How many of you are publishing low content books?

[luckyguy91]

Anyone who shown the success with low content books, they always sell their course after-show their earning. Some people run ads for the perfect profit dashboard but they never show how much they spend on ads. Anyway, selling course is main. haha.

[arjoer]

If we do the math.... the number of courses out there vs the number of people do well with it, I'd say you are mildly incorrect luckyguy. I say mildly because a part of the business model for many low content authors is to also sell their templates.

If you read any book marketing resource, almost all include the suggestion of creating a blog to market your book and build a mailing list. Since the primary audience vehicle is other authors helping each other, it kind of goes hand in hand that the content they are also looking for pertains to improving their sales.

There is a ton of outdated shit floating around, still good in principle but filled with outdated info. Createspace is the first flag, Amazon swallowed them up so any resource that covers Createspace in depth is dated.

The free book marketing plan still works but nothing like it used to because Amazon separated the free bestseller list from the paid bestseller list. Depending on your goals, however, free can be very effective.

The best launch price point I'd say is 99cents for kindle books and 4,99 for pod books because you have to cover the printing expenses. All sales benefit the paid bestseller lists

Typical lazy, in a rush human behavior, is to put the cart before the horse. We are all marketers, start building your list a month out by creating desire and anticipation. Launch with reviews and strong sales that first week, followed by different book list promotions.

95% of the information out there is for publishing kindle (digital)books and not print on demand or low content books. I've seen plenty of decent low content info here in the kindle section and in layna61524's posts. Id be curious to hear her take on this subject as well as I have a feeling she is pretty knowledgable.

Publisher Rocket is really the tool of choice although I haven't tried kdspy and hear it is pretty good as well. You won't rank for any top-level categories or simple keyword phrases. Meal planner for.... is oversaturated no matter how you look at it.

Extending that out to a specific audience with a usp is a different game altogether. Meal planner for at-risk seniors, Nutrition guide for adults with severe gout. I find the help for .... phrases to still be fairly wide open

I have not personally published any low content books myself, but I held the hands of a client's wife and walked her through the entire process and she is killing it. I honestly do not think she even knows her password to log in. I have several clients currently in the different stages as well as my soon.

It certainly isn't the breeze it once was but as marketers, it should be easier for us than anyone else. If you are going to outsource the writing, Id recommends textbroker.com. Don't cheap out on the book cover either.

Create a template and then duplicate the template multiple times targeting different drilled down sub-niches. The only difference from one book to the next will be cover, title, description, and targeting. After 45 days evaluate the winners and scale the winners with additional choices.

You have little chance of success with just one book, but I'm not suggesting hundreds either. Quality over quantity. Quality, in this case, is the title, descrip, cover, and targeting.

If you run ads, run sponsored product ads and product display ads with a 10 or 15$ a day cap. Unless you are burning up the sales, you need to keep your spend at a reasonable level

Whether you will go the book route or not, here is my advice. Do not ever produce another pdf lead magnet without also publishing it on kindle.

Amazon offers many low to no cost marketing advantages to the zero-overhead kindle market that will get you a lot of eyes on your lead magnet. This I would offer for free ore 99 cents. Make it short and value-packed.

Push your site/product/authority links/ or even pod book at the end with links. We work in a numbers game. The new audience stream that you can create with this method with little effort can be the push that you need to get and keep a competitive edge over your competitors.

Notice I included pod book. You can use a free kindle lead magnet to market your pod book or series very easily lowering your marketing overhead

I've already had several messages asking to chat about basically the same questions. Honestly, I don't have time to speak to multiple people separately as I'm too busy. I answered the questions I've received so far here just now. If you have additional questions, leave them in this thread and I will answer what I can. I might not have all the answers, but Ill try.

[mehere001]

I acquired all of the expert courses.
I applied some of the strategies.
I have 1050 books on kindle and I make a good coin without buying traffic or doing anything else.
I have not listed one book in over 3 months.
I found when I created books without reading all of these bs courses I was better off.
The courses might be good at showing what keywords and niches to target and even how to create these books.
At the end of the day, it requires action (The I part of this post)
i.e get in and have a go.
Guest books do the best by light-years (you can also charge more for them)
journals/diaries/notebooks next.
Not get rich quick
Get in and have a go.

[cwbbhf]

(07-13-2020 02:23 PM)mehere001 Wrote:  I acquired all of the expert courses.
I applied some of the strategies.
I have 1050 books on kindle and I make a good coin without buying traffic or doing anything else.
I have not listed one book in over 3 months.
I found when I created books without reading all of these bs courses I was better off.
The courses might be good at showing what keywords and niches to target and even how to create these books.
At the end of the day, it requires action (The I part of this post)
i.e get in and have a go.
Guest books do the best by light-years (you can also charge more for them)
journals/diaries/notebooks next.
Not get rich quick
Get in and have a go.

Don't you find bad reviews for the guest-books for being too flimsy and paperback?

[mehere001]

Have a look at your opposition guest books plus read the comments, then simply improve on them.
When you are making good coin buy the top-ranked guestbooks and further improve on them.
There are so many guest books you can go after (Birthdays/weddings/funerals/accommodation etc)

A guest book has a higher perceived value most likely due to the occasion it represents.
Selling lined journals you would expect problems.

Easy to make money on this platform if you concentrate on only one type of low/no content book.
Hint
Guest books.

[strada]

How much time do you spend on each book?
Are they original all of them or you are just swapping covers?

(07-11-2020 02:31 AM)pathfinder Wrote:  I'm creating and publishing about 30 low content books a month. BUT, I'm going for good quality interiors and high-quality, stand-out covers. I'm also investing time on keyword research, optimizing titles and writing descriptions which stress benefits and have a strong call-to-action.

I'm not saying it's easy money but I'm doing OK (up to $600/month) and my books will continue to make money over the years to come.

[strada]

"Get in and have a go."
Sounds like great advice.
so many course may be helpful but if you don't jump in and test and stick to it you just won't get any results.
Glad you are having such great success.
I create medium content activity books and then I sit on them and don't publish so I see the errors in my ways.
And they are not terrible. I like the creation but kind of lose faith in the amazon part I guess...

(07-13-2020 02:23 PM)mehere001 Wrote:  I acquired all of the expert courses.
I applied some of the strategies.
I have 1050 books on kindle and I make a good coin without buying traffic or doing anything else.
I have not listed one book in over 3 months.
I found when I created books without reading all of these bs courses I was better off.
The courses might be good at showing what keywords and niches to target and even how to create these books.
At the end of the day, it requires action (The I part of this post)
i.e get in and have a go.
Guest books do the best by light-years (you can also charge more for them)
journals/diaries/notebooks next.
Not get rich quick
Get in and have a go.

[chikfilet]

Reading some of these post I was ready to just give up and not even bother trying this.

But after you wrote this below it reminded me that people are just that lazy and useless most of the time. I have two other businesses but one is faltering due to google's crap local search algorithm. I used to get 60 calls a week but not anymore. I'm lucking if I get 5 a week without advertising and most of the other calls are spammers trying to promise me a gold mine if I would just pay them $400 a month to rank my website that is already ranked for my industry.

Anyway I'm going to give this a go and hopefully I can publish enough medium content books instead of low and replace that income for now. Not sure how long it will take though.

(07-13-2020 02:23 PM)mehere001 Wrote:  I acquired all of the expert courses.
I applied some of the strategies.
I have 1050 books on kindle and I make a good coin without buying traffic or doing anything else.
I have not listed one book in over 3 months.
I found when I created books without reading all of these bs courses I was better off.
The courses might be good at showing what keywords and niches to target and even how to create these books.
At the end of the day, it requires action (The I part of this post)
i.e get in and have a go.
Guest books do the best by light-years (you can also charge more for them)
journals/diaries/notebooks next.
Not get rich quick
Get in and have a go.