This book is making between $440 to $860 per month.
And this book an incredible $1,890 to
$3,890 per month.
And the beauty of these books is that they can be created with free software and
free images.
They've got good profit margins and the competition for these books is
low. So we need to investigate these further.
So we're going to have a look at the niche.
We're going to look at some resources for creating the interiors and covers of
these books and also those all important keywords which can help your books get
ranked on Amazon and seen by potential customers.
Now if not pitches channel before then. Welcome.
My name is Paul Marles and I do videos on how to make it,
keep it and grow it and that's your money I'm talking about.
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hit the subscribe button and smash that notification bell. So the books we're
going to be looking at are called vision board books. What are they? Well,
they are these books that contain pages with pictures that people
cut out and can stick onto a board, onto card.
And they create these overall pictures that help motivate them,
help give them a vision of something they want to create or maybe a vision of
what they aspire to in the future.
There's many reasons why people do create these vision boards.
So when I'm first looking at books to create,
I first do some niche research and there's a few components to this.
The first one is proof of concept and that is,
are these books actually making any sales on Amazon? Because if they're not,
it's pretty pointless spending all that time trying to create them.
So what I do is I go over to Amazon and just do a broad search,
this case vision board book. And what I do is have a look at the books that are
listed and see if they are making sales.
How can we tell if a book is making sales? Well,
we look at the best sellers ranks and these are those numbers here.
Now I've got a free plugin called DS Amazon Quick View
installed, which gives me these best sellers ranks on the listings of the books,
it just saves having to click on each book, scroll down and find that number.
Now what I'm looking for are three or more books
on the first page with bestsellers ranks of less than 300,000.
Becasue if I see that, I know they're making sales.
So let's go ahead and take a look.
Now I tend to ignore the sponsored ads and what I'm looking at are books similar
to the type of books we're going to create.
They don't necessarily have to be KDP books at the moment.
We've got these books here with bestsellers ranks just over 2000,
114,000, got 95,000.
So straightaway this satisfies this particular rule.
Now when I'm doing my niche research and looking through the listings,
I'm also looking at a couple of other things as well. One is,
are there some other themes or sub-niches within this broad niche?
And also I look at the structure of these books.
I found that these books tended to have a low page count,
which is good for potential profit.
Most books seem to have between 40 to 90 pages.
And I also look at reviews to see if there's anything that tends to come up
that maybe we can improve upon.
And I did notice there were a few negative reviews on some books that said the
images on these pages were on both sides of the page.
Now these pages are designed to be cut up.
So if people do cut up a page where there's images on both sides,
it's going to destroy one side of the page. It's gonna destroy those images.
So we're going to create a book or advice creating a book whereby you have
images on one side of the page and the other side is blank.
Very similar to a coloring book. All of these books were 8.5 by 11 inches.
They were all produced with premium color interiors.
You do have the choice of black and white interior ,standard color and premium
color.
Because these are photographic type images need to be a decent quality
to be pinned on a board and to be looked at. The choice is premium color.
It is a bit more expensive to create these books, but if we look on Amazon,
we can see that they are selling for a lot more than the normal low content
books that we tend to create, which usually tend to be about the $6.99 mark.
And I found that most of these books sold between the $10 to $20 mark.
And also I've put down here depth of search.
And this comes down to the competition,
which we'll look at a bit more when we come to the keyword research,
but it basically means there's low competition with these books.
So now we come to the creation of one of these types of books.
So they're easily created in software like Canva,
which you can just open up a standard account for free and you can create
one of these books quite easily in there. And I'll leave a link down below in
the description to Canva if you're interested in it.
So normally what you would do is click on creator design,
click on custom size, and then put in the dimensions.
Change the unit to inches.
Now the pages of these books are going to be bleed.
That means we're going to need a margin on the pages. Now in my Gumroad shop,
there are some free margin templates there. So you can just go along to Gumroad.
You've got a number of options here as you can see.
And we are just going to be downloading the standard 8.5 by 11 inch right
side template. We're going to put all our images on the right hand side page.
Once you've done that left-hand side, click on uploads,
then find that template that you've downloaded and just drag it into the uploads
box. Once that's uploaded, just click on it,
drag it to the top left-hand corner,
drag it down to the bottom right hand corner.
So next we need our background color for the page. So on left-hand side,
click on elements, then under lines and shapes, just click on this square.
Now we're going to change the color of this. So at the top click color,
I'm going to click on custom color.
And we're going to change this to eight pale blue.
So now we can drag that to the top left and drag that down to the bottom.
Right. Next thing we need to do is click on that color layer.
Now we want to see the template underneath.
So we're going to click on transparency box at the top and just dial the
transparency down.
So now we want to create a white rectangle on the page.
So on the left hand side, click on that square shape again.
This time click on color and then just click on white.
And what we're gonna do is just drag this to the margins
on the page, so that's within that pink border.
Now we need to turn up the transparency of that background back to its blue
color. So just click on it, at the top, transparency,
and then just move that to a hundred.
So now we have our page and all the images that go in this white area will be
within the margins.
Now what I would do at this moment is just click on duplicate page. Now as I
said earlier, the page underneath this is going to be blank.
So what I would do is just duplicate this page again,
then select all these elements, delete them, and we've got our blank page.
Now when we go down to the next page in this book,
it's very easy to change the color of this border. So you just click on it,
click on color, let's choose a pale green this time.
And so we could create images in that sort of color theme,
if that's what you wanted to do.
So now in terms of images for our page,
we've got a number of options. One is we can go to a site like Unsplash,
where you can get these royalty-free images.
There's also Pixabay and there's also Pexels.
But there's one thing you need to be aware of if you use images from this page,
and that is most of them and probably something like 99.99% of
them are royalty free. But occasionally there are images that do slip
through the net and find themselves onto these sites.
So you've got to make sure that these images are not on any of these
big stock photo websites such as Bigstockphoto.
How do we do that? Well say we've chosen an image.
Let's look at this one here with leaves. We'll download that.
Then we need to go to Google image search,
then click on search by image.
And then all we need to do is just drag in that image we downloaded into the
uploads box, click on find image source.
It will give us websites where this image appears.
So just have a scroll down and just double check that that image is okay to
use. So with any images that you've downloaded,
click onto the uploads tab and then you just drag any images that you've
downloaded into the uploads box. Once it's uploaded, just click on it.
So now it's just in case of positioning on the page and reducing the size.
Now if we go over to Amazon,
you can see that the pages are just made up of images.
Some have quotes on maybe things like, you know, affirmations,
that type of thing.
And most images do have this white area around them,
this white border just to give enough room for people to cut around the.
Images without damaging them.
Now here's another source of images and that is Canva itself. Left hand side,
click on elements, scroll down,
and you'll see this here it says photos click on see all,
and now we can search. So we can say put in something like blue suit.
So we could click on something like this, position it.
In fact I'll place that under that image,
move it into position to use something like this.
Probably place that in this other corner,
just vary the slight sizes slightly just to mix things up or make that smaller.
And you can see how we can easily build up our interior.
And so you'd fill up the page like so if you wanted to add any text affirmations
to any of these, that's very easy to do. And in fact,
here's a couple of pages I did just to show you how it would look when you've
finished. Now creating a cover for one of these types of books would be very
similar.
And all I would do is create something like this and put a title on the front.
So left hand side, click on elements.
Then I did a search for brush stroke and it gave me some options here.
I'm going to click on this one. I'm gonna drag this up, enlarge it,
move it so it's centers in the middle holding down option left. Click the mouse,
just drag down to to make a copy of this.
And then just move that into place like so. Left hand side, click on text,
click on add subheading, move this over our box,
type vision board book,
select the text drop down menu for the font box. Use that Angelina font,
change the color to black, enlarge it and there,
straight away,
you've got a very basic but not bad looking book
cover. Now next we come onto the keywords for these books and these are
essential for giving your book the best chance of
getting ranked on the first page of Amazon and therefore getting seen by
potential customers, which is essential for making sales.
So how do we do keyword research? Well, first of all,
we need to find those search terms that customers are typing into the search bar
on Amazon. And these are called the keywords. So very briefly,
what you do is put in a general search term like vision board book and you'll
see these suggestions on the left hand side.
Amazon is actually telling us what people are searching for on Amazon.
And also customers tend to click on these.
I do have a plug-in installed called Keywords Everywhere,
which does cost $10 for a hundred thousand credits, which lasts an age.
Well it does for me anyway. And it gives us this bit of extra information here,
which is the number of Google searches per month,
which can just gives us a bit of extra useful information about a particular
search term.
And also I've got these extra keywords here and that's because I've got a plugin
installed called AMZ Suggestion Expander.
And what you can do is take these keywords, put them into a spreadsheet,
and then.
Enter each of these keywords back into Amazon.
Example vision board book for teens. And again,
we'll get more suggestions which can go into a spreadsheet.
And then what I do is take each of those keywords,
enter them into Amazon and look at the number of search results. Here,
for Vision Board book, it was 3000. Here's another keyword.
Number of search results was 877. Now as a rule,
I look for keywords with 1000 searches or less
unless I'm considering running an Amazon ads campaign on my book,
in which case I will look for those more competitive keywords that have more
search results. So remember, the more search results there are,
the more competitive this search term is.
So that was the second part of the keyword research and that was looking at the
difficulty in ranking for a particular keyword.
And also what I do is look at what's called the depth of search,
and that is for a particular keyword I'll scroll down the listings and see
how far into the searches these particular books go.
And so here we're on the second page and what I'm looking for is,
are there any other things starting to appear other than vision board books.
And straight away, yes, we can see we're starting to get this here,
which are these stickers? More stickers. We've got these life planners,
we've got these charts.
So that means that the depth of the search is quite shallow
and so it's going to be even easier to get your book ranked particularly on
page two and therefore hopefully get seen,
make a few sales and then move up onto page one.
Now I've created a spreadsheet here where we've got a list of keywords,
Google monthly searches and Amazon search numbers.
So I've done all the work for you. And here, overall,
we've got 88 keywords and a lot of these have
search results of less than 1000. So there's loTS OF potential keywords here.
Now this spreadsheet is available to you free of
charge. It's in my Gumroad shop,
so I'll leave a link to that down below in the description so you can go along
there, download this for free, which can kickstart you off in this niche,
doing your own research, so you can sort of get ahead of the game if you'd like.
Now you may be new to this and thinking,
I have no idea what's going on here or where to start. If that's the case,
then what I suggest doing is going over to my book tutorial's playlist where I
have videos for complete beginners on how to create books and how to
upload them to the Amazon platform. Thank you much for your time.
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