Hi! Thanks for making a video about my books :) Really awesome analysis, it was fun to hear from another marketer! I just wanted to clarify one thing - I don't run Amazon ads. All of my traffic is organic and comes from TikTok and IG with zero paid ads on socials either. I tried Amazon ads for one singular day haha but they were insanely expensive so I turned them off (so just to be totally transparent, about 20 of my book sales out of 86,000 were from ads). I just wanted to make sure that people learning how to do this know that you don't need ads to be successful! Also a very important note is that a huge part of the success is my passion for art and my business. Not everyone has a true passion for art/coloring/business/marketing, and that excitement definitely shows in my content and it has allowed me to genuinely connect with my audience. I've been so lucky to be able to develop an awesome community on social media that loves my content and my artwork so I owe a huge part of my success to them! I try not to encourage anyone to do this that is just in it for the money since authenticity is a very large part of a successful business :)
Hi Megan, its great that you are replying to Sean here, I watch his channel all the time and rarely see feedback from people he has talked about. I wanted to ask if all of your books are Amazon POD or are you printing and fulfilling with Amazon. I've had some success last month after just starting but when I ordered artist copy of the book from Amazon, was disappointed about the paper quality. Was just curious about your thoughts regarding POD with Amazon or other publishers. Thanks :) Also one other question, do you bulk publish for impact or just load books when you have completed? One final question I hope its ok... do you find the combi of colour and black and white is better than just image outlines? Much appreciated, as an early years educator, I love the simplicity of your beautiful illustrations. :) Continued good luck 🤗
Can You please clarify: someone asked if alcohol markers bleed trough...? 🤔 In One of Your Book descriptions, You are pointing out to use a sheet of paper under the page one is colouring..but if markers bleeds trough the paper, it will show up on the backside of the page one is colouring, that contains different motiv ..🤔 so that sheet of paper will not protect the backside, only the next page...🤔 or...?
In this video you were amazed that the coloring books are selling well. Here something you should know. Older people have shaky hands and find complicated designs hard to color. My 82 year old husband loves to color but gets frustrated when coloring in the current books. Megan has found that simplified designs are easier to color. Way to go Megan!
She’s an Artist and she drew all drawings by hand first, herself. That’s why it’s so unique, no AI, no canvas, no fivrr, only pure heart and love for what she does.
How about you only make coloring books if you're an artist? I'm so tired of the AI coloring books with their bad quality flooding the market. We don't want them
Why is that customers hate simple designs in one book, but appreciate similar simpler design by some other publisher? Is it marketing? Right positioning with right Keywords? what is it?
And now that every kdp guru is talking about her books, guess how many copycats are there , plenty. I mean they copied it to a t. How about if you talk about your book, oh yeah I forgot, people may copy you. Pathetic 😡
She has a personal TT that she discusses her strategies, how much she made from various avenues, (including her coloring books), and the fact that she is a marketing student. Interesting to read.
Sean you teach well but amazon is now blocking people's book too much especially the people with new account, so Sean do you know a solution to recover or resolve books from being blocked
Is here someone who is earning this way? How long did it take you to start getting paid, are you doing low quality products or medium one? How many books do you have? Thank you
Hey Sean my one question is how to go about copyrights if one does end up paying someone else to do designs or book covers, like the gigs on fiverr? Also do we need to add that person’s name as an author of the book? The whole legal part scares me 😂
Yes, please. Do a video on the process of hiring someone to create & post your videos for you. You mentioned this near the very end of this video. TIA!
It might be simple to look at you but you are missing the point of why its so easy. Its aimed at alcohol Markers, not just to "colour in" like you think it is because you dont understand the difference. That tutorial is just you picking up random pictures, that have no relevance to Alcohol Marker colouring they just look easy to you and you think they are the same. Its really damaging to colouring community and they are starting to just derail people that are being encouraged by these money numbers youtubers throw out saying its "simple" to reproduce. Its something you should really point out. No hate but its something I have had to learn along the way through interacting with colourists and its something that really needs to be highlighted to people when they are starting out
And another thing someone asked is, if alcohol markers bleed trough...? 🤔 She is pointing out in the Book description, to use a sheet of paper under the page one is colouring..but if markers bleeds trough the paper, it will show up on the backside of the page that contains different colouring motiv anyway...🤔
Megan, the artist of the coloring book above, responded very graciously to Sean. She was grateful and respectful and didn't even mention any of the things you seem to be angry about. Maybe you should learn a thing or two from her.
@helengren9349 They are single sided pages, so the bleed through doesn't matter as long as you stop it from transferring through to the next page of art, hence why they advise to use a blotter page behind. You can't stop alcohol markers from bleeding through, no matter how good the paper is, it's just how it is. The main things regarding alcohol marker art is usually wide open spaces and thick lines of the drawing, its quite an intricate thought process to design, even though to the naked eye it would seem like a toddler could colour them in. This video is actually a great example of how to completely misunderstand the design process and get it so wrong without knowing. I love this content BTW and I don't mean that in any disrespectful way at all.
@mindbodyshop I'm not angry at all, you have just put your own emotions into the words I wrote. Also, she wasn't here to teach just say thanks to Sean, she had no reason to try and help self publishers as loads are already jumping on her books and just blatantly copying them badly, its actually quite sad watching it
ok as an artist its great idea because if you just see a few things to colour your wrong actually have to colour with shading etc so takes time you do it slow it releases stress very relaxing try it
I agree. For some of us just having a space, a shape defined is all we want or need. Then we can embellish it how we want, with the level of detail we feel like doing on any given day.
After creating a coloring book or logbook, do I need to print multiple copies and store them until a buyer comes along? How does the sales process work for these books?
This was very encouraging. Do you think instead of (or in addition to) Tik Tok, one can post videos to Instagram or RUclips (shorts); I'm already familiar with these apps?
I tried doing this using MidJouney and I found that the styles of the different images were not always the same. Doesn't the coloring book need to have the same style of graphics? How do you get the style to be very similar from one image to another? Even the seed function did not help much.
Great video as always. Question, can I get paid by Amazon if I live in Vietnam and I have a Vietnamese bank account? It’s a commercial bank. Please advise
As an artist this gives me hope as I want to design and draw my own coloring book, though I plan to target a few different niches, maybe not as simple in style but hopefully it will be unique enough to stand out.
Hello! Thanks for making a video about my books and my brand :) Really awesome analysis, it was fun to hear another marketer talk about my products! I have been working on my brand and my passion for 10 years. Each product was developed at different times and had great sales at the time. This allowed me to create a base of truly loyal fans who love my books more than I imagined. I think that passion and love for art is very important in this, I remember that before starting no one recommended the niche of cars to sell on Amazon, but I have dedicated enough time to create a great book that even helps others sell. same niche and that's amazing! Greetings bro keep up the good content!!!
I have a question if you can teach us that level then what are you doing here 🤣🤣🤣🤣 sir and band why are you increasing competition here by teaching us why don't you do it confidentially. please not make people fool we are not
Right now you can use Canva and AI in your work but you can't copyright the work. Anyone who wants to "borrow" your work can. To copyright the work you'll need to change, adapt, improve it. To what extent I don't yet know.
HELP: I have a coloring book I made myself that I want to promote on tiktok. My market is the US but since I am in another country tiktok shows my videos in my country not in USA. I did some research and found out I could use a VPN, select a server in USA and tiktok can register that as my location so it shows my videos to my target audience. So I got the VPN but the content tiktok shows me and the audience that interacts with my content is from my country mostly not the US. I check the location on tiktok and tried to change it but it tells me I have to be residing in the US for 90 days so I can make that change. I've heard and read a lot of comments of people traveling and seeing tiktok from the countries they visit ASAP. Any idea on how I can market my product using tiktok in USA without being in the country??? Any tip or idea helps. Thank you in advance.
@@alexartsdecor It is already banned but people still use it to promote things and they are still making bank. But yeah, in the end I have to find another way.
@@quor5103 All of my traffic is organic, I don't pay for any ads on Amazon or social media :) Clarified this more in my comment on this video as well. Please don't spread false information to people trying to learn how to do this.
Thank you for the excellent analysis. I have one concern. My AI tool determined that more than 70% of the reviews for this product are unreliable. It gave the reviews an overall grade of "D" which is next to the lowest grade possible, the lowest grade being "F". It makes me wonder where these reviews came from.
These reviews are almost all from people who found my books on TikTok and they are real. This claim is just frustrating because there are a LOT of people copying my books and paying for AI reviews and it's extremely obvious when reviews are written with AI. I'm not sure what tool you're using but you can see right on Amazon that for the food & snacks book, 513 out of 516 reviews are verified purchases. I've sold almost 44k copies of this book so that's actually only 1% of people leaving a review, which is not high at all.
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I need hand holding to jump start my first book ive already written. I need a mentor please.
Amazon has published a book. I am ready to make a contract for a 60-40 percent profit share for one year to sell the book.
Hi ! How can I contact her? Please let me know. Thank you
Hi! Thanks for making a video about my books :) Really awesome analysis, it was fun to hear from another marketer! I just wanted to clarify one thing - I don't run Amazon ads. All of my traffic is organic and comes from TikTok and IG with zero paid ads on socials either. I tried Amazon ads for one singular day haha but they were insanely expensive so I turned them off (so just to be totally transparent, about 20 of my book sales out of 86,000 were from ads). I just wanted to make sure that people learning how to do this know that you don't need ads to be successful!
Also a very important note is that a huge part of the success is my passion for art and my business. Not everyone has a true passion for art/coloring/business/marketing, and that excitement definitely shows in my content and it has allowed me to genuinely connect with my audience. I've been so lucky to be able to develop an awesome community on social media that loves my content and my artwork so I owe a huge part of my success to them! I try not to encourage anyone to do this that is just in it for the money since authenticity is a very large part of a successful business :)
Thanks for clarifying, and your passion definitely shows. Congrats on your incredible success!
@@SeanDollwet Thank you :) Congrats on your success as well!
Love that input and transparency!!
Hi Megan, its great that you are replying to Sean here, I watch his channel all the time and rarely see feedback from people he has talked about. I wanted to ask if all of your books are Amazon POD or are you printing and fulfilling with Amazon. I've had some success last month after just starting but when I ordered artist copy of the book from Amazon, was disappointed about the paper quality. Was just curious about your thoughts regarding POD with Amazon or other publishers. Thanks :) Also one other question, do you bulk publish for impact or just load books when you have completed? One final question I hope its ok... do you find the combi of colour and black and white is better than just image outlines? Much appreciated, as an early years educator, I love the simplicity of your beautiful illustrations. :) Continued good luck 🤗
Can You please clarify: someone asked if alcohol markers bleed trough...? 🤔 In One of Your Book descriptions, You are pointing out to use a sheet of paper under the page one is colouring..but if markers bleeds trough the paper, it will show up on the backside of the page one is colouring, that contains different motiv ..🤔 so that sheet of paper will not protect the backside, only the next page...🤔 or...?
She also only really started in October of 2023 which is even more crazy!
In this video you were amazed that the coloring books are selling well. Here something you should know. Older people have shaky hands and find complicated designs hard to color. My 82 year old husband loves to color but gets frustrated when coloring in the current books. Megan has found that simplified designs are easier to color. Way to go Megan!
She’s an Artist and she drew all drawings by hand first, herself. That’s why it’s so unique, no AI, no canvas, no fivrr, only pure heart and love for what she does.
I found this coloring book on creative fabrica. I hope she is the owner and not otherwise.
@@fo7483 dam 😂
Sean can you please give me the virtual assistant details for posting in tiktok
Still u can hire digital artist and then send products .Many of them are on creative fab
How do you even know this?
How about you only make coloring books if you're an artist? I'm so tired of the AI coloring books with their bad quality flooding the market. We don't want them
Nah
I’m ai with the braids 🐕🧢👟
thanks for the video and for sharing the ideas with us, is very useful to grow up.
Great video, please keep reverse engineering KDP brands and marketing.
Will do!
Why is that customers hate simple designs in one book, but appreciate similar simpler design by some other publisher?
Is it marketing? Right positioning with right Keywords? what is it?
The simplicity is the appeal. It’s more relaxing than tiny spaces to fill.
…and hopefully she’s also getting paid by TikTok 🤯
Thank you Sean. I would really like to see a video of hiring a virtual assistant
She has a hypnotic way of colouring in. Very smooth.
And now that every kdp guru is talking about her books, guess how many copycats are there , plenty. I mean they copied it to a t. How about if you talk about your book, oh yeah I forgot, people may copy you. Pathetic 😡
I would love to get info about how to hire a virtual assistant. Thanks so much!
Hi. I discovered your channel yesterday and I have already become a fan. Thanks!
Thanks for the content. It's all about strategy and consistency
She has a personal TT that she discusses her strategies, how much she made from various avenues, (including her coloring books), and the fact that she is a marketing student. Interesting to read.
Nice, gotta check it out
Got a name or link?
Do you have the name of her channel?
I got an MBA, not helping me. It's all about the talent and persistence, at first. Most people start by themselves and from scratch.
@@ayindeabiola509 Οf course not cause it does not exist in such way.
Sean you teach well but amazon is now blocking people's book too much especially the people with new account, so Sean do you know a solution to recover or resolve books from being blocked
Very helpful video.
$192,504/month? Are those monopoly money?😂
We cannot use canva pro elements for KDP, it goes against amazon's rules
Video idea - Best business tips for beginners/ free resources for beginners / lessons I’ve learned in 2023 running my KDP business 😊
Yes, please make a video on virtual assistants. Thank you!
Is here someone who is earning this way? How long did it take you to start getting paid, are you doing low quality products or medium one? How many books do you have?
Thank you
Thanks Sean, this is helpful..
How to access our store and make logo and other arrangements in our kdp account
Hey Sean my one question is how to go about copyrights if one does end up paying someone else to do designs or book covers, like the gigs on fiverr? Also do we need to add that person’s name as an author of the book? The whole legal part scares me 😂
I’d sure like to know more about making coloring pages and books 📕
Sir aapki books 30 pagee sse zyada ki nhi hai kdp main 79 pages minimum haai iska kya solution h
Not only your video was informative, but also it was to the point and fun!! Thanks so much for the great resources Sean! Keep up the Good work!
How are you linking tiktok shop to your kdp
is this like a hard cover or just paperback books ?
Thank you Sean. How about the link for the Amazon Ads service you use?
🤔$192000 a month? 🙄 Puh-Leeze!
Yes, please. Do a video on the process of hiring someone to create & post your videos for you. You mentioned this near the very end of this video. TIA!
It might be simple to look at you but you are missing the point of why its so easy. Its aimed at alcohol Markers, not just to "colour in" like you think it is because you dont understand the difference. That tutorial is just you picking up random pictures, that have no relevance to Alcohol Marker colouring they just look easy to you and you think they are the same. Its really damaging to colouring community and they are starting to just derail people that are being encouraged by these money numbers youtubers throw out saying its "simple" to reproduce. Its something you should really point out. No hate but its something I have had to learn along the way through interacting with colourists and its something that really needs to be highlighted to people when they are starting out
Fair point
And another thing someone asked is, if alcohol markers bleed trough...? 🤔 She is pointing out in the Book description, to use a sheet of paper under the page one is colouring..but if markers bleeds trough the paper, it will show up on the backside of the page that contains different colouring motiv anyway...🤔
Megan, the artist of the coloring book above, responded very graciously to Sean. She was grateful and respectful and didn't even mention any of the things you seem to be angry about. Maybe you should learn a thing or two from her.
@helengren9349 They are single sided pages, so the bleed through doesn't matter as long as you stop it from transferring through to the next page of art, hence why they advise to use a blotter page behind. You can't stop alcohol markers from bleeding through, no matter how good the paper is, it's just how it is. The main things regarding alcohol marker art is usually wide open spaces and thick lines of the drawing, its quite an intricate thought process to design, even though to the naked eye it would seem like a toddler could colour them in. This video is actually a great example of how to completely misunderstand the design process and get it so wrong without knowing. I love this content BTW and I don't mean that in any disrespectful way at all.
@mindbodyshop I'm not angry at all, you have just put your own emotions into the words I wrote. Also, she wasn't here to teach just say thanks to Sean, she had no reason to try and help self publishers as loads are already jumping on her books and just blatantly copying them badly, its actually quite sad watching it
How do you put a link on a tiktok video?
That woman has pure talent & heart I wish her revenue to inflate more. You could do a podcast with her ❤
Why life suck without money
hi! are you sure we can use graphics from canva in POD business?
Awesome tips. Thanks for sharing
ok as an artist its great idea because if you just see a few things to colour your wrong actually have to colour with shading etc so takes time you do it slow it releases stress very relaxing try it
I agree. For some of us just having a space, a shape defined is all we want or need. Then we can embellish it how we want, with the level of detail we feel like doing on any given day.
Hi Sean
What is A+ Content? You mentioned this but did not go deep on it. How do we make that?
I would do this, but my hands are really ugly😂😂, it is all scarred up from MMA.
I feel like a tough tatted up MMA guy selling cute kawaii coloring books on Tiktok could go viral though 😂😂
Thanks Sean .How to work with a virtual assistant ?
Can you share how to hire a Virtual Assistant?
This has given me some solid ideas. Thank you for posting this.
Hey, I released something similar on kdp and my book got blocked, any ideas why ?
After creating a coloring book or logbook, do I need to print multiple copies and store them until a buyer comes along? How does the sales process work for these books?
I just published my first coloring book. How do you overlap 2
Coloring book images without the back image lines showing through?
This was very encouraging. Do you think instead of (or in addition to) Tik Tok, one can post videos to Instagram or RUclips (shorts); I'm already familiar with these apps?
Absolutely
@@SeanDollwet I'll take a look at her Tik Tok videos, but I assume she leaves links to one of her books, or her author page, right?
You are so surprised by simplicity of these colouring books. Probably because you are too young. You need a toddler to understand this 😂
I tried doing this using MidJouney and I found that the styles of the different images were not always the same. Doesn't the coloring book need to have the same style of graphics? How do you get the style to be very similar from one image to another? Even the seed function did not help much.
Great video as always. Question, can I get paid by Amazon if I live in Vietnam and I have a Vietnamese bank account? It’s a commercial bank. Please advise
As an artist this gives me hope as I want to design and draw my own coloring book, though I plan to target a few different niches, maybe not as simple in style but hopefully it will be unique enough to stand out.
I have created kdp book but they blocked without mentioning any reasons
What can we do if TikTok gets banned for ever? I have a large following on Facebook. How do you feel about ads on Facebook?
Can we modify images in illustrator or photoshop and convert them into an outline artwork for creating a coloring book for an Amamzon KDP??
Hello! Thanks for making a video about my books and my brand :) Really awesome analysis, it was fun to hear another marketer talk about my products! I have been working on my brand and my passion for 10 years. Each product was developed at different times and had great sales at the time. This allowed me to create a base of truly loyal fans who love my books more than I imagined.
I think that passion and love for art is very important in this, I remember that before starting no one recommended the niche of cars to sell on Amazon, but I have dedicated enough time to create a great book that even helps others sell. same niche and that's amazing!
Greetings bro keep up the good content!!!
Is my acct no at risk of getting terminated if I use AI to generate the colouring books
I look forward to your response
Thanks
People are now copying her book, down to the format of the cover.
She herself has copied covers from others. She just started recently and her books are copied from previous bestsellers. Thats the game.
@@quor5103 All the copies I saw were published after hers. But you may be right. It's sad that that's the game.
@@quor5103previous best sellers? Such as? 🤔
It sounds as though this is a widespread practice.
VIDEO: how to hire fulltime video-ers pls
how do you make duplicate pages when you do the coloring book and how many pages is ideal? and where do you put for sale the book?
Surely those Fiverr people are using AI for their art.
I have a question if you can teach us that level then what are you doing here 🤣🤣🤣🤣 sir and band why are you increasing competition here by teaching us why don't you do it confidentially. please not make people fool we are not
Kdp is saturated
well use our GPT, and get all withing 10 min
Thank you for your helpful content ❤
Thanks so much for all this content and information, please make video on virtual assistant. Thanks
Most first reviews are bot verified by his friends
I was just wondering if it totally legal to use canvas or AI? Could it be considered as a copyrighting?
Right now you can use Canva and AI in your work but you can't copyright the work. Anyone who wants to "borrow" your work can. To copyright the work you'll need to change, adapt, improve it. To what extent I don't yet know.
Amazing video!
Please, make a video on how to hire a virtual assistant.
Thanks so much for your help.
But TikTok has been banned!
Please tell us how to hire a v.a.
Will posting on Instagram work as well as tik tok?
How does it work in terms of copywriters?
Sir which story book low confidence and high demand publiced please reply to me.........
Your content rocks 🎸… God bless ❤
What tool are using to gauge her sales?
Can us chatgpt to crear book like this my account is save to creat it for chatgpt
yes, but you might want to make sure that they are high quality.
I learned so much new stuff, thank you
What is A+ content?
HELP: I have a coloring book I made myself that I want to promote on tiktok. My market is the US but since I am in another country tiktok shows my videos in my country not in USA.
I did some research and found out I could use a VPN, select a server in USA and tiktok can register that as my location so it shows my videos to my target audience.
So I got the VPN but the content tiktok shows me and the audience that interacts with my content is from my country mostly not the US. I check the location on tiktok and tried to change it but it tells me I have to be residing in the US for 90 days so I can make that change.
I've heard and read a lot of comments of people traveling and seeing tiktok from the countries they visit ASAP.
Any idea on how I can market my product using tiktok in USA without being in the country??? Any tip or idea helps. Thank you in advance.
Yes you can
Who delete my message?
Perhaps you should not bother because as it is going, tik tok will probably be banned in the USA.
@@alexartsdecor It is already banned but people still use it to promote things and they are still making bank. But yeah, in the end I have to find another way.
I have a book on that keyword but it's not selling I don't know why
Paid ads?
Tiktok marketing?
Known brand?
A video about hiring a VA would be really helpful
I have a contact. What do you need a voice actor for?
Can you post more nomad content
Thank you.🙏🙏🙏
I am not sure how she got her videos to the top of the tiktok listings .I think there is more to it than just posting on tiktok everday
She is investing huge money in marketing. No money no marketing no sales.
@@quor5103 All of my traffic is organic, I don't pay for any ads on Amazon or social media :) Clarified this more in my comment on this video as well. Please don't spread false information to people trying to learn how to do this.
Great video
Thank you for the excellent analysis. I have one concern. My AI tool determined that more than 70% of the reviews for this product are unreliable. It gave the reviews an overall grade of "D" which is next to the lowest grade possible, the lowest grade being "F". It makes me wonder where these reviews came from.
These reviews are almost all from people who found my books on TikTok and they are real. This claim is just frustrating because there are a LOT of people copying my books and paying for AI reviews and it's extremely obvious when reviews are written with AI. I'm not sure what tool you're using but you can see right on Amazon that for the food & snacks book, 513 out of 516 reviews are verified purchases. I've sold almost 44k copies of this book so that's actually only 1% of people leaving a review, which is not high at all.