Ben, I am so amazed that you actually answer questions in the comment boxes. This channel gives more value in content than any I've ever seen! Amazing TH-cam channel!😊
This video was simply brilliant! I have been watching this and you’ve made it so easy. I just created my word search in a spreadsheet then I will Move on to creating the puzzle. Thank you so much
By far the BEST YOU TUBE CHANNEL I'VE FOUND for really teaching a person how to make a legitimate income online! Thank you so much Ben! Most of the channels are just copied from one another and have no real value other than trying to get followers rather than actually trying to teach a real skill! I am definitely going to do this! Do you actually have books printed up into hard copy books that get shipped out, or are they all print on demand type pages?
Awww thanks so much. I really do appreciate your kind words. I sometimes order author copies now and again to give away to gain reviews but 99% are all print on demand.
@@solomonscourt8118 hey Solomon mate, I have no idea what your targets are, what sort ads your running, what book niche you’re in, how good your book cover is, how good your description and a+ content is, how much royalty per sale you make, how much you can afford to lose etc. I’m not in the game of blindly giving out random amounts per day without fully understanding what you have to offer and how saturated the niche is. Hmmm I tell you want have about you spend 1 dollar a day, if they work spend 5 a day and so on and so on
New subscriber and thank you ☺️ I am working on a guide/workbook style that will have some activity type puzzles in it. What makes a medium content? Because I see some books that just have affirmations and they are not considered low content? Thank you for your content I am slowly watching all your videos 😅
Watch them all 127283 times. Ahaha. The line between no, low and medium is sometimes a bit hazy. Ultimately it doesn’t matter really. If you submit a book you believe to be medium content and Amazon doesn’t agree they send you an email to change it to low content on dashboard. No hassle. Thanks for the support and comment.
Hi just done my first few pages of word searches and thought it looked different from other word search books. Then I realised the letters all have squares around them. Is there any sites where you can make your word search without the squares around the letters? Excellent videos by the way. Learning a lot.
Hi Ben! Thanks for your videos. I'm trying to create a 2000-word word search using chatgpt but I'm in trouble with duplicate words within and between the themed lists
@@benmcqueeney I want to express my gratitude for your tutorial. After watching it, I've started following you on Canva. Your instructions were straightforward and easy to comprehend :)
Your suggestion is that eventually there’s a total amount of books where by it’s impossible to make sales. Isn’t the case. Sales are fluid. Bestsellers change, do the work, do the promo you get sales regardless of how many books are published.
I think that you've omitted 2 important things: 1. You didn't mention what extensions you are using to get that data on sold products for to make an estimation. 2. You used colored graphics inside Canva, while the calculation you made is for a Black & White interior. It's not the same!
Tck publishing sales calculator and kdp royalty calculator. I know coloured is not the same. But when you select black and white when you publish all coloured elements become black and white
@@benmcqueeney are you sure that all colored elements become grayscale/black and white if you select black and white when uploading? Have you bought your own book to see? I’ve never tried that. I just select greyscale or black and white images because I think the colors would automatically be there even if you choose the other and as a result your book may get rejected. I could be wrong. Can you clarify if you’ve done what you’ve suggested and held a copy in your hand to be sure? Thanks for great video content.
@@benmcqueeney ok, but one additional question. Since the manuscript will be in color even though you upload & select black & white option, how does amazon show the look inside images....color as manuscript or black & white as you chose in upload? Reason I ask is if buyer is still able to see color in the look inside feature but gets black & white/grayscale, they may return or give a poor review. Have you checked the look inside for this? Thanks Ben for your help.
Thank you very much. Your video is really helpful. But! the size of the downloaded image with the puzzle is so small that the quality of the image is very low when printing the puzzle book. how did you manage to solve this problem?
You used some animal images from Canva on your word search page. I thought that this was a Canva terms of use violation. Also you don't own the copyright for these images and copyright ownership is required by KDP if they are to publish. I would absolutely love to be wrong about this. Please let me know if I'm missing something. Also, when you looked at how much could be made in royalties you searched for a black and white book (as opposed to color which is much more expensive). People should know that there is a different cost to print color. In your example you used animal images that were in color. Finally, put your word search page in the center of the document. Do you adjust the document for left and right gutters? Thanks so much.
@@benmcqueeney Thanks for your reply. I was hoping I was missing something about the whole Canva terms of use thing. Your videos are really helpful. Thanks again.
After I create/produce my puzzle, how do I make the puzzle to a paperback so I can sell it on Amazon? It seems like a lot of people shows the content. There are tons of videos on that. I get the pdf. But who produce these paperback using my puzzle?
When you do word searches do you skip a page like one would do for coloring books so the word search puzzles don’t affect the game on the following page or doesn’t it matter for word search activities books to have back to back on every page with a game?
* All wordsearches created using the free software on this page are added to the archive and made available to other users for the benefit of the puzzling community. ===================== i wonder too
You do realize chat gpt can make a word search for you.... you just give it the list of words you want and it generates it and gives you the list of words used
@@lolakolawole3358 Hi Lola, I get asked questions like this all the time… In my opinion, it’s perceived value over cost. Where value is “what the book is giving” vs cost. So a puzzle book with 30 puzzles will need to look amazing but probably priced almost the lowest you can whilst making a small royalty. Ask yourself this… “would I buy this book? And if so how much would I be happy to buy it for?” My recommendation is around 100 activities per puzzle book as that’s about the normal compared to most competitors in most niches. Hope that helps. Any more question keep em coming Aha
I brought 800 words from GBT chat to put them in the word search book. They are all general words, but I have some concerns that they contain words that have copyrights, especially since English is not my first language. What do you advise me?
Hi! Thx for sharing your new video. It is very interesting. Just one quick question. Is it allowed to use the Word Search Generator you use in this video for commercial purposes? Most of these applications don't allow it.
Hia mate, I can’t find anything on their site to suggest otherwise. All Wordsearches generated go into public domain it says. If you indeed want to be 100% sure you can sign up to book bolt for a few dollars a month and generate as many as you want.
Thx for asking. 🙂 I haven't published anything yet. Maybe next summer. My TH-cam channel teaches Loom Knitting and it gets very quiet during the Summer months. So it would prabably be a good time for me to try it. We'll see. 🙂
I'm doing this mate, I plan on publishing at least 20. Ill let you know if I get any good results from it. Worth a shot as a book takes me about an hour to do so even if I make a couple of quid its a bit of fun isn't it.
Ben when I download the puzzle image it seems a bit blurry and the quality seems not good enough to print. Is there a way to download it as pdf instead of png?
Do you have commercial rights to use the word searches you created for profit?. Be careful, if you are not a limited company they could come after you. 😮
The word search creator generates the solution too. What I tend to do is have six solutions on one page but smaller at the back of the book to save space. Hope that helps. Have you made one before?
@@benmcqueeney Are you putting a blank page behind each search page? So 100 search pages plus blanks would be 200 pages plus any introduction pages at the front and the solutions pages at the back (which could be double-sided). Nice explanation video too.
Ben, I am so amazed that you actually answer questions in the comment boxes. This channel gives more value in content than any I've ever seen! Amazing TH-cam channel!😊
Well what a lovely thing to say. #favouritesubscriber
Thank you very much for video and all links!
No problem got a Sudoku one coming up tomorrow! Woop
Keep up the good work! I'm the same with struggling with overly negative comments! That's why I try to share positivity wherever I can.
The negative people will always be. Bless em. If they stopped being so negative and started doing something perhaps their outlook would change. Aha
this is exactly i was looking for. Thank you Ben
Nay Botha mate
Very good quality video ! Simple and very educational
Thank you! Much Appreciated
This video was simply brilliant! I have been watching this and you’ve made it so easy. I just created my word search in a spreadsheet then I will
Move on to creating the puzzle. Thank you so much
No problem! Check out my course for only 10 at the mo bit.ly/Course4ten
Hi Ben, new subscriber here. Thank you for inspiring us. You are awesome. Hope you can upload more videos of passive income. God bless you. 🎉
Awww thanks! Join the group loads of stuff in there! X
Thank you for a great video Ben. I'm going to try to make my own. You've got a new subscriber and likes.
Thanks so much mate 👍
Thank you, very helpful. Keep up the great work in helping others
No problem at all! Thanks
By far the BEST YOU TUBE CHANNEL I'VE FOUND for really teaching a person how to make a legitimate income online! Thank you so much Ben! Most of the channels are just copied from one another and have no real value other than trying to get followers rather than actually trying to teach a real skill! I am definitely going to do this! Do you actually have books printed up into hard copy books that get shipped out, or are they all print on demand type pages?
Awww thanks so much. I really do appreciate your kind words. I sometimes order author copies now and again to give away to gain reviews but 99% are all print on demand.
Thanks for the video Ben! It's really helpful!
No probs
Can you make a video on steps to publish these books from beginning to end ? Thanks!
Will have a look
Thank you so much for this!!!!
No probs if you’re interested in making more puzzles check out my course in description! Cheers ben
I love the creativity and unique perspective you bring to this subject. Keep up the great work!
What a lovely thing to say! Appreciate it massively
@@benmcqueeney
How much would you spend per day on ads on Amazon when you first start out for the first 30
@@solomonscourt8118 too hard to reply to without a larger picture
@@benmcqueeney
It's not that hard. $5 a day, ten dollars a day, what do you suggest
@@solomonscourt8118 hey Solomon mate, I have no idea what your targets are, what sort ads your running, what book niche you’re in, how good your book cover is, how good your description and a+ content is, how much royalty per sale you make, how much you can afford to lose etc. I’m not in the game of blindly giving out random amounts per day without fully understanding what you have to offer and how saturated the niche is. Hmmm I tell you want have about you spend 1 dollar a day, if they work spend 5 a day and so on and so on
NEW SUB HERE! Thanks so much for this!
No problem mate!
Its Very simple and easy bro!
Cheers
did you earne some ?
Great video, subscribed.
Thanks Dianoza! Legend!
@@benmcqueeney :)
Wow! Great! Thank you so much for sharing this. Do you have a video on the publishing of the books as KDP?
I need to do a new one as cats recently changed but I have make a book in 30 mins which shows you how
thank you, sir
No probs mate
thanks for the wonderful video. and where to insert the second image with the solution?
Usually at back with maybe 5 others on one page
New subscriber and thank you ☺️ I am working on a guide/workbook style that will have some activity type puzzles in it. What makes a medium content? Because I see some books that just have affirmations and they are not considered low content? Thank you for your content I am slowly watching all your videos 😅
Watch them all 127283 times. Ahaha. The line between no, low and medium is sometimes a bit hazy. Ultimately it doesn’t matter really. If you submit a book you believe to be medium content and Amazon doesn’t agree they send you an email to change it to low content on dashboard. No hassle. Thanks for the support and comment.
Hi just done my first few pages of word searches and thought it looked different from other word search books. Then I realised the letters all have squares around them. Is there any sites where you can make your word search without the squares around the letters?
Excellent videos by the way. Learning a lot.
If you go on book bolt they have a puzzle designer! Thanks mate
Thanks Ben
@@yerman61 nay botha mate
There's a grid color option on the word search creator. Just change it to white...
Please make a video how create math workbooks for 8-10
Will do! I have loads!
Hi Ben! Thanks for your videos. I'm trying to create a 2000-word word search using chatgpt but I'm in trouble with duplicate words within and between the themed lists
If you stick them into excel and “remove duplicates” that will sort you out mate
thanks mate @@benmcqueeney
Can you give ideas on how to be seen on Amazon? Ty
I have a course there which shows you how to do it and it’s on offer this week! Aha
Great video, had a play this afternoon...why do I find some blank squares on the grid?
That’s a weird one. Join the group, take some screen shots and I can have a look for you Jim
Thank you so much ❤️
Nooooo problem! 👍 please watch all my other videos 5000 times ahahaha
is it good to make these books in colour? why wo should make black and white?
Up to you mate!
Love this video thank u so much. Word search tool in video is this the one that is availavle in your course?
I don’t have a course… yet
greate video, could you please make one showing how you'll design the cover? cheers
How’s that? How to Make a Book Cover for Amazon KDP for FREE
th-cam.com/video/Il55xPHLwvw/w-d-xo.html
@@benmcqueeney I want to express my gratitude for your tutorial. After watching it, I've started following you on Canva. Your instructions were straightforward and easy to comprehend :)
@@ambienceentertainmentprodu7905 thanks! Now please go watch all my other videos ahaha
How long till the word search niche gets saturated if it isn't already?
Your suggestion is that eventually there’s a total amount of books where by it’s impossible to make sales. Isn’t the case. Sales are fluid. Bestsellers change, do the work, do the promo you get sales regardless of how many books are published.
very helpful and thankyou, may i ask are the images on blue willow free, thanx again
From their website “In less than a minute you’ll receive four images to download or refine further. Use these any way you wish.”
Great content.I tried before. But one query though should i mention chatgpt or ai generated when uploading these type of books in kdp?
If you have used chat gpt mention it
What do you do with the solutions? do you include them in the back of the book?
Yeah, I usually put 4 on per page
Great Video . Thanks you so mush for valuable this video . but i have a question .
After how many pages the solution page has to be added?
As many as you need I put 4 solutions on one page at back
Thank you sir ❤💗❤
I think that you've omitted 2 important things:
1. You didn't mention what extensions you are using to get that data on sold products for to make an estimation.
2. You used colored graphics inside Canva, while the calculation you made is for a Black & White interior. It's not the same!
Tck publishing sales calculator and kdp royalty calculator. I know coloured is not the same. But when you select black and white when you publish all coloured elements become black and white
@@benmcqueeney are you sure that all colored elements become grayscale/black and white if you select black and white when uploading? Have you bought your own book to see? I’ve never tried that. I just select greyscale or black and white images because I think the colors would automatically be there even if you choose the other and as a result your book may get rejected. I could be wrong. Can you clarify if you’ve done what you’ve suggested and held a copy in your hand to be sure? Thanks for great video content.
@@CrowningSuccess yes sure! If in doubt check your proof on the print previewer on kdp dashboard
@@benmcqueeney ok, but one additional question. Since the manuscript will be in color even though you upload & select black & white option, how does amazon show the look inside images....color as manuscript or black & white as you chose in upload? Reason I ask is if buyer is still able to see color in the look inside feature but gets black & white/grayscale, they may return or give a poor review. Have you checked the look inside for this? Thanks Ben for your help.
@@CrowningSuccess the print preview is how it prints and how it is shown in the look inside feature.
Thank you very much. Your video is really helpful. But! the size of the downloaded image with the puzzle is so small that the quality of the image is very low when printing the puzzle book. how did you manage to solve this problem?
Hi you can upscale the images. If you click on my last AI coloring book video the link is in the description! Cheers
@@benmcqueeneywhich video help please i can't find😔
Creating books is easy getting traffic and buyers is the real difficulty.
100%
You used some animal images from Canva on your word search page. I thought that this was a Canva terms of use violation. Also you don't own the copyright for these images and copyright ownership is required by KDP if they are to publish. I would absolutely love to be wrong about this. Please let me know if I'm missing something.
Also, when you looked at how much could be made in royalties you searched for a black and white book (as opposed to color which is much more expensive). People should know that there is a different cost to print color. In your example you used animal images that were in color.
Finally, put your word search page in the center of the document. Do you adjust the document for left and right gutters?
Thanks so much.
Yeah this video was before canva clarified that you can’t use their assets.
Yeah those assets would print in black and shades of grey.
And no I don’t adjust I just put them all in centre aha! Thanks
@@benmcqueeney Thanks for your reply. I was hoping I was missing something about the whole Canva terms of use thing. Your videos are really helpful. Thanks again.
@@JanMitchell-f2p No Probs Jan My dear.
After I create/produce my puzzle, how do I make the puzzle to a paperback so I can sell it on Amazon? It seems like a lot of people shows the content. There are tons of videos on that. I get the pdf. But who produce these paperback using my puzzle?
You need to create the interior via a program to put it all together
for some reason my word-search only uses 4 out of 10 words I entered
Weird. Join the group and send some screen shots and will let you know where it’s going funny
You forgot to change the Canva elements into black. If printed in colour, the costs of Amazon printing will be more than the buyers will pay.
If you select black on kdp dashboard the elements print in black and grey anyways
For 107 pages you need to find 107 topics, right?
@@eduland-simplesimon1786 well it all depends on what your book is going to include in terms on an intro page, and solutions at back
When you do word searches do you skip a page like one would do for coloring books so the word search puzzles don’t affect the game on the following page or doesn’t it matter for word search activities books to have back to back on every page with a game?
@@CrowningSuccess no I don’t. Especially not now with increased print costs
It keeps telling me the generator website is not secure.....is that a problem, can't anyone take and use my puzzle?
Oh really I haven’t been on it for a while I’ll have a look when I get a sec. Cheers
* All wordsearches created using the free software on this page are added to the archive and made available to other users for the benefit of the puzzling community. ===================== i wonder too
is there an option in book bolt to choose word all Directions so that the puzzle is much harder
I believe so. But I don’t use book bolt for making word searches
Is there a link for the spreadsheet you use? Thanks!
I’ll have a look to see if I didn’t delete it aha
How much pages to start publishing this
Usually around 100
@@benmcqueeney my account has been closed cause of misleading I emailed them so they can't do nothing can I open another account what can I do
You do realize chat gpt can make a word search for you.... you just give it the list of words you want and it generates it and gives you the list of words used
If I did, I’d be using that. I’ll have a play today and might make another video on it if it’s literally hilarious easy. Thanks!
For coloring books you have to leave a blank page between drawing. Do you have to do the same for this type of content? Leave blank pages?
Nah I wouldn’t
Hello,
Please can't seem to see the link for the word search marker below the video, or maybe am mistaken?
Oh yes my mad, will add it soon
Hia Lola, forgot about this. Sorry. here it is! www.word-search-world.griddler.co.uk/Word-Search-Generator.aspx
Thanks 👍
@@benmcqueeney hi Ben
Do you think 30 to 36 pages of puzzles would be good to upload to kdp?
@@lolakolawole3358 Hi Lola, I get asked questions like this all the time… In my opinion, it’s perceived value over cost. Where value is “what the book is giving” vs cost. So a puzzle book with 30 puzzles will need to look amazing but probably priced almost the lowest you can whilst making a small royalty. Ask yourself this… “would I buy this book? And if so how much would I be happy to buy it for?” My recommendation is around 100 activities per puzzle book as that’s about the normal compared to most competitors in most niches. Hope that helps. Any more question keep em coming Aha
I brought 800 words from GBT chat to put them in the word search book. They are all general words, but I have some concerns that they contain words that have copyrights, especially since English is not my first language. What do you advise me?
Check each word
@@benmcqueeneywords have copyrights?! 🧐
@@suzannenichols6900 Maybe it could be brands or characters, would that be a problem🤔 like Mickey Mouse or Harry Potter
Does it have to be a paper book or can it be a digital file?
I guess it could be a digital file!
that website gives out wrong answers as well as wrong questions
Which website?
Hi! Thx for sharing your new video. It is very interesting. Just one quick question. Is it allowed to use the Word Search Generator you use in this video for commercial purposes? Most of these applications don't allow it.
Hia mate, I can’t find anything on their site to suggest otherwise. All Wordsearches generated go into public domain it says. If you indeed want to be 100% sure you can sign up to book bolt for a few dollars a month and generate as many as you want.
Thx! 🙂
No problem!
By the way, how’s your publishing been going?
Thx for asking. 🙂 I haven't published anything yet. Maybe next summer. My TH-cam channel teaches Loom Knitting and it gets very quiet during the Summer months. So it would prabably be a good time for me to try it. We'll see. 🙂
I'm doing this mate, I plan on publishing at least 20. Ill let you know if I get any good results from it. Worth a shot as a book takes me about an hour to do so even if I make a couple of quid its a bit of fun isn't it.
Absolutely! Keep me on loop and let me know how you get on!
Ben when I download the puzzle image it seems a bit blurry and the quality seems not good enough to print. Is there a way to download it as pdf instead of png?
You can upscale the image by using a free upscaler or use the puzzle generator on book bolt but costs about 20 dollars per month
Do you have commercial rights to use the word searches you created for profit?. Be careful, if you are not a limited company they could come after you. 😮
Thanks! 🙏
The solutions? No?
The word search creator generates the solution too. What I tend to do is have six solutions on one page but smaller at the back of the book to save space. Hope that helps. Have you made one before?
@@benmcqueeney Are you putting a blank page behind each search page? So 100 search pages plus blanks would be 200 pages plus any introduction pages at the front and the solutions pages at the back (which could be double-sided). Nice explanation video too.
@@alistairnorburn8082 some do for kids books etc I don’t for my adult word searches
I made a billion with that, and I am only 12
😆
Now that is good going mate ahaha
Ummm, why would someone actually pay for one if they can create their own???😜😜
Ahahaha. Legend
Because most people won't or can't