i often get asked what tools do i use to create and self-publish no content and low content
books on the amazon kdp platform so in this video i'm going to give you my top seven tools
that i use to get an edge on my competitors and also to speed up the publishing process so if
you're looking to publish your own book on amazon or to create a publishing business or make money
online then follow along as i show you which tools that i use now if you've not been to this channel
before then welcome my name's paul miles and i do videos on how to make it to keep it and grow it
and that's your money i'm talking about and if you do like videos like that then please do give
it a thumbs up hit the subscribe button smash that notification bell to receive notification
of when i produce more videos like this so a lot of people do ask me what tools do i use or
what tool or plugin am i am i using when they watch some of my videos so i'm going to cover that
in this video and i'm going to show you the top seven i use now it's not going to be a
comprehensive review on each tool i'm just going to show you the essential features that i use
if you do want a comprehensive review on anything i've mentioned today then please do let me know
in the comments below and i can put that on the list for a future video now a small disclaimer
some of the links i'm going to give you to the piece of software down in the description below
are affiliate links which means i do get a small commission if you do click on one of those links
and make a purchase which does help fund this channel but if you don't want to that's fine
just do the search yourself in google for the names that i'm going to mention in a moment
so it's a lot to cover let's get on with it nice and quick so first of all we've got book bolt now
this is a subscription subscription based software and it has a number of features a number of tools
within it to help you research books to create covers create interiors but i use book bolt for
one main feature and that is the cloud function and this gives us the top 100 books by best
selling rank in categories such as notebook journal and also keywords which are optional
and this will give us a list of books the the top 100 books for that particular category or keyword
and this is very useful for getting niche ideas so if i'm thinking about what can i create books in
i will refer to this and i will often look at this list once or twice a month because it does change
especially depending on type of year if we look at the moment there's lots of graph books here
because it's that back to school time of year so it's good to see what's selling well and
also what's selling well for that time of year and unusual books will often pop up on here and
i'll make a note of it and use that as an idea for a book later on down the line so niche research
book bolt now when it comes to getting an edge on your competitors keyword research is vital and i
use a number of tools for this now i enjoy keyword research and i find it's one of the most vital
functions in terms of getting those keywords to help get your books ranked and make sales
and the first one i use is helium 10 again this is subscription based software they have a number of
modules or tools you can subscribe to the whole lot or you can subscribe to individual modules
and the main two modules i use are magnets and this is a keyword research tool so i'll put in
coloring book here and it gives us lots of keywords related to the keyword we put in
and it also gives us some useful information like the search volume on amazon for a particular
keyword and the number of competing products and also the number of books that are actually
running ads for a particular keyword and as i mentioned it tells us the number of amazon
searches however amazon doesn't actually give that number out so different pieces of software
will use their own algorithm to approximate that number but if you're comparing that number
in the same piece of software two other keywords then it gives you an idea of how popular
uh how much that keyword has been searched for and ideally you want keywords that have been searched
for a lot with low competition so you can get all this information here the other module i use is
cerebro called a reverse asin up tool and what you do is take the rasin number of a book put it in
click on get keywords and it will give you all the keywords that that book is ranking for what
position it's ranking for on amazon it'll also give you the search volume for that keyword and
this is really good for spying on your competitors if you like and finding out what keywords they're
ranking well for because if they're selling well and ranking well for that keyword you
know that they're getting a lot of sales from that particular keyword so you can do further research
on it or use it yourself in your own books so again a very useful function now sometimes helium
10 can give you so much information it can be a bit overwhelming and take a bit longer to use
so another piece of software i use which is actually one of my favorites is publisher rocket
because it gives you less keywords but i find the keywords more relevant more focused towards
the one you're actually searching for and it gives us some very useful additional information again
it gives us the amazon search numbers per month it gives us this competitive score which is basically
a ratio of the number of searches per month over the number of competitors for a particular keyword
gives us the average monthly earnings for a keyword so if you wanted to go and pick all
those keywords that were we're making a lot of money on amazon you can you can do that also and
i just like the simplicity and functionality of this software and you just click on the magnifying
glass and it will populate these fields with the information you're you're looking for so you don't
have to look at every single keyword and the other useful aspect of this is the competition analyzer
which if you again if you put in the keyword like coloring book it will give you the top
10 search results for that keyword on amazon and give you useful information like the bestsellers
rank of the book the daily sales and monthly sales so again very useful information for
your research and also if you're looking to do category search it's very useful for that as
well it gives you all the categories and you can do searches and it will suggest categories for a
particular word or keyword that you're searching for now when it comes to keyword research
a chrome plugin that i use all the time is keywords everywhere and you've probably
seen me use it in many of my videos now this plugin has a number of different functions but
what i use it for is for this data here now i've put in coloring book into amazon we've got a list
of suggested keywords from amazon and we've got this data here which is the number of searches
per month on google and this nice little graph which can show us any trends and it will also if
we hover over it show us a number of searches on google per month for that keyword over a 12-month
period so we can see if there's any variations because some time some different times of the year
some keywords can be more popular now obviously it's google searches per month and people that
go on to google have a different intent than people that go on to amazon amazon is more buyers
google could be putting in colouring book and looking for ideas for colouring books or
how to make colour in books or different types of calling books all sorts of different types
of information but if i'm doing keyword research and i have a few keywords that i'm
trying to decide on what to use if they do have a lot of google searches i'll use that information
uh as something that will sway me towards a particular keyword so again really useful i use it
all the time and it can be used not just in amazon because if we go to google put in a keyword like
coloring book it'll give us all this additional data here like trend data which is the search
volume again we've got a little in a little graph when we do our search but this is in a bit more
detail and it will also give us additional related keywords what people are searching for trending
keywords and long tail keywords so it really does give a lot of information now when i did
that search on amazon you'll notice on the right hand side there's all these additional keywords
and that comes from a free plugin and that is amz suggestion expander again which is a free plugin
and it will give you all these additional keywords which people are searching for on amazon so i'll
usually make a note of these and write them down in a big spreadsheet when i'm doing my keyword
research now another invaluable plugin i use is one called ds amazon quick view now normally
when you're looking through listings on amazon you'll see the books but in order to find out
who they're published by when they're published what the best sellers rank is you have to click
on each book scroll down look at that information what ds amazon quick view does is gives us that
here on the on the search page tells us the asin number gives us the best sellers rank and
if we hover over a book it will tell us who the publisher is so will tell us if it's independently
published which is the kdp platform gives us a number of pages when it was published and also the
categories that it's also published in all useful information if you're creating your own books
again that's free and something i use all the time and i often get asked about in the comments in my
videos now the seventh and last tool that i use and i use on a regular basis in fact i
created my best-selling book with this web-based software and that is tangent templates and
i mainly use this for creating interiors and here you can see there's lots of different interiors
available and you can also create your own custom interiors including things like handwriting book
interiors with graphics and it's so simple to use it's just a case of clicking on interior
putting in your trim size putting in your page count clicking on downloading in the interior and
you've got a pdf file there ready to upload to the amazon kdp platform so it saves time also gives
you ideas for niches as well when you look through all those different interiors what i also use it
for is the listing helper now when you're on the amazon kdp platform when you upload a book you've
got to go through the titles subtitle author name description keywords categories and you've got to
upload that or write in that information each time what you can do on tangent templates is fill in
some of the information that you use a lot so it might be a basic description it might be a few key
keywords your author name uh some categories that you often use and you can save that as a template
so that when you go to the platform you can click on the helper and it will populate all those
boxes and again it will help just speed up the the upload process a bit which might be useful if you
are creating a number of books but not spamming okay so that's my top seven tools that i use
on a regular basis and in fact i don't really use anything else for creating my books obviously i
use software things like affinity designer for creating actual covers and interiors
but these are the tools i use to get an edge on my competitors and also to speed up the the process
of creating them and uploading them now if you are new to publishing books on amazon then watch
this video next where i walk you step by step from creating a book to uploading it onto the
amazon kdb platform and becoming a publisher now thank you very much for your time it's
very much appreciated don't forget to hit the subscribe button and until next time goodbye