This book sells approximately 360 copies per month and
makes around $1,292 per month in pure
profit.
And they are easy to create with the resources I'm going to show you in this
video.
So if you are interested in creating books to publish and sell on
Amazon, then join us as we take a look at what these books are,
how to create them,
and how to get them seen and found on Amazon.
And I've got a free gift to help you with that. Now,
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so let's get straight into it. What are these books? Well,
these are collage books and these contain images
that people will cut around and then stick them onto paper,
card or wall whatever to create artistic images.
If we have a look at this example here and take a look inside,
you'll see what I mean.
And here we have a typical page which contains these images of insects.
Again, people just cut around these and stick them onto card or paper.
Now when I first look at a niche, the first question I ask myself is,
are there any actual sales being made in this niche? Because if there aren't,
then it's going to be a waste of time creating books in it.
And the way I do this is by looking at the best sellers ranks.
Now we can see this row of books here and at the bottom we've got this data,
which includes the best sellers rank of each book. Now I do have a
free chrome plugin installed,
which gives me this data and it's called DS Amazon Quickview.
Now what I look for are three or more books, on the first page,
that have a bestsellers rank of less than 300,000.
Because if that's the case,
I know there are sales being made and indicates that yes,
this is a niche worth looking into.
Now if we look at this first line straight away,
our first three books that we can see fulfill this criteria already.
These are excellent, best sellers ranks.
The lower the best sellers rank means the more books are being sold
per month. Now we can take one of these books and we'll take this one here,
which is independently published,
which means it's been published on the KDP platform.
We can take that best sellers rank, put it into a book sales calculator,
here on tckpublishing.com,
and we can see that it's selling between 183 to
360 books per month. So we can take that price and the page
count,
and this is what we get for a result of the amount of royalties being made per
per book, which is $3.59.
And when we times that by the number of books being sold per month,
that's when we come out with that figure of $1,292 per month
in royalties or pure profit for this particular book. So this looks,
on the face of it, to be a really good niche to get into.
Now there is one issue and that is the competition. I.e.
how many competitors would we have if we publish a book in this particular
niche? But we can get an idea of this from the number of search results.
And here on Amazon we can see that is 10,000.
Now I am doing a search in the all categories and not the books category. I
have done a video on the reason for this. So this is quite high.
So what we need to do is to have a look to see if there are any sub niches,
i.e. different types of books within this overall niche that have less
competition.
And what you can do is just scroll down the list of books here and see if
there are any other ideas for different types of books.
And this is a cut out and collage book on vintage botanical plants.
And so we can go along to Amazon and just put in something like collage
botanical plants and we can see straight away we've got only
1000 search results.
So the competition for this particular sub niche is lower and we can see by
the best sellers ranks that books are still selling in this particular
sub niche. Now when we come to the keyword research later on,
I'll also show you how we can come up with sub niches from our list of keywords
that we're gonna create as well. And here's just a few examples of different sub
niches I found that looked really interesting. We've got fruit illustrations,
we've got a Halloween collage book, obviously that'd be for later this year.
We've got cut out letters and I'll show you very good resource for creating
these books. We've got collage animals,
we can see here we've got anatomy. This is a very good one.
And we've got here an example of vintage people. Again,
I'll show you resource for creating vintage people interiors in a moment.
So that's a niche, looks very interesting,
lots of sub niches and we know books are selling in it.
So what about actually creating the books themselves? Well,
obviously we're going to need to find those images and I'm gonna give you two
useful resources. The first one is Creative Fabrica.
Now this is a site I use all the time to get images from,
fonts from,
and also you can get interiors for different types of KDP books as well.
And here I just did a search for collage images and we've got this collection
here. We've got letters and if we scroll down,
we've got all different types of images available.
I'll leave a link below to Creative Fabrica. And when you click on that link,
it'll take you to this page that's been created for the viewers of this channel.
And you will get the first month for free and you can download up to 10 items
during that first month. Then after that, it's $14.99 per month.
But you do get the.
Full print on demand commercial license so you can use
these assets within your books.
Now here's another site and it's one of my favorite sites for getting free
images and it's at the Biodiversity Library site.
And what you do is click on this link here,
which takes you to their page on Flicker.
And here you'll find a whole load of different types of
images. And.
You can click on a particular group and you can see you get page after page of
all these wonderful images.
And one of the advantages of this site is that these images are in the public
domain. They have no copyright.
And so you can use these for commercial purposes.
So what you can do is click on an image that you like and just click on the
download button. But there is one problem.
If we download that image and then take it across into our image editing
software. Here I'm gonna be using Affinity Designer.
You'll find that this is not much use.
All we've got is this one image and we can't do a lot with it.
So what we need to do is convert this into a vector
image. And when we do that, we get this, which looks identical,
but there's one significant difference. What we can do is put a bounding
box around one of the separate images and we can move
this little image around.
So what we can do is just copy that. We can go over to our blank page,
which could be the interior of our book, and just paste that into position.
Now it does need a little bit of tidying up, which we can do quite easily.
Here's another image.
So we'll just reduce the size of that and we can re rotate it and do whatever we
like with it so we could build up the interior of our book.
But what you can also do is use these vector images to
create the book cover as well.
And here's a quick mockup of a book cover I created.
And I use these images of the insects and some butterflies that I
downloaded. And I used these letters here to create the word insects.
And those are the letters that I downloaded from Creative Fabrica.
So you can see with these resources,
you can create something that looks very attractive and appealing to
customers. Now you might be thinking to yourself,
what on earth is a vector image and how do I create a vector image?
Well, I have done a previous video on this,
on exactly taking these types of images and converting them into vectors,
therefore into.
Resources that you can.
Use on the covers and interiors of your books.
And I'll leave a link to that video down below in the description. Now.
We come on to the third part of this video and probably one of the most
important parts. And that is how to get your books found on.
Amazon.
Now when a customer goes.
To Amazon.
They put in a search into the search bar and we call these search terms
keywords. In this case it's collage book.
Now this is very useful because we can find out what customers are
actually searching for in this particular niche,
because when we write in a keyword,
Amazon will actually give us the suggestions here on the left hand side.
So Amazon is actually telling us what customers are searching for and also
customers will tend to click on these options as well. Now,
I do also have a free plugin installed called AMZ Suggestion
Expander,
which also gives us these additional search terms that people are searching
for in Amazon.
So this information is valuable.
It's actually telling us what customers are searching for.
And so we know what these particular keywords are.
And what we can do is optimize our books by using these search terms or
keywords in the title of our book,
the subtitle of our book and in the seven keyword
boxes of our book that we upload to the Amazon platform. And so
it gives our book a better chance of being found when someone
searches for something specific. Now, with these keywords,
there's something important we need to know Here we've got collage book and we
can see the results are 10,000. That's a lot of competition.
So what I like to do is find those search terms or keywords that have less
competition.
And so what I will do is take these different suggestions that Amazon are giving
us and I'll put those into the search bar on Amazon. And here as an example,
I've put in collage botanical plants.
And you can see that now instead of 10,000 search results,
we've got 1000 search results.
So I know that this is a good keyword because it's less competitive.
And so my book has a, a better chance of being found.
Now when I've put in collage botanical plants,
you can see we're getting even yet more suggestions from Amazon. And what I do
is I collect all these suggestions in a spreadsheet and I have a
simple rule, similar to the niche rule,
but this rule is I only use keywords that have 1000
search results or less because if that's the case,
I know that there's a reasonable chance of my book being found on
Amazon without having to run any ads. Now,
if I am in the market for running ads on my book,
then I will take those more competitive keywords and run with those.
Now what you'll also notice when I put a keyword into the search bar,
I get this additional information here.
That's from another plugin that I've got installed called Keywords Everywhere.
Now that is a paid for plugin,
it costs about $10 for a hundred thousand credits,
and that gives me the number of search results per month on Google. And also it
gives me this little graph here,
which tells me the number of searches per month on Google for that
keyword. And it's just a little bit of extra useful information.
So what I do is I create a spreadsheet and I build up this spreadsheet with
different keywords. They're Google monthly searches, where available,
and also the number of Amazon search results,
which has 109 different keywords.
And there are lots of keywords here that do have search results
of 1000 and less. So there's a lot of opportunity here.
And also one of the benefits of doing keyword research is that we can also find
suggestions for different sub niches as well.
Here we can see we've got things like animals, flowers, kids,
mushrooms, vintage. Now it does take quite a bit of time,
but I have done the work for you already and what I've done is uploaded this
to Gumroad and it's absolutely free of charge. Whilst you're there,
you'll also see the, I've done uh,
lists of keywords for lots of other KDP low content book niches as well.
Now as I mentioned,
one of the crucial parts of creating these types of books is getting those
images and converting them into vectors. So, if you want to do that,
then here's a link to that video.
It also has some other resources for lots of free images that you can use
commercially as well. Now, thank you very much for your time.
It is very much appreciated.
Don't forget to hit that subscribe button and until next time, goodbye.