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In this session, we discussed project progress, the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing 2025 literary contest, the Taco Bell Quarterly, and writing movements through the 20th century 

In this session, we discussed writing process and getting finished work out the door such as audiobooks and utilizing Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

Cómo emprender en el mundo digital: Explorando las diversas opciones de productos digitales¿Cómo emprender en el mundo digital? es una pregunta que se hacen muchas personas que quieren ser independientes y tener su propia empresa. En este episodio te compartimos varias experiencias interesantes.En la era digital actual, las oportunidades para emprender y generar ingresos en línea son vastas y variadas. Uno de los sectores más prometedores es el de los productos digitales, que ofrecen la ventaja de ser intangibles, fáciles de distribuir y escalables. En este artículo, exploraremos las diferentes opciones de productos digitales que pueden ayudarte a emprender con éxito en el mundo digital.1.Cursos en líneaLos cursos en línea son uno de los productos digitales más populares y rentables. Puedes crear cursos sobre temas que dominas, como marketing digital, programación, diseño gráfico, cocina, yoga, y mucho más. Plataformas como Udemy, Teachable y Skillshare te permiten hospedar y vender tus cursos.2. Ebooks y libros electrónicosSi te gusta escribir, puedes crear ebooks y libros electrónicos sobre temas que te apasionan. Puedes venderlos en plataformas como Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, Apple Books y Google Play Libros.3. Software y aplicaciones móvilesSi tienes habilidades de programación, puedes crear software y aplicaciones móviles que resuelvan problemas o satisfagan necesidades del mercado. Puedes venderlas en plataformas como App Store y Google Play.4. Plantillas y temas para sitios webSi tienes habilidades de diseño, puedes crear plantillas y temas para sitios web que sean atractivos y fáciles de usar. Puedes venderlos en plataformas como ThemeForest y Creative Market.5. Música y audio digitalSi tienes talento musical, puedes crear música y audio digital que se pueda vender en plataformas como iTunes, Spotify y Google Play Música.6. Imágenes y gráficos digitalesSi tienes habilidades de diseño gráfico, puedes crear imágenes y gráficos digitales que se puedan vender en plataformas como Shutterstock, iStock y Adobe Stock.7. Suscripciones y membresíasPuedes crear suscripciones y membresías que ofrezcan contenido exclusivo, descuentos y beneficios a los miembros. Plataformas como Memberful y Paid Member Subscriptions te permiten crear y gestionar suscripciones y membresías.Emprender, Mundo Digital, Aplicaciones, Móbiles, podcast, Podcast Corporativo, Comunicación Organizacional, Recursos Humanos, Desarrollo Profesional, Desarrollo Personal, Comunicación Efectiva, Santiago Ríos, Mil PalabrasRecuerda por favor escucharnos y suscribirte en la plataforma que más te guste:Apple Podcast Spotify Google Podcast SpreakerDeezerPara participar, escríbeme tus comentarios a santiagorios@milpalabras.com.coRecursos recomendados en este PodcastLinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseignacioandres/?originalSubdomain=esSitio Web: https://nailted.com/Suscríbete al Podcast de Mil Palabras enwww.milpalabras.comDescarga GRATIS el ebook “Cómo Crear un Podcast Corporativo”https://milpalabras.com.co/ Otros podcasts recomendados de nuestra redExperiencia Tech.Las voces de los líderes que hacen posible la evolución y la transformación digital. Casos de éxito, innovación, nuevos modelos de negocio y soluciones tecnológicas prácticas para crecer las empresas.https://open.spotify.com/show/77wLRAuRqZMuIiPcaBNHsJHistorias que NutrenConversaciones con profesionales que tienen algo para nutrir tu vida en lo personal, lo profesional, lo espiritual y lo físico.bit.ly/historiasquenutrenSomos CancionesEntrevistas e historias divertidas y personales con Gente que ama la música y sabe de música. (suenan canciones completas al lado de las historias).spoti.fi/3hWr020Logística que Trasciende Aquí encuentras las voces del sector logístico con las mejores prácticas e historias que han contribuido al crecimiento económico de industrias, negocios y naciones.https://bit.ly/logisticaquetrasciendeConviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mil-palabras--4898895/support.

Cómo emprender en el mundo digital: Explorando las diversas opciones de productos digitales¿Cómo emprender en el mundo digital? es una pregunta que se hacen muchas personas que quieren ser independientes y tener su propia empresa. En este episodio te compartimos varias experiencias interesantes.En la era digital actual, las oportunidades para emprender y generar ingresos en línea son vastas y variadas. Uno de los sectores más prometedores es el de los productos digitales, que ofrecen la ventaja de ser intangibles, fáciles de distribuir y escalables. En este artículo, exploraremos las diferentes opciones de productos digitales que pueden ayudarte a emprender con éxito en el mundo digital.1.Cursos en líneaLos cursos en línea son uno de los productos digitales más populares y rentables. Puedes crear cursos sobre temas que dominas, como marketing digital, programación, diseño gráfico, cocina, yoga, y mucho más. Plataformas como Udemy, Teachable y Skillshare te permiten hospedar y vender tus cursos.2. Ebooks y libros electrónicosSi te gusta escribir, puedes crear ebooks y libros electrónicos sobre temas que te apasionan. Puedes venderlos en plataformas como Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, Apple Books y Google Play Libros.3. Software y aplicaciones móvilesSi tienes habilidades de programación, puedes crear software y aplicaciones móviles que resuelvan problemas o satisfagan necesidades del mercado. Puedes venderlas en plataformas como App Store y Google Play.4. Plantillas y temas para sitios webSi tienes habilidades de diseño, puedes crear plantillas y temas para sitios web que sean atractivos y fáciles de usar. Puedes venderlos en plataformas como ThemeForest y Creative Market.5. Música y audio digitalSi tienes talento musical, puedes crear música y audio digital que se pueda vender en plataformas como iTunes, Spotify y Google Play Música.6. Imágenes y gráficos digitalesSi tienes habilidades de diseño gráfico, puedes crear imágenes y gráficos digitales que se puedan vender en plataformas como Shutterstock, iStock y Adobe Stock.7. Suscripciones y membresíasPuedes crear suscripciones y membresías que ofrezcan contenido exclusivo, descuentos y beneficios a los miembros. Plataformas como Memberful y Paid Member Subscriptions te permiten crear y gestionar suscripciones y membresías.Emprender, Mundo Digital, Aplicaciones, Móbiles, podcast, Podcast Corporativo, Comunicación Organizacional, Recursos Humanos, Desarrollo Profesional, Desarrollo Personal, Comunicación Efectiva, Santiago Ríos, Mil PalabrasRecuerda por favor escucharnos y suscribirte en la plataforma que más te guste:Apple Podcast Spotify Google Podcast SpreakerDeezerPara participar, escríbeme tus comentarios a santiagorios@milpalabras.com.coRecursos recomendados en este PodcastLinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseignacioandres/?originalSubdomain=esSitio Web: https://nailted.com/Suscríbete al Podcast de Mil Palabras enwww.milpalabras.comDescarga GRATIS el ebook “Cómo Crear un Podcast Corporativo”https://milpalabras.com.co/ Otros podcasts recomendados de nuestra redExperiencia Tech.Las voces de los líderes que hacen posible la evolución y la transformación digital. Casos de éxito, innovación, nuevos modelos de negocio y soluciones tecnológicas prácticas para crecer las empresas.https://open.spotify.com/show/77wLRAuRqZMuIiPcaBNHsJHistorias que NutrenConversaciones con profesionales que tienen algo para nutrir tu vida en lo personal, lo profesional, lo espiritual y lo físico.bit.ly/historiasquenutrenSomos CancionesEntrevistas e historias divertidas y personales con Gente que ama la música y sabe de música. (suenan canciones completas al lado de las historias).spoti.fi/3hWr020Logística que Trasciende Aquí encuentras las voces del sector logístico con las mejores prácticas e historias que han contribuido al crecimiento económico de industrias, negocios y naciones.https://bit.ly/logisticaquetrasciendeConviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mil-palabras--4898895/support.

Looking to sell your self-published book online?

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing dropped two prominent features on their platform, one of which being Kindle Vella. Written Word Media published their findings in a recent indie author survey. The guys at Hidden Gems Books shared a recent post about how well AI-generated art faired against stock images for promoting books on Facebook. The findings are interesting to say the least. All that and more in the self-publishing news this week! - Book Award Pro - https://DaleLinks.com/BookAwardPro (affiliate link)

Unlock your creativity with AI tools for writing and self-publishing! Platforms like Scrivener aid in organizing your manuscript, Grammarly polishes your prose, and ProWritingAid enhances style. Use ChatGPT for brainstorming and drafting, then rely on Vellum to format your book beautifully. Finally, publish with ease on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Transform your ideas into reality! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedailygrateful/message

Diversify with 7 revenue streams for stability and growth in the fitness coaching industry, particularly for those focusing on midlife women. 1 Online Courses and Workshops  - Description: Creating and selling online courses that address specific aspects of fitness and wellness for midlife women, such as bone health, hormone balance, and managing menopause symptoms through exercise and nutrition. - Actionable Tip: Use platforms like Teachable or Thinkific to host your courses; start with a pilot course to gauge interest. One event or one series of events. Biggest mistake here is underpricing.  If you start with a problem, and you believe someone will pay for the solution you have, underpricing is usually the biggest risk. It sets a precedent. You aren't going to be excited about it.  Second biggest mistake is not having a goal for enrollment. What's the minimum profitable number of registrations? If you don't want to profit or set that as a goal, you won't. You may have a hobby. Consider your time. Time delivering, time preparing, time commuting, what it removes you from doing that could earn more. The biggest cost to a low price offer though is the mental connection with you and your services. Cheap is not well-perceived as “worth it.”  2 Virtual Fitness Coaching  - Description: Offering personalized coaching sessions via video calls, catering to clients who prefer the convenience of working out at home. - Actionable Tip: Leverage tools like Zoom or Skype for personal training sessions; consider group sessions for a more community-centric approach. Private or Group 3 Wellness Retreats  - Description: Organizing retreats focused on fitness, nutrition, and overall wellness for midlife women, offering a holistic health experience. - Actionable Tip: Partner with a retreat center and start small—a weekend getaway focused on a specific theme like "Reset and Renew." Live or Virtual- where would you love to go? These are the most fun revenue streams for coaches because you've figured out a way to do what you love and get paid for it!  I'm hosting retreats in Colorado and in the Grand Canyon this year. I am taking the cohort on trails I love and know, getting to teach life-changing content to attendees while they're there, bringing together a community of women interested in the same things. But you can also and I have done this virtually in a 3-day retreat. At $97 for the event and with over 40 in attendance. It was a blast! For a few hours on Saturday and Sunday each.  Workshop style - partner with someone  Grassroots - Register and pay either coach, enrolling coach takes 5-10% more which is a sales commission essentially, and then coaches settle up after. (Don't make an attendee register two places)!  4 More Revenue Streams for Fitness Coaches 4 Membership Programs  - Description: Creating a membership platform providing exclusive content, community support, and regular live Q&A sessions. Often includes discount rates for additional services, a regular content exclusive to the membership, access to you that no one else has or only VIP clients have, but members get at a fraction of the price of private coaching.  - Actionable Tip: Utilize platforms like Patreon or MemberPress to build and manage your membership community, Memberium 5 Affiliate Marketing - Description:Earning commissions by recommending fitness and wellness products that align with the needs of midlife women. - Actionable Tip:Choose products you genuinely endorse; transparency builds trust with your audience. Coach partnerships Program partnerships Equipment: desk bikes, weights, Power Plate, skin care, supplements 6 Corporate Wellness Programs  Description: Designing and implementing fitness and wellness programs for employees at corporations, focusing on midlife health. - Actionable Tip: Start by offering free lunchtime talks or workshops to introduce your services to local businesses. Create proposals - learn the corporate context of programs 7 Writing and Publishing  - Description: Writing books or guides on fitness and wellness for midlife women, either self-published or through traditional publishing. - Actionable Tip: Start with an eBook on a niche topic; use Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing for a straightforward self-publishing process. Often the monetization of these items is not the sales of the book but the sales of the program you talk about in the book. -Summary of the revenue streams for fitness Coaches Resources:  Health & Fitness Business Self-assessment: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/scorecard  Menopause Fitness Framework: https://www.flippingfifty.com/specialist  Other Episodes You Might Like:  How to Attract Over 50 Clients: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/reach-over-50-clients/ How to Develop Relationships with Medical Professionals: https://www.fitnessmarketingmastery.com/relationships-with-medical-professionals/ Last week on She Means Fitness Business with Jay Croft we be talked about writing, creating copy and if you're considering a book (and you probably should be) this will help you in every aspect of your business.  

Explore a detailed comparison between Google Play Books and KDP, examining their differences and similarities. Learn the ins and outs of publishing on Google Play Books, including the process, potential benefits, and how it stacks up against Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Gain insights into earning opportunities, user experiences, and make an informed decision on whether venturing into Google Play Books is a valuable choice for authors. Dive into the nuances and considerations that come with choosing between these two prominent publishing platforms. Google Play Books Partner Center - https://play.google.com/books/publish/u/0/  Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships  Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Explore a comprehensive review of Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), covering its advantages, disadvantages, and whether it's worth your time. Gain insights into key topics like KDP Select, guidelines, and business tips to help inform your self-publishing journey. Dibbly Create - https://DaleLinks.com/DibblyCreate  Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9CjdZQtzufqgYx0CidSbA/join  Join my community at: Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Do you want to publish your book on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, but lacking the budget to do it? Find out how to self publish a book on KDP with no money and whether it is a good idea for all your books. 

In July 2021, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing launched the new program, Kindle Vella. Since its launch, KDP has seen its share of authors publishing only to leave this format for the KDP Select Program. Why is that? To date, countless authors continue violating guidelines and rules leaving others to wonder if it's really worth it. Find out why I'm done with Kindle Vella and how I plan to release my next books.  Miblart Cover Design Giveaway - https://DaleLinks.com/Giveaway  GetCovers eBook Cover Design Giveaway - https://DaleLinks.com/GetCoversGiveaway Miblart - https://DaleLinks.com/Miblart (affiliate link). Use coupon code DALE10 to get 10% off at checkout.  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing has dominated the market yet leaves many authors in the cold with their exclusivity agreement for distribution through KDP Select (Kindle Unlimited). What if authors had a viable alternative? Enter one of the best KDP Alternatives in Kobo Writing Life (KWL)! Recently, KWL expanded Kobo Plus - their subscription-based program for ebooks and audiobooks - to reach the US and UK, officially reaching ten regions across the world. I sat down for a chat with Director of Kobo Writing Life, Tara Cremin, to discuss Kobo Plus, library distribution, and selling more books through Kobo. KWL Live Q&A – Kobo Plus US & UK Expansion: an AMA with the KWL Team - https://www.youtube.com/live/LKizumuyPoA?feature=share KDP Alternative: Is Kobo Writing Life Worth It? - https://youtu.be/A7Bf2oNarhw Kobo Writing Life - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/writinglife Kobo Writing Life on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@KoboWritingLifeKWL Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord  ​

After eight years in the self publishing business, I've done and seen my share of stupid and avoidable mistakes. While some self-publishing companies are forgiving, some are not - like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Get tips and advice on how to write and publish a book while you avoid making the same mistakes other indie published authors have made. Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9CjdZQtzufqgYx0CidSbA/join  Join my community at: Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord 

For anyone looking for a viable alternative to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, you'll be happy to hear the news rolling out from one of the best and most legit Amazon KDP alternatives, Draft2Digital. We chat with Draft2Digital's CEO Kris Austin and Director of Marketing Kevin Tumlinson about Draft2Digital launching their print-on-demand service, what author can expect, and the upcoming plans to improve their current offerings. Also, they were kind enough to answer some rather direct questions regarding the cost of print books, royalty comparisons to other self publishing platforms, and if authors have to remain exclusive to Draft2Digital while using their platform. Find out if publishing your paperback on Draft2Digital is worth it in this in-depth, exclusive interview. Draft2Digital - https://DaleLinks.com/D2D (referral link) D2D Live: https://www.draft2digital.com/live/  Subscribe to  @Draft2Digital  on YouTube Catch the AMA with D2D about Print: https://www.youtube.com/live/RPncHdg7A8A?feature=share Source: Blog: https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/d2d-print-just-opened-up-for-every-author-everywhere/ Press release: https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/press-release-draft2digital-opens-d2d-print-to-every-author/ Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKv8xcrFntOERL7NUXgkypg/join Join my community at: Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord   Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! -Dale L. Roberts * Any thoughts or opinions epxressed by Dale do NOT represent Draft2Digital.

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing officially launched Kindle Vella in July 2022. Since its inception, many self-published authors wonder if it is worth their time. Sure, KDP compensates authors with a monthly bonus in addition to royalties from stories sold on their platform. Meanwhile, some authors abuse the system and inflate their earnings through illicit practices. Get the one-year update and review of Kindle Vella and what you can expect in 2022 and beyond. Level-Up Your Self-Publishing Business TODAY: Uscreen - https://DaleLinks.com/Uscreen Substack - https://DaleLinks.com/Substack The Amazon Self Publisher – https://DaleLinks.com/SelfPubBook Subscribe to Self-Publishing with Dale on YouTube at https://DaleLinks.com/YT and https://DaleLinks.com/YouTubePodcast. Join other like-minded and motivated self-publishers in the Self-Publishing Books Group. Learn, grow, and network with authors, freelancers, and industry experts at https://DaleLinks.com/SPB. Remember to answer the 3 questions to gain entry. Get access to my go-to resource, Publisher Rocket. Confidently research profitable keywords & categories. Easily select effective keywords for Amazon Advertising campaigns. For more details, visit https://dalelinks.com/PR.   FULL DISCLOSURE: Most outbound links financially compensate the podcast through affiliate programs or sponsorship deals. We only recommend products and services we've used and confidently stand behind. Using the links do not adversely affect your purchase price and greatly helps support the channel. Thank you for your understanding.  

Linki z odcinka: Darmowy kurs Amazona i biznesu online ► http://odkelneradomilionera.pl/darmowy-kurs/ Kurs Produkt24 - publikowanie prostych zeszytów krok po kroku ► https://produkt24.pl/ Jak Ania zarobiła 19 000 zł w miesiąc na Amazon KDP - wywiad z kursantką Anią ► https://youtu.be/Igp6C3Thdz4 Jak dorobić 1000 zł miesięcznie do etatu - wywiad z kursantem Dominikiem ► https://youtu.be/85MgZnD_ZNo “Amazon KDP w Polsce” - taki nagłówek pragnęła zobaczyć chyba każda osoba, która publikuje swoje produkty przez platformę Amazon KDP na rynkach zagranicznych. Dzisiaj można już powiedzieć, że faktycznie język polski stał się faktem na Amazon KDP, a sam Amazon z produktami fizycznymi pojawił się w naszym kraju już jakiś czas temu. W tym odcinku przyjrzę się nowej i długo wyczekiwanej opcji na Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, czyli możliwości publikowania po polsku. Zobacz posta na blogu ► https://odkelneradomilionera.pl/amazon-kdp-w-polsce-czyli-mozemy-juz-publikowac-po-polsku/  

Are you an author with a self-published book on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing? In this video, I share six tips for promoting your book and increasing sales.

FREE Ebook + Join My Book Publishing Strategy Group: https://www.publishersupremacy.com/freebie?sl=ytdesc Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/ Booksprout: https://booksprout.co/readers ____________________________________________________________________ In this video, I go into detail about 4 'ninja' keyword research tactics in order to find highly profitable keywords for your Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and Audible ACX business. My main publishing tools: -Bookbeam: https://bookbeam.io/?ref=15 -Publisher Rocket: https://bit.ly/PublishingRocket -Creative Fabrica (Free Pages For LC Books): https://www.creativefabrica.com/promo/1643/BFGHIJKLMNO/ref/404774/ -BookBolt (Low Content Book creation) (use code 'DANE20' for a lifetime 20% off!): https://bookbolt.io/483.html Thanks for watching! Be sure to subscribe for more videos based around Lifestyle, Self-Publishing and Entrepreneurship. DISCLOSURE: Some of the links on this page are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I may earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase and/or subscribe. Affiliate commissions help fund videos like this one. I am not a financial advisor. The ideas presented in this video are personal opinions and for entertainment purposes only. You (and only you) are responsible for the financial decisions that you make.Subscribe to Get It Done Podcast- Books, Business, and Branding on Soundwise

After reading the entire KDP terms and conditions, I found a few guidelines and rules to be weird and possibly misunderstood. We're going to deep dive into the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing rules and review some terminology, creating confusion.   Level-Up Your Self-Publishing Business TODAY: The Amazon Self Publisher – https://DaleLinks.com/SelfPubBook Subscribe to Self-Publishing with Dale on YouTube at https://DaleLinks.com/YT and https://DaleLinks.com/YouTubePodcast. Join other like-minded and motivated self-publishers in the Self-Publishing Books Group. Learn, grow, and network with authors, freelancers, and industry experts at https://DaleLinks.com/SPB. Remember to answer the 3 questions to gain entry. Get access to my go-to resource, Publisher Rocket. Confidently research profitable keywords & categories. Easily select effective keywords for Amazon Advertising campaigns. For more details, visit https://dalelinks.com/PR.   FULL DISCLOSURE: Most outbound links financially compensate the podcast through affiliate programs or sponsorship deals. We only recommend products and services we've used and confidently stand behind. Using the links do not adversely affect your purchase price and greatly helps support the channel. Thank you for your understanding.  

How much does it cost to self publish on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing in 2022? Do the royalties   suit the upfront investment? While you get decent pay, upon further research, you'll find KDP is doing something altogether different for your book. Find out if the true cost of self-publishing on Amazon KDP is worth it today.   Level-Up Your Self-Publishing Business TODAY: The Amazon Self Publisher – https://DaleLinks.com/SelfPubBook Subscribe to Self-Publishing with Dale on YouTube at https://DaleLinks.com/YT and https://DaleLinks.com/YouTubePodcast. Join other like-minded and motivated self-publishers in the Self-Publishing Books Group. Learn, grow, and network with authors, freelancers, and industry experts at https://DaleLinks.com/SPB. Remember to answer the 3 questions to gain entry. Get access to my go-to resource, Publisher Rocket. Confidently research profitable keywords & categories. Easily select effective keywords for Amazon Advertising campaigns. For more details, visit https://dalelinks.com/PR.

In this #Back2basicsPodcast, We have invited Mr. Syed Muneeb Ali who is a 6 Figure Amazon Seller who has more than 4-year experience in Self-Publishing books on different platforms. His core expertise is in Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, also known as KDP. It is one of the largest Print-On-Demand platforms for books and e-books by Amazon. As a Self-Publishing business owner Syed Muneeb Ali has published more than 150 e-books/books on Amazon and scaled multiple Amazon KDP accounts that consistently earn $5000-$8000 royalties per month.

Thanks to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, putting a book out into the world is easier than ever. But just because something is easy to do, doesn't necessarily mean you should do it. This week on The Influential Personal Brand Podcast we are joined by one of our favorite long-time part-ners Jeff Goins. Jeff is the best-selling author of five books including Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age and The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do. Jeff has spent over 15 years in the marketing and publishing space, and in that time has developed a masterful intuition for what works and what doesn't, especially when it comes to choosing which ideas to pursue and how to implement them. Tuning in you'll hear Jeff explain why good ideas don't necessarily result in good books, how to find the perfect balance between the familiar and the absurd, and why you can only sub-vert expectations once you've fulfilled them. Our conversation with Jeff is filled with remarkable insights that will give you a renewed appreciation for the art of storytelling and the Olympian ef-fort involved with writing a great book. Make sure you tune in to hear it all!

Want to create a hardback cover of your book? It's never been easier than it is right now! In this episode, I share all the details about how you can create a hardback using Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. 

My second book is coming and I made the decision to set myself up as a publisher and distribute it directly to multiple stores include Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble. In this episode I breakdown the process of self releasing through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. Find out more about the book at WorkHardPlaylistHard.com Pre order the Kindle version of Work Hard Playlist Hard (Second Edition) here! Reach me on socials @askmikewarner

Buy Michele's book! Paperback and Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/173744660X (or search Deploy Empathy on Amazon)PDF/ePub: deployempathy.com/pdfMichele Hansen  0:00  This episode of Software Social is sponsored by Orbit. Orbit is mission control for your community, grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit. Find out more at orbit.love.Colleen Schnettler  0:14  Good morning, Michele. Hey,Michele Hansen  0:17  Hey, how are you?Colleen Schnettler  0:19  Great. So I hear that you have some new book updates.Michele Hansen  0:24  Yeah. So we finalized the cover this week. And I just saw, like just today just submitted it to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and Ingram Spark, which is another self publishing print on demand platform and filed for the copyright. So things are happening.Colleen Schnettler  0:47  That's exciting.Michele Hansen  0:51  Yeah, you know, I was thinking about our conversation last week, and how you were talking about how you felt like you weren't getting anything getting anything done? And I was like, man, I feel the same way.Colleen Schnettler  1:03  Really? Has it just felt like for weeks,Michele Hansen  1:07  yeah, like, I feel it? Well, you know, it's kind of it's like this weird in between liminal space where like, the copy has basically been final for a month now. And it's just sort of been kind of waiting on other things. And, and then there's also the, there's sort of the fact that it's summer here. And like summer camps aren't really as much of a thing here as they are in the US. Which, you know, I guess if like, most people who work for other people get four weeks of vacation, and they have kids, it's not really a big deal. But if you're self employed, it kind of is sure. Um, and so I, you know, I'm just sort of working at night and whatever. Or maybe I wake up early and get a couple hours in and like, man, I don't I don't know how parents in Europe who are self employed, do it. Like, I really, I really don't know. And like, just for weeks now I've been I mean, like, yeah, like, today's the day, I'm going to start recording the audio book, private podcast, I'm super excited about doing that. Now that the copy is finalized, I'm, like, ready to go. And it just like that time just keeps not happening. And I feel like I'm not making any progress. Um, but this morning, I did submit it and then not now it has to be reviewed. And I wanted to get a proof copy. But I think I might have done something wrong when I configured that option. And it just says your book might be published in 72 hours.Colleen Schnettler  2:44  That's fast. Okay.Michele Hansen  2:45  I haven't even like I wanted to, like, look at it and make sure the, you know, the cover looked right. And like, you know, the pages aren't upside down and whatnot. So okay, so I'm alone? I don't know. So maybe if you search on Amazon next week, you'll actually find it even though I'm not gonna tell anybody.Colleen Schnettler  3:01  But it won't be a physical copy yet. That's justMichele Hansen  3:04  so that'll be that the physical copy? Yeah, who would be a physical copy on Amazon, Amazon printed like, book to Amazon. I know, they could upload a book to Amazon. And then they print it whenever somebody buys it. Really? I know I was going, I was like, they let just anybody do this, like this? Wait, this is soColleen Schnettler  3:25  easy. This is crazy. I had no idea. So so you submit to them your cover art and your book. And then when someone buys it, they print it on demand?Michele Hansen  3:34  There's some other stuff that happens. But basically, yes, that's cool. So I don't have to like go out and you know, buy, like, basically pay for a printer to print 500 copies or whatever, then mail them out myself, which I think is what you had to do before. Things like kind of KDP or Kindle on demand or Kindle on it was what they call it? Or, you know, sort of like Do you remember like cafe press in the 90s? Like, yes, people could make t shirts and then printed it whenever you bought one. It's basically like that for books. And then there's also in Ingram Spark, which is also print on demand. But I guess there's a lot of countries that Amazon doesn't serve. And also, I guess bookstores are more willing to work with Ingram spark than they are with Amazon because they can return books to Ingram spark because Ingram spark distributes a lot of non self published books to I'm learning all about this. So So yeah, so I uploaded it to them, and then they have to review it and like, I guess, make sure it looks good. Before it'll actually, I don't know, I don't know what's gonna happen next. So we're just, we're all going to find out together. I didn't really publish the ebook. I like, you know, Barnes and Noble and whatnot, like ebook platforms. I don't know. We will find out.Colleen Schnettler  4:58  That's exciting. So you are telling me in a matter of maybe five days, maybe less people will be able to purchase a physical copy of your book. I don't know, theoretically, probably, maybe we're gonna find out cheaper than this before. SoMichele Hansen  5:15  I, originally I was like trying to give people estimates. And I was like, Yeah, it looks to me, like end of June. And then I just realized, I have no idea what I'm doing. Well, I knew that all along. But I realized that I have no idea what I'm doing. And therefore I should not try to predict what is going to happen next. Because that is just an exercise in folly to try to predict a process that I have no past experience with.Colleen Schnettler  5:41  Sure. So does that mean from you will come out when it comes out? Does that mean from your perspective that it's finished? Like you're done?Unknown Speaker  5:51  Ah,Michele Hansen  5:52  I mean, yeah, like, like yesterday Mateus looks at me, he goes, you know, this is just the beginning. Right? What does that mean? It's like Kunkle in his IColleen Schnettler  6:01  started,Michele Hansen  6:02  because, I mean, after the book is like officially out, then there's there's the, the audio book to record, right. Like, I'm super excited about doing that as a podcast and recording it myself. You know, because then I can really make sure that the, the tone of voice is coming through and everything. And I just, you know, right. Yeah.Colleen Schnettler  6:25  Can I just say I'm super disappointed when authors don't read their own books.Unknown Speaker  6:30  Yeah,Colleen Schnettler  6:30  yeah. Like, that makes me sad. Like, there's a prominent bootstrapping book, which was great. But it was not read by the author. And I was sad. I don't know why. Like, I understand why people don't want to read their own books. Maybe they don't like to talk that much. Maybe they have an accent. And then yeah, me with it. I don't know.Michele Hansen  6:45  Yeah, exactly. I think people have different reasons for not recording their own book. But I am personally really excited to do it. And to do it as a podcast, too. Because, again, I feel like I never would have gotten the book out had I not written it as a newsletter, because for me, writing an email is a lot lower pressure and stress and just mentally, like cognitively easier than like sitting down staring at a blank cursor or thinking about writing a book. And I feel the same way about recording a podcast. Like it's like, oh, it's just a podcast. And actually, I don't even have to come up with anything to say I just read something like, great, versus the idea of sitting down to record an audio book for a 320 page book that feels daunting. But yeah, a bunch of podcast episodes for each chapter that feels easy. Feels written. They just have to be concatenated.Colleen Schnettler  7:35  Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So how is this been for you? You've been working on this four to six months.Michele Hansen  7:42  Since end of February, middle, middle end of February is when I started the new Okay,Colleen Schnettler  7:47  so four months. So how do you feel to me? Yeah, right. You just knock out a book and four months? Can I just say how ridiculous that is? By the way. That's not normal.Michele Hansen  7:59  I feel like it was all in my head already. I don't really do any original research.Colleen Schnettler  8:04  It's just funny because I feel like the arc of our podcast, like your story, and the arc of our podcast is we're chatting, we're chatting. I'm like, you should write a book.Unknown Speaker  8:12  You're like, Man,Colleen Schnettler  8:13  I'm like, you should write a book. You're like, yeah, and then you wrote it. And it's done. like four months later. It's like, wait, what happens?Michele Hansen  8:21  When I commit to doing something, I do it. And usually very quickly, so but it might take me a while to actually get around to doing it.Colleen Schnettler  8:31  How is this? Ben? Are you excited to have some time back? Do you feel like I mean, has it been quite stressful these past four to five months trying to work your full time job and write this book has been overwhelming.Michele Hansen  8:45  No, it's been funColleen Schnettler  8:46  because you love it. You love the material? Fine.Michele Hansen  8:48  Like it's a little it's a little side project. And I need a little side projects. It's, you know, it's, I mean, I guess this podcast started out as a side project. And then this podcast kind of spawned the book. So like, you know, just side projects beget side projects. But no, I mean, it's been good. It's been a really good outlet for me, like most of that newsletter, writing time was actually at night, like, you know, after, put our daughter to bed and just kind of sitting in bed with my laptop and just sort of enjoying writing things out. And as I said, sort of mentally cleaning out my closet and just hauling out all of these things that mentally felt like old pieces of furniture from my head that were collecting dust or, you know, where were things I was referencing often, but didn't really have a good place to send people to. So it was it was a relief in a way to write it. And then I had so much fun interviewing people who read the early drafts. I think a really pivotal moment was when I got it into a draft and then I put it on health this book, which is Rob Fitzpatrick, the author of the mom test his new platform for launching books, and he also wrote a book that sort of goes with the the platform called write helpful books. That is, I think it's coming out now. But I was given a link to that on his help this book. Page. And that helped, that was hugely helpful for me. And then, and then, but actually getting the draft in front of people and then, and then talking to them about how they're using it and, and what kinds of books they find useful. And like, you know, it was just, it was, it was so fun. Like, I love talking to people about talking to people. And that was really fun. And then it was a little frustrating, I think, towards the end, like, I felt like I did a read like a major whole book rewrite of the book every week, in May in June, like, just like, that was probably when I did the most work. Like I was probably like, 7525 book versus giuoco do which was not super great. Um, but that was kind of what what I needed at the time. But yeah, I think I guess from like, now going forward, it's going to be lower lift things, like, promoting it. And yeah, we're podcast podcast. Yeah, the audio book and whatnot.Colleen Schnettler  11:15  Well, that's super exciting. Congratulations.Michele Hansen  11:19  It's not out yet. So I'm not gonna like,Colleen Schnettler  11:21  have you have you sent it out? Or they hatch? I think your chickens have hatched? Yeah, whateverMichele Hansen  11:27  it's for, it's getting reviewed. It's it's things are happening, things are moving, you know.Colleen Schnettler  11:33  So very exciting. Yeah,Michele Hansen  11:35  I think you're a lot more excited than I,Colleen Schnettler  11:38  I'm just really impressed. And to your point, you had this stuff in your head already. So it wasn't like you had to spawn content for the book, you had all the content. But you turned out a book fast like you, when you started doing those newsletters. I mean, you were sending a lot of newsletters. This is a lot of information.Michele Hansen  12:01  When I get really into something I like I go all in to the point where it can be a bit of a firehose, you know, like, so yeah, Marie Marie poulan. and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago, where like, we sink our teeth into something, and then we just don't give up until we're done. Even if we wanted to. Um, I definitely I definitely feel like this has been an exerciseUnknown Speaker  12:34  in that.Colleen Schnettler  12:35  Yeah. Well, I think it's really cool. I think you should be really proud of yourself for all the work you've put in, especially during the summer, that's hard. And you're working, you know, your normal job. And you wrote a book, super cool.Michele Hansen  12:48  You're so supportive, Colleen.Colleen Schnettler  12:51  That's what I'm here for.Michele Hansen  12:53  I need you in my voice. You know, that voice in my head being like, you should be proud of this. You've come a long way, when I'm like, sort of knee deep and like filing copyright applications and stuff like that, and sort of not really able to see over the wall.Colleen Schnettler  13:07  Yeah. Yeah.Michele Hansen  13:10  Should I do a little numbers updates? Well, I don't think I've done one andColleen Schnettler  13:15  we haven't done one in a while. Go ahead.Michele Hansen  13:18  So as of right now, I have sold 93 copies for the pre order nice. Which by the way, people can pre order the it's the you get the PDF, the notion and Google Drive script templates and access to the private forthcoming private podcast with the audiobook, the boy empathy.com. So 93 people have pre ordered it right now I know a bunch of people have said they want the print copy and like I'm there with you. I don't really buy a lot of ebooks, especially for something I might want to reference later. And I don't seem to be able to do a pre order for the print book. So Oh, but anyway, so 93 people have ordered and so just looking at sort of the overall revenue for that not including expenses or you know, processing fees or whatever. That is $2,697 and I added it up with expenses a couple days ago. And I believe that puts me around sort of 12 $100 in net revenue from that so my Sunday expensesColleen Schnettler  14:32  that's great for a book you can't that's not even available yet. I mean, I know it's available yeah order but that's pretty impressive considering it's not on Amazon yet.Michele Hansen  14:43  It's kind of I mean, so I've like you know, I've heard about building in public for a long time and of course you know, I'm a big advocate of including your your customers in the in the process, but I've never really like built from scratch in public. And like just kind of outlined every step of what I was doing, you know, the, the highs and the lows. Yeah. And the massive amount of confusion in between. And so it's been a really, really interesting, like, I don't think I would have gotten to this point had I not started it as a newsletter and had that level of just motivation, you know, even from the, you know, the first five people who subscribed and would reply and say, Hey, this was great. Thank you for writing that, like that kept me going. In a way that, that I just would not have, like, actually, I think I started the book, right around the time of when, when that container ship was stuck in the Suez.Colleen Schnettler  15:45  Yes, I remember,Michele Hansen  15:47  little, that little part that nobody had on their 2021 bingo card.Unknown Speaker  15:53  And I was reading a book.Michele Hansen  15:56  Or there's a book I picked up off my shelf that I had been meant to read for years, I finally did, because of that called the box, which is a history of container shipping, which is a really interesting book, by the way. Hey, Peter shipping, revolutionize the world. And it's pretty new to like, since the 60s anyway, okay. Not what this podcast is about. So, but so I opened that book, and like the beginning of the book is The acknowledgments from the author. And it like starts out with the author talking about how lonely the process for writing a book is, and especially on a very niche topic. Yeah. And I think I had had some little like Inklings in my head of like, whether I should write a book at that point. And I remember reading that and being like, Oh, God, like that sounds really awful. Like, and I felt really bad for the author as I was reading this, because you've I've heard writers talk about how lonely of a process it is. And I like, and I think that turned me off from it for such a long time. But then it kind of like, occurred to me later that like, I can write a book, but I can do it my way. I don't have to do it the lonely way. Right. Like I could write it in public, I could include readers in the process and make it a social process from the beginning. So I didn't feel like I was just, you know, closed off in a windowless room for six months, because I think that's why I really never wrote a book before, like I was wanted to, but I was like, I don't think I could deal with that amount of loneliness that writers talk about. So yeah, it's been good.Colleen Schnettler  17:37  That's awesome.Michele Hansen  17:38  How are you doing?Colleen Schnettler  17:39  I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. So in the spirit of our podcast last week, I'm, I took some notes, and I think I'm gonna break it up every week into like, what I did this week, what I'm struggling with and what I want to do next week, to keep myself focused and keep myself moving forward. Okay, my tangent is I listen to a podcast with Angela Duckworth. Do you know who she is? She's okay. So for those who don't know who she is, she's the MacArthur Genius Grant winner. She liked her coined the term grit. So I have this podcast I really like with her. And it's her and Stephen Dubner. And it's called no stupid questions. Anyway, this week, they were talking about the difference between urgency and importance. And they were talking about how, basically, that the summation was people don't do things that they don't consider urgent. So you can have these things on your to do list, like go to the gym, which is important. We all know, that's important. But without a sense of urgency. Like, I have to be at the gym at 6pm for my weightlifting class. Instead of instead of that, instead of being like, I'll go whenever I want. There's no urgency to it. So people just don't go, oh, that explainsMichele Hansen  18:55  so much.Colleen Schnettler  18:56  It's so good. Like, I'm gonna send you this episode. It was so good. But yeah, so it was this concept. So I started thinking about it. In terms of my business, because I have all these things that I feel are really important. But I have no urgency behind them, right. There's no timeline for me, I can just sit here and this thing makes me money. And yeah, the ones setting the deadlines, right. And they're fake. I mean, and I'm not really even setting up. I'm like, oh, if I get to it if it's convenient for me today. So I just really liked this whole concept of something being urgent versus important, and how will we'll even do the less important things if we feel that they are urgent. And I say that because I'm now every week until I get to a place that I'm pretty happy with. I'm going to share with you kind of my goals. And so to make them feel a little more urgent, so I feel like I actually will do that.Michele Hansen  19:48  So I like that.Colleen Schnettler  19:51  Yeah, let's try it. It was really good. So one of the things I'm really excited about is this week, I finally got my app on rails 6.1. That's improved. To me, because I was patching in all of the CDN stuff for images because rails 6.0 didn't include that. So basically what happened is I had my app on 6.0, all the stuff was pushed on the rails master to handle CDN. And so I cherry picked it off of rails master onto my stuff, but I incorporated it as a patch to my app, which doesn't make me very happy, because it just feels brittle. So I got up to rails 6.1. So that's like a huge deal. And all of the things I have been telling you, I wanted to do, I wanted to do this first. Like, I feel like this is now going to set the stage for me to actually move forward to do other useful things. So IMichele Hansen  20:42  feel good about that. It sounds like it's gonna help your development velocity,Colleen Schnettler  20:46  it will. And I feel like some of these development blockers are really frustrating for me, like there's a really simple one, which won't take that long to do API access, but I didn't want to, I could have added new features, and then gone back and got it on 6.1. But it's smarter, in my opinion, since I have the time to get it on 6.1 before, you know, adding all the API stuff. So I feel like now that that's done, development stuff will go faster. So I'm pumped about that. And that was something that's like really kind of boring to do. I don't know if boring is the right word. But you know, like, upgrading is always kind of likeMichele Hansen  21:26  it's not shiny, right? Like developer happiness and infrastructure stuff. And, like, security kind of falls in this category to have like, stuff that's like really important. But it's not shiny, there's no, you know, revenue number, like floating over your head if you do it, right. It's more of a like, it's more of like a cost thing. It's like last time, you know, lost energy, like, it could be lost revenue, if it's security issues. Like, I think when we went full time actually, like the first thing we prioritized was like, What can we do for infrastructure and developer happiness stuff so that when we are working on stuff, it's more enjoyable to work on, more resilient, less brittle?Colleen Schnettler  22:10  That's exactly that's exactly how I feel about it. So I said, it's transparent to my customers. But it feels really good to me. For exactly those reasons. My development time now going forward will go faster. I won't have to worry about writing something I'm later gonna have to rip out when I upgrade. It's good. So I was pumped about that. Something I'm struggling with this week. This is kind of funny. So you remember like a month ago, I told you, I hired my sister to help me do marketing. That's just been kind of an interesting challenge for us, because neither of us know what to do. And so I'm like trying to do my development stuff. She's asking me questions. I'm like, I don't know. So we're both kind of spinning around. Not quite sure what to do. Hmm. So what we did is we ended up having a call with one of our mutual friends who has his own podcast, his name is Josh Oh, and his podcast is searching for SAS. And he helped us lay out a SEO content, Google Search their Google Search Console strategy. Oh, yeah. So we are kind of excited to go down that path. What I originally had asked her to do was more traditional sales Safari. And it wasn't working. Hmm. Remember how Shawn came on the podcast? And he told us he spent 80 hours like doing sales Safari?Michele Hansen  23:44  Yeah,Colleen Schnettler  23:45  yes. So my sister was trying to do that for my product. And we just weren't really, we just weren't really getting anywhere. It felt like we just weren't getting any useful information. So we are going to starting this week try to tackle this more from a content SEO perspective.Michele Hansen  24:03  Hmm. You feel like the sales Safari kind of approach was?Colleen Schnettler  24:10  I don't know I guess you you kind of already built something that's that's what Josh said. He was like, you're already you're already paying for it.Michele Hansen  24:17  So it seems like you know, I mean, Salesforce is useful at many different stages. But it sounds like you need to get eyebrow eyeballs in front of this thing. And because there are people are willing to pay for it. There's clear there's a need a huge competitors went into the space, which tells you all the more that there's need for this. You just need to tell people you exist.Colleen Schnettler  24:40  Yeah, that was his point as well. And I think that's a better use of our time is to kind of lay out a content strategy. So we're gonna try to do that I'm such a bottleneck in this process, though. It's hard to find developers to write content technical. Here's a business idea. technical content rating is really hard. I have a mutual friend who has a business way more successful than mine. And he hired a technical content agency to write some articles. They're not very good. So I'm just saying, I think that this is like a real bottleneck is like really good technical content. I'm gonna go on a limb here and say, technical content for developers has to be written by developersMichele Hansen  25:27  or by technical writers, I know that we have at least two technical writers who listen to this podcast, okay, reading my book, and like they focus on writing documentation and for develop them to do the whole job. Yeah, to dm Colleen. Colleen. And actually, I mean, they get, you know, a lot of the work, they were telling me that they get frustrated, because, like, in big companies, they get really insulated from the customers, which inhibits their ability to write dry, good documentation. Yeah. Right. Because, you know, as you're talking about the challenges with getting your sister up to speed, like, it makes me wonder, like, has she gotten to sit in on any interviews with customers? Has she gotten to do any? Like? Has she got to hear from the customers directly about what you're solving and why it's important to them?Colleen Schnettler  26:26  No, we haven't done any new customer interviews yet.Michele Hansen  26:30  Get her in those? Yeah, I think that'll really help. And you might still be the person who's kind of guiding, you know, API documentation and whatnot. But if there's a difference between hearing about what something does, from somebody who built it, and hearing about what it does, from somebody who bought it, and is excited about it,Colleen Schnettler  26:53  yeah, those areMichele Hansen  26:54  two really different things. And for marketing, what she needs to communicate is, why you should buy it and why you should be excited about it. And the technical documentation is part of that. But she needs to be able to speak to what will get someone excited about it. Yes. And who better to hear that from than someone who is excited about that themselves, ie, a customer of yours?Colleen Schnettler  27:19  Yeah, we have a whole bunch of new customers. So I think in a couple, probably starting next week, once my life's a little more organized. We're going to start trying to do more customer interviews and get back on that bandwagon because I haven't done any since I did them with you, almost three months ago. So that is definitely a priority to get that to get that going. Yes, so content is challenging, because I would love to just churn out some content. But I am struggling to find the time myself or find people that are making the kind of content that I need. So that is challenging, but I did I don't know if I told you so Drew, who we interviewed together, who was a simple file upload customer is a developer and so I paid him to write a piece for me. Oh, no. I need Yeah, do this. I was like, Drew knows how this works. Maybe he will do? Yeah, so that's it's not Yeah,Michele Hansen  28:18  dude. Like hiring your own customers is really smart. Like, I think we talked about Chris from from webflow, our mutual friend we didn't realize was a mutual friend, a couple months ago. And his first support hire is one of his customers. And it worked out like amazingly well because like the person already understands the product. Yes, he knows how it works. He knows where it might go wrong. Like, that's like that is been in the back of my mind of you know, when we need to hire for something even just you know, for something on a contract. Like, who in our customer base could do that for us?Colleen Schnettler  28:58  Yeah, I thought like, I was so pumped. So I threw you know, he said he could do it. I was like, Yes. I mean, that's the best. That's the best of both worlds. Someone who knows what they're doing as a writer. And as technical it was, it was great. So I haven't actually published it yet. Because see all these other things I've been trying to do with my life. But it's it's a guide on how to use simple file upload with react. And that has been on my to do list for four months. So let me tell you how great it felt to give it to someone who could do it better than me. It felt great. And he just got it done in like three to four days. I was like, Oh, you're you're amazing. So that was really yeah, it felt really good because you know all those things you're supposed to do. They they kind of like weigh on you and your subconscious like the things you haven't done and that is literally been on my list for four months only I have to kind of learn react before I can write about how like I kind of sorta know react but this this partnership I feel worked out really well. So that really He inspired me, it went so well with Drew, it inspired me to hire more people to write for me. But I'm definitely having a bottleneck, like finding the right kind of people, especially for the rail stuff, because I feel like I can do that better than most people. So it's a trade off.Michele Hansen  30:18  Well, so. So first, I wonder if you could create some sort of pipeline where you create one piece of content, and it can be recycled in many different ways. And I wonder if even just that one piece of content from drew like if your sister can take that and with some understanding of what the customers are trying to solve, and where they're coming from and what the product does, and recycle that into many other pieces of content? What does that mean, risk can be used in other places to further improve your SEO?Colleen Schnettler  30:49  I literally don't know what you mean. Like you mean, put it on? Like, like, yeah, so like, heMichele Hansen  30:55  wrote up this, like, long guide? Yeah. Right. Yeah. So but then you can also have landing pages that are how to do this with react. And it's like taking like bits and pieces out of that. Like if she can read that and understand it, and then be like, Oh, we can use it in these other places. You can put bits and pieces of that on your homepage on other pages like, right and use that. You're probably trying to do this, like, Look, read that article, and then look at everything in Google Search Console and say, Okay, what are the similarities in terms here? What is the actual term that people are using per Google Search Console? What is the word we're using in this piece of content? Let's change that to the word that people are typing in? Are there five variations of it? Let's make sure in this article, we have headlines that use each one of those five different variations, like, use that on other parts of our site, like, so on and so forth.Colleen Schnettler  31:44  This is the stuff we don't understand. Like I hear the words coming out of your mouth. Okay, but I'm a little confused. I mean, like, okay, so I set up okay, Search Console. So go me, I get that. So you've got keywords, right? Yeah, yes. Yes, it did. Keywords?Michele Hansen  32:04  Yes. Okay. That is the most useful part about that for me, okay. Like before, until we started using h refs, that was what I used all the time. Okay. And so that tells you all of the different keywords that are leading people to your site, okay. It's very, it's very basic, but it's like, it's, it's enough. And I think you can sort it by volume, and you know, the number of clicks and stuff that you're getting right. And then basically taking that and so so in, like in that long article that drew wrote. So I was just, you know, publishing that as a web page, not as a PDF or anything. And then search engines pick up on the headlines. So if someone is typing in, you know how to do image upload, or file upload with react, for example, then your headlines need to be like step one, like, determine which files you want people to be able to upload with react, like with your react app, like step two, like do this thing with your react app, if you want to be able to have them, you know, import files, or like what like, use different variations of that. But like, use it in the headline. So like, we have a million of these things on our website. It actually if you go to geocoded I o. And then like in the Help menu, there's one that says tutorials, we've all these step by step guides, that are all in this format, which I actually learned from another friend of ours, who is a total SEO, like genius. And then each one is like bullet points of step one, determine which addresses you want to find the congressional district for step two, take the list of addresses that you want the congressional district for, and upload them to geocode, do step three, you know, like, and it's just using those same words over and over and over again, it's kind of like, you know, in the 90s, when you saw like, a huge block of like, tiny font text at the bottom of a web sites,Colleen Schnettler  33:55  yes,Michele Hansen  33:56  that is basically how this is done now, but use different versions of that of that text to because people might be typing in different things. Like we saw, for example, we'll see that people type in lat long to Congressional District, which is something I would not type in personally, like I think of address to congressional district. So we make sure that it says address to congressional district, it also says lat lon to congressional district to GPS coordinates to congressional district, like all of those, many permutations of it, and then having as many things in headlines as possible. So that that is what the you know, search engine picks up on.Colleen Schnettler  34:36  Okay. Okay, cool. Yeah, we can work in that direction. And you're right. I didn't think about that. We already have this piece of content. SoMichele Hansen  34:43  yeah, and then just use it in many other places.Colleen Schnettler  34:46  Okay, great. Awesome. Cool. That's exciting. Yes. That's something to to focus on a little bit. I mean, I think that's what's been challenging for us is we're just what do you do next? I have no idea. I mean, I told her I was like, we're both learning here, right? This is part of the fun. This is why we're doing it like this is part of the fun of the process. But it's definitely can be a little intimidating or confusing, and to what you said aboutMichele Hansen  35:12  important versus urgent. I feel like important projects that are nebulous, get shoved to them.Colleen Schnettler  35:19  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like, totally. So we, that's great. We'll work on that. And then what I really want to do this week, is get a test sandbox environment set up on my website. You and I actually talked about this ages ago. And then when I talked to Derek Rhymer a couple weeks ago, he said it again. And I was like, I should really do this. But all this rail 6.1 stuff was the reason I hadn't done it yet. So I'm hoping I'll be able to get something like that up in a week. And basically, that would be kind of test sandbox. Yeah. So you know, if you go on to upload Cara cloudinary website, there's a big button that says try it now. And you can literally just try and like that, you can see exactly what it does before you sign up for an account, and all of that stuff. So that is something I want to go. Okay. Yeah. And I think that would be great. Because that's going to give me higher quality leads. And I think it'll encourage more people to use the service because I think my service offers some things that these other these other services don't offer. SoMichele Hansen  36:21  show them what it does.Colleen Schnettler  36:22  Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's I try I have the video, which shows them what it does. But people like to, especially developers, like at least I do, I like to put my hands on thing, like you make it look easy. Is it actually that easy? So I feel like I think that's a pretty common feeling. Yeah.Michele Hansen  36:37  Don't tell me that it's easy. Let me experience how easy it exactlyColleen Schnettler  36:41  like I want to actually do it. So that's my goal for this week. That's a little ambitious, because there's a lot of moving parts in that. But once I get that set up, I think that's going to be great for marketing, and potential customers and stuff. SoMichele Hansen  36:54  yeah, what are some of those moving parts? Because maybe if there's five steps involved, if you get three out of five, by next week, that's still pretty good.Colleen Schnettler  37:02  Yeah. So the thing I have to do to do this, my plan, at least, first of all, if I have an open file uploader open to the world, I have to be really careful with security. And so I want to write a script that automatically deletes these uploaded files, like every 10 minutes. I don't know how to do that. I mean, I'm sure I can figure it out. But like, I've never done that before. So I have no idea. I don't just know how to do that. I, again, theoretically, it's easy, but I don't know. So I want to do that. And I guess I don't need a script, I can just do it in my app, but whatever. I also want to make sure those files go to a completely separate domain, like completely separate domain, then the files I'm serving for our production customers. Because if someone says it's open to the world, if someone were to upload an inappropriate file that could be that can be bad, right?Michele Hansen  37:58  I mean, it's files. I'm vaguely remember remembering somebody's like, warning you about like that. Yeah, it was like I think on Hacker News or something like this. It happened to somebody it happened to someone else app. And yeah,Colleen Schnettler  38:10  so there was, yeah, someone sent it to me on Twitter. And it was a there's this big Hacker News thread about it. Someone else who has a similar product didn't separate his domain. So he had everyone on the same domain. And so his whole site got blacklisted. Like he didn't even separate. I'm not saying he did, he didn't know. But he didn't even separate his app from his serving domain, like mine are already separate. So that's already good. But he had literally everything on the same domain. So when his site got blacklisted by Google, like, everything went down. Oh, yeah. And he said it. You know, the interesting thing, I read the Hacker News thread, and they didn't have problems for years. I mean, they had their file uploader open to the world for like, I think was like three years. And they didn't have any issues. And then one day, bam, everything, everything was shut down. So I've already taken many security steps. I have a wireless firewall, I have separate domains for my app and my serving domain. But if I'm going to open this to the world, I want a third domain for test files. So that's I already have that. I'm actually deleting the files.Michele Hansen  39:14  Yeah. is smart, too. I don't know if that other person did that. But that disincentivizes people from using it for malicious?Colleen Schnettler  39:21  Yeah, file. I mean, one of the good things is he wrote a really detailed what I learned I could just take all of that he's and that was one of the things is he was deleting the files, I think every 36 hours and he's like, that's not enough. Like you need to be deleting the files like every 20 minutes. Okay,Michele Hansen  39:38  that's a great he's got like a step by step,Colleen Schnettler  39:40  step by step. So what not to do, so. I want to make sure I hit all of those wickets before I open this up on my website. Absolutely. Yeah, but that would be a huge I'm really excited about that. Because I really think once I get that I really think I can I can push a little more and I really think that's going to help with my Yeah, so that's my goal for next week.Michele Hansen  40:06  Alright, so next week we will check in on whether the sandbox is live on your site and maybe possibly my book will be ready. Who knows? Stay tuned.Transcribed by https://otter.ai

In today's episode, I chat with Michael Howard Thuresson, a former Japan-based consumer electronics product manager who is currently working as a U.S.-based marketing manager for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. He is also the author of the memoir “The Salary Man,” which documents some of the experiences and misadventures he accumulated over the course of a decade as a foreign サラリーマン in Japan. Today's Language: サラリーマン sa-ra-ri-i-man meaning: full-time (male) employee at a Japanese company Michael's Links: Website: www.thesalarymanbook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-howard-thuresson-a39735/ Related Episodes: Anil Raj on Entrepreneurship and Mentorship in Japan: https://anchor.fm/businesssuccessjapan/episodes/Anil-Raj-on-Entrepreneurship-and-Mentorship-in-Japan-egfc87 Managing Professional Relationships and Gaijin-Cards in Japan with Mac Salman: https://anchor.fm/businesssuccessjapan/episodes/Managing-Professional-Relationships-and-Gaijin-Cards-in-Japan-with-Mac-Salman-eh93ek Navigating Gender, Race, and Culture in the Japanese Workplace with Jessica Kennett Cork: https://anchor.fm/businesssuccessjapan/episodes/Navigating-Gender--Race--and-Culture-in-the-Japanese-Workplace-with-Jessica-Kennett-Cork-enu4ro Be sure to subscribe for more Japanese language and cultural insights. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review so that other people can find it as well. And of course, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please email me at businesssuccessjapan@gmail.com. Leave me a voice message here: https://anchor.fm/businesssuccessjapan/message --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/businesssuccessjapan/message

Abstract Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous transient events in the observed Universe. However, there is no direct observational evidence for what exactly drives a GRB. The most widely accepted model for these cosmic events is the fireball model where it is thought that a substantial fraction of the kinetic energy of the source is converted to gamma-radiation by shock accelerated electrons emitting synchrotron and inverse-Compton radiation. The acceleration of protons in the gamma-ray emitting region of the GRB has been hypothesized as well. In this hadronic acceleration model, it is predicted that protons may interact with gamma-ray photons to produce a burst of neutrinos at energy ∼10^14 eV during prompt emission and energy ∼10^18 eV during afterglow emission. Several experimental searches for these high energy neutrinos have been conducted and no GRB neutrinos have yet been found. The analytical prediction for neutrino flux has been replaced with a more thorough numerical prediction for neutrino flux. The neutron model of GRBs, where only neutrons can escape the GRB and reach Earth as cosmic rays, has been ruled out by the experimental work of IceCube and ANTARES. Upgraded versions of current experiments such as IceCube, ANTARES, ANITA and ARA, as well as new experiments such as KM3NeT, are preparing to probe and further constrain the fireball paradigm of GRB neutrino production. This review includes: Introduction Early theoretical predictions for neutrino fluences due to GRBs Overview of high energy neutrino experiments and related physics Experimental searches for high energy neutrinos from GRBs Prospects for detection of high energy neutrinos from GRBs High Energy Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts: Theoretical Predictions, Experimental Searches, and Prospects for Detection was originally written as a review submitted for my Ph.D. candidacy paper on Nov 23, 2015. It has been edited for a "Short Read" on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing in Oct 2020. It is a public domain work. Special thanks to the Connolly group at Ohio State University (OSU) and the physics and astronomy departments at OSU. Moreover, I am grateful for the contribution of each and every scientist and author listed in the "References" section of this review. This review would not be possible without their published science and hard work. Please let me know if you find any mistakes or problems, I will fix them. My email is oindreeb@gmail.com. I am happy for this to be a living document. I am anxious to improve it but feel that it needs to be out at this point before that can happen. Textbook on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LS7Y6W2/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_dUGdGbKRSXSW9

The Bert Salazar Show is proud to announce the launch of Bert Salazar's new book, "Retirement Paradigms - Managing Retirement Risks in the 21st Century".The book will be available on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing the week of December 14, 2020. A must read for those that are interested in a successful retirement life.

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Il co-conduttore di oggi è il nostro Enrico Pagliarini. Massimo Guastini, ex presidente ADCI, ci racconta il libro “COPYD19 - Creativi in quarantena”, che raccoglie 70 racconti scritti durante il lockdown dai creativi dell'Associazione Italiana Copy, disponibile sulla piattaforma Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, e i cui proventi andranno alla Protezione Civile.

Il co-conduttore di oggi è il nostro Enrico Pagliarini. Massimo Guastini, ex presidente ADCI, ci racconta il libro “COPYD19 - Creativi in quarantena”, che raccoglie 70 racconti scritti durante il lockdown dai creativi dell'Associazione Italiana Copy, disponibile sulla piattaforma Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, e i cui proventi andranno alla Protezione Civile.

Il co-conduttore di oggi è il nostro Enrico Pagliarini. Massimo Guastini, ex presidente ADCI, ci racconta il libro “COPYD19 - Creativi in quarantena”, che raccoglie 70 racconti scritti durante il lockdown dai creativi dell'Associazione Italiana Copy, disponibile sulla piattaforma Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, e i cui proventi andranno alla Protezione Civile.

Il co-conduttore di oggi è il nostro Enrico Pagliarini. Massimo Guastini, ex presidente ADCI, ci racconta il libro “COPYD19 - Creativi in quarantena”, che raccoglie 70 racconti scritti durante il lockdown dai creativi dell'Associazione Italiana Copy, disponibile sulla piattaforma Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, e i cui proventi andranno alla Protezione Civile.

In this episode I discuss the process of publishing my real estate book “Wealth For Real” to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. I also discuss launching social media accounts connected to the Wealth For Real concept. I finish up by talking a little bit about Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan” and future discussions I plan to have about him and his teachings. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Zapraszam serdecznie do przesłuchania zapisu z live, którego tematem jest Self-publishing na Amazon KDP. Poznasz 20 najczęstszych błędów podczas publikacji własnych produktów na Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Wraz z Anią odpowiadamy na pytania zadane podczas live.  Plan live: Wstęp + kilka słów o Ani oraz Tomku.Wprowadzenie do platformy Amazon KDP.20 najczęstszych błędów podczas publikacji na Amazon KDP.Konkurs - do wygrania roczna subskrypcja w Mastermind Amazon KDP!Wasze pytania.

My name is Mycheille Norvell, and I'm an author! My first episode introduces who I am, and what I plan to do in my future episodes. After the intro, I share the prologue to Fighting For Mona, my romantic comedy published in 2018 through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Dans cette vidéo, je t'explique comment faire du Kindle Direct Publishing. C'est l'outil parfait pour rentabiliser tes designs en Print On Demand. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing est totalement gratuit, et tu peux ainsi l'utiliser pour recycler tes designs qui ont fonctionné ou pas pour en faire des carnets de notes par exemple. Tous ne vont pas forcément fonctionner mais cela ne te coûte rien ! Il ne faut donc pas hésiter à lancer tes designs sur cette plateforme, il y a tout à y gagner :) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing w ostatnim czasie wyzwala sporo emocji u niektórych osób zajmujących się publikacją produktów na tej platformie. Sprawa tyczy się głównie twórców prostych produktów typu low content, które nazywa się w kręgu naszych kursantów zazwyczaj „zeszytami”. W tym wpisie podpowiem, co w ogóle dzieje się teraz na Amazonie, jaka jest według mnie przyczyna problemu, czy należy się martwić zmianami oraz przede wszystkim jak publikować poprawnie swoje produkty, aby nie narazić się na problemy.

Kiedy Amazon wejdzie do Polski? To pytanie pojawia się bardzo często wśród sprzedawców na tej platformie. Szczególnie wszystkie osoby publikujące na Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing własne eBooki, książki papierowe drukowane na żądanie i proste produkty w formie książek czekają na moment pełnego otworzenia się Amazona na nasz polski rynek. Kiedy to nastąpi? W tym podcaście postaram się odpowiedzieć na to pytanie.

Muszę przyznać, że Amazon ciągle mnie zaskakuje. Moja bardzo ograniczona działalność na Amazonie, teoretycznie duża konkurencja oraz nawet ponad tysiąc kursantów, którzy startują z moją pomocą na Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing - to wszystko nie przeszkodziło mi w osiągnięciu pięciocyfrowego wyniku na przełomie listopada i grudnia. Co więcej wszystko odbyło bez jakiejkolwiek pracy i zaangażowania z mojej strony. W tym podcaście pokażę Wam jak zarobić 10000 złotych w miesiąc całkowicie pasywnie.

W tym podcaście przedstawię Wam podstawowe informacje związane z koniecznymi wydatkami, które należy ponieść podczas startu z własnym biznesem na Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Dowiecie się jakie kwoty należy zainwestować chcąc wydawać swoje proste produkty (produkty Low Content, czyli tzw. zeszyty) oraz eBooki i książki.

Wielu z Was pewnie zastanawia się, czy dalej publikuję nowe produkty na Amazonie. Uczę tego procesu w moich kursach online i wielu kursantów robi to razem ze mną. W tym podcaście pokażę jak wygląda moja obecna sytuacja, jeżeli chodzi publikację produktów przez Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

W dzisiejszym podcaście rozmawiam z Anią, która dołączyła do mojego kursu Produkt24 i w ciągu pół roku osiągnęła duży sukces sprzedażowy na platformie Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, gdzie sprzedaje już miesięcznie ponad 500 sztuk w pełni automatycznych produktów.

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Jak rozliczyć sprzedaż książek na Amazon poprzez portal Kindle Direct Publishing? Ciągle zadajecie mi to pytanie. Zauważyłem, że bardzo wiele osób boi się tego tematu i porusza go zanim poczyni jakiekolwiek kroki w sprzedaży książek i eBooków na Amazonie. Najgorsze jest to, że sprawa rozliczania podatków blokuje wielu z Was przed jakimkolwiek działaniem w kierunku publikacji.

In this episode, the struggle to publish a kindle version and a paperback one continues but don't worry, you'll also discover a great resource to help you with this issue. Recommended resource – Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing   Get Travel Guide for Kids on Amazon At StorySD.com you can: Get free eBooks (English and Portuguese)  Watch/Listen/Read all StorySD episodes Sign up to our newsletter for exclusive content Explore recommended articles, books, podcasts and videos   Other StorySD series: Series 1 - Transmedia Storytelling for Business Series 2 - Build your Business Stories Series 3 - Technology – The future is here Series 4 - Use Stories To … Series 5 - Characters Series 6 - Travel Guide for Kids Series 7 - Transmedia Storytelling Case Studies Series 8 - Story Breakdown Series 9 - Interactive Storytelling Series 10 - Stories from Scotland

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Eine Einladung von Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing einen Vortrag zum Thema: „Business monetarisieren und Leser und Leserinnen gewinnen“ war für mich der Anlass zum ersten Mal die Frankfurter Buchmesse zu besuchen – meine Eindrücke fasse ich in dieser Folge für dich zusammen Du erfährst unter anderem: Warum sich ein Besuch der Frankfurter Buchmesse auch für Autorinnen und Autoren von Ratgebern und Sachbüchern lohnen kann. Wieso die Buchmesse für uns keine Verkaufsveranstaltung ist. Wen du auf der Buchmesse in Frankfurt treffen kannst. Was der Selfpublishing-Verband tut und warum er auch für Ratgeber- und Sachbuchautorinnen und –autoren interessant ist. Wieso ich selbst Mitglied beim Verband bin. Welche Perspektive ich gerade für uns Coaches, Trainer, Beraterinnen im Selfpublisher-Verband sehe. Warum es gerade für Online-Unternehmerinnen und Online-Unternehmer so wichtig ist Online- UND Offline-Aktivitäten zu kombinieren – gerade, wenn es um Beziehungsaufbau und –pflege geht. Was die Frankfurter Buchmesse und das Inspicamp, bzw. die Inspicon unterscheidet – und was sie verbindet. Warum du auf der Buchmesse innere Ruhe und Zeit brauchst, um deine Ziele zu erreichen. Was ein Blended Business ausmacht und warum es für deine persönliche Entwicklung so guttut. Hier die Links, die ich im Podcast ansprechen, und weiterführende Informationen, Tipps und Erfahrungsberichte rund um Bücher, eBooks und deinen Erfolg: Hier findest du die Internetseite des Selfpublishing-Verbands: selfpublisher-verband.de Hier meldest du dich für die Inspicon am 20./21. April 2018 in Bonn an: mission-bestseller.com/inspicon Beachte: Bis 23.10. gilt noch der reduzierte Early Bird Preis und du sparst 50,- € Hier findest du die Inspicon auf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inspicon Hier findest du mein Gespräch mit Tanja Rörsch über Buchmessen: https://mission-bestseller.com/lohnen-sich-buchmessen-fuers-self-publishing-mit-tanja-roersch-folge-107 Hier kommst du direkt in meine Self-Publishing Facebook-Gruppe, wo du dich mit anderen Autorinnen und Autoren – und solchen, die es noch werden wollen austauschen kannst: https://www.facebook.com/groups/missionbestseller1 Hol dir die gratis Anleitung »In 6 Schritten zu deinem Bestseller« als eBook: www.be-wonderful.com/dein-buch Hier findest du Toms aktuellen Bestseller „Mission Bestseller – Ratgeber und Sachbücher erfolgreich vermarkten und verkaufen. Eine Anleitung“? als eBook und Taschenbuch auf Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ax8GcM

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Becoming an author is not as difficult as it used to be. In fact, anyone can do it if they know how to be a self published author. In this interview, Mikey Van Der Voort, full time self publisher, talks about his journey to financial freedom through Amazon's Kindle Self Publishing platform. Every single person on the planet, through self publishing, has the ability to become a published author. By using Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing platform, for example, you can publish a paperback or ebook for FREE. Mikey is a full time fiction publisher, choosing the path of having books ghost written for him and published under pen names while he promotes them and builds the business on the backend. Born and raised in California, he used to vacation to Mexico with his parents and eventually decided to move down there. In the beginning however, he had a job selling time shares - a very "in your face" type of business. While he did make some good money, he ended up hating it. The silver lining, however, was that he started reading books, like Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie. From his readings, he found out about passive income and developed a strong passion for figuring out how to make his money make more money. While he first went down the path of real estate, Mikey, deep down, always wanted to make money online. He thought it was so cool to be able to have a website working for him on autopilot, and in his research came across a YouTuber name Stefan Pylarinos. After buying the KMoneyMastery course, he started publishing non-fiction books on Kindle and quickly built a couple hundred dollar per month income. However, Mikey knew that there was so much more money to be made, so he got a coach who recommended that Mikey started publishing romance books. Once he started publishing romance books, his income skyrocketed to $1,000+ in one month, then $2,000 the next month all the way up to his best month of $30,000. By focusing on acts of service and helping others, we can all achieve our dreams through whichever vehicle we decide to pursue them through. You can learn more about turning your dreams into reality by watching more interviews at http://projectegg.co/! View The Blog Post ► http://projectegg.co/how-to-be-a-self-published-author/ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ About The Project EGG Show: The Project EGG Show is a video talk show that introduces you to entrepreneurs from around the world. It is broadcast from studios in Metairie, Louisiana to online platforms including YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher, and hosted by Ben Gothard. Our goal is to give you a fresh, unscripted and unedited look into the lives of real entrepreneurs from around the globe. From billionaires to New York Times best selling authors to Emmy Award winners to Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients to TEDx speakers – we present their real stories – uncensored and uncut. Subscribe To The Show: https://projectegg.co/podcast/ Get Access To: 1. Resources: https://projectegg.co/resources/ 2. Financing Solutions: https://projectegg.co/epoch/ 3. Payment Solutions: https://projectegg.co/sempr/ 4. Services: https://projectegg.co/resources#services 5. Courses: https://projectegg.co/resources#courses 6. Software: https://projectegg.co/resources#software 7. Book: https://projectegg.co/resources#books --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/projectegg/support

Self-publishing an eBook? You're almost certainly going to be publishing on Kindle. We were delighted to speak to Kindle's head of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Darren Hardy, at Amazon's recent Amazon Academy Conference in London to get the low-down. In this episode you will discover: - Where to find essential resources to guide you through the process of self-publishing on Kindle. -The common best practices for authors starting out. -The key elements that will make your book more visible on Amazon. -The big changes coming in self-publishing! Get your free ebook with advice and tips from million-selling authors at: http://www.bestsellerexperiment.com

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Join us with our guest, Ty Cohen who really just wants to help you build your passive income stream…and is ready to prove it.  Very generous with his advice, Ty shares with us his secrets for generating a TON of revenue through selling ebooks on Amazon.  Learn from this entrepreneurial master, who overcame some pretty major obstacles early on, but turned those challenges into an incredible (and profitable) ebook empire. - 4 Incredible Facts To Create A Passive Income Stream With An eBook Business - 4 MORE Things To Guarantee Your eBook Gets Completed - How Amazon's Sales Ranking “Really” Works - 4 Proven Strategies For Promoting Your E-Book Ty Cohen is an accomplished publishing expert, internet marketer, personal development coach, mentor, internationally known speaker, former morning talk show radio personality (WCLY1150 Raleigh, NC) and author who over a decade ago, took a major gamble with his life financially by quitting his corporate job and starting a business of his own. That business soon became both an offline and online successfully generating millions of dollars in sales and totally transforming Ty’s life as well as the lives’ of countless others in just a few short years. Over the last 11 years, Ty has taught tens of thousands of individuals how to successfully market, promote & sell their books on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Platform using the very same system that allows him to generate upwards of $50, 000.00 a month with KDP publishing. You'll learn his simple formula for turning life’s obstacles into life’s financial opportunities that will enable you to effectively reach your personal and/or business goals. Using a unique combination of tested and proven methods and resources, Ty’s goal is to educate and empower individuals just like you with the tools needed to operate a successful business both on and offline. After creating millions of dollars in sales and successfully working with thousands of clients across the globe, Ty decided to take his expertise global and has created or consulted with thousands of individuals and businesses around the world helping them to find that missing piece that would allow them to create lasting success in both business and life.   “Either you accept the fate that was handed to you or you make an unwavering decision to create the one you want.” Ty Cohen How did Ty Turned His Major Life Obstacles Into An EBook Empire of Greatest Success Ty is an accomplished publishing expert, an internet marketer, a personal development coach, a mentor, an internationally known speaker, a former morning talk show radio personality and an author who took a major financial gamble by quitting his corporate job to take a huge step by starting his own EBook business.  You might say that “success” is his last name. However, you’re wrong. Like most of us, he did not start out as a success right away. It is actually the opposite. He was born in one of the nation’s most crime ridden towns, where gang wars and drug related crimes exited daily. Ty was also born with a rare, chronic life threatening blood disease called Sickle Cell Anemia. His Doctors even gave a prediction of a life expectancy of only 17 years. At his early age, death was already a reality for him. However, his mindset is different, he took these obstacles as his life motivation to change his destiny. And, he did not fail. Ty soon learned that life is what you make it, “Either you accept the fate that was handed to you or you make an unwavering decision to create the one you want.” 4 Incredible Facts To Create A Passive Income Stream With An eBook Business Ty became very successful by having a passive income stream, through his E-Book Business. However, during the time that he was just starting, he actually attended different types of marketing and business seminars, which in the end, just gave him all the same information. He found that either the main focus of these seminars were just to sell their products or the presenters were just good at speaking but didn’t really know what they were talking about. These meetings led him to his ultimate and unselfish goal, and that is to help people who have the same mindset as him to become successful by giving them genuinely helpful information that they can use. Ty’s 4 Essential Steps To Creating eBook Success Ty wants you to experience the same success that he has experienced, and you can start by following his essential Top 4 Success Tips; Research - If you want to become successful, you have to spend time to study the business. Research and find out what people really want, what is selling and what is not. If you want to use the Amazon platform, it is very important for you to check the Sales Rankings all the time, Sales Rankings should be the foundation of your decision. Create the actual E-Book - Once you’re done with your research, it is time to create your e-book. On this interview, he gives a few great tips on writing an e-book; An E-Book Doesn't have to be long. Don’t pressure yourself too much. Spend more time with your headlines. If you have a great headline, make sure the content of your e-book matches the headline. A reminder from Ty: Amazon normally reviews all e-book published on their site. They will check if the cover, title and the headlines of your ebook matches the main article. If not, your sales ranking will greatly suffer. Don’t spend too much. Create a checklist and have a plan. Ty’s strategy; if your ebook sells minimum of 10 copies, then selling 1000 copies is easy to achieve. However, if it sells less than 10, then leave it as is, but don’t invest anymore it advertising it. Outsource. Hire an e-book/ghost writer, graphics designer, etc. to take care of your ebook cover or the contents of your entire ebook. Publish your Ebook to Amazon. Amazon’s goal is to become the biggest online bookstore, so having your book published on it, is the first major step you need to take (after completing your ebook). Monitor your sales. Monitoring your sales is important because business is all about sales. As a business owner you should be aware of your strategies and if they are working, whether your sales are increasing or decreasing. If you stay on top of those really important points, you’ll have available solutions and more options that otherwise you would not know.  Pay close attention and you will have the chance to have an early response to any sales problems that may come along. What Is The Amazon Sales Rank Guide? Every product on Amazon that has ever been purchased includes a sales rank on its product page. Now you, who wants to sell your EBook on Amazon will ask, What is sales ranking? The sales rank is a number with 1 to 8 digits. And below are the guidelines (from Amazon.Com): The better a product sells at Amazon, the lower the sales rank number. The best selling product in a category has a sales rank of 1. The worse a product sells at Amazon, the higher the sales rank number. If a product hasn’t sold for several days, its sales rank will likely be in the millions. If a product has never sold on Amazon, it won’t have a sales rank. Different editions of a product (like hardcover, paperback, and Kindle books) each have different sales ranks. Every product page has its own sales rank. Sales ranks are different in various categories. For example, books, Kindle e-books, software, and office products each have different sales ranks. Books have overall ranks and also specific ranks within subcategories. Ranking #1 in books overall is much, much better than ranking #1 in a specific subcategory. Authors, publishers, marketplace sellers, and many other people and businesses use sales rank data to help judge how well their products are selling. They also study sales ranks to help predict how well a product may sell and to help decide whether or not to sell a particular product on Amazon.Know more about Amazon Sales Ranking by clicking here. Ty Shares His Top 4 Proven Strategies In Promoting His E-Book. How Many Are You Not Practicing? Turning an Ebook business to an empire is not easy. However, Ty mentioned that it is not all about hard work. Business success is about having a rock-solid strategy, a strategy that will generate continuous income and year-round profits. Read below for Ty’s Top 4 proven success strategies. Don’t spend a lot of time and money unless it is going to sell. This is one of his essential tips now turned into a strategy. Ty seriously advises to never throw away your money and don’t invest unless you are confident that your E-Book will sell.  A lot of entrepreneurs jump in immediately to all the steps of promotion, without testing first if the product is selling or will sell. Translate your ebook to different languages. Now that you’re sure that your ebook will sell. Consider now investing toward translating your ebook into another language (most common is Spanish). This will not just expand your market reach but will also increase your sales. Create a audio book. Creating an audio book is another way to reach other markets. There’s a lot of people who are not fond of reading an ebook or don’t have time to read, they are always on the go and would like to read a book by listening to one. Create a physical book. Like Ty’s wife who is not an avid fan of Kindle, or ebooks -- she loves reading physical books. These are traditional readers or sometimes called “digital natives”, who love how a book smells, they like scribbling in the margins, underlining interesting sentences and folding a page corner to mark a place. If you don’t have a physical book then you’ll instantly lose this market. An Irresistible Offer That You Have To Grab --Now! Ty has a program called Kindle Cash Flow in which he will share with you his entire system. This means, he is going to share everything. His promise, whether you’re someone who’s totally new to this business, like the way he started or maybe you’re someone who may have a few kindle e-books and they’re not just selling the way you anticipated --  If you are someone who has always wanted to create serious, passive income from your very own eBook, then this is the program for you. Ty’s program will tell you everything that he learned and studied about this business.  With his program, he will show you how he earned more than $10k per month! Ty’s program is an awesome place for total beginners, where you can get answers to all of your questions and even get regular updates for the latest in trends and strategies. For anyone who's listens to the Social Media Business Hour, Ty will give you 50% off the original retail price. So what are you waiting for, Grab Ty's Offer NOW! [content_toggle style="1" label="Click%20Here%20To%20Read%20The%20Entire%20Transcript%20Of%20The%20Show" hide_label="Hide"]Ty:                   This is Ty Cohen from kindlecashflow.com and I’m here with Nile and Jordan for a social media business hour and today I’m going to show you, your business partner, spouse, kids, family and just about everyone else how to create a passive income stream by publishing digital eBooks on Amazon.com. Let’s go. Woman:          In business and know the way forward most include social media. Perhaps you find it a bit confusing. Even frustrating. Well, you have no idea how to make it work for your business. Fear not. We interview some of the best social media experts in business who will share their experiences, ideas and knowledge. Plus offer tips and tricks to make using social media a breeze. Leverage the power of social media and grow your business now. Welcome to social media business hour with your host Nile Nickel. Jordan:            Hello and thank you again for joining us. This is Nile’s trusty sidekick and co-host Jordan and I’d like to take a moment to share with you how you can benefit from Nile’s incredible experience using social media for real business success. If you’re an entrepreneur or thinking about starting your own business then using social media might be the most cost effective and time effective way to get your business real results. That’s not to mention much of what you can do to get those terrific results on social media is even free. Take Linked In for example. Nile always says it’s the best social media platform for business today. And that’s why I recommend you go to linkedinfocus.com and start your social media education today. Sign up for Nile’s free tips, tricks and strategies. Once again, it’s free and it only takes a few seconds. Go to linkedinfocus.com today. You’ll be glad you did. Nile:                 Jordan, it’s not very often that we have the opportunity to have a guest on that is a former radio personality. Jordan:            Yeah. That’s true. That’s true. Nile:                 And Ty -- you probably don’t know this. Ty Cohen is joining us tonight. You heard that from the tease folks. Whenever I do a bio or an intro I don’t just read it. I do it very interactively because I think reading it, that’s just boring. I’m doing this long introduction for you. I’m going to do a long introduction anyway but we’re just going to have fun with it. We’re going to do it interactively so I want to ask you. You’re a former radio person. Where were you at, what did you do? Ty:                   I was actually on a business talk radio show here in Raleigh, North Carolina and I was invited to co-host the show and I did it for about a year as a way of just stretching myself, right. And getting out of my comfort zone because prior to that I was just this totally introverted guy and I said you know what? this would be something that will not only help me but it will help other individuals by me being able to share some information so I did that for about a year and got it out of my system and that was that. Nile:                 And nothing wrong with that. I haven’t got it out of my system yet. Who know? I might but everybody says I like to talk too much anyway so I’m not sure if that will be the case or not. Ty:                   You might be fake introverts. Nile:                 Yeah. Well, no. I think I’m more of an introvert in person and better behind a microphone which is quite the opposite for a lot of people. Ty:                   Awesome. Nile:                 Well, Ty is an accomplished publishing expert, an internet marketer, personal development coach, mentor, internationally known speaker, former morning talk show radio personality and an author who took a major financial gamble by quitting his corporate job and starting his own business and that’s a huge step. That’s a scary step. Jordan:            Yes, it is. Nile:                 So kudos to you Ty for that. Ty:                   Absolutely. It’s so scary but it actually took me three years to quit that job. The security of my job. Three years after I had created my business and I was doing well I still wasn’t mentally secure enough to say let me leave this thing. Nile:                 That happens to so many of us. It really is amazing so I’m glad you’re sharing that with us because I know we all struggle with that and some people just don’t like to admit it so I know that as we talk about it here it’s just absolutely encouraging to all of us that we hear something like that, that we’re not alone in this journey. But I know over the last 11 years since you made that transition you’ve taught tens of thousands of individuals how to successfully market, promote and sell their books on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Platform and we’re going to be talking about that a lot and I know that all of us are interested in that so I can't wait to hear it but before we get into that, I was reading a little bit of your background and one of the things that jumped out at me immediately was you really said you should’ve been dead by the age of 17 and so you’re really grateful and surprised that you’ve made the transition and been as successful as you have. That caught my attention so tell us about that a bit. Ty:                   Absolutely Nile. I actually had two obstacles going against me. Probably more than that. Two major ones, right. I was born with a disease called sickle cell anemia and just to give you a short on it sickle cell anemia is actually a blood disorder that affects people of African American descent, people from India, couple of folks from Italian -- not Italian. Italy, from Sicily. And I lost a sister to the disease when she was 27 years old and it’s one of the most painful things that you can ever experience. As a kid I spent weeks and sometimes months in a hospital, Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut where I’m from and it was during one of these stents in the hospital -- I had been in a hospital for six weeks and outside of my bedroom door, my hospital room door I heard my doctor tell my mom as clear as day Mrs. Cohen, you shouldn’t expect your son to live past the age of 17 because this disease is going to kill him. And I was about 10 or 11 years old at the time and it just stuck with me. To this day I can just -- I can still hear those words, I can still literally see, smell and just feel everything that was taking place in the room. So that’s how much it was cementer in my memory. About two years later my sister had died and as I said she was 27 when she had died and it was just -- out of eight siblings it was just her and I that have this disease, that we’re born with it. so by that time when she died I was 15 and I’m really -- I’m just totally shaken up because I’m still thinking about what the doctor said and I hear my sister had passed away from it and on top of that we didn’t grow up in the best neighborhood. We actually grew up in the worst neighborhood. Now, when you think of Connecticut you’re probably thinking that there couldn’t be any such areas, a bad area in Connecticut but during this time we had the highest crime rate in the nation and we were second in the murder rate in the nation behind Louisiana. So I thought that either I would die from a disease or I would die like so many of my friends at the time, young friends who were in their teens that were dying just from gangs and drugs and just all the other elements that come with growing up in the hood. So that was -- and as you said, when I hit 18 I said wow. This -- okay. Well, maybe there’s a difference here. And it was a few things that lead up to that shift in my mindset that got me to say this is not going to be my destiny. There’s other options for me. Nile:                 Yeah. That’s really inspiring. I know it touches me. I’ve had friends that I’ve watched deal with that and it is scary because you just don’t know. And I understand things have gotten better but I’m not sure. Is that true? Ty:                   Health wise, yes. Absolutely. Things have gotten better and my neighborhood has changed big time. It’s done a total 360, right. Health wise I have not been in a hospital for two years now. Nile:                 Wow. Ty:                   Whereas before I would be hospitalized let’s say every six months. Nile:                 Wow. Ty:                   And the difference is knowing how to cope with things and knowing how to condition not only your mind but your body and how to better understand -- how to train yourself to eat so that your body accepts certain foods and then is able to use those foods to help nourish itself and also to avoid things like stress and just a few other things that can promote a sickle cell anemia attack. Nile:                 That is absolutely -- that’s great to know and I really appreciate you sharing that with us. I have to ask you and we may have just got some insight into that. we’re going to talk about obviously your success with Kindle books and what you’ve done and all of that and I think that’s outstanding but with all of that, I always like to know what’s your big why, what is your reason, what has motivated you to teach so many people how to become successful and you’ve been doing it through publishing eBooks on Amazon but what’s that bit why? Ty:                   The biggest why for me is probably twofold. Number one, because I want to be able to give someone -- my goal has always been to give people genuine information. Okay. when I first got started with marketing in general one of my first businesses was an offline business where I would sell old Disney windups and GI Joes from the 60s and 70s and things like that and I didn’t have the resources at that time so I would literally take the bus to downtown bridge port and visit the library and pick up copywriting books by guys like Gary Halbert, Gary Bencivenga, Dan Kennedy and just read everything that I could on marketing. So there was no YouTube, right, at that time. There was no Google, there were no -- there were probably seminars but at that time I wasn’t aware of them. Probably couldn’t afford them. So it was a long process for me. And then as things got a little bit better as far as my understanding of being able to go out and get access to resources I started to attend different seminars and events and a lot of the seminars and events that I attended and even spoke at -- excuse my French but a lot of it was BS. I mean, the presenters would sell information that really was a bit outdated or it didn’t work or they had no true knowledge so I said if I ever get into a position to be able to teach people I have to make sure that if I get up on stage or if I get in front of a group or if I get in front of an audience that I can teach those individuals the same information that I would be comfortable with teaching my mother, my wife, my daughter, my son. So I don’t ever want to be in a position where I have to just sell something just for the sake of making money or to present something to someone that is not something that I am legitimately doing. So that’s my why right there. Nile:                 And that’s a great why. That actually is much more than I know we expected so I appreciate that. It gives us great insight into obviously why you’re doing things and what your motivation is. So let’s jump into it just a bit here. And we haven’t talked a lot about eBooks so I want to start real basic. I talk about eBooks and I throw the term around. You probably do as well but I know not all of us do that and so just so that we’re all sort of on the same page -- no pun intended since we’re talking about eBooks. But since we’re all on the same page, tell us what your definition of an eBook is. Ty:                   Yeah. Absolutely. An eBook is just a digital version of anything that you would want to have more information on or anything that you would want to use to be entertained so just like you would pick up a book, a physical copy of a book like Think and grow rich or the Alchemist or whatever it might be. A Millionaire’s notebook. Those are physical versions but now digital versions -- because of companies like Amazon and even Apple and Barnes and Nobles is even in the game, right. But because of companies like the companies that I just mentioned digital books are becoming more and more popular. So much so that they actually outsell physical books. I was reading a -- there was a piece by Jeff Bezos who’s actually the CEO of amazon.com a couple of years ago and at the time he said that eBooks were outselling physical books two to one. Two to one. And it just shows you the direction that we’re going in which is similar to the direction that the music industry went in, right. Before we used to primarily listen to music in physical formats. We had eight tracks. I know I’m dating myself, right. We had vinyl records, we had cassettes and now how do we primarily listen to music or audio books and things like that? In a digital format. And we’ve got our iPhone, we’ve got our iPod, we’ve got some type of a mobile device that we’re listening to music on and the same thing now applies to books. If you look at individuals at an airport they probably have a Kindle device or some type of a mobile tablet, right. Like an iPad or an iPad mini and they’re just consuming eBooks and they’re reading their eBooks on these devices. So that’s where we’re at. Nile:                 As we end the first segment here we’re getting ready to jump into this in a more heavy way so I want you to join us into the next segment. But in the next segment we’re going to talk about how to create an eBook. Obviously we’ve talked what they are. Let’s talk about how to create them. Join us in the next segment. Jordan:            Hello and thank you again for joining us. This is Nile’s trusty sidekick and co-host Jordan and I’d like to take a moment to share with you how you can benefit from Nile’s incredible experience using social media for real business success. If you’re an entrepreneur or thinking about starting your own business then using social media might be the most cost effective and time effective way to get your business real results. That’s not to mention much of what you can do to get those terrific results on social media is even free. Take Linked In for example. Nile always says it’s the best social media platform for business today. And that’s why I recommend you go to linkedinfocus.com and start your social media education today. Sign up for Nile’s free tips, tricks and strategies. Once again, it’s free and it only takes a few seconds. Go to linkedinfocus.com today. You’ll be glad you did. Nile:                 Hey, thanks for joining us once again. In the earlier segments we got to know Ty Cohen a bit and we talked about what is an eBook, what motivated Ty and if you haven’t listened to that we absolutely need to go back and listen because it was a great foundation there. But Ty what I wanted to talk about in this segment is -- we talked a little bit about the eBooks and we understand the transition. How do we go about creating an eBook because that sounds like it probably has some special formats and special process. What’s the process you teach people to go create an eBook? Ty:                   Yeah, absolutely. So there’s actually several different ways that you can create your eBook and it depends on what you’re after, right. And I want to step back for a moment just to briefly, quickly explain why you would probably want to go about creating your own eBook. Amazon who right now is the planet’s largest book store has done something amazing for authors, writers and just individuals who are looking for a way to create a passive income stream. And what they’ve done is they’ve created this platform called the KDP platform and that’s short for Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Now what Amazon has allowed you to do is now they’ve allowed you to take your written material, your content, turn it into an eBook, a Kindle eBook more specifically and make it available to all of their customers, their Kindle readers. And it’s just a great time to be able to go out and do a little bit of research, find out what people are after and create an eBook that will provide them with a solution to a problem that they’re looking to solve or actually even entertain them, right. If you’re looking to go in and create a fiction eBook. So the process for creating an eBook is to -- if you go in the nonfiction realm and nonfiction sells incredibly well especially when you’re creating how to titles. How to create a rose garden. How to go in and redo your back patio. How to buy a car. How to sell a house. If you’re creating a how to title the first thing that you would do is to go in and do some market research and you do that by going on amazon.com and typing in a few keywords that are related to the topic that you’re thinking about publishing your eBook on. And then just go out and take a few minutes and look at some of the eBooks that are selling. You can always tell those that are selling because you’ll see where they’ve got a good number of reviews and then you’ll see where their sales rank is -- it’s lower than 20000. So if you scroll down to the left you’ll see a sales rank number and if it’s lower than 20000 then that’s a good seller. The lower of a number, the better of a seller it is. So that’s the first step is to go in and find out what people actually want because you don’t want to create something that they’re not -- that’s just not going to sell, right. Nile:                 Absolutely. But I’d love to stop you because I didn’t understand something there. Ty:                   Absolutely. Nile:                 But you mentioned it and I’m really interested. What is the sales rank number? How is that derived? I’ve never seen that so I’m unfamiliar with it. I know I’m not alone. Ty:                   Absolutely. So Amazon has this algorithm that they use and basically depending on how many units your book sells, your eBook sells a day it will be assigned a sales rank. So if you’re selling -- let’s say if you sell a 100 copies a day which is a pretty high number for someone that’s just starting out, right. So don’t get your hopes up high here if you’re listening. But if you’re selling a 100 copies a day then they’ll assign you a sales rank of about 1500. Alright. That will be your sales rank. If you’re selling like 75 copies a day then you’ll have a sales rank of about 2000. And these numbers are not set in stone because it changes from time to time. But that’s how they calculate their sales rank there because Amazon literally has millions of products that are sold from their site. And it’s just a ranking system. Nile:                 So it sounds to me like the sales rank number is how you’re ranking of all the sellers on Amazon. Ty:                   That’s right. That’s it exactly. Nile:                 Okay, okay. I could understand that. Ty:                   And it becomes a game. You do things to help promote your books and to get your sales up and it’s just really exciting. So we were talking about -- I think your question was how do you go in and create your content so -- Nile:                 Yeah. And you were talking about the market research which is where we got on the sales rank and I interrupted you so we’ll jump in. Ty:                   Good question. Nile:                 We’ll jump back in together and go through the process now. Ty:                   Alright. Awesome question there. So now if you’re going in, you found a topic that you want to go in and publish your eBook around. Let’s say you want to publish an eBook on how to create your -- how to increase your energy levels throughout the day. So the next thing would -- you have two choices. You can either go in and write it yourself, right. Now, when I say write it yourself, some of the individuals that are listening right now may be thinking I don’t have time, I don’t have three, four, five, six months a year to go in and write an eBook. Well, here’s the good news. Your eBooks don’t have to be long. I find that some of the bestsellers are eBooks that are 40, 50, 60, 70 pages. In fact, I never publish anything that’s more than 75 pages. EBooks traditionally of this sort especially nonfiction are shorter than what you would normally find in a book store. They’re shorter than what you would normally find in a physical book so you don’t have to go in and pet 200, 300 pages. So that’s the good news especially if you’re writing this. The other option of getting your eBook created is to hire someone so to hire a ghost writer. Now there’s several different outsourcing sites that you can use to go in and hire a ghostwriter and usually for 50 to 60 page eBook I’ll pay about 150 dollars to have someone write that eBook for me. You can find a ghostwriter on sites like eLance which is E-L-A-N-C-E.com or Guru which is G-U-R-U.com and then there’s another site called Upwork U-P-W-O-R-K.com that I like to use. And I’ve actually hired dozens and dozens of ghostwriters to write eBooks for me over the years, over the last five years actually of doing this and the beautiful thing about this is it’s a win-win situation so you have people that are on these sites that love writing, that are awesome researchers, right. That are great when it comes to grammar and punctuation and spelling and all of the stuff that I’m terrible at and you pay them and they provide you with a finished product. So it’s -- like I said. It’s an awesome win-win. Nile:                 I know. I’m drooling at the process. I’m drooling at the process. So we were then talking about after we sort of get the content created, then what? Because I know that there’s some format stuff that goes on but I don’t understand all of it so -- Ty:                   Absolutely. So once you go to kdp.amazon.com if you’re listening right now you might want to write that down. kdp.amazon.com. That’s Amazon’s -- that’s actually where you can go in and sign up for your Kindle publishing account. It’s free. They don’t charge anything to go in and sign up. once you’re in you’ll see that there’s an area where you can actually upload your eBook so in most cases, nine times out of 10 you’re going to have your finished product returned to you in a Microsoft Word format. Okay. On some of the same sites that I mentioned, you can also go in and hire someone to format this eBook for you. Amazon has specifics when it comes to formatting and it’s -- there’s a ton of different things that you can do as far as formatting. You can upload the Word document as is which I don’t recommend or you can go in and hire someone to format it for you which is very inexpensive. It’s about 20 bucks to do so. You can also find folks on Fiver that will do it for you for about 10 bucks. Fiver is F-I-V-E-R.com and on that site you’ll find folks that have actually formatted hundreds and thousands of eBooks so very specialist in formatting. And the formatting, I actually -- I don’t do myself. I wouldn’t do it unless you have a good amount of time. I would also outsource that as well. And then once you have it formatted the other thing that you’re going to need is a cover. You can find a graphic designer on any of the three sites that I just mentioned as well as on fiver.com as well. And the covers are not expensive either so you can get this entire thing done for just about 200 bucks. Now, the beautiful thing about that is once you make it available on Amazon if it’s a seller because not every single one will be a home run but you can create a monthly residual, recurring income stream. I have eBooks that I published four and a half years ago that are still generating me income every day to this day. So that’s a bit of a process. The first thing is step one, go in, do your market research, find out what people actually want to buy, what they want to learn about, what they want to read, in what ways they want to be entertained. Step two is to go in and create the actual eBook and you can write it yourself or you can go in and outsource it which I would -- I prefer to actually outsource it. And then step three is to actually go in and after you’ve had it formatted, you’ve had your cover created, go in and publish it to your Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing account. And then the next thing is to watch the sales roll in and that’s where the addictiveness of it starts to kick in because for the first three years of me doing this -- I’m not so bad now. I went to a couple of meetings. But the first three years of me doing this, I would literally get out of bed in the middle of the night, login into my Amazon account, hit refresh to check my sales and I’m just looking at the sales coming in and it’s a beautiful thing to wake up in the morning and you’ve made money because someone over in the UK or someone in Australia has purchased an eBook that you’ve made available for sale. Nile:                 I have to ask you Ty. Do you mind if we get really personal? Ty:                   Let’s do it. Nile:                 Yeah. I’m curious about two things. The first thing is the most money you’ve made from an eBook. That may be too personal of a question so if you want to give us a vague answer that’s fine. But I’m curious about that because you’ve told us sort of the process and the investment. So let me ask that question. Ty:                   So I’ve got an eBook right now. One single eBook that makes me about 4200 dollars a month. Nile:                 That’s not small change. Ty:                   No, it’s not. And again, I want to put a disclaimer out there. Not every eBook will do that because I also have some that make me about seven bucks a month. But once you do this and -- the key is the research, right. That’s the key. The key is to find out what people want and then the second thing is to not overcomplicate the process. It really is -- now, there’s a few things in between each of those steps but it really is as simple as doing the research, having your content created and then publishing it. And the reason why it’s that easy is because you’re dealing with Amazon. Amazon is a multibillion dollar company and if you think back to when Amazon first got started. Their initial goal was -- do you remember what their initial goal was Nile or Jordan? Nile:                 I really don’t. Jordan:            I think it was just to sell books. Ty:                   It was to sell books but it was to become the world’s largest book store. Jordan:            Oh, that’s right. Ty:                   Okay. And you can't do that alone. Like you can't do that with just the published authors that are out there and just the folks that are submitting manuscripts so the way you do that is if someone over there is really smart -- I don’t know if it was Jeff Bezos or if it was sort of his cabinet members, right. But someone said why don’t we just open up our platform to anyone that has content? Nile:                 I love this and I know that we’re going to learn a whole lot more about this. This is where you need to hang around, go with us to segment three. Jordan:            Hello and thank you again for joining us. This is Nile’s trusty sidekick and co-host Jordan and I’d like to take a moment to share with you how you can benefit from Nile’s incredible experience using social media for real business success. If you’re an entrepreneur or thinking about starting your own business then using social media might be the most cost effective and time effective way to get your business real results. That’s not to mention much of what you can do to get those terrific results on social media is even free. Take Linked In for example. Nile always says it’s the best social media platform for business today. And that’s why I recommend you go to linkedinfocus.com and start your social media education today. Sign up for Nile’s free tips, tricks and strategies. Once again, it’s free and it only takes a few seconds. Go to linkedinfocus.com today. You’ll be glad you did. Nile:                 Ty, you’ve been blowing us away with all you’ve told us and I understand that some of your books -- you said it’s as little as seven bucks a month. I suspect some of the books it’s as little as zero but you’ve also encourages us where you’ve had some books that have been making thousands a month. Ty:                   Absolutely. I went from nothing to 50000 dollars on average. Now I do between 40000 to 50000 a month especially during the holidays. You’ll see those numbers shoot up. And it’s been a journey but it’s something that if you get involved and you stick with it and you make that first sell. The first sell is all that’s required. Then you’ll see the possibilities. Jordan:            I’ve got a question for you. Actually, I have two for you Ty. Ty:                   Let’s do it. Jordan:            Early on in segment one you mentioned picking up some marketing books and then you went about mentioning as far as I’m concerned the holy trinity of direct marketing Gary Halbert, Gary Bencivenga and Dan Kennedy. We didn’t stop Ty by the way to let our listeners know what kind of huge gold nugget that is right there. I mean, we want to talk about using anything that those guys read as a bible. I do that all the time. I think those are incredible, incredible copywriters. My question is do you -- how much of their influence do you include when you are actually building the actual content of your books? I mean, they’re sales copywriter guys and I think most people without really knowing who they are and what they’re about they’d say okay. Well, great. You can use them to sell but can you really use their techniques and their strategies to actually write the content? I’m curious. Ty:                   And that’s a great question. I love that. No one has ever asked that so I can tell that I’m talking to someone who really loves marketing, right. And I love that. But as far as the actual content, no. I don’t use any of their techniques to write the content. But where I do use their techniques is in writing the title for my eBook, right. Because your title has to be something that’s attractive, it has to be something that stands out to a degree without being just totally overblown. It has to be something that answers the questions that your prospects are subconsciously asking themselves in their head, right. when we’re looking at these eBooks on -- when we’re looking at something on Amazon or when you’re just shopping in general online you don’t know this but you’re looking for something specific and it’s the title or it’s something about that item that you click onto and you ultimately buy that has grabbed your attention. So it might be the title, it might be a description and the description is basically sales copy so that’s where I’ll use a lot of these principles. In the title and then in my eBooks’ descriptions. I’ll go in, I’ll use bullet points, I’ll use some of the _____42:31 principles. Attention, interest and things like that. And then I’ll just talk about how the prospect is going to feel after they’ve read this book, what can they accomplish, what can it help them with. So you start to inflict those emotions. You get the emotions involved there so if they’re at the point where they say okay. This is definitely what I want. And then you’ve got to back that up by making sure that the book actually delivers on what you’ve written in that description, right. what you’ve written in that sales copy because if not Amazon has this amazing review system where if your book doesn’t match up to what’s written in the description you’re going to get negative reviews. But if it does match up you’re going to get positive reviews and the more positive reviews, the more sales you’re going to get because people are going to look at those reviews and they’ll say this is awesome. This is what I’m looking for. Most of my purchases when I buy on Amazon -- I bought a USB extender today and I bought it based off of the reviews. It had like 3000 four and a half star reviews and I’m like this has to be good. Jordan:            Man, that’s great. All of that is just solid, solid great advice. So speaking of sales copy and how you actually write your description I’m curious and maybe I’m jumping ahead a little bit Nile. I’d like to know how you promote your books. Ty:                   So here’s the things. I don’t put -- and I want everyone that’s listening including you and Nile -- Nile and Jordan. I don’t put a lot of time, I don’t put a lot of money into any one eBook unless I know it’s going to sell. So with that said, I don’t go in and market and promote them until I see where I’ve gotten at least 10 sales. Alright. Because at that point, if I get 10 sales I know that I can get 10000 sales. It’s just a matter of me making it available, me making more people aware of it. Jordan:            Wow. Ty:                   And that’s it. And then what I’ll do is I’ll go in and start using some Facebook advertising and that’s probably -- at this point that’s the most what I do. And I actually just started using Facebook advertising about a year ago. Before that it was all internal. I mean, all of my sales just came directly from Amazon because Amazon -- they’ll promote your eBooks especially if it’s something that’s selling. If it’s something that has a demand you’ll see where -- and you guys have probably noticed this, right? When you go to Amazon, you buy one item and it’ll say people who purchased this item also purchased -- so Amazon will start to promote your books and that way they’ll send folks that buy eBooks that are of similar content, emails and they’ll say we noticed that you purchased this book. Here’s something else that you might be interested in. so up until last year I really didn’t do any marketing outside of Amazon. Nile:                 So do you currently work exclusively with Amazon? Do you use any of the other eBook publishers or do you just stay with Amazon? Ty:                   Great question. I do. I actually do publish to Barnes and Nobles NOOK platform and Smash Words as well but that’s only again after I’ve gotten 10 sales. Can I share something with you that I think will be pretty beneficial to your listeners? Nile:                 Oh, absolutely. I mean, we’re all hanging off the edge of our seats waiting for it so yeah. Ty:                   Awesome. So here’s the process, right. Again, I said I don’t like to put time and too much money -- I’m a -- I hope this doesn’t offend anyone. I’m a black Jew. Alright. My name is Ty Cohen. Alright. So I hustle like hell and I save like hell. Alright. So the black part hustles, the Jewish part is the saver, right. So I like to make sure that I’m not just throwing money away and I think everyone that’s listening should do the same thing. So with that, you don’t put a lot of time, a lot of effort into this stuff until you know that you’re going to get a seller. Now, once you get 10 sales, right. And I like to say 10 sales within a one month period. That’s pretty lenient because it takes time for your eBook to get into the system and for it to get visibility. But once you get those 10 sales then you can open up the floodgate. Alright. The next thing I do is I start promoting it using Facebook ads. And again, I’m very, very cautious with how much money I spend, right. I’ll set my daily budget to about three bucks initially a day. I’ve made a mistake of setting my daily budget to a 100 bucks, 200 bucks a day when I first started and it was just a nightmare so you don’t want to -- I’ve made the mistake already. Just don’t follow my path in that regard. The next thing I’ll do is once I start to get about a 100 sales, right. I’ll have the eBook translated into other languages so Spanish, right. I might have it translated into French and there’s a few other languages. But I always start with Spanish first. And then the next thing I will do is I’ll then have it turned into an audio book version and you can make that available on Audible and that’s a whole another call. And then the next thing I do is I’ll use Amazon’s sister company which is called Create space and I’ll turn an eBook into a physical book. So now, why am I doing this, why am I turning it into an audio book, why am I translating it into Spanish and why am I turning it into a physical book? Because if you have the interest in new digital book, you best believe that there’s folks that are Spanish speakers and they don’t know how to read English, right. And they want to buy that book too but they just can't because you’ve just made it available in English. You best believe that there’s folks like myself who -- I’ve got about 400 audio books on CD that are around here that drives my wife nuts because I just don’t have the time to read physical books, right. So if you don’t have an audio version of it then you’re losing out on those folks. If you don’t have the physical version of it, you’re losing out on folks like my wife who just loves to read physical books. She won't read a Kindle book, right. And I know a lot of this can sound like it’s a lot and it could be overwhelming but each of these steps are actually very easy to do. You can do each of these in a day, right. And it’s just an awesome way to continue to add onto those income streams. I would never have an eBook that’s selling and is doing well without adding the other components onto it because it’s just -- you’re just missing out on money that’s just sitting there for you to take it. Nile:                 That sounds like when you’ve found where the fish are and they’re biting you want to make sure you put more lines in the water and give them more things to bite on. Ty:                   I love that. That’s exactly that. I’m going to steal that and I’m going to use that as Ty Cohen original. Nile:                 Ty Cohen original inspired by -- there you go. Well, I appreciate that. I’ve looked at a number of links that you have on your website and your website will be shared out on our social media business hour page as well as our Facebook page. It’s episode 120. But you’ve got a lot of great things. You’ve got great training, you’ve got some YouTube videos and all of that that we will also share links for. But I’ve got one final question I want to ask because we’re getting close to Halloween. A lot of people are going to listen to this right at that time or maybe even over the Halloween holiday. Do you do seasonal books just out of curiosity? Ty:                   I do not. Nile:                 So that’s something you don’t do. I know some people that have been successful with that. I was just very curious. There are people that specialize in that. Ty:                   Yeah. There are. And there’s a lot of money that could be made in seasonal books. I mean, the Christmas stuff, the cook books and -- I mean, it’s just a ton of things that are out there, right. But so I don’t publish books that deal with fads, right. And I don’t publish books that are seasonal because I want to make sure that the effort that I put in is going to generate me year round profits. Nile:                 I love that. I love that. All the way around the year. Ty:                   That’s right. Nile:                 Well, I know that you’ve got a special offer for us. We’ll have the link shared up for the special offer. Just go to socialmediabusinesshour.com remember again this is episode 120 where you’ll find all the details but share with us this great special offer you have. I can't wait to hear. Ty:                   Absolutely. I have a program called Kindle Cash Flow in which I share this entire system. I mean, I share everything. Whether you’re someone who’s totally new to it the way I was when I first got started or you’re someone who may already have a few Kindle eBooks that are up and they’re just not selling the way that you anticipate them selling or if you’re someone that’s even more advantaged and you’re already doing well. You’re making five, six, seven, 10000 dollars a month doing this. This program that I put together has actually taken everything that I’ve learned, everything that I’ve studied and it’s just totally, totally just one package. And why I put this together. When I first put it together I said to myself -- my daughter as 14 at the time. She had just turned 14. And I said I want to be able to structure this thing in a way that my daughter Maya -- that’s her name, Maya. Would be able to take the course and without coming in my office and bugging me and saying dad, how do I do step six, how do I do step seven. Be able to take the course and follow along. So you get to actually look over my shoulder and you watch on my screen as I do things and you see what I do and why I do it. The rhyme and reason behind it. So I put this course together in that manner so that Maya could take it and get results and it’s actually worked. I’ve taught it to just literally thousands and thousands of people. We actually have close to 700 members in our Facebook group, our private Facebook group for members only and we’ve got folks in there that are doing 20000 dollars a month. I’ve got a guy Darren Devery who’s one of my students. He’s -- Darren’s about 67 years old. I’m really proud of him. He’s from Perth from Australia and he’s just killing it. And then we’ve got folks that are just total beginners that have just come on board and they’re just finding their way. And it’s an awesome place to come in and ask questions and get updates when things are updated. So with that said, that is the entire program and for your listeners, for the social media business hour listeners I’m going to give anyone that wants it 50 percent off of the original retail price that I normally sell this program for. Nile:                 Man, that is absolutely awesome and really we can't thank you enough Ty. You have shared just extremely valuable content and I know that I’ve learned a whole bunch. I know that I’m not alone so I want to thank you for joining us but to the listener, I want to thank you too. Hopefully, you’ve learned a few new ideas or concepts, maybe you were just reminded of a few things you already know but you haven’t been doing to improve or grow your business. Our desire is that you take just one of the things that you learned or were reminded of today and you apply it to your business this week. We know that a small change can make a big difference and I’m committed to bringing you at least one new idea each week that you can implement. So go back and identify just that one small change that you can make and see what a big difference it will make for you. So until next week, this is Nile Nickel. Now, go make it happen. Woman:          Social media business hour is powered by linkedinfocus.com. For show notes, updates and to pick up the latest tips and tricks head over to socialmediabusinesshour.com. Until next time. Thanks for listening. 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This Week’s Episode I’m continuing my Crochet & Knitting Design & Self-Publishing Mini Series by talking about publishing your pattern. I’ll be exploring six different online marketplaces in depth (Craftfoxes, Craftsy, Etsy, Kollabora, Patternfish, and Ravelry), and will be briefly talking about other self-publishing options (such as your blog/website, ebook vendors, and printing patterns). This episode is longer than usual, so I’m including some time stamps if you need to pause in the middle of the show. You can scroll down past the time stamps for detailed show notes. 0:00 – 17:25 Introduction and announcements. Feedback on pricing after Episode 40. Factors to consider when exploring different options for self-publishing. Marie’s thoughts on selling directly from your own site. The Alexa rankings of each of the six marketplaces we focus on today. 17:26 – 33:50 Interview with Lisa Fulmer, Senior Editor at CraftFoxes, and overview of CraftFoxes. 33:51 – 52:43 Interview with Stefanie Japel, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Craftsy, and overview of Craftsy. Changes to Craftsy’s affiliate program since the interview. If you sign up to be an affiliate, please let them know I referred you! A “work-around” for non-EU designers selling on sites that don’t collect VAT MOSS. 2019 Update: Craftsy is now Bluprint and is not currently inviting new patterns for its marketplace.  52:44 – 1:08:46 Interview with Lindsey Ibarra, who manages Editoral, Social, and Trends at Kollabora, and overview of Kollabora. 1:08:47 – 1:26:09 Interview with Julia Grunau, Prime Minister at Patternfish, and overview of Patternfish. 2019 Update: Patternfish is now closed. 1:26:10 – 1:32:42 An overview of selling on Etsy. Marie’s thoughts on patterns as passive income. 1:32:43 – 1:35:24 An overview of selling on Ravelry. 1:35:25 – 1:45:28 The pros and cons of selling on these six marketplaces. 1:45:29 – 1:48:22 Self-publishing through mainstream ebook sites. 1:48:23 – 1:50:51 Self-publishing printed patterns. 1:50:52- 1:56:57 So where should YOU self-publish? and conclusion Pricing (again) There has been some interesting conversation in the Creative Yarn Entrepreneurs group on Facebook about pricing since the last episode in this series. Many designers noted that their more expensive patterns sell better than their less expensive patterns. Food for thought: Does that mean you may be underpricing your patterns? Or does it mean that you have correctly gauged the demand for more popular patterns and increased their prices? Let me know what you think in the comments! Publishing Your Patterns We’re going to focus on six different marketplaces in this episode. I find these four questions helpful to think about when you consider whether a marketplace is the right place (or “a right place”) to sell your patterns. Who is your target audience and how much does it overlap with the site’s target audience? What is the cost of selling on that site? Consider your own time for setting up shop and adding patterns as well as listing fees and merchant charges when sales are made. What kind of exposure can you get from this site? Consider both the traffic the site receives and how likely it is that your work will be seen through search or be featured by the site. How easy is the site to use? The ease-of-use may be higher on sites that you are already using, or sites that have a better user interface. I also shared the current (as of mid-July, 2015) Alexa rankings for each of these sites. Alexa is a site that ranks websites based on their traffic. Please use caution when interpreting these rankings. With the exception of Patternfish, all of these sites do more than sell crochet and knitting patterns, and therefore, the overall traffic is not necessarily indicative of the popularity of pattern sales! The sites, ranked in order, are: Etsy: 43 (US)/157 (Worldwide) Ravelry: 647 (US)/2,156 (Worldwide) Craftsy: 828 (US)/2,801 (Worldwide) Kollabora: 31,166 (US)/132,671 (Worldwide) Patternfish: 67,971 (US)/315,301 (Worldwide) Craftfoxes: 70,543 (US)/186,421 (Worldwide) I also talked about the challenges of selling patterns directly from your own website. CraftFoxes I interviewed Lisa Fulmer, the Senior Editor of CraftFoxes, a multi-craft social network with a marketplace. You can find information about becoming a CraftFoxes seller here. Some of the key features to consider about CraftFoxes are… Their marketplace is oriented towards physical/tangible item sales. They do not support digital/instant downloads at this time. Pattern sellers will need to email the pattern to the buyer, or bundle patterns with a physical item (like a yarn or supply kit). There is a $0.10 listing fee (which lasts for 3 months), but the first 50 listings are free. CraftFoxes also deducts 4% from any items sold. Additionally, PayPal will deduct their standard fees. CraftFoxes is not involved with the collection of VAT MOSS, a tax for digital sales to buyers in European Union member countries. Knitting and crocheting are the most popular crafts on the site. In particular, amigurumi, wearables, and beginner-friendly projects and patterns are very popular. For designers without a blog (or who want to amplify their blog posts), you can also share free patterns or projects with links back to your patterns. You can learn more about CraftFoxes in this episode of one of my favorite crafty shows, the Etsy Conversations Podcast. Craftsy I interviewed Stefanie Japel, the Senior Acquisitions Editor at Craftsy, a multi-craft site that features online courses, a craft supply marketplace, a digital pattern marketplace for independent designers, and more.  2019 Update: Craftsy is now Bluprint and is not currently inviting new patterns for its marketplace.  Kollabora I interviewed Lindsey Ibarra, who manages Editoral, Social, and Trends at Kollabora, a social network and DIY/crafts community. You can find information about setting up a Kollabora pattern shop here. Some of the key features to consider about Kollabora are… The marketplace is curated. Apply to be a brand here. There are no listing fees, but Kollabora collects a 20% commission on each sale. Kollabora is not involved in the collection of VAT MOSS. Seller support is available at partners AT kollabora DOT com. Sewing is the most popular craft on Kollabora and it also has a vibrant knitting community. Crochet is the third most popular craft on the site. Kollabora’s users are younger and aesthetic-oriented. Most are multi-craftual so beginner level patterns do well. Tops and shawls are very popular. Kollabora users can share tutorials and videos and host make-a-longs on the site.Kollabora likes to feature their designers in their newsletters, so if you sign up to sell patterns on their site, be sure to keep them informed of your latest activities! You can also share pictures of your projects for patterns sold (or distributed for free) elsewhere. Kollabora projects can also include links to your blog or shop, and you don’t need to sign in to see projects. Patternfish I interviewed Julia Grunau, the Prime Minister at Patternfish, a site exclusively focused on selling crochet, knitting, and weaving patterns. 2019 Update: Patternfish is now closed.  Etsy Etsy declined to be interviewed, but you can learn more about opening an Etsy shop here. You may also want to listen to these previous episodes to learn more about Etsy: Episode 9: Selling on Etsy, an Interview with Ijeoma Eleazu from the Etsy Conversations Podcast Episode 28: Indie Craft Fairs, Negotiation, Freelancing, the Hazards of Etsy and More with Grace Dobush Episode 29: Selling on Etsy, Passive Income, and Using Trending Keywords with Alexandra Tavel from Two of Wands Let’s talk about Etsy’s fees. There is a $0.20 listing fee (which lasts for 4 months). Etsy also deducts 3.5% from any items sold. Additionally, PayPal will deduct their standard fees and Etsy will deduct additional fees if the customer uses Direct Checkout instead of PayPal. Etsy has taken an unusual position on VAT MOSS, which you can read more about here. Essentially, they are taking legal responsibility for it, so as a seller, you do not need to worry about it. While Etsy has a huge volume of traffic, it can be difficult for a buyer to navigate. For this reason, I’ve observed that shops with superior, staged photography and where the sellers do a lot of promotion tend to be more successful than those who assume that keyword optimization with drive all of their sales. I would also surmise that beginner-friendly patterns would do the best, as many visitors are casual crafters or DIY enthusiasts who aren’t necessarily master crocheters or knitters. Ravelry Ravelry also declined to be interviewed, but you can learn more about getting started as a Ravelry designer here. (You must be a member and logged in to view this page.) Let’s talk about Ravelry’s fees. There are no Ravelry fees for pattern sales under $30/month. For sales from $30 to $1,500/month, Ravelry collects 3.5% of your sales. There is a discount for designers who sell over $1,500/month. In addition, PayPal collects their standard fees. Ravelry is now responsible for the collection of VAT MOSS. They previously had a partnership with Love-Knitting for VAT MOSS collection, so you can choose to sell your patterns to EU customers on both sites. 2019 Update: LoveKnitting is now LoveCrafts. Sign up here as a LoveCrafts designer. You can list all of your patterns in Ravelry’s database, whether or not you choose to sell or make them available for free on the site. You can have both free and for sale patterns available for instant download in your pattern shop on Ravelry. Ravelry is the only site with the opportunity to easily wholesale your patterns local yarn shops. You can learn more about the In-Store Sales program here. I suspect that Ravelry is the only one of these six sites where more complex patterns could be popular. Mainstream ebook sites You may also want to consider selling your patterns on mass marketplace/ebook marketplaces for use on ereaders. You can learn more about becoming an ebook publisher on each of these sites by following the links below. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing here. iBooks Author here. Kobo Writing Life here. Nook Press here. Smashwords here. My assumption is most crafters are not seeking highly specialized patterns on these sites and that beginner-friendly projects would be more likely to succeed on these platforms. These sites require different file types, and formatting images for non-PDF can be challenging. Pricing standards are also quite different for ebooks when compared to individual pattern prices on the six marketplaces discussed earlier. I would recommend starting with the craft-focused sites using PDF patterns and later expanding into these other marketplaces after further research unless you have prior experience with formatting .mobi or .epub files. Self-publishing print patterns These days, it seems the demand for single, print patterns is waning. Many yarn shops are moving towards Ravelry’s In-Store Sales Program. However, if you do wish to self-publish print patterns, I know several designers use print-on-demand services like MagCloud. So, where should I sell my patterns? As I mention in the show, I think that most designers will have more success if they can list their patterns on multiple sites. While there is certainly overlap among the dedicated crocheters and knitters, there are many potential buyers who may use only one of the sites but not the others. However, when you are first starting out, you may want to choose one or two sites that you seem the most suited based on the four criteria (audience, cost, exposure, ease-of-use) mentioned earlier. Once you feel more confident, you can expand into other marketplaces. If you enjoyed this episode The Creative Yarn Entrepreneur Show is no longer broadcasting. Episodes are available as a service to the yarn community. This episode originally aired in June, 2015. Be aware that content may be outdated. 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Many authors think that writing a book is very hard and that once you finish your book, the rest is a piece of cake. Well I would argue about that. For example personally for me the writing process is more enjoyable and much easier than everything else that needs to be done after that. Once you have completed your manuscript there are so many things that you need to do after. It may even make some writers feel overwhelmed and confused. So let’s understand what should you do once you finish writing your book? What are the things that you will have to deal with. Get feedback Who you should get feedback from? Well many rush to their friends and family but I personally think that it is not a good thing. First of all – they are people who might not be able to be objective. Second, they may feel bad about hurting your feeling and may not provide any negative feedback. And the third thing is that they may not be your audience. For example I write women’s fiction and it is logical that my husband is not the most suitable person to approach for feedback. So try to find readers, who enjoy reading books similar to the one you’ve written. Consider modifications based on feedback Just because you have received feedback does not mean that you have to change the book based on absolutely all the points that were brought up. Try to objectively evaluate what you received and make those changes that will benefit your book and which were objectively true. Self-edit Your manuscript has to be self edited. In fact maybe you will need few rounds of self-edit. One before you send out the text             for feedback and one after you have made the final changes to the manuscript. Proofread There will always be typos and grammar mistakes which you have not caught so you should take that fact as granted.           Ideally you should get professional help; but if you can’t afford it, have at least 4 to 5 different people go through your manuscript. That way you will minimize the remaining errors. Professional editing Many authors I have interviewed so far have mentioned the importance of having professional your book. It definitely will make the experience of reading your book much better one. It will also ensure that your book ensures good quality text. Research your competitors Ideally you will have to do that before even starting writing then book, but if you have not done it yet n case you have not done it do some research. See which books in your genre are bestsellers now. What are they about? What do readers like about them? How are they priced? What do their covers look like? And so on. Make sure you have the picture of where are you getting into and how to make sure that your book is at least as good as other books in there and make sure you know what differentiates your book from the others. Decide about the platform Yes, Amazon is still the obvious market leader but it is not the only self- publishing platform out there. You can also consider – B&N, iBooks, Kobo, etc. You have to decide whether you would like to concentrate exclusively on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing or embrace all the possibilities. Format the book Yeah… that is yet another boring thing that needs to be done. Each platform requires a specific format of the book and you have to make sure that the book is formatted well and it is easy for the eye to read. Choose your category Choosing the right category and subcategory is very crucial. It will help you with your books rankings and visibility. That is why you will need to spend some time to choose the best category for your book. Set your book’s price Come up with the pricing strategy for your book. Look for reviewers Make sure that by the time your book goes live you have at least several reviews up. Send potential reviewers a free copy of your book in advance. Choose a title Coming up with the title may be very difficult. But you have to have it ready for one of the most important part of the whole thing – that is getting the book cover. Imagine your cover Readers WILL judge your book by its cover. The cover is what will make people either click on your book or not. So it would be nice if you could spend some time to imagine your cover concept. Even if you will not be the one creating it – you still need to provide the designer with a detailed brief. Find a book cover designer ok – now that you know how you want your book to look like you will need to find someone who will make one for you. Unless you are a designer please don’t make your cover yourself. It will look unprofessional and harm your book on a long run. Write a book description Writing a good book description is a challenge. The description is your sales pitch and it has to make people want to know about your book more – therefore want to buy and read it. Publish the book ok.. only now you can finally publish the book. As you can see I did not cover the marketing side, neither I spoke about the book launch strategies. What I covered were the obligatory things that you will need to do with your manuscript in order to make sure that it becomes a book ready to be published. So please don’t think that if you have finished writing your book, you’re done. As you already saw – there is a lot more to do than the writing. Meanwhile.. before you get there, make sure you do complete writing the book you have started! Oh and in case you don't wanna deal with all that and need affordable but good quality solution check out our new service! 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Do you know that there are folks out there making five figures a month publishing books directly via Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing? There are and today we talk to Steve Scott, who makes anywhere from $15,000 to $60,000 a month from his publishing empire and all of it is through Amazon’s KDP program. Whether you’re […] The post MBP #38 – How to Dominate Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing with Steve Scott appeared first on Microblogger.