what's going on everybody so in today's video I'm gonna be giving you a review
of publisher rocket as well as telling you everything you need to know about
using the software and it's a software I've used very extensively over the last
several years for being a self-published author and having done over 15 different
books all available on Amazon but I'm always looking for the best tools and
resources to help you become a better book author book publisher a book
marketer and you know just sell more books in general so that being said
please smash that like button and let's jump into it okay so to start off with
you know what exactly is publisher rocket well basically it is a software
that helps you find keywords book ideas categories competitor data monthly sales
projections it basically gives you a ton of data that would be very difficult and
time-consuming to do if you were just going to try to compile it yourself so
it could be very valuable as an author having all that information and knowing
you know okay this niche sells the most but it's kind of competitive or maybe
this niche is super competitive and it doesn't make any money or maybe these
keywords are the most profitable keywords so I'm gonna get into it a
little bit deeper but it gives you a lot of data that's gonna make you you know
it's gonna help you sell more books and a little background on the software so
it was created by a self publisher and author named Dave Chesson and one thing
I really like about it he seems to be very still involved with the software I
think like every other week every month or so there's always some new update
that's being done and you know an update free of charge obviously so it seems
like he's really trying to create just like the ultimate resource and tool for
authors it's not like some programs that you might buy and you know you pay like
thousands of dollars then you just never hear from them again
I get the sense that Dave is like very encouraging a feedback you know any type
of feedback he'll really look into it and possibly you know change it up for
the next version for the next update so over the last several years I have used
the software quite a bit and honestly I wish I had known about it sooner because
I post a lot of stuff on Amazon that if I had been using this software I never
would have published in the first place and the reason being is I would have
found you know the keywords that I was targeting my book around or my topic
around and I would have found that oh it only makes you know $20 per month you
know it's probably not a good idea to publish that type
content so it can be very very helpful and you know it's gonna make you more
money if you actually use it and you know apply the data from it okay so
there's basically four different ways that this software it can help you
number one it's gonna help you come up with better keywords more profitable
keywords as well as giving you competitiveness scores on the different
keywords and subjects so that's going to help you just obviously be more
strategic with your book publishing because some people just publish we're
into books and they don't do any type of research as to what's already selling
and that's one of the most important keys on Amazon are really selling
anything find out what's working and model that and kind of making your own
you know I've seen everyone a copy somebody but it's good if you already
know what type of books sell really well number two it's going to help you find
the best category so that you can get discovered more and also hit the
bestseller status list on Amazon when you're publishing through KDP you can
actually choose two categories however and he actually Dave actually has a blog
post about this on this website there's a way you can actually get into ten
different categories and I've definitely basically all of my books and so this
category feature on publisher rocket will help you choose the top ten
categories that your book should be in because if you're too broad of a
category let's say it's gonna be very hard to rank you know number one let's
say just like the business niche however if you're in some like pretty obscure
subcategory within the business niche it's still relevant to your topic
obviously you know you can have a much better chance of ranking as as the
bestseller possibly even a number one bestseller and publisher rocket will
give you information as you know as far as how many books you need to sell in
that sub niche to become a best seller and it gives you a lot of helpful
information about just the competitiveness of categories in
addition to keywords number three it will show you a lot of competitor data
you know as far as how much other authors and books are making every
single month in sales for the further ebook as well as for the paperback
because actually one thing to know some books they're gonna sell a ton of
paperback and some might only sell like five dollars a month in eBook I was
actually about to publish a book you know I was looking at it you know
according to publishing rocky did only made like five dollars a month or
something like that however the paperback version because
this is a pretty unique little niche the paperback version sold you know
hundreds of dollars every single month so it's a very you know pretty cool tool
there and then lastly it's going to help you come up with AMS keywords so if
you've ever run an ad campaign on the Amazon a paid ad campaign is called AMS
it can be kind of difficult to come up with the best keywords so you know
theoretically you could have hundreds of keywords that you're targeting so this
tool is gonna help you really narrow down your focus and come up with the
best AMS keywords for your paid ad campaigns okay so next up who does this
software work for well works for fiction authors nonfiction authors it works for
anybody that's selling books on Amazon because no matter what niche you're in
there's going to be bestsellers it's going to be ones that are so much
bestsellers and everything in between and if you really take the time to
optimize your book before you write it before you publish it you can be a lot
more strategic and presumably make a lot more money so highly recommend it okay
so next up what is the cost of publisher rocket well as of now it's $97 so
basically $100 it's just a one-time fee there's no monthly fees or anything like
that and as far as the cost goes you know I would say it's more than worth it
I think honestly Dave if you're watching this I think you could charge two or
three times its amount of people who still buy it because it's a very
valuable tool and if you're serious about publishing you know and you use
this resource it's gonna pay you back you know tenfold I mean I can't
guarantee that but if you use it correctly you're gonna make
significantly more than $100 from using this resource another question people
ask all the time is you know do other authors use it you know how
well-respected is it in the industry and I would say this you know there's a lot
of big-name authors that use the software and maybe some big-name authors
that you know aren't even publicized as using the software I know Pat Flynn uses
it Jeff Goins Joanna Penn and you know many probably many other best-selling
authors so so as an author you know you should always be looking for that for
every possible way you know to sell more books and even if it only help you sell
one percent mortgage which I kind of doubt this would I think it would be a
pretty significant increase to be honest but you should be looking for every
available resource to become a better book publisher and this is definitely
one of them now as far as the ease of use because some software programs can
be kind of difficult to use dave has a lot of tutorials on this website
which are very helpful because when I first started using it I kind of knew
what I was in but not really I mean it's a fairly simple type of software but he
has a lot of just you know free tutorials that you can watch on his
website on his blog that really go through in detail how to maximize the
software now as far as competitors go there are a lot of competitors in this
space I think there's like three or four other main competitors and to be honest
I haven't used them I'm sure they're probably pretty good but I've had such a
great experience using it myself that I just really have no reason to use a
similar or comparable service and from the reviews I can tell it seems like
people people prefer publish to rocket over most of the other ones another
thing to note though regards to the competition is that this is the most
expensive one for my knowledge I mean it's a hundred bucks so it's not like
you're paying you know thousands of dollars but you know if you're looking
for a more affordable option you know you might you could possibly go
with one of the competitors that being said publisher rocket does have a 30-day
money-back guarantee so if you watch my video and get really excited but then
you download the software and you think it's the worst program ever you can you
can return it free of charge you get your ninety seven dollars back but you
know I don't think that's gonna be the case I think Dave really kind of goes
out of his way to really optimize this for authors and book marketers okay so
we're almost at the end of this video but I have to talk about the downsides
of publisher rocket because no software or program is perfect
so the downsides you know one thing I noticed so I got the program actually
several years ago and there's always been updates being made so and I saw
someone else talk about publisher rocket and they said you know the program is
like in it's an A but it could be an A+ so while well it is really really really
good and I highly recommend it you know there's so there's so improvements that
could be made for example when you're searching by keywords or topics it'd be
a lot easier if you could actually kind of like rank the different keywords just
buy most profitable or least profitable or most difficult or least difficult
because as of right now you kind of have to click on every single keyword to kind
of find out its status as a profitable is enough profitable and you know you
could go through you know 50 or 60 keywords to kind of come up with the
best list and another thing I would say is that as of right now it doesn't track
audiobook sales and I realized it's kind of a different platform so publisher
rocket is great for e-books and pay max with audiobooks it's on the ACX
platform which is through Amazon and audible but it's just a little bit
different so I imagine it probably would be harder to track but as of right now
that's kind of what I've waited for I would love to see data the audiobooks as
well as maybe an easier way to to sort through you know all the most profitable
least profitable and most competitive keywords and subjects and things like
that okay so overall to summarize publisher
rocket I would describe it like this if you are a book publisher author marketer
and you're looking to sell more books on Amazon I would highly recommend you get
this software and there's a link below you can use my link below it's an
affiliate link so I do get a little bit of commission but if you go through
their tutorials if you use the service correctly you're gonna sell more books I
can't guarantee you you're gonna sell a million more books or anything like that
but if you use it correctly you will sell more books it's a very valuable
tool to have as an author and well it's not a perfect software and you know
nothing is and then dave was doing a great job of listening to feedback
constantly updating the software and as far as I can tell it's the best one on
the market out there and not only that but dave has a great ton of resources on
his website which I'll also link below so I would definitely check those out if
you're looking to become more strategic and just improve your skills as a book
marketer book publisher and s father so definitely check out the service use my
link below you can also check out Dave's link and thanks for watching this video
and I will talk to you later alright bye