Thanks for the info. I'm a newbie, published my first book on April 1. I now have 16 medium content books and 7 low content books published. I'm still learning how to run ads effectively. I'm taking the ad campaigns slowly, carefully, and not worrying about them too much. I set a budget of $50 a month for ads. My main goal is to continue to make quality books and find good niches. My goal is to have 25 medium content books published by July 4. My income for May was $32. My June sales have already begun to develop and hopefully will be higher than May. It's a long-term venture, so it's important to understand this is NOT a get-rich-quick business. I'm looking forward to where I will be one year from today.
Absolutely bang on! Those numbers are very similar to when I started too. It only takes one high quality book to break through and sell by itself every month to drive in 50-100 by itself a month which then drives your income up... Then it's rinse and repeat. Good luck, well done on your journey so far you're doing great!
Mate, thanks for being so honest in all your videos! You're the REAL deal. You're a true inspiration for beginners like me, I mean it. You show the hard work and the concrete results. This is so generous of you. Got not only a subs here, but also a fan! What you're doing is still way better than the regular 9-5 job (or worse things like I do in customer service & hellish rotating shifts, to say the least). Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
I am so grateful to have found your channel: My KDP journey started in October of 2022, and since then my experiences have pretty much mirrored yours, with the exception of the fact that you prepared yourself for this journey (so it seems to me) far better than I did. My journey, in the early stages, was filled with pretty big mistakes, false hopes and unrealistic expectations. Your channel is honest, to the point and very realistic when it comes to expectations on running a publishing business and the hoops that we are required to jump through to acheive a desired level of success (bummer about those hoops). Since 2022, I've elevated my craft, knowledge and skills, and I am on a path that could potentially see me reaching my goals, but I've still a long way to go to the level of success that I've got my heart set on. Thank you for delivering honest and relevant information, realistic expectations and of course, thank you for taking the time to share your advice and expertise. I will be staying tunned!
Thanks for the reply 👍 I'm at the stage now where I'm trying to discover my book cover's quality- I'd love to think that I've got the skills for the design, but I am also taking your advice on this channel about being realistic...I know I'm good, but I'm not great, so that's a real eye opener, so far anyway... that's where I am on this journey
I know i will get there soon, let's watch!!! Thank you for making these income report videos! Edit: how you manage and organize all your online businesses is INCREDIBLE, from the comments, you do almost everything yourself - the coloring book, editing videos, etc. I respect that!
Bro that is amazing you've been able to create 6 whole books. and on top of that you've also been able to work on this channel as well as Etsy. How do you manage to do all of this? How many hours do you work a day? and How do you deal with procrastination? if you get any. I'd love if you could make a video explaining these aspects, cause they are crucial to the business and how do you usually structure your day.
You're too kind! I tend to do 8 hours a day 5 days per week but some weeks I might work 6 days, others 4 days. However, with speed of books - a lot of the books I create are within series that already have an established template, so it's a case of updating images and titles and that sort of thing which saves a lot of time :). Creating the first book in a series takes a lot longer than the second book.
You are amazing every time. I appreciate your consistency and growth. Could you please share your entire profit for inspiration including KDP, ETSY, RUclips....etc,.
You have convinced me to publish another poetry chap book on Kindle. I don't expect to make money from poetry so the more share coming to me the better.
You cannot be directly profitable from the first month after launch. You have to be patient with the ads and build towards profit from 3rd or 4th month if you afford it. Especially in a pretty crowded niche as coloring books.
I'll definitely do a first half of 2024 full income breakdown with everything included and a yearly youtube earnings. I'll run a poll to see the interest of monthly youtube income reports.
Hi I am a newbie on this platform.I have designed many books from canva One of my book got published but rest of my books are getting blocked and I can not understand the issue or root cause.Can you please teach me coloring book creations n uploading those books in proper way to avoid blocking.plzzzz
More specifically, I want to see whether AI generated colouring books get approved by kdp or not. A proof would satisfy me. I would be grateful to you.
They 100% do and I've made lots of videos about ai coloring books already 😀. My advice is don't publish poor quality books though, and it needs to be very good AI to not get bad reviews
Do you get reviews before launching new books with ads? Or are you launching your ad campaigns for new books with no reviews at all? Thanks 🙏🏻 in advance.
Yeah I launch and run ads without reviews. I'll get some organically as purchases happen. Not ideal but at least it's not breaking aamzons terms of sevice
Not needed at the beginning. Depends where you live but in the UK for example you can make £1k a year without having to declare it, and then you can just do a self assessment after that
Focus on creating high quality books and research the niches before publishing. If you just create more of the same you won't sell books! Keep going :)
Have you ever used a service called Pubby? If so, what do you think about it? Is it a scam? Also, can you make a video on how to get reviews on a book? I’m struggling with that. My books have zero reviews.
The Author Page is fairly simple. My main problem was: should I use a pen name or my own name. I began using my own name and have a dozen books under that name. Then I published a group of books under a Brand Name I came up with, and added that to my Author Page as a pen name. Now my books are split between the two, my real name and my pen name. Also, I have had to use the "add a book" function a lot, making sure all of my books are attached to the right name. I need to write a better bio, too.
Great answer. I did the same too! Normally if you make sure you write the author name correctly, your books should still be auto added after a few days to the correct pen name - but always good to double check!
@@selfpublishingempire I've also noticed it matters how you tag the "contributor" portion for an additional author. I've been putting my brand name in the author's field, and my name as an "editor". When I do that, my name is also highlighted on the product page, as well as the brand name. They both provide a link to each one's author page. However, when I put my name in as an "illustrator" as a contributor, my name isn't highlighted on the product page. I have some books where the brand name is highlighted, but not my name. Then other books have both names highlighted! Very weird. I'm guessing the algorithm just pays attention to Author name and Editor name, when choosing to highlight the name and direct it to an author page. I wonder what would happen if I put my name as the Author, and my brand name as a contributor? LOL.
Oh do not feel bad haha. Hand drawn/illustrated as long as good/a cool style will alwaaaaaaaays perform so much better than ai. If I could draw I would do it myself 100%, but I can't afford to employ illustrators at the moment - that's where I want to get to
I've been publishing a new book every 3-4 days, using ChatGPT, inDesign, and Photoshop. The hard part for me is finding the niche, the book topic that will have a chance to sell. Finding a book that will be in demand is the real challenge.
From what I can tell the most successful colouring books are not Ai generated. They are well crafted hand drawn books with outstanding social media marketing. It looks to me they haven’t done endless ours of niche research, instead they put those hours into making a quality book backed by a large social media presence.
Thanks for the info. I'm a newbie, published my first book on April 1. I now have 16 medium content books and 7 low content books published. I'm still learning how to run ads effectively. I'm taking the ad campaigns slowly, carefully, and not worrying about them too much. I set a budget of $50 a month for ads. My main goal is to continue to make quality books and find good niches. My goal is to have 25 medium content books published by July 4. My income for May was $32. My June sales have already begun to develop and hopefully will be higher than May. It's a long-term venture, so it's important to understand this is NOT a get-rich-quick business. I'm looking forward to where I will be one year from today.
Absolutely bang on! Those numbers are very similar to when I started too. It only takes one high quality book to break through and sell by itself every month to drive in 50-100 by itself a month which then drives your income up... Then it's rinse and repeat. Good luck, well done on your journey so far you're doing great!
Do you write books yourself or with the help of artificial intelligence?
@@Ermekaliev My writing is human, images are a mixture of AI, stock, or my own bits :).
Mate, thanks for being so honest in all your videos! You're the REAL deal. You're a true inspiration for beginners like me, I mean it. You show the hard work and the concrete results. This is so generous of you. Got not only a subs here, but also a fan! What you're doing is still way better than the regular 9-5 job (or worse things like I do in customer service & hellish rotating shifts, to say the least). Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
This made my day, thank you 😀
I am so grateful to have found your channel: My KDP journey started in October of 2022, and since then my experiences have pretty much mirrored yours, with the exception of the fact that you prepared yourself for this journey (so it seems to me) far better than I did. My journey, in the early stages, was filled with pretty big mistakes, false hopes and unrealistic expectations. Your channel is honest, to the point and very realistic when it comes to expectations on running a publishing business and the hoops that we are required to jump through to acheive a desired level of success (bummer about those hoops). Since 2022, I've elevated my craft, knowledge and skills, and I am on a path that could potentially see me reaching my goals, but I've still a long way to go to the level of success that I've got my heart set on. Thank you for delivering honest and relevant information, realistic expectations and of course, thank you for taking the time to share your advice and expertise. I will be staying tunned!
Thanks Catherine! How are you getting on now? Great to hear your story so far as well and I'm glad my content helps :)
Thanks for the reply 👍 I'm at the stage now where I'm trying to discover my book cover's quality- I'd love to think that I've got the skills for the design, but I am also taking your advice on this channel about being realistic...I know I'm good, but I'm not great, so that's a real eye opener, so far anyway... that's where I am on this journey
Great to see your sales increasing month-by-month. Hope you're on track to achieve your June goals 😌
Thank you kindly. Great videos and inspiration to keep going. Keep em' (books and videos) coming!
Been waiting for this video since the beginning of the month 😂. Thank you and congrats! 🎉
I know i will get there soon, let's watch!!! Thank you for making these income report videos!
Edit: how you manage and organize all your online businesses is INCREDIBLE, from the comments, you do almost everything yourself - the coloring book, editing videos, etc. I respect that!
Thank you ,:)
Bro that is amazing you've been able to create 6 whole books. and on top of that you've also been able to work on this channel as well as Etsy. How do you manage to do all of this? How many hours do you work a day? and How do you deal with procrastination? if you get any. I'd love if you could make a video explaining these aspects, cause they are crucial to the business and how do you usually structure your day.
You're too kind! I tend to do 8 hours a day 5 days per week but some weeks I might work 6 days, others 4 days.
However, with speed of books - a lot of the books I create are within series that already have an established template, so it's a case of updating images and titles and that sort of thing which saves a lot of time :). Creating the first book in a series takes a lot longer than the second book.
Love your content. Bro, can you please make a video about making colouring books
As you say, we learn from our mistakes. Good job anyway💪. Keep the fingers crossed for June
You are amazing every time. I appreciate your consistency and growth. Could you please share your entire profit for inspiration including KDP, ETSY, RUclips....etc,.
You have convinced me to publish another poetry chap book on Kindle. I don't expect to make money from poetry so the more share coming to me the better.
You cannot be directly profitable from the first month after launch. You have to be patient with the ads and build towards profit from 3rd or 4th month if you afford it. Especially in a pretty crowded niche as coloring books.
100% agreed but the click to purchase ratio being approx 1 in 25 means that the book will likely not be a long term success
@@selfpublishingempire oh yeah, agreed. Maybe it is not yet that much demand on that particular niche
Useful content, as always. Thank you for taking the time to explain sales etc, as I'm finding KDP advert targeting a nightmare!
Glad it was helpful! I'll do a new ads guide soon as well
Are the 5-6 book you publish each month AI coloring and activity books?
A mixture mate. Some ai coloring / puzzle books, some hand made activity books or word search books, and the occasional hand made journal
Thanks for sharing! Are you still making coloring books through midjourney and do you declare it's ai when publishing the book?
I make occasional coloring books and yes I always declare if I use AI to Amazon (but not always in my description - to me I think that's up to you)
Excellent, Honest, Detailed content, thank you 😀
Glad it was helpful!
great all the best , also upload youtube income video
I've got one for last year on here so check that out :) but I will do!
Nice video, can we also get monthly RUclips income report too please?
I'll definitely do a first half of 2024 full income breakdown with everything included and a yearly youtube earnings. I'll run a poll to see the interest of monthly youtube income reports.
Amazing content as always. Question do you create the coloring books yourself or do you outsource?
I create myself but definitely wouldn't be opposed to outsourcing!! I am currently looking into costs of outsourcing but I want the quality to be high
Hi
I am a newbie on this platform.I have designed many books from canva One of my book got published but rest of my books are getting blocked and I can not understand the issue or root cause.Can you please teach me coloring book creations n uploading those books in proper way to avoid blocking.plzzzz
Id avoid using elements from canva as these images might be what's causing issues as you don't own the copyright for them.
More specifically, I want to see whether AI generated colouring books get approved by kdp or not. A proof would satisfy me. I would be grateful to you.
They 100% do and I've made lots of videos about ai coloring books already 😀. My advice is don't publish poor quality books though, and it needs to be very good AI to not get bad reviews
Do you get reviews before launching new books with ads? Or are you launching your ad campaigns for new books with no reviews at all? Thanks 🙏🏻 in advance.
Yeah I launch and run ads without reviews. I'll get some organically as purchases happen. Not ideal but at least it's not breaking aamzons terms of sevice
I just published 5 books. I cant afford to run ads to all of them. It it a requirement?
It's always a good idea to invest a small amount in ads. You could test one of them for a small amount per month perhaps.
Is it a good idea to register a business to start KDP?
Not needed at the beginning. Depends where you live but in the UK for example you can make £1k a year without having to declare it, and then you can just do a self assessment after that
Am new to KDP I publish 4 books and made zero dollars can you help me
Focus on creating high quality books and research the niches before publishing. If you just create more of the same you won't sell books! Keep going :)
Have you ever used a service called Pubby? If so, what do you think about it? Is it a scam?
Also, can you make a video on how to get reviews on a book? I’m struggling with that. My books have zero reviews.
Don't pay for reviews, it's against terms of service. I tried a few things when just getting going but now I just let them come naturallt
@@selfpublishingempire What’s to the best way to get reviews when you are starting out? Ads?
Good question!@@SpectacularWebHead
hey and what is the average life expectancy in uk? Is £2,000 ok? I also happen to spend too much on Launch:)
Life expectancy or salary? Average UK salary I think is about £40,000 so £3,333 a month. Getting there!
How to create Author page plz Make detail video sir
The Author Page is fairly simple. My main problem was: should I use a pen name or my own name. I began using my own name and have a dozen books under that name. Then I published a group of books under a Brand Name I came up with, and added that to my Author Page as a pen name. Now my books are split between the two, my real name and my pen name. Also, I have had to use the "add a book" function a lot, making sure all of my books are attached to the right name. I need to write a better bio, too.
Great answer. I did the same too! Normally if you make sure you write the author name correctly, your books should still be auto added after a few days to the correct pen name - but always good to double check!
@@selfpublishingempire I've also noticed it matters how you tag the "contributor" portion for an additional author. I've been putting my brand name in the author's field, and my name as an "editor". When I do that, my name is also highlighted on the product page, as well as the brand name. They both provide a link to each one's author page. However, when I put my name in as an "illustrator" as a contributor, my name isn't highlighted on the product page. I have some books where the brand name is highlighted, but not my name. Then other books have both names highlighted! Very weird. I'm guessing the algorithm just pays attention to Author name and Editor name, when choosing to highlight the name and direct it to an author page. I wonder what would happen if I put my name as the Author, and my brand name as a contributor? LOL.
I have zero sells please help me
Keep going, try to make the best books you can. If your book covers aren't great, use fiverr or premade covers as that is super important! Good luck!
How on earth did you manage to create 6 colouring books in one month? Are you using Ai?
Yes these were using ai, but with extensive editing. It's also my full-time job!
@@selfpublishingempire Damnn and here's me hand drawing each page for my first colouring book haha! All the best!
Oh do not feel bad haha. Hand drawn/illustrated as long as good/a cool style will alwaaaaaaaays perform so much better than ai. If I could draw I would do it myself 100%, but I can't afford to employ illustrators at the moment - that's where I want to get to
I've been publishing a new book every 3-4 days, using ChatGPT, inDesign, and Photoshop. The hard part for me is finding the niche, the book topic that will have a chance to sell. Finding a book that will be in demand is the real challenge.
From what I can tell the most successful colouring books are not Ai generated. They are well crafted hand drawn books with outstanding social media marketing. It looks to me they haven’t done endless ours of niche research, instead they put those hours into making a quality book backed by a large social media presence.