hey guys i'm finally back making my next
video i'm going to do my first ever
income report but instead of showing you
how much we've made in total i'm going
to make an income reports with a little
twist let me explain so a lot of people
on facebook keep asking how much money
you can make with kindle direct
publishing how much money you can make
in the first six months how long it
takes to make your first thousand
dollars monthly and a lot of people also
ask how much money you can make without
ever doing amazon ads so in this video
right now i'm going to show you just one
of our pen names that we created back in
2019 and we have not run a single ad on
any of the books ever all of the sales
we have gotten with just this one pin
name are all organic and instead of
making it just an income report i'm
going to make it an entire analysis i'm
going to break down every book and show
you how much you made in the first six
months how much you make during the
holiday seasons how much you make now
every month so you can see what is
realistic for yourself to achieve if you
never do amazon ads with your books so
let's dive right into it alright so
let's get into our amazon kdp income
reports for this one pen name we have
376 books these are all medium content
books not low content books like
notebooks and journals and things like
that so they took a little bit more time
to make and each one of these books is
fully unique not one of them has
duplicate interiors and for not one of
these 376 books to be able to run a
single amazon ad on and at the end i'll
share the secret to finding this kind of
niche so here as you can see the
beginning was quite slow and even
started going downhill quite a bit but
then after a few months it's been
steadily increasing ever since so how
long does it take to make money with
amazon kdp so on our very first month in
december of 2019 right before the
christmas sales we actually had a very
good month and we made 240 dollars but
one thing you should know is when you
first release a book amazon will boost
your book a little bit which is called
the honeymoon period so when you first
launch a book amazon will increase its
ranking so amazon can test it out to see
if that book is going to do well or not
so don't be surprised if sometimes if
for some of the books you see an
increase at the beginning and then it
goes down slightly that is totally
possible but ideally the sales would
never go down so in the first six months
we only made one thousand one hundred
nine dollars and you might think to
yourself that one thousand one hundred
and six dollars is not that much and kdp
might not be worth it but i'm just
showing you truthful and realistic
figures of what one person might achieve
with just one pen name and not having
any budget or any money to run amazon
ads so if you don't have money with
amazon ads to make a lot of money with
kdp will be much slower but it is
realistic and i will explain to you and
show you exactly why in just a bit also
just keep in mind this is what it
started like and this is how it's going
now as you can see it's steadily going
up in sales every month almost and
that's really what kdp is all about i
think one of the biggest takeaways for
you is just realizing that kindle direct
publishing is the long and steady game
to do well with kdp you have to have
really good quality books and i'm not
just talking about the book interior i'm
also talking about the book title i'm
talking about the backend keywords i'm
talking about the subtitle i'm talking
about the description the price of the
book and everything else that goes with
it and just know that kdp is a slow and
steady game yes some people make money
fast but most people who start
publishing books on amazon kdp will take
months if not even one year to start
making meaningful income that will
support you and your family so just keep
that in mind be realistic with your
goals and with what you believe you can
make with amazon kdp so here i want to
quickly explain the spikes you might
have seen this chart and wondered what
these different spikes were and these
spikes all happen in december as you can
see here and the great thing about this
niche that we found for this one pen
name is that these books sell every
single day but they also make extremely
good christmas presents so that is why
it spikes so high during christmas so
when my wife and i look for niches on
kdp we really like looking for evergreen
niches which means to find niches that
sell all year long indonesia's that sell
all year long they will do really well
during christmas and other holiday
seasons but if you do well with your
evergreen niches you're going to have
steady sales which i personally think is
a lot better than working on holiday
niches only because on holiday niches
you will only get sales when that
holiday comes and in the rest of year
you might not have any sales for that
niche but with every green niches you're
going to have sales every single day or
at least every single week so building
consistency for your kdp business is
just a lot easier if you find evergreen
niches alright so total since 2019 for
this one pen name we've made seventeen
thousand six hundred forty three dollars
and fifty three cents and in the last
six months we've made seven thousand one
hundred and forty three dollars in six
months so as you can see the average
here is over one thousand dollars
especially these last three months here
you can see is a one thousand dollar
line and each of the last three months
is over one thousand dollars so looking
at the income report for the first six
months it does not really seem like kdp
would be worth it or that it's not worth
your time or it's just too slow or not
enough money but looking at the last six
months now you can see that we're making
over one thousand dollars for just one
pin name and we've not run a single
amazon add-on so it's just pure profit
and to me making over seventeen thousand
dollars without any amazon ads is really
good my wife and i are really playing
the the slow but study game with amazon
kdp and we just keep adding books as
much as we can week by week month by
month and we slowly just build up the
amount of books we have and then the
amount of revenues is also increasing
since starting with amazon kdp we have
made over three hundred thousand dollars
in income but for most of these books
we've also done a lot of amazon ads to
help increase the rankings organically
to get more sales and increase in the
rankings and to us running amazon ads is
one of our biggest successes my wife and
i have found that when we run ads for a
launch of our new books it really does
help boost the organic rankings and help
you in the long run but that is not what
this video is about this video is just
showing you everything that's possible
with just organic sales never doing
amazon ads and just a truthful picture
of what it's like and how long it takes
to make money alright so i think this
will be really interesting for you to
see i'm sharing a full breakdown all the
details for every single book so this
analysis was done in march our total
royalties in march just a few months ago
was 14 975 and out of those 376 books
271 books have made sales but 105 books
have not made a single sale and i think
it's really important to know that it is
totally normal and okay for some of your
books never to sell and this is quite
common if you're not doing any amazon
ads or any promotions and if you don't
have money for that or you don't have
time for that or amazon ad seems too
complicated for you that is okay but
just set your expectations correctly and
know that some of your books might just
not sell and be okay with that so 59 of
our books have made between one and five
dollars 33 of our books have made
between five and ten dollars and this is
since 2019 just keep that in mind 49 of
our books have made 10 to 20
21 of our books have made 20 to 30 each
32 of our books have made between 30 and
50 each 24 of our books have made
between 50 and 70 each 13 of our books
have made
between 70 and 100 each 20 of our books
have made between 100 and 200 dollars 17
of our books with this one pen name have
made between 200 and 400 and only two of
these books have made more than 700
since launching them so as you can see a
majority of our sales are coming from
the books that are getting very few
sales but they're steady but small and
steady niches is what my wife and i are
actually looking for so here you can see
that's 27 of our books have never sold
and 72 percent of our books for this one
pen name have sold and in here you can
see just a chart to see how much our
books are making just one more thing i
wanted to mention is that the more
reviews you get for your books the more
sales and the higher your rankings on
amazon will also be so a lot of our
books have gotten four to five star
reviews which is helping our
click-through rate our conversion rates
and getting ranked higher in the amazon
search results and that is one of the
main reasons you also want a quality
book in a quality interior because if
the book is really really good and the
customer likes it they will leave a
five-star review ideally which will help
you get more and more sales so i want to
quickly show you our top 10 books since
june as you can see our top 10 books
have made us
and fifty three 5553 and eighty nine
cents which is less than thirty percent
of our entire sales for this one pin
name so our slower selling books have
gotten us seventy percent of our income
which is about twelve thousand dollars
so as you can see small niches can be
really worth it don't just go for the
bigger niches i hope this has given you
correct expectations for amazon kdp and
giving you some inspiration to keep
going and not give up too soon if you
feel like your sales are too low with
amazon kdp watch this video next where
i'll show you exactly all the mistakes
that will keep your sales low and how to
avoid them and how to fix that alright
see you soon