Thank you for continuing to do income reports. Other kdp TH-camrs stopped doing them, but I find them inspiring and informative. Please keep them coming!
Hi, I heard from a other KDP publisher like you that the new book needs to have a little bit of age before spending ads, like two weeks for example, so that it can get traction. That person mentions that new books with ads don't work. In my personal opinion, I think Amazon does that to avoid unfair competition, not from people like you, but from big publishers. Having said that, thanks a lot for sharing your experience. You make this journey feel possible. Good luck for November.
Nope they lied it comes down to how saturated the niche u are in is. I'm publishing in a niche with very very low competition and stable demand I haven't used ads for October and half of September. Now have over about 50 orders and roughly 120 in profit and based on how I started November I'm expecting to reach my goal of 500US in profit for Q4.
I disagree with that but there are lots of different strategies. I tend to start my ads the day after it goes live. The first 2 weeks tends to have a bit of a boost from Amazon and from my experience the first month is the most important for ranking for keywords so I prefer to get going asap... I wonder if the person who suggested this is just trying to protect their own books 😂
@@selfpublishingempire thanks for sharing your experience,once again. I have always asked myself to what extent people say things to protect their books... Have a good day and good luck for November!
Is there any way to pay you for an hour of your time to look over my books? I think I have some pretty good products and I know everyone thinks that, but I have a graphic arts, degree, communications degree, and writing degree, so I think they're coming out pretty good. I'm selling on average 20 books a month but I'm not spending nearly the amount you're spending on advertising. I think my biggest problem is keywords and advertising. Can you help?@@selfpublishingempire
Great content and transparency on your videos.Any insight about the added vat on books in UK?? I don't see many people talking about it, found just a video related to it.Found out that a book that we were selling with 7.99 appeared overnight listed with 9.59, with the VAT added extra to the listing price.Other books are unaffected yet.Of course that means if we still wanna sell it we'd have to list it with a lower price and ...quite a lot reduced royalties. I see this VAT applies quite randomly so far.Any thoughts?? Many thanks
Yeah it's really annoying :/. I just went through and checked my books that sell in the UK and adjusted the ones affected. If they were selling at say 6.99 and that changed to like 8.24 or whatever I'd round it down to 7.99. less royalties and higher price point is frustrating, but not much we can do
Awesome, great Ad results also. Good luck reaching your goals this month. I don't tend to see that much of a rise in sales until coming up to mid November I think - it's not happened yet anyway 😆. Hopefully soon! 🤞
Thanks for checking the channel out :). I've had a couple of slightly better days the last two days so hopefully it's slowly starting 🤞. Good luck with q4 your end too!
Good job, mate! Last month was quite a good month for me as well, although I am quite far from your results (for the moment 😉). My top one book sells 100% organically and that's good news. The problem is that, here, in France, we are actually facing a major problem about double VAT rate, leading Amazon (even though it was their mistake) to unpublish lots of our books, to then republish them with around 15% rise. All this without any notification. Hence a drop in the sales due to less books visible... I hope all this will be solved very shortly. See you next month☺
That's frustrating and I hope it's sorted now. That's the risk with going all in on Amazon, they could just change things with the click of a button! Good luck though for Novemeber and December and it sounds like you're on a good path!
Yeah I went into that in a previous video. One newer book was blocked a little while ago and they asked me to review my bookshelf so I decided to take a better safe than sorry approach and remove anything that could have been seen to potentially against Amazon terms
Hey there! As always great video. Any plans on talking about A+ content or publishing processes again? I ask because I'd like to know, if I publish on KDP in the US, does it automatically publish worldwide? Canada, UK specifically, and then for A+ content, is there a way to easily transfer my US market A+ content to other countries without having to redo it each time?? Similar for ad campaigns in other markets too?
I've got an a+video out on my channel that you can check out and maybe have a look through some of my getting started videos and how to publish a book on Amazon :). But as 2025 comes around I'll be doing loads of fresh guides in the new year
A plus though. Create in one marketplace and then when you load up another marketplace click show drafts, and it'll.be available there to edit and publish!
Congratulations on the results, very good. Just one thing, I hope I'm not being a bother, but even with the books blurred, it's possible to see what the pen name is. It starts with the letter "C," right? I know because I have books that compete with yours, so if you want to keep things more private, perhaps blur the books a bit more next time. Best wishes and good luck in November and December!
@@selfpublishingempire Ah, I see. Yes, unfortunately, some people might simply copy the books instead of drawing inspiration, so it’s better to be discreet, unfortunately. Well, congratulations again and good luck!
My best selling book sales slowed down drastically, I'm considering to start using ads. How much should I budget as an upcoming author? I'm expecting $150 from Amazon this month. Let ne finish the vid
One of the best channel to learn amazon kdp . Like the transparency :)
I appreciate that 🥳
Thank you for continuing to do income reports. Other kdp TH-camrs stopped doing them, but I find them inspiring and informative. Please keep them coming!
I will! November coming soon and I'll do a 2024 wrap up too in Jan.
Great results, ad spend is awesome 👏🏾November will be exciting! All the best, I hope you beat last Q4
You too Danny, looking forward to your results!
Hi Danny I hope you have a great Q4! Looking forward to more videos too! 🤓✌️
@@selfpublishingempire thanks, will have new videos up soon
@@smoochdawg4547 thank you, I hope you have a great Q4 too. I'll have new videos up soon.
Hi, I heard from a other KDP publisher like you that the new book needs to have a little bit of age before spending ads, like two weeks for example, so that it can get traction. That person mentions that new books with ads don't work. In my personal opinion, I think Amazon does that to avoid unfair competition, not from people like you, but from big publishers. Having said that, thanks a lot for sharing your experience. You make this journey feel possible. Good luck for November.
Nope they lied it comes down to how saturated the niche u are in is. I'm publishing in a niche with very very low competition and stable demand I haven't used ads for October and half of September. Now have over about 50 orders and roughly 120 in profit and based on how I started November I'm expecting to reach my goal of 500US in profit for Q4.
I disagree with that but there are lots of different strategies. I tend to start my ads the day after it goes live. The first 2 weeks tends to have a bit of a boost from Amazon and from my experience the first month is the most important for ranking for keywords so I prefer to get going asap... I wonder if the person who suggested this is just trying to protect their own books 😂
@@selfpublishingempire thanks for sharing your experience,once again. I have always asked myself to what extent people say things to protect their books... Have a good day and good luck for November!
Is there any way to pay you for an hour of your time to look over my books? I think I have some pretty good products and I know everyone thinks that, but I have a graphic arts, degree, communications degree, and writing degree, so I think they're coming out pretty good. I'm selling on average 20 books a month but I'm not spending nearly the amount you're spending on advertising. I think my biggest problem is keywords and advertising. Can you help?@@selfpublishingempire
Great content and transparency on your videos.Any insight about the added vat on books in UK?? I don't see many people talking about it, found just a video related to it.Found out that a book that we were selling with 7.99 appeared overnight listed with 9.59, with the VAT added extra to the listing price.Other books are unaffected yet.Of course that means if we still wanna sell it we'd have to list it with a lower price and ...quite a lot reduced royalties. I see this VAT applies quite randomly so far.Any thoughts?? Many thanks
Yeah it's really annoying :/. I just went through and checked my books that sell in the UK and adjusted the ones affected. If they were selling at say 6.99 and that changed to like 8.24 or whatever I'd round it down to 7.99. less royalties and higher price point is frustrating, but not much we can do
Great results mate! Good luck for Nov and Dec!
Thanks, and you 😊
Awesome, great Ad results also. Good luck reaching your goals this month. I don't tend to see that much of a rise in sales until coming up to mid November I think - it's not happened yet anyway 😆. Hopefully soon! 🤞
Thanks for checking the channel out :). I've had a couple of slightly better days the last two days so hopefully it's slowly starting 🤞. Good luck with q4 your end too!
@@selfpublishingempire Lol, after you said that I just refreshed amazon and it's suddenly a v good day today! So, maybe it's starting! 💫💫.
Let's go!!! 🥳🤞
Excellent results! Hopefully, you will hit $5000 pretty soon, and then $10000 is the next target.
Wouldnt that be nice!
Good job, mate! Last month was quite a good month for me as well, although I am quite far from your results (for the moment 😉). My top one book sells 100% organically and that's good news. The problem is that, here, in France, we are actually facing a major problem about double VAT rate, leading Amazon (even though it was their mistake) to unpublish lots of our books, to then republish them with around 15% rise. All this without any notification. Hence a drop in the sales due to less books visible... I hope all this will be solved very shortly. See you next month☺
That's frustrating and I hope it's sorted now. That's the risk with going all in on Amazon, they could just change things with the click of a button! Good luck though for Novemeber and December and it sounds like you're on a good path!
Amazing video as usual hope u reach your Q4 goals for November and December
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your October results. Jan
Another great monthly video. Was there a reason why some books got removed?
Yeah I went into that in a previous video. One newer book was blocked a little while ago and they asked me to review my bookshelf so I decided to take a better safe than sorry approach and remove anything that could have been seen to potentially against Amazon terms
Hey there! As always great video. Any plans on talking about A+ content or publishing processes again? I ask because I'd like to know, if I publish on KDP in the US, does it automatically publish worldwide? Canada, UK specifically, and then for A+ content, is there a way to easily transfer my US market A+ content to other countries without having to redo it each time?? Similar for ad campaigns in other markets too?
I've got an a+video out on my channel that you can check out and maybe have a look through some of my getting started videos and how to publish a book on Amazon :). But as 2025 comes around I'll be doing loads of fresh guides in the new year
A plus though. Create in one marketplace and then when you load up another marketplace click show drafts, and it'll.be available there to edit and publish!
Congratulations on the results, very good.
Just one thing, I hope I'm not being a bother, but even with the books blurred, it's possible to see what the pen name is. It starts with the letter "C," right? I know because I have books that compete with yours, so if you want to keep things more private, perhaps blur the books a bit more next time.
Best wishes and good luck in November and December!
Thanks Rodrigo, yeah I wanted people to be able to see a little bit but hopefully not enough to identify them :/. I'll blur completely next time!
@@selfpublishingempire Ah, I see. Yes, unfortunately, some people might simply copy the books instead of drawing inspiration, so it’s better to be discreet, unfortunately. Well, congratulations again and good luck!
I have a question about royalties, when you get a sale, how much time does it take to get the money ?
Royalty payments are paid at the end of each month - but with a 2 month delay. e.g. you will get July payments come through at end of September
👆 there you go :)
Nice thanks :)
My best selling book sales slowed down drastically, I'm considering to start using ads. How much should I budget as an upcoming author? I'm expecting $150 from Amazon this month. Let ne finish the vid
Test and learn! Start small and scale if it works :)
@selfpublishingempire thank you, great video!
Hi Dear how you get the initial review for your book
You just need to sell books to get reviews organically.
Can i work with you? to make thumbnails and video editing
Thanks for asking, but no thank you 🙏