HeliosHay:


That's expected.

Once you upload a manuscript, Amazon converts it using a standard font size and spacing. This is done so people don't inflate their books for KENP

As a guide, a 10,000 words manuscript translate roughly to 70-100 pages after conversion (depending on whether it has pictures or not)

Thanks

morningstar55:

Thanks

You're welcome

HeliosHay:
Have Surpassed $11,000 and on target for $14,000+ this month

I woke up earlier today and looked through my dashboards. After tabulating everything, I realised I've gone past the $11,000 mark and I'm now on target to close out at above $14,000 assuming this momentum continues.

This is just to show you what is possible in this business

Below is a rough breakdown of everything:

KDP (ebook + KENP) - $1358
KDP (Paperback) - $4681
ACX Audiobook - $4092
Ingramspark - $1250

Total - $11,381 (N4.1 million)

We have only 7 days left to go this month..


Are you looking to get started with publishing? go to the first page of this book and read all the free information. You'll have enough to begin.

If you're looking to maximize your chance of creating profitable books, the below resources will assist you

1. Kindle Publishing Blueprint (N20,000)
2. Keyword Research Video (N10,000)
3. 10 Profitable Keywords in Self Help Niche (N10,000)
4. 10 Profitable Keywords in Computer & Technology Niche (N10,000)
5. 10 Profitable Keywords in Cooking, Food & Wine Niche (N10,000)

Owners of the blueprint get the other resources for N8000.

For enquiries, email Obinnaezeanaka@yahoo.com

Are those profitable keywords included in the blueprint?
How more profitable keywords are included in the blueprint other than those three.

myjourneysofar:


Are those profitable keywords included in the blueprint?
How more profitable keywords are included in the blueprint other than those three.

The blueprint has 5 profitable keywords.

And a template showing you how to fish for keywords yourself to add to the ones I give you in the book.

Finally Crossed The $15,000/month Mark

The month of September was a great month.

1. I finally crossed the $15,000 earnings in a month
2. I surpassed $100,000 in 2019 earnings
3. I earned $6000+ in paperback sales
4. I had 30 consecutive days of selling 25+ paperbacks a day

Ingramspark was a welcome surprise as well. Below is a breakdown of earnings

KDP (ebook + KENP) - $1780.47
KDP Paperback - $6611.48
ACX Audiobook - $4873
Ingramspark - $1785.37

Total - $15,050 (N5.42 million)

2019 Earnings To Date - $105,086 (N37.8 million)


The Power Of Focus and Goal Setting

Last year (2018), I set a goal to hit $10,000 a month. That was a scary number for me at the time. But I believed it could be done. I worked tirelessly towards it every day and I managed to meet that target in November 2018. I repeated it again in December 2018.

Later in January 2019, I set an audacious goal: To hit $20,000/month before December 2019...effectively doubling my 2018 goal. I was scared that I was being too ambitious and this was a ridiculous goal to set. However, there's something mysterious that happens when you set a goal and become obsessed with hitting it. Ideas start coming to you revealing ways you can improve your business to help you hit that figure.

One of those ideas eventually led me to Ingramspark and, 3 months to go, I'm very close to hitting 20,000 a month.

I encourage you to never give up. Set goals and work tirelessly towards it regardless of the challenges.

Some people buckle whenever they meet a challenge - they throw in the towel and give up.

Others see a challenge as a minor speed bump...they gather themselves together and forge ahead. Those are the ones that usually make it at the end of the tunnel.

Napoleon Hill said "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"

Believe you have what it takes to reach your dream goal.

A Slow October

After 6 consecutive months of high octane progress in terms of sales, the month of October has been uncharacteristically slow. I suspect a number of factors are at play, the most important of which is the fact that Amazon conducted a widespread review sweep.

This happens occasionally when Amazon deletes a large number of review from their products to help them combat biased reviews. Unfortunately, in the process, a number of unbiased reviews are also affected.

With little or no social proof available to customers when making buying decisions, it's no surprise the impact this would have on overall sales.

That being said, if you have a reliable email list of happy customers, this will be the time to hit them up and ask those who are yet to leave a review to spare a couple minutes of their time to assist you.

From current estimations, it appears October might end up at roughly $10,000.

My yearly target for 2019 was $150,000 and I'm currently at $109,000. It's going to be close but all bets are not off..I still believe I can round up the remaining $41,000 before the end of Dec 2019.

How's your publishing going? Hope you are all making solid progress.

Keep up the work.


Update on Mentorship Program

For those looking to get on my mentorship program, I'm still not able to take on more students as the demand on my time from existing mentees is much. Will update here when more room is available.

If you're the type that can execute a strategy on your own without video guidance from me, then the Kindle blueprint and the keyword research video is for you. I discuss my key publishing strategies in the book and using it will help you maximise return on your investment. The keyword research video is there to consolidate some of the stuff discussed in the book with regards to how to find profitable and evergreen keywords to publish in.

As always, owners of the blueprint get a discount on other resources and they can contact me via whatsapp to clarify anything that isn't clear

For enquiries, feel free to hit me up at obinnaezeanaka@yahoo.com


Mentee Progress

One of my mentee (based in Lagos) just recorded a milestone - grossing over $120 in royalties with only 2 books..the second book was published only few days ago. Using the strategies I discussed with him, he's set to have atleast 6 books by December 2019 having spent less than $350.

All $120+ was made organically!

I've recently helped him set up ads for his book and I'm excited to see the impact this will have on his books.

He may not want his name mentioned but if you're reading this, congrats once again bro.

How To Find Keywords For Your Amazon Ads

If you have the software called Publisher Rocket, finding keywords to use to create your ads will be easy.

For this, we'll assume you're looking for related keywords to the keyword "back pain"

Below are the steps you take

1. You launch the software
2. Click on "AMS Keyword Search"
3. Type in the base keyword i.e. "Back pain"
4. Click on "Go Get Em Rocket!"
5. On the results page, click on the "Export" button at the top right corner
6. Choose a same for the CSV file and where you want to save it. Mine will be saved in the "Downloads" folder

7. Go to the downloads folder and open the csv file
8. Expand the columns and add filter to the headers
9. To ensure none of the keywords are repeated, highlight each of the columns, go to Data > Remove Duplicates
10. Once you've confirmed all the keywords are unique, copy them into another spreadsheet, go back to Publisher rocket and search another keyword, repeat all the steps again
11. Once you have enough keywords to go with (say 300 keywords), then go to Amazon Ads account and create your manual sponsored ad campaign using the keywords you've generated

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From all indications, I think it's pretty obvious this business is a viable one.

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Business Cycles

In order to succeed in business, you need to make a mindset shift.

As an employee, I was accustomed to getting that steady pay check at the end of the month. However, I had to sacrifice a lot of things too.

1. I earned pretty much the same thing regardless of how hard I worked
2. I had to beg or prove that I deserved a raise and, when it came, it was a paltry 2-5% raise
3. I had to take permission to go on holiday

Starting my own business and becoming my own boss has in some ways liberated me.

Granted, I became acutely aware of the fact that my destiny was now in my hands and I wouldn't eat If I didn't work hard for it.

That being said, I was excited by the prospect of there being no limit on how much I could earn. The sky was the limit

I also learned that business was cyclical. One month you could earn $1000 and the next it would be a paltry $200 etc.

From reading books and networking with other entrepreneurs, I realised I needed to control how cyclical my earnings were. I needed to add some sort of stability.

How did I achieve this?

With regards to publishing, I made sure to

1. Diversify my publishing portfolio (put my books in kindle, paperback, audiobook and, recently, hardcover)
2. Diversify the platforms I leverage to publish my books (be on Amazon, Ingramspark, ACX etc)
3. Diversify the niches I publish in (one niche might be hot during Q4 season but not so hot in January etc.)
4. Diversify my earnings outside of publishing (after I crossed the $10,000 a month mark I realised I had too much surplus income than I needed to reinvest back in my business and banks weren't paying that much interest on the money sitting there so I started investing in Nigerian Treasury bills and Bonds. These investments now bring me tax free income every month)

Eventually, I will move into real estate

You get the idea. You can use the power of diversification to control how cyclical/seasonal your earnings are. Doing this will also ensure you're not overly reliant on one income source. As an entrepreneur you can't afford to be too exposed to one income source

The 25% discount offer on the Kindle Blueprint ends today at 11:59 GMT.

Testimonial

Another one of my mentees who's beginning to crush it with Kindle Publishing.

Success belongs to those who have the courage and conviction to take action.

For the first time ever, he's sold 4 paperbacks in a day!

...and he has only 2 books in his portfolio

Historical Earnings

My historical earnings from KDP (excluding audiobook and hardcover royalties) have surpassed $100,000 (N36 million) - with a bulk of that earning coming in 2019.

Adding audiobook royalties and Hardcover royalties would take my historical earnings to over $160,000 ($57.6 million) in 3 years publishing.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

With hard work, consistency and persistence you too will get to this level 3 years from today (if not sooner)

Imagine earning N20 million a year from publishing and you don't even have to leave your house or work a job...that's the reward - FREEDOM

HeliosHay:
Historical Earnings

My historical earnings from KDP (excluding audiobook and hardcover royalties) have surpassed $100,000 (N36 million) - with a bulk of that earning coming in 2019.

Adding audiobook royalties and Hardcover royalties would take my historical earnings to over $160,000 ($57.6 million) in 3 years publishing.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

With hard work, consistency and persistence you too will get to this level 3 years from today (if not sooner)

Imagine earning N20 million a year from publishing and you don't even have to leave your house or work a job...that's the reward - FREEDOM

Awesome, impressive, you are highly favoured.

Continue the good work of KDP.

myjourneysofar:


Awesome, impressive, you are highly favoured.

Continue the good work of KDP.

Thanks bro

HeliosHay:


Thanks bro

@op your testimonies really inspire me. I need your help, my kdp account was banned last week monday because according to them, i uploaded books which were free online and as a result i can't open another account?

Is it possible to create another account? and if yes, wouldn't it not get banned after some time because of my payoneer account details

Thanks

Adebaba1:



@op your testimonies really inspire me. I need your help, my kdp account was banned last week monday because according to them, i uploaded books which were free online and as a result i can't open another account?

Is it possible to create another account? and if yes, wouldn't it not get banned after some time because of my payoneer account details

Thanks

Unfortunately, once you're banned it's very difficult to be allowed back on the KDP platform.

Some people email/call KDP support and plead with them and they get lucky but, in most cases, it's over.

If you create another account, it's most likely they'll link it (how, I'm not sure) and ban that account too.

HeliosHay:

Thanks bro

I have got 3 books and no sales yet.
But I will keep on trying.
You are awesome in this business.

myjourneysofar:


I have got 3 books and no sales yet.

But I will keep on trying.

You are awesome in this business.

Are you publishing them in profitable keywords with few competition?

When it comes to publishing, its quality over quantity

HeliosHay:


Are you publishing them in profitable keywords with few competition?

When it comes to publishing, its quality over quantity

I don't know sir.
Some friends assisted me with the keywords.

For your nice kindle book covers and paperback. Kindly DM me through WhatsApp on the following number. O80.275..72688..
1k for covers
1.2k for Paperback.
Note You get a discount for more than one book cover design.
Repetitive Customers also gets a discount.
You get your work in 7 hours from the time of submission. Not only that, you also get unlimited revisions till your are satisfied with the design.
Design Samples sent on request.

HeliosHay , how much do you think one should set as the "Custom bid" for a daily budget of $3 Amazon Ad for someone who is just starting out?
Is a custom bid of $0.17 OK?

Mcslize:
HeliosHay , how much do you think one should set as the "Custom bid" for a daily budget of $3 Amazon Ad for someone who is just starting out?
Is a custom bid of $0.17 OK?

When you set fire to something that is combustible (a collection of dry wood) with a bit of fuel poured on it, it'll go up in flames. But when you set fire to something that isnt combustible (wet wood that cant burn), nothing happens.

Likewise with ads if your books landing page on Amazon has been set up to convert well (has good reviews, has a well converting book description, an attractive book cover etc.) Then running ads to it is like setting dry wood with fuel on fire. You'll get a ton of sales. But if your book has neither of these, your ads wont convert well and you'll waste a lot of money.

That being said, you can start from a bid of 0.1 and go up from there. If you're not getting good enough impressions/clicks then you raise it gradually till you begin to get clicks.

HeliosHay:


When you set fire to something that is combustible (a collection of dry wood) with a bit of fuel poured on it, it'll go up in flames. But when you set fire to something that isnt combustible (wet wood that cant burn), nothing happens.

Likewise with ads if your books landing page on Amazon has been set up to convert well (has good reviews, has a well converting book description, an attractive book cover etc.) Then running ads to it is like setting dry wood with fuel on fire. You'll get a ton of sales. But if your book has neither of these, your ads wont convert well and you'll waste a lot of money.

That being said, you can start from a bid of 0.1 and go up from there. If you're not getting good enough impressions/clicks then you raise it gradually till you begin to get clicks.

All right. Thank you. But it's taking so long for Amazon to approve the Ad. I created it more than 24hrs. It's still showing "Pending review". Why taking so long?

Mcslize:


All right. Thank you. But it's taking so long for Amazon to approve the Ad. I created it more than 24hrs. It's still showing "Pending review". Why taking so long?

Not sure. You can contact KDP support to ask why.

Most times, they email you letting you know that the ad was disqualified for so so so and so reason. Eventually, you'll get the email

HeliosHay:


Not sure. You can contact KDP support to ask why.

Most times, they email you letting you know that the ad was disqualified for so so so and so reason. Eventually, you'll get the email

All right. thanks. Still patiently waiting for the email.

HeliosHay:


Not sure. You can contact KDP support to ask why.

Most times, they email you letting you know that the ad was disqualified for so so so and so reason. Eventually, you'll get the email

Hi, what's the time investment per day required to be successful in less than 3years like you did?
Assuming I plan on outsourcing the book writing.

DonX001:


Hi, what's the time investment per day required to be successful in less than 3years like you did?
Assuming I plan on outsourcing the book writing.

I can't say for sure.

If you follow the right strategies and outsource what needs to be outsourced, then you may be able to reach that level in 3 years or less.

Every body's situation is different. But, by and large, how successful you are will depend on your level of motivation, using the right information and ability to execute strategies well.

You don't need to spend hours on this business. I spend only a few minutes/hours a day to check on my ads etc.

I spend more time when I'm about to launch books as I have to proofread stuff to make sure they're quality

Earned $11,533.3 in October

Relative to the month of September, last month was a slow month but the business still managed to pull in N4m+

KDP ebook + KENP - $1602.51
KDP Paperback - $5154.73
Audiobook - $3737.2
Ingramspark - $1038.86

Total Earnings - N4,151,988

Total Earnings To Date in 2019 - $116,789.27 (N42,044,137.2)

Kindle Publishing has been life-changing for me and a lot of other people. It can do the same for you.

You don't need to engage in a life of crime to be comfortable in Nigeria (or anywhere in the world for that matter)


Update on Resources

The Kindle Blueprint is available at a 25% discount for the next 3 days. Promo ends 3rd November 2019

For enquiries, email Obinnaezeanaka@yahoo.com

good pm @ helioshay I have a kenp read of 0.16 dollars at August but since then not even sales of 1 book what am I doing wrong. pls I beg you in the name of God just give some little insight.

ambitiouschap:
good pm @ helioshay I have a kenp read of 0.16 dollars at August but since then not even sales of 1 book what am I doing wrong. pls I beg you in the name of God just give some little insight.

Things you need to consider..

1. Did you publish under a profitable keyword?
2. Is it too competitive (I.e. you dont show up on page 1/2 for the keyword)?
3. is your book cover attractive?
4. Do you have a compelling book description?
5. Do you have any reviews on the book (social proof)?
Etc.

Once you have all this box ticked, sales naturally will come. You can then run ads to magnify it

Discount on the Kindle Blueprint ends today.