In this video,
I'm going to share with you a KDP publishing resource I invested $49
in that's helped bring in royalties, that's pure profit,
of $25,897 over the last two years,
which I think you'll agree is not a bad return on investment. In fact,
it's about 52850% return,
if I've done my maths right?
So if you're looking at upping your game in the self publishing world,
or starting out,
looking to make an online income publishing low content books and Amazon,
then you may be interested in what I have to share with you. Now,
if you're new to this channel, then welcome. My name is Paul Mar les,
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So what is this resource I'm talking about? Well it's Tangent Templates.
Some of you may have heard of it. Some of you may not.
Now I did do a video on tangent templates.
About a year ago, where I looked at, whether it was.
Worth the money, which at that time I concluded it was.
But since that video, they have improved the platform even more,
which I'll show you in a moment.
And the price has also gone up slightly from $49
to $59.
But what surprised me was how much income I'd received from
just two books I'd published using tangent templates.
So let's have a look at some income figures.
I know some of you like looking at that type of thing.
So let's have a look on KDP reports beta.
So this is looking at the earnings from my books and this particular book at the
top here I published two years ago.
And this one in second place I published one year ago.
And both of these were created using Tangent Templates.
Now this book here has never had any ads run on it and has
brought in an income of $22,058 since it's been published.
So for those of you that ask,
is it possible to make money without running an ad campaign?
Then there's your answer. In fact, out of all the books on this page,
the nine books here, only three have actually had ads run on them.
And currently only one has ads running on it over the last six months.
And if I go to my ad campaign dashboard,
this is the amount I've spent on ads on this particular book,
which amounts to $7,836,
which actually makes a total profits on this book, total royalties received,
of $3,838.98.
So actually it would probably be around the fourth place spot here.
So those two books have brought in a total of
$25,897 since they were published.
And as I said,
they were published using resources from Tangent Templates.
So let's have a closer look at Tangent Templates and the important features I
think could take your publishing and hopefully income up a notch.
But it will certainly save you a lot of time.
You can get by without tools, creating no content books and low content books.
And I've shown you many videos on how to create them. And you know,
for the first year that I started publishing, I didn't really.
Use any tools at all that I can recall. But.
They can help speed up the process, whether it's niche research,
keyword research, cover and interior design.
Most of the tools I use on a regular basis,
I've listed below in the description.
But Tangent Templates has given me a really good ROI.
It has given me the idea for some books and niches,
helped in the creation of interiors,
which I'll show you is incredibly easy and fast. In fact,
the bestselling book I showed you,
I created in about one hour and was the first book I actually made
using tangent templates.
So let's go over to the site and here we have the main page that
opens up when you log into your account.
And the first is the Tangent interiors, and you can see here,
we have row after row of different types of
interiors. Now this is useful in two ways. One,
you're getting the interiors, but two,
they also give you ideas for niches. For example,
if we scroll down and take a look at hexagon paper, now you may think, well,
I can that help us with niche research. Well,
if you go along to amazon.com and just put in hexagon paper and scroll
down, you can see the types of books that are created with these interiors.
And we've got this organic chemistry book here, another chemistry book here.
Ooh, we've got a role playing game map book created out of graph paper.
And if we scroll down, here's an idea for a potential book about quilting.
Maybe this could be used to create quilting patterns. Don't know,
not a hundred percent certain,
but it's certainly something you can look further into whilst you're on Amazon.
So you can do this for all these different types of interiors.
And here's one that I did a video on last year.
I think it was around Halloween time and it was this grimoire or spell paper.
And I remember back then there was a book that was selling incredibly well on
Amazon. I can't remember the exact amount of income, but it was,
I think it was tens of thousands of dollars in income per month.
A spell paper book was actually making.
So there's lots of potential here,
and it's so easy from these to create your own interior. So for go,
for instance, to this graph paper one, all you need to do is click on it,
decide what size trim you want.
So let's choose 8.5 by 11,
the page count normally 120 and just a case of clicking on download
interior.
And it also gives you options then to then go on to create a
cover template cover for your book.
Now another great feature is the interior designer.
And so if we pick 8.5 by 11, again, we'll tick on bleed yes,
for this and under 151 pages, because that will affect the margin sizes.
And we can click on begin.
And here we have a page with the margins grayed out.
So you don't go beyond there, outside the margins and create problems.
When you try to upload your interior. And from here,
you can create all different types of interiors.
So if we maybe go for images, look at bees, I'm going to click on this.
I'll double click on that bee.. I'm going to shrink it in size,
move it to the middle of the page, make it a bit smaller center to gain,
going to go on to text. And this is going to be a handwriting interior.
And we can just tick on tangent handwriting dash back line,
move that into place, just enlarge it,
enlarge the size of the font to something like that.
We want it a bit lighter gray. Stretch that to there that we can put in B
space, space, space, get rid of that full stop or period.
And then what you can do is just click on duplicate and then drag that down
to the next line. Do the same. Now,
if you want to add in some letters, you can do. So put in B this time,
delete that where it's gone to the extra line duplicate and there you can see,
we can slowly build up an interior. And this is quite easy to do.
And then once you've done one page, you can then click on to add another page.
And you can see how you could build up your book,
the interior of your book quite quickly.
Let's have a look at another feature Tangent builder here. Again,
you can create your own interior using the
designs already on Tangent templates.
So you can click on select a design and maybe click on the graph paper,
duplicate that. Click on it. Let's have a hexagon paper.
So you could build up a really, you know,
bespoke type interior using the interiors off Tangent Templates.
However, if we go back to it, another cool feature is that you can upload a PDF
you already have.
So I've uploaded the graph paper interior that we've just created.
And you can see here, you've got all the pages here. Now,
what you can do is change these individual pages. If you like.
And you can merge in other PDF pages,
PDF files into it as well. And again, that's a good solution,
cause I know a lot of people do question me about, you know,
having a PDF interior and then merging it with you know,
maybe a page or a page with an image on that's also PDF.
How do you join them all together. Well,
you can do it in online software like smallPDF,
but you can also do it within Tangent Templates.
Then we've got the KDP helper where again if we put in the number of
pages, paper type white interior bleed, where we'll click on yes, again,
continue.
What this does is it will give you the dimensions of what each page should be.
So that when you're setting that up in Canva or Adobe illustrator or affinity
designer,
you've got the right page dimension and you can download the book cover
template as well. Again,
you can then drag that into affinity designer or whatever you're using to
create your cover.
Another useful feature that I've used a lot is listing helper.
And what you can do is putting parts of the KDP upload that you upload
frequently. So you could have a template for a description,
you could put in some common keywords you use a lot of your books,
put in your author name and even select some categories.
And then name this as a particular profile and save it so that when you come
over to KDP to upload your books, what you can do,
if you download the Chrome plugin is click on list helper,
and then you can select that listing you've just created.
And what you do is when you click on it,
it will then populate all these fields with the information that you
put in that template.
And that can save quite a bit of time if you are uploading quite a few books.
You've got category Explorer. I mean,
you've got help here choosing all the different categories.
You can either go through the list yourself or put in keywords,
say mathematics. If you've maybe produced a graph paper book.
And you've got all these suggestions for different categories you can upload to.
And we've got this section on more tools, which is quite interesting.
You can convert PDFs to PNGs is you can convert your images
into PDFs.
She could do that and then merge that PDF in with your interior as
I've just shown you. But this is quite a cool one I like. This quick mock-up.
And if we click on that and upload cover, and just upload this book cover,
you might recognize it from a video I did.
I think it was about three weeks ago where I created this book cover.
And we just drag over this box here just to get the front of the book,
click on crop front book cover.
And here you have a mock-up of your book and you can rotate it.
Adjust the shadow size. And then you can download that image. Here we have it.
And you could use that on your social media pages.
So you could show it as your new book if you're doing marketing on Instagram,
Pinterest. Put it on your Facebook page.
If you've got a website and you want to showcase your books,
rather than just having that flat image,
you've got an image that looks like a book and it looks a bit more detailed,
a bit more professional in some ways.
And there are a variety of other tools there as well.
This one I have used a number of times.
And this is for that little box on the of notebooks where you can add some text
to it and it can make your notebook look quite professional.
And you've got some other resources here for researching trademarks as well,
which as you know is very important when it comes to publishing books.
So you.
Can see there, this is a very useful tool.
And I think well worth the investment of $59.
And you can see the return that I've had from my initial investment,
which was $49. Then in terms of it was quick to create the book.
It gave me an idea for that particular niche. Yes,
I did a little bit of keyword research to help get my books ranked,.but
it was very useful indeed.
And if you are looking for a tool in particular to create books,
to actually create the interiors and get some idea for niches,
I think this is very useful indeed. Now,
if you're new to this KDP publishing business and your trying to
upload a book,
but having difficulties or you've not yet uploaded a book and a bit daunted
about the whole thing, then watch this video next, where I run through,
from start to finish, creating a book and uploading it to the KDP platform.
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It's very much appreciated. And until next time, goodbye.