Hey everyone and welcome to today's video,
where I'm going to give you my top five KDP niches for Q3.
And that is July, August, and September.
And it's dominated by one main event, which I'll tell you about in a moment.
So if you are already publishing books on Amazon, via the KDP platform,
or you are new to this and looking to build an online business,
then follow along as I tell you what these niches are. Now,
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one of the main challenges people have,
who are trying to publish books on Amazon,
is coming up with ideas and knowing whether those ideas are going to make sales.
And there's also that balance between books that sell well,
but also have a lot of competition. So,
these niches that I found for you today,
hopefully fall somewhere between that in that they have decent sales,
but not a huge amount of competition.
And they're also relatively straightforward to create.
And also I'm in a couple of these niches.
So I'll tell you about my experiences with them as well.
So what're we waiting for, let's get straight onto it.
Now the main event that's occurring during Q3 is
students, pupils and teachers going back to school, college and university.
And so there's lots of books related to this that sell extremely well
on Amazon. And it's parents,
students and teachers that buy the books that we're going to be looking
at.
So the first niche is coach notebooks
and playbooks. Now these can be just plain lined notebooks,
or they could be playbooks such as these here,
like these football playbooks. Now this is amazon.com.
So these are actually American football books. And if we have a look inside,
we can see that it's very straightforward.
It's just a diagram of a football playing field with an area below in which
coaches can write notes. And as we can see from the best sellers ranks here,
53,000 here, 111,000,
and here's another one 56,000. They sell very well.
Now, as I said,
I'm in a couple of these niches and this is a niche that I'm in.
And last year I sold just over 1,900
books in the coach niche.
And these were actually the first books that I created in the first six months
of me creating books and publishing them on Amazon.
And that was in 2018. And still a couple years later,
or a few years later, they're.
Still selling very well. And that's why I love this particular business model.
You can create these books,
publish them and they can bring in an income for years afterwards.
And that's what essentially is a passive income.
Let's have a look at another example, and that is basketball playbooks as well.
Again, the interior is just images of basketball courts that coaches
can draw and write on. Now from my books,
the top three sellers were actually those related to baseball,
cricket and gymnastics. So there's a few more ideas for you as well.
Onto the second niche. And that is academic or teacher planners.
Here we've got some KDP books,
very good best sellers ranked 2,331. Scroll down.
Here's another one, 23,000. And these were actually published quite recently.
This was in July, 2022.
It's already got seven reviews and it's got an excellent best sellers rank.
Now the challenge with these is creating the interiors because it's a
sort of diary interior,
and it normally covers a period from around July,
August through to July or August the year after,
or quite often, it can cover an 18 month period.
So from around July or August,
right to the end of 2023.
So you need to be able to create a diary type interior,
which you can do yourself from scratch,
using tools like Adobe illustrator or Affinity Designer. It is a bit of a pain.
What I would suggest doing instead is going to a site like Creative
Fabrica where you can buy academic planners already made.
Here's a couple of examples here of 2022 to 2023
academic planners. They're already made for you.
I'll leave a link to Creative Fabrica in the description below.
There are other platforms as well. You can make them on Book Bolt,
but also a site called Tangent Templates as well,
which is what I've used for a lot of my interiors.
Another alternative would be to go on Fivrr and get someone to create a
KDP academic planer interior as well.
One thing to note is if you are going to create one of these books,
just think about the title because with KDP, once you've created the title,
you can't change it.
So if you were to put in the years that your book covers
2022 to 2023,
then that means you've only got that 18 month window or probably a shorter
window, actually, in which you can sell your book. Because after that,
that no one's going to want to buy a 2022,
2023 planner say next year.
So if you don't put that in the title what you can do is when you come around to
next year, you can then just create an.
Updated interior and upload that to the KDP platform.
So if you're making sales,
you'll keep that sales history and also the reviews for that book. Okay.
Number three is the graph paper notebook.
Now we've got a lot of competition here, 7,000 results,
but there are lots of different keywords as we can see here.
So you can niche down and find those less competitive search terms
or keywords and get your books ranked. Now, again,
this is a niche that I'm in and here on the KDP platform,
you can see that in 2021,
my graph paper notebooks brought in royalties of over
$15,000.
And you can see the peak here as well around August time.
And it says I've got six books, but if we look here, the sales of each book,
you can see that most of my sales actually came from two books with one book in
particular, which is a graph paper notebook,
which brought in royalties of over $13,000.
And I calculated because all my books sell for $6.99.
I rarely sell any for less than that.
So that equates to sales of around 7,300 books.
So personally, I think this is a really good niche to get into. And as I say,
if you choose your keywords correctly,
you're able to rank for sub niches within this main niche. Okay,
onto the next one, which is an interesting one.
And that is the laboratory notebook.
And these are aimed at science students to use when doing
their experiments. If we have a look at the interior,
we can see that it's a grid paper,
or graph paper with sections here to write things like titles,
project numbers in, sign off dates and signatures.
And there's also a table of contents as well, which would correspond, I guess,
to the different experiments that students would be doing.
These have got decent best sellers ranks. This one here has got 110,000,
another one here, 162,000.
What I always do when looking at books and deciding on whether it's
worthwhile going into a particular niche is that I look for three or more books
on the first page that have best sellers ranks of less than 300,000.
Because if that's the case, I know that books are being sold in this niche.
And as we can see here, this fulfills that particular criteria. Now,
a little bonus here,
along the same lines as the of these books are the physics notebooks and
chemistry notebooks, because you can have physics notebooks,
you can have physics laboratory books. Now the notebooks tend to just be grid,
paper, or graph paper notebooks.
And also the chemistry hexagonal notebooks as well.
That's graph paper where instead, if you've got squares,
you've got hexagonal shapes. Okay, now onto the fifth one.
And that.
Is the Cornell notebooks again,
very popular and suit students of all types. And at the moment,
the best sellers ranks look pretty good. And we've got one here,
which is a KDP book. With the best sellers rank of 20,000.
So that is selling very well. And if we look inside,
if you're not sure what a Cornell notebook is,
it basically has these areas here often a lined area.
And then these blank areas for writing notes.
And it's particular useful for taking notes during lectures in college and
university. There's also a variation on this,
which is Cornell notebooks, but instead of the lined paper,
it's got the graph paper or quad grid paper, whatever you like to call it.
These also remind me of an idea that I see of books selling on Amazon,
and that is combinations of books or combinations of two niches.
So you could have a book where there's graph paper on one side and
lined paper on the other side.
And there's lots of other different combinations that you could do and that you
could come up with and just try out because these books are pretty
straightforward, cheap to create and free to publish on Amazon.
So we've got our five niches, we've got the coach notebooks and playbooks,
the academic and teacher planners, the graph paper notebooks,
the laboratory notebooks, and also the Cornell notebooks.
When is the best time to create these and publish these? Well,
probably around now so that you can get them into the system and
hopefully make some sales before the main selling period
of this niche, which is around the end of August, beginning of September time.
Also the benefit of this niche is that there's also another sort of back
to school peak around the beginning of January
mid-January time as well. The students go back to college, university,
school after the Christmas period. Now,
if you are new to creating KDP no content and low content books on Amazon now
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