I hope this video is helpful! Here are the links mentioned & Table of Contents: Book Bolt 20% OFF: bit.ly/bookbolt-20off [Code: Greg20] ChatGPT: chatgpt.com Google Sheets: workspace.google.com/products/sheets/ Table of Contents: 0:00 Introduction 0:49 What Is Amazon KDP? 2:35 The NEW Way To Do Amazon KDP 4:04 How To Find Book Ideas 6:16 How To Create Amazon KDP Books That Sell 7:47 Book Cover Tutorial 14:04 Word Search Puzzle Tutorial 23:17 How To Upload Amazon KDP Books 34:05 Amazon KDP Pricing and Earnings 35:59 How To Scale Amazon KDP Book Creation 36:58 Resources and Conclusion
I cannot even begin to tell you how much this video helped me. Finally, after watching at least 30 videos from various people, this is the one that actually worked for me! OMG! I have been trying for so long and I used your video using a "play, pause, do" strategy and it worked! Whew! Now... can you consider do the following: I have written a children's story. It isn't a picture book but I do want to include several pictures of the main character in different scenes in the story. How can I do that? AI does not make consistent images. Is this even something do-able? I don't want illustrated. I want what essentially looks like clipart picture of this dog and put him in different scenes.
2 weeks ago I had no idea I needed to publish a book, but since i started listening to your videos while I drive my route. I have 2 already in review on KDP since last night. Thanks for all you do for us.
You're heaven-sent, Greg. I've always wanted to sell on Amazon, but I didn't know what product to sell. You are an eye-opener. I'll be back to this comment in less than five days to mention that I have submitted my word search book for review. Thank you.
Right on! I’m looking forward to your reply, and hoping you can beat my record of 3 days to get a first sale after book approval. Let me know if you beat it!
OMG, you're AMAZING. I watched your video for the first time today and am excited about getting more books on Amazon. I am Carolyn Bethel with 2 books on Amazon just sitting there , but I want to get busy creating more books. As a 64 year old retiree, I need to do it to bring income. Thanks for sharing
Greg I think out of all of the people that I have followed I think that you are the best and explain and the best detail for someone to understand thank you very much for your time in helping us
Thank you for such an easy-to-follow guide. Because of your video, I am finally been able to publish my very first book on Amazon. I can't wait for my proof copies to get here. 💜
@@GregGottfried my first word search book just went live!!!!!! It's not perfect by any means, but it's done...which is better. Thank you again for your detailed guide. 💜
You are a RUclips educator on speed! This is amazing! I am on vacation next week, so I'm giving this a go along with print on demand and see if I can make me some money. Thank you! 😁
😂 I teach it how l like to be taught: fast and no fluff! I appreciate the comment, and sounds like a great time to dig in. I’ll share my personal fastest time to get a sale with KDP doing these word search books was 3 days, so you may be able to see profit while still on vacation 👍👍
Your video is super helpful. You're a great teacher! Just published my first Amazon KDP, watching your video side by side- felt super accomplished :) Please make more videos on how we can use Bolt Pro to make more medium content for Amazon?
I like that you are transparent with the paid tools pricing, I am kindly mentally prepared for what I am going to spend money in order to do this. Most gurus just mention the name of the tool
This was an excellent tutorial. I just found a video last night that did a short tutorial and I still had lots of questions, but this answered most and showed me exactly how to do it. Thank you so much, and I'm going to get started right away!!
Thank you so much for distilling all of the training and information down to this easy to follow video! I have been getting lost in all of the details, but your video has made a clear path for me to follow.
Thank you so much for sharing your video. After publishing our book, what strategies should we use to generate reviews, and what types of organic or paid marketing would help us drive sales quickly? Additionally, how many books do you recommend we publish each month? Could you create another video to help market our book? Thanks so much!
You are literally amazing sir!!Thank you so much i can't wait to get startec with this!!I have been binge watching your videos and you are such a great inspiration to me.
Thanks, Greg, You're Great. I have created one paperback with the help of your tutorial and am waiting for approval as it's being reviewed. Love from India ❤
@@GregGottfried I am not that lucky to beat your record. I have uploaded total 6 puzzle books, 3 yesterday & 3 today. But all are in review. So no chance of beat your record, if all my paperbacks get approval that also been a record for me 😂, I am a freelancer & in need of money but it's really very very hard as freelancer to earn money. I hope with implementation of your tutorials i will be definitely successful one day. Thanks Greg ❤️
Hey Greg, first of all, I love all of your POD and Now, Amazon KDP Videos, But I do have a fresh KDP question, I received an email from Amazon KDP and it says: "During our review, we found the contributor(s) listed for the following book(s) may confuse our customers. Contributors are the people involved in creating your book, including authors, editors, illustrators, translators, and any others who assisted with your book’s creation." SO, my question is what are they talking about, I don't have any co-authors etc, etc? Thanks in advance for your help! 😊
Hey thanks and great question! I think they are referring to the author name. I’m assuming you used a ‘pen name’? I’ve gotten one rejection before because my author name was too similar to another authors name. I’d just try a different author name and you should be good to go 👍 as a side note, I haven’t found any added sales benefits to using any specific author names, so you can get as creative as you’d like. Hope that works!
As usual, excellent video. A follow-up video dedicated to 'trouble-shooting' (based on your own experiences of actually putting one of these books on Sale) would be very helpful. Also, for these kind of books, would you guess that an 'outsourced' professional cover design and / or 'pimping-up' each puzzle-page header, footer & margin with small topic-themed' icons / graphics (e.g., tiny elves, reindeer and the like) - increase the likelihood of lower refund requests or future sales? Does Book Bolt include an option to decorate headers, footers & margins in the fashion just described?
Seriously Greg, you’re a genius! Tysm for sharing this information! Always wondered how to do this! Half to rewatch in 1/4 of the speed but I’m a slow learner lol
Thank you! I do move at a really quick pace so it's not you lol I'll keep that in mind for the next videos though, I'll make the pace a little easier to process all the info. Thanks again for the comment, I hope all is well!
Greg, thank you so much for sharing your time and your knowledge. I appreciate it so much and I’m hoping that this will give my husband and myself a chance to retire before we were 80. Currently at 61. My question is If I use the free three day trial on book bolt, will it still allow me at the end of the three days to use your 20% off code? Thank you again for your time. I look forward to your response Virginia.
Hey Virginia, I hope this is the chance to get you both the chance to retire early. I know it works, so it's just a matter of how much time you'll be able to invest to build it up to the income amount you need 👍 I'm not sure if you get the option to add the coupon code after the free trial, I'd reach out to their support to find out for sure. But the coupon works on any plan (both monthly or yearly) and lasts for lifetime 😀
Hey Virginia, currently there's a lifetime buy @ $197. But do analyze the use for you before going for that. Use the trial effectively. Its a great video to learn how to publish these books. I wish you all the best for retiring soon.
Nicely done! Let me know how fast you get your first sale after it’s approved. My record is 3 days to first sale fully organic but I’m waiting for someone to beat it!
lol plenty of room for us all. It’s funny I’ve been sharing openly about print on demand just like this for years and there’s still unlimited niches wide open that I go into these days all these years later.
Thanks! I don’t do any at the moment, but I try to be here in the comments as much as possible to help, and I’m open to making specific videos if you have anything you’d like to see covered 👍
@GregGottfried Thank you so much for the reply! Would you rather prefer to just stay focused and do either kdp or tshirt design or try both at same time? Also do you have a recommendation between which one is better?
@@junsuahn no worries! They are both very good but I’d say if you haven’t been accepted to Amazon Merch On Demand then I’d do KDP. I see them equally but I think KDP is easier and faster to start/scale because there are no upload limits. You’ve narrowed it down to a couple of the best online businesses so I don’t think you can go wrong either way!
Greg I can't thank you enough once again so much free value. It is so detailed and just everything someone would need to succeed. And thank you for the very fast responses as well. Below are more questions that I have whenever you get the chance! 1. Would it be possible to contact you through email? I would love to show you some of the work I have made before posting it. But if not I totally understand! 2. I would love to see a video about explaining more details about how to choose and come up with the title 3. Is it possible to just make both paperback and glossy as options available instead of just having to choose one? 4. Is there a limit to how much I can post a day? Like would it matter if I post like 50 different designs a day? Just asking out of curiosity 5. Do you ever pay to run any amazon ads or any other some sort of paid ads? If yes, when would you start it? Right off the bat or after seeing how it does just pure organically? 6. Would you recommend asking family/friends to buy some so it can have some real reviews on it?
Hi Greg, I have been following your videos and love the way you get straight to the point..finally decided to take the step and get started, thanks for an awesome video tutorial! I have one question do you need to create a business gmail account for this or POD? And could you please do a video on how you manage taxes when self-employed?
Thanks! I use the alphabet soup research shown in the video and then click into ideas that catch my attention and see what’s out there. This always gives me ideas very quickly 👍👍
Hello Greg. I have been watching your videos for some time now, and I must say they are great! I appreciate your willingness to help others and all the expertise you share. I am interested in starting a kdp business, however, I see that chatgpt wants your birthdate-including the year. I don't mind sharing information, but I consider a birthdate to be very confidential. How did you address this? What are your thoughts? Is there another AI platform you would recommend that less invasive? Any suggestions? Thanks
Thanks and great question! I recommend just using ChatGPT without logging in. You aren’t required to make an account to use it, it just won’t save your results after closing the window if not logged in.
I really want to start doing this, but I'm just wondering a few things. What do you do about taxes and sales tax? I'm from Sweden and just want to know if I need to register for something or how it works (if you know)? this would help me a lot!
Hello Greg! Thank you for this incredible tutorial. I have a problem with this project. KDP doesn't upload my file. It's a Pdf of 33 MB. I click on 'upload manuscript ' and choose the file. After that it stays in 'uploading' . Even if I wait 10 min, the file file will not upload. And it's the same situation with the cover. I followed every step of your tutorial. What do you think? Thank you!
Hmm... Interesting. The file type and size sounds normal, so I'm suspecting it's something to do with the internet browser for some reason. I'd first try switching to a different internet browser and trying doing everything else the same way. Sometimes mine has done that with other websites in the past. Hope that helps!
Hello Greg thank you for sharing, there would be a recommended number of books to publish and wait to have some solds or just keep posting no matter if they got a sold or no?, regards!
Thanks! I’d just keep publishing. I started a brand new account to make sure everything is still current and I only published 7 books on it and it’s already getting organic sales 👍
Great video. Only question is - the math for the money seems confusing. A $5.99 sales price minus the $2.32 printing cost is $3.67 profit. 60% of that should be $2.20, but on the screen is says $1.27 for the royalty. What am I missing with this? Taxes? Other fees? Thanks.
No worries! Yeah it’s a bit confusing the first time but we get 60% of the $5.99 sale, which is $3.59, and then the printing cost gets subtracted from that. So the $3.59 - $2.32 = $1.27 I hope that clears that up 👍
Great question! Anything you can think of, which really cool actually. Anything from journals with blank pages or lined pages, password logbooks, diet logbooks, sudoku puzzles, hangman puzzles, etc. The book bolt software I use for the word searches also has all these other templates as well. Pretty cool stuff!
Hi Greg, does your discount code expire? I'm wondering if it only applies to the first month, or if it applies for as long as my account is active. Thank you so much for your awesome, useful, insightful, honest content!
Sorry, Greg forgot the other half of my question in my earlier comment. The 20% does that apply for the entire year or just the first month. Again thank you so much. Virginia.
Great question! Placeit is really good for print on demand designs/mockups, but I don't think it's optimized for KDP books because they don't have KDP cover formatted templates (front/back). Canva is a bit better because you can format a canvas to be the exact size needed for KDP, but they both still lack the word search creation feature and that's where Book Bolt really stands apart from the other design tools. Once you get some good cover templates saved on Book Bolt, it's a very good tool for KDP. I hope that helps!
Hi, thank you very much for your tutorial. I have a quick question: what if for the same book I want few different cover to be chosen by the customer? Can be done in one upload or do I have to create a new upload for each single cover?
Hi Greg, please disregard the other two questions I have listed recently recently. My current question is about ChatGPT. I have typed in the phrase you suggested and at the moment it is not putting them in nine word segments and it is repeating words quite a bit. It does do quite a few nine word segments, but then it add a 10th word every so often. I would appreciate any help you can give thanks again.
Great question. We only need an Amazon KDP account (not an Amazon Seller Central account). So it’s free to sign up and there’s no monthly fee to be a seller If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Thanks! I'm on the fence with using AI for the cover. I know many people do use it, but I'm cautious because of copyright issues. AI designers have started running into copyright issues for print on demand designs, and believe it's the same concept for KDP covers. Time will tell of KDP covers start running into the same issues, so I'd just be careful if you want to use it. It would be a real shame if you had a great selling book and then it gets removed overnight because of a copyright claim against the art from being AI generated. Hope that helps shed some light on this!
Nice work! You can just keep creating more books and not do any marketing if you’d like. That’s what I prefer because it’s a great use of time. You’ll get organic sales from Amazon customers without having to lift a finger. But if you’re up for it, TikTok is a really good platform for marketing right now. It’s definitely a bit of work and nothing guaranteed, but when it works it works really well 👍
I am curious about one thing. I have not applied as an Amazon Seller yet for my POD, and am concerned about being rejected as I haven't become a seller yet. Would getting a KDP account first guarantee me an acceptance for being a POD Seller?
Thanks for the great information. I used your prompt to generate 495 words however I keep getting duplicate words. In some cases, the same words 4 or 5 times. The total is never 495. What am I doing wrong??
Hmm.. try either re-prompting it to ‘do it again but only use unique results so none of them are repeats’ or try adding in a few additional niches that are more broad so it has more to pull from (like Christmas, winter, snow, Santa instead of just Christmas). That should do it 👍
Hello I have a question what if I have planners and journals pre made would I be able to upload from a file into the program to have the same effect as your showing in this video?
Hmm… it should be a separate account but you can use the same email as your Amazon account. And it’s free so you shouldn’t have to pay anything. Hope that makes sense 👍
Hi Greg. I wanted to buy placeit subscription for 1 month but they discontinued the 1 month subscription in my country. Can you suggest some similar but the exact same effective design tool for print on demand which provides 1 month subscription?
@@GregGottfriedThanks for replying. But, During signup there is only annual option. I enquired through mail with them and they said that 1 month subscription is discontinued in my country. Please Let me know other designing tool.
Hmm… try ‘start again but use only unique results so there are no repeated results’ or similar prompts. You can also give the result a thumbs down and say didn’t follow the requirements. Once it gets a list perfectly, give the response a thumbs up and then just reprompt it with do it again with X related words. It’s a bit finicky but once you get it dialed in it’s great 👍
@@TheELDUDERINO76 dang that’s got to be annoying.. I’m going to try to get something out to you this Sunday in a video that will solve this. Hang tight!
@GregGottfried been wanting to do kdp but keep hearing don't do..its too saturated and all the likes. Actually felt discouraged until I stumbled on your video and just watched
I just realized that yours is only 3x3, so I have wasted an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't 3x9 like you showed in the book. I think 3x9 would look better. But I obviously don't know how to create 3x9. :>(
Dang sorry I didn't clarify this! All you'll have to do it put the % sign in the chatgpt prompt between a different amount of words. So to get 3 columns of 9 words in each column, you'd have to prompt it to put the % sign in between every 27 words instead of every 9. I hope that helps!
Im trying to do this following your video and chat gpt is hyphenating two word responses, and putting a line in between a word and a %, thus giving me 3 lines in Google sheets instead of one, so when I remove the % I have 2 blank lines left where it was
Don't give up just yet 😀 Try to be patient until it gets it just right. You can always say, do it again without doing X or do it again with X instead of Y. It's a free AI tool so it's not perfect, but once you get it right once, you can say do it again with X niche and it should keep giving you the right results. Also if it's just not getting it, try starting a new chat instead of continuing to re-prompt the initial one.
@@initforthetech790 mine keeeps doing 9, 8, 10 as well. also it keeps repeating words even though I keep telling it to do it again telling it what to correct.
Hmmm… I don’t know the answer for sure, but my first recommendation would be to try Google Sheets instead. It may be a difference between Excel and Sheets.
Thanks! Oh you are so right 😂 It’s just bad speaking habits I’ve picked up over the years…The worst part is I try to correct them but then subconsciously do it and only find out when editing videos 🤦♂️
A tsunami of (good!) information. IMHO the video should or could be of 1 h length… Now I have to watch it twice and @.75 or even .5 speed …to be able to take notes, or use the poor transcription YT tool… Think over it !
@@GregGottfried I like the fast paced. I watch it all the way through once then watch it again and follow the steps, pausing at each one. It works really well that way
I hope this video is helpful! Here are the links mentioned & Table of Contents:
Book Bolt 20% OFF: bit.ly/bookbolt-20off [Code: Greg20]
ChatGPT: chatgpt.com
Google Sheets: workspace.google.com/products/sheets/
Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:49 What Is Amazon KDP?
2:35 The NEW Way To Do Amazon KDP
4:04 How To Find Book Ideas
6:16 How To Create Amazon KDP Books That Sell
7:47 Book Cover Tutorial
14:04 Word Search Puzzle Tutorial
23:17 How To Upload Amazon KDP Books
34:05 Amazon KDP Pricing and Earnings
35:59 How To Scale Amazon KDP Book Creation
36:58 Resources and Conclusion
I cannot even begin to tell you how much this video helped me. Finally, after watching at least 30 videos from various people, this is the one that actually worked for me! OMG! I have been trying for so long and I used your video using a "play, pause, do" strategy and it worked! Whew! Now... can you consider do the following: I have written a children's story. It isn't a picture book but I do want to include several pictures of the main character in different scenes in the story. How can I do that? AI does not make consistent images. Is this even something do-able? I don't want illustrated. I want what essentially looks like clipart picture of this dog and put him in different scenes.
Well well
Pleaseeeee pleaseeeee I need some help ok I am stuck on the part where you upload the words to the spreadsheet
@ happy to help! What’s going on? Have you tried right click pasting and control or command v pasting? Sometimes it only works one way or the other.
Chatgpt is not being cooperative. Having problems coming up with decent words instead of Joy Light
2 weeks ago I had no idea I needed to publish a book, but since i started listening to your videos while I drive my route. I have 2 already in review on KDP since last night. Thanks for all you do for us.
Nicely done!! It’s awesome because it’s a business that can grow really fast. You’re crushing it!
You're heaven-sent, Greg. I've always wanted to sell on Amazon, but I didn't know what product to sell. You are an eye-opener. I'll be back to this comment in less than five days to mention that I have submitted my word search book for review. Thank you.
Right on! I’m looking forward to your reply, and hoping you can beat my record of 3 days to get a first sale after book approval. Let me know if you beat it!
OMG, you're AMAZING. I watched your video for the first time today and am excited about getting more books on Amazon. I am Carolyn Bethel with 2 books on Amazon just sitting there , but I want to get busy creating more books. As a 64 year old retiree, I need to do it to bring income. Thanks for sharing
Greg I think out of all of the people that I have followed I think that you are the best and explain and the best detail for someone to understand thank you very much for your time in helping us
I appreciate that! If you run into any specific questions just let me know 👍
Thank you for such an easy-to-follow guide. Because of your video, I am finally been able to publish my very first book on Amazon. I can't wait for my proof copies to get here. 💜
That’s awesome! Really glad to hear that 🙌 As you keep going I’m here if you need any help!
@@GregGottfried my first word search book just went live!!!!!! It's not perfect by any means, but it's done...which is better. Thank you again for your detailed guide. 💜
More tutorials like this! really helpful, thank you ❤
Deep dive version of this coming tomorrow 😀
@@GregGottfried Awesome! Can't wait :D
You are a RUclips educator on speed! This is amazing! I am on vacation next week, so I'm giving this a go along with print on demand and see if I can make me some money. Thank you! 😁
😂 I teach it how l like to be taught: fast and no fluff! I appreciate the comment, and sounds like a great time to dig in. I’ll share my personal fastest time to get a sale with KDP doing these word search books was 3 days, so you may be able to see profit while still on vacation 👍👍
Your video is super helpful. You're a great teacher! Just published my first Amazon KDP, watching your video side by side- felt super accomplished :) Please make more videos on how we can use Bolt Pro to make more medium content for Amazon?
I like that you are transparent with the paid tools pricing, I am kindly mentally prepared for what I am going to spend money in order to do this. Most gurus just mention the name of the tool
This was an excellent tutorial. I just found a video last night that did a short tutorial and I still had lots of questions, but this answered most and showed me exactly how to do it. Thank you so much, and I'm going to get started right away!!
Really glad to hear that! If you have any lingering questions just let me know 😀
@@GregGottfried Thank you, will do.
@@GregGottfried Hi Greg, I just sent you an email, I'm having a problem with duplicates in Chat GPT, thanks.
Thank you so much for distilling all of the training and information down to this easy to follow video! I have been getting lost in all of the details, but your video has made a clear path for me to follow.
Glad it was helpful! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Thank you so much for sharing your video. After publishing our book, what strategies should we use to generate reviews, and what types of organic or paid marketing would help us drive sales quickly? Additionally, how many books do you recommend we publish each month? Could you create another video to help market our book? Thanks so much!
You are literally amazing sir!!Thank you so much i can't wait to get startec with this!!I have been binge watching your videos and you are such a great inspiration to me.
Awesome, thank you! I’m here if you run into any questions as you get going too 🙌
Thanks Greg!. It is what I have been waiting for! I will watch it again.
Excellent! As always, I’m here if you need any help abetting started 👍
Thanks, Greg, You're Great. I have created one paperback with the help of your tutorial and am waiting for approval as it's being reviewed. Love from India ❤
Nice! Fastest I’ve gotten a sale so far is 3 days after uploaded (with just organic traffic from Amazon). Let me know if you beat that record!
@@GregGottfried I am not that lucky to beat your record. I have uploaded total 6 puzzle books, 3 yesterday & 3 today. But all are in review. So no chance of beat your record, if all my paperbacks get approval that also been a record for me 😂, I am a freelancer & in need of money but it's really very very hard as freelancer to earn money. I hope with implementation of your tutorials i will be definitely successful one day. Thanks Greg ❤️
@@navkarproperties nice! Oh yes I should say it was actually 3 days after getting approved, so there’s still a chance!
@navkarproperties how is it going so far? Any sale?
@@felixdaktari No Sale yet 😂
I've always wanted to do KDP but kind of intimidated...but with this tutorial, I think I'll give it a try. Thank you Greg.
Nice! I can definitely vouch for it and say that it works with this strategy 👍
@@GregGottfriedokay sir how do we go with it
Hey Greg, first of all, I love all of your POD and Now, Amazon KDP Videos, But I do have a fresh KDP question, I received an email from Amazon KDP and it says: "During our review, we found the contributor(s) listed for the following book(s) may confuse our customers. Contributors are the people involved in creating your book, including authors, editors, illustrators, translators, and any others who assisted with your book’s creation." SO, my question is what are they talking about, I don't have any co-authors etc, etc? Thanks in advance for your help! 😊
Hey thanks and great question! I think they are referring to the author name. I’m assuming you used a ‘pen name’? I’ve gotten one rejection before because my author name was too similar to another authors name. I’d just try a different author name and you should be good to go 👍 as a side note, I haven’t found any added sales benefits to using any specific author names, so you can get as creative as you’d like. Hope that works!
As usual, excellent video. A follow-up video dedicated to 'trouble-shooting' (based on your own experiences of actually putting one of these books on Sale) would be very helpful. Also, for these kind of books, would you guess that an 'outsourced' professional cover design and / or 'pimping-up' each puzzle-page header, footer & margin with small topic-themed' icons / graphics (e.g., tiny elves, reindeer and the like) - increase the likelihood of lower refund requests or future sales? Does Book Bolt include an option to decorate headers, footers & margins in the fashion just described?
Seriously Greg, you’re a genius! Tysm for sharing this information! Always wondered how to do this! Half to rewatch in 1/4 of the speed but I’m a slow learner lol
Thank you! I do move at a really quick pace so it's not you lol I'll keep that in mind for the next videos though, I'll make the pace a little easier to process all the info. Thanks again for the comment, I hope all is well!
Thanks Greg, it was very detailed and informative as always!
Glad you enjoyed it! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Greg, thank you so much for sharing your time and your knowledge. I appreciate it so much and I’m hoping that this will give my husband and myself a chance to retire before we were 80. Currently at 61.
My question is
If I use the free three day trial on book bolt, will it still allow me at the end of the three days to use your 20% off code?
Thank you again for your time. I look forward to your response Virginia.
Hey Virginia, I hope this is the chance to get you both the chance to retire early. I know it works, so it's just a matter of how much time you'll be able to invest to build it up to the income amount you need 👍 I'm not sure if you get the option to add the coupon code after the free trial, I'd reach out to their support to find out for sure. But the coupon works on any plan (both monthly or yearly) and lasts for lifetime 😀
Hey Virginia, currently there's a lifetime buy @ $197. But do analyze the use for you before going for that. Use the trial effectively. Its a great video to learn how to publish these books. I wish you all the best for retiring soon.
Great job Greg, I love your work. very informative. keep up the great work
Thanks 👍 If you run into any questions just let me know!
Love your class. Looking forward to more topics from you.
Thanks! If there’s anything is specific you’d like to see just let me know 👍
thank you so much for this. It really helped me. My puzzle book for teens has just been submitted for approval :)
Nicely done! Let me know how fast you get your first sale after it’s approved. My record is 3 days to first sale fully organic but I’m waiting for someone to beat it!
You are awesome! You make life simple:) I appreciate all of your guidance on this:)
Thanks Staci, it’s great to hear that. I’m always here if you run into any questions or need help 😀
Thank you Greg for the help all the way from South Africa, good luck to all. Start copying and pasting all lol....
lol plenty of room for us all. It’s funny I’ve been sharing openly about print on demand just like this for years and there’s still unlimited niches wide open that I go into these days all these years later.
Hello Greg. Thank you so much for all the free value! I also want to ask if you are doing any 1 on 1 calls or anything. Thank you.
Thanks! I don’t do any at the moment, but I try to be here in the comments as much as possible to help, and I’m open to making specific videos if you have anything you’d like to see covered 👍
@GregGottfried Thank you so much for the reply! Would you rather prefer to just stay focused and do either kdp or tshirt design or try both at same time? Also do you have a recommendation between which one is better?
@@junsuahn no worries! They are both very good but I’d say if you haven’t been accepted to Amazon Merch On Demand then I’d do KDP. I see them equally but I think KDP is easier and faster to start/scale because there are no upload limits. You’ve narrowed it down to a couple of the best online businesses so I don’t think you can go wrong either way!
Greg I can't thank you enough once again so much free value. It is so detailed and just everything someone would need to succeed. And thank you for the very fast responses as well. Below are more questions that I have whenever you get the chance!
1. Would it be possible to contact you through email? I would love to show you some of the work I have made before posting it. But if not I totally understand!
2. I would love to see a video about explaining more details about how to choose and come up with the title
3. Is it possible to just make both paperback and glossy as options available instead of just having to choose one?
4. Is there a limit to how much I can post a day? Like would it matter if I post like 50 different designs a day? Just asking out of curiosity
5. Do you ever pay to run any amazon ads or any other some sort of paid ads? If yes, when would you start it? Right off the bat or after seeing how it does just pure organically?
6. Would you recommend asking family/friends to buy some so it can have some real reviews on it?
Hi Greg, I have been following your videos and love the way you get straight to the point..finally decided to take the step and get started, thanks for an awesome video tutorial! I have one question do you need to create a business gmail account for this or POD? And could you please do a video on how you manage taxes when self-employed?
Thanks Greg for so valuable content 🎉
My pleasure! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
That's a great video Greg, thank you! But how do we find ideas on what kind of puzzle books to create?
Thanks! I use the alphabet soup research shown in the video and then click into ideas that catch my attention and see what’s out there. This always gives me ideas very quickly 👍👍
Great job Greg. Please more videos on KDP. If you can make more 🤞
Thanks! Can do!
Hello Greg. I have been watching your videos for some time now, and I must say they are great! I appreciate your willingness to help others and all the expertise you share. I am interested in starting a kdp business, however, I see that chatgpt wants your birthdate-including the year. I don't mind sharing information, but I consider a birthdate to be very confidential. How did you address this? What are your thoughts? Is there another AI platform you would recommend that less invasive? Any suggestions? Thanks
Thanks and great question! I recommend just using ChatGPT without logging in. You aren’t required to make an account to use it, it just won’t save your results after closing the window if not logged in.
Thank you. That's a relief. Didn't know you had a choice.😊
Nice walkthrough about KDP, thanks Greg!
Thanks! Hope all is well 👍
I really want to start doing this, but I'm just wondering a few things. What do you do about taxes and sales tax? I'm from Sweden and just want to know if I need to register for something or how it works (if you know)? this would help me a lot!
Call the Sweden tax office and ask about it. I live in EU country and here taxes are very strict rules.
@@nerys723 thank you so much
Hello Greg! Thank you for this incredible tutorial. I have a problem with this project. KDP doesn't upload my file. It's a Pdf of 33 MB. I click on 'upload manuscript ' and choose the file. After that it stays in 'uploading' . Even if I wait 10 min, the file file will not upload. And it's the same situation with the cover. I followed every step of your tutorial.
What do you think?
Thank you!
Hmm... Interesting. The file type and size sounds normal, so I'm suspecting it's something to do with the internet browser for some reason. I'd first try switching to a different internet browser and trying doing everything else the same way. Sometimes mine has done that with other websites in the past. Hope that helps!
Hello Greg thank you for sharing, there would be a recommended number of books to publish and wait to have some solds or just keep posting no matter if they got a sold or no?, regards!
Thanks! I’d just keep publishing. I started a brand new account to make sure everything is still current and I only published 7 books on it and it’s already getting organic sales 👍
Excellent tutorial. Thanks for doing this.
My pleasure! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Thanks, Greg, this is an excellent video...great job
Glad you liked it! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Legend! Thank you for the run through Greg. Just used your discount code :)
Nice! Thanks for the comment and support, and if you run into any questions just let me know I'm here to help! 👍
thk U very much this is what am looking for....this tutorial is the best great job 👍👍👍👍
Glad it was helpful! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Great video. Only question is - the math for the money seems confusing. A $5.99 sales price minus the $2.32 printing cost is $3.67 profit. 60% of that should be $2.20, but on the screen is says $1.27 for the royalty. What am I missing with this? Taxes? Other fees? Thanks.
No worries! Yeah it’s a bit confusing the first time but we get 60% of the $5.99 sale, which is $3.59, and then the printing cost gets subtracted from that. So the $3.59 - $2.32 = $1.27 I hope that clears that up 👍
Awesome!! Thank you Greg.
Welcome! If you run into any questions on this one just let me know 👍
Hi Greg, other than word search books, what other books can be created for this KDP selling platform?
Great question! Anything you can think of, which really cool actually. Anything from journals with blank pages or lined pages, password logbooks, diet logbooks, sudoku puzzles, hangman puzzles, etc. The book bolt software I use for the word searches also has all these other templates as well. Pretty cool stuff!
Hi Greg, does your discount code expire? I'm wondering if it only applies to the first month, or if it applies for as long as my account is active. Thank you so much for your awesome, useful, insightful, honest content!
@@hottiefanmail hey it’s a lifetime discount 👍👍
Sorry, Greg forgot the other half of my question in my earlier comment. The 20% does that apply for the entire year or just the first month. Again thank you so much. Virginia.
I think you'll get the answer from the other comment, but it's lifetime so it'll last as long as you use Book Bolt 👍
Just wondering is Canva or Placeit a good alternative to Book bolt, thx. Great tutorial by the way.
Great question! Placeit is really good for print on demand designs/mockups, but I don't think it's optimized for KDP books because they don't have KDP cover formatted templates (front/back). Canva is a bit better because you can format a canvas to be the exact size needed for KDP, but they both still lack the word search creation feature and that's where Book Bolt really stands apart from the other design tools. Once you get some good cover templates saved on Book Bolt, it's a very good tool for KDP. I hope that helps!
Yes thanks for replying to my message
Bro thanks for your help, best video in this theme, and also thanks for the coupon ❤
No worries! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Thanks Greg! This is really great.
No worries! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Can you do a video on how to edit changes after it’s gone thru Review and changes need to be made before they will publish it.
Yes I can 👍
Very good information about kindle publishing... keep it up
Thank you. If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
@@GregGottfried I want to start my online business. Looking for different programes but dont know how to start.. Please help
Love it, Greg can you make a tutorial on how to create a blog for affiliate marketing 🥰
Hi, thank you very much for your tutorial. I have a quick question: what if for the same book I want few different cover to be chosen by the customer? Can be done in one upload or do I have to create a new upload for each single cover?
It would have to be separate uploads unfortunately. Just the way the system is setup. Hope that helps save you some time though 👍
You're the best, i swear ❤😂
That's awesome, thank you 🙌
Hi Greg, please disregard the other two questions I have listed recently recently.
My current question is about ChatGPT. I have typed in the phrase you suggested and at the moment it is not putting them in nine word segments and it is repeating words quite a bit. It does do quite a few nine word segments, but then it add a 10th word every so often. I would appreciate any help you can give thanks again.
Super helpful video. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful. If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
How many books can I publish in a day, week, month on Amazon KDP? Are there any restrictions on the number?
I believe the only limit is 500 books per day. Which is amazing especially because it applies to brand new accounts too.
Hi Greg , thank u for this video , so before we can sign on KDP , we need to have our own Amazon Seller account right?
Great question. We only need an Amazon KDP account (not an Amazon Seller Central account). So it’s free to sign up and there’s no monthly fee to be a seller If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
@@GregGottfried many thanks!
How many uploaded t-shirt design pod side (like a redbubble Amazon teepublic) every day
Hi Greg. Great work. Just curious, can we use AI to generate a book cover?
Thanks! I'm on the fence with using AI for the cover. I know many people do use it, but I'm cautious because of copyright issues. AI designers have started running into copyright issues for print on demand designs, and believe it's the same concept for KDP covers. Time will tell of KDP covers start running into the same issues, so I'd just be careful if you want to use it. It would be a real shame if you had a great selling book and then it gets removed overnight because of a copyright claim against the art from being AI generated. Hope that helps shed some light on this!
If you offer online classes about all the process I will love to join.
This video is my entire process 😀 100% free here on RUclips
Thank you for the video and the code for Book Bolt/. My first book is in review, lots of ideas in the mind. Just need to create marketing strategy//
Nice work! You can just keep creating more books and not do any marketing if you’d like. That’s what I prefer because it’s a great use of time. You’ll get organic sales from Amazon customers without having to lift a finger. But if you’re up for it, TikTok is a really good platform for marketing right now. It’s definitely a bit of work and nothing guaranteed, but when it works it works really well 👍
I am curious about one thing. I have not applied as an Amazon Seller yet for my POD, and am concerned about being rejected as I haven't become a seller yet. Would getting a KDP account first guarantee me an acceptance for being a POD Seller?
Greg have you resolved the duplicates problem? Thank you.
could you please create a video about the other templates the are on book bolt.
Absolutely 👍 Are there any specific ones you’d be interested in learning about?
all of them are amazing i like them all
Thanks for the great information. I used your prompt to generate 495 words however I keep getting duplicate words. In some cases, the same words 4 or 5 times. The total is never 495. What am I doing wrong??
Hmm.. try either re-prompting it to ‘do it again but only use unique results so none of them are repeats’ or try adding in a few additional niches that are more broad so it has more to pull from (like Christmas, winter, snow, Santa instead of just Christmas). That should do it 👍
Hi Greg, can I use the templates for the cover of Placeit?
Yes you can! I did a bit of this myself, by downloading covers and using them on Book Bolt to make my covers 👍 Including the graphics too!
How can i buy the book bolt? Because I'm a bit confused on how to go about it. Thank you.
Hello I have a question what if I have planners and journals pre made would I be able to upload from a file into the program to have the same effect as your showing in this video?
Yes you can go through the same uploading process as this video as long as the files are formatted properly for Amazon KDP 👍
Best vidéo ever. Thank you
Glad you liked it! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
@@GregGottfriedthank you 😊
I cannot see what you click on at 6:25 to access Book Bolt to purchase plan. Is it Your Company Bookshelf?
It’s another tab on my internet browser actually. Sorry for not making that clear. I put a link to it in the video description 👍
@@GregGottfried tankoooo 😁
I have an Amazon account, is this the same as Kdp account? When I try to join it takes me to purchasing on my Amazon account.
Hmm… it should be a separate account but you can use the same email as your Amazon account. And it’s free so you shouldn’t have to pay anything. Hope that makes sense 👍
Hi Greg. I wanted to buy placeit subscription for 1 month but they discontinued the 1 month subscription in my country. Can you suggest some similar but the exact same effective design tool for print on demand which provides 1 month subscription?
Hey thanks for asking! They still have 1 month subscriptions that you can select during the signup process 👍
@@GregGottfriedThanks for replying. But, During signup there is only annual option. I enquired through mail with them and they said that 1 month subscription is discontinued in my country. Please Let me know other designing tool.
Thank you!
You're welcome! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
Can you use your own graphics for the cover?
Great question! Yes, you absolutely can 👍
Yea I’m interested sir
Nice! Everything you need should be in this video, but if you have any questions just let me know 👍
Great, Thanks
You earned 1 more subscriber🎉😂
Awesome, thank you! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
and to sell? it takes a long time
Does Amazon do this too?
Hi Greg, I've put 'do not repeat words' in the prompt in chat gpt, but it still have many words more than once some as high as 6 times. Any tips?
Hmm… try ‘start again but use only unique results so there are no repeated results’ or similar prompts. You can also give the result a thumbs down and say didn’t follow the requirements. Once it gets a list perfectly, give the response a thumbs up and then just reprompt it with do it again with X related words. It’s a bit finicky but once you get it dialed in it’s great 👍
Thankyou, will do! Great channel by the way!
it's still repeating words, tried all sorts of variations on the prompt. I do also have the paid version, does the same thing! :(
@@TheELDUDERINO76 dang that’s got to be annoying.. I’m going to try to get something out to you this Sunday in a video that will solve this. Hang tight!
Please make a video on amazon web services😊
Video is very helpful but in Pakistan CNIC is not allowed to verify account. Help me to solve issue.
can you do one for notebooks
great , Thanks for sharing
Thanks! If you run into any questions just let me know 👍
How do you promote your book?
I actually don’t do any promotion at all. It’s just Amazon doing its thing getting your books in front of the right people to buy them 👍
@GregGottfried been wanting to do kdp but keep hearing don't do..its too saturated and all the likes. Actually felt discouraged until I stumbled on your video and just watched
Can I upload a book in both e-book and paperback format? Or does it have to be two separate uploads? Thank you
I’ve personally only done it separately, but I believe you can offer it in ‘other formats’ so you can offer it in the same listing as both 👍
@@GregGottfried great, thank you so much
Hi Greg! I seem to have a conundrum, no matter what I do I only get 3 words across and 3 words down. What am I doing wrong?
I just realized that yours is only 3x3, so I have wasted an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't 3x9 like you showed in the book. I think 3x9 would look better. But I obviously don't know how to create 3x9. :>(
Dang sorry I didn't clarify this! All you'll have to do it put the % sign in the chatgpt prompt between a different amount of words. So to get 3 columns of 9 words in each column, you'd have to prompt it to put the % sign in between every 27 words instead of every 9. I hope that helps!
Hey Greg, thanks for your response. The new question is
Do I need more than 495 words since I'm using the 27 now instead of the nine in order to do 55 puzzles?
@ yes exactly right. You can either do less puzzles (less pages in Book Bolt) or more words. To do the same 55 puzzles you’ll need 1485 words.
Im trying to do this following your video and chat gpt is hyphenating two word responses, and putting a line in between a word and a %, thus giving me 3 lines in Google sheets instead of one, so when I remove the % I have 2 blank lines left where it was
Now it's doing radom counts of words. 9 then 10, then 8. I figured this wasn't going to be as easy as you made it seem.
Don't give up just yet 😀 Try to be patient until it gets it just right. You can always say, do it again without doing X or do it again with X instead of Y. It's a free AI tool so it's not perfect, but once you get it right once, you can say do it again with X niche and it should keep giving you the right results. Also if it's just not getting it, try starting a new chat instead of continuing to re-prompt the initial one.
@@initforthetech790 mine keeeps doing 9, 8, 10 as well. also it keeps repeating words even though I keep telling it to do it again telling it what to correct.
you speak so fast. but you are great. thanks for helpful and informative tut.
Sorry for that, it's a habit I have a hard time correcting!
When I paste my list into excel lit lies as columns not as rows, how can I get it to paste as rows. I have tried the transpose but nothing is working?
Hmmm… I don’t know the answer for sure, but my first recommendation would be to try Google Sheets instead. It may be a difference between Excel and Sheets.
How many uploaded t-shirt design pod side (like A redbubble Amazon teepublic)😅
Great job, create more videos for other ideas
Great video Greg!
May i ask what are you mixed with? I keep hearing an accent when you say di (the)? 😂 open di...put di..
Thanks! Oh you are so right 😂 It’s just bad speaking habits I’ve picked up over the years…The worst part is I try to correct them but then subconsciously do it and only find out when editing videos 🤦♂️
Hi sir why is your coupon code not working?
Sorry about that! Try manually typing Greg20 in the coupon box at checkout. I hope that sorts it!
Hey Greg, this is Greg. LOL! Does Amazon KDP allow AI generated coloring books?
😂 Yes they do!
how could I make these, in other languages?
Can I work from phone only I already have an account on kdp
Yes you can 👍 A computer is easier a faster, but if you only have a smartphone to use, you can do everything on it too!
I am from Iran and my country is under sanctions. What should I do when selecting a country? Could you please help me?"
Your book is approved?
Yes 👍
Your coupon not working anymore
Sorry about that! Try typing in Greg20 manually in the coupon box at checkout. I hope that works!
A tsunami of (good!) information.
IMHO the video should or could be of 1 h length…
Now I have to watch it twice and @.75 or even .5 speed …to be able to take notes, or use the poor transcription YT tool…
Think over it !
Excellent to hear! Definitely noted, thank you for the feedback I'll use it to make the next videos better 👍
@@GregGottfried I like the fast paced. I watch it all the way through once then watch it again and follow the steps, pausing at each one. It works really well that way