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In previous posts we detailed the precise process that you need to take to successfully publish to Kindle. There was an awful lot to take on board there though, so just to refresh your memory and to walk you through the process once you’re ready, this cheat sheet provides all that information in a condensed and actionable format! The Niche Choosing your niche is one of the single most important steps to ensuring your eventual success. What’s important here is that you pick something that is popular and has a wide audience but not something that is highly over saturated or that means you’re going up against competition with massive budgets and massive resources. So ‘fitness’ may be too broad and ‘curling’ may be too niche. But choosing a part of fitness (fitness for older men) or something like a specific industry or career can be a great option. Routes to Market The best niche will be one that gives you a ‘route to market’. In other words, you want to find a topic that will appeal to a...

If you’re looking for a great way to make money online, then it’s crucial that you at least consider selling Kindle titles. This is an excellent way to make a particularly passive income and it has a ton of advantages even above and beyond other similar business models. And to help you get started, here are all the steps that you need to take in order to get set-up and started. It’s usual in these kinds of resource sheets to share all the external references, guides and texts that you need to quickly and easily carry out the goals in the main ebook. We’re going to do that here to an extent but the main bulk of this text is instead going to be your resource by providing you with the steps and requirements you need to format and upload your files. Kindle Format 8 Kindle Format 8 is the name that Amazon gives to the accepted Kindle formatting guidelines. You can find detailed instructions for this over here:  eBook Manuscript Formatting Guide https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A17W8U...

If you’re looking for ways to make money online, then it pays to think a little outside the box. Too often we focus only on building websites, on affiliate marketing or on selling services. But in fact there are countless other options, whether that means building an app for Android, or it means creating an ebook. And creating an ebook to sell on Kindle might just be that perfect business model you’re looking for. Read on and we’ll look at some of the ways in which this is an ideal way to make money online… It’s Easy Selling an ebook on Kindle is a business model that literally anyone can emulate. As long as you can write and you have a copy of Word (even that is somewhat optional) then you can create a book and upload it to the Kindle Store. There’s no fee for becoming a publisher and it can all be done in an evening. The only hard bit is writing the book – but you can easily outsource this or purchase the rights to a digital product if you prefer. It’s Efficient Selling on Kindle is ...

Making money from Kindle is in many ways just like making money from any other digital product. This is a form of internet marketing just like the rest and that means you’re going to need to some marketing. In turn, this means you need to think very carefully when choosing various elements of your book. It is not enough to write a great book and market it well: you need to ensure that the book you’ve created also has a clear audience that you’ll be able to market to.  This latter point is actually potentially the most important factor of all when it comes to profiting from an ebook. It’s not enough to write your book and then decide how you’re going to sell it: instead you need to have a clear plan for how to sell the book and who will buy it at the point when you come up with the concept. And this means picking the right niche… Market Size and Value Proposition There are two key things to consider here. One is the market size: people will generally want to gravitate toward larger ...

Pictures can add a great deal to a Kindle title and really help it to sell. Not only is the cover one of the most important features when it comes to grabbing attention and drawing people in but the images inside the book will also help to illustrate your points and also make the pages pop more. This is only even more true now that the Kindle Fire and other full color tablets are becoming more popular as many users’ preferred reading devices. But the question is: how do you take great quality pictures for your book? It’s not enough just to add images: they need to look fantastic if they’re going to help you sell. Of course you can use free stock images or you can buy images – but this will pale in comparison to the benefits that come from creating custom images that perfectly illustrate what the text is saying and that your readers aren’t going to accidentally find anywhere else! So here’s how you do it… Invest in a Good Camera A good starting point is to invest in a high quality camer...

SEO is ‘Search Engine Optimization’. This is the process of editing a website and building links in such a way that it will be optimized for Google. This means building links (which helps Google to find a site and is viewed as testimony) and it means ensuring the correct use of keywords on the pages.  When done correctly, SEO can drive a lot more traffic to a website by helping more visitors find it through Google.  But SEO isn’t just for websites and it isn’t just for Google. There are many more search engines out there and many of them we don’t necessarily think of as ‘search engines’. Of course you can probably guess where this is going: the Kindle store is also a search engine. In order to find books on Kindle, customers will need to search for the relevant topics and then sift through the top results. This means you can still perform SEO for a Kindle book, in order to increase your exposure through that search tool and thereby to help more customers find you. And in some ...