hey what's up guys today i want to talk
about amazon kdp and specifically i want
to help you increase your sales by
sharing that kdp guy on twitter's five
tips to increase your sales right now on
amazon kdp now he sold 18 000 books last
year on amazon kdp so he certainly knows
what he's talking about i like to speak
to my own personal experience most of
the time but you know i also like to
bring in other perspectives
unfortunately he wasn't able to join me
for a video but he's dropping so much
value on twitter completely free so make
sure you give him a follow i'll put his
account at the top of the description
and i'm going to share with you a thread
that he published just recently that i
really liked that i think we'll all
benefit from so why don't we get started
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all right and before we get to reading
that kdp guys thread on twitter i did
just want to remind you guys that in the
description i've got a link to my kdp
facebook group and email list if you
guys would like to join i'm doing
everything i can to also help you get
started and make sales
all right so this thread is short and
sweet and i'm gonna add my own kind of
thoughts and opinions as we go through
it so tweet number one kdp guy has sold
18 000 books on kdp last year and he's
condensed that down into five tips all
right people love lists if there's one
thing that's true about humans humans
love their lists and i'm no you know i'm
no exception to that i love lists as
well
all right tip number one
find niches that have low competition
when you start these could be micro
niches that have 300 to 500 books but
not as much demand i started with
notebooks as these are bought as
personal gifts especially in the fourth
quarter but find whatever matches your
criteria
so i've shared before like i got my
start on kdp in the month of october and
really i mean october november december
that's the fourth quarter so i basically
started in the fourth quarter
and i dedicated really like back to back
to back three days in a row of just
non-stop kdp like boot camp locked
myself in my room honestly feel pretty
bad but i missed one of my good friends
baby showers but it was like an hour and
a half away both ways and i didn't want
to drive that far and like i knew you
know my time was so limited that i had
to make a tough decision ultimately
the reason i shared that is because like
you know fourth quarter in my first
three months on kdp i made over 3 500
profit of course again fourth quarter
i'm putting the asterisk there i'm
keeping it transparent um but yeah
that's why he mentioned like q4
of course whether it's kdp amazon merch
anything e-commerce anything retail
you're gonna see a spike most likely in
sales now he's saying find niches that
have low competition
i know that most of you guys are like
thanks ryan great great great tip there
um of course find low competition right
if only you could just do that in life
like snap your fingers and have low
competition niches but here's the thing
it's not completely a lost cause you can
go and do it yourself amazon is a free
website that you can use and you can
just kind of cycle through ideas and try
to find these gems or
use software like book bolts uh they do
have uh just pretty much everything you
need to succeed at kdp plus more but you
can use basically product search um
i mean there's a cup there i'm going to
do a in-depth review on book bolt
shortly so just make sure you guys
subscribe but there's a lot of ways to
find qualified niches that represent
good opportunity to increase like no one
can guarantee you sales but
there's definitely some ways to find
like i said qualified opportunities as
opposed to just uploading the 50 000
um you know blank notebook that is
themed after
um i don't know like a joke between best
friends you know what i mean like
a best friend gift or something right
you're gonna be number fifty thousand in
one right
so yeah niche selection definitely
matters
all right tip number two actually no
this is not tip number two this is
elaborating ideally for no and low
content books you want a niche with the
following less than two thousand books
books on the first page that were
uploaded in the last 12 months that's
really useful guys if you use the free
ds amazon quickview chrome extension by
the way uh and i can link to that in the
description you can not only see the bsr
in search results but you can see the
date uploaded in search results and
actually i don't know if that's default
amazon functionality these days because
i always have the chrome extensions
enabled but trust me free chrome
extension
grab it if you're not using it i will
link to it in the description it's
called ds amazon quick view
uh and books on the first page not
having a massive amount of reviews that
also always helps
when i'm doing t-shirt niches by the way
like when i recently did you know top
five niches of the week the first niche
that we looked at
of the i think was like the first eight
bestsellers like one through eight there
was a i think three reviews on all of
them
three reviews now what does that tell
you that means opportunity is knocking
because there is a new
niche that people are buying all right
tip number two be extremely critical
with your designs ask for a second or
third opinion from those who are close
to you
and you know we'll be honest with you so
if your design sucks you need somebody
that tells you your design sucks
and notice he's talking about design
specifically don't be scared to
outsource for low amount of money on
fiverr and upwork otherwise spend time
watching design videos on youtube of
course you can check out my channel
check out juna at detour shirts he's
really the design expert
you can use software like canva by the
way which you don't really need design
chops because canva has so many good
templates built in so i will put links
to everything i'll put a link to detour
shirts i'll put a link to canva
this is probably the most popular like
if i had to guess if i had to pick one
probably the most popular like design
app in general and it's built into a web
browser so it's very easy to use um not
just for kdp but for t-shirts they
mentioned fiverr by the way i just
learned this recently but if you use the
code printful10 when you check out on
fiverr you save ten percent off your
order so that is just a completely free
promo code that i just learned about so
make sure if you guys do use fiverr to
hire somebody for anything that you take
your ten percent because why not uh or
up work guys um upworker you're probably
gonna pay a little bit more than you
would on fiverr but upwork also if you
want to hire like a va and have like
repetitive work that's a great option
all right tip number three if you have
money use ads they'll boost your organic
sales and put you in a great position
for the fourth quarter
here's the thing i want to highlight
this portion they will boost your
organic sales organic sales are not
advertised sales so this is a very
insightful tip because don't lose sight
of the fact that
if you run ads actually no let's not
even talk about ads
if you increase your sales period
it should increase your organic rank on
amazon in search results the higher you
are to the top of search results on
relevant search terms
generally speaking the better you'll
perform and it's a simple equation more
visibility leads to opportunity for more
click-throughs and you can't make a sale
if nobody clicks your listing right so
simple logic all right and if you use
ads you're basically buying visibility
you're buying impressions impressions
lead to click-throughs click-throughs
lead to conversions guys keep it simple
things don't have to be um crazy all
right
if you don't there are alternatives you
can get into niche relevant facebook
groups
pinterest and tick tock notice he didn't
say like
spend a bunch of money on facebook ads
right like like their facebook ads will
have their time
you know their their moment in the sun
again like there was you know a decade
straight of facebook ads just making
millions and millions and millions of
dollars for people that use them um
there's been times where like organic
visibility was great on instagram it's
pretty much trash right now uh organic
visibility on twitter is gonna be trash
if you're just using twitter to spam
links to your products like don't i'm
saying this from a personal perspective
please don't waste your time creating
like crappy content that's meant to sell
people things because
the algorithms can typically figure out
that you are trying to take people from
these major um social media platforms
and take them off the platform so guess
what those algorithms are going to do
they're going to suppress the visibility
to your content because they want people
like that kdp guy who's bringing people
to twitter
you know what i mean that are engaging
with his content responding liking
retweeting
they they measure all those metrics and
they know that this is like high
performing content you know what i mean
like the engineers are pretty smart you
when when users give these valuable
feedback they can kind of figure it out
if you're just starting like a crappy
social media account that's like just
hoping to somehow get sales like
magically it's like save your time like
there's much better like honestly just
run amazon ads learn how to do amazon
ads or get a job at mcdonald's take the
money you made from mcdonald's spend
that on amazon ads and watch what it
does for your business and like that kdp
guy said your organic sales over time
all right
number four once you move from no
content books start building a brand
within a niche if it's a gardening niche
you could end up doing coloring books
log books garden planners and other high
content stuff use email lists with
giveaways via qr codes you can't lose by
doing this
and yeah qr codes is a great you know
i'm always a little bit like i still
think you know unless you're in like
china where everybody's used to using qr
codes because i've been to china and
that's basically how everybody was
paying they would get um they would get
wechat out they would scan a qr code
they would type the number that they
owed for a payment uh so everybody knew
how to do qr codes in china but i don't
know about america i'm not sure all
right personal opinion i think there's
still people lagging behind so maybe you
do like a short url like a bitly
bit.ly you can shorten urls um qr codes
paired with bitly links i mean hey you
can do both uh but send people to your
email list guys aweber is what i use for
my email list they do it all and they've
got the most competitive pricing that
i've been able to find for a fully
function full functionality email
provider okay
this is your business to me like an
email list is a business so if you're
selling products online you want to be
able to market to your qualified
audience
that gave you permission to hear from
you meaning don't go buy an email list
of unqualified random people i mean the
whole concept of buying email lists
that's a whole nother thing to talk
about but at least give people a chance
to join your email list if you need to
incentivize them with giveaways or
whatever it is go ahead and do that and
by the way another great way to do that
is using facebook groups like he said
right here in the previous tweet alright
so he's got some really valuable
insights here
five treat it like a business from the
start i grew quickly because i
reinvested from the beginning i spent
money on courses outsourcing interiors
and covers products tools and mentoring
this was invaluable if you can do this
it'll get you so far ahead in a short
time
and this is something that like you have
to figure out what works for you but
guys like i'm just saying if if
let's just say everybody watching this
video is capable of making
two thousand dollars a month from kdp in
profit everybody's capable
what's the variable though
exactly how long it takes us to get
there
who makes more money the person who
spends a year and a half getting to two
thousand dollars a month or the person
who invests let's just say
a thousand dollars in everything that
kdp guy recommended tools courses
mentoring outsourcing interiors covers
etcetera
they spent a thousand dollars so they
start in the hole a thousand dollars but
they get two thousand dollars a month in
nine months
who makes more money you already know
the answer the person who did the
initial investment like they they had a
massive head start now that's just a
theoretical equation but oftentimes it
does mimic something like that also this
is just me speaking personally but um as
somebody who's been in the like online
education for a while
like in my personal opinion if there is
a monetary investment up front people
tend to be much more committed and
dedicated and see something through to
the end like if i gave away all my paid
courses today for free a bunch of people
would register they would sign up and i
can see their progress they'd probably
go through the first module and then
just never come back right but the
people who pay guess what they see it
through and that's just my personal
opinion so i'm sure everybody's welcome
to disagree but anyways guys check out
that kdp guy on twitter i really enjoyed
this thread he's doing content like this
all the time no nobody paid me to do
this this is just me doing it because i
thought this was a great thread and i
love talking about kdp and learning from
people that are really successful at it
so um you know say what you will about
twitter but uh there's definitely some
value on the platform if you follow the
right people so shout out to that kdp
guy shout out to you for watching this
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