$4,600 A month.
That's how much just one book is making per month in this KDP low content bookc
niche that I'm going to tell you about today.
And they are relatively easy to create with free software.
It's a great book to create if you are looking to get into the business of
self-publishing on Amazon and creating your own passive income. Now,
if you've not been to this channel before then welcome my name's Paul Marles,
and I do videos on how to make it, keep it and grow it.
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So the type of book or niche I'm going to look at in detail today is the
number tracin book,
which if you see my recent video was one of my top picks for niches in 2022.
It's part of that whole teaching your kids at home or homeschooling activity
book niche. They are books that teach kids,
mainly in the preschool to kindergarten age group,
to write numbers and also counts. And as we see on Google trends,
the demand for these types of books has been relatively constant over the last
five years, which is something I like to see.
It means it's evergreen and will provide a nice constant income,
if you create the right book. Now,
when I'm looking at getting into creating a particular type of book,
I do my initial research during which I ask myself a number of questions.
Is there the potential to make decent sales?
Are there potentially a lot of keywords or search terms that customers are
using,
which are not too competitive and so gives my books a good chance of getting
ranked on Amazon, therefore getting seen and therefore getting sold.
And how easy or difficult are the books going to be to create.
So we'll look at the market and give you insight into how I do niche research,
discuss the all important keywords for getting your books found.
Followed by a look at the interiors of these books and the options for creating
one. I all also have a special gift for you to give you a head start in creating
these types of books. Okay?
So let's have a closer look at this niche and what these books are.
To start with I go over to Amazon when researching a niche I start with a broad
search term here. Number tracing. When I type in a search,
I'm looking to see if Amazon suggests related search
terms or keywords. Here,
we have quite a lot and are related to the product I'm interested in creating,
which is good. The number of search results is quite high,
which indicates lots of products available, but also competition.
Now let's take a quick glance at the products listed before we get more
specific. We have a large selection of books with child orientated covers,
as we'd expect.
There seems to be number tracing books and also books that combine this with
letter tracing. The average prices around $6.99,
and they are 8.5 by 11 inches and have around 80
pages.
Now most of the books in the organic ranking have reviews and they
are books with low best sellers ranks. Now,
normally I look for three or more books with best sellers ranks of less
than 300,000 to make sure there are potential sales.
The lower, the number, the better. It means those books are getting more sales.
Now, here we can see straight away with these low best sellers ranks that we've
already met that criteria. This one here was published on KDP
at the end of 2020 and has a bestseller's rank of
1,496. Now, if we jump over to our book sales calculator, tckpublishing.com,
we can see this equates to sales of between
one thousand six hundred and three thousand three hundred per month. Now,
before we look at the income figures, a trigger warning. Now,
some people will tell me I'm lying. It's saturated, this is not possible,
KDP is dead, blah, blah, blah. Now, if that's the case,
this video is not for you.
It's aimed at those of you who get inspired and excited to go out,
take a chance and create something that could potentially have a significant
impact on your life like this business has had on my life. Okay.
Still here. Cool. So this book,
at a sale price of $5.95,
equating to royalties of around $1.42 per book gives us a
total profit of between $2,272 and
$4,680 a month.
And that's from just one book. Pretty good. I think you'll agree.
So this answers my first question. Are there potential sales in this niche? Yes.
There are. A lot. Now, before we delve a bit deeper,
I just want to show you something quickly.
Here on the first page is a product which says PDF download.
These are listed on Amazon Ignite,
which if you are a US citizen is a good opportunity to not only use your
interior you've created for your book,
but also create a PDF download as a digital educational
and sell it and maybe bring in an additional income. However,
that is only if you are a US citizen. So, we should just jump in,
create a number tracing book and make the sort of money I've just showed you.
Well, hold your horses because it's not that simple. You see,
here's the problem. If I created a book and called it number tracing,
hoping that it will appear on the first page of Amazon amongst all these other
books, I think I'd be in for a hard time. You see,
there are 6,000 results and that's a lot of competition. Now, quick note,
this is in the all category and not the books category.
I've done a whole video on the reasons why here on my channel.
Now most of these books have lots of reviews and a good sales history.
Amazon would favor putting their books in front of mine, or yours,
and rightly so. So what's the solution. Well,
I ask myself the second question and see if there are other search terms,
or keywords,
that we could use on our books that maybe have less competition and,
therefore, give our book a better chance of ranking on the first page of Amazon.
We wouldn't make as many sales as those listed for the higher competition
keywords, but we would make sales, kickstart our book. And, hopefully,
further down the line,
start to appear in the ranking for the more competitive search terms out there.
Now, how long would that take is impossible to say.
So where do we find these search terms? Well, there are a number of ways,
but one of the easiest, quickest and cheapest is on Amazon itself.
If we put in search term,
we can see Amazon gives us these suggestions and these are gold.
Amazon is actually telling us what people are searching for.
And the higher up the list the more searches that keyword is likely to get as
customers tend to click on the words higher up the list.
If you wanted to know more accurately how many searches a particular keyword was
getting or how popular it is,
then we'd have to use paid tools like Helium 10 or Publisher Rocket,
which I've covered before on this channel. But it's not necessary,
especially if you are just starting out.
I also have a free Chrome plugin installed called DS Amazon Quick View,
which gives us these additional keywords,
which are also being searched for on Amazon. So,
what I do next is I write all of these keywords in a spreadsheet and
put each one in the Amazon search bar and look at the number of search
results and write it down on the spreadsheet. Now,
I also have a paid Chrome plugin here called keywords everywhere,
which also gives me these figures here,
which is a number of Google searches per month for that particular keyword. Now,
if I see this,
it just makes me think this keyword has a bit more popularity or strength.
Now what you'll notice, as I enter these other keywords,
is that even more keywords start to appear.
These also go into the spreadsheet and the search results recorded as well.
Now you can end up going down deeper and deeper into many different rabbit
holes and coming out with quite a large spreadsheet of keywords with Amazon
search results and where available the monthly Google searches as well,
which as you can imagine, takes some time. Now, when I've done this,
I'll then focus on those keywords with search results of 1000 or less. Now,
if you want a full breakdown of how I do my keyword research and how I use my
keywords,
I'll leave a link below in the description to that video on my full keyword
research process. Now,
the good news is you don't have to do any of this as I've already done it for
you. And I'm giving all these keywords away for free in my Gumroad shop,
which I'll leave a link to below. And in the file with the, these keywords,
I've also included an interior file as well,
which I'll show you how to use in a follow up video in creating the interior for
one of these types of books.
There are 105 keywords in total with about 40 of those with search numbers
of 1000 or less. If you're willing to do some marketing,
create a brand and run ads,
you could look at those more competitive keywords with higher search results.
Otherwise just stick to the low competition ones. Now, as I said,
all those keywords, including the interior are free in my Gumroad shop.
So now to my third question, what about the interior?
We can see that they look relatively easy to create.
We've got this specific lined interior with dotted numbers that kids can
trace around. What you would need is the lined interior, a dotted font,
designed for kids to trace around and some images to make the pages look a bit
more attractive and decorative. Now to create one,
you basically have two options paid or free.
You could buy a ready made interior off a site like Creative Fabrica,
a great resource for many different types of KDP interiors,
which I'll leave a link to below in the description. If you do that,
I do recommend modifying them slightly just to make them a bit more unique.
Alternatively, you could create a basic interior yourself for free,
which is what I'm going to show you how to do in the follow up video to this
using that free interior that I mentioned that I've bundled together with the
keywords in that product on Gumroad.
So make sure you do subscribe to the channel and click the notification bell.
So you'll get notified as soon as I publish it and you can get straight onto it.
Now,
if you do want more top picks for book ideas or niches that I think will sell
well in 2022, then watch this video next,
where I run through more of my top seven videos.
I hope you found the video useful and informative. Thank you much for your time.
It's very much appreciated. And until next time, goodbye.