q4 is one of the most popular and profitable times of the year for selling self-published
books on the amazon kdp platform and that includes no content and low content books and
today we're going to be looking at one of the big niches in q4 and that's a halloween niche
where books sell very well and people do make a lot of money so if you are looking to make money
selling books on amazon self-publishing books using your computer or laptop from home
then follow along as i show you how because now is the time to get those books made
published and onto the amazon platform so that keywords get indexed the books get indexed
and you have a good chance of getting your books ranked in time for halloween
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at google trends and i've put in halloween here and we can see there are these obvious peaks
which correspond to the end of october which is when halloween is and this occurs within q4 now
q4 is basically the months of october november december and what i found each year
is that from around about mid-october onwards book sales of all my books start to rise
and usually peak around about one to two weeks before the the christmas holiday so
it is a very good time of the year to start creating and start publishing books now when i was
looking at halloween i wanted to come up with some niche ideas so how i started was i went over to
publish a rocket and i just did a search for books put in the keyword halloween and it gave me this
list of keywords here which i scrolled through and picked out some niches or sub niches that i could
investigate further on amazon as you can see here we've got coloring book activity book dr.books
dot marker books so these gave me quite a few good ideas to explore further and these are the
sort of things i do when i'm researching niches to create books to publish on amazon so first of all
the one i came across was colouring books now all coloring books are very popular particularly
in q4 and coloring books in halloween sell very well and if we scroll down and have a look at
some of these books we can see a lot of them here are published on the amazon kdp platform because
it says they are independently published if you want to know how to get this information that's
just popping up there that's from a plugin i use called ds amazon quickview and we can see that the
best sellers ranks are pretty reasonable we've got this one here nineteen thousand one hundred four
fifty five thousand twenty six thousand sixty five thousand all very low indeed and
indicates that they are already selling pretty well and also what struck me was that there's
quite a few books here on the first page that don't have lots and lots of reviews which means
that you know if you're just starting out getting those books published you still do have a chance
of competing with those other books that do have lots of reviews and getting your book on the first
page now if we have a look at this book here in particular it's on the first page at the top only
has two reviews and has a best sellers rank of 90 104. so what does this mean in terms of sales
well if we go over over to the book publishing calculator at tckpublishing.com we can see here
that it's selling between 200 to 400 bucks a month so if we take sort of the mid figure we'll go for
a conservative 300 a month and we go over to tangent templates this book's got 202 pages
list price of 15.99 which means estimated royalties are around 6.32 for this particular book
which means it's making around 1 900 a month just from this one book alone and that's at the moment
i'm not even at halloween so we can expect sales to increase as the next two months
go by and in fact if we go back to a book that was published last year and i click on this
show here now this is from a free plug-in i've got installed called helium 10 and i switched
this on purely for this video i normally just get the information from ds amazon quickview
but if you go along to helium 10 you can download this chrome plugin for free and if we click on
that we get this graph here of the best sellers rank and we can see this is over 12 months
and we see a year ago or around about halloween we can see that the bet the best sellers rank dropped
for this particular book to around i think lowest is around about the 50 to 60 mark
then it increases because it's not selling as many books after halloween and again we can see
the best sellers rank is starting to fall already which means these books are already starting to
make sales so really time is of the essence if you're looking to get into this sort of niche now
coloring books are a bit more tricky to to create than some of the other books i'm going to show
you in a moment because you've got to get those interiors and that's the main thing and normally
unless you're a graphic designer or artist it's something you often have to source out or go and
buy them off a place like creative fabrica problem there is that you know these interiors can be used
by other people so you do have to then come to ways of having to modify them to create original
interiors now one more note is that i found within this halloween niche a really good profitable sub
niche and that's going to be the subject of my next video it really is very good selling well
and very popular actually all year round but when it comes to halloween the sales really do
take off so make sure you do hit subscribe hit that notification bell and make sure you turn on
notifications so you do get notification when i create that video because when people watch them
they do tend to get on these niches pretty quickly so you want to be a a head of the crowd if you
like okay so the next niche is halloween activity books and these are books that contain a number of
activities they could be mazes doctor dots a dot marker word search that type of thing and again
scrolling down already the best sellers ranks look pretty good now i've done lots of videos which
i'm going to leave a link to down below in the description that's going to be a resource of links
where i'll give links to the videos i've done on creating interiors for all these different types
of activities and activity books such as you know crosswords doctor dots word searches mazes that
type of things and those videos tell you how to create the interiors there's also going to be a
link to a video that shows you how to create a cover for one of these halloween books and
also a link to some uh to my gumroad shop where i have listed my halloween keywords so refer to
the description where there's lots of resources there okay the next niche number three is the
scissor skills niche and this is where kids can cut around different shapes glue them into other
books or glue them into the the same books that contain these little shapes that they can cut out
and again best sellers ranks there's a few here around the 100 000 mark so again i expect that to
drop over the next two months next popular niche is the maze book and these are very easy to create
and can be done using software which again i show you in a video i've done which i linked to in the
description there's some here again with best sellers ranks around the 100 000 mark at the
moment and a lot of these books don't have many reviews so it's good chance of getting them ranked
on the first page next one is dot markers and this is where kids take these big fat pens that we can
see here and color pages by placing these big flat dots onto the page and coloring pictures doing
that again i've covered this in a video and these sell very well and again they are relatively easy
to create using graphics such as those that you can find on things like um vecteezy and creative
fabrica so that's a good one to get going with the next is word search again very easy to create
using software and these tend to sell very well all year round and i'm just looking at the
best sellers ranks here couple there in the 200 thousands i seem to be at around the 200 000 mark
if we have a look at this one that was published last year we can see that around halloween time
the best sellers rank of this particular book dropped to around five to six thousand so
that's going to be selling even more than the book we just discussed that coloring book so
this is a very good niche to get into the next is halloween crossword books now these are a bit more
tricky to create again you can do it with software but you do have to have all the clues made up
and all the answers as well so that you can create these crosswords but again a niche that sells very
well particularly over the next two months the next one we've got is the doctor dot books very
easy to create very popular so you could create some doctor dots use them in activity books create
more dr dotson do a separate halloween dot to dot activity book as well and this is where kids join
up the dots to create shapes and images on the pages very popular indeed now you'll notice that a
lot of these niches are directed towards kids not exclusively some things like you know cross words
word searches adults will buy but a lot of these are more directed towards kids so bear that in
mind when you are doing the covers for these types of books and the next niche is the composition
notebooks and journals and lined notebooks so these are aligned books blank line books now
when it comes to creating these the interiors are obviously very easy it's just a lined interior and
i find that the covers tend to be divided between patterned covers and or funny covers and funny
quotes are often very popular and a go-to site that i use for getting funny quotes would be
something like pinterest where you can just do a search as i've done here for halloween funny quote
and you'll get lots of different quotes that you can use here and you can put them on the on the
front cover you book now the competition for these types of books is pretty high i mean it says here
actually for halloween composition notebook it's not too high says it's a thousand
for halloween journal it's six 000. so these are going to be more difficult to rank than those
activity books that we've just mentioned and to be honest probably if it was to come between you
know ranking for something less competitive and making more money probably the activity books
would be a better way to go but these are more simpler to create and are good if you are just
starting out in this business and if you do fall into that group someone that's just starting then
i suggest watching this video next where i run through creating your first book and uploading
it to amazon kdp so those are my eight niches for halloween get started now time is of the essence
thank you very much for your time it's very much appreciated and until next time and goodbye