Hi Dane, Thank You for this video. First time on your channel-- will check out more of your videos. I am a complete NEWBIE and feeling some in trepidation about publishing but I AM GOING FOR IT. So YES! I will try some of your strategies. Many Thanks again, Dane. 🙏🙏🙏
Hello, Latin writer here. I do it in Spanish. Thanks for your video. Question: do you think that KDP Select will be of any use to me in the long term? Should I unsubscribe if I'm already buying ads? All the best.
I've been selling short stories on Kindle and released my first novel back in April (I write under D.W, Nathan). I've been looking for the best practices for selling books, and I have to say this video was a breath of fresh air. It's very difficult to find good information on how to sell a self published novel. There is more solid, clear info in the first 4 minutes of this video than 100 different websites and facebook groups. When I first released my novel in late April, I had some god sales and lots of readers on KU. Summer has been a slog, though. I can't tell you the relief I felt hearing you say that summer is typically a slow time. It's a great reassurance to know that it's not just me. As someone who writes his own novels, edits the novel, designs the cover, and markets the book, it's such a great help to come across a channel like this. My marketing plans are scattershot at best, so any guidance is such a help!
Thank you for all the info! Also you mentioned Canva and let me just say if it weren't for Canva I wouldn't have done three books in three weeks. You just search for a design pack and think of a short story that would go well with it and boom you're done before you know it. Btw your eyes are gorgeous.
Thanks 🌎 very nice video. I became a writer at age 61 in Bogotá, Colombia. It is my way to overcome my reality as immigrant. It is the way to protest elegantly and reach the World. The Venezuelan immigrant writer 🇻🇪
Dane, starting a KDP business in 2024. I have tried in the past and wasted time and money. I chose the wrong niche and subniche. So if you were me, and wanted to maximize this business where would you start? What category, what niche, what sub nice? What type (low, medium, high)? I cant make the wrong decision again.
I thought you are not able to leave a review on a product you haven't purchased via Amazon link. Has that changed? Can anyone review anything now without buying it?
Im happy to hear I’m already doing everything that you mentioned . I just started in September and just need to make those coloring books, I didn’t have enough time and trying to figure out those ads!!
You don't need to have so many books on kdp before you can start having sales All you need to do is implement the right and best marketing strategies. Have you perhaps implemented any before?
Congratulations on publishing five so far! 😊 I have published five coloring books myself so far, and made a few sales but not a lot. It takes research and good keywords. Maybe try ads? I did put some ads on my coloring books recently.
Hello bro, I would like to have your opinion on my case. With 50 books published on amazon kdp I manage to make 3 sales per month without advertising, so what do you suggest as a strategy to increase my sales. Thank you for your feedback!
I want to publish my books in two languages but I am not sure if I would list them as Spanish Edition and English Edition and if I can use the same cover design and inside coloring pages and just change the language. Do you know about the guidelines? I didn’t find anything on kdp about it.
Helo. Thanks for this. It's helpful. I published a book, I see my orders up to 20 but no figure showing on my royalties estimator. It $0. Please what could be the problem. Did I do anything wrong
A nice and helpful video for publishing books on Amazon. Give me some advice or direction what is the best way of writing books for the initial stage. Thanks❤
Thanks for this explanation. Its helpful. I published 2 books already, I see I have orders but no figure showing on my royalties estimator. It's 0.00. Is there a problem? Please I need an explanation
Do you know if these strategies work for low content books like journals? Also I do have 1 interactive self care journal for women. Those who bought it like it but It's not selling. Any advice on how to make it more visible?
Okay, soooooooo, sounds like I am slow to catch on here, not an ebook reader myself, BUT are you saying that products like activity books sell WELL in e-book format? People are printing them at home?? Enjoyed the concise nature of this video, thank you!
Hi Dane I wanna ask about Christmas coloring books. We all know that there are tons of that kind of book, so my book will be one of probably 10-20k others. How would that sell good?
80% of your success will be based on 20% of your efforts. Conversely, 80% of the startup for KDP is easy as hell. The other 20% is based on how you tell people to sell. If you plan on just waiting for Amazon to feature your colouring books, you'll be waiting for years. I only have 37 books posted. only 3 sell, once in a while. I don't do anything to sell them though. Some of it is luck, but just posting and waiting is a bad strategy for any business.
You'd have to manually ship it to them using the "author copy" feature in KDP. I'd recommend sticking with PDF's manuscripts of your book if you're going to be sending people copies of your book for free.
In a way, definitely. Fiction is a different animal in the self publishing world and requires more of a 'following'/'audience' a lot of the time to do well.
I wanted to ask how to utilize to utilize A+ content sorry Like how do I do that in the publishing paperback aspect How do I as an author put out said A + content Sorry to disturb you
I write a book last year after watching RU-vid videos and I don’t get any impressions on Amazon ads. Why? And before you answer, I’ve tried everything. I’ve also contacted Amazon. It’s a total joke. What other ways can I advertise my book that have a good potential to sell?
Hello! Dane, you are doing a great job in putting out these videos, I find your channel helpful, please accept my request to join your Facebook group, I've clicked to join for some days now, without been added yet, and also the pdf of the ebook you promised to send to gmail when joined your Facebook community, thanks in advance.