One of the things I've learned after publishing about a dozen books on KDP for a year - don't mess up the title and subtitle. Get the keyword in the title, and secondary keywords into the subtitle, even if the subtitle is a bit long and awkward. Don't mess this rule up or you're just doomed from the start.
But aren’t we supposed to put the actual book title? I’ve published several books and I’m not having great success. It’s very frustrating because I’m trying to do lots of good keywords and A+ content, but they’re still not seen.
@@authorericar.stinson4849 it’s confusing. I watched a video recently that said stuffing the title with keywords isn’t as important as it used to be. Ugh
@@karenduey9675 and then add in the fact that Amazon has now taken away the 10-category allowance, lowering it to only three. My writing groups on Facebook are in an uproar. The minute I learn one thing, something else comes along and everything changes. All of this is happening while my books still don't sell(Mystery, suspense, and thriller). It's hard and I definitely understand the pain of trying so hard only to not get results.
I don't understand why so many 'RUclipsrs' claim that they are earning thousands of dollars with Amazon eBooks. I have three pseudonyms and at least 45 e-books (and paperbacks). I write in four languages (english, spanish, portuguese and French), and I make only $1200 a month. I'm not "rich" with Amazon. And I promote a lot, e even promote my books in my own websites, in my blogs, and in my Facebook groups (3k members each group). And I'm still not rich 🙂
THanks for the tips! Have a self published author (fiction), I agree with almost all of these! You are dead on about the cover! Never skimp on the cover!
Watched through your presentation except the last eight minutes, due to an emergency call. Best presentation I have seen on the net. Lots of like experiences. Very elderly man, SS income only, yet I will DIY until I have the income for your course. Your were great, your energy is exactly there and you will continue to draw like to you. Very Best until I am back.
Thanks for your content, Sean! Great tips and insight! Even with a graphic design degree I still need continual practice! As we consume and practice good design we obtain an eye for it like you mentioned. At some point you definitely see where bad design ends and good design begins. It’s all around us every single day. From poor to mediocre, good to phenomenal, and every level in between. Great design can often go unnoticed or be taken for granted because it is so effective. After all, design is a part of everything. Your video reminded me of this quote, “Nail the basics first, detail the details later.” ~Chris Anderson
Glad I found this I didn't have a good sub title. Now I have a perfect one. I've just finished my 3rd book and had to go back and make subtitles for all of them. AI is magic for that ! One thing that is still evading me is the right categories for Kids books. Doesn't seem to be a category just for that.
I have a book that went live yesterday. I just searched the keywords in the title, and it didn't come up. I'm on page 3 of results, and see books that don't have that keyword. Does it take a while to be searchable?
Thank you Sean for another wonderful, inspiring video. Am going to publish my first book very soon, am so excited with my niche as I know it is a hot topic right now. Thank you for giving me the tools and the strength to finally get off my behind and get on with it! I feel blessed to have found someone who genuinely wants to help us newbies instead of just making money off us! Thank you 😊
@@SeanDollwet Nothing wrong with that at all. I`ve just watched a few similar videos and they all used coloring books as an example. It`s not a criticism, just more of a comment on a coincidence. Thanks for the video!
I've been watching your videos for a little bit and I find them helpful so I subscribed. I'm getting ready to publish my first book but I'm having really huge problems with putting it together. I really don't want to pay anybody it's not that I don't want to spend the money it's I want Total control from start to finish. I have a vision. Really would appreciate if you did a show about how to design your book that seems like the hardest process of the whole thing
Hey Sean, The first 30 days sales and ranking is bit tough one specially for low content books where customer wants to see the Look Inside Feature. I have published few planners and the Look Inside Feature almost took 10 to 14 working days to appear properly. (still some books have interior rendering issues). Even after running Ads,.. most of Planners couldn't transform into sales because people wants to see what is inside the book. How would you tackle such issu, when interior of your book is important for people to see before they buy?
Good voice and professionally done. If you would ever like to help a senior citizen to get started for a percentage of the net sales let me know. :) :)
If you messed up on the title from the start, is there any way to help remedy that by republishing the book and entering different key words? How would that work for a book such as a memoir?
Thank you, Sean. It is amazing how nicely you have breakdown the steps. It is great information. I am an author and my book is up there but what I didn't know is what you inform me. Again Thank you very much. Elizabeth Das: I did it His Way
Also, do I need to have a sellers account on Amazon to increase sales? It's quite expensive. I can see myself getting it if I make some sales, but at this point, it's a bit cost-prohibitive.
Brother will help me with an information. I work in Amazon KDP. Can I market my book on the marketplace? Creates an Amazon Associate account. Will there be any problem in the account? It would help me a lot if you let me know.
In the case when I provide a book for free and a person writes a review on the site for it. They don't buy a book on Amazon. Does the service mark such a review as written without purchasing a copy specifically through their website? If not, why can't even those who haven't read my book be invited to write (or do that for writing a bad review in case of rivalry)? How to distinguish these people if, for example, they wrote identical good (bad) reviews?
Hello, I have a question. I have this idea of an upcoming book that I want to sell. I know how to get the book done as a Ebook. What if I wanted to have this book available as a audiobook and paperback? Does Amazon make the EBook a paperback for a fee? Do they ship it to the customer directly , or do I have to worry about all that? What about audio? Should I just hire an actor to do it? Please let me know.
If I was to pay for an authors copy to go to someone for review they would not be able to review it correct? It would have to be a copy at full price that I send them? If I sent it to them from my amazon account they wouldn't be able to review it because they didn't purchase correct? How would this work then?
Hey I took your free course and you mentioned something Digital .... where you can publish your book to many platforms with their service. Unfortunately I didn't catch it in time and couldn't rewind. Can you let me know? If you have an affiliate link feel free to drop it. Thanks for so much valuable info!
How can you “give away free books” on Facebook or wherever? Doesn’t Amazon expect to get paid their cut? I can make separate downloadable coloring sheets, but then they can’t leave me an Amazon review… how can I offer “free books”?
I have a question about giving people your coloring book for review. Would amazon have no problem with it because it is not ordered on amazon but given a review. I would send maybe the coloring book in pdf format or should I give a hard copy?
If someone hasn't purchased my book and I ask them in Facebook groups to give a review, is it possible for them to do so without making a purchase? Will Amazon ban my account for this? Additionally, I have enrolled in KDP Select for free book promotions, and although four units of my books have been sold, I haven't received any reviews on them.
Watching this video for my toddler's activity book and there you gave example for coloring book. Thank you. If anyone wants to order. Type activity book for toddlers by Madha Meer
Can someone explain how to give your book for free review? You would have to make your book free? But paperbacks can't be free? How does this all work?
I honestly don't know what to do anymore. I'm a passionate author who wrote and published a psychological thriller that I worked on for three years and I've sold one book so far. ONE. And that's after advertising and promoting like a crazy person. And the bad thing is, I need the money. I really need it. This isn't just a "side hustle" to me, I genuinely want this to work. But I've watched all these videos and I'm still failing.
I had this same question. It works with ebooks but not sure how it works with physical books. I have thought about sending vouchers to use to buy the book themselves but that may not be allowed by KDP as it could be considered paying for reviews.
Hi, great channel, just discovered and subscribed - can you tell me how you're getting that 4-panel data box right in your Amazon search results? That doesn't look like the chrome extensions you mentioned.
hi Sean Dollwet . thank you for your video . i have a question here please . if I use an image from pexeel for my kdp cover does that will put my account in danger or not.
how do I do my book it's called Hidden Beneath My Scars by Christina Blackwell. I'm stuck I'm letting people know about my book on TIktok and Facebook. What else do I do?
Hey, if the first month after a publishing is important, can you unpublish and then republish a book again if it didn't sell after a month? Does it work like that?
I've asked ChatGPT to write some fables for my amusement. Result was IMPRESSIVE. So folks, how long will it be before I can do the following: Hello, AI Hemingway. You know what I like (probably better than I do), so I'd like for you to write me a 200,000-word novel (best-seller quality) about a female partisan spy in Milano, 1942 who is working to provide the Allies with intelligence on Mussolini's communications with Berlin. And do it before dinner. So what's your opinion, folks? How long will it be? And do novelists, aspiring novelists, editors and proof readers need to be concerned?
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One of the things I've learned after publishing about a dozen books on KDP for a year - don't mess up the title and subtitle. Get the keyword in the title, and secondary keywords into the subtitle, even if the subtitle is a bit long and awkward. Don't mess this rule up or you're just doomed from the start.
But aren’t we supposed to put the actual book title? I’ve published several books and I’m not having great success. It’s very frustrating because I’m trying to do lots of good keywords and A+ content, but they’re still not seen.
@@karenduey9675 in the same boat and I don't know what to do either.
@@authorericar.stinson4849 it’s confusing. I watched a video recently that said stuffing the title with keywords isn’t as important as it used to be. Ugh
@@karenduey9675 and then add in the fact that Amazon has now taken away the 10-category allowance, lowering it to only three. My writing groups on Facebook are in an uproar. The minute I learn one thing, something else comes along and everything changes. All of this is happening while my books still don't sell(Mystery, suspense, and thriller). It's hard and I definitely understand the pain of trying so hard only to not get results.
@@authorericar.stinson4849 what’s the 10 category thing?
I don't understand why so many 'RUclipsrs' claim that they are earning thousands of dollars with Amazon eBooks. I have three pseudonyms and at least 45 e-books (and paperbacks). I write in four languages (english, spanish, portuguese and French), and I make only $1200 a month. I'm not "rich" with Amazon. And I promote a lot, e even promote my books in my own websites, in my blogs, and in my Facebook groups (3k members each group). And I'm still not rich 🙂
THanks for the tips! Have a self published author (fiction), I agree with almost all of these! You are dead on about the cover! Never skimp on the cover!
Watched through your presentation except the last eight minutes, due to an emergency call. Best presentation I have seen on the net. Lots of like experiences. Very elderly man, SS income only, yet I will DIY until I have the income for your course. Your were great, your energy is exactly there and you will continue to draw like to you. Very Best until I am back.
I hope I can get more book sales, its rough out here, I did sell 10 books last month tho!
@@SeanDollwet you didint explain how to actually use this mechanism for changing niches - i canz do iz tehnically. Can you help in details?
10:16, true, people literally judge books by their covers, despite the old saying…it’s smart to have a good cover 😎
Thanks for your content, Sean! Great tips and insight! Even with a graphic design degree I still need continual practice! As we consume and practice good design we obtain an eye for it like you mentioned. At some point you definitely see where bad design ends and good design begins. It’s all around us every single day. From poor to mediocre, good to phenomenal, and every level in between. Great design can often go unnoticed or be taken for granted because it is so effective. After all, design is a part of everything. Your video reminded me of this quote, “Nail the basics first, detail the details later.” ~Chris Anderson
Glad I found this I didn't have a good sub title. Now I have a perfect one. I've just finished my 3rd book and had to go back and make subtitles for all of them. AI is magic for that !
One thing that is still evading me is the right categories for Kids books. Doesn't seem to be a category just for that.
I have a book that went live yesterday. I just searched the keywords in the title, and it didn't come up. I'm on page 3 of results, and see books that don't have that keyword. Does it take a while to be searchable?
Thank you Sean for another wonderful, inspiring video. Am going to publish my first book very soon, am so excited with my niche as I know it is a hot topic right now. Thank you for giving me the tools and the strength to finally get off my behind and get on with it! I feel blessed to have found someone who genuinely wants to help us newbies instead of just making money off us!
Thank you 😊
I just started selling low budget book on KDP Amazon and this video helped me tremendously! Thank you so much :)
Why do all these videos always use 'coloring books' as an example?
@@SeanDollwet Nothing wrong with that at all. I`ve just watched a few similar videos and they all used coloring books as an example. It`s not a criticism, just more of a comment on a coincidence. Thanks for the video!
You gave a true gift for helping others Sean. Thank you.
Thank you Sean for sharing your knowledge. Niching down and the 30 day sell is enlightening
This shizz just saved my life!! Thank you! I have 10 children's books with 36 more written. This is awesome!
Surprised that the "Speak Chicken" book has 2,719 reviews
I have been learning...and hustling as a new writer. Thanks 🌎 Very nice video.
Very helpful. Thanks Sean.
Can you please do a video on all the different software and useful tools a KDP seller should have on their laptop.
1. Use SEO OPTIMIZED KEY WORDS.
Thank you Sean for sharing your knowledge, which I found to be useful. I appreciate your time.
I've been watching your videos for a little bit and I find them helpful so I subscribed. I'm getting ready to publish my first book but I'm having really huge problems with putting it together. I really don't want to pay anybody it's not that I don't want to spend the money it's I want Total control from start to finish. I have a vision. Really would appreciate if you did a show about how to design your book that seems like the hardest process of the whole thing
Thanks Sean 🌎 Greetings from Colombia. The Venezuelan immigrant writer 🇻🇪
I’m really struggling with this. I feel like I’m putting in the right keywords and even doing A+ content, but it’s not working.
First thirty days is something i did not know and is so far this guys only really useful tip
Thanks!
As a freelance writer I make really good money writing ransom notes.
Now THERE’S a hot niche!
Hey Sean,
The first 30 days sales and ranking is bit tough one specially for low content books where customer wants to see the Look Inside Feature. I have published few planners and the Look Inside Feature almost took 10 to 14 working days to appear properly. (still some books have interior rendering issues). Even after running Ads,.. most of Planners couldn't transform into sales because people wants to see what is inside the book. How would you tackle such issu, when interior of your book is important for people to see before they buy?
make A+ content
Put an open up in the review
Didn't amazon disable that feature completely for low content books?
Hi Sean, thanks for this video. Do you know if there is a tool to analyze the traffic data and see how many clicks my kdp book page gets?
I also need it
Good voice and professionally done. If you would ever like to help a senior citizen to get started for a percentage of the net sales let me know. :) :)
Brilliant. Thanks. I use firefox, but I'll get chrome just for that amazon search add on.
can no longer add keywords in title. Amazon calls it keyword stuffing
If you messed up on the title from the start, is there any way to help remedy that by republishing the book and entering different key words? How would that work for a book such as a memoir?
Thank you, Sean. It is amazing how nicely you have breakdown the steps. It is great information. I am an author and my book is up there but what I didn't know is what you inform me. Again Thank you very much. Elizabeth Das: I did it His Way
Nice tutorial.
Will like the training on how to be a millionaire doing self publishing on KDP..
Waiting for your response.
Thanks
Also, do I need to have a sellers account on Amazon to increase sales? It's quite expensive. I can see myself getting it if I make some sales, but at this point, it's a bit cost-prohibitive.
so how do you actually do seo? How are we meant to reasearch that for our specific books?
How can I increase sales for my fiction books? SEO and keyword, etc. don't work for novels.
Can you clarify keywords in titles vs. title stuffing?
Loved you video Sean. I will take the notes and try to apply them where needed.
What’s the extension called?
Brother will help me with an information. I work in Amazon KDP. Can I market my book on the marketplace? Creates an Amazon Associate account. Will there be any problem in the account? It would help me a lot if you let me know.
In the case when I provide a book for free and a person writes a review on the site for it. They don't buy a book on Amazon. Does the service mark such a review as written without purchasing a copy specifically through their website?
If not, why can't even those who haven't read my book be invited to write (or do that for writing a bad review in case of rivalry)? How to distinguish these people if, for example, they wrote identical good (bad) reviews?
05:31 Christmas colouring pages for kids 1 to 111. Lol
Hello, I have a question.
I have this idea of an upcoming book that I want to sell.
I know how to get the book done as a Ebook.
What if I wanted to have this book available as a audiobook and paperback?
Does Amazon make the EBook a paperback for a fee?
Do they ship it to the customer directly , or do I have to worry about all that?
What about audio? Should I just hire an actor to do it?
Please let me know.
I wish I can get my first book sell
Those are great tips. Im due to release children books. 😊
If I was to pay for an authors copy to go to someone for review they would not be able to review it correct? It would have to be a copy at full price that I send them? If I sent it to them from my amazon account they wouldn't be able to review it because they didn't purchase correct? How would this work then?
Question: I thought they had to buy the book directly from Amazon for them to be eligible to do a review on your book.
I loved it Sean! Thank you.
Hey I took your free course and you mentioned something Digital .... where you can publish your book to many platforms with their service. Unfortunately I didn't catch it in time and couldn't rewind. Can you let me know? If you have an affiliate link feel free to drop it. Thanks for so much valuable info!
I am the author of "Malnad Mysteries" can you suggest me?
How can you “give away free books” on Facebook or wherever? Doesn’t Amazon expect to get paid their cut?
I can make separate downloadable coloring sheets, but then they can’t leave me an Amazon review… how can I offer “free books”?
Another good video Sean. Thank you brother.
What amazon extension are you using that displays the avg bsr, reviews, price and sales mo?
Seandollwet.com/bookbeam
@@SeanDollwet Thanks!
Excellent video Sean 👍🙏 I enjoyed very much your video…
Thank you for an excellent session. Learnt heaps.
How can we get free copy of our books!??
I have a question about giving people your coloring book for review. Would amazon have no problem with it because it is not ordered on amazon but given a review. I would send maybe the coloring book in pdf format or should I give a hard copy?
Don’t they have to make a purchase to leave a review or can anyone leave one?
Personally, I actually prefer the fivver cover that you featured.
Well, the speak to chicken book has way more ratings that the ones shown in page 1 😅 3:10
Wow thank you ❤
This is for people who haven’t yet designed or titled their books
Thanks you so much am really impressed with this video
Keep it up ❤❤❤❤❤❤
🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ I wish I have seen this video before I published my book, is it possible to ho back to kdp and modify the key words???
Yes
If someone hasn't purchased my book and I ask them in Facebook groups to give a review, is it possible for them to do so without making a purchase? Will Amazon ban my account for this? Additionally, I have enrolled in KDP Select for free book promotions, and although four units of my books have been sold, I haven't received any reviews on them.
Watching this video for my toddler's activity book and there you gave example for coloring book. Thank you.
If anyone wants to order. Type activity book for toddlers by Madha Meer
I published one book about 2 months ago. It still hasn't made even One sale .. 😭
Lots of information here. Thanks.
When you offer a copy of your book for a review, is that the eBook or paperback? Paperback would get expensive really fast.
Thanks for the value great content Sean
Can someone explain how to give your book for free review? You would have to make your book free? But paperbacks can't be free? How does this all work?
I honestly don't know what to do anymore. I'm a passionate author who wrote and published a psychological thriller that I worked on for three years and I've sold one book so far. ONE. And that's after advertising and promoting like a crazy person. And the bad thing is, I need the money. I really need it. This isn't just a "side hustle" to me, I genuinely want this to work. But I've watched all these videos and I'm still failing.
This was very useful. Thank you
if you give free copies to people how can they give reviews on amazon if they don't buy it themselves? is that possible?
I had this same question. It works with ebooks but not sure how it works with physical books. I have thought about sending vouchers to use to buy the book themselves but that may not be allowed by KDP as it could be considered paying for reviews.
This was informative. Thank you for sharing
i have a question i just started how do u now how many book u have sold please just asking and love the videos too
This is an old video and the app doesn't work anymore I guess for the keyword help.
Thanks this video really helped
Hi, great channel, just discovered and subscribed - can you tell me how you're getting that 4-panel data box right in your Amazon search results? That doesn't look like the chrome extensions you mentioned.
How can any of this possibly work for fiction?
hi Sean Dollwet .
thank you for your video . i have a question here please . if I use an image from pexeel for my kdp cover does that will put my account in danger or not.
Great information Thank you
how do I do my book it's called Hidden Beneath My Scars by Christina Blackwell. I'm stuck I'm letting people know about my book on TIktok and Facebook. What else do I do?
Great tips! Thanks for sharing, Sean!
Hey, if the first month after a publishing is important, can you unpublish and then republish a book again if it didn't sell after a month? Does it work like that?
You should be able to edit book 📖 then save the changes that you made
That's a very dangerous thing to do. You may as well get banned.
Do you do any books in fiction?
Where can we download the search suggestion expander ? Is this available within a kdp account ?
BTW: very informative video, great info.
Pls is there a tool to know how many clicks my book(s) gets on Amazon kdp
Good evening bro.
Please how do i offer my books for free while I don't even have a copy
When you say 99 cents as a two week intro offer, do you mean Amazon's cost of printing + 99 cents?
great advice!-subbed!
Thanks, if I cancel my KDP subscription can I still get paid for the books I created? I’m not making any money
That's what I wanted to know..
how do you download the amazon extension?
how do i find the extender to add it?
I've asked ChatGPT to write some fables for my amusement. Result was IMPRESSIVE. So folks, how long will it be before I can do the following: Hello, AI Hemingway. You know what I like (probably better than I do), so I'd like for you to write me a 200,000-word novel (best-seller quality) about a female partisan spy in Milano, 1942 who is working to provide the Allies with intelligence on Mussolini's communications with Berlin. And do it before dinner. So what's your opinion, folks? How long will it be? And do novelists, aspiring novelists, editors and proof readers need to be concerned?
Thanks Sean
Great content🔥
Key words only help you if your book is in amazon's top 100 in their algorhymth
Nice one Sean