does the idea of creating and publishing your own book on amazon that's not going
to take months and months and months of endless writing yet still potentially bringing over four
thousand dollars a month sound interesting well if so then let me show you what these books are
and how you can get a slice of the action yourself now if you're not been to this channel before then
welcome my name is paul marles and i do videos on how to make it keep it and grow it and that's your
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more videos like this now one of the best selling books on amazon is the coloring book and we can
see here they look very bright very vivid and this one in particular if we take an example
has a bestsellers rank of 468 which means it's making this particular publisher around seven
and a half thousand dollars a month that's from one book and that's passive income because once a
book's published it's just going to sit there and hopefully sell and hopefully bring in income but
there's one big problem and that is if we look in the top left corner here there are 80 000
results which means if you were to create just a an everyday coloring book you'd be competing with
80 000 other books for this particular word so what i like to do is to take a broad niche like
coloring book and dig a bit deeper and find those smaller niches that don't have as much competition
yet are still bringing in the sales and we've got one of those very examples today
and that is the tattoo coloring book now we can see here straight away the number is of
results is a lot less it's only 1 000 which means there's a lot less competition however when it
comes to sales if we look at this bestseller here it's got a bestsellers rank of 4672.
now if we take that number go to a book sales calculator this one is a tck publishing put in
that figure we can see that it's selling between 694 to 1380 books per month
and this book is selling for 8.97 has 109 pages which means the estimated royalties for each book
is around 3.22 which means overall the royalties from this one particular book
this tattoo coloring book is somewhere between $2234 to $4443
per month which i think you can agree is pretty good and that's just from one book now as i said
these types of books you know you could create one of these in a couple of days but even if
it was a week just imagine you could get that sort of income from a week's work now compare
that to writing a non-fiction or fiction book on average have between you know 30 000 to 60 000
words which can take months and sometimes years to create so it's pretty good now within this niche
of tattoo colouring book we've also got these smaller sub niches and some of these have even
less competition yet are still making sales and it's worth looking at those some examples are got
japanese tattoo coloring book here 1 000 search results we've got old school tattoo coloring
book 309 search results bestsellers rank 130 664 for this particular one which means it's selling
uh reasonably well i've got another example here gothic tattoo coloring book 994 results
and this has got a reasonable best sellers rank and if we just take a look inside to get an idea
of what these books are if we scroll down we can see they are black and white lined drawings of
tattoos that people can color in and they are bringing in money so it's looking pretty good
so far now there are two main challenges when it comes to creating any sort of book on amazon
and that applies to these coloring books and that is one creating the covering interior
and two getting your book or books found on them on amazon because if they're not found people are
not going to click on them people are not going to buy them so we need to get our books ranked highly
on amazon for the searches so we'll do the covers and interiors first and then we'll
come to what i think is probably one of the most important parts and that is getting your book seen
and i've got a small gift for you towards the end of that section which you can use it's an example
of my simple marketing technique and you can use it yourself to get your books ranked if you decide
to try making these and selling them on amazon so how do we go about making the interiors and covers
well if you're an illustrator graphic designer or know someone that's an illustrator then you're one
step ahead really of of most people in that you can create them yourself to get some inspiration
for tattoo designs you could go to somewhere like pinterest just put in tattoo
designs and you can get lots of different examples which could give you some ideas
for the covers and interiors however if you're like me and not a not an illustrator then
you've got to either get your cover and interiors made bespoke or you can go to some resources where
you can purchase the graphics yourself so first of all you've got sites like upwork where you
could post a job get a graphic or a designer or illustrator to create the graphics for you
or you could go to someone like fiverr here i just put in tattoo coloring we've got this
result here where someone will give you a hundred tattoo coloring pages for adults
now on fiverr you've gotta make sure one you're going to have the commercial license to use these
in your books and you've also got to have a bit of a conversation with the seller or artist to make
sure these illustrations are original because what you don't want to do is go ahead buy them
publish them and find that there's a hundred other books on amazon that's a bit of an exaggeration
but say there's a hundred other books on amazon all using the same illustrations that you've just
bought because it can then create issues around duplicate content although having said that if you
did buy something like that you could modify them yourself put the images over a pattern background
and create something a bit more original that wouldn't fall foul of amazon's duplicate content
rules i also put in some general search of things like tattoo art and here you've got
artists that will draw create tattoo designs for you which you could use in your books as
drawings for people to color in however you do have to make sure and you do have the
commercial license to use those in print on demand products like books so again
that would require a conversation with the artist with the seller and they may actually charge you
a bit extra for the commercial license but that'd be something for you to do and that's just an idea
for you now one of my favorite ways to get images is to use ready-made images now there are lots and
lots of different sites there's places like design cuts design bundles.net you've got stock image
websites like shutterstock big stock photo where you can buy the commercial license for images so
you can be you know assured that you do have the correct license for using these images in your
books one of my favorites is creative fabrica now here they actually sell interiors for kdp books
you can buy graphics you can buy fonts and i did a search for tattoo images and quite a few results
came up this one here struck me straight away looked pretty interesting so i clicked on that
now a useful little pro tip here is to go ahead and click on the profile of the artist and see
what other images they are creating i did that and we can see that this particular artist has created
lots of different tattoo related images and they look pretty good they would do well on a cover and
they would do well on an interior and i'll show you how quick you can turn one of these images
into a black and white lined image for the interior of your book so i clicked on this now
first of all you can see a commercial full print on demand usage allowed which is what we want so
i clicked on download downloaded the image dragged it across into affinity designer which is a vector
editing piece of software other alternatives are adobe illustrator you've got free versions
of inkscape that you can use to do the same sort of thing i'm going to show you now and also
gravit designer so we've got our image and it's a case of using our mover tool left click on the
mouse and drawing a bounding box around our whole image going over to our color tab top right hand
corner here clicking on the stroke button clicking on black to make the stroke black clicking on fill
and then turning the slider up to white and we have a black and white lined image here then we
can go to stroke and increase the thickness of our stroke to something like so and that would then be
a good image that you could use on the interiors of your books again i'd recommend maybe combining
that with a bit of a pattern background to make something a little bit more original but you can
see how simple it is to take one of these coloured images and turn it into a black and white image
but as i mentioned a moment ago these would make fantastic covers as well and on creative fabrica
you can also download tattoo related fonts so you can combine the font with one of these images and
create a nice attractive cover because if you look on amazon you can see a lot of these covers
are very colorful are stunning and really do stand out now for creative fabrica i have put a link
in the description below and that's a special link because you can either buy the images individually
or you can subscribe monthly where you get everything you get unlimited amounts of everything
and this link will give you uh a month or the first month subscription for just 25 cents and
then it's around about 19 thereafter now i say it's a special link because it still works and
it was only originally put up for i think it was christmas in july but it's still ongoing
it still works i do check it so if that's something you want to take advantage of
click on that now now once we've created our cover and interior we come to the second challenge and
that is getting our books seen on amazon when someone goes to amazon and types in a search
term in this case it's tattoo colouring book and we would call that a keyword and ideally we want
our book to appear on the first page and even more ideally in the top half of the first page because
customers when they do a search will scroll down and look for something that catches their eye
and looks right in terms of price so that's why creating a nice stunning cover is very important
so how do we get our book on the first page well i alluded to something earlier and that is looking
at the number of search results here we've got 1000 search results now from my experience
if a search term does have 1000 results or less then i've found that it is easier to get your
book ranked if you use that particular word or search term or keyword in the title of your book
or second best in the subtitle of your book so now what we want to do is find out what search terms
people are actually entering into amazon when they're looking for a particular type of book
in this case tattoo coloring book and amazon gives us this information and if we enter our
search term here to to coloring book we can see on the left hand side there are these suggestions
and these are words or keywords that amazon are actually telling us people are putting into the
search bar to search for things so these are very useful and the second benefit of these words is
that when someone does a search and they see these suggestions people will tend to click on
them so it's like a double whammy benefit now i do have two plugins installed here and one
is amz suggestion expander which gives us these are the keywords here that people are searching
for on amazon and also a plugin called keywords everywhere for which i pay a 10 for 100 000
credits and it gives me this extra information here which tells me the number of searches
on google per month for these particular keywords and that's just a little bit of extra useful
information it's not vital but if i'm you know trying to decide between a couple of different
keywords if one does have a lot of searches on google i'll tend to move towards that particular
keyword because sometimes your books can appear on google searches when someone puts in the keyword
in google it will appear you know in the shop being sold by amazon now what i do as in this
example is when i put in a keyword and i see all these suggestions i will go and write them down
on a spreadsheet and i will have one column of all these different keywords now what happens is when
you then enter another keyword say for example we put in tattoo colouring book for women will
now get all these other suggestions appearing and again i'll put those into a spreadsheet and
what happens is a spreadsheet of you know a dozen words can suddenly become tens sometimes hundreds
of different keywords and every time i put in a keyword and do a search which is in this all
category here that's important because that's where customers do their search i'll then look
at the number of search results and make a note of that in a second column so you end up with a
whole list of keywords with search results numbers on amazon and where available the google search
results as well and you end up with a list that looks something like this and i did research
four tattoo related coloring books and came up with 63 different keywords each with an
amazon search results figure and as i said where available the google monthly searches as well and
this spreadsheet is very useful because you can go through those keywords and pick out those keywords
with a hundred thousand searches or less and if you're starting out i would suggest going for
the lower end of the number of amazon search results so i think i showed an example earlier
the number of search results particularly keywords is 146. that might be a keyword to start off
with because there's not much competition and it gets you to you know dip your toe into the water
create a book try and get it found on amazon and hopefully make sales now as you can see here with
this spreadsheet i have done all the work for you and i've uploaded them to my gumroad shop
where they are available free of charge you just need to go along there and download
the list and i'll leave a link to that item in the gumroad shop down below in the description
now if you want more information on how i use those keywords to actually get my books ranked
where i use them in the seven keyword boxes in the title and the subtitle then go ahead
and watch this video next where i show you exactly how i use the keywords and how you
can use them to get your books ranked i hope you found that useful if you did please do give it a
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