In this video, I'm going to show you a KDP low content
book niche where one of the bestselling books is making around $1,400 per month, and that's in pure profit. And the other things that are great about
this niche is that the competition is relatively low, they are easy to
create and the niche is evergreen, which means the books
sell well all year round. So we're going to look at the
niche in a bit more detail, show you the steps that I go through
when I'm investigating a niche. Then I'll show you how to create a unique
interior from an interior that we can buy online. Although I'll show you
how you can actually get it for free. Then I'll show you those all important
keywords that are essential for giving your book the best chance
of ranking on Amazon. And I've got a free gift for you as well.
So what is this niche? Well, it's the mood tracker journal niche, and these are books that are designed
to help people track their mood and so that it can track their mood
over weeks or months or sometimes years. And they can track it in relation
to things like food, their diet, lifestyle, exercise,
medication and disorders, things like attention deficit
disorder, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety. And I can tell you from my experience
as a doctor for nearly 30 years, I had quite a number of patients
that used these books to track their mood and they were very useful
indeed. So here we are on Amazon. I've put in a general
keyword, mood tracker journal, and you can see here we've got
all these suggestions from Amazon, which will be important later when we
come to do our keyword research. Now, when I'm looking at books on Amazon
and I'm doing my initial research, what I like to do is look at the best
sellers ranks of those books on the first page for a general keyword like this mood
tracker journal. And what I'm looking for are three or more books
with bestsellers ranks of
less than 300,000 because then I know that books
are actually being sold, are making sales in this particular
niche. So we'll just have a scroll down. We'll ignore these sponsored listings. Now I've got a plugin installed
called DS Amazon Quick View, which gives me this information
here that you can see at the bottom of a listing. Gives me the
bestsellers rank of the book, it saves me having to click on each
book and look at the best sellers rank individually. It just saves a bit of time. So straight away we can see this book
here, bestsellers rank of 90,318. If we scroll down further, again,
we've got these here, all KDP books, bestsellers rank, 60,000, 18,000,
48,000. And this one here, 146,000. So straight away
this fulfills my criteria. I know sales are being made.
And if we scroll down further, again we can see we've got this book
here that's selling even better with a bestsellers rank of 12,000. Now, just a quick glance at these books, I can see that the book covers
don't look anything special. It won't require a lot of
graphic design skills to create covers that can compete
with these books. And in fact, you'll find there's a common thread with
a lot of these books in that they show the interior on the front cover. Like
you can see these three books here. And this is a technique that I've actually
used in a lot of my books. In fact, when I started publishing
and using this technique, I was one of the few publishers
that actually use this. But now there's quite a few books that
do use this technique and it is very effective. Now during the research I noticed that
these books can be targeted at different age groups, so kids, teens and adults.
So it's very versatile. Now if we look at this bestseller here, it has a bestseller's rank of 18,706. So if we go to tck publishing.com, put that into the book sales calculator, we can see that it's
selling between 220 to 450 books per month. Now if we look
at the profit margin on this book, we can see that for a seven by 10 inch
book with 110 pages selling at $9.98, it brings in royalties of
$3 and 12 cents per book. Again, that's pure profit. So
that's pretty good. And in fact, one of the good things about this niche
that I noticed is that there are a lot of books that are selling well where
the price is higher than that normal $6.99 or $7.99. We've got
this one here at $9.98, this one here at $8 98, and again $8.99. So there is a
chance for this niche to get a bit more profit per book,
which is always good. And so now if we have a look at
the interior of one of these books, we can see that it has these
different sections here, the date, suggestions on how the
person may be feeling, how they can score their mood
in the morning and evening, some areas for the customer to write in, and also things like food they
may have eaten during the day or fluids they may have drunk. So it's a very basic low
content book interior. And these kinds of interiors are
easy to create yourself or you can find them quite easily online. So I'll show you where we can
get one of these interiors. And that brings us onto the next stage, which is actually creating
an interior itself. And I'll show you how to create a unique
interior. So one of my favorite places to go is Creative Fabrica, and
here I just put in Mood Tracker. And you can see we've got all
these options that are given to us. And all of these have
commercial licenses to use, and most of them also
print on demand licenses. So you can use them in the
creation of your books. And here's a couple that I
had a closer look at. Again, look very basic if you wanted
to create one of these yourself. If you want another option,
there's a site like Fiverr. Again, I put in Mood Tracker, and there's some options here
for creators to create an original interior for you. Obviously you'll probably find you've
got to pay a bit more than you would on Creative Fabrica, but you've got that original
interior that they can create. Although having said that,
if you do use Fiverr, just make sure it is an original
interior that they are creating and that you can use it for
commercial purposes. But for this, we're going to use an interior
off Creative Fabrica. Now, as I mentioned earlier, you can
actually get one of these for free, and you can do that by signing up for
Creative Fabrica in the link down below. And for the first month, you can get, I think it's up to 10 downloads
of different products. So you could go and use those free options
and download some of these interiors, see what they look like
and give them a try. If you continue the
subscription after that, it's around $9.99 per month
unless you pay up front, which I think is like
$59.88 for the whole year. And this is one of my
go-to places for interiors, images, fonts that I use on my books. And I've been using
Creative Fabrica for around, I think it's since 2020 now. So it is a very good resource. So here
I've downloaded one of the interiors, and I'm just going to drag this
PDF into Affinity Designer. And here it is. You can see we can open all
120 pages of this interior and it's a six by nine inch interior. Now, in order to create something
a bit more original, what I'm going to do is
combine this interior with another interior and
that's a lined interior. And the idea behind this is that we're
going to have one page where customers can track their mood. And
then on the other side, an area where customers can write
something like in a journal, although what I'm going to
do is put prompts in there. So it's going to be a combination of
a mood tracker and a prompt journal. And this is a good idea if you are
creating low content books to think about combining different types of books to
make something a bit more original so that it stands out a bit more in
your listing on Amazon. So what you can do is go across to Gumroad. I'll leave a link to Gumroad
down below in the description, and also you'll find down there the
link to Creative Fabrica as well. And there you'll find
this lined paper interior, which is absolutely free
of charge to download. It's a 120 page six by nine inch interior. Then what we need to do
is go across to Canva. Now you can open up a
free account in Canva. What I'm going to show you today
is in the free version of Canva. And what we're going to do is click on
create a design. Then at the bottom here, click on import file. And then I'm just going to drag
in that 120 page lined file. Once that's downloaded,
just click on it to open it. And here we can see we've
got our 120 lined pages. So now what I'm going to
do is copy one of those mood tracker pages and
import it here into Canva. Now the first page is going to be
the right-hand side page in the book. So I'm going to remove
those, just delete them. And I'm going to put in some text and
I'm going to write just something basic like this book belongs to. And then I'll put in some lines. So
just go to Elements under Shapes, click on this line, and then we
can just move that across like so. And then holding down option
left click of the mouse, we can just drag down and create a
couple of copies of that line. Okay, so now what I want in this book is that
when they turn over the right page, the first page on the left is
going to be the mood tracker page, and the other side is
going to be the lined page. So we're going to delete all these lines
on page two. Then I'm going to go to Affinity Designer. Now this could be any software that
you decide to open that interior in. So it could be Adobe Illustrator,
it could be Photoshop, whatever. And all I'm going to do is just
draw a bounding box around one page, then command C or control C
to copy, go back to Canva, click on our page, control
V or command V to paste. Move that to the top left
corner and drag that down. And so now we have our
first mood tracker page. So now if we scroll down, the opposite page of this is
going to be this lined page. Now what I want to do is
add a prompt to this page. So I'm going to just delete some of
these top lines here to make room for our prompt. Now, in order to get our prompt, I'm going to use a bit of AI and
we're going to go to chatGPT, but you could make up these prompts
yourself. So here I've put in create 60 daily prompts for a mood tracker
journal. And how quick is that? So I'm just going to take
the first prompt, copy, back to Canva and then just paste. Now I'm just going to
drag that to the top here. So the first thing I want to do is
change the font. So at the top here, click on the font box. And then
on the left-hand side here, we've got a choice of all
these different fonts. Now, if you're in the free account, you can choose any of these fonts except
for those with a gold crown next to them, those with a paid pro account. So we're just going to go ahead
and choose one of these free fonts, and I'm going to choose this one here.
And I'm going to reduce the size of that, increase the width of the box slightly, and move that into position.
So that will be our first prompt. And then what we would do
is then go to page four, delete the lines, paste in our
mood tracker page and so on. And then just create each page
as you go through the book. And then when you've done that, you
would just hit share at the top, right, hit download, then choose pdf, print, and I often choose flatten PDF.
And then just hit download. And that will download the
PDF file to your computer. Now this is going to be a 120 page file. You could do whatever number
of pages that you like, depending on how many days or
weeks you want to include in your low content book. So now once you've got your book cover
that you've created and you've got your interior, you're then ready to
upload that to the KDP platform. Obviously you've got to write
in the title, subtitle, et cetera. I've gone through those
steps in another video, which I'll leave a link
to down below. Now, one of the important aspects when
publishing books on Amazon is the use of keywords to help get
your book seen by customers. Now, it's not a guarantee that it gets your
book ranked high up on that first page, but it does help. There are a number of factors to
getting your books ranked on Amazon, but for me, I found that keywords are
one of those important components. Now, what are keywords? Well, they are the search words that
customers type into Amazon. Here we've got mood tracker. Now what you can see is when you
type in a broad keyword like mood tracker, we've got all
these suggestions here, and I'm just going to narrow that down
a bit to Mood Tracker Journal. So Amazon on the left here gives
us these suggestions, and these are superb for two reasons. One, Amazon is actually telling us
what customers are searching for, and also customers will tend to
click on these if they see there's something there relevant to
what they're searching for. So these are very useful, and what I do is I start to write
these down on a spreadsheet. Now I do have another plugin installed, a free Chrome plugin called
AMZ Suggestion Expander, which gives me these other keywords
here that you can see in these colored boxes. And these are also keywords or search
terms that customers are typing into the search bar on Amazon. So those
will also go onto my spreadsheet. Now, when I hit search for
a particular search term, in this case Mood Tracker journal, there are two main things that I'm
looking for. One is this figure here, which is a number of search results.
And this gives us an idea of the competition because it's sort of
telling us approximately how many other books are out there similar
to the one that we want to publish. Now I tend to use search
terms or keywords that have a search results of 1000 or less,
purely because from my experience, I find that it's easier to get my book
on that first page of the search results rather than say if there was 10,000 search
results because if that was the case. For me, it means there's a lot
of competition. And in that case, I'd have to start thinking about marketing
strategies like running an Amazon ad campaign. But I found that if I use keywords
with 1000 search results or less, I can often get away without
running any Amazon ad campaign. And in fact, most of my top selling books have
never had an ad run on them at all. So the next figure I look at is
this here where it says Volume. Now this is the number of
Google searches per month, how many people are searching on
Google for this particular keyword? And it just helps give us an idea of
the amount of external search for a particular keyword. So for me, it just
gives a keyword a bit of extra strength. And it's useful just to note so that if
there are a couple of similar keywords, I can't decide between, if one
has a lot of Google searches, I'll often go with that one rather than
the other one because sometimes there's a chance of picking up extra traffic
to your book from Google searches themselves. So what I do is
I build up a spreadsheet, I'll just enlarge that for
you. And we have three columns. One is the keyword or search term. The
other is the Amazon search results, which I've just told you about, and
then the Google monthly searches. And what I do is as I find
each keyword that's suggested by Amazon, I will take each of these
and put that into the search bar. And again, look at the other suggestions. Look at the search results on Amazon. And so you end up with this keyword list
that just grows and grows and grows and it can take some time. And here I went through
all the steps and found 78 different keywords. Now, a lot of these have search
results of less than 1000. So there's a lot of different keywords
here that you can target in your book that have less competition.
And the idea is, is to use those lower competition
keywords in your books. And then eventually, if you
start to get sales of your book, you start to build up a sales history
and you'll start to rank for those more competitive keywords
that you didn't target in the first place. And as I said, it's not
just keywords that help your book rank. There's other factors, things
like your cover design, are customers clicking on your book, what's the conversion rate if
you're making sales. But as I said, keywords are one of those major
factors that I really look at. Now, the good news is, is that I've
done all the work for you. I've got these mood tracker keywords,
all 78 keywords with the search results, and it's available to you free of charge. And I've uploaded this to
my Gumroad shop. So again, a link to that down below in the
description, so you can go along there, you can download it for free and it
can just start off your own keyword research and creating your own
books to publish on Amazon. So you'll find that that
will come in very handy. Now, if you are new to this whole publishing
game on Amazon, things like no content, low content books, then I do have
this book tutorials playlist here. Thank you much for your time.
It is very much appreciated. I hope you found all
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