I am looking for opinions on what you consider the simplest and easiest course to explain what low content is for my artistic spouse. I want her to try this space out, but not sure where to get her started. I'm having trouble explaining it clearly to her and looking for a concise course that she can read.
In regards to your question, DacInBC, I'm not sure that it would be easy to say just what course would be the simplest or easiest. Each one out there has there own merits and one's description of simple might seem to be hard for some and some people might find what is supposed to be simple could be downright difficult!
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Here are a few examples that explain what low content is and how to get started so instead of getting involved with a whole course, perhaps these will explain what it is in simpler details.
Thank you 12days, that is probably what I was looking for, something very concise that she can read in 15 minutes or less to give her an idea of what low content is and gauge her interest. Of course I assumed that would have needed to be a course.
I will just pull the important details from those sites and put it into a PDF for her that she can read on her iPad.
Not sure why I cannot convey what low content is to her other than saying calendars and journals, lol. I know it is a lot more.
She does nice artwork in multiple mediums, so I think she would be good at this.
Thanks, I knew about that one and all the ones on here. I was looking for really simple and concise. I think what 12days has shared is about as simple and concise as it gets. Thanks
Hats off to you for helping, 12days. That was really sage advice.
@DacInBC: I agree with everything 12 days said.
What may be easy for one person could bog down another. The good thing is, you know your wife probably better than anyone and all we can do is offer suggestions.
One way to summarize low content publishing to someone who is unfamiliar with the concept is to cover some (or all) of these bullet points:
* Low content publishing is a faster, easier way to publish and make a passive profit over traditional publishing because there is little-to-no actual writing necessary;
* Buyers of low-content books generally fill in their own content. Low content publishers leave lots of white space in margins and plenty of blank (or lined) pages so that users can write in the details they want to record, track or otherwise document;
* Low content books are highly consumable. Buyers USE these products daily, weekly or monthly to keep schedules, track activities and progress, or to reach goals. They do fun or educational activities like color, connect dots to create drawings, practice exercises like writing incursive penmanship, or use printable information as study guides, etc.
* Examples of low content products include:
- Activity Books: Coloring books for children and adults; game and puzzle books such as crosswords, mazes, Sudoku and word search puzzles;
- Calendars: You can create a niche-themed calendar or develop a brand for your calendar line to transform an ordinary run-of-the-mill calendar to one thousands of customers will gladly pay to own!
- Drawing or Writing Prompt Books: Books to inspire drawing or writing by the use or a starter idea or prompt.
- Entertainment Books: Learning aids and books to teach the alphabet, words, colors, time and more to children and people with learning disabilities;
- Guest Books: This book records names and any other information you want to capture from guests. They can be used at bed and breakfasts and events where you receive visitors, such as a baby or bridal shower, graduation party, house warming, a wedding, etc.
- Journals: These diary-like books are very popular with people who record everything from their inner thoughts to summarizing key points in their day. Gratitude journals are huge right now as more people are learning to embrace what they are thankful for and they use these journals to record (write) their sentiments daily.
- Logs and Trackers: These are logs that keep a running report or tracking of just about anything you want to do over an extended time. It could be a diet-related food intake tracking, the number of exercises or walks completed each day, week or month;
- Notebooks and Planners: Day planners, goal planners, school agenda notebooks, undated and dated planner pages, weekly or monthly planner sheets;
- Workbooks: These books help with everything from language learning to vocabulary building and everything in between. These books have lots of lined spaces for users to fill in answers to questions or to record their narratives in response to exercises.;
Here's a link to LyfePyle.com that better explains all that I tried to cover above. Share it to your wife if she needs to review some ideas for low-content products:
One thing I would be sure to explain is that low-content publishing is extremely competitive. There are people making nice passive incomes but if you are serious about entering this space, you can't come half-ready.
Short of something spectacular, you'll need something unique and useful at the very least. It's not enough to throw up a few same-old-same-old calendars, journals or workbooks that look like every other calendar, journal or workbook on KDP.
And while you can't always tell a book by its cover, you can certainly SELL a (low-content) book by its cover. Appearance matters. When you get down to it, what's between the covers of these products is essentially similar, so it is critical to make your cover image easy on the eye but attention-getting at the same time. That is a huge advantage for someone like your wife with her design background if she can create something visually appealing with colors that P-O-P and stands out from the crowd as far as quality is concerned.
And here is something I believe I shared before but may be worth another look, since you said you were thinking more along the lines of a "course."
The benefit is that it's FREE (just sign up for it).
It's actually a MINI course so it won't bog down your wife's precious time with lengthy videos that drone on and on. She can take the course in a manageable timeframe and quickly decide if low content publishing is something she wants to get vested in.
RAGS-TO-NICHES
LOW CONTENT PUBLISHING FOR BEGINNERS
[FREE MINI-COURSE]
Here's the link to sign up:
RAGS-TO-NICHES LOW CONTENT
PUBLISHING FOR BEGINNERS
Lastly, here's another link from Rags to Niches. It addresses the profit potential with a case study that may help your wife to decide if this is something she'd like:
LOW CONTENT PUBLISHING: HOW I MADE
$955.97 IN 31 DAYS
There are entire YouTube channels on low-content publishing if she needs to see videos.
Additionally, I share a lot of low-content stuff on the two threads I link you to below and you've probably seen them. They're not for the faint-of-heart so be sure your wife is at least luke-warm to the idea of low content or she could get discouraged with too much information.
If anyone wants to know how to succeed with KDP then watch this video. It's over 2 hours, but I cannot emphasise enough the importance of the content. It might be a bit advanced for those just starting out, but it's always beneficial to have information like this in the back of your mind... especially if anyone thinks KDP LC is 'easy'.
Agree with StinkeyMonkey. If KDP is your path, Chris Raydog tells it like it is, no bullshit. There's a lot of pretty good courses in this vein. I'm not in this space but I like Stackin Profit. Paddy is always updating.
And if Etsy is what you want, like sikander says, Amy and Stuart put out great stuff.
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