your kVp account. Wanted to ensure I covered these because your IDP camp is just so important. And you'd never want to compromise your account. Because once you lose, it is extremely hard the people to either try and get it back. What I'll want to do is just cover a few key things. They're not, it's not an extensive list of things that you need to avoid because you need to read the Amazon terms of service about what you can and you can't do when publishing. But I just wanted to highlight a few of the things that people might have done that have led to them losing their account, all the banks suspended or terminated. So firstly, do your research and make sure you avoid infringing on any copper Europe. I'll show you when we're going through the module for title and subtitle creation, I'll talk about a website you can go to to check for any infringement or making sure you're not copying any work. Like even even using the words. I think it might be adult point, journal, I think dope point mod be a copyright or trademark. Trademark nine, data sort of things you need to check. Avoid that side. People that might use words like Disney or just very well not Lego. Very well known names like Star Wars and things like that. Just don't do that, just be very regional and ensure checks to ensure you're not infringing. Next one, do not copy covers of other authors or do not live in trawling close to replicating them because let us assure way to get your account united, again, be original. And also if you do use extent, someone external to create your covers luck. Someone on a father, or someone that has a freelance artist or designer, just double-check that they not copying someone else's cover as well. I've seen it before firsthand where song was engaged and it was almost a replica of another cover that was a bestseller. And that's assigned to be very mindful of. Number three, avoid reusing assigning terriers for low content books. Now for no content books like blank lawn journals and things with it, that's okay because it just lined journals and you need to replicate those. But when it comes to low content books, and we'll talk about it more during the modules. But low content books just say you created a letter tracing or alphabet literate tracing book for children, then you wouldn't want to be raising the same interior over and over with just a different cover because it can create a negative customer experience. And customer starts complaining. Complaining, saying, well, I ordered one book of yours. It tries in book, they locked it and I ordered another one, but the interior was exactly the same. They're not going to be too happy. So just be very mindful of that. Dynam time 5k or boss reviews. You should never be paying for reviews or getting unbuttoned, biased reviews from family or friends. You need to get unbiased reviews and Nivre ever engage someone that says I'll get you 25 reviews for $25. That is an absolute nine. I just make sure you do it the right way. Remember your book is a long-term proposition and a long-term assets. So look after. So that leaves me with these trait your account with respect. It is a long-term passive income stream for you and you need to think about it. It could be 20 years from now that you'll still receiving royalties from books you created in 2021, for example, 2022 and in 2032 still getting royalties from those books. But if you lose your account, that will stop. And Amazon have every right, just, just go Now you're against that terms and conditions and ultimately dyad doing the diet, providing the opportunity for us to have global distribution. So you don't want to abuse that opportunity. They just a few things. Make sure you read the terms of service or Amazon so you clearly aware of what you can and you can't do. 5. Lesson 4 - Quality Vs Quality: Welcome to another lesson in regards to the introduction to kVp. Now, all I wanted to focus on the quality versus quantity argument and give you some insights into what I feel is important in regards to cardiac pay publishing. So firstly, I really think it's important that you avoid the quota. So the quantity mindset, There's a lot of publishes out there that will promote that. I've got 2 thousand books that they've created. But when you dig a little bit deeper, there's only a very small percentage of those books that are actually doing or having many styles. And typically it's because the quality of those books greater then the ones that united rest of the 1850. You need to really ensure that you slow down because the quality of your book allows you to focus more on the launch and the marketing of your book. If you are launching 30 books at a time, then there's no, Why did he can focus on getting good, strong, positive reviews as part of your launch or looking at the marketing and running any sort of Amazon ads or Facebook ads or whatever social media ads or marketing you should do few books. You just need to focus on the quality. And remember, poor quality can compromise your long-term brand. And so when domain the brand, as you build your publishing business, you might want to create a brand behind your publishing so that you can actually create some great books. You can include other books you have created in the backend of your book and they can form part of your manuscript. If customers like one of your books, they'll go back and I purchased another one. You might be sitting up a website and you might be sitting up things that actually help you to scale your business as well. So that's another reason why quality will always win over the quantity. The next thing, a poor quality will get you negative reviews. And Amazon will be less likely to promote your book through that algorithm. A quality book will attract the rod reviews and comments that naturally will help it float to the top because the Amazon algorithm one, lux styles. And then when you get styles, you generate good reviews. The hard thing is you need to get some good reviews before we get the styles as well. So there's different strategies around getting marketing, sorry, getting reviews and things that you can do. But as I said in another lesson, just never compromise your account by getting reviews their own life. But the quality of your books will be there for the long-term NH book he created, you need to think that it's a 2030 e-book. And there's no reason that you can't create books that have a long-term lifespan. Remember, it's a digital asset and it's not going to expire unless the corner book he create myopia, uh, 2022 journal. Therefore, at the end of 2022, obviously no one's going to buy it off to that. If you can look at different niches that you can build, build out the quality of your different book, then really work hard at that. The best kinds of books that you can create, what I call evergreen books. An evergreen books are those itself consistently throughout the year. You can create books for Christmas, for Mother's Day, Father's Day, for Easter, for balance, arms died for Halloween, but they tend to spike at certain times of the year, but then they die off. And more beta cell is evaluated, have consistent styles throughout the year. Because again, Amazon loves those books itself and will keep continuing to push them those books up to page one or page to where the majority of customers are looking. Please focus on the quality. My advice would be outside is a lot of people when you first started out in publishing, I recommend definitely going for I create, follow the six books. Learn the process of uploading took ADP, get used to how that process works and the credit in the covers and creating the manuscripts. And then you can actually start to really focusing on quality and knowing how that actually works. That's just my thoughts on quality versus quantity. And just ensure that any bookie create neither. It's, someone's buying it on the other end. And they are looking forward to an amazing experience themselves side. That's what I would like to say. We'll add as pod this lesson for quality versus quantity. 6. Lesson 5 - Establishing Your Publishing Goals: In this lesson, I wanted to talk briefly with you about goal setting and the importance of establishing goals when you're publishing. When you start out with your publishing journey, you need to make sure that you're clear, have clear objectives about what are these that you want to deliver to customers? What kinds of books that you potentially lot to create? How many books you'd like to create. An even revenue that you think you'd like to generate for the first three months. And then even over 12 months. What I've decided to do was create a publishing tracker that allows you to establish your, your top five goals you would like to achieve in the first three months. I tend to find that people, when they first start their journey, they're a bit unclear about what they want to achieve. Therefore, they don't tend to take the actions required to achieve those goals. If you have a document that you can record your information and I'm not just talking about writing it on a Word document. I mean, physically writing it down because there's evidence to demonstrate that if you write your goals down, you have an ID percent more chance of achieving those goals. What I've created is this document just wrote here. It's called the publishing tracker. And I'll show you in a moment what that publishing tracker looks like. And therefore, we can implement that into your strategy of becoming a publisher on keda pay and beyond. Now, when you start writing your goals down in this need to be very specific about what are these fuel to show you a goals to even five or six-year-old child. Don't understand what they are. When you create your goals, make sure that they look in the future. So I have created six books this year or I will, or I, sorry, I have generated $600 over the 12 months with publishing. So be very specific. Use data or numbers if that helps you. So you actually know when you've achieved and hit your targets or hit your goals. They are the kinds of things are locked you to implement when you're first starting out because they are good strategies to have when you do grow your publishing business. Let me show you what this document looks like. What I want you to do is make sure we take action and print it off, record information. And then you can use that throughout the next 12 months to really record how you're tracking. So let me show you that document now. This is the publishing track of and it allows you to record your publishing goals and your achievements. So let's just scroll through the document now. Guys. Sorry, the publishing trek out. As I mentioned, it's a powerful resource because there's evidence that has proven that if you brought your goals, then you have an IT percent better chance of achieving your goals. As I mentioned here, that's called Tafel. I want you to be able to use these tracker to incorporate your goals for the next three months, your next 12 months, and also some additional notes as well. Because my tracking these kinds of things, it's really good reflective tool gives you confidence and it's also a great journal to remember what you've been through over the past 12 months. Firstly, what I'd like you to do is establish a three-month publishing goals. So what five k tasks can you complete that will make the biggest impact? You've got numbers one through five here, but I've also got a completion date. I wanted to make sure that she can put the completion date and be really specific either next three months when that goals can be achieved. And that will help you to really focus on and get clarity of the goal you need to achieve. Next one is to establish your 12 months publishing goals. So 12 months from now, what we do like to have achieved, maybe consider the number of books that you want to publish, notice the income or the profit, maybe making the areas of personal growth that you'd like to work on. But just be very specific and use numbers. You actually know when you hit your goals. Next one is your major accomplishments. Record the great things that have happened. What things have allowed you to make those palsy steps forward in your publishing as well. Mine was creating a publishing accelerator. That was a huge thing, a huge project that I had to undertake. And that was a major accomplishment that I achieved back in 2021. And I've got some great things that I want to achieve, some really special things to me that I wanted to check in 2022. Next things are the improvements are the lessons you've been learning. What areas heavy potentially night, what mistakes if unite, although they might be considered values. In fact, we learned the most MAF files and grow stronger. Just like if there's a broken bone in your body, a broken bond, will He about heel back stronger than a privacy was before? You need to make sure you record anything that didn't quite work out. What you're going to do next time to improve it. Don't make the same error to us. Capable Alving, keep working hard, keep learning, and keep growing and scaling yourself publishing as well. The next thing I've included, just some very basic trick is that you can write down the month and then you can record the income that you generate either the next 12 months. I've left this blank just so you can record the dollar amounts that you want to because you not think, hope that you get Tindall is all $30 in your first couple of months publishing, you might have some big lofty goals you want to watch cable and will be smaller goals and that's fine. The next one is your expense trek out. So you can plot your publishing expenses against very simplified. You might need another document to actually list all your experiences, but these might just be a good wife trekking if you are increasing your expenses, were chasing them as well. Then finally, what additional information can you include as part of your track app? That could be almost like a Dory. What are the things that you'd like to include in this document that will help you to grow further on beyond not just this year, but next year as well. Really hope you get to utilize this document and be able to track your 12 months of publishing. And it might not just be on KDE pay. There might be other platforms that you publish on as well. And you might lot to track your progress on that. I'd love to be already allow you to download this document for free and make sure you print it off and record your information and night show you later pathology and reflect on your goals daily few can just flick through it, have a quick look either, and that will keep you focused on the tasks at hand as well. 7. Lesson 6 - How to Create Your KDP Account: This lesson is just gonna be a short one, and it's about tidy pay account creation. Creating your account on Friday pay is free. What you need to do is just go up too. You can see the link up here. If you wanted to Google Amazon sign in or sign up, then it would bring you to the page to be able to do this process just here. You'll be taken through the process. It's a nice, easy step-by-step process. Just make sure you have a lot of the details including bank account details and tax information. So you can actually get pied by KID pay. Now once you correct your account, you'll be given a dashboard and I'll show you what a typical dashboard looks like. And this is my dashboard. So once you've created your account, you will have different tabs. At the top here. You've got bookshelf, and if you click on that, it'll show you all the books in your catalog and you've got reports. So you click on that and that will take you through to the different financials and the books that you've been selling, you go. So I got community tab and marketing, so that'll help you with different tutorials as well. But if we're creating a book and I'll show you as part of the upload process, but we would simply click pipe it back. If you do have an option for hardcover, if it's approximately I think it's 76 pages, I think so. It's roughly that anyway. And you can actually create hardcovers for low and no content books. But we don't do K2 books because Way has selling a physical product. And our low and no content books going to be other paperback or hardback. That was just a short introduction to how to create your account. Remember, just go to type in Amazon sine OK, Amazon KD piece on up. And it'll take you to the webpage to be able to sign up and create your free account. 8. 25 Tips for KDP Self Publishers 2023 - Update: Hello and welcome to this lesson. At the time of filming right now, in January 2023, we've just cheat. 3,000 students are enrolled in this course, which is a fantastic achievement. So thank you to all of you that have been enrolling in the Amazon API beginning course follow and no content books. What I wanted to do in this lesson is provide you with an update, a resource that you can actually use to help you to navigate your way through Amazon cat API. Now the resource includes 25 tips for those that are new to kVp or even those experienced with Amazon canopy. And it collects all of those tips from the publishing of over 350 books that I've completed over the last few years when publishing with Amazon. So let me show you the resource now and you'll find the resource as a download at the end of the course as part of the materials. So make sure you check out that resource and make the use of all the links and all the information that will help you on your journey. So let me show you the resource and just make sure you go ahead and download that when you can. This is the resource that I've created to help you on your journey. There's 25 tips and lots of different resources that will help you to get started. So let me show you through a few of the pages so you get an idea of what the book covers. So we've got our contents page. We've also got the different tips there. So there are 25 tips, including a bonus tip for you. I've also got resources, so plenty of different resources with the link that will help you to navigate your way through to that particular page or software. Then there's also the courses that I have on Skillshare or that self-publishing. And you can actually click directly on the link which will take you to that course. You might be completing the Amazon Kelly Pilon No content course right now. But you might like to learn how to create and publish a standard children's book or to how to successfully launch your book on Amazon. So there are a number of different courses that will help you on your journey. So if we keep going through, there are different platforms you can do print on-demand with as well further resources as templates. There's also a glossary of terms that you might come across when you're doing your self-publishing on Amazon or even other platforms like Ingram, Spark. So there's the resource, It's a very comprehensive resource. Please download it, go to the end of the course under the project section. And you will see all of these pages that are available for you, downloaded, reference when you need to and use any of those links. So hopefully that helps you and thank you very much again for choosing this course on how to self-publish with Amazon API. 9. Lesson 7 - Free Software to Use for KDP: Welcome back to the next module. So in this one we're talking about the software that I recommend that you use, but also these free software you can use to create your paper books. But also the software that we need to use for research and for looking to find areas or books that we can actually create these software, again, the Chrome extensions as well. Let's have a look at some of the software that I'm talking about. Firstly, we've got a software called Book bulb. Book bulk can be free, and it is also a paid monthly subscription option, but we'll just use the free option as part of this course. Then is helium tin, again is a free option and you can use Pi monthly subscription option. There's also canva.com. Again, it's free, but there is a Pi monthly subscription for a pro version. And then of course is Amazon KD pay tools that they offer for free that we can use as well when we're creating our books. There's also the Chrome extensions that I want to talk about. But before we do that, let's just have a very quick look at each of these software platforms. And I can show you what the main page looks like. This is the book bulb platform. And again, you can just use free resources elements that will actually be going through during the, during the course as well. But this is the book Baldwin. If you wanted to go to helium, helium Taney's another platform where you can use elements of it for frame, for niche research and keywords and things with them. So that's another platform, the Jiekun now look at using. Then finally there's canva.com. And Canva is an amazing platform that you can use to create your KID pay books. Again, you can use it for free. Plenty of things you can do on here for free. And then there is more of a pro version you can use as well. I'll definitely, definitely recommend that you use this and this is what platform we'll be using to create our free books for keda, pay for low and no content. And two of the Chrome extensions that are highly recommend you get. One's code aims at extension, expand. And the other one is called DSS Amazon quick view. Let's have a look at how each of these can help us. We both are keywords and also determining if book's going to be ranking well or if they profit or not. So let me jump on an Amazon now and show you how these two extensions work on Amazon now, now if always to talk, I always say, LET a tracing this. Then what will end up happening is Amazon will provide these ammonia even do. Let's just do something else. This tracing for Amazon will provide these ones just here. Now if we add to have the the expanded on, it starts to provide other options for us. Now, if we were to do say, gratitude, GRAT, then the expanded will provide all these extra options for us to choose from. These are the ones in order of usually priority with what Amazon customers are searching for. So you use AES for keywords to create books. But these ones we can also find out different niches we can potentially go into. And also it helps us with our creation of a title and a subtitle. Now let's go into gratitude journal. And if we were to look at these, now, the other crime extension which we were talking about, which is the DSM zone quick view. That will actually start showing us this information just here. If we hover over it, you can actually do it. You can Pi Frank standard one. However, we just use it to find out what this is called, the BSR or the bestsellers rank. These book is ranked at 577 on amazon.com. That means that it's from, ranked from number one to follow 177. So it's popularly bookies. This one's ranked at 22 thousand compared to number one on Amazon.com. So each marketplace has what I call the BSR. The ISBN is like a book identification number. For you. Scroll down the other way you can find out about the rankings and things like that. If you were to click on this book here, then we go into it. And before you scroll down, this will give us all the details of the book. Before we scroll down further, then it'll actually give us more information such as the language, the published, and also the size dimensions. And then it's got the rank and perhaps a category that, that is in. And if you scroll down further, of course, you'll get information about the book. You've got reviews which we can use. And you can also say what customers think of the book. And you can use this as part of your research to a particularly these fine lines and things like this, can actually have a look and see what some of the books and things looked locked inside. That's another great way of being able to use some of these Chrome extensions to see what books a lot and what their rankings, as you will see how it starts to come up here. So remember to get those to crime extensions so that they match easier for you to actually do the research. Free to use. So just make sure you grab the ions. It suggests an expanded from Chrome. I know so D is Amazon quick view, which is also another extension of free one as well. Now, if you wanted to search for other crime extensions that might help, then there are quite a few. Helium tin has a Chrome extension as well that might be suitable for you too. But they just a few of the software platforms that are used. In the bonus section, I'll be giving you a whole list, the chicken download, which has helped me to scale myself publishing business. 10. Lesson 8 - Mastering Niche Research: Now this video is gonna be a really important one, and he's gonna go a little bit longer than the others. And it's all about the niche research and what you need to do to try and find books that are gonna be able to sell well. And you've got high customer demand, but low competition. Let's have a look at a few of the important considerations when we're doing this. What are our considerations? Well, firstly, as I just mentioned, we need a high need. So customers are searching for and we've got low competition, whereas low as we can get, there is some niches that a very, very saturated lock the nature and is willing to read the last module in regards to gratitude journals, those sorts of areas, or even even literate tracing all those sorts of books. Educational space can be quite competitive. But there are so many untapped niches that you can get into. But it's about trying to find them and working through the process. What are our rules in regards to niche selection? Well, firstly, we are no hard fast rules. However, it's a really good gardens point because there's not one technique or method that is a 100% accurate, but we use the data as well as we can. I'll step you through and then we're going to go through a niche research process. And I'll show you the steps you need to take to try and find these niches. Firstly, we use, need to use the average BSR. What we're talking about that bestsellers rank and we need four or five books with a BSR under a 1501000 on page one of the search results. So if we were to do a search for gratitude journal, for example, we need four to five books under 150 thousand on page one that show. And then low competition, we've got our search results. When you search of something, you'll see the search results and I'll show you in a moment. And we need to aim for under 2 thousand search results to give us an understanding of how competitive that particular keyword or that even that niches. Remember the BSR is the bestsellers rank across Amazon and, and how close you are to that number one book across all of the Amazon. Let's have a look, a little bit more of a look into also, when we're doing a niche selection, why it's good to track your selection process. I will provide a free niche selection truck, and that will be part of this lesson or this module. And I will show you how that works as well. But let's go into Amazon and let's go through the process. And I'm going to step you through the first one, the high and the low competition. So let's do that right now. What I always start with these going to books just here. And I go to the best cell is just to begin with, just to get me into the category. Now on the left-hand side, you've got all the different categories that Amazon offer. And there are a lot of what they call sub niche areas. So if we went into crafts, hobbies and Heim, then you'll say a lot of different subcategories here. And even if we went into that one, it would bring up more subcategories as well. As we can see, my Chrome extensions are showing me what these books are ranked in 53 BSR 155156. If you scroll down, what we're aiming as part of their niche research is to find any patterns of books that might be relevant. And so some books put into areas where they're not relevant. And I'll talk about categories, flexion. And we might go into, let's go into one of these ones. We can find some more obscure one. For example, it's got a potter in ceramics. And we can start to see the different rankings that we'd have. Let's have, let's do a search. Let's go back to our books. Let's have a look through and find out if I can find a niche that has information that we're looking for. If you were to go into health, fitness and dieting for example. And we scroll down here. And if we were to look for, let's look, let's look for something like the crystals for beginners. It's got a ranking of a 130. So doing very, very well. So if we were to go back up here and we'll just rot. Crystal, Crystal log book for example. Then if we were to click on here, this would give us a, a 110 results under the old category. Now if we went to books, Let's find out what that would rank. So let's have a look. And it's a thousand results. So what we would do, for example, this was an area, it, It's got a thousand results, so it meets our criteria. But now we're looking for four to five books as risk scroll down to page one, that has a base, our ranking under a better 150 thousand. So we've got none, none, none there. We would almost rule out pretty quickly. If we were to go to either C tracing. And we have looked for here, we got rod, Let's have a look down here we go. For kindergarten kids. It's got 20 thousand results. That would rule that out very, very quickly. If we were to look down, we'd go, okay, we've got 123456 sides that would tick that box immediately because it's got five or four or five different books with a BSR under a 150 thousand. So these books sell extremely well. However, the search results y2 high for what we're looking for. 20 thousand we're looking, we want to get under 2 thousand results. But have the BSR have collectively, they have four or five books under 150 thousand. Let's have another look and see what we can find. If we, if we would do how to, we just do night money in stocks. There are 700 and ICT results. That would take our first box. We can audit, check on the ol or books. Now remember, if you checking on the O in count everything but on the books. It can also include books on Kindle books. Or if we were to go from, go from low to high. This Marcelo is see if books are more be Kindle book. So we're looking for paperbacks and things like that. But it's still okay. Let's, if we were to do books though, let's say how many results there are now. We got her there. A thousand results. So that's still may tear criteria doesn't I've got a 1000 results and we have let's work out. We've got, we're looking for four to five books. One, 23. And for not quite. Maybe even he couldn't do that. Let's start, let's say with these what they call sponsored ads. So people were paying for them to be there. That's another 156. So we've actually got we've got our niche area. But this would be if you were looking at to the high contained books because we're looking for low content books. But as an example, it ticks the boxes. We've got a thousand results, so it's under 2 thousand. We've got four to five books under a hundred and fifty billion, one hundred and fifty thousand BSR. So they're the things that we're looking for. Maybe if he had stock market, logbook and G4, we'll have a look. Niall might not be anything under here. If we just did. Let's have a look and say 400 results. Let's say if we have the four or five books under a 100 thousand, we've got one that's more logbook there. Dog training for kids. You can actually get all Ds as well as you scroll down. Now remember you're not gonna get it immediately. You're not going to get these results straightaway. If we were to do, Let's try unknown, another niche would do 500 search puzzles, for example, for adults. If we go here, we've got 2 thousand results. So it still meets our criteria. Now we're looking for, we're looking for the four or five books under 150 thousand criteria. I've got one. To know, distributed above to just might be the same book. 3456. We've made our criteria already. Seven. We've actually made our criteria is part of these niche. We tick that box. Now the next thing you'd want to do is you'd go to your spreadsheet and you'd write this information down. So let me show you how I would do that. This is the niche research tracker that will provide as part of this lesson. So I've given an example here of watching need to top and what you're looking for. If we were to go to, as we would go back to our page, whoops, wrong one, sorry. We would go to rewrite 500, would copy that. And these different options here as well. We go to our truck, I wrote that down. Now I long or short tail keyword. Now I short tail keyword might be gratitude, journal, or puzzle book. Longer Tau keyword is one latae switch 500 word puzzle book with puzzles for adults. We call it. We'll just go along. Long tail keyword. You have. Probably the book can create a lot of styles, but maybe if you had a book that was trekking really well on a short tail keywords you probably make more income, but they're harder to get into or to rank highly. The longer tail keywords easy to rank for, but you may not get as many styles, but it's worthwhile writing them down. Now the average BSR, you can go back into it and you have a look and we'll just get rid of that. The average BSR crosshair books. There is another software that I use called Katie spy. Quickly just use that. This will actually give us some rankings as well. What we do, we go down, we get rid of some of these big ones. What we call an outline is we make sure these books were actually so that one was relevant to it. We have a look. We don't need the Halloween one. Everything large. We don't need that one. We have a look, we've got an average rank of 252 and have a look at the most of those. Pretty relevant. But we can have a little bit of a look at thigh sorts, Two 152 thousand. So we'd write 252 thousand. We had 2 thousand search results. And the number of books there was a bad five or six. Then what we do is just continue to write down L keywords and all the details here. So we can actually start to determine whether it's a book niche we want to get into. And I've got the rules just here. Hon a low competition looking for four to five books under a 150 thousand on page one. And ideally we are looking for under 2 thousand results. Then what I'll do is highlight the sections in green, yellow, or black, and orange for the high competition. And I'll provide this for you. That's the key areas of actually writing down your niche areas. And I'll go to the example page. If all the niche was kids learn to write, I would write these down, I'll rot the information, and then I would color-code them based on whether the competition is high or low. And then all would actually have a little title creation of what I would look at creating the total and the subtitles will. That is something that's gonna be really useful for you. A book, niche research can be quite hard. There are different tools you can use. But one of the most popular is pretty much to see gallon to Amazon. And you can start to look at different niches and things like that. So if we were to go back to our areas here, Let's go to go to health. If there's a health one, maybe. Let's go to good to go back to this one. And if we were to look down here further, that didn't get it. Let's just go home. The clutter. Let's check it out. And then we'd have 4 thousand results. So we're going, well that's a little bit too much. Then we can start to look at different ways. We can look at things. So we can either go to a category or we can just go straight to books. And if we did the home de clutter, we brought 4 thousand results. If we were heavy, Look this I had to home declutter and organization. Five thousand results. So a little bit too much before we go to our books as well. And we start to have a little bit of a look. That's got a thousand results, which is perfect for us. Now what we're looking for is four to five books. We've got just on the border, 123456. It's got those. If we went to more of a lower content and we'll just write a journal. Let's see what this brings up, 329, so that's much better. Then what we do is go through and see if there's any other sort of journals that we're looking for. So we'd go down. And let's say it is a seven-week God on an organization plan of attack. Cleaning your home. This evening we can do. It's a matter of just scrolling through and finding if there's anything that we can actually create. If we went to organization. Organizations are organized a planner. There's a lot of results there. We wouldn't necessarily look at going into that niche. That could be budgeting book. You can start getting ideas as you go through a room by room Project Planner. Let's have a look inside this book and see if it would be easy to create. We would go into it. Price is very low, but we would then have a look and think, this is something we can create BSA easy to create, just goes through those already contents, home details, and then it just has those pages there. That is very easy to create. And that would be another one you could potentially marked down in your niche fonder, It would be a seven by nine inch. Let's have a look at the reviews. You can actually learn a lot from the reviews and you can make improvements on the current book. But that's an overview of the niche research process. So remember, you've got to have a tracker and you wrote down keywords. You might even go through and look up different keywords like room ballroom, project planner. If we were to copy that, for example, and have a bit of a look, we could, we could put it in your niche research tracker as well. You could go back here and let's just paste that and see. It's something that people were looking up. So let's go there. And we've got 2 thousand results. Let's have a look. How many books we've got one. We've got a lot of books it out, ranking it to go down HE further, there's not enough books on page one that we can see that potentially going for these niche. But I wanted to show you the process. And as I said, there's not one size fits all process is to do it, but our families to be highly successful in finding books if you just want to use a free process. Now for you to work. If you were to spend some money and go to a program like book bolt, then that provides different ways of doing niche research and something that you can see that as well. And so I've just logged into my book bolder camp before I went to the Cloud, for example. Then I would simply say if I did a planner and I wanted to find the top 200 under a BSR of say, 149. We brought the price down to something reasonable and we did a search. Then this will bring up all the books that are quite popular now. And you can go through and get different ideas. So there's a bill payment strike up. If we clicked on that one, then this would tell us the ranking when it was released and the price point as well on how often that is changed. You can actually see there's a few budget funds. Budget tracker is this one would tell us that the rank has dropped, the price is reminded sign. So this is the pair of book bolt you can go through and you can actually find different niches and start to look into these as well. That's another wide, but again, that's a paid way. It's ran a bet $10 per month. But I'll include that as part of the bonus listening thesis was of interest to finish out niche research lesson. Remember, keep track of it, use the tracker and just try and keep the process of finding those books. That ranking. Well, there's enough customer results will search results of the under 2 thousand. But the competition isn't as hard, so you can actually rank for those books. That concludes lesson. I'll be ready for the next lesson in a moment. 11. Lesson 8.1 Book Cover and Niche Research: Welcome to this law of lesson. Now, I apologize in advance if you can hear the birds in the background. It is early morning here and the birds are just coming up. I just wanted to go through a live process of trying to identify what works really well with book covers and what features a standing out to customers and what are generally look for. If I was looking for a book, let's look for I'm just trying to think of different activity books may be for kids, that might be in the low content area. If we did applying activity books for kids. Let's just do this one here. If we have a look at these ones. Firstly, well, before we get into 1000 results. And so what we might even quickly do while we're doing this is a quick little bit of niche research to find out how this is going. Let's have a look at the, so this is on the books and it's got a thousand results. It's got an average sales rank of 10 thousand. That could be a great little niche to get into if you are wanting to get into a applying activity books, IGES ten. There we have it quickly. Sometimes these niche research things happen. So anyway, what we're gonna do is continue on. And what I want to do is focused on what book covers a working well and what features you need to look for yourself to then design that could also stand at the customers. So let's get into this now. The first thing that all would be looking for to see the ranking, because then that gives us an idea of where the customers are buying it. Now this book here, it has no reviews, but looks to be tracking quite well. What we do, we go, Okay, let's have a look. It's got features of Watson inside and I'll notice that some book covers, if you do include what is inside customers like that. Let's have a look through here. That's again, what they've done, leveling little illustration of what might be inside. So we have that got 94 reviews. Let's have a look inside this book as well. And I'll be just looking at a like high, they've used relatively plain. Sorry about that. I've used basic text on the cover. But notice how they've used quite a bit of the spice or a lot of the space. And the subtitle is there. It's pretty clear to there. It's pretty small, but it's clear. So notice how they're used. All the ****** I came. If we scroll, actually what we're gonna do, we're gonna have a quick look inside. Let's say how if I've used these kinds of things as well. So I've done a couple of different activities. Depends how much of the installed looking features. So they haven't expanded the look inside feature and more than beyond 10%. But you can see the activities of fairly basic, but we're looking at the cavities on as well. Let's just go back here. Back to results. We just keep that in mind. We keep going down. This is the book that was up the top here. I think that's changed either now. We keep going down 24 thousand. It's quite busy. But again, you can see how they've used most despised there. I do like that cover. That's quite good. I'm not sure what the ranking is odd. Don't want to click on it because these people are paying for response area there. But you can see these quad plain in regards to inside. Sorry about saying that this keeps coming up. This activity. It's not to do with their applying, but you can find different ideas as you go through as well. It's a spice book, spice coloring book. Pipelines for kids. It's good as well. That's not standing up pretty well. I do like how they've done this border. Notice how it really stands out and punches out towards you. That's what you're looking for. That cover, we've seen that before. I think I, even during some niche research, it does stand out. This one again. So you have outboard logcat, I've used the watt and I've got a bit of a shading around these, which then makes it push out. That's something you need to keep in mind in the school. Colors and things in the background. Going down. Again, they've got good pictures and things in solid that one. Interesting. Unknown, messy fan of discoverability selling well, that's a really good cava, or do like that again, by use big headings, they use Gu colors. I've used a little banner here. The subtitles easy to read. It's nice that they used nearly all the spice, nearly oldest spice. So let's have a quick looking saw or let's say noted before. She doesn't she's done a lot of work before. Look here. Let's have a look inside. Usually the books don't have a lot of content and inflammation, but they do sell well. That's very basic. Very basic. Again, they do sell well. Jennifer L. Trace books, but they don't have a lot of great things from our perspective that should be selling really well. But I do. Again, let's capable looking good. It's stands out. These books, this quantity is quite a good niche because it's got a lot of different really good rankings. And it's a thousand results as well. And that gives us some really good ideas about what we need to look for in that area. So let's have a look at this guy. If an activity book, Let's just go for kids. Histone, let's say how much it changes where we are going to be. Big. 6 thousand is not too bad. Let's keep going down a bit further. Again. The things I can spot that you can see the hitting quite well. I've used good colors, these, that book there that we saw before. We get going down, we saw that one as well. That one's noss and colorful. I think that'll actually pick up a wind was at least that was published in 2020, or think that will actually go into Goodman and maintenance got some really good reviews. Have a look at those reviews. It all depends though, on what the reviews are saying. Let's have looking sawed. Again, it's, it's a good cover or like head, I've used the font top. There might be, I could've changed up the color a little bit to make a broader for that scale going down, they get C. I think this has got a lot of potential, this book, a lot of potential that gone to a favorite of work. To get this done. I got some really good little airplane icons and things like that. Do believe that that will continue to go too well. But let's have a look at there. Activity or the eardrum benign author central page. It looks like I've just got the one book so far. Some surprised about that. But it is going to improve. I think it's only 58 pages though. That's the only thing by these trucking quite well. So let's get back again. Back here. Let's go back to the different results and find out what other features a standing out. And that was probably the darkness of the dark blue and name the watt that's standing out for me. I think that's something that you need to keep in mind when you're designing any of these sorts of things as well. Having a look, they seemed to be quite popular. The preschool activity books should, trucks, cars and airplanes, uh, dinosaurs, but it's quite a saturated niche. Dinosaurs. Again, paper airplanes of saying that one might be if we do, let's have a quick look. Again. This is going to be a bit of a combo law of session where it's niche research and we're looking at book covers to get that rod books, book for kids. So let's have a look and say 4 thousand results. So there's quite a few results. But if we looked on the old departments, that will also give us a bit of an indication that's only 428 results on the all case. I 36 thousand. Wouldn't mind having to look at that book. I'm going to try and find it. I don't want to click on the sponsored book. Again, non thousand sponsored 921 ultimate pipelines. Pipelines. Pipelines are applying. Wow, these are doing really well. These books really well. As a couple that on, but if you could make one of these books, then that would be great. So let's go back and see how complicated one of these books would Beta mic. Let's have this. This was released in February 92021. And let's have a look inside. Good cover, nice head. I've got back. I just really liked that kava, it's nice and bold. I've used a really good Illustrator, picture that got the clouds and the awesome paper airplane book for kids credit designs and fun tear at projects. So this might be a bit trickier to create. But again, if you prepared to step up and do more things like this, then it could work for you. They've used II Plus content, which is part of the course. I'll teach you how to do that. If you haven't already watched that session. And I've got some really good different things here as well. They've got an editorial review. Let's go back and say how, how this would be to actually like going here. Again, good cover. Scroll down. Rock Ridge Press. So it's actually been done by an official publisher. And the smart be where the challenge lies. So let's keep going down. They've got good contents page. And I've got information about the plain tops of planes as well. And then I show how to do that. So it could, it could be quite a tricky book to Mike potentially, but that's not decided. Maybe other ones that might be easy to Mike bit what all would do from that one is take notice of the cover and how they did it. Let's keep going down. This one is 36 thousand March 202117 reviews. Let's have a look at this one as well. Against the cut color folder and flawed book. Let's have a look at the reviews and what it does, what that review is about. But anyway, let's have looking saw at it and see how to EDCs covers. Okay, ARB wouldn't rank that really highly. That go 45 Paper Planes. Look down here. I've got different illustrations and photos of how it's done. That's all I've done a ads and pitches lot that on it and then I fold it. Dotted lines and peaches on their very basic. These could be easily replicated so that I can isolate. They'd probably just got these can make the pipe but plains themselves and taken photos often than not just added a couple of arrows when they've taken a photo, made it the black screen in the back and just edit some arrows. And then I just got 45 plane. So it's not necessarily 45 different sorts of very appliance. It's 45 pipelines. So let's go back and have a quick look at the description. Because that could be something that you might like to create. Create 45 unique pilot airplanes from non different designs. So they only got nine different designs. And then I've just got these fun pages. So it's really basic, very basic, but it's doing really well. That's one that you should brought down. Before we get caught up too much in niche research, let's scroll down further than just shows you what she can find if you just scrolling through and having a bit of a look at different ideas. And I've just stumbled across this idea while we've been doing this law I've reviewed. So let's have a look here. I think that's gonna be a bit harder than one to do. Other ones here as well. Keep going down. Let's just try one other thing. So let's let's try. We're going to go for this is truck truck books for kids, for the water results. You probably wouldn't owe as well. So it's probably getting on the books, it's probably gonna be even more. Let's have a look at this. It's gonna be pretty 18 thousand results, probably too many results, but that could be mixed in with a lot of other different books. Anyway, we're having to look at different designs. You can see here, cut and paste, That's quite a fictive. I think that'll start to get better. It's only got it's got 16 results. Sorry, 16 reviews. I can see that tracking. Okay. Let's keep going down. Trucks activity book. I've said a couple of days and I tend to stand out quite well. Minutes. It's not something that I consider, is it right. Covered, but it must must reason. I worked with kids. I must like it. If we keep going down here, there's another one using those sort of features like that. Truck activity, coloring, book, Dinosaurs days and dump trucks. That's doing very well. Let's have a quick look at this one and what size special, better. Maybe it's the Be bold, rotting. And they've combined dinosaurs, dig is and dump trucks together. And let's have a look at total. So domiciled dig isn't dump trucks coloring book, cute and fun dinosaur and truck coloring book for kids and toddlers. It's a bestseller in children's construction vehicle books. It's ID1 pages I 0.5 by seven inches. Let's keep going down further. They've done an I plus content. Again, you can do these kinds of things. This is having a looking saw the book as well. They've obviously got an Illustrator that's coming and drawn some of these for them. And that can be done. You cannot source new Illustrator on something look farther. And it's not that. But if you invested money to get an illustrator and the bookies ranking at nearly a thousand, then you will get your money back very, very quickly. That's amazing. Cube Coloring Book. Got five stars everywhere verified purchases. Well, and then this one a lot phase where you can actually have looking saw it so I can see why I love it. Because it's gonna be combination trucks of graders and dinosaurs, which kids, particularly young kids really love. It's got everything that they need and it looks like it's a good size as well. Let's keep going back up and see if we can look in sorted before we finish up this lesson. But again, notice how they use the most space on the covers. Good subtitle. You can say that a really good hitting there as well. Let's have looking sod. You can see how they've had an illustrated duties. Just really good illustrations. And you could engage. An illustrator might cost a rant about 15, $20 per illustration, maybe less depending on where you get those illustrations from. But again, if you were into $150 on getting a great illustrations done, then it could be well worth your time. And what they moderate done is the truck illustrations may have already been available, but what the Illustrator has done is just add some faces on them. And the dinosaurs. And the dinosaur here. I think that's what they might've done. That's actually been just a truck joined, but I've actually added these components on so Thoroughgood Illustrator that I could actually put the dinosaur in there potentially. Again, with that one, they have, I quick look at covers, niche re-search and a bit of a combination and everything really. It's just a good opportunity for me to show you what I do when I'm looking through researching full books that I can create had difficult. What covers of people or authors doing that is standing out and getting good reviews and getting tracking really well to their IDs that all can see that coming out right now. They are the kinds of things that I want you to look for. And YouTube continue to get better at as you work through your KID pay publishing journey. Because it's taken me some time to get used to what works well, but just look at the font tops, look at the colors they are using, looking sod the book, the bouquets is to create what features that I putting on the cover that might stand out to customers as well. And these are the kind of thing is he just got a cape looking at and find out what works. Don't try and do something that no one's ever done before. You must will stick with something that works and then focus hard on making the best quality product you can. I hope you enjoyed this lesson. And it was again, just something I want to show you about the process I go through when I'm looking at niche research, cover design, and combining both of those together. 12. Lesson 9 - Creating Your Title and Subtitle: Welcome to the next module in regards to pay low and no content creation. This module, we'll be talking about total creation and the things that you need taking consideration regards to how you create your title, what you need to include in the title and the subtitle, and different elements that we can look at as well. When you're creating your total. There are things that you need to consider. And Tata creation is different from a self publisher can pay to someone that's very well-known. If you're very well-known, you've got a huge presence in the social market, or you're very well-known TV presenter or fitness guru, then there's every opportunity for you to be able to create your title as you want. But as self-published is, we need to aim for special keywords. So let's have a look on Amazon and see how people have been using keywords to create their titles. So if we were to jump on Amazon and we were to write cursive, most data ROC curve. See if you can see different words will come up here. These are the ones that Amazon customers are searching for the day for. A book. Title needs to represent what customers are searching for because he's now calling it. If we're doing cursive handwriting, teens rotting book for great creative spellers, whatever. People aren't searching for that you need to look for the someone is obviously looking for cursive handwriting workbook for teams. If he did that, then cursive handwriting workbook, Simon cursive handwriting, cursive handwriting workbook, cursive handwriting workbook, cursing handwriting workbook for teens. So that's why these books are coming up on page one, because it's including the actual keywords that customers are searching for. So you need to ensure that you can continue to look into that. So if we were to click on this one and have a bit of a look, then you go through and you can see that even the Y that I've written the description is really important and we'll talk about that soon. But making sure that the language using on his noss and clear and it's easy for the customer to see it as what we call F thumbnail. So the thumbnail is these little pictures here as you're scrolling down and needs to capture the eye of the customer quickly. Your book title is important. And when you're creating your title, this section here, between here and the two dots, that is the total, then I include the subtitle from there onwards and you need to make both stands out. Let's go back up here. And we have a look at this one. Print handwriting workbook for teens. Improve your printing handwriting practice print, penmanship workbook for teens and tweens. If you have a look at this one. Cursive handwriting workbook for teens, because he brought in practice book for teens, tweens, and young adults. So the important thing is that you include what you've, what you've got on your cover needs to be represented with your title, so that must represent that. But with your subtitle, you can actually include extra words which you don't need to include only cover. This is where research will be important as well. So if we go back to research, we need to include different way I include different words that we might not have been out to include net total, but we conclude in a subtitle. Priority. When we're doing this, is to ensure the best keywords the customers are searching for, which of these ones are included in total. If we can't fit them in the tar because I didn't make sense. So you don't want to be what they call keyword stuffing with people include keywords, we just don't make sense. If you can't fit them in your title and make it to longer title. That included in the New York subtotal is another area that I'll talk about soon where you can include any lift either words, which will help with your ranking for Amazon cardiac pain. That's a y to create your title. And we'll just do one more example. If we were to do garden journal and planner, would have look here. You can see people was searching. We did plan up gotten journal. You can see people looking for logbook. Log book for kids, garden journal logbook. You can include some of these things and you subtitle if it makes sense. So if we go to garden journal for kids, know why the gratitude journal is featuring in the arms got 40 thousand words. But if you scroll down, you can see all the different things that are in here as well. And you can see how they've been using the keywords. So they can get ranked on page one and then dive use different words in here for the subtotal. Remember, just make sure you don't overdo it. This one is sort of pushing on the limits. Gardening general for kids. Hydroponic, organic subatomic containers saving. See here they've been keyword stuffing. You don't want to do that. You just want to make sure it flows and it's nice and easy to understand. That is a way of creating your title and your subtitle. Just make sure that it has ranking keywords which will appear up here which people which customers are searching for. You can use your keyword expander to help with that as well. These words that come up and use them, KF linear title. And then anybody can use in your total using your subtotal. And then I'd also make it at least of these other words. You can include them as you load your book decayed. Apo show you soon, but you can including me in what I call the seven keyword box. And I'll show you that one of the future modules. So listens, it's coming up soon. So that is how to create your title and your subtitle. One important area that I forgot to over did overlook was ensuring that you are actually in compliance with title and subtitle creation regards to infringing on trademarks. And I will just wanted to include this as part of the title and subtitle module. But there is a salt you can go to called US PTO.gov trademark search. And you can actually do a search under search at trademarks data by ice, and that will notify you when you are infringing on any trademarks. And it's important that you check this, because if you don't check it, then you just wouldn't want to have any we can get your account terminated by KID pay if you're infringe on that, there could be some legal things that ramifications by doing it. So don't use words like Disney or any big trademark names, but even smaller ones. On either dot dot journal, I believe is a trademarked nine. So you wouldn't use that in your title. Those are the things you need to check before you larger book two, kVp, and this is the website just here as well. So make sure you check that and you just go onto the website and search our trademark database and check for your title, make sure it's not infringing on any trademarks or copyrights. 13. Lesson 10 - How to Create Your Book Cover: Welcome to the next lesson or module. It's all about cover creation and making sure that you can create covers which you're gonna be attractive to customers. Now these are just some of the book covers it off design. I don't have any design background or anything like that, but I'll have worked hard to create covers that are attractive for customers and making sure that they stand out. When we're looking at our cover creation, we want to try and create as many of them we've possible for frame. And of course I've got the Canva pro version, which gives me more graphics and illustrations and things. But there's also freeways of creative. If we go two ways we can create free covers, then we're going to set up a free account with Canva.com. And we're going to talk about the importance of cover creation and design. Some of the things that you need to consider when you're creating your cover letter. At first, the different cover sizes that were permitted on kVp. Then we're gonna go to Canada. And I'm going to show you a few of the steps that you need to take to create your cover for keda pay upload. If we were to have a quick look at KD paid and the size that I permit. These are the ones down here that we can look at. So you can not do them in black ink and white paper, black ink and Crane paper, standard color or premium color. Now the typical size for no and low content books are either 6.96 by nine inch, seven by ten, or even 8.5 by 11. So it's sort of similar to an I4 piece of piece of paper, just a little bit smaller, just a little bit narrower. Then the trim size for hardcover books are giving you five different options. The moment 6.85.5 days, 46 by nine, and then goes through the 0.25 violin. And so it makes it tricky if you have a kappa and I 0.5 by 11. But the hardback is I point to five by 11, so you need to make a few adjustments. Davis sizes. So we're going to do an 8.5 by 11. I'm going to create a composition notebook. And it's just gonna be nice and easy for me to show you the process of doing that. So let's go to canva.com now and I'll show you the process. Remember to go to canva.com. You got to the sign-up up here and you just simply sign up with an account you provide your email address. And you, if on your password, you can decide just to use the free version to begin with. And then if you feel like updating, you can. But when I'm doing mine, you'll see that I do have a number of pipe elements, but I'll try and use all the free ones to show you the process. Let me sign into my account now. I'm on my account for Canada now. And what we're going to be doing is we're going to create a design. We would go, we can custom design, but we do scope, create a design. And we go down to Custom Size. And we're doing an IPO, 0.5 by 11:00 AM I to II changes to inches. I 0.5 by 11 inches. And that's what Katie was specifying as the psoas, a book that we can do, we would create new design. So we're just going to be doing the front cover at this point in time. So this gives us blank front cover. And then we can also make sure we can do our back cover that I'll show you that process in a moment. So you've got all different elements you can choose from. You've got choices here in regards to if you just did shapes, you just wrote shapes. And it'll bring up a whole lot of different elements. You've got photos, your graphics, videos. Those beat any videos of course, but you're using, those are graphics. Then you can go, you've got uploads it, you've monochromatic before. You've got take so you can choose different ones. You can just go heading there and then you can change it to whatever you wanted to do. For example, there's a lot of different options. You can upload different on different texts as well and fonts. So there's a lot of different options you can do with Canva. In regards to the element side. Let's, let's just do a composition notebook. Let's do a dinosaur composition notebook. And I'll show you the process and how easy it is. So if we were to sketchy elements, we would go dinosaur background. This mark will its aim for a six to eight year-old child logs dinosaurs. So it's scroll down and always different elements are here. So if you just wanted to choose a background, he has his pro. That means that it's a paid model that I've got. And you can't go decaying up and choose free options as well. I'm not see a ******* font that just go to here. I'll choose free cloth filters. Now this gives me all the free different dinosaur peaches at all can actually use, and you can use them for commercial use as well. So you don't have to be concerned about using a dinosaur that you'd be worried about a bad the commercial use. Now you can also do templates. So you can do dinosaur now the main thing is that if you do get a template that your normal add just to use, for example, we just go replies, for example, you can't just use these. You need to make an adjustment to it. Let's turn these into our composition notebook. We can either keep the corner rotting here or we can create our own. We might get rid of that. This is marked cool. We've marked knew these up here. Like that name. We can reduce the size. We can bring that down. And we can even reduce this to say 30. Might be BI tool might get PBM 0.511. We might even bring that up there, bring that down there. And we can make that different color. Let's make it a yellow. Bring it down there. Mike, that black or brown would had a calorie wanted to and we can adjust it. We want it to be there. That we can just do this. Sorry about the dog barking in the background. We can just keep adjusting different things. So you might want to put number pages, for example, might be say 150. You can do whatever you want to. It's just a bad *** and creative and thinking of that what kids might want. And you can put say nine until we can get these, bringing it down, we can have we can even move these dinosaurs around as well if we wanted to. We can bring that down. Let these here. You can just be nice and creative as you're doing it. You might want to move it, move the elements around even more so it's up to you. Now, the main thing we want to make sure we don't do with Al-Qaeda when we load it to ADP that don't want writing that goes too close to the border. Now what I would recommend is you can even use an element. You just got to say shape. This. What we're looking for, paving shapes. What we're looking for is a graphic that allows us tonight sure that we don't go outside the border, so we just go to even if we need to square, that probably will bring it up. When we do that. We just bring it like this. Let's just make it yellow so we can actually see it. If we go back there just to be safe. That would be about approximately ran like that where you wouldn't want to go. Any of your writing cannot extend beyond that yellow line and you'll see it when I applied the book, you'll see exactly what a name you welcome to even keep a lawn lot that on your book as a border. What you can do right-click and you guys send to back. And then it goes behind these dinosaurs. So it could be even a guide for you, which you can actually keep there as well. And if you wanted to make any changes to things you can do that. You can even make this a little bit bigger. You can move that in place as well. It could move the stand further. That's the great thing about Canva. You can keep adding different elements onto it. And you might want to add. You could even bring that down into the middle. You can have details on that. So it is up to you. What am I do is they'll just do a few finishing touches. And I'll come back and I'll show you the finished product. What I've done is just added a bit of a feature, a better looking like a dinosaur's breaking and flying out from behind through the kava. I've just adjusted the color a little bit as well. I want to do now is. I would download this in a pain J format. And we just download that. And we make sure that we keep that saved. And the next part will be, we've just got that say there. We've actually what we should've done. He's actually added a subheading, so we would call it dinosaur composition. From cover. This. Then what we would do is we need to create the back cutter. Now we want to keep the sign colors. What we would do, we would go to File, we would go to make a copy. And then this would allow us to have assign colors that are organized for a book. If you wanted to, you could keep elements of these dinosaurs in place. What we probably do is get rid of these ones. We wouldn't need those. You could always reduce this small if you wanted to sign with this one here. You can just reduce heading size if we wanted to zoom it out to make it easier, you can do that as well. Not really wanting to behave itself here, is it? Just do that? Put it under there, let that just make sure its name. We can make these a bit smaller as well. Do whatever you want with them. We could get rid of that one. What we'd also need to make sure we've got a barcode that usually sits around here. We just need to make sure that we're not putting peaches over or where the barcode will sit around about here. So that for example, that would be the back. Now what we would do is we would then change this to back cover that. We would then again download. And we would cite those two files in a folder so we know exactly where they are. And I've just saved and both in the folder so I can refer to them later. Now the next step we need to do is make sure this is compatible to what we were when we upload our book to Katie pay, we need to ensure we are meeting the guidelines in regards to the psoas, cicada, a paper virus with a template which we can use our calculator. And we're going to have a, a 120 pages by 8.5 by 11. So let me go to how we calculate that now. This is called the cover calculator. So if you were just to Google kVp cover calculator, it would bring you to give you an option to click on this link here on this page. What we would do, we would do Paperback interior. We're going to do standard or sorry, black and white Paper top. We're going to use whitepaper. Page turn, so it's actually, it's left to rot. We just leave it at that measurement units. We're using inches, interior trim size. We're using an 8.5 by 11 page count. We're using 120 pages. And then we calculate the dimensions. And these will actually give us the actual dimensions of what we need to do. So if you can see here the width, we need to remember these calculations here, 7.5 to 11.25. We would then go back to Canva and we would go back to here we go. Let me just go back to the calculator again. 17.5 to 17.42. And this is how we put out both front and back pages together. And those things are 11.5. I believe it was it was a limit to five. So we get a QA within 0.25, and then we create a new design. Now this gives us this whole area here. Now what we need to do is upload our files and that will go here. But the first thing we need to do is to actually get the color of the background. So we'd go into here, highlight there, See that comes up there. We would click on that. We would find what that code is and we copy that code. Would then go back to here and go to their control V. And that sets us up with the color for the background. Now all we need to do is get out front and back. Now we got to upload and you would upload your media. We would find our file. And I'll do that right now. And here are two file, so it's simply upload both of them up. Then what we do, click on that one, bring that across, Click on that one, and bring that across. Now the final thing we need to do is go back here and says download a template. Now this template, unless she shows exactly where we need to book covers, this actually downloads for us. And we click on this. We go to this one just here, the PNG file. We open it up. And what we can do is actually just go control, control and print screen and copy it. We can then go back to add is on. Sorry about this jumping around a bit. Just make sure we've got this all loaded as well. We don't want to soar. Sorry. Cover funnel. And we would control V pasting that template on. We would then treatment to the right size on these. Then we expand it the corners. Then we can reduce the transparency. You can actually send it to the back, into the back. Now I can actually bring these to the edges. We know exactly where EPO cover is going to be. Do it like that. That then we need to make sure we right-click it, send it back. Ra click, Send it back. We need to get rid of this template. Now, we have our cover ready to go. Nuts. What we need to do to be able to upload it to ADP in the right format. Now, we need to make sure we save it as a PDF. Pdf print. Don't save it as a PNG PDF print. We save that. The net cover will be perfect for us to actually load it up two kVp. And that's the process that we need to follow. So we would then save that file to where we're keeping all of our false read books. I've done that now if cytosol, we've got to have front at back and add cover, which is f final PDF. And that will, that will be the perfect size for when we upload it to take ADP. That's the final part of book creation or sorry, cover creation. So I hope that was really helpful for you in this module. And the next area will be back creating the manuscript for it. So I'll see you in the next lesson. 14. Lesson 11 - The Critical Steps of Cover Design: One of the really important features of book cover design is getting some k elements, right? There are four elements that I believe a critical when you're developing your book cover. Because as we know, people do judge a book by its cover. And therefore, when you create a new book, he needed to take these four elements into consideration. So let me run through what those four elements are to make sure that you book, he's going to stand out to the customer. Now the critical thing about cover design is making sure that it's something that the customers are going to look at when I click on immediately. And it's something that many our authors struggle with because I don't have necessarily the design skills or the experience and not a designer. I don't have any formal qualifications. However, I've worked really hard on trying to determine what key elements are required for a really good book cover. And it has taken on. In this lesson, we're just going to have a quick look through some of the features is some good designs and maybe some things that people could work on. Then I'm going to identify a full key features which you really need to identify and implement in your book cover design. So let's scroll down here and have a look. What we're looking for is we want to make sure that they are using pretty much the nicer, the spice as well. We've looked through here, these ones, nurse and easy to read. Remember people are gonna be scrolling through log I'm doing right now. And they discover would stand out to me. So it is a unicorn coloring book for kids aged. Now that might be a bit hard to read at blades for the white because I can say a bear, um, but the cover really stands out because of those colors that we're using. So this is the speed that most customers will look through. And now look at the cover design. They might have a quick look at the customer reviews as well. Or it might be just a design. I click on it and then I review. We'll have a look at the different reviews are on there. These are the customers guy threw a book cover a lot that will stand at as well. Let's now go and have a look at what I spoke k features are as part of a great book cover design and what things people do incorrectly that could cause I cover failure. So let's have a look at what design elements mike, part of the griped cover. Let's have a little bit of a look. What are they that are really important to us? Number one, the graphics, the graphics that you use, needs to be appropriate to the audience that your marketing, your book too. If it's, for example, toddlers, they need to be pitchers or illustrations that are really going to stand out for toddlers. The font top you use, there's no point using small phone top or font taught that customers can't read from that thumbnail that the scrolling through. So it needs to be unquote bold for them to see. The total needs to stand out. And you'd need to be able to have it so that people will customers know what the book's about. Number four is effective use of the spice. And what we're given is actually quite small, particularly if it's a little fun. Now, use that space effectively. Now what we're now going to do is go to a cover that I designed on Canada and give us safe. I had been out to address, that is k design features. Our design is on Canva pro, and now you can get the free version and you can use them. Or you can use a pro version that I subscribe to an either subscribe to it because it's important to me and part of our scaling or business. I'm not going to scrimp on a subscription to a software that are now makes me thousands of dollars and mouth. Having something locked up. If you were interested in Canva Pro, just go to the description, you'll see the link for Canva pro. And in a moment I'll show you some of the key elements, both the free and the paid version which you can use in his cover of chart to use noss big font types of Troy to use I elements, and graphics which are child-friendly. Use the spice as much as I can and I'll fill out the color combinations of working. But there are things that are could properly improve on as well. Let's go and jump on Canada and have a look at this book. As always designing it. This is actually the original book cover that our head and all I was doing when I was using a search box here under elements to find out these features and it was gonna be a clown, or sorry, not a client. I a circus theme. With these things here. All these are, if you look. A clouds. And I've just got a single Cloud that are dying out unlike look a bit bigger and it allows me to do this one here. We just bring it up. Might be a bit hard to see that one. I'm not even go for a more delete that one so you can actually see what we're doing here. All I used was iCloud and expanded it. So if we go this one, well, it is a simple little cloud and all those out drag it and then bringing the other elements around it. So if we were to, if we wanted to similar clouds, so that one, we would just go to elements, we'd brought Cloud. Then it would bring up all the different Clouds. Now, these might show club pro version Cloud. So when I hover over it, it tells me where it's a pro version or free version. But just say I'll scroll down and I thought this Clare looks good. So I'll click on that. Then it would come over to my book cover over here. Then just expanded to the size that I wanted to. And then if I wanted to go to the back, then I will just right-click. And then I just say send it back. And then that goes to the back of the picture. But you say you thought, Well, I don't want the clouds. I want a different, a different sort of loops. We go back here and do that one because I had the word. We could even change that color of that word. We might want to make that green, for example. And we can change that up and move it across. But just say we didn't like that blue background and we wanted to make it pop even more. What we would do, let's find a background that might be suitable if we just do circus because it's circus theme. We got this. It'll come up with a whole heap of different graphics that we want. And again, there's a little clown there. But we want a background that could be around that might be a bit dull. It's almost looks like a popcorn box, which is so explain. This one looks pretty good. So what we do, we just click on that there. That will then come across, right-click. We then replace the background and then it comes up with this. And that might make it stand out even more. And there might be elements that I can sort of removed now. But if we wanted any of these sort of pitches, there's the, the gorgeous this, you just click on it and it comes across. And then we can move that ring master. We can make making bigger, making smaller, whatever you want to do. But most importantly, is if you change your colors, you need to ensure that the cow is, again to stand up for what you're using. So for example, if we night that code that's not going to work there for you went to like I and I pink, then that would stand out more and that would need to be changed as well, just so that the color combinations are actually working and you might want to get through root of Sundays as well, but some of the words could be changed as well. So if we wanted to change, so we go shadow, see this ridge shadow there. We would go to black. We would increase the transparency. And now at really stands out. You can move it around on the page as well. But it's about getting the right color combinations using a space and the rod font types. So for this one, that font type is called chewy. And I've found that that was quite a, almost like a preschool kind of a font type. And I think preschoolers would lock the circus theme and it would work well for them. So these are the elements that are tried to bring together to make it nice and clear. Now, the thing that I could probably improve on would be this one you could probably enhance or could make that much clearer. If you looked at the thumbnail and saw that in nine opiate or rated. So it's something I could probably really improve on. But let's go back to the document and just check a couple of other options that we have as well as part of design as a book covers. What we need to do if we just go here, you've got the other white cover design. You could use Canva, which you can create. But if you're not a designer or your preferences to outsource that it could guide WHO group called Father. And you might have used suave the before and you can use it definitely for book cover creation. Now farther on in environment. Father is a freelancer, a website where you can really pick a number of different things. So if we just did book cover design. We do our search. Then it comes up with a number of different options you can choose. I can choose on your budget. You can choose on the category, the relevance. So if we scroll down here and have a look at different options to look at what I'll be looking for. Something new, something that might stand out for you. There might be different covers he that they could work in your favor. So let's go back up here. Let's do a budget. We're going to do a budget of $10 to say $24. Even we'll do 30 because the wire, I'll look at it. If you're spending time creating a book, you need to spend some money on the book cover because it's 9. Creating a great manuscripts and then scraping on the book cover. And now whenever I say it or an idea for y-bar, for you, look down here, we're looking for book covers that might stand out to us, different options that you think could work. And the guy nice to these cover designers to load content books, even know Content book. So let's have a look at this one. Starting at $14, we would simply click on it and the guy and the link for father is in the description. So if you felt that you wanted to add social book cover creation, then definitely try us a book cover creating software or a platform like farther, because it might really help you out. Having a look here. You look at the different cover creations at the author's done that on crossword puzzles. I've done. It looks like a coloring book as well. So click on this next one as well. We can see what else I've done. You can see there's a whole different type, Dave and down halloween themes as well, coloring activity books. It seems to be, oops, we'll go back to that one looks really good as well. That's a practice curve. Curse, rotting, sorry, cursive handwriting workbook. So these are the things that you can have a look at as well. And what you could do is just pick the different packages that you get, three cover designs and source file. This one would just be one cover design or premium six cover desires for eighty-five dollars. Fare to be really, really good. I use them quite. Even up to three months ago, I use one for book that are created just because I didn't have the expertise and the kind of book calls creating and really, really well. So they're the things that you need to consider. Remember, let's go back a couple of steps and think about the key elements. Just to finish with that, we want to highlight is part of book cover creation. Graphics. Make sure you got appropriate and suitable graphics for your audience. The font-awesome. Make sure the font top is suitable. Again for the color combinations or you're using the size of your book and making sure that customers can read it. The title needs to be big enough. Again, if you've got a little thumbnail that customers are scrolling through, that needs to be able to read that. And then finally, effective use of spice. I you using all your space on your book cover. And not just honing in on one small area. Make sure you do that. So I hope these tips have really helped you in regards to cover creation and work really hard at mastering book cover creation. And if you're not intuit, outsource it to a group hug father. And I've got the links below for both Canva pro and also for Fiverr as well, if that was what you wanted to do. But most people file in book cover creation because I don't follow these key elements in these key for key reasons or settings for setting up the rock book cover for your market. So I really hope that that's helped. 15. Lesson 11 Part 2 - How to Create a Hardcover for KDP: In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create your hardback books for cat API. Now it's something fairly new the cardiac pave introduced, but he's another why the customers can actually look to buy other piping bag, hardback or even an a book, if that's a book that you've got loaded up onto your book catalog. So let me step you through the process of how to create your hub x. So therefore, it's another source of income and revenue view self-publishing business. When you jump onto your dashboard, you'll see this option now available previously, it was just the Kindle e-book and the paperback, but now we have hardcover. Now as I mentioned, it's rolling out to most authors. Some of you might just need to wait just a little bit longer for it to become available. Particularly if you have a new account for those authors or publishes the BNF for quite awhile. It might have become available a little bit earlier. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to turn this book just here, which I've used as an example in a previous video before. Again, I haven't marketed that book. It's just been a book for example purposes. It's a seven button and I'm going to show you how to turn that book into the Christ, the hardcover option. But before I do that, let me go and show you the success that I've had in August for hardcover books and whether it's worth your time to convert them. Let's have a look at this now. In the month of August 2021, managed to always manage yourself. 59 hardcover book. So if we have a look here, I slipped it hardcover and applaud that. That's sort of how the high calf as a tracking. What about if we did this month to die, which we're currently in September 2021. So let me have a look and see how I'm currently tracking with hard copies for September. I've got 34 that are being sold already. So it does show you that it's worth the time and the effort to convert your, particularly your beta selling books too hard kappa. So let's get into the process of actually how to do that. And I'm going to use an example that I showed you before, which is this one here. We're going to use Canva to create these. So the first thing we need to do is click on Create hardcover. If you've created the pipe tobacco already, the kVp will pre-populate all the details for you. You simply just scroll down, make sure that all the information is suitable. And you might have your description all there, the k words, you might educate the sign. Then we go Save and Continue. And the categories might already be in place that you'd like to have. You can choose different categories if you like. But I like just, just capable assign details in place. Now, you can use the free kite APIs begin. If you've used, if you'd like to use your own, you're, this way you'd need to enter. Use my own ISBN. For these kinds of books. I'll just use the free ADP ISBN. So I just saw on that, scroll down. Now this is where we need to choose the print options. We've got to have black and white with Crane paper. I'm gonna keep it with black and white into white paper, you can choose printing color. But it does start to get quite expensive, but it depends on the kind of book you're doing. If you're doing a Children's illustrated book, then of course you'd want to do premium cola interior. Now this is where I mentioned. It's only a few sources available. If we have a look here, we've got a 4.5 by 0.56.96.147 by ten, I 0.25 by 11. So they're the options that are viable way going to select seven by ten because that's the book size that originally had. Now it does show you I 0.25 by 11. Now this is a challenging one because if you have done an 8.5 by 11, you need to adjust it to fit the eye, 0.25. So it's a bit different and I'm not sure why they've done that. But it does make it a little bit more challenging if you've got an 8.5 by 11. But I can look at Mike making another video for those of you that do have an eye 0.5 and need to convert it to the size. But in this video, we'll just use your seven bar tin. So we've selected that one. We're going to use no bleed and we're going to use weak MOD guide the gloss finish. I'm going to choose gloss because all feel that it just gives a bit more hard, hard wearing depends on the look and feel that you want fewer book, but in this circumstance on increased choose called C. Now, we use the same manuscripts that we used for our Piper back if it suits these dimensions still so seven by ten, we'd simply go and grab the original hardcopy manuscript which are gone. Grabbing a moment. Click Upload hardcover manuscript, and I'll click on that one. We open that one, and that's our manuscript already completed. Now the next bit, while these loads up, we're gonna be doing Al-Qaeda creator. Sorry. We're going to upload our own cover. If you wanted to use the KD pKa, the creativity can, but I'm gonna show you how to upload your own, so we would simply click that. But now this is where we need to go and created. So what we need to do, I'm gonna, I'm gonna lay this link in the description, but we need to use a special cover calculated that KID have now provided, which is fantastic. So our book is going to be a pod Kevin. Interior top is going to be black and white. Pipa top is gonna be what? Pij to integration we're just going to do left to right measurement units. This is where we're doing our inches interior trim. This is where we have our options. Go, 12345, different options. We're choosing the seven button. The pitch camp of the manuscript is 120 pages. We go calculate that. Now what we need to do is use these dimensions here and here to create our, our dimensions for Canva. And then we're gonna come back and we can get a download the template. So let me go to canva. We're going to do a custom size and we're going to use those sizes. So remember we can use Canva for free, then also purchase the premium subscription model bias as well. We go back here, we use 16.034. So we go 6.034, make sure it's in inches. Just here. We did it again, 16.034. Then we go to our hot, which is provided in the Catholic calculator, 11.41711.417. Again, make sure you do it in inches. We create a new cover design. A now gives us a template. Next thing we need to do is go back to the cover calculator and we need to download the template that it provides. It will give us an image that we can then place onto Canvas. It gives you this fall here, we will simply open up the file. We are looking for. This one just here. We're looking for the pain GI fall. So we're going to simply do this. We're going to open up at Canva fall and then we can just get it and we're going to drag it across uploads. If that doesn't work, I'll show you another way. Might not have worked. So I'm just going to copy that file. And I'm gonna put it in our original here. Just, just here. This one here we're going to download. So we get the uploads, upload a media. Choose this one here, and we open it. Then what we do is just click on this one. And then this will actually put the cover on here force. What do we need to do is we need to expand this the whole distance. And we want to make sure that when we putting our own cover on, that, we're making sure that it doesn't go into that pink area. So what we do, we grab our initial, initial images. So we got applied meteor again and we grab out to cover files. So we've got our front, which we upload. Then we've got a backpack cover, which we need to upload as well. So I'll grab that one, which is just here. So I backed cava. These are gaining seven bar tin. And we grab an image. And what we're aiming to do is ensure that it actually covers this line, the black line here, and we don't want any writing to be inside that pink area. So what we do is just stretch out cover. And we want to place it inside that is actually going to be about there. We need to continue to work these image that actually fits in the right place. So we just kept going down like this. And we keep going up a little bit. If you need to, you can zoom in to make sure it goes in the right area. But what we do is simply just move it to position. What am I do is quickly just zoom and bring it over to that pink line just there. That's it. Leaves we'll be diving, but that's okay. This side as well. I'll just bring it a little bit over. Then what we need to do is. Actually, what I'll do is I'm going to zoom this up and I'm going to bring it across just there. Now what we need to do is the sign for the other side. I'll bring this down here like this. And what I'll do is I'll phospholipids. Basically, I'm going to bring the beach onto the same area. This white bit here is spawn. Just wanted to make sure that you realize that we need to keep an area free for a bar code as well before I continue. Now completed the back cover. So I've gone to the black line all the way just a little bit past here. Now this is, as I mentioned, the middle spine. So what we need to do is get rid of that template and we need to have the color. So I've just used the luck of what I've done is done a copy of this just here. And I simply reduced it to the size of these. And you can actually use that Carla as I spawn, which I've done for these bits here. That is the choice that you have if you want to do it that way as well. But I would just bring it up to there and I'll bring the speed. Just get rid of that. I'll bring this down to this point rot there. Now I've got a similar spoiling color to reach the book and then lock if it, if it covers. When the, when the hot cup of wraps around, it's gonna be the sum blue colleges TO then all I need to do is cited as a PDF. So I would go across here, download. We would need to save it as a PDF file that we downloaded. And then we're going to be brought to upload that to collide API. Now it comes time to upload. You'll cover file. So I'll upload the cover that we've just created on Canva, which is this one here. Click on that one, and I'll pause it. Wallet uploads. Now that the cover has uploaded successfully along with the manuscript, we then go to our launch preview or inside. The main thing we're looking for here is to ensure that our writing doesn't At saw that red box here. We've lifted enough spice for the barcode. And we've also, we can say our middle strip here for the spawn. And importantly, the quality chick doesn't bring up any issues. And so all it all seems to be fine. You is an issue. It will flag right here. And we would then go through and just make sure that everything's fallen in solid. And so that's just a composition notebook. Nothing special inside. So we don't have to worry about that. We will approve it. And it brings us back to this page just here. Now, what you want to Just check is the printing cost. It can be quite expensive. $6.94 for lined notebook, a teen hard cover. So you just get a seven button. So you just got to keep in mind the cost of that that's gonna have for you when you're doing your processing model. And we'll have a look at what the processing needs to be. We want to allow all territories will wide. We're probably marketplace is gonna be.com. Now we have a minimum of 1157. So if we went for 1499, Let's have a look and see what are costs would base our royalties bet $2, which is probably that rot for composition notebook, that's probably an ion. But these quality expensive and you can say the cost that hardback is going to be for the customer. So we would then just adjust any other process that you would want to do and change it up. Remember, these are the countries where hardback is available.com, UK, in Germany, in France, Spain, and Italy as well. So day the markets and survival, we would then simply publish the hardcover book. And then if there's any issues, tidy p, We'll come back to this as well. 16. Lesson 12 - How to Outsource Your Cover Design: Welcome to the next lecture, a back cover creation and what you can do if you have limited design skills and what the options are for you to consider in regards to absolute and what I've personally used in the past. I've used a couple of different groups. One has been father and the other one is been Freelancer.com. Let me show you farther. That's probably my preferred method. Let me show you what you should look for in regards to add sauce at sourcing your cover design. This is the width sought for Fatah, spelled w.com. And I'm going to show you what we need to do. Under the under the search bar here. I would normally choose a KID. Kevin design. And this will take us to everything we need. We just need to get rid of all this. And it will bring up a number of different options that we can, that we can look at and choose from. And the things we're looking here for covers it really stand out to you. There are many that might be more high content books, like these ones just here. But what we're looking for, someone that has more of an expertise in the lower content books. If you did cover design, maybe it wouldn't bring up exactly what you need. So you scroll through. And if you wanted to do KP, content, cover design, the net mooc, bring up something else that will help. You have a look through here. And you can do filters, BAD budget. So you can do a budget. Let's just say this is an Australian dollar bottom line, you can do a budget of $20 ostream, which is around about 15, $16 US. We scroll down here and we have a bit of a look and see if there's anything that stands out. If they is something that stands out for you, then simply click on it and go and have a bit of a look. What I'd be doing is just having looked through the covers, are there any pop out to me this interior designs that you can do as well. So if you're not sure about the interior design element, then do that, just make sure that they are regional. Let's have a look further down here. Let's go for Let's go. I just want to try and find one that's gonna stand out for me. Let's have a look at this one here. We have a look at these covers. And we find out about the cell up. They've got a very, very good writing there, what they call level to sell them. So they've been doing it for quite a while. And up here you've got the different options. So basic one there, a standard which includes a three-day mockup and commercial use, make sure that you've got commercial use available. This one also has commercial use and premium will give you a different revisions as well. So six cover designs and 3D mock-ups, they suddenly gives you one. So you scroll down, have a bit of a look and see what information I'll provide you. What information will get. Also, have a look at the background as well. So I like to look through all of this. This gives you a comparison table of what's included. And it will also show you different designs that I've done as well. If we scroll back up here, we can have a look and say that one there. That one's a bit bicyclic. That was very basic. If there's anything that really stands out to you with the person that sound creates a very standard. I'm not sure whether I would pick this person or not. I'd probably be looking at a few other options as well. What we do, we click here, we go back out again and we keep scrolling down and having a bit of a look, see if we can find anything that stands out. Let's skip to page five, will give someone a page fault that mountain and have much attention before. Let's scroll down to the Cape having a look. And I would probably go for, let me have a look. Let's have a look at this one just here. Recently just started this week for payroll five reviews. Sometimes these people that haven't had a lot of work are really, really came to do such an amazing job for you. So always consider the people that haven't got a lot of reviews, but the good reviews, we have a look through. These person obviously goes to a lot of attention to data. In regards to these excellent in the wildlife, put it all together. So all would definitely can see that these person here, Let's have look standard. And that's the information that includes 26 high-quality content. So the activity workbook information as well. So you can have a look through and see all the information that they providing. That includes the custom theme. Puzzles Mises would search and have a bit of a look through all the information here about what their background is. And also the reviews are important as well. And that will help you. So this person would do cover design and it looks like they also do a lot of interiors as well, which could really be suitable for you if you weren't sure. But remember, a lot of this information. Look, suddenly see information here. This is okay. But remember when you're doing your KID pay that a lot of the times you'll be doing black and want. So don't get distracted by all the colors. Think what it's gonna be locking black and white as well. That said information. What I'll do, I'll provide the link to this person as well in the description. So if this is someone that you'd like to work with, he can use his person. But let's go back and have a look at one more look at what we can fall in regards to cover design. As I said, what we really, our attention is to find covers that really stand out for you. I mean, these kind of covers more standard out to these ones are a little bit basic, but if you're doing a dot mark a book, this person could be perfect for you. It's a matter of just scrolling through and having a look at the different designs that might stand out. So these ones, these might be pretty good. So this is caddy people cover design, LoadContent books and you can actually have a look and see the different designs. So there's some noss designed designs these persons doing as well. And dice stand out. So $7 a strain, so it's about $4 American. $21 might short commercial use as well and premium. So different cover designs. This is information here. And scroll down and you can actually get sudden nothing is any reviews on this one at this point in time. That hasn't been reviews. But you never know for for thawed those US or $7 Australian might be worthwhile giving this person and go. It's your choice, but there's options available for you to look through what you can use for father as well. So that is a bit of a summary of Fatah remained that just use a few different searches here and find an author, sorry, fun to design at that resonates with you. That has potentially some good five-star reviews. And we can make sure yet commercial use. And when you're doing an order, if we were to say do the order here, we just go through, we continue and then we provide the source information. So the information that you want in regards to your designs, very, very easy to organize all the information in regards to getting it done. And it's usually turned around. The Kaaba is usually turned around within a couple of days maximum. So that's that's all you need to know about father. I'll also leave the link in the bonus lesson of this course two for you. 17. Cover Design Masterclass: Welcome to the lesson. What I wanted to do is provide you with a quick uptight in regards to book cover design. From the feedback of being getting from the course, I wanted to create a specific course around book cover design and create stand at book covers for Amazon card API and other online platforms. Now the course goes into depth in regards to the different elements that you need to consider in regards to book cover design. And I'll show you step-by-step through that process using Canva. If that's of interest, then please just check out the links below in this lesson. But what I'll do is I'll show you a quick look at the contents of the course because it might be of interest to you once you've finished this course. So check that out later. We looking at the critical elements. There are critical elements for your book cover design that you need to consider. Nice book covers don't include these key elements that will help them to get the attention and the eye of the customer. So I will identify those four key critical elements. So then when we do go through the book cover creation process, you can see that on applying that information and that knowledge to the book covers. The second is the book formatting. And I struggle with this a lot when always first learning is how can we actually formatted correctly and get the raw measurements so that the system or platform like ADP will accept their books. And there are some tools that we can use that are free and it's not a paid tool that you can also use that might be able to help you as well. Number three is the book cover design. And this will be the real, the solid part of this course that will teach you many, many elements, the book cover design process. And you be able to then go back and apply that information with your own designs. We'll be using Canva. You can have Canva for free or you can have a paid version of Canva as well. But we'll look into that too. Then. Faunal proof. What do I mean by that? Well, it's getting the book cover ready for print. So we'll hit the front cover and back cover. And we wanted to see the price is that we go through to get the cover, the format that we can actually use to upload now Guy, and this was an area that I struggled with. When I first started. I had a number of rejections back from Amazon. Kodak paid the same. A book cover wasn't adequate, well suitable for submission. I want to teach you the right method there. And then finally, I'm showing you some book mock-up methods that you can use for your marketing. Because when you do create your books, it's gonna be as important to market your books as well. Now, I do have another full course, a bad Amazon kVp low and no content publishing. So that might be something you're interested in after this course. But firstly, we want to focus on a cover design. Let's get that kava design rot because yes, people do judge a book by its cover. 18. Lesson 13 - Creating Your Book Interiors: Welcome to the next module. This one is part of their KID pay publishing is about creating interiors. And the interior will, it can range anywhere from 25 pages to 400 pages or more. So you've just got to decide on what sort of interior you're creating. Now if we're creating a low content or no contempt book, then the pages are probably gonna be anywhere between 50 and maybe a 150 pages. But as part of our interior, I'm going to show you two sorts. I'm going to show you how to quickly create a node content interior. And then I'll look at how to create a free low content interior and then one Hale and without you having to create it. And then another way that you can create yourself. Let's get into that right now. How do we create interiors for no content, interiors like content and the considerations when creating your interiors. So what we need to do is understand the formatting side of things to begin with. And I'm gonna show you a free tool that you can create your no content interiors. Just, just say we're doing out at Dinosaur composition notebook for children. And we just want some lined pages. Let me show you how you can get those nice and quickly and for free. Book bolt. Now, if you just went to book bolt.io, you couldn't go without having to sign up or penny subscriptions. You can just go to this research resources tab rod here. Way going to go to interior wizard, narrow interior wizard provides a number of different You just got here a number of different interiors that you can download for free noss and quickly. If we wanted just aligned journal, then you can get scroll down and we can do wide rude. You can get a dotted line. This dotted graph paper. Lots of different sources and different ways that we can actually do his handwriting paper. Plenty of choices you can, there's a members only sections as well. You can scroll down and have a look and also obviously gives us why is it we can do log books or low content interiors at the same time. If we would go back up to the top, we will do just to a journal, like a composition journal, we might choose, Let's choose this one just here. If we chose that one, we would choose. We can do blade or noted blade is when those lines would go all the way to the end. Now blade is when it would stop. So let's just do bleed. We've got to remember these swimlane loading at book up to kVp to choose the Bleed Option though, we will then select the number of the size. We're gonna do our IPE 0.5 by 11. So we get down here, the page count. We chose 120 pages. When we're doing our cover design. We choose those elements. We would then go download. This will then bring up our interior ready to upload straight to get API. Now you may decide that this interior isn't quite what you want. It might be a different sort of interior that you wanted. So you can go back. And you might think, well, I'm not do this sort of journals. So you can, again, you can click on that one. You can download. It might show you choosing the right size. And then a 120 pages. Show you guys on there again. 120 pages and we download. And then nice again would download exactly what when aid. So that is one option you can choose. All you do is click that button there and that would download your composition notebook. So let's do that now. So we click on that. And you can see how it's his journal I 0.5 by 11 With Bleed a 120 pages within say that we might want to call it manuscript. Remember, what are these? So don't get confused within sight of that. And that is really forced to load up two kVp. Now That's one option for you. If you did want to do another interior, then you can go back to Canva. You do your eye 0.5. We've already got it here. I 0.5 by 11. And you can actually choose to create your own and then multiply those pages out. You can go to get the elements. We might just have lawns or remotely even writing lines. I think we could choose that one on either. Choose that one I'll farm on quickly. Carry out, found it. I just didn't rotting lines. And so you just click on that. And then you can expand it to weigh want. If this is the size of lawn, you want as well. And then you can position it center and middle. That's another way of being able to create our interiors. Now if you wanted to multiply that, you go that little button there. You can just simply duplicate, hold down Control and then duplicate. It can just keep duplicating the number of pages that you want and that will create your interior as well. And then all we do is go download and you go to PDF and you click on PDF and then you would download all of your pages and that might be, you know, a 100 pages link. The limit on Canva is 100 pages, so that's your only limitation. The other option would be that you can just do one page. For example, let's delete, save your one-page as a PDF, and then he can go to a platform to multiply your pages, have Adobe PDF, and you can just multiply your pages as well. So that's another option you can do in regards to know content, lines and things like that. So let's go back out of here again. Let's get rid of this and just say you wanted to create a low content book, won't. All you'd need to do is start creating all of your elements on here again, if you had something that you wanted to create labia, a later tracing book, then, for example. And it was an interior. You might have, let's just say rotting lines again. We need to go to elements salary and we'd go to that one. Credit what these, and you can create your lines at this position, middle. And just say it was a learned to write book, for example, we create whatever you want to just make sure you don't have it too close to the edges. We don't want our words going over it because Amazon don't like that when you're uploading your book. And then what we would do, we'd go to text and you might have a text that you like to use. For example, or no or down a worldwide one of the past. You can even not be cursive handwriting. For example, you might have letters that you can do for your cursive handwriting. This you might have. You do your letters for example. And then you can make them nice and big that you can have across our kids could learn to try. Or you might have another way of doing it. So you might have another text. Let's do that one again. We might have the myopia print a dashed for example. Again, you might have go back and you do, whoops, like that. And you can then create your try seeing book. You can have different let us The kids can actually trace over as well. So you can just keep creating and adding pages. You can create the interior as they open up in my I have denied. Might have nice little illustrations. For example, if you had just, I was at a book for a grandparent, you might have floral. And then you can use different elements as you want to on the pages and become really creative with what you want to do. It's up to you with how creative you are. Remain by Canada, have a 100 page limit when you keep adding the pages or when you're multiplying them. So just keep that in mind when you're creating the books. Or it can use book bolt to create those free interiors. Now when you do this, always remember to create this page the same size as your cover size. So these ones I 0.5 by 11. And then when you download it, make sure you download as a PDF document, not a PNG or PDF document. And then you stick to the pages that you did when you create your cover. So it was a 120 pages when you created your cut up. Then you need to make sure you stick to that as well. That's how you do your interiors. And it's a great way to be able to create them for free. You can use the book bolt interior generator. And if you wanted to, you can sign in and do your subscription and get all these other ones. Or you might be flicking through here and think, not sore at saving truck or savings tracker that are myopia to use. Well, I'll not create that to be a seven by ten. And then you do a 100, not be IT pages. You do 80 pages. And you can choose blade or no bleed. You download. And then if you get your interior for your low content journal or tracker or logbook, whatever it might be, a narrow it is and that's all free. You can use it straight from book bolt. That's another suggestion for you in regards to interior and the creation. Just to finish with this interior lesson, the considerations ensure that it's suitable for the customer and that you're providing enough pages that you can see the size of the book. So if you go on to Amazon and you checking out competitors, look at what size the book is. Doing. A seven by nine and I 0.5 by 11. Jesus, I'll give you a quick little look at what I mean. If we were to look at these books just here. Let's look at this one here, predatory journal for Teams. We can hover over the book and we can see down here dimensions. It's a five by eight, which is very, very small book. Or it can go this one That's lots of fire by night as well. These ones are 6.9. This one here, 6.9. So you get to see most of these books are six by nine. And how are they selling? I E3, 10923 thousand. They're selling well at that size. And even this one, what you can do is go inside and have a look. It's got 70 writings. You can have a look inside and see what the internals are like. A scroll down. You can see if it's something that would be nice and easy to create. Little bit of information in there. Let's have a look. They've just done quotes and things of that nature, things you can create as well. I've given you a nasty looking saw that book and what it's actually like a 12 pages. You can see through it. You can actually scroll down as well that down what they call a plus content, which shows you a bit more information. And it's a five by 150 pages and it's being righted pretty well. This is the information that it will provide you. That's all the details about that. And also you can see the price, some hyping that helps you with the interior and looking for what you need to when you're doing all the creation for today, payload content and non-content. 19. Lesson 14 - Creating Your Book Description: Welcome to our next section on Friday, pay low and no content tutorial. This tutorial or this, sorry, this module will be about book descriptions and the importance of book descriptions because the customer might love your cover. But when they click on your cover and I go to your description, that will be one of the key elements that will draw them in. To think that's the book on a, that's the book I wanted to purchase to die. And your book description needs to be formatted correctly. What does a good book description particularly look like for low or night content book? Well, the k tips. Before we have a look on Amazon keda, the k tips must be that it could be gold, has to be grandma free. If your book has grammatical errors, the customers likely to think that that's the kind of quality your book will be. Ensure it is grammar fee free, and make sure that you run it through a program locked grammarly.com. That is that you can have a free version or a paid version of grammarly.com. And that will just check for spelling errors and grammatical structures of your, of your sentence or description. Include a strong hitting. Also include key product features of the book, and it's well-formatted. I'm gonna show you a free formatting tool to use via an online site called can-opener. I will show you that in a moment. So let's have a look firstly at what a good book description Mark Luke lock and the key elements. I just picked this book out and it is a bestseller. The description must be capturing the attention of those radians. Let's look at the headline. I, you're looking for fun workbook to help you take your child rot, the newer in the right place, take a child or an exciting journey through the entire a bay say, and all the numbers from 0 to 30 with letter and number tracing book for kids age three to five, a fun practice book. You can read the rest. Then they go into information about the book. The Nicholas subheading here about letters. Another subheading here about numbers, letters and the numbers. Then they go into important features that will dock points or a quick look at the most important facts of the book. Download that. Then they've got another big section here about get this book now covers everything that a customer might want because anything, look that looks pretty good. Die then go look inside feature. I scroll down and I say it's got some nice things. It nice and easy to create. And people can easily say that child rotting in this book. And it gives you examples of what the back it looks like as well. They are the things you need to work on hard for your description. Now if we were to just want to show you what how you could format this. If you would just have a a Word document version of this, let me put it on a Word document. Get rid of all these formatting and I'll show you how we can actually format it. Just put it on a Word document. Let's copy this whole thing. Let's go and just do normal. Let's reduce everything here, including the size. Let's make it all that. Let's get rid of all the bold. Let's make sure it's locked that if you had just written this up and you thinking, how can I get it to be looking? Lock this. So they actually got the big bold and the dot points because you can't necessarily just place them on there. Two different options. If we were to grab this, we could go straight to when you're learning your book up to Katie pay does give you a basic feature to be able to add these elements. But there's another one that I'll show you right now. It's on a SWOT code, Kindle pronounce.com and you just go to the section in regards to book description generator. Now it will give me an error message to start with, which I always get. Let's get rid of this. And it'll come up in my default back again. But if we wanted to make that a bit bolder, we can make it bold or we can add a heading. And if we scroll down, we can make that bold as well. We can scroll down and make that bold as well. Then if we wanted these, so that might be italic or bold. Then if we go down here, we can do this. You can go down and be further, sorry. We can make these into dock points. Points. And you might want to capitalize something or we want to make that bold as well. So we scroll up. Then what we would do is we will generate the code that gives us an HTML code. And now you could put that, if you did that all that. And you just want to put it sorry. If you want to put that in the speed just here, then what we're gonna do, We just want to see what this actually looks like. So I'll take you to one other sort of show you. Could, I blurb. And so I would put that in the code that we just had and then it will bring it up to what we wanted. Now, if you wanted to, you could make this number three to make a little bit bigger, or a number two, and it makes it even a little bit bigger. Again, that is a great way. Abandoned create the HTML code and be able to see exactly what it looks like. So then we would simply copy that because we know what it looks like. We would delete that one and we would have that ready to go. So when we load that book to Amazon, we have got the information ready to go. The most important things to make sure it stands out. So if we were to scroll down and we would have a look at this book just here. Let's just see the Kaaba doesn't really stand at. It's ranked very high, doesn't have any customer reviews. Auto-immune stood at $6.99 rather than seven. It was released the inside. If we go down, look sockets, goal, most copied, one that we've just done. So be very, very careful not to do that yourself. That isn't the y that you should be creating original ones as well. If we were to go to this one just here, Let's have a look at this and say whether, say this one is the example where digest haven't put enough effort into the description. I've done it all just in bold is no dot points. And there's no styles. There's one, probably one or two styles. There's no customer reviews. And that's a perfect example of not really making a description stand out. They may initially lot that kappa potentially, but they didn't do much if it with the description, which means that they've gone to the effort of creating a book, but they're not really selling it from the description point of view. That is an important element. Get the cabaret, give the description rot, a name. You want them to click bond out. And that is the main thing about your description and ensuring that you might get grammatical free and that you're using the different elements to make it formatted. So it looks really nice and professional. I'll hope you liked that information about about descriptions and had a format and then create them correctly. 20. Using an AI Book Description Generator for FREE: Wanted to provide this updated lesson regarding the development of book descriptions and using a generator. And also I to help you with that, If you go to Kind Preneur.com for Amazon book description generator, then that will get you to this page where you could plug in your description. Let's just do one now. Let me just go. Okay. Then what you can do is once you finish your description, click here to see if I can improve it. This is just a example for a camping journal. I've done all that information there all set up. You can do your book description for Amazon. You can choose editorial view reviews. You can set up your font sizes. If you want to change this to here, we just go here and we can change that around to H four. You might want to bold it up. You've got all these features you can do on the side here, number list and bullet list. However, let's see what I can do. We go to non fiction. This is now changing it. The AI is crafting a book description. Let's just wait for that to come up. You can see it's starting to generate on the left hand side here. Let's see what it comes up with. It is waiting patiently, nearly loaded, And here we are. This will now give me an AI generated opportunity to see if this is better than the one I created myself. Then it gives you the information there. And what you can do is go back to formatting. You can actually use this one if you wanted to. There's a great option for you if you wanted to use this tool to help I technology to create your description. Hopefully that helps. Please go on, check it out. It's all for free through kind preneur. 21. Lesson 15 - How to Upload the 7 Backend keywords: Welcome to this module. This one is all about the seven keywords. And what are the seven keywords were talking about? Well, seven key words is a section of the upload process that we need to include when we're doing our upload process. Let me show you what that looks like. When you uploading your your book, your paper back by a download content or a no content book. And I'll show you these during the upload process, but we do the book title and subtitle. And we do other details here. We do the description which we just went through before. Then it gets down to this section here, seven keywords. Naked choose a perceiving keywords that describe your book. It says optional, but it's important that you include the saving keywords and dire words that could relate to your book. Just say it was a gratitude journal. And you might have, you might, one might be a gratitude journal for kids. Then you might have gratitude just brought girl while girls are dated incorrectly. You might have gratitude, boy, you need to start to think of what you haven't been out occlude in your title or in your subtitle. And then you can include it in these seven boxes here. And it just gives you in extra keywords that you can enter so that your book becomes more relevant for that particular nature area that you're hoping to rank your booking. Let's go back to the presentation and I'm going to go through a few extra tips, but I just wanted to show you what section we're actually what's in reference to when I'm talking about this module. The main tips that all would do about how to include the seven keywords for caddy pay when uploading a book would be use relevant keywords. Don't include words that are not relevant to your niche or your book or any word that you're I'm not trying to rank for you. Absolutely, absolutely need to include words with your hope people would be searching for or your book would like to be ranked for. Use keywords you couldn't include in your title or your subtitle. And that can be again, part of your niche research spreadsheet. We are using those words, but don't overthink the seven keywords years they're relevant, but don't put so much emphasis on them that you get analysis, paralysis and you're not out to think of any. It is just an extra section which can help. It's not going to have a huge importance overall because it's more your title and subtitle. But KD pay duty that extra opportunity for you to include the keywords that will enable your book to rank in the right area. There, the seven keywords for KD, Pete and the tips. Be careful that you make sure you keep them relevant because you don't want your book ranking for something else because that's a waste of time and if it make sure they're relevant, dynode think them and use the words or phrases and things that you couldn't include in your title or your subtitle. 22. Lesson 16 - Choosing the Correct Book Categories: Welcome to this module, a bad categories and ensuring that you putting your book in the right categories and also how to find the right categories. Your book will be searchable by customers on Amazon. And as we looked at the very beginning, there are many, many different categories and subcategories that allow us to be able to put up book into the right place. However, if you put your book in the wrong place, you might not get sane. Or if you deliberately do it, there's a chance that you could have your cat suspended by Amazon, but putting it in an irrelevant category deliberately, That's just a bit of a warning it back categories might show you put them in the right categories. There's a few different tools that we use. But let me show you where we actually choose these section when we're uploading our book. So you know what it's in reference to. This is the page brought under our keywords. We've got choose Categories. Now when we choose this, we have to, that we can choose from. So it says you have two breaths categories that you can choose. Monophonic can be hard. If we were doing say, literate tracing book or an alphabet tracing book, it will be actually quite hard to find where it would be under all of this. So you wouldn't know where to start. But there is a y that we can actually try and find a wife for free, that you can search for those categories. So let me show you where that is right now. Might be a few different platforms that allow you to do this. But because we've used book bulb before, I thought I'd just show you the way you just get a resources again. Free to do this ego KD, P category. Find out. Then what you need to do is put some keywords in this end keywords I've looked over in IVR wall, but let's just have a look. Just say, wasn't sure bad thing handwriting at modern urbane. Learn to rot, might not come up. We think we need to try and find something. So we do search. And you look through here language. Anything like hieratic. This is a kid's book. If it's a, learned to write a book for kids, then we start to say, Okay, it is juvenile Language Arts Journal rotting essays and writing. There's a few different ones we can start doing there. Then we think, okay, is it to do with the alphabet? Just saw it come up in alphabet. We do a search. There, we have something we can include all these one as well. So juvenile nonfiction concepts, alphabet, what we would do when we're doing an applied process, juvenile nonfiction and concepts. Juvenile nonfiction. And we go down two concepts, which is down here. And then we take alphabet. Then if we wanted to find another one, go back here. And we could do a few different searches. And it could be one on literature rising night. If we did that handwriting, go up to date. And we just go search. There is something we could do, maybe this one here, this one here. Non juvenile nonfiction Language Arts. We are back. Juvenile nonfiction language arts. He's Language Arts. We go down to handwriting. And then we go Save. Then we got out to, in there. Now you can choose different categories. And in fact, you can actually add an extra six categories. But we'll talk about that more in a moment. But let me show you some irrelevant categories that people put their books under. And you just have to be very, very careful. If all of those just to talk a uniform unicorn coloring book, then I'm sure there are sections here. Now this one, I believe he's that's fun. Children's travel guidebooks. Yeah. Activity books, children's drawing books. That's perfectly fine. Let's hover over a couple of the others. That's this one here. A sports isn't a category for that. Let's have look down further. That could be a rot. Rot. Yes. They're all pretty good. Yeah, that's fine. That's okay. It looks like they might have cracked down on a little bit more now because previously the here we go prints out or don't think. So. New New Haven, Connecticut travel books. There's one that is absolutely not in the right category. And I tried to get that number one bestseller rank. Bob Bain in the wrong category. And so this person risks getting their accounts suspended by doing that. They just gonna be very, very careful of what they're doing. They've done one, they more likely you've done a few more. So let's have a look. If we go to this one. This one's in feta regional architecture. This one here is in colder climates, gardening. These ones here in mining and oil painting. This one's here in Buddhist fiction. So that's an example of just making sure that you've run the risk of accounts being suspended or terminated by doing that. So just be very, very careful with that. Let's look at the categories of Akkad paying the key tips that I would give you when loading your book. You can choose two categories when uploading the book, but she can actually include an additional six by contacting KD pay. Then I'm Mike that all of these. But if you wanted to, you can contact cut I tied a P customer service. And you can actually ask them to add a further six categories. And it's a worthwhile doing as long as the categories are relevant. And that goes into point number to ensure your categories irrelevant to your book and use book bolt to help with category selection. And it said free process that you can use. But if you wanted to add those extra categories, this is what you do. You would go to help continue with that saving. And then you go down here, you've got the Contact Us. Be Amazon, this page here. And then uptight Amazon categories. You include your your JSON, which is your identification number, for example, if we go out of here and we'll look so the ice and number is this number just TO YOU include that number on the on the communication degrees categories to be added and the categories to be removed. But you need to make sure you list the whole length of that category as well so that they actually know. So it actually should have books, then juvenile nonfiction, language arts, handwriting so that the customer service needs to know exactly the category and whether it's on the books, on Kindle, whatever it might be, they need to know exactly what they call the string. That you can actually, you can put those extra categories in. That's another thing for you to remember that might be able to help you out in regards to the categories and putting them in when you're creating your low or no content book. 23. Lesson 17 - How to Upload Your Book to KDP: Welcome to the next module, which I'm excited to do, which is the ADP upload, which is the mark of the process where you get really excited because he actually bringing together everything created. Two then finally uploaded to Amazon. So let's go through that process. So when we go to our dashboard, this is what we're gonna say. We're gonna have the paperback. And you can do hardcover as an option. But we're gonna be doing a pipe, a back sight. I'm going to get onto my dashboard and we're going to go through the full process. And we're going to use that dinosaur composition notebook that are created earlier in one of the modules. And let's go through the full process of what I would do. But before I would stop the applied price HISAT get everything organized and what domain is creating a Word document with all the details. So let me show you what I have prepared before. Upload any book to kVp or create a Word document. It has the title, it has a subtitle, has a description which are then have converted inch to that HTML code using Keynote foreigner. They don't have my seven keywords that I've already created and research and looked through. And I've already found the two categories. These just really helps when we uploading the book. And we can just easily copy this information and put it into the cardiac pay applied prices. So let me go through the upload process right now. So as I mentioned, the first thing we need to do is to sign into our kVp dashboard and we simply click on paper bag. This will then take us through to the dashboard with three sections we need to complete. And it is an OS easy process to follow. Depending on what language you're books in. We're going to be choosing English, the bookies, composition, notebook, and a subtotal. So if we go between these, we just copy that and bring it into a section that's where, I mean, it's nice and easy. The series, if it's a series of different books, then you add that otherwise you slayed the edition number again are generally just lay that the author name now you can create. What if that author, if you have a certain brand that you want to create, then you can do that. You can put your own name and details on there. You can have a brand nine. You can call it something that might be specific to that area. Just make sure you're not doing anything which is going to infringe on any trademarks or anything like that. So let me just come up with a quick nine so we can just call it modern. Modern Donna. Modern Donna designs. Let's just call them. Then we go down further. Remember I like, once you start creating a brand, then it's good tag consistency. You don't want to have always different alternatives. It's rather it's better just to have the one main author nine. So you could do whatever you like with that section. Contributors. So if you have an illustrator or someone else that was part of the book creation, you'd edit details here, the description. So you can use the formatting tidy p now provide, or you can use the one that you created from can-opener, which we're going to use in this module. At that. Then I go down, do I find the publishing rights in the copyright and hold initiative necessarily publishing rights? Yes. When it says this is a public domain work, it means that you They might be something online that you've found a book or contents that's freely available online, then that all would never suggest you do that kind of book. Just make it all your own, and therefore you have all the copyright and necessary publishing rights, the keywords. So I will now add these keywords in. I'd go through and simply add those keywords that are relevant for my book. And you add the seven. Now you don't have to add seven keywords. You can add three or four. But given that you've got seven spaces, you might as well add those keywords in. Because every keyword hopefully will help you book ranked beta on the KDE platform. So I'm not sure, I'm pretty sure doing Here we go. Two more to go. I don't have to make sense the keywords, they can be different combinations of words. So I always just like to have a few different variations of it. A category. So let's have a look here. We've got juvenile nonfiction animals, dinosaurs. We go here. We got to remember juvenile non-fiction. We got animals and we got it down to dinosaurs. And then the next one was language arts composition and creative. We go down, further down, Language Arts, composition and credit routing. We save it. So now we've got our two categories. Does this book contain language inappropriate children and underwriting is definitely not. Continue. Then we go onto the next step, which is the ISBN. So each book has an identification number and pay off you a free one. You can go and buy your own ISBN. And if you bought them in bulk, that's about $5 per ISBN for about a 100. But if you buy them individually, it can be anywhere up to about $70. So if you're new decay they pay or you don't have a magic brand, then definitely just use the free ISBN. So it can only be used with ADP, can't use it on any other platform. Just leave the publication date is being law of as soon as Amazon approve it, we're now using the black and white with what PIPA, we lay that you can choose different options and it gives you the color variations with leaving it there. Now we get to choose the different loop Syria. We get to choose the different sizes. Now, you can set up your own trim size, but use a standard saws if you can. This is the most popular way using these quantities here for the book that we created. Now, remember when we did the book bolt download for the manuscript, we use blade. So it taking that one. You can use knife blade depending on what you're doing. I always like to use for books that are used a lot, a lot to use gloss. Just because it's more durable. Matt has a really nice finish to it, but it can leave fingerprints and things. So if you're using a composition notebook for kids, I would use gloss. The manuscript. This is where we need to upload our manuscripts that we were saving before. I click up applied. And this is where our files are. So we've got our eye 0.520 pij blade manuscript. So open that one and white for a little bit. Then it will say it's processing f, all these fun. Now you can already use cover creator, which is a kinase that you can actually create a cover with KHP. I choose upload a cover. That's the one we might have in Canada and our prefer the process of Canva. Canva, it just has an author field, it's much easier to create and has a really good professional look. We applied our cover and remember it is in a PDF format. We open that up and it can take a little bit of time for these process to upload. And you'll see in a moment that it's size successful. However, and it says Launch previa, but white until these price falls being processed. And you actually can see your cover a p here. If you click Launch preview too early, it can take much longer. So just be patient and white fee capital P here. And it will say that it's been successfully allow you to adjust here. I will just pause the video until that appears. Inside. The book cover has now been created force. And we just scroll down further and we can launch app preview. Now this will give us an indication of the book and making sure it complies with what Amazon required. Now on the side here, it doesn't quality check. If you have areas, it will say there are areas here. Now as you can see, there's a red line that runs around. It's very, very close. That yellow border that I mentioned during the setup process that you need to make sure that you keep your writing inside those lines, anything like name, all these sort of things and it'd be near the illustrations of fine that I can be at sought. And that's part of the bleed process and making sure that that's inside there as well. So I would check for any spelling or things like that. Got the right size, raw pages nine goes there. It's gonna be hard for childhood is realized to create the nine on with a dark color just yet. That's something you could potentially think about and whether you need to change it or not. It's something that I have just thought about now. And one I would probably do is go back and adjust the color so that we can do it here. So I'll not very quickly do that so that we've got a color that works better. Or I might even have a watt spice here, so kids can write the nine. So let me just quickly do that because I've done approve it. I'm going to exit and I'm gonna go and fix it and then come back. So I've re-upload it. The new cover and it's ready to launch preview again. And I just need to check to make sure that everything is okay. Guys, through the process of showing you any fault. So it's done this quality check, the new Kaaba, the adjusted cover up. I just added this section down here so a child could add the nine, just a little bit of a background of dinosaurs. And then you go through the manuscript to make sure that everything is okay. And this is just a no content journal. So there's nothing really on need to be worried about is I go through it and you yet. And if you wanted to write at the end, you can always add brought at the back page in an ad, information about the author. But this is just a quick tutorial that had to do the upload process we approve. And then just wait for it to go through to the next section, which is negative b about the processing. So we go down, this is the printing cost. So it's going to cost totals 29 for the book to be printed, for the size, for the length of the book. You need to consider that As we go to the pricing, it will factor that in. Let's have a look at the next section. Now. Do we want to have it go across all states and territories? Yes, We might as well distributed globally. We don't want to exclude any. So we could have give it every opportunity. The primary marketplace. You can choose wherever you want to. Depending on where on marketing it mostly I'll just leave it at.com. Now, this is where it says the minimum price. We need to list the four and the maximum was certainly not gonna be going anyway the day. So for a book like this, Let's just do $6.99. In fact, is in the printing cost. The right to the author or the creative 60% provides me with a royalty of a dollar. Naughty, expanded distribution. You can tick this box if you want your book to be extended, expanded further beyond Amazon to bookstores and things like that. So if you'd like to, you're welcome to tick that and you'd get a $1.50 royalty. And then this will convert it to the different countries and the conversion rates. So you can change this again. You would get a dose. You might want to do that at 599 pound. And then the sign here, you might want to bring that back to 599. Probably he's better than $6. I would go through the process of just doing this. Takes a little bit of fiddling around. Go through here. We follow those 99 display, the Japanese yen. In Canada. I probably go for It's to those 16. You can probably among the 799 well, that one strike you need to allow for what they called GST. And so that's gonna be the final process. We probably want that under $10. So if we go to 99, that will bring it to so we could probably go 97 or another item. That's where it is. Okay, So we're gonna see non-metals, non anon. It's only 70 census drying, but that's okay. Stride is not a big market. So once we've said our process, we then go down and we publish a book. Once we publish, then it goes to Amazon and expect to hear back from them in a roughly three to seven business days. And then when you get that notification on your email, then it will be approved. What they do now is they check for details to make sure it meets all of the guidelines and it can take up to 72 hours, but I'm saying it push that to seven days depending on the time of the year. Then we close and we are all good to go. So that is the applied prices for tidy pay. And going through the step-by-step. One thing I forgot to mention, it has in review just here. When it goes law, that'll that'll change to being live. It's got the processing here. And if you wanted to, you could add a hard cover of the book as well. 24. KDP ISBN UPDATE Lesson - No More FREE ISBN's to No/Low Content Books: So what I wanted to do is provide you with a current update of the kVp ISBN. So recently, kVp, if communicated out to publishers that they will no longer be providing free ISP DNS for what they can see them as low content books. Let's go and have a look at that communication now so you can get some clarity around what that means for you and your publishing moving forward. So this is the correspondence that many people have been receiving. Let me read it to you and clarify the points as we go through. Hello, we're sending this e-mail since you've published a low content in the last three months, starting May 17, that's 2022, you'll be able to publish low content books on kVp without an ISBN. So yes, you can still publish your low content books. It's just that you won't require an ISBN to publish those books anymore. And you will receive a kVp, a sin number as part of that. Content book has minimal or no content on the interior pages. These pages are generally repetitive and designed to be filled in by the user. Common examples include notebooks, planners, journals, and other similar books. This does not typically include activity, puzzle books or coloring books, which generally do not feature repetitive content on each page. Starting my 17, you will check a box during tidal setup to identify your book as low content. You will then have the choice to publish without an ISBN or to submit your own ISBN. Freak ADP. Isbn will no longer be provided for low content books. If you're low content books are already published and have a free kVp ISBN. You can continue using that ISBN even if you make changes to your book. We're more about LoadContent books on our new Help page. Kind regards or con regards the Kindle Direct Publishing to you. So let's go on to some more information around this so I can show you what it actually means regarding the setup when you go into kVp for a new book creation. So when you are loading up a book and you get to the category section, which is just here. Then what you need to do is choose whether your book is a low content book. So for example, journals, notebooks and planners, and a lot or large print books for content that is 16 font size or greater when you've ticked or if you have to take one of these books if it's applicable. So you might have a children's picture storybook that won't be applicable to being a journal notebook on planner. So you don't have to tick that box. If you do plan on creating a journal or a notebook or something that is pretty much a no content book almost or very, very low content book. Then you tick that box. When you go to the next page of your upload, you'll be provided with this box here, which is print ISBN. So published without an ISBN. Low content books like no book planners, journals and other similar books don't require an ISBN. So you've got the option of continuing to publish exclusively with ADP. Mark your book accordingly if it fits into the criteria of a low content book or a large print book. The other option is if you still wish to use an ISBN for your book, you can purchase one through group like BellKor.com. Let me show you what this looks like on the setup of your Amazon cat API page when you're going through the process. If you're loading up a book and you're at the very start, you enter your book title. And as you scroll down further and you've done your description, you can Daniel keywords, you get to the category, Category section. And it says, Does your book classify as any of the types, choose all that apply, low content book, choose that. So let's have a look at what it says for low content book. Loadcontent books have a minimal or no content on the interior pages page, or just generally repetitive and designed to be filled in by the user. Content books have different ISBN and distribution options. Check this box to see the correct option setup. So you can then click there and go and choose that. Now, if we were to click this box and we had no adult content there, and we go Save and Continue. Then it will take us to the next page where we have an option of providing our own ISBN. Or you have the box saying, publish without an ISBN. Again, you can learn more about low content books by clicking there. And that will take you to the section that talks you through low content books. So LoadContent book does minimal or no content on the interior pages. These pages are generally repetitive and designed to be filled in by the user, goes through the information there. So have a read through that if you're interested. Otherwise, what you need to do is click that button there and continue like you'd normally would. But if you have your own ISBN, you can click that box there and fill in the details. So that's as simple as it is right now with Amazon kVp. There are no significant changes apart from the fact that you won't be able to have global distribution of your low content book because you won't have an ISBN for that book. So you pretty much be exclusively publishing with K p, which many probably 90 per cent of authors do anyway. And if you are publishing with another group like Ingram Spark, then you probably would already have your own ISBN. So you can just enter those details right there. So in summary, there's a change regarding the free ISBN, but it's not going to be significantly impacting those that already do know and low content books. So you can continue with your normal process. But if you do want an ISBN, you need to go and purchase that IRB ISBN through a group blog, BellKor. And if you are publishing through a group like Ingram spark, you would have already purchased your ISP in any way. So there's no big change with that one. So hopefully that clarifies the position around the changes for Amazon and they are free ISBN and the die are now no longer providing for low and no content books, specifically low content books like journals, planners, and knows that you have people fill in details with. 25. Lesson 18 - An Introduction to Amazon Advertising: Welcome to the next module. This is bad marketing York ADP book. And there's a few different options that we're going to work through. But mainly we're looking at Amazon advertising. All going to wire. Think Amazon advertising is a great way to be able to really boost your book and kick it off. It's called Amazon ads or IMS, Amazon marketing services. You can use a couple of y's of free marketing by using Facebook groups and things like that, you can obviously use the paid way of advertising and books on Facebook as well. And the social media sites like Instagram for example. But we're going to be focusing on Amazon ads. So why use Amazon ads? Well, I can drive initial styles for you and draw the initial styles really helps the algorithm of the Amazon getting an understanding of your book. What it's about, what the relevant keywords are for. It does increase the relevance for your keywords for your particular book. And you work really hard to create your book and you need to get it in front of customers. Amazon advertising, the way it works is that you can actually take you directly to the customer is talking, you're talking a certain thing, then is a beating system. And you beat per keyword. And I'll show you how to set up an auto and abroad keyword campaigns, just, just a basic while doing it. But your ads can also increase review's due to the style. So the reviews are very important for social proof. And then as I mentioned, the marketing is directly to the Amazon customers. So the Amazon customer, if you will, to market say on Facebook, the customer would have to have an Amazon account so that we'll have to see your book. You'd have to provide a link in Facebook to Amazon that they click on that link. Then I got to Amazon. Then I'd have to go through the details and purchase your book that way. Whereas you know that a customer that he's on Amazon is already looking around for products. They might be just doing some initial research, but many are on native purchase. So you have a readymade audience. So let's just have a look and see if you're advertising with Amazon. What it looks like if you're sponsoring particularly keyword or a particular niche. If we were to go to Amazon and we wrote IVC literate tracing for pretty cool preschools. What would come up? We've got firstly, a sponsor, brands banner, say someone this author has paid for that. And then if you scroll down where Lakota see there's another one and your locker to see ones where it might have sponsored. Now this might be Let's go dance. This is what happens. Heavy notice how this was released on the 11th of October. So these author has got a little bit of an extra push by Amazon in the first 30 days to save people are buying their books. Now the only issue here I see is the replicating a lot of the books, trying to get a customer to purchase one of these. But the problem is it looks like it's a bit spammy heading always sign covers. Got no reviews as well and there's no purchases. That's sort of one red flag. Say how many that dog-gone. So what you need to do, let's have a look at another one. Let's do tracing pool. Let's see if we can follow here we are. So he has his sponsored. So this person has paid through Amazon ads to get the book ranking up the top here. And people who don't won't necessarily see that little sponsored Lagarde. They'll go, Oh, that looks like a good book and now purchase it. And then this person has done quite well. Released on the ninth of October, ranking is 17 thousand. Now reviews, review should come given a selling quite well. And if you scroll down, you might see other sponsored, Here's another one, another sponsored book that's through sponsored brands as well. So there's other ways that you can actually sponsor your books. There's a few examples of why is it you can market your book on the Amazon platform. Let's now go and sit up. And Amazon ad. 26. Establishing the Right Mindset for Amazon Advertising: Before we start to get into Amazon, EDS wanted to create a short little lesson about the mindset of Amazon advertising. It can be challenging to begin with because when you using Amazon ads, you need to sit yourself a budget, but you're not seeing the results initially because Amazon advertising can be quite challenging when you begin in our head, those challenges always pass a bit. Maybe three hundred, four hundred US dollars in the first month of Amazon advertising and didn't really see any results to actually show that they're spend of Amazon ads was actually worth my time and effort. But as I've seen over the journey, the importance of Amazon advertising is being critical to getting more books in the right places for customers actually say my books. And therefore, you need to have them on so that when you do Amazon ads, that it really needs to help rank your keywords and not necessarily a platform of generating a lot of income. Yes, eventually, when you optimize your ads and you get the right keywords towards your book through Amazon advertising, then it can help with income generation. But for the first three months, you should look at it as a way of ranking your keywords and getting it to page number one, hopefully with the search suggestions. For example, when people are looking for your book. Amazon advertising has a long learning curve and the wide the campaigns are going to show you just a simple couple of ways that you can set up your campaigns. But it's taking the well over 12 months, 18 months to really get a strong handle on how Amazon advertising works. The methods that is done helping me to grow more publishing and more books. But the Y that you need to approach it is that you set your budget. And if you spend your budget and you come at cost neutral, then that's actually a good result. Because Amazon advertising, you're always in competition with other publishers or other authors that are what they, are, you actually in a bidding system. And so when you're bidding for different keywords, that could start to go up a fair bit. And if you're, if you've got a book that doesn't have more and have a great cover. And a customer click on your book cover, will you will pay for that keyword that you've obviously bidded for. But they need the customer doesn't purchase the book after reading your description, then you still need to pay for that click. So it's really a cost-per-click platform. Some bids can be as low as four or $0.05 are the bids can be well over a dollar. So if you were to have a keyword and your bid was a dollar, and someone was to click on it, you would pay $1 with low and no content publishing though the margins on your books are usually fairly low. If you're, if you've got your book and you're selling it, your price is about $7.99 by the time that you take out. The printing costs in the Amazon, 6040 split, MOP left with $2 royalty. If a book was to be purchased him without using Amazon ads. But if someone used the ad and they spent a dollar, just to look at it, we've only got $1 Lyft. There's only one person's clicked on it, they don't buy it. If you've got three people that have bought or clicked on and after with a $1 bid, you're already negative $1. So I'd always consider just starting small with your Amazon ads. Start with the basics. Get used to how they work and then when you feel comfortable, step it up. One of the other biggest challenges that our family and our starting is that when you get paid with Amazon advertising, it's 60 days after the end of the month. For example, if you were publishing books and you sold HAPE seem December, they knew wouldn't be paid until the end of February for your December books. But in the meantime, you might have a marketing during January and February or even December few books, but you need to pay for your marketing every 30 days. So there's a lag between the money had to have app going toward Amazon ads and the income that you get from your books. So that was more challenging. Goals already done about 700 US dollars from Amazon advertising the first two months. And I hadn't received any royalties for my books because the royalties don't get paid for 60 days following into that month. This is something to take into consideration. Remember, just start small or test a few things to begin with. As you get more confidence, then start to increase the amount of campaigns you have. But just pick a few of your best books and just try a few different things. But remember, it's not just the US market. You can try Amazon advertising on. It can also try it on any of the other platforms like the UK, what Canada, even Australia. And I've found some of my most successful campaigns have been in the UK, Canada, and Australia, and not the US because the US market is so competitive regarding Amazon advertising. Just let me finish with this. The key point is have a budget, try and stick to it. Start with some basic adds to get used to the platform. Build up as you get more experience. Maybe use one of your beta books that might be selling organically to try and give you that boost. But I always find that the K to Amazon advertising is to get those keywords rock. And the keywords that customers are gonna be searching for is one of the key areas that I'll be talking through as part of these Amazon advertising campaigns and strategies. So I'll hide that gives you a bit of a framework around Amazon advertising. It is a great platform because it gets striped to the customer. And that's what I do, love about it. But remember to get your mindset knowing that, yes, it's going to cost you some money. But it's an investment into your books and in investment for the long term. The investment that you put in at the start will hopefully pay off for you over the long term as your books get ranked better, get better customer reviews, more styles. Amazon love that, and they'll float that book to the top naturally after that. I'll get onto the Amazon ads now. 27. Lesson 19 - Finding Keywords For Amazon Advertising: The first thing we need to do before we start running any campaigns are ads for Amazon is to ensure we have the right specific keywords. So these are the few or a few of the key components. So I need a cake. Keywords relevant and specific to your book. Avoid including hundreds of keywords because in the end it will cost you, you're getting clicks on a relevant keywords and use a couple of sources to find your keywords. So let's get into the specifics of this and I'll show you how I create. They'll get the keyword and also create a list so that it's easy to then create my campaigns for Amazon advertising. Very first thing we need to do is just get a spreadsheet and just have the title of the keywords. Now you're going to be targeting. Recall it. Later. Tracing. Kids. Say that was the title and that's the kind of book that we're gonna be advertising for. So we need to now find specific keywords that we will enter into a campaign in addition to some of the keywords that m is on, actually do suggest when we go through the process and you'll see what I might mean in the moment. Let's find some specific keywords around, say, litter tracing. Learn to write kind of books. And the first place would be to go directly to Amazon because that's where customers are searching. So let's do that now. We use the top search bar up here to get the main keywords that customers are searching for. So remember, we need to make them very specific and relevant. If our book was about, we're going to try seeing or learn to write, then we might go to rot for we might actually bring it back, learn to rot. So now this is that the expander CAD, the IMC that suggests an expand out as well. So what will we do? We would copy that, go back to our spreadsheet Control V. And what we would need to do is just do this. We need to crop, crop on the side of the y. What we start to do, just fine. If I do this, then starts wrote down all these ones that are irrelevant to the book. Most of these would be relevant. A lot of these are as well. So what I'll do, I'll pause, I'll write these down, and then I'll show you what we need to keep on doing. I've gone ahead and I've jotted and the majority of these down. So I would then get rid of that. I'll then go back to this. And you can keep searching. Keep bringing up these words. And again, you would copy and you would paste this back into your spreadsheet. So I'll show you again. We go back into it and I've pasted it in. I keep writing. Maybe see tracing for schools and our cake rotting eyes down. So I'll do a few more days and you just keep adding relevant keywords, both what we call short tile, a long tail keywords. So you might just have a short tail keywords will be glad to try seeing. And then the longer tail keywords are these ones here that you may not get as much traffic, but if they're specific to what your books about, you might actually convert more often. Just keep on doing that. And Mendota, only for relevant words. So that's one of the key ways to do that. Now the other way we'll do it is by using another software, which I'll show you right now. And I'll show you the specific way we can get keywords during that method too. This is sought called Amazon ice. And what I'm gonna do, my graphic, ice and number here. We're going to copy. We're going to get back to this website. You're going to paste it. And let's find out if this is free, by the way, let's see if it pulls up any keywords that this book is ranking for. And it might be something similar to what we wanted to do. Let's scroll down here. And these could help you with different keywords. So you think that might be one that we want. So we go and we paste it in a spreadsheet. We go back to it again. And we got this could be another one that I actually hadn't thought of before. We go back here and we apply set one there as well. You can then choose another book. Let's go for this book. Go back. Let's swap this over. We go through here. Again, it gives you some details about the book as well, number of reviews, the pricing. Let's go down any further. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time for the keywords to come up. Here we are. So these are ones that are actually hadn't died. Think I've thought of Ada. We wrote these ones down or get those ones noted down. I'm just copying this one we might have, but there is a y. We can just make sure we don't duplicate. So we just go down and we copy all of these data. Let's do that one. I think we've got that one there. We go back. And you can just keep adding different keywords from other books that you might be aware of. And so we just kept going. And we just want to make sure we wont assign what's going on here. The next thing we need to do is to make sure that we remove any duplicates. And we can do that by going to data. We got to remove duplicates. We're going to call an I. And we only had one duplicate, and then we wrote to go. Now there is another way that you can find this. This is the, this is the way to do it for free. They ease another way if you wanted to speed up the process. And I'll show this on now this tutorial is module or the sun. The whole unit of what we're doing is all that ways to do it for free. But let me show you a paid way that you might consider once you start in some royalties that you might want, are we investing to business? And it's called Publish a rocket. And this is the platform. What will you do? It's a one-off subscription model and you have lifetime access to it. It's under a 100 US dollars. And in the bonus lesson I'll provide some details about it in that I just got to IMS keywords. So just say it was tracing. Tracing. We are going to get them rocket. This will actually bring up a whole heap of different words. So you can actually see all of these. And you would go through and make sure that they all relative to what you're doing. There might be, for example, this one here. If this one wasn't relevant, then you wouldn't include it. And what you do is you simply export this as a spreadsheet and then you can go through and delete any and you can add it to your list which you're creating here. And you can just keep on changing that around so that you do different searches all the time and bring up different words and then you just delete any duplicates. So that's another way that you can speed up the process incredibly quickly by using publisher rocket. Yeah, no, I'll leave the details of this in the bonus lesson for you. That's the y that we go through the process of finding relevant keywords for our k and pines. And you just need to make sure that you have the rod relevant keywords. Not too many, but in plenty that will give you lots of different options for your customers to find your book. Said that ends this lesson. And next on Ganesh show you actually how to create an automatic add. And then there'll be a separate one in regards to a broad campaign, broad search time, it can't bind, so I'll get onto that in a moment. 28. Lesson 20 - An Introduction to Amazon Advertising Campaigns: Welcome to this new lesson. It's an introduction to IMS advertising, Amazon marketing services. And we're gonna be looking at auto campaigns and keyword targeting campaigns. Auto targeting campaigns is when we actually LET Amazon do the workforce. Now, what are they going to try and do is get drew or match your book up against different books, different keywords, different categories. And they're going to try and find if there's anything in particular that will help you generate some styles. Now, when we do our manual campaigns are keyword targeting campaigns were actually doing the research to find out what keywords waiting they should be matched up against. But with the auto targeting campaign, we let in the Amazon algorithm do that for us. Now, the problem that can arise is that Amazon might be putting your book up against irrelevant keywords or irrelevant books. And therefore sometimes the spend, you can get a little bit out of control if you don't put a budget on it. So that's why it's important to put a good firm budget in place for your auto campaigns and to check those campaigns regularly and to make sure you what we call optimize, which we'll cover later on, to make sure that we're not overspending. In regards to have keyword targeting campaigns. What I'll teach you in a lesson and environment, he's had a fall on those keywords and then how to apply them to your campaigns. Now these are the ones keywords that you think people will be searching for when they do their search on the Amazon search bar. And we create our campaigns based on those keywords. Amazon will also help suggest some keywords that we can use. But we, I bought combining both that will help us to get the right keywords. So that's the introduction. Let's get into the next lesson. 29. Lesson 21 - How to Create an AUTO Campaign: Welcome to the next lesson. This is bad how to create an auto targeting campaign on Amazon. Now this is when we let Amazon, through the algorithm, choose a theta secretion. What keywords or different categories or potential books that the dye think, Ebook Manoch, she convert into a sale. Now, there are gonna be words or books or categories at Amazon mark put a book in front of that might not be necessarily relevant, and it can spend a little bit more money on occasion. That's where it's important to just check in regularly with the ad to make sure that you're not either spending. But let's run through the process now of how to establish and set up an automatic campaign for KP. The first thing you need to do is to jump on your bookshelf and you need to find the book that you want. And just say you did a search for literature icing. And you came up with this book just here. And so what we're gonna do, we're going to mark that book. So we go to these three dots here and we go to promote and advertise. It will then give us an opportunity to choose the marketplace and we're going to choose.com. I got to create an ad campaign. When these sets itself up. We then will get an opportunity to choose one of these three. Now we're just doing an automatic campaign. And sponsor brands is when you have the banner across the top. So we don't need that one. We want S sponsored products, so we click Continue here. Then we go into the actual creating the campaign process. We're going to say tracing book all time. And I'm just going to do Example. Know what that's about. You can choose a portfolio if you had different portfolios that you had with the books, you can create those. You have a start or an indict. Sometimes you just let the campaign to run its course and not have an indict if you checking it regularly. But if you would lock in indict, you just add that mopping two weeks, four weeks, three months. What did he choose? The daily budget is up to you. Sometimes if you have a limited budget, you might just want to have it loud about three or $4. Or if you have a bigger budget and might be $10. But when you're starting out, just start with a low budget to get to know the process. Let's just start with thought those to begin with. You have two options here. In the next module, we're gonna be talking about manual targeting. In this one, we're doing our automatic targeting. This is when Amazon would target keywords and products as similar to the production unit. We'll choose that one. We have three options here. We will choose dynamic Beads down, meaning that Amazon, if there is a book that out output can target and the bead, these less than side-to-side we targeting at twenty-five cents, if it's less than $0.25, Amazon will allow us to beat at say, $0.20 or $0.99 atomic dynamic beads up or down. It can actually move the bead up by 100%. So if you had a beta of $0.20, Amazon can actually be $0.40 on your behalf against the book it thinks might convert, but it might not. On the other flip side, they can actually reduce as well, or you can fix your bids, but I'd just like to have dominant ohmic bids down so I can actually spend less if it has an opportunity to do so. We can choose whether we write our own little styles text against the book. But you just got to be careful, Amazon, quite strict on what you can write on only just to standard, which means that there'll be no sales rotting under. And I've never seen any difference by adding custom text. Now on only copy this, and I'll place that under the group nine just TO. The next area is that we need to follow and EHR product all find that book now and place it here. So we have a product that we actually beating against. And I've found the book and I've added the book. So the P is here. Then we scroll down here. And we've got our opportunity to sit a bead. Amazon is suggesting a bit of a dollar. Every time someone clicks on, that would erode our block way, probably only getting a random better dollar IT on the sow process here. So that is why, why too hard with a road any budget we'd have. So you might just want to have it at 20, $0.23 for example. And that's an automatic bead. And that will gather beads at $0.22 or lower because we had done in liquids, ****. You had the opportunity of what they call negative keyword targeting. So if you have a Moby, a later tracing book, but you don't want your book. I haven't going against number tracing books, then you can actually add a negative exact or fries that you don't want. And that's normally something you add as the campaign moves along, not initially. And then what you do is launch a campaign that's as simple as it is to set up an automatic campaign allowing Amazon to choose the categories and the products and the keywords that your book we'll be going up against or be searchable for the Amazon customers. And it's quite an easy process to do. And you find that auto campaigns, you, my font, keywords or products that you didn't realize customers are searching for and your book was selling under. It does have a very good Y of gathering extra keywords in nine other thought about they can add to other campaigns. So that is how to set up the automatic campaign. 30. Lesson 22 - How to Create a Keyword Campaign: Welcome to the next lesson in regards to how to create a keyword targeting campaign. So we can do the same process as we did before. We're gonna go back onto, as we did with the Auto campaign, we're gonna get back onto the Amazon marketing services platform and we're gonna create a keyword targeting campaigns. So let's jump on the platform now. The first step we need to do is under sponsored products where we get to do our keywords, we got to continue. This will bring us up with the details again to create a campaign. So we might call it a try seeing book. We're gonna do broad keywords. And then what we do, we can choose a portfolio again if we choose to, or we can have an indict. I just like to keep it on indict so that I can keep monitoring it. Let's just do another budget of $5 and we'll keep that minimum. Now this time, what we're going to be doing is choosing manual targeting. And this is where we actually choose keywords or products to Target shoppers searches and sit customer beads. Again, we have an opportunity of choosing. We want dynamic bids down. Dynamic beads up on Dan or fixed speeds. Always just loved to choose dynamic beads because therefore amazon will lower the price if there's an opportunity to do so. I'm gonna keep it at custom text for the head. Next, we need to choose the book that we had where we want to target. And we're gonna choose the same book that we did for the automatic campaign. I've chosen the book again. And now I need to do is scroll down to the next section. This is where it has targeting. So we can choose targeting of keywords or PROC targeting. So that's when we actually choose categories or brands or Pacific specific books. We're gonna be doing keyword targeting for this one. What we need to do, We go down and we have our list of books, sorry, uh, keywords that we wanted to initially interrupt. So Amazon my, provides you with a whole list of keywords that they think we should be targeting. And yes, we will definitely have a look at those. But to begin with, we need to enter at least now to start with, we're just going to be using broad and Fridays. We're not doing exact. So that's what we need to do. We just grab our keywords. So this is where we need to enter a keyword, um, highlight them or copy them. We got back to our campaign and we simply enter the Maltese. Now it's really important that you click here and go to default bead because Amazon will spray sit at 75 since we want to lower that $0.22 as a default beat if it's got broad or fries with broad keyword search terms, it means that if it was just learn to write for kids, it might even have learned to write for kids spelled chi odd d, z. You just don't know what customers I can have taught and equal have words at the start, we're to the end. But you just need to know that it's going to be very broad, that's gonna be doing. And phrases might be different phrases that people might taught in. And so we need to add four bytes. So $0.22 we add those, might kick back a couple. Now the other thing we want to do is we want to go to suggested. Are there different words here that we can use that will target ebook. So I would suggest, yes, Now this is giving us a suggested bead. Now this is a very competitive niche. Gallaudet tracing. I wouldn't be surprised. Surprise is some bids of this heart. But we go down here and add any that we think might be specific to our book. We go down Bobby, kindergarten book. Christmas. Say what domain? Christmas, it might be Christmas that people want in quickly do that and we keep going down. We can add whatever we feel is specific and you can add them all. You can add whatever you want to. Just add heaps and down here min, but just be very, very specific. I'm just gonna leave it there. The other one because it is a Christmas theme. Christmas tracing. Whoops, I didn't spell that wrong. We'll do that. Christmas. Tracing them at the moment. We just get rid of that one. And you can do that as well. It can preempt some of the ones. We're going to add those two as well. You can add as many as you want, but remember all with Kate them to under a 100 or a couple of 100 maximum, just as long as he's very specific. Now, if you want, you can even add if it's really specific to eBook. Wait, I'm not rot Christmas tracing. I might add those to look. We've got that one already, so we just need to check this and just make sure it's doing the right thing. We couldn't even do. Sometimes it might be logging activity book, but let's just keep it like that. I think I've got everything laid down or I might just get rid of any duplicates, which was that one. That one. So I always get rid of that one day. Whoops. Let's get rid of that one and bring it up. And then we add those keywords and navies exact that they're gonna be targeting. Then we go down. There might be some negative keywords that we don't want a book to be going against. So you're welcome to include those that are normally do that once I go back and check my ads to make sure that they are actually targeting throughout keywords. And we don't want custom text, way wanted where we want standard. Then we will launch a campaign. We'd launch it. And then it gets reviewed, moderated, and it can take up to a couple of days. So a couple of days potentially, but says 72 hours, three days, but are usually found within four to five hours maximum. I've got 58 keywords on targeting, which is, which I feel is the best method because you're really targeting specific words, but maybe you can include up to say 200 keywords. And I've got my schedule and modally budget. And I should have also added AI group nine, which was the same as these. That is, how to set up your broad and fries keyword campaign for Amazon ads. 31. Expanding Your Amazon Ads to Other Marketplaces: In this lesson, one of the cover off, the opportunity to expand into different marketplaces with your Amazon advertising. But if you're having challenges regarding your Amazon ads, spend your icons might be very high. In America, what I ended up doing is expanding into the UK and the Canadian marketplaces and also more lightly Australia, because they seem to be or they are less competitive marketplaces. The cost-per-click is much less. Competition is obviously going to be much less. And you can actually practice better and test different things in those marketplaces without blowing a budget. And also the opportunity to expand into these newly formed marketplaces that still aquatic green is a great opportunity. And if you can get your books ranking in some of these marketplaces, particularly as stria, which really only allowed you to start advertising around about nine months ago, is still a really good opportunity. In a moment, what I'll do is I'll show you some of my results from those marketplaces and talk you through some of the thoughts that I had around advertising in those marketplaces and why I've done it. And some of the tips that I can give you to help with your expansion. Because you should be thinking just, you shouldn't, you shouldn't be thinking just about the American market. There are so many more marketplaces. I think there's a random about 12 or 14 different marketplaces now you can advertise. Those could be the UK, Canada, Australia. And even if you had books were converted in different languages, such as German, Italian, French, you can actually go and market your books in those places as well. But let me show you my Australian market, CT and MRI UK advertising. I want to show you the performance that I've had from when office started to advertising books. And then how that's gone over the last nine months really. What more results of bank? Because I think it'll help actually help you along. Let me show you that right now. Let me show you through some of the key elements of marketing in different marketplaces. So remember when you do click on what they call the analysis of your book, you can see the different marketplaces you can advertise on. And there's a drop-down that says either the US or all the different marketplaces. And that's how you choose the different marketplaces that you want to marketing or advertising. And what you do need to do though, is actually register in each of the marketplaces you wish to. You can just have a US.com Amazon advertising account and named the outer advertise on the UK, in Australia, in Canada, in Italy, for example, you do need a separate account. I've got my accounts at the moment, so I'm going to show you three, the UK, Canada, and Australia. Let's start with the UK. And this is my loft on of Amazon advertising to current ICT. Let's have a look at the components here. We've got our spend amount and it's an English pound. So as an example, the Australian dollar for me, 11 English pound equals about 2.75 Australian dollars. So it costs me a lot of money. Said that 5 thousand at 5.5 thousand pounds is actually costed me around about 14 thousand Australian dollars. But if you look at what I've earned, that quite surrendered at $50 thousand for that spin strain dollars at ease. But we have a look at here that span the style. I'm happy at anytime to spend 5 thousand, It's generate $21 thousand of sales. And look at the impression. So nearly closing on the new in impressions for my books, which is excellent for brand awareness. Even if someone doesn't bond MOD book immediately. Dyads same operand as saying the cover and they might not buy the first time, might even be sick and on, but it might be the third time now. But I've had over 3 thousand orders and an icon of 25% will just close them on 26% on average. That's a great result. And if we look back where I started, so I only started small, It's been about five Canadian dollars, sorry, five English pants and begin with. And then you can say, as I became more confident in his mark apply some a bookstore to sell. I also started to increase the spend and it converted the styles, but also I dropped off advertising when are needed to. As it picked up here, that was in quarter four, busiest time of the year, spent 875 English pants, but might either 3.5 thousand. And then this area here spend one, I've just want 1000 pounds for 5.5 thousand pounds in styles. This was a ballet that was mothers die. Period of time where I had some Mother's Day books that are selling then are pulled away from Amazon advertising. Just because mom, more books weren't particularly selling at those particular terms afterwards. So you just need to adjust to adapt to different celebrations. And in the bonus section of this course, I've got the celebration dates for the US, UK, and Canada. You just need to check those because if you do have gift books for particular times of the year, it's good to know that in advance. That's the UK one. Let's go to the next one, which is Canada. I spent nearly 6 thousand Canadian dollars, but to make 29 thousand, remember that's the styles of the book, not the profit, and you need to be mindful of that as well. That's the title styles. You need to title why the cost of printing and Amazon, Amazon's cat in regards to what percentage that you get at your books. But again, I had closing on 7 million impressions. Really good. I toss of 25 a percent and closing on 3 thousand orders for that period of time. You can see again, I love quarter four was a big month, big three months where I really ramped up my advertising styles of 6,200 for spin 1, $1000. Again, these tom of the ear styles of 3.5 thousand for spending a $100. And you can see it drops off a bit as well. So that's important to consider when you're doing your advertising, to tailor it for different times of the year. Let's go to the font one now this is dry up. I didn't really advertise until around about was 2020, $2120. I had a high icons to begin with until I sort of worked out. The platform would be better. I think I was advertising, but it wasn't getting much of a result of that point on. So pull back. And then I did say some book standard do well, are then increased my advertising. And you can see here it was styles at 22,100 different icons at 21.400%, which is a really good outcome. Again, it's got over 1 million impressions as well. Spend $6,623 for return of 2790. I'm happy to take that as an outcome as part of advertising on the Australian platform. Just make sure you continue to look at different marketplaces. And I think it's important that you expand beyond just the US marketplace. As you can see more results. A grade here, if I went to my US marketplace, the cost is probably going to be considerably high. If I look at the whole lifespan of Amazon advertising, I think it might even be averaging about 3840% percent even. But that's considering that are started off, not really knowing what I was doing, but I worked at how to control my spin, optimize Amazon ads and things like that. But that's part of this lesson. Part of the course is to think broader than just KD pay. Broader also in regards to the marketplaces week ADP as well. Because I don't want you just to limit to one area, needs to expand your thinking about where books are gonna be sold. And the great thing about publishing is that we can expand our books to all different countries because we can get them translated as well. And that's just an incredible opportunity now with the online platforms were made available to us. Hopefully that helps and place can see that opening your opportunities to the international marketplaces for Amazon advertising. 32. Lesson 23 - Advanced Strategies to Scale: In this lecture, we're gonna be talking about the advanced strategies that they can use to scale the strategies and the tools that I've used to scale my business from selling a few books initially to selling well at 20 thousand books per year. There are strategies they can use, but there are also tools that I've found to be extremely useful in regards to citing time, helping generate more sales, but also the ability to look more professional. And the professional element of when you're publishing is something that you might not get initially. But the more books you publish, the more you learn and the ability to adapt to what the customer wants is critical as part of your advanced strategies for growing your business. I want to go through just a bit of a snapshot really of some of the main platforms that are used. The benefits of them and why I use them. And then we'll use a couple of other strategies that I think might be really helpful for you, for your publishing business in the years to come. Let's get into those now. 33. The Future of Creating Low Content Books Using AI (Artificial Intelligence): In this updated lesson, I wanted to provide my thoughts and feelings and a bit of information around using artificial intelligence for creating books for Amazon, kVp, but even other bookstores as well online book platforms. So what is my take on it? Well, let me go through a few things about how you might be able to use AI to create books, but also some strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. My own swat analysis on where I think I might be going to for your book creation process. Let's get into a presentation now. I'll take you through a few different AI platforms that are currently quite hot at the moment. And then how I think that I might transform the way that we do self-publishing. To start with, let's look at a couple of different, or three different AI platforms that you might be familiar with. And I'm going to focus more on chat GPT than the others because I don't have as much experience with the others. But let's go into that now. We've got chat GPT, which is our Open AI, which I'll jump on to in a minute. Then these mid journey. And there's also Jasper. These are the three that I'm familiar with. I'm sure there's probably plenty more that will come out in the near future. However, I am getting more familiar with chat GPT, so I'll be covering more of that in this lesson. And why is it you can utilize that to your advantage when you're self-publishing. What I thought I would do to try and create some structure around this. I just went to Amazon and I've just written children's storybook. And if I go down here I can see unicorn book. And there's a couple of other books, mermaid books. Let's, let's focus on, sorry, a unicorn book. And let's see what we can gather and create a story from that. So if we go back to check GBT and we say, if we create a 300 word, roaming, roaming, a story about a unicorn, learns to flop. Okay, so let's see what this comes up with and find out if this could create a children's picture storyboard. Once upon a time in a magical land, sophie lived a unicorn with a mean of silver here. She gazed in fields dance in the sun, but one thing was missing. She had not begun to spread wings and saw through the sky. She dreamed of flying and learning how to fly. She asked the other creatures big and small, but they all laughed and said she couldn't get all. The unicorn was sad and felt quite low. She thought you'd never learn this skill. But then one day she lay in the grass, she saw a bird soaring past so fast. She closed her eyes and visualize the flight. And when she opened them, she saw a beautiful thought. Her wings, It's sprouted and she was ready to saw. She flipped them once, twice, then off she did so up in the sky sheets world and she spun with a Winona in Maine and the sun at her tongue, she laughed with joy and felt so alive as she flew higher and higher. She didn't want to dive from that day on the unicorn fruit fly. And she spread your wings up in, up, in the sky so high. She amazed all creatures with a Grayson of flare and they all cheapy parade as she passed through the air. The unicorn learn that anything is possible if you believe in yourself and make it unavoidable. So whenever she felt, she felt down or just wants to play, she spent her wings and takes to this guy for a joyful slide. So some of these, I really like, some of it needs some work. But this was created in about 20 s. And what I'd need to do is adapt some of these to make sure that it made sense and went through the process of making sure grammatically it was okay. And that it does actually make sense. But you can see the power of this and how quickly it came up with a story about a unicorn that learns to fly. But what would happen if you copied that exact line? Would you get the exact same story? And someone else is going to get exactly the same story. So that's where the trouble may delay. If someone created a YouTube video, e.g. about a back reading a book about a uniform unicorn that could fly, would everyone start to get the same story? Now, let's have a look. You can refine it and you can change it. So you could have a change to a 250 story. And then what happens? That should have been 250. Let's stop that. Ray brought rewrite 250, we're storing. And let's try it again. Thinking. What I might have to do is adjust this guy down here. It's going there. So just wanted to see the change. I just saw here to spread your wings and soul through the sky. She dreamed of flying and learning how to fly. She asked the creatures, but they just laughed and said, flies off the media, especially in your head. The unicorn was sad but you didn't lose hope. She closed her eyes and visualize a way to cope. So you can see how it actually has changed things based on the word count. So you can do that as well. Now I'm going to keep moving through this. Otherwise it can actually use chat GPT, or an AI would be for keywords. Keywords for a children's unicorn, storybook. Let's see. It starts to generate those. We can stop generating. Or you might want to have a title of a book about a unicorn. Lens to fly called Jim. Jim mom and the flying unicorn. It's highly venture and self-discovery. So I could say rewrite two IT, this monophonic go and eventually shorten it very, very short. You can have different ways you do. So. You can see very, very quickly, I've been able to come up with a story. I can show that, I can lengthen it. I can then if you do a sales copy, so if you want a description of the book, a prescription of a book for a unicorn. Mama, to flow. Here we go. Following your mom are curious and determined unicorn agenda, she discovers her ability to fly. This heartwarming tale explores themes or self-belief and perseverance is Gemma overcomes challenges and spreads it. Wings in the sky. Join Jumana on a magical adventure and be inspired to reach for the stars. So it's actually very, very good. So that's how you can use chat GBT or OpenAI. It's extremely powerful, but you've just got to be careful about putting your own special touch to it. And that's what I see. The problem with these potentially is that they might be shortcuts, that they can be taken. So just be very, very wary of that. But within a few minutes, There's some powerful ways you can use it towards your book. And that's just a tip of the iceberg. Now, I'm not gonna go into great detail about this next one, mid journey or do your own research on it. But from what I see, you can actually get II created illustrations done very, very quickly. But all I'm going to say on this one is just be very careful on the copyright side of things and the ownership of it. Check the terms and conditions, but do your own research about meat journey. And I think you'll be amazed at what the ability of this system has to generate illustrations for a book. The last one is called jasper. You can also use this for our new images and marketing copy. So again, I would look into what you can do with this. You can get a free account to begin with. And you can generate using stuff for art, and it will generate it for you. So this one, Let's have a look at the different creating content. You can Rock content in different languages. So if you had a book that you wanted to get translated in different languages and help you out. Now, one last thing, I just wanted to mention that meet journey, that is a paid plan of 30 dollar paid plan. I believe it is. It might change by the time you actually go to it and sign-in. But with the $30 paid plan, did you actually can get access and rights to the use of images. But there is CO license, which means that you don't have full ownership of those illustrations if you're using the journey, but please check out the terms and conditions before you start using it. For the commercial use of those images with any of these AR technology that you might be using. But There are three. So we've got our chat, GPT, we've got meet journey, and we've got chess. But I did a three that I've become aware of that you can start using if you intend to use IR towards your book creation process. Now let me cover off the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities. It's what we call our swat analysis. Say strengths. I can be a massive time-saver. The time it will save you could be significant. Any Saudi illustration with a unicorn book, how quickly that story was developed for me and for the majority, for the good part of it was actually very good. Could be huge cost savings. So you might like to use it for illustrations. And if you can pay a 30 dollar fee e.g. for, for meat journey to create illustrations for you, rather than engaging in Illustrator. That could be a pathway you choose to go down. But also in regards to copy or sales copy and writing, the amount of time saved is significant. For that. Next thing, the cast the net wider than ever before for niche ideas, keyword sales copying, seeking additional data. So it's becoming the opportunity for us to gather information that we can use is becoming even brought it every single day. The more input we provide these systems, the more powerful they will become. One of the weaknesses we could be in breach would infringe on copyright and trademark law. That's a serious thing you need to look into and make sure you make the right decision and check everything first. There is a gray area when it comes to ownership of inflammation, then then your opportunities for the commercial use of that information for now and in the future. So imagine if you had a book, you create that using say, meat journey. It was making a lot of money. And then I came to you and say, well, by the way, we've got a co license. We actually have partial ownership of this book as well, because the illustrations, we want you to start paying us now. So think carefully about that. And we could reduce your appetite potentially learn absorb information when it's so readily available. And cats thinking Tom down significantly, again, its pros and cons about that. What are the opportunities? When should we embrace the technology that we have at our disposal? We need to think about how things are going to change for you. These systems becoming more intelligent and we need to continue to be at the forefront of a new technology. So I think we should embrace it. You may not always agree with it, but you do need to embrace it and move forward and determine how much benefit you. I will provide a whole new advancement when it comes to the book creation process. Uses cave abilities at a minimum of keyword research and nice niche research, and assisting with titles and subtitles. You don't do use them directly, just allow to come up with a few different options for you to consider and then put your own personal touch on it. What are the threats? Well, it's kind of a technology will have a significant impact on the way that we create a regional entirely books and resources. So I could impact the professionals. Such should be professionals, Illustrator's, copywriters, artists, many other freelancers with some of the work can be done in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the cost. I'm not suggesting that the quality may be as high, but some people may choose using the new technology versus a human being. There may be a huge influx of new and Facebook's flooding kVp and other publishing platforms. With this new technology, the market may become even more competitive for the knees right now. You need to think about a few things and these are my thoughts. Think of your customer. What would they want when they want to create a children's picture? Where the storylines being cow created by AI. What about illustrations? Would you personally buy a book that you'd use credit by II? It was about a penguin that didn't know how to swim. Would you buy that or do move away from it? You just need to think about your customers. I often create books, but there is still a critical phrase of a successfully launching our books. So anyone to light up books, but who will ever see them if they don't know about them. So the launch of your book processes critical. So don't ever lose sight of quality versus quantity. And the human factor of feelings and emotions is highly unique to human beings. So we need to make sure we tap into that. It's something that an ISI can yet do. So let's, let's make sure we take advantage of that and put that into your writing in the way you create your books and your illustrations. If you're using illustrations in your book. And finally, please be very, very careful and consider any legal consequences or ramifications using AI technology. So don't be surprised if K2 AP real line in terms of business, but book publishing based on methods used with the support of AI. What I'm saying is, you need to think of the long term. Don't just take shortcuts using AI and get it compromise your future within publishing because you're doing that. So there are a couple of things that I wanted to bring up using IRF4 book creation. And there are a few more thoughts that are ordered you to be aware of before you move forward with it. So everyone's going to have their own opinion about where they feel it. I will come into play for book publishing. Now, for me, I think I'm going to look at different ways that I can embrace it. There or not. Not every part of AI I agree with. But it's moving at such a rapid rate that I think it's important to keep up with new developments as they come through. There has probably quite a few things into concerning worry me about the self-publishing space with I-I, particularly the volume of books that people might start creating with the advancement of time-saving methods of creating books. But there are other ways that we can obviously utilize it. As I've mentioned the presentation that will certainly be to our advantage. I just don't want it to take over elements of quality versus quantity. That's my biggest concern. And I also know that we need to think of the way that our customers are thinking, which I covered it early in the presentation. So hopefully that helps you. There is a lot to play out in this space. Keep up-to-date with how you can use it to your advantage without taking advantage of customers by providing them with poor quality or my books. Just try and be as original as you can to provide the best experience you can for your customers. 34. Lesson 24 - Publisher Rocket Tutorial: Publish a rocket is a software or a platform we can use that I've used very well, pretty much from the start of my self-publishing back in the early parts of 2020. And I'll find it beneficial because it will speed up the process so much compared to without manually had to do a lot of the work that this software does. But also the benefit being it's a one-off payment philosoph Tom axis. And they constantly providing renewed little updates and features which is fantastic and benefits that will make things even easier and they'll continue to do that. Let's do a common theme throughout the scissor demonstration. So if we did word search for adults and we got to go get them rocket. Just wait for this to load. So what we do, we will see the different words here and we just take over here the ones that are applicable to the book. So if we were just doing a word search book for adults, we wouldn't do the Spanish one. Large, meaning large print, is a fuel values as well. Let's do that. Let's go down to animals. Let's go down to Christmas. Difficult, easy. Games. Halloween. Rob, let's just look at these ones to begin with. It keep provides you with the average number of pages for these different keywords in the books of feature. The competitors, the average price, the average monthly earnings, estimated Amazon search results per month, and the competitive school. Competitive score is how competitive it is. Closer to 100 is the highest competition. Lowest number one is the least competition. So this one here we'd have low competition. But we can look at these elements and think, brought this 333 pages, 1200 under 201,200 competitors, $14 Battalion my camera and $52. But if we look at this one here, this one's word search for adults, easy. So that could be a keyword. You could look to create a book. And you look at the number of competitors which is strong, which is good on name, average price, very, very healthy monthly earnings. Search results are very, very good. And then we got local petitions that meet your criteria. If we wanted to identify this a bit further, we click on this button just here. This will take us to a page that will show us all the books and all the information. This book here, It's the square and search book. It's got a really good, healthy life book price, daily sales, a $133.359. You look at this one. This one is making $20 thousand per month, which is very, very strong. If we wanted to look a little bit deeper into these books, decided was this book just hear the BSI average based on these 20 thousand and really good, healthy monthly styles. So let's check these out. And loosely actually take us to the word search puzzle books for adults. And it will show us all the information that we need and we can go down further. And it provides the different categories of sin and the different reviews as well. The other feature that we can do from these pages actually say the categories. So if we went to this book here and we wanted to see the categories, these are the categories this book is ranking for. So if you had a similar book, you might want to copy these categories. Then go to tidy p to the Help Center. You can add these keywords, as I mentioned, these categories. You can add these categories as I mentioned in the category lecture that we've already covered throughout the course. And you can add these as part of your in categories which you are led to have per book. That's another feature there as well. You can export all these information too. That's one key area. Let's go back home again. So we've looked at this sort of competition analyzer as well. So that's sort of features if we were to do, would search for adults folded due to competition analyzer that would bring up that page. And you can have a look at all the different books and get ideas and you can load more as well, the category search function. If we wanted to find out what categories we could potentially put that book into if we did word, word search. There's those two. But if you just eat word, then as a whole heap of different ones by crosswords, word games. And these will actually tell you if you filter it. If you were to get to the number one ranking, you would need an average base hour of 157 thousand if you are in the Kindle Store. But remember, we're wanting the book bookstore. So if we get into books, this book here, you wouldn't put your across, we'll would surge book in this category. But if you were to rank it number one, then that's the base. And you need eight styles to get to number one. But anyway, this shows you all the different things as well. The other feature of publisher rocket is if you just got a new search. And if we were to type in search books for adults, then this will come up with a whole heap of different search terms that you can use and copy for your Amazon advertising, for your broad, or we will phrase or your exact keyword search campaigns for Amazon advertising, you can grab all of this information, but what I'd encourage you to do is antique any that aren't relevant to your book. So you might go down and you might see, decides not swearing, searching on ticket. And we might want to get rid of those. You can actually pick up different IDs as well while going through here and seeing the different books. Once you've antic, the ones that are irrelevant, you can export it. And then that's really to add into your campaign. The last thing are the tutorials that you can do as part of published a rocket and these different areas you can look into. So it's really worthwhile doing that as well. So they have an overview of published a rocket. And I. The quick features that it provides, It's not an easy easily two are nice and easy to find different areas that you need. And it's been incredibly helpful for me to style more books on finding the right keywords. Like in fauna, well the competition doing on adding the right categories. And they didn't want to, I want to advertise or can actually search for the right keywords that customers are searching for as well. So that's the overview of published a rocket. And if you wanted some, if you wanted to get published a rocket, they need the bonus section or provide a link to be able to get that software for yourself. 35. Publisher Rocket Update 2024: This is just a very quick update for Publisher rocket. Now, publisher rocket as of July 9, 2024, has made a number of new updates to both the platform that you can actually use when you're doing your research, which is this one right here. Currently, once it slows up, version 2.0 0.85, will give you the most up to date version of publisher rocket, including the new Amazon ads feature that you can then use to find out the main keywords you should be using for your Amazon ads to be the most effective. Now, if you have publisher rocket already, all this will be free of charge, all the new updates you can access. However, if you don't have publisher rocket, there'll be a new pricing structure that is now in place. Previously, it was $97. Now it's $199, and that will accommodate all these new features, and it still is a fantastic offer because it is a once off lifetime payment, and you get access plus future updates all for free. That is the new pricing structure for publisher rocket. Make sure you go and check out all of the new features and ensure you had the most recent update of Publisher rocket on your system. 36. Lesson 25 - Book Bolt Tutorial: Book bolt is a software that really helps for a number of key areas, including keyword research, different niches, selections, helping with kapha design. So there's quite a few different features that book bulb use. And to include that helped me to scale by publishing. So let's have a bit of a look into the different features that you can actually x's as part of Book bulb. But remember, as I've mentioned during the course, they do have some free elements here as well. That way gonna go into what a subscription model would provide you with, with book ball. This is the main dashboard for book bulb and you can have two levels of subscription. There's the standard level, it's approximately ten US dollars per month. Then there is more and then a second tier or more advanced where provides you with some more features and products. And I'll show you that as well. That's another tool, $3 per month. So it's a rounded that 13 or $14 per month for that at the time of the recording. If we have a look here, we've got all these features down here which you can use. And there's also other features over here that we can also utilize as well. So just depends on what level you have. So let's just have a look. These are the tutorials and you can go through and have a look at all those tutorials with the products. You should go onto products. And if you have a K word, let's say, we'll call it that word search again, which were used in published a rocket. And we just go to search. This will bring up a number of different products that if you had a particular keyword for that you could look at. And so you can look at all the different details is book and the different keywords that these books are ranking for. So I can scroll down, you can find out what the base salaries and actually how they ranking and how popular they are. You might get different ideas for word search for kids. Grandma search book that's doing very well. So you can see that there are different things here that we're really going to help you for that section. So you can go into different categories you can do under sketch books, puzzle books, music sheets, whatever, lot of different features, you can check that one as well. This is actually showing you the average BSR, the price points, and the category that you'll searching other as well. So that's under products, searching for different atoms. These really, really handy. Let's go to sell up. I can actually choose to research a different way. I'll go and find a psychologist. He had a nine, so we've got a fun after. Let's just say that these are published in nine. Another feature really lock is called Cloud. So you go into Cloud and you actually do a search up. We'll go to, let's go to, let's go to plan. Go to the top 200 planet books, reduces down to about there. And if we were to do a search, then it's like she brings us up with a whole heap of books that she can actually check out the key words for font at how these books are actually tracking stuff. We went to this book here, everything into now when I'm gone and actually do this just here. Then these slushy bring up way the bookies ranking and hats traveling. It'll give you the the process and with its being consistent and also give you the BSR and how that is actually tracking. So there's a lot of really good information here. You can click on here and that will actually take you to the book. It'll also give you the ISO number as well. So that is a feature which you can scroll down on and thawed out what common elements, some of these books, attacking forces went on, gone is quite a few of these that's actually working on September tenth, 2021 that was in there as well. So you can actually see it's quite a few that a trekking very, very well in that category and found that an excellent Y to be able to do that. Now the other thing you can do is actually pick an ice in the book scale. And it says that you've got 25 lookups available, so we plug in a number so we might be checking out some books and I'll go, well this one looks interesting, so I'll copy the ISO number and I'll go back to publish a rocket or sorry, I'll plug it in there. And it'll actually do a search of the information. It'll bring up the description, the title, and the key words. And that is a really important thing. It actually shows you. Where sometimes and bring it up which ranking the search volume for those keywords as well. So it's a great tool, will be able to find at different books and no information about them as well. Now you can favorite books. You can go to keywords as well. So if we do a search of keywords, then if we did the word, word search for adults, will do a search on this one, white for it to come up. And it'll bring up all the different searches and the search volume. So you can actually filter this as well. Google search volume, a cost-per-click and the competition. So I can actually go down and have a look at that. And it also shows you the most frequently used keywords and different products which are irrelevant, irrelevant, irrelevant to those actual keywords as well. That's the keywords, TDP categories, which was at free feature that you can use on book boat as well. And then there's also tidy spot, which is a watered down version of the one you can actually purchase. Now that dies, elements are available under the normal subscription and the other really important elements which are like he's called Book bolt designer. Book bolt design at helps us to create really covers that aren't going to be rejected. So if we just did a seven by ten cava, for example, seven by ten watt pipe outlets do it at a 100 pages. Does unless you generate the tape plight that Wayne aid for that particular cava, which is saved me hours and hours of biotic having to calculate it myself, we're using other tools, provides us this. If we were to upload a book cover up that we wanted, for example, to say it was this one here. Then we would then get the pitch up strategy and we just drag it to the endpoints, drag it across, and we locked into place so that you can see the gray dots around the outside lines. Just want to make sure it's on the area. Then we've got the back. Again. We would stretch it down to the bottom, drag it across, brought there. Just need to bring it across that. Let's make sure it's on the line. And there we have air cover. What we would do, you just go to Download and it will prepare it for us. It says Download. Then we download that document. It puts it into a PDF format for us and I can tell that I haven't quite stretch that enough. What I would do, I would cancel that up here. I'd go back here. I would fix it so that I actually have it in the right area, making sure that it covers everything so you can actually move it a little bit as well. Make sure it's all in the areas. It's probably best to get a little bit either under downloaded the G9. And we're download. And then it'll bring up the PDF version of what we actually want, which is this. And it's all set to go for when you uploaded kVp, you just simply download it there. And he got the PDF version which is perfectly ready to go for uploading decay ADP. So it's another excellent feature of book bulb. Now if you didn't want to, if he didn't have an existing pitches and you wanted to create your own cover. You can actually do that as well. So you can add different words. You can create your own cover using the software as well. That's another really good feature that you might like to choose. You can do different colors. There's a whole heap of different things. You can do drawings. You can add liars, you can add a thick. If you wanted this to have an effective distressing, then it'll add those features on there for you as well. So there's a lot of different things you can do as part of Book bulb and the cover creation process. You may also like to use different shapes which come up. So if it was, let's say this one here, and you can add all the different features too. So it's another area that you can have a play around with as part of Book boat and what you want to do. And so you can actually have different things that happened as part of your design. Now the faunal feature may not have gone through these pretty quickly. There's a lot to book bulb, but you can actually go if you have the high level subscription for few modals, It's a bit 1314 US dollars per month the guy to create. And this will bring up extra things. So we go, we'll call it got a puzzle. A puzzle widths is a new feature. You can create. A is a whole heap of tutorials about how to create pseudocode, crossword puzzles, crypto grams, Hangman word search, word, scribble, mon Fonda, Christ. There's a heap of different things you can do. And it'll run through all the areas and he's tick the boxes and it creates it so quickly without you having to why that doing anything. And it provides the document ready to go. You can do crosswords, you can do those words searches as well. There's a lot of different things that you can you can do, sorry, follow one of the download my last Document, then it'll actually bring it up down here. You can, for example, there's a word search, and it actually creates a word search with all the letters. And then right down the bottom, it'll provide you with all the answers as well. So you can actually see, you can go to the answer section and it brings up all of those features. That's an extra benefit of puzzle wheeze with all these different IDs you can create for low content books. And it's just fantastic opportunity to expand the y that you're scaling yourself publishing business. If you were interested in using book bulk to help scale yourself publishing, then all lays a document in the bonus section of this course with a link to be able to get football. 37. Book Bolt Studio - Updated Lesson: Since I created that initial book bolt tutorial, there has been an update to the designer tool on how to create book covers and even the interiors. So what I wanna do in this lesson is just provide you with that update and how you can use the book bought Studio to create your book covers. There are some new features and tools that are going to be going through. So hopefully that'll help you because the previous model, the East to use or the previous dashboard has now been made redundant. So you can't use that anymore. So that's why I thought it was important to provide you with this update. And therefore, you can transition smoothly cross to that platform though the book bulk studio within book bulk to make your book covers. Let's get into that now. So to begin with, I'm going to login to my account. As you can see, the core products haven't really changed. You still got all the tutorials. The same dashboard appears where you can do proc, search, seller search, Cloud Search, book scout. All of these things are included in that first tutorial that are created. But what has changed is the ability to do your book covers. So if we were to quickly look through these the products which we have seen previously on the other tutorial. As you can see, it's all very similar. If we were to go to Cloud e.g. we can just go here. If we did. We'll do the notebook and let's just do weddings. Let's just see what comes up. It'll still show you all of the books. And you can still do all the same things that you're doing previously. Remember, you can also check the timeline of how these books have been performing so you can hover over it. You can see the cells rank this book, e.g. was launched September 1, and then it is now ranked at 137,000. So you can check that out. And the pricing has remained the same and consistent at $6.99. And you've also got the ice and number off the top. So it stays a sign. And if I just go back into products, some keywords, we can do the search there with everything that's going on. So all of that stays the same. But if we want to check out how to do the book cover creation, that's the most important. So what you need to do is stick up to the top, click your name and go to book a studio. Now, I'll have to login again just here. Actually, I don't have to login before. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to start a brand new project. Now I do have a book that I'm going to show you the process. And this is a book that I use for a course that's just a mock-up book that I just think it will help you to explain what's going on. So what I'm gonna do, I'm going to go to this project. I'm going to start from scratch. So we go to New Project. For this one. I'm just going to do the paperback cover, but we could do cover an interior. So that means you can actually upload your interior as well. So when saves, it saves the cover as a PDF and the interior as a PDF so you can upload it straight through to kVp. But let's just do the paperback cover to begin with, to give you a bit of an overview, let's call it Ali and tid. Adventure. Paperback. Yeah, This book is a 8.5 by 8.5. So it's a square children's picture storybook. It is actually premium in color interior. Why did I ask that? Well, it can determine the thickness, therefore the different size dimensions of your paper back cover. So you just need to choose what's appropriate for you on choosing premium and it is 80 pages. So let's create project. What this will do is provide you with the actual template. You can reduce the template so you can say it or we can fight it rot out for the moment. Let's just keep it open like this. And what I now need to do is upload the Illustrate or the covers. So I might have created these somewhere else. All might have created them on Canva or you might have created them on different software platform. You just need to make sure they're available in JPEG or PNG format. So I'm going to click there and I'm going to upload the image. So I'd go to here, I'm going to go back a couple and these are my files. So I'm going to do the front. I'm going to I'm going to cover. So just copy both. Open. And both of these should open up in a second. Is the back cover. And there's the front cover. So what I now need to do is I'll go back and let's just do one at a time. So let's click this one. It'll appear in a moment, so it covers this area here. One thing you might like to do to create a background color, what they call the paper color. We'll do that in a moment. But what I suggest you do is you need to stretch it. So it goes to the edges. And if it's already on the edge there, you can just stretch it down here. What you do need to be careful of is that you don't have any writing that goes past this green line that runs around here. That is the cutoff line. So make sure you do not have any writing over that. Then we need to make sure that the back cover doesn't cover the barcode area just here as well. So what we're gonna do now is go to the back cover, which is this one right here. It will. Hi there. So we're just going to drag it across. And you can what they call snappy can last snaps, snaps into place around these lines if you want to unlock it to do that. So what I'm going to now do is stretch it. And what we can do is stretch it down. I want it to go all the way to the end. The end. You just got to make sure the rotting gain is the spine right down the middle. And I'm just going to lift it up a little bit. Just so it's that little fluoride green lawn there. He is, right on the border. This one won't need to go a tiny bit higher because you don't want to see it. Probably just a little bit. I can see the edge this tool. So it's best just to get all these will be over. And you can see here how I need to bring that close to the, to the edge. Now, I can bring this nice and close so I can get it perfect if I want to. And the same with this one. I can bring this starts right there and right there. See how now on the spot. Now what I need to do is bring these back and I need to get the paper color. So if I go to, where is it? All? Go back again. I'm going to click here. That's the brush color. I'm just trying to find the paper towel. What we might do is move this across a bit. So let's go through each of these. That is adding extra headings. So I'm going to go to the drawing. And the paper color is what's behind here. So you can see the cover templates. So we're going to hide the cupboard template now. The paper color, I want to be the sort of orange, peachy color. So I get they call the pipette. And I'm going to push that and I'm going to hold over the color that I want and see when I did that, it now fills in the spine with the same color as the same. And you can see how it is appearing up here. So I want to get rid of that around the border. And I can't see any nowadays. I think it all appears to be fine. I'll do one last check with the writing to make sure that it's not going over that green line. So you can see the green line runs across the Ali, doesn't go past that green line. The same there. Now, that'll is good. What I need to, as I said, what I needed to make sure I do is get rid of the cover templates. I've hidden the cover template or you can fade it right out. And I'm now going to save this as a PDF, which is going to be suitable for uploading to Amazon ADP. So I go to Project, I'm going to download it as a CMYK, That's for professional printing. So I'll pick download. Now it says cubed 278. Now they're just depends on the time of the day that you do this. I sometimes get an instinct instant, but there's obviously a lot of people doing this right now. So I'm going to pause this until it downloads for me. Now. Since I've paused, it was maybe 30 s and it is now downloaded. So what I need to now do is I can click on down, down here and I'll go and show me the paperback. So let's have a look at this, pay that back now. And see how if we look around, we might reduce this a little bit. We've got the spine. So you can either have that in the sand color or the blue color on. Quite happy for the spine to be like that. And it is looking really, really good. So that would be the cover that I would use for Amazon kVp. So what I would do is go back and I would just cut that. Or are you actually watch you need to do because the CEO is in a compressed version, you need to extract it. So I would normally just cut it and then go and paste it in the fall that you want, which will then extract it. You can use it. So don't you can just use it straight from here. Makes sure you extract it or cut it and paste it in another file. So that's how you get your paper back for the book bulk. Now if we were looking at doing the interior, you can also do that. If we went to project and we went to New Project, I could go I could do a hardcover. But if I did a hardcover, there are only limits on what the hardcovers. So I've got an 8.50, 0.5. But at this current time, amazon API doesn't provide me with an 8.5 by 8.5 option. So that's where it becomes a little bit tricky. Therefore, if you are planning on creating a hardback book and only putting it onto Amazon Katie p, then it is worthwhile checking out these five different sizes. So then if it was a six by nine, you could do a paper back in six by nine and then hard back in six by nine. It's very easy to convert. But for me, I will have to use another platform like Ingram spark to upload my hair back. And then I can link them on Amazon GDP. So that's the only challenge if you're doing a hardback in a paperback and Erin, okay, they pay does not permit the size for you. So we're not going to do the hard back in for this. But what I will do is do the cover. Any interior. We doing these books bleed. We're doing a premium color. So let's let's do paperback and interior. It's correct. The project. Notice how it's now got pages here. And I can upload my pages from a PDF are created in Canva if I wanted to, sort of defeats the purpose because I've already created my if I go back, let me go back into the file. So just jumped on now, so if I got a paper back, I've already created the PDF version already for the interior in Canva. So if I go back here, I've already created that. Wouldn't need to use book bolt. But if you had individual pages that you wanted to create into an anterior, then you would click here, and then you would simply upload the picture. So you would upload image. And then you could say, I could upload the whole PDF file if I wanted to. So I would choose the PDF and I would go to the paperback and I would do this one. And I'll open that one. And then it will give me the options here. So is it a paperback interior or a hardcover interior? So I'm going to choose, once it uploads, I'm going to choose the paperback interior. So we'll just wait for this to upload. And it tells me there's 38 pages. Select paperback, interior and bleed. Because it means that the pitches extending all the way to the end. And I submit. Now what this will do is extract and load up all of these pages and even create a sub folder for it to sit in. So it's nice and easy two. So I will wait for this to extract all the pages. And this is almost done. Now extracting, it's cutting the margins. And this will be ready in probably 60 s or less. And then a final thing it does is it's extracting these, just saving the files. So this will usually take around about 15 s or thereabouts. Then it extracts them all for me. So what I can then do is fire closest down. If I go to cover, before I go there, I can do the cover which I've just done before. But if I wanted to add the interior pages, I would then click here, click on the actual page, click on the picture. Then I go to the subfolder, which is then got them all. If I went to page one, then that would put it up there. And I can move this around. If I go to I got a K, just wait for it to Auto Save and save here. And then what I need to do is go to page number two, which is just here. And I click on that one and I'll go there again, the subfolder, and I'll click on page number two. And then that brings up that one as well. So we wait for that to save. Just going to have it on sourdough save. What you do is just keep adding all these along. Not sure why that didn't save just there. Let's try it again. I'll go to the pitcher because the subfolder this is page number two. I believe it is. And then we just save it. And you'll see it come up there. Yeah. Page number one, was the sign click on that sub-folder. That's page number one. Actually, page number one is that one might have an error there. I need to make sure that I get them in order. And that is how you can do that. And then you save it. And that will go on there. So if I wanted to, I could extend it all the way to the edges. And then that will automatically save. So if we save it, just make sure you keep saving it. And you keep adding your pitches all the way through or your manuscript all the way through until you've had it all done, you can save the project. So that's how you can do that method of doing a paperback and the interiors. I might be my preference is to use it for the paperback and the hardback covers. But I can see why it's going to be so good to use for the interiors as well. But if we go back to the different projects, so if I go to my projects, it'll save them here. So let's just go back to the paperback and we can change things around it just so you didn't have your illustrations already there or your pitches already there. You can add, You are different headings. You can do different shapes, you can add it. If we didn't have these here at all. We wanted to add our own title. Then we can, we can do that. We can add the different shapes we want to. It's a little bit more clunky, but are fine to do it. I prefer to use Canva for my cover designs. But that's not to say that if you wanted to, you could do a great job with doing all the different options. We've booked books Studio, which is now offering all these features. So let's get out of here and I'll finish up by canceling all this information here. Let's go back. And I don't want to say this, so we're going to go back and do it all, which you can do it this way and then I can save it. So I've got that still there. We have a quick look here. You can, if you right-click, you've got different options here as well on your mouse that she can duplicate it. You can bring pitches to the front. If we go to the page, you can export different things in, edit these different settings, deacon lock in, and you can go to the keyboard. There are many, many different features that she can use on book bolt Studio, so I'll recommend you have a play around with it. But what I love is that you will create that template for you based on your calculations of your book with the size and the page numbers, it'll give you the template. You can then create it here. They can then add different special effects. You can adjust the images, you can change that background color if you want to, just make sure you get rid of the template in the end. But that's a quick little rap or quick little look at book bolt studio. It is gonna be a fantastic feature that you can use for the creation of your book covers. And knowing that you're not gonna get rejections as well. When you send through to Amazon API, which I've faced initially to as you can see, the main portion of book bolt, we do a word search, ice, and research. All that remains pretty similar. It's the book bolt studio with the cover design that has changed. So hopefully this updated lesson will help you to navigate your way through book bolt. If you choose that software to help you with your cover creation and formatting. 38. Lesson 26 - Ingram Spark Tutorial: Now this might be the first time you've been introduced to these platforms called Ingram spark years. It's not to do with kVp or Amazon, but it is another global distributor of books that you can use to distribute your low content books. When I say low content, they do have a integrity unit that will check the quality of your books when you load them up. This advantages and disadvantages of using room spark. But I've had some great success with my low content books that are low content Books needs to be high-quality books. I'm leaving this little at a time and effort into creating the county's be blank journals or no content books. That needs to be low content at a minimum. But some of them, I'll show you, some of them are results from using Ingram Spock. But it's important to note that when you do load your books to Ingram spark, the ease of fee of $49. But they often provide discount codes that you can use that will waive that upload costs. But let me just show you a little bit about the platform. So when you jump, when you get onto Ingram Spock and you want to add a title, you cannot, you can actually add a books, print books only, or a book. So if you were to go through the process of a print book currently and you've got all your files, then you just go through the process of this and you want print, distribute, and to sell globally. And within RAM spark, they go to a lot of bricks-and-mortar stores and other online stores as well. And you go through a similar process to Cady pay when you are plotting in Book and you do the title, you do have to have what they call an eyes begin. Now, that is the books identification number and Caddy pay, provide free ESPN's, but we've Ingram Spark, you need to actually purchase an ISBN. You can get them in bulk. I'll give you purchased a 100. They are gonna be worked out to be about $4 each. But if you put in, if you're getting one at the time, it works out to be about $40 each. So it can be quite different. Anyway, you've got all these details that you can add as you go through. Anyway. That's just another option, but I want to show you my results from England and why you should consider it. At another stage if you wish to scale yourself publishing business and some among the Reports tab. And you can do your print sales report. And I'm going to do from, let's do, let's do the last three periods. We're gonna say you've got your books to share in the UK and Australia and the US. We're gonna choose us, US dollar. And we're getting print on-demand. And we're going to just screen display it. And if we scroll down, these are the number of books off sold. 892 books in two thousand seven hundred and eighty two thousand and two hundred and seventy eight dollars and ninety six cents. That's why I locked the platform. I don't have to do any advertising. Die do it all for you. Once you load the book up, then I take care of all the work, all the distribution is just a percentage that you allocate towards you book. That's just over three months that I've been auto-generate that much money. The overall income was 4,423, but 2279 royalties after they type their percentage cut from it. If you wanted to look into the options of Ingram Spock, then just go to in-group spark.com, just Google and it'll come up as an option. But I won't go into too much detail other than decided. It's been an excellent platform for me to be able to create additional income and disc style my publishing ads on Amazon and provide an extra string of income, which is important to ensure that you have diversification without any sort of business that you're doing. 39. UPDATE - Free IngramSpark Upload - May 2023 : The great advantage that we now have with Ingram Spark is the $49 fee has now been wavered. Previously, you had to pay $49 to upload a printer enabled a print book only and $25 for a book only. This now provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone that may have published a book to Amazon Katie pay, but Urbain restricted because of the price. Now one of the main things that you need to consider is that if you need to make a change, the fee of $25 will be waived for the thirst 60 days. So if you published a book on the 1st of January, as long as by the end of February, you've made that change, then it'll be free. But after that period of time, you will need to pay that $20 fee. So make sure that you check out all the information about the pricing. If you just go to the Ingram Spark website and get a pricing, this will then bring up this information just here. And you can click on Publish. Now, if you don't have an account or you can login to your account and get started immediately. The main cost now will be the ISBN, and I'll be covering that off in a future lesson. 40. Lesson 27 - KDSPY Tutorial : Welcome to this lecture in regards to kinase by another software platform that all of you is to really accelerate and scale muscle publishing. Now, it's not a compulsory tool, but any tool that I find that will cite time almost save money as well. I like to invest in. And kinase by is a software which you just purchased once off and it has loft on. Do you have a loss of PTEN access to it and regular updates to continue to improve its functionality of what Katie Spark and offer. So all you need to do is go to Katie spot.com and that will actually take you are receiving here. If we go back here. And Katie spiral actually take you to this and then if you want to login, you can go that way. If you want to purchase a beer and also provide, I'll provide the link to think as she provides potentially discount, lay those links for you in the bonus section of this course. But if you already have it, then what you need to do is you download the Chrome extension, and that'll give you this little figure here. Well, this Jesse up your coat on that. That'll actually take you directly to the books. Now we're going to change the address here. We've got a US rather than Australia one. Now that this is actually a last when we do our book research, it will change in a moment. But I'm gonna show you some of the tools or some of the functionalities of Katie's poll and how it works. If we were doing this, a couple of things. We can look at, use it for categories, or we can look good for keywords. So let's look at for keywords to begin with. If we were to excite dr dot, coloring book, will a few things come up here? Let's do this one. So if this was what we're looking for, we're gonna go to books and we do a search. And this will bring us to a page that will include the keyword information which we've covered in the course. And you can scroll down and this will give us what we call our biggest ours. Now, if we wanted to get all this information captured together in one quick viewing point, then what we would do, we click on Katie spot up here. Then this will actually bring us all the information about all these books that appear on this page. Now at the moment chime in results of one to 20, and it gives us an average sales rank of 33,676. Good average monthly revenue, good price point. And it gives us this information here. Now what we want you to do, if we wanted to find out pollyannaish research is to try and get books under around about a 520,000 thousand BSR. Let the mind, and this has already given us 33 thousand. But we can get rid of different books as well. So we need to have a look through to see if there's any books that and connected with those keywords and they all seem to be books connected with it. Now what we can do is these are the keyword results showing us right now. We can also do a keyword analysis. Now, the keyword analysis will tell us whether the mind keywords that we've talked in up here actually appear in the title. This one that says yes, but the others appear not to include it. The other thing it can do is give us what we call our word cloud. These are the most popular words that appear in the title of subtotals of these books. We've got them here. And if we wanted to export these, so this is showing you the top five we can actually get. Additional side is showing top 5892. When we export this like she take us to XLS spreadsheet and that'll actually bring us all the other information, all the other keywords as well, and health to an IPO. So there we go all the way down, let that as well. So we'll get rid of that. We'll get back to Katie's follow as well. That's that top area there. But kinase spy gives us some other information which is important too. So let's make our way down here. This will give us the information about the estimated monthly review of the monthly revenue, the reviews, the book head, and the sales rank. If we wanted to check out this book, we would click on just there. That will take us directly to the book. And we can actually say all information about it. So we can scroll down and we can do a bit more in-depth research. We can find out about the description. We can have a look about the details of the book, what size it is, where it's ranking the current customer reviews. And we can also have a look at how it's actually tracking in regards to the reviews and one improvements, we can particularly potentially mic on that as well. So let's go back again. To where we were before, which was just what we now going to do is we're going to look at what these different ones being here. So if we were to click on the ACE, that will actually take us to Google. And we can actually do a Google search to find out where these bookies actually appearing. It's appearing on a bay fish pond. A vital economy, for example, actually shows you where else it's appearing on Book, Depository bonds and Noble. She shows us all the information. We can go into a bit more information and details with that. The other things we can do, we can look at the cover. The C stands for cover. So where is the cover appearing? Again? It goes into this. It doesn't actually match that, so that's okay. We can go back out of that again. We can go back. But if there was a book, so let's go to this one here. If we see on this one, Let's see if this brings us up with some information. This will bring us up with all the images of where it's appearing. And we can actually find out it's on Amazon there. But there might be other places you can find this book and how it's actually working with you. What's going back again? We've got the, um, my new information about the book. And we can also go down here and we can export all this information. You can pick a region so you don't always have to have it in the USA. You can go to the UK, stria, you can go Canada, you can go any of these other marketplaces as well to do the searching we're doing now, the other thing you can do is fond at the popularity and the competition. So this is a popular keyword, a number of books here performing well. It's got a lot of potential. However, the competition is quite fees and strong. So you can see a lot of these books are attracting really well. If we would extend this, let's go to results up to 60. Now this will adjust for us and this will give us a better idea about how many of the books in the top 60 are actually tracking. And remember, we can also like different books. We can have a look, we can eliminate some as well. So these ones here that goes 0, sales rank, so we get rid of values. And again, it's showing us some very good results. So it's got a lot of information here. Now the reason I lock it is because if you're wanting to do your niche research and get an average sales rank, you would have to then add up that one, that one, all of these different phases and find out. I do an average, would it just saves you a significant amount of Tom. And Tom sizing is something that you want to help sky or self-publishing, then that's something that I think you should definitely look into as well. And kinase by again, it's it's under a 100 US dollars. And so one-off payment that you can make to gain access to it. Remember, I'll provide the link in the tools to scale document, which is, which can be found in the bonus lecture, which is part of these courses. Well, hopefully you found that helpful in regards to the use of kinase bar. 41. Lesson 28 - The 'Look-Inside' Feature: Welcome to this next lesson. This one is a bad expanding the opportunities for your marketing by the look inside feature, the cardiac pay off around. Now when you have your book and it goes live, you can sometimes take up to ten days for the look inside feature to become visible. Now if beyond ten days painting business days, that is, your book, doesn't have to look inside feature enabled, then are definitely encourage you to contact customer service. But before that time, they'll always get back to you and say heavy, Why did the ten business days. So please do that. Now I'm going to go into the video to explain what the look inside feature is and how you can actually increase it to IT percent of your look inside. Let's do that now. Just say that you've come onto Amazon and you are a customer and you're wanting to find out a bit more about a certain book. Let me choose a book, let us call it blood pressure book. And we do a search on this topic. There were just use this one here. What we're aiming to do is to find out where, again, we're putting ourselves in the customer's shoes. And we're thinking we want to look for logbook that meets and addresses all of their needs. Go scroll down here and we might fine, i, i, blood pressure look book, but society it is this one just here. We click on this book. Here we go into the book and it will show us that look inside feature. Now the look inside feature is really important for US authors because it's a window into what your book is all about. And it will give your customer a bit of an insight into what the qualities of your book and customers won't always by, by what they see on the cover. And I want to say a little bit more now with the look inside feature when you do larger book decayed API, we're looking inside can take between seven to ten days for it to appear. And that can be quite frustrating because, you know, it's a key feature for customers to be purchasing your book. Even though there are a lot of customers that do purchase on mobile devices. But I still say the importance, particularly when you're advertising, if you're using advertising to have a look inside feature enabled, what we would do as a customer, we go right, Let's have a bit of a look inside here. When your book goes to Amazon, kVp, it is automatically listed at 10% of what you. It gives you 10% to look inside the book for a customer. But there is a y, we can increase this. So for example, this book, if we have a look at the front pi, so it's got 123456 and cite the bagpipes, So six, so we're looking at about 70 pages, possibly. That customer guy, Kai, look, it's got most things, but just say you had more content to show off and you didn't want to just show the first 10%, but you think that might be 20%, could be a good way of showing more audiobook to customers. So if we look here, it is 61 pi, just so therefore ten per cent. But there might be a few of you are quite a few of you that realizes or the don't realize that you can actually show more of your book. It can go up to increments of 10%. So you can show 102030, 40%, I think even up to 70% is the maximum. You can actually show you a look inside feature on some of my books. I've actually got it up to about 30% because I know that I continue to look through it and look inside feature and they seek some great things. They will absolutely purchase that book. Let me show you how we do that. What we need to do is go to our ADP account and you would go just, we'll use this one for example, it's a composition notebook. It is blank line journal, so it is just for illustration purposes because there's no need to say anymore than 10% in a blank line journal. But if it's a low content book and you want customers to say more inside it. This is the prices will step to tank. You would cut, you'd cut your copy it, sorry. Copy your ice and number. You will then scroll up to where it says help. You go to that. Then once it loads up, you then go all the way down to Contact Us. Then once that is enabled, Let's just contact them. There is another option that we need to choose from. So I'm just wanting for it to load up for me. Apologize for the delay. Still learning what we would then do. You go to Amazon store and product page. We go down to look inside the book and it says here, pipe backs type between nine to ten business days for the look inside feature to be enabled. But if we go send an email, we can actually show further. So it's got paperbacks can construct she tend to ID percent and ten to two in increments of 10%. So what we would do if we want to say increase it to 30%, you would simply just do your heating. So I say, dear customer service. Please increase the total 30% for the look inside feature. And all I need to get my spelling done. Then you add the ice and you do the ISO number. And so on off. And then you would go down here and just go send message. Therefore, that will get back to you in about 24 hours and they would've increased, you're looking solid feature to 30%. That is an excellent way of showing more. We book to more customers and it shows off more of the content. And look, some of you might be worried that other people might be stealing your ideas, but look, bonded. I just focus on the customer. I don't worry about what other people are doing if they're into copying content will. That's a short-term gain on all about a long-term picture in parliament are publishing. If someone was to do an infringing copyright and absolutely pursue that through Amazon. But the path that we're taking as authors to look at the customer's perspective and not why they're outside noise and distraction. There you have it. There's a little hack for you if you weren't aware of it, the look inside feature so important for us, increase it if you feel it's gonna be suitable for your book. Don't do it for no content books. Just do it for low content books where you want them to say a few more pages of your book. 42. The 'Look Inside' Feature - KDP Update: I wanted to provide you with a recent update regarding Amazon ADP and the look inside feature. Now there was also an update regarding the ISBN for the distribution for what k p consider low content books. However, there are a bit vague in the way they described what LoadContent books are interpreted is it includes no content books and some forms of low content books. So a low content book that Amazon of classing it would be ones where there's little or no content. Think of your journals or scrapbooks or sketch books, things like that. So when Amazon, we're bringing out this announcement nicely, they wouldn't be allocating a free ISBN to these kinds of books. But remember, it doesn't include more comprehensive book, soccer, Children's illustrated picture storybook. That is still causes a low content but not under classification that wouldn't permit you to get a free ISBN. Now, with those books, the no content and knows, low content books that don't have much content. You don't get the free ISBN, but you also don't get the look inside feature. The look inside feature will now be reserved for those more comprehensive low content books and high content books as well. Now, I LoadContent book where you'd receive a free ISBN and look inside feature, would still be coloring books as well. So you just got to be careful with the kind of books that you are creating if you still wanted to take advantage of the free ISBN and then look inside. If you wanted to purchase your own ISBN for a no content book or a low content book where Amazon won't provide the free ISBN. You can purchase them through groups like BellKor.com in America, Neilson.com or dot code dot UK in the United Kingdom. Thorpe Barker in Australia. But just remember to check regarding your country or your country of origin. A legitimate ice being distributed, distributed in most countries usually have just one mainstream ISP and distributors. And the cost can be anywhere individually, from around about 70 to 80 wave and 90 US dollars, but it is better to buy IS beans in bulk if that's what you're looking at doing, make sure you investigate that. So that was the update regarding a look inside feature and the ISP DNS for Amazon kVp, there may be more changes to come as Amazon start to look at ways to stop people doing bulk uploads or trying to manipulate the system. So just make sure you focus on quality and stick to the terms of business outlined by Amazon as well to protect your account. So I hope that helps you with your publishing with Amazon, kVp. And good luck. 43. Email Marketing to Build an Audience: In this lesson, I want to introduce you to a new course of created, and that's a bad email marketing. Email marketing is a fantastic way to be able to boost your book styles because you're developing a subscriber base. Now a subscribe advice will give you a number of e-mail options as well to be able to communicate to your customers. And therefore, they are to get or direct your traffic to more of your books. Now the e-mail marketing platform that our talk about is using convert kit and convert key. It goes really well with being able to develop the platform that you can use QR codes and links back to your author central page, back to your book library. And therefore, this course will teach you everything that you need to know in regards to that building, that audience. What I'll do is I'll leave some information about the contents of the course after this. Therefore, if it is of interest, you can check that course app after this one. So these are some of the sections we'll be covering in the course. We're looking at building an audience. So why build an email list? How do we build the e-mail list? We're looking at creating a lead magnet so we cannot identify what are laid manganese and how do we actually create that building an email system? What do we need to do to create that system? And then automated ON going to then introduce you to convert it. That's the platform that we'll be using to create a really easy system that will help automate our process. All in, run you through the four main steps to create a system that includes creation or the lead magnet. Creating our e-mail sync sequence, placing the late night in the manuscript had to create a late night that link and then more importantly, places to build an audience. So where and how to build it. And creating one-off broadcasts that covers some of the key areas that we can be looking at for this course, I look forward to teaching you the steps using convert kit to build your brand, to build your audience, and ultimately to sell more books. 44. Lesson 29 - The Importance of Diversification When Publishing: Welcome to this lesson. The purpose will be talking you through some of the steps that I've taken to scale myself publishing, but also making sure that I'm diversifying as well because as good as it is to have an income coming through kd API, it's also as important to have diversification in the way that you receive income. And so what I'm wanting to emphasize is you shouldn't always just rely on the one income source when you publishing because anything can happen at anytime. And it could be that Amazon changed their terms of business or terms of service at mod have an impact on your ability to generate an income. At the moment, it's free to be able to upload your books. But they might bring in something where it says it's five or $10 to upload your books. Or they might say, well, instead of getting a free ISBN, you've got to maybe pi five or $10 for that element as well. There are different things that can be implemented at anytime. And what I've learned over the journey that you need to make sure that you're always protecting your income sources. And my income is diversified across a number of different areas. Yes, cardiac pain makes up a big proportion of my income. But I also spread that through having inc income coming through. Ingram Spark, which is another distribution and global distribution book provider. There's also income that comes through other platforms where I can load my books up into. Previously when I was doing today pay by before low and high content books. I was doing high content books, non-fiction books, and that allowed me to do audio books and e-books as well. And so there are other sources of income and you can get in and you can also set up different shops bought GMB road or Etsy, where you can use those platforms or digital products. You might want to make some of those things as well. I just wanted to make sure that when you are considering scaling your business, there are lots of different opportunities present themselves. I've worked in collaboration with a number of different people to create books that they use for their businesses. For example, I've got a friend who created a book for hazy and the triathlon industry and he's a magic coach with many, many athletes and I'll create it or help create for him, I journal for his athletes that could contract the training and schedule. And they competition threat the threat of weeks and throughout the year. And so they're the kind of things that you can think about once you develop that knowledge of self-publishing. These nice stopping the opportunities that can present themselves in regards to that. I also have a YouTube channel, is otherwise that I can use my skills and things that help me to diversify along with the core site, this one. Once you get the information and the knowledge, they can use that to your advantage to create otherwise of developing income. So you should hopefully get to idle 910 different income sources that are coming in. And I just wanted to ensure that you do protect yourself from regards to those revenue streams because I'd hate to see you invest so much time into your publishing for different conditions to change. And you've put everything into it and you don't have the outcome which you're expecting. Some changes by near to happen, but we need to protect ourselves for the longer-term game. That's why I always emphasize the importance of that diversification. So I just wanted to give you this information and knowledge and from my experiences. And I do hope that you've enjoyed this element. It's a bit more relaxed and laid back, listen this one, but I do hope you've enjoyed it and it's giving you a bit more of an insight into mama and sit and the white dog approach myself publishing as well. Not just we can't API, but with other platforms as well. 45. KDP Course Summary: Well, welcome to the final section of the chordae pay now and low content publishing tutorial. There are some key things that we're going to cover as part of our summary. It's important to you get your notebook out and write down the key points that we're going to cover as part of this final summary. Let's get into that now. There's some key things that I'd like to cover. Firstly, when you're creating new books, it's important that you think about the quality of delivery to the customer. A lot of people that get caught up in regards to quantity and trying to get so many books loaded up on the page. And that can be a major issue because you lose focus on those key elements of the quality. When you're delivering books and K areas, you'll need to work on, obviously making a great cover. And if you need to add source that cover, then you can do that as well. You can learn the skills to create it yourself. You can use a free software, but remember you can also upgrade that to Pro versions of say, canva.com. You need to work harder on your descriptions because they are the key, that's the key area that when a customer clicks on your book, that I want to say exactly that it's going to solve the problem. Making sure that description is well formatted and you had that element, right? One of the areas that I had an issue challenges with was ensuring that the dimensions and the formatting of the book were correct, too low to Amazon or ketone getting a lot of errors. So make sure you go back to the module in regards to cover creation or the formatting of the manuscripts. To ensure that you actually can upload the boot your book correctly. You don't get any error messages because the error messages that they provide don't garden with a great deal of data, so it can somewhat be frustrating. The next area is, don't always think that you're gonna get organic styles just bought putting books up onto cardiac pain. Remember there's about 40 million plus books on cardiac pain. So you need to get your book. So it's actually saying by customers. And that can be a challenge for people to think well of creating the book. People are just going to buy it. But unless you actually get your book in front of people and I can see your book and click on the cover, go through the description. Then you're going to be limiting yourself from the numbers styles you can get. When you create your book. That's a bad. The 50% mark, the next 50% is actually marketing the book. So you can actually get those styles happening. And so that could be through Amazon ads and using that or the other social media platforms to really market your book. Finally, just slow down and get the quality Rod My mistake. One of the key mistakes on my when I was first doing it was that I might rush a few elements. Then I would probably get market a couple of bad customer reviews. And they might be the grammatical areas in the manuscript which may not have to go back and have to re-do the manuscript uploaded. And it would just take so much time. And if I had slowed down a little bit, it could ignite a world of difference and I'll get better reviews. Therefore, the bookmarked sell a lot better. There are a couple of the key things that you need to keep in mind when you're creating your books. And remember, always invest in your knowledge and your skills and also any software that might be able to help. And I'm going to provide a bonus lesson night. Sure you watch that lesson in regards to the tools that are used to scale my self publishing business to be selling well over 20 thousand books per year. They might be different things that you multiply to implement into your own cardiac pay publishing that could help you scale your publishing business as well. Thank you very much for joining this tutorial on cardiac pay publishing. If you are happy with the content of delivered that are greatly appreciate a review and that helps grow the more tutorials and the content that on helping in regards to this course creations. So make sure you go back and watch any modules that you need to get clarity on a G9. And really happy to be able to provide this information. Shame on skills and my knowledge and also the errors and mistakes might be able to get to where I am right now. So thanks again, and I wish you all the very best for your kVp self-publishing journey. 46. My SkillShare Instructor Profile and Courses on Self Publishing : Hello and welcome to this updated lesson. Now, since creating this course, I've created a number of other courses in the self-publishing space. And I thought it would be good opportunity to introduce you to some of those courses and you can view those at by my profile page. So what I'm gonna do in a moment is go to my instructor profile page and show you some of the other courses that I have. Now, these courses can take time. You need to make sure that when you are doing these courses, that you're stopping and taking action and applying the information. Don't just become an information junkie where you are absorbing information beaten, not applying it. The most important thing that I've found along my journey of creating books and creating courses and other information and content is that you need to take that critical key action. Now, it's just the first step you need to take. Then you tend to get some momentum. Make sure that you're jotting down some of your goals that you want to achieve. What sort of things we'll you'd like to create in the next 12 months. So let's go to my author profile page now you can see those other courses, and therefore, they might apply to helping you to scale your self-publishing. Or they might be an area that you wish to specialize in just a little bit more. So let me hit the instructor profile page right now. This is my instructor profile page for Skillshare. If you scroll down, you can see the different courses that I have available. How to create low no content books on Amazon Cloud API currently has 3,004 students enrolled. I've also got my email marketing course to increase your book sales and in also increase your email list. If that's what you intend on doing to increase the number of customers that actually know about your books. I've also got a course with over 600 students on how to create and design a paperback. People can have book covers using Amazon API and also a very popular course on how to create and publish a children's book. Another popular class which is growing is mastering Amazon advertising. There's also a course on mastering habit development. If that's what you're interested in. The doses are looking to expand outside of Amazon. Kvp of created a course on how to self-publish with Ingram Spark. Now that's an in-depth course that will really help you to provide diversification with your publishing. And then finally, new course at the time of filming. And that is how to successfully launch a book on Amazon, KD pay. So these are some of the courses that I do have. The self-publishing space. Please check out my author profile or with my instructor profile to access these courses and you'll be able to join them along with the many other students that have to successfully scale yourself publishing business. So hopefully that helps you to select other costs of created in the self-publishing spice. 47. Course Update - How to Create A Children's Book: Recently, I created a new course about how to create a children's picture storybook. Now this is a great complimentary lesson to the Amazon pay publishing course. So if it's of interest to you, then check out the next two minutes, three minutes of the course introduction. And then if you wanted to, make sure you go and check out the course and see if it's appropriate for you. It's just another level you can move to as a self publisher if you wanted to initially create the low and no content books. But then the next level up is to create children's picture storybooks. In the course, I cover many different elements to help you successfully published with Amazon and also Ingram Spark. So what's the next few minutes? And hopefully the course will be right for you. And just check out my author profile to get access to the course. Hello and welcome. My name is Ronnie, and thank you very much for joining this course about how to create a children's picture storybook of a best-selling author or the creator of over 350 books. I'm also the founder of the law of gradual Publishing Group. Now, what I want this course to be about is how to teach you all of those skills and tricks to be able to create your own children's picture storybook. Now I've created a number of children's books myself, and therefore, I want to lean on that experience to teach you what you need to know to be able to load those books up onto platforms like Amazon, kVp, and Ingram Spark. During the course, I'll be showing you how to create boxes like this one. Maybe you bought similar to this one. But I'm going to go through the process that I take to create these books. So let's get into the content of this course so I can show you everything that you're going to be learning. So let's run through the different things that we're gonna be covering and the different steps that you need to do to create your own children's picture storybook. Now the course is split up into eight different sections. Firstly, we're going to be covering the journey ahead. So what is your purpose for creating your children's picture storybook? And also cover the five keys to writing Success. Section two will be creating your framework. So that will involve the book research, creating your manuscripts. Section number three, your title and subtitle. So what are the things to consider? And making sure you're using the right keywords in your title and subtitle. So your book can be found section number for the format and the structure. So we're looking at designing your book and what that's gonna look like. And the type of book two, correct. Is it a hard book? Is The paperback isn't an e-book, is it a combination of all three section number five of the design? So we're talking everything designed, bringing together the elements for our book, making sure we get the illustrations. Do we outsource for illustration work? Do we do it S cells? If so, where can we find those images? Section number six is the upload process. Now if you don't already have an Amazon account, I'll show you how to create one. Next is how to upload your book correctly to Amazon, kVp, and another platform called Ingram Spark, which is also another global distribution channel that you can use for your books. Then we're looking at a marketing and advertising. Now, marketing and advertising are two different things. And I'll show you what they are. And we're going to look and identify ways we can advertise a book and ways we can market ebook. And number eight is the conclusion. So, uh, wrapping up the process and bringing all the skills and all the steps together for one final look, before we finish the course. I'm really looking forward to sharing my knowledge and teaching you all the steps that are required to create your own children's picture storybook. So let's get into the course now. If you'd like to access the course, go to my profile, and it is this course right here on Skillshare.