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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 4:14pm On May 03, 2024

lovediehatelive:
I was thinking it's erotica books, and your reasons were religious reasons.

Don't know how saturated or profitable such erotica niches are.

Please again, what do you say about it?

I don't have aby experience with fiction. Those who have dabbled say it's extremely competitive but you can try.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 9:52pm On May 02, 2024

headboyprince:
what did you do to get yours?

Open payoneer account, earn into it, order the card.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 7:28pm On May 02, 2024

headboyprince:
where did you get usd card for running ads?

I have payoneer mastercard

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 5:34am On May 02, 2024

dreamxhaser:
Thank you so much

One more question on my mind. Especially for you and evb2000

Do you think AI will replace KDP Authors in the future? I plan to do this for as long as I can. But I've been wondering if AI will destroy the business in like 4-5 years. Because I have the feeling that if AI becomes good enough, people will just generate their books with AI instead of buying from KDP.

As experts what do you think?

I have no doubt that AI cannot replace writers, at least, with what I'm seeing now. My opinion may change later.

And I'm not an expert.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 5:32am On May 02, 2024

jolak5:
Thank you so much. I will start now. Can you explain the product page placement again? Does it mean I will create another ad for product placement or it's a tool that's a part of the former ad?

Product placement is simply trying to appear in other books page. When you click any paperback book, scroll below and you'll see sponsored and a list of books below. Those books are being advertised and are showing there using product placement. It might need a video to illustrate it. But once you start, you should get it.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 5:29am On May 02, 2024

lovediehatelive:
Please what are your reasons for not touching some niches?

And please can you give examples of such niches

Niches that require images to accompany points I'm trying to make. Example is interior design. I like niche that don't require pictures too much.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 5:26am On May 02, 2024

SonofElElyonRet:
Good morning. I'm trying to do the 5 days free promotion. My book is due for this.. when i click the button it briefly shows the page then reverts back to previous page... why is this ?

I've not experienced this. Could it be your network?

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 5:24pm On Apr 25, 2024

jolak5:
I have been trying to quote this message. I really want to learn how to use ads. I have tried it before but I didn't get any result. Can you give me tips please?

Answered

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 5:23pm On Apr 25, 2024

dreamxhaser:
Boss, will $100 be enough for 3 months worth of ADS?

Also assuming I don't do ads and I have a good number of books (let's say 20 books). Can they be generating $100 at least a month.

I want my books to generate the money for their ads themselves.

I don't want to touch the Amazon money now, I just want something I will build with time till i finish school.

So my plan Is to publish books, a lot of quality books. Maybe 20 books by December. Then if they can start generating something tangible ($100 per month). I will divert the money into ADS.

20 books can generate $100 if your keyword research is on point. Even less can generate that. Just make sure you do your research.

I usually use $5 daily budget and that can last for a week or so. Your ad budget depends on your strategy though. Some can exhaust $100 in a day and others may not spend up to that in a month. Test. And go with what works for you.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 5:19pm On Apr 25, 2024

jolak5:
Hey boss,

I would really love to learn more about ads. I have written several books but I don't make so much. Do you mind giving some tips on the ads? I tried it at a point but I wasn't getting any result.

Before creating ads, make sure your cover is great. That's what will get you clicks.

You can start with auto ads as they can give you fast results and not too complicated.

Next, use "Down Only" bidding strategy to prevent overspending.

You can start with 0.16. Bid. If you're not getting impressions, increase gradually, such as .02 increments until you start getting impressions. Clicks will come then.

Once you start getting clicks, you need to optimize. This can get complicated. But try and sew where you're getting sales by checking placement under your campaign. I'll recommend increasing "product page" placement. You can start with 20% and keep increasing depending on your results.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 6:11pm On Apr 20, 2024

watifeb:
Hi. Please what range of BSR do you target? I know years ago, it should be within the range of 50k or a Lil bit higher. Just wondering if this still the same, or it has increased since there are more books on kdp

Hi,

I don't particularly follow BSR much because the competition is extreme now.

What I use BSR for is to determine demand in the niche. If there is demand (at least three books with low bsr) I'll go into the niche and prop my book up with ads.

That's not to say there are not niches where you can thrive without ads. There are plenty. But I don't touch some niches for personal reasons.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 10:46am On Mar 26, 2024

SuperOnyi:

@obamartins and other bosses in the house 🙌🏿, I wish I can get just one profitable title from any of you.

Profitable topic in the Pic attached.

Amazon.com > new releases > travel guides > united states > Alaska.

Now I've given you fish and also how to fish.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 10:37am On Mar 26, 2024

SuperOnyi:

Boss, what do you think of children's book? I plan to illustrate it myself in a 'manual' way.

They are profitable if you can get the illustration well. It's that part that keeps me from writing them.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 10:34am On Mar 26, 2024

Penboy:
How many words are you high content?

They are around 10k to 12k words now.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 4:49pm On Mar 17, 2024

dreamxhaser:
Wow! By moredo you mean up to 20k words?

Also how do you know if a competition demands more?

Not up to 20k. More like 15k.

For example, I may create a 100 page book and price at 8.99. If it sells well, I'll look at the top two books in the niche. In most cases, they'll be priced at 12.99 and above. If they both have like 150 pages or do, I may bump my to like 120 pages and price at 9.99 or 10.99. This is how I personally do it.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 3:43pm On Mar 17, 2024

dreamxhaser:
Hello!

Please do you publish low or high-content books?

Like what is the average word count of your books?

I only publish high content. When I first started, I try to publish 20k+ word books. Unfortunately, it was not sustainable. First, it requires a lot of effort for each. Second, some of then end up not selling well. Third, and this is the biggest, the printing cost is way higher and reduces my profit. So I start targeting 8k to 12k words now for around 100 pages.

Note: I'll write more if competition demands it. So keep that in mind.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 12:24pm On Mar 17, 2024

SuperOnyi:

Excellent tips, boss. I followed you in case you want to drop more tips, thanks alot. I'm going to try to write on phone and edit, format, and publish with my phone. The reason it's hard and frustrating for me is due to my low capacity of my phone — it's just 1 GB ram so it lags a lot.

By the way I assume that when you add more contents, you edit the cover with 'edited version ' or there's no need for that?

When I edit this way, I don't touch the cover. If I get a negative review about something in the content and I change that, then I'll edit the cover with 'edited version' so new readers can see the error is no longer there... I followed back.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 9:36am On Mar 17, 2024

SuperOnyi:

Wow, thanks alot boss. I'm really surprised you said "50+ pages" when I actually stress myself trying to hit 20k to 30k words.

I used to do that when I first started. But go to the best sellers list, you'll see books with very low bsr having like 100-160 pages. And that is around 15k words or so. So I started targeting between 8k to 12k to publish first.

This is what I do. I have a full table of content for each book. After I get to like 100 pages and there are still topics to cover, I put them aside and publish first. If the book starts ranking and is selling well, I go back and add what I can. This way, I can finish a book in two weeks or a month max. I've found this is easier for me than spending two months on a book.

Some books will flop. No way around it. (This is for us newbies). So I try to minimize my effort on such books.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 9:18am On Mar 17, 2024

SuperOnyi:

This is impressive. I have been doing this but lack of power supply has frustrated me. I only have three books and sold just 2 paperback sales. So, I can even start running ads with as low as $10? Do you mind telling us the niches? It's okay if you don't want to, I understand.

Learn how to edit and write on your phone. It'll be hard but when you don't have a choice, you have to use the available resources.

As for ads, you can set as little as $5 as daily budget but you can't exhaust it. I suggest starting with 0.10 as your bid. Increase if you're not getting impressions. I started with 0.15 and I still get sales.

I learn kdp is a numbers game, except of course, if you have big bucks for a launch plan and continous advert. So try and publish more by all means, but make it quality. I gun for 50+ pages. I've found the travel niche to be the easiest to make sales. But it is very difficult to write a travel guide well, especially since you won't be visiting most of the locations.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 8:50am On Mar 17, 2024

SuperOnyi:

Wow! Do you use any software like publisher rocket and what kpnd of books do you publish?

I do look into publisher rocket but I don't trust their data. So, I do all my research on Amazon.

I publish high content books.

I also run ads and have spent $31 this month.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 8:33am On Mar 17, 2024

Also a Newbie. Started last year.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by nurd(m): 8:24am On Mar 17, 2024

Makavelli001:
Hello guys
I published my book in D2D by they delisted it.
Does it mean that Draft2Digital does not accept Nigerian publishers

You can also publish in kobo writing life. However, it's more geared towards fiction but you can still get trickles of sales with non-fiction.

Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by nurd(m): 9:27am On Mar 05, 2024

saydfact:
Morning sir,
if most of the water comes from the road (where the man stood to take the pics), then construct a gutter (about 600mm deep) on this side of the building we're seeing and channel the water into a shallow well (dig a well, of about 3 rings on the left side).

This should solve the problem.

IF the water comes from the right also, then repeat on that side too (ditto for the four sides).

Keep me updated.

Goodluck

This is merely an appreciation post. You have not helped me directly but I find value in your posts. Thank you.

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Technology Market › Re: House Clearance Sales.. Come In Here!!!! by nurd(m): 8:47am On Feb 09, 2024

CaptainZubi:
Your boy is here again.

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Travel Ads › Re: How Good Is Heroshe.com, Can They Be Trusted? by nurd(m): 12:02pm On Feb 07, 2024

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Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by nurd(m): 5:07pm On Feb 05, 2024

erico2k2:
2morrow I shall aim to complete it as I ran out of chippings, I have this small tool fabricated by my welder I will upload it on my thread

thanks

Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by nurd(m): 3:30pm On Feb 05, 2024

erico2k2:
Haba, nah God hand we all dey, Im doing flooring and trying my hands on DIY concreate stamping, nah me dey do am

Pls can you do a zoom on the flooring? Me too I can try it o

Business › Re: ➜ ➜ ➜Currency/E-currency Market Deals 2020 ➜ ➜ ➜ by nurd(m): 5:14pm On Jan 13, 2024

nurd:
I need $50 payoneer

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nurd:
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Business › Re: ➜ ➜ ➜Currency/E-currency Market Deals 2020 ➜ ➜ ➜ by nurd(m): 7:03pm On Jan 08, 2024

nurd:
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Business › Re: ➜ ➜ ➜Currency/E-currency Market Deals 2020 ➜ ➜ ➜ by nurd(m): 9:32am On Jan 08, 2024

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