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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Journey To Financial Freedom Before June 2020 by obamartins(op): 1:42pm On Jul 30, 2020

RESHARPENED:
Good afternoon Obamartins,

I have a question and I'd really appreciate your opinion.

Here's the question:

I just published a 10,000 words book on Amazon. That's about 89 MSWord pages, given the formatting I used.

The paperback resulted into 89 pages too.

But the Kindle format gives me a 52 pages book. That's NOT cool at all.

I tried reformating it but I still get the same abysmal result. Is there anyway to format it to get more pages?

I responded to a question like this some where on nairaland and here is it below:

120 pages work on A4 is huge. Yeah, publishing as a doc file, amazon will scale the pages down because they pay you $0.004 per page read, but the good thing about uploading in docx file is that all buyers can access all your books irrespective of what device they use. Alternatively, some writers use either 5.5" x 8.5" or 6" x 9" which is smaller than A4 and then covert it to PDF and later .kpf(print replica) using amazon's textbook creator to get more pages. The drawback, however, of using print replica is that buyers with Kindle paperwhite and Kindle Oasis won't be able to purchase your books. When i was using print replica, i got some negative reviews because of that. So i still encourage you upload a well formated docx file even if your book page count is squeezed. You can always depend on paperback sales to make up for the difference.

Sorry for the typos.

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Journey To Financial Freedom Before June 2020 by obamartins(op): 1:25pm On Jul 30, 2020

WordsWriter:
That's really sad.

Can you please recommend some materials or point me in the direction to get started?

done!!!

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Journey To Financial Freedom Before June 2020 by obamartins(op): 10:39am On Jul 30, 2020

WordsWriter:
That's really sad.

Can you please recommend some materials or point me in the direction to get started?

drop your Whatsapp number.

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Journey To Financial Freedom Before June 2020 by obamartins(op): 10:58pm On Jul 29, 2020

kayc0:
I need this kind of energy in my life.

Yeah! The Audacity to succeed in life is the motivating factor. My little advice, in whatever you do, put in all effort to earn USD legitimately and when the lock is over, leave the country. $1 is N472 naira as we speak. Just think about that and put in effort to write books. It may be hard at first, but don't give up.

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Journey To Financial Freedom Before June 2020 by obamartins(op): 10:12pm On Jul 29, 2020

WordsWriter:
Hello Obamartins, is this opportunity still available? If not when's the second batch starting?

Also do you offer one-on-one mentorship?

I am so sorry, the opportunity is no longer available and second batch will not be available. So much on my table now. One-on-One mentorship will also not be possible too. So Sorry about this. 24hours in a day is no longer enough for me.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 2:46pm On Jul 18, 2020

Antanananovic:
@obamartins

Hi. please indulge me to pick your brain a little bit. so I am writing a nonfiction beginner kind of book, I have written 10,000 words already. these are my questions:

Am I doing it right with the number of words that I have written? if not, what are your thoughts.

Should I write the headings in a clear fashion like; "how to do A or Advantages of B?" I read somewhere that the headings should be written in a way that persuades people to buy because that is what buyers look at using the look-through feature.

Thanks. please reply whenever you can. Regards!

10k word and above is good. One thing u need understand is dont try to invent the wheel. Stick to what is working. How do i mean? Check how others selling similar title on amazon coined theirs, and do something similar without copying theirs verbatim.

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Business › Re: Hackers Compromise Elon Musk Twitter Account, Request For Bitcoin From by obamartins(op): 10:14pm On Jul 15, 2020

lalasticlala snake swallows elon musk, bill gate and apples twitter grin

Business › Hackers Compromise Elon Musk Twitter Account, Request For Bitcoin From by obamartins(op): 10:11pm On Jul 15, 2020

scammers made over $40,000 worth of bitcoin from followers of Elon Musk after hacking into his verified twitter account. They promised to double bitcoin sent to a wallet posted on his handle. As at the last check, over 152 transactions have been made to the wallet posted by the scammers. Other twitter accounts hacked include that of Bill Gate, Apple, Kanye West and Cash app.

Source:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromised

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 7:28pm On Jul 13, 2020

AIT1:
I will be hoping to get feedback on how the promo went. Although, I don't have money for promotion yet.

okay! i will keep u posted.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 4:10pm On Jul 13, 2020

headboyprince:
However, please I want to ask you1. Did you run promotions for your kindle books, or are all your sales organic?
2. Did you focus on a single niche and built a brand on them or did you publish on different niches on profitable keywords.

Thanks for the reply!

All sales i made were purely organic. Reason been that ams is too tricky and requires indept knowledge, else u will just be dashing Jeff Bezos money. But i am experimenting on something, i want to lease email list from a book marketing company with crazy email list for both fiction and non fiction and it will cost me $25 a day for them to promote my book. Like i said, i am testing the waters. The promo is billed for 18th of this month. Now, here is what i intend to do, i will calculate how much the book sold from 1st of July till the 17th, jot it down. Then i will look at sales for the 18th July (D Day for the promo) and then subtract the amount from organic sales of the said book. If it brings in something substantial, say an additional $500 or more, then i will make you know if to promote your books using the said website.

For your second question, i don't do fiction, but i am everywhere in the non-fiction niches. Although i am trying to build a brand to get email list. i hope i answered your question?

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 10:21am On Jul 11, 2020

ambitiouschap17:
Is there a way to know the total page a book will be on Kindle, I have a 120 pages on word but it's showing 80 on Amazon?

120 pages work on A4 is huge. Yeah, publishing as a doc file, amazon will scale the pages down, but the good thing about uploading in docx file is that all buyers can access all your books irrespective of what device they use. Alternatively, some writers use either 5.5" x 8.5" or 6" x 9" which is smaller than A4 and then covert it to PDF and later .kpf(print replica) using amazon's textbook creator to get more pages. The drawback, however, of using print replica is that buyers with Kindle paperwhite and Kindle Oasis won't be able to purchase your books. When i was using print replica, i got some negative reviews because of that. So i still encourage you upload a well formated docx file even if your book page count is squeezed. You can always depend on paperback sales to make up for the difference.

Sorry for the typos.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 10:12am On Jul 11, 2020

AIT1:
Okay, thanks.

Please, I'm still hoping you will conduct another self-publishing tutorial as you did some months ago. I just started self-publishing about 2 months ago and hence I missed out on the opportunity.

Thanks

i am not sure i will do that anytime this year. Its very demanding and distracting too.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 7:28am On Jul 11, 2020

AIT1:
Please,
What's the Average word count of your books?

Minimum 10k, max 20k

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 10:25pm On Jul 10, 2020

Virgo01:
Even here too, you see people who have written books but have made barely nothing from them because they didn't do their due diligence. Nothing is guaranteed.

It's the same thing with NCB/LCB. If you do your niche research well and publish a journal that took you less than 30 mins to make, you can make as much as anyone writing full content books but if you just churn them out, you may make nothing.

Journals still sell and that's why Amazon won't ban them. It all depends on preference though. For me, I'd rather spend less time and publish LCB/NCB rather than spending a week to write a book that might not take off.

okay

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 8:36pm On Jul 10, 2020

Lyydia:
I just giggled here when I read that post
Lazy people.. Lol. Like u can just do any LCB nd start making money

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 8:34pm On Jul 10, 2020

Virgo01:
That's nice. But LCB/NCB is not for lazy people looking for a fast way out. It also has its rules and research process. If you go out there just dumping hundreds of notebooks you'd make nothing.

Someone like shashwat is making 10k or more from only LCB/NCB.
I too am grateful I got to know about it. So no, it's not for lazy people.

I see people churn out 1000 NCB and LCB (journals, notebooks, youtube planners, etc) in a week with nothing to show cry

If it was so cool why is ingramSpark banning them on their site. Amazon may follow suit. Some people have over 10,000 NCB and could barely make $1000 a month.

Well, I have little reservation for LCB if you are doing some illustrations and adult coloring books, even at that, it is saturated. If i have 1000 well-written books i will conveniently cross $20,000 a month. Forget those guys on Youtube, they are after lazy people who don't want to write but want to cash out on kdp. They know those lazy folks give them more views and they cashout from Youtube.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 7:44pm On Jul 10, 2020

ufotty2001:
thanks bro

You are welcome. Let me also make you understand that kdp is a game of number if you don't have money to promote your books like me, just ensure to be ready to write your ass off. Not LCB or NCB o. Those are for lazy guys looking for a fast way out. Over the course of 4 years, i was able to get 110 well written non-fiction books and it resulted in btw $3000 to $3500 monthly organic sales.

Quick tip: Don't look at you dash board, write the first book, publish, go to the next one, publish. Just keep doing it. Its a lonely life, but you will come out strong on the other side.

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Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 12:12pm On Jul 10, 2020

ufotty2001:
Am feeling so discouraged about this Kdp Publishing. I am still wondering whether those making it big are telling us the truth... I make between 10$-20$ every month for the past 3 month.. I have just 3books and this is my 5th months..
Also am beginning to believe that those gurus that says that their sales are organic sales are lying to us. How come u are making up to $1,000 to $3,000 just with organic sales.. they should tell us the truth.. I know some will come here and tell me that I should do keyword research.!!!..
My next plan is to venture into email listing and AMS.. am seeing it has if am still very young to start that.. I want to get the organic sales first before I venture into such.
Please u guys should come and tell me what have not heard b4.

Did i hear you say three books? The first rule of the game, kdp is not a get rich quick scheme, it is a business and you keep planting.

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Programming › Re: Share Your Remote Job Experience As A Developer by obamartins(m): 1:53pm On Jul 06, 2020

thenaijacoder:
Well, the pay isn't that much $500 per month but it is quite okay for me though.

I would have aksed for more but i am not good at negotiating so i went with the flow.

$500 is poor, but considering the present economic realities in the country, i think it is managable. Just get the experience, improve your CV and move when a better offer comes. Since the lockdown my sleep pattern changed, i am always up from 8pm to 4am and sometimes 5.00am. Then i sleep from then till 1pm. All i will advice you is adjust your sleep pattern and ensure to sleep minimum 7 hours a day for your organs sake.

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Career › Re: My Dilemma As Contract Staff In A Bank by obamartins(m): 10:22pm On Jun 26, 2020

TruthisGOD:
Please can we talk in private probably through email or WhatsApp? I've sent you a message.

drop the message here.

Career › Re: My Dilemma As Contract Staff In A Bank by obamartins(m): 10:11pm On Jun 24, 2020*

Olawrites:
Is there any future for me as a contract employee in a Nigerian bank. Pay is 60k after tax. In Lagos the cost of living is very harsh.

My dilemma is I'm not fulfilled being a contract staff. Feel like I'm wasting my youthful days. Though, I have online biz to survive on if at all I resign. I'm also building more model.

But then, I'm looking at the career prospect in the future.

I need elderly advise pls

I need front page please biko ejo

Thank God you have a side hustle that is internet-based. If only our youths in Nigeria are not mentally lazy, everything they need is on the internet. I stopped working for anybody since 2017 and I have not looked back.

I am building my business and the projected income for December 2020 is frightening. Recently, I decided to replicate the success of my business by taking over my wife's account and managing it. I started managing the account in March 2020, the pandemic dealt a thorough blow on sales between April and May, but see what the account has brought in this month in the image attached. This is just three months of smart work. You can check my other post to see what my own account brought in. NOTE: I stopped posting my earnings online for security reasons and I didn't attach it intimidate you or anyone, but to let you understand the power of internet-based business. I scaled up with my wife's account so fast because of four years of experience, so it was very easy to replicate it. These things don't just happen overnight. It is a result of the continuous development of one's self in what they have passion for.

Now, let me advise you, don't just quit your job, have a time frame where you will dedicate as much effort to your online business as you have for your job say from now till February 2021, within this period, try to save up money that can sustain your feeding for 7months. Buy food in bulk, bags of rice, beans and other non-perishable staples. Then by the end of March 2021, quit. Within this time frame, draw out your action plan to scale up your online business, watch all the youtube videos that will help you master the business and scale fast. Ensure you focus on the business without anyone distracting you. Don't jump from one business to the other no matter what, stay on the business you are doing and have passion for, until it starts paying you. When you quit, don't look for any other job, focus on your online business. Finally, draw close to God, pray fast and ask God for favor in the business, trust me the Holy Spirit will reveal so much hidden info to help you. As hard as this sound to some people, it still remains the number one principal thing to grow financially - Pay your tithe as the business is bringing in the money, 10% is for God. It is my Spiritual insurance and it has not failed since 2017.

God help you as you take this life-changing decision.

This is my one cent.

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Business › Re: Kdp. Kindle Amazon Books And Corona Virus Profits Method by obamartins(m): 2:04am On Jun 23, 2020

eliok:
This business needs prayers. Do pray as you can daily.

Let God bring buyers for your books
Let any hindrances be cut of
May you find favor in all you do
#grace

Well Said.

Crime › Re: EFCC Arraigns Man For Allegedly Duping American, 4,380 USD, N512, 0000 by obamartins(m): 9:01pm On Jun 17, 2020*

something he could have easily gotten legitimately working online. Whats $4380, that u will be scamming and ruining your reputation for? What some people get in less than 2 weeks. Nigerian Youths shine your eyes, there is enuff legitimate money to be made online, stop this mental laziness and harness the power of the internet legitimately.

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Politics › Re: Governor Obaseki Denies Forging The Certificate Of The University Of Ibadan by obamartins(m): 1:30pm On Jun 08, 2020

sacajawea:
I don't get you, Could you plss no vex Make it clearer

Oshiomohole was accused of firging his certificate and was asked to present it. Next, the Ministry of Education was burnt down. So the case died.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/06/12/fire-destroys-certificates-in-edo-ministry-of-education/amp/

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Politics › Re: Governor Obaseki Denies Forging The Certificate Of The University Of Ibadan by obamartins(m): 3:54am On Jun 08, 2020

Lol @ those that burn building to cover up their certificate issue. Shots fired.

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Business › Re: 8 Habits You See In Every Poor People That Make Them Different From The Rich by obamartins(m): 5:24pm On May 24, 2020

ut47:
Good one prof.. But when grace locate you, you don't need all those tips

Grace does not locate lazy people. You must do your part and God His, else you go wait tire. I saw grace when i started working hard.

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Business › Re: Kdp. Kindle Amazon Books And Corona Virus Profits Method by obamartins(m): 10:27pm On May 21, 2020

Galacious1:
just here hoping to see a good Samaritan to bless me with a profitable niche I can pounce on, boss.

drop ur whatsapp number, i will chat u up, then u can delete it. i won't quote it.

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Business › Re: Kdp. Kindle Amazon Books And Corona Virus Profits Method by obamartins(m): 10:19pm On May 21, 2020

Galacious1:
Legend, obamartins. I sight you

monitoring spirit. How are u doing?

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Bleep by obamartins(op): 4:17pm On May 09, 2020

ambitiouschap1:
you don't reply mail

I am so sorry. Sorting the numbers of persons that applied is not easy. But I stopped replying to applications that came in after the deadline.

Business › Re: Making Regular Income Publishing Amazon Kindle Ebooks by obamartins(m): 3:41pm On May 03, 2020

dgee1:
Good day sir, please I've been trying to reach you, sent you a few emails sometime ago. I would like to have a discussion with you on the KDP business. I am new to the whole thing and wouldn't mind paying to learn from you or be in one of your groups. I have read some of your posts and I could see we belong to the same spiritual family and I feel that might count positively in my favour to get a response . My WhatsApp contact is Zero-Eight-Zero-392151-Two-Six.

Thanks so much and God bless.

I won't be chanced. No vex

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Bleep by obamartins(op): 3:01am On May 03, 2020

fuwaski:
What do I do if u refuse to pay after writing and do i have to write everyday?

I hope you didn't apply?

Jobs/Vacancies › Bleep by obamartins(op): 2:50pm On May 02, 2020*

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