7 Things I Wish I Knew BEFORE Starting Amazon KDP (Biggest Lessons)

0:00 | so i started amazon kdp when i was

0:02 | completely broke and over the past

0:03 | couple years i was able to generate over

0:05 | $1.7 million in royalties and become a

0:08 | self-made millionaire at age 26 from

0:10 | actually doing this business not from

0:12 | selling courses or making youtube videos

0:14 | i’ve learned a lot of things over the

0:16 | years that i wish i knew when i first

0:18 | got started with kdp so in this video

0:20 | i’ll show you the biggest lessons that

0:21 | i’ve learned along the way to hopefully

0:23 | help you in your own kdp journey so the

0:25 | very first thing you should understand

0:26 | if you’re getting started with amazon

0:28 | kdp right now is that there has never

0:30 | been a better time to start this

0:31 | business than now most people think it

0:34 | is too late to start amazon kdp and all

0:36 | of the success stories came from those

0:37 | who started years ago and to that

0:39 | honestly that is like the furthest thing

0:41 | from the truth because i started amazon

0:43 | kdp in 2016 and i built a multiple six

0:46 | figures a year kdp business which i

0:48 | eventually sold a couple years ago for

0:51 | $820,000 but after that i started a new

0:53 | kdp account this time i wanted to see

0:55 | how passively i can grow this meaning

0:57 | just outsourcing basically everything

0:59 | and doing this part-time compared to my

1:00 | first account it was you know me doing

1:02 | it full-time for this account i spend

1:04 | like 1 hour a week right and despite

1:06 | that so far i made

1:08 | $359,000 and you can see that it’s

1:09 | growing pretty steadily right month over

1:11 | month and if you count audiobooks and

1:13 | other sources you know it’s over

1:15 | $400,000 and just to clarify because you

1:18 | see 172 books here a lot of people will

1:20 | take the total income and then divide it

1:22 | by how many books i have and they’re

1:24 | like “oh you’re not making much per book

1:26 | right?” but that’s not how you look at

1:27 | this business a lot of these books are

1:29 | translations or bundles which i was able

1:31 | to create for free also low and medium

1:33 | content books that i’m testing so that i

1:35 | can learn from it and teach it better in

1:37 | my youtube videos but anyways if i just

1:39 | sort this with the top 10 books you know

1:41 | i still made $211,000 probably

1:44 | $250,000 you know with other sources

1:46 | just from the 10 books so you don’t need

1:48 | a ton of books to make money and i also

1:50 | have students getting way better results

1:52 | way faster so this student started this

1:54 | kdp brand in november 2022 and within

1:57 | two and a half years he made over $1

1:59 | million in royalties and we have a ton

2:01 | of other student success stories like

2:03 | this so as you can see there’s still a

2:05 | ton of opportunities in amazon kdp but

2:08 | let’s be real here right the more you

2:10 | wait the more you procrastinate the more

2:12 | saturated it gets so the best time to

2:14 | start was yesterday but the next best

2:16 | time to start is today and the great

2:18 | thing is with the rise of ai it’s never

2:20 | been easier and cheaper and faster to

2:23 | get started with this business but you

2:25 | do have to know how to use ai to your

2:27 | advantage right you cannot just rely on

2:29 | ai 100% it’s a tool not a replacement

2:32 | meaning you have to learn how to use the

2:34 | tool not have it just do all the work

2:35 | for you so before ai was introduced to

2:37 | kdp you know creating just the book

2:40 | outline literally took days if not weeks

2:42 | right because everything was manual it

2:44 | was crazy guys and so you know also

2:46 | outsourcing talents was expensive and

2:48 | timeconuming like you know we had to

2:50 | hire ghostriters we had to hire cub

2:52 | designers now you know ai is replacing a

2:55 | lot of those we still do use it

2:56 | depending on the book type but a lot of

2:58 | books you can create just with ai now

3:00 | which is pretty insane okay so it was a

3:02 | lot harder to start kdp but with the

3:04 | rise of ai you can use chat gpt to

3:06 | create book outline description even

3:08 | writing some content right midjourney

3:10 | can generate ai illustrations even book

3:12 | covers there are other ai uh image

3:15 | generators that’s really good for book

3:16 | covers as well there are softwares that

3:18 | automatically manages amazon ads which

3:20 | is new as well before you had to do

3:22 | everything manually and there are a ton

3:23 | of other ai tools for various tasks too

3:26 | so the bottom line is a lot of things we

3:27 | used to have to do is now being replaced

3:30 | with ai but with that being said you

3:32 | know this is one of the first things you

3:33 | have to understand when you hear this is

3:35 | that you cannot just rely solely on ai

3:37 | because even though ai is absolutely

3:39 | amazing if you try to write a whole book

3:42 | just from ai without adding your own

3:44 | input or tweaking the content nine times

3:46 | out of 10 that book is going to suck and

3:48 | producing bad book is not how you

3:50 | succeed in this business so once again

3:52 | ai is an amazing tool but it’s not a

3:54 | replacement right it’s not going to

3:55 | replace you it’s just going to help you

3:57 | create better books faster so you still

4:00 | have to tweak the content humanize it

4:01 | improve it so this is an example of a ai

4:04 | written book and on the surface it looks

4:07 | decent right but if you scroll down to

4:09 | the reviews it’s getting a lot of

4:11 | negative reviews and comments regarding

4:13 | how it’s using ai and it’s not working

4:15 | right you can see here ai gone wrong ai

4:18 | pictures don’t match the words

4:19 | everything is ai generated illustrations

4:21 | don’t match the story it just doesn’t

4:23 | make sense so this is what i mean is you

4:25 | can use ai for a lot of things but you

4:26 | cannot just completely create the book

4:28 | with ai but there are examples of ai

4:31 | generated books that are doing really

4:33 | well so on the other hand this book

4:35 | right here inspiring stories for

4:37 | brilliant boys you know the cover is

4:39 | pretty ai i’m confident that they used

4:41 | ai to create this book but once again

4:43 | they probably tweaked the content

4:44 | significantly right and for that reason

4:46 | this book is doing really well it’s

4:47 | generating hundreds of dollars every

4:49 | single day and people are liking the

4:51 | content so if you know how to use ai you

4:53 | can create good books this is an example

4:55 | of a bad ai created book uh in the

4:57 | coloring book space if you look at the

4:59 | images here a lot of things uh screams

5:01 | ai like the hand is blending into the

5:03 | cow right it makes no sense on the other

5:05 | hand this is an example of using ai

5:07 | correctly so it has amazing reviews it’s

5:09 | making hundreds of dollars every single

5:11 | day and these are the illustrations so

5:12 | i’m confident that what they’ve done is

5:14 | they used ai to initially generate the

5:17 | pages and then they use photoshop or

5:19 | some kind of image editing tool to fix

5:21 | up any you know ai errors and this is

5:23 | the final product it looks really nice

5:25 | it looks really clean so another example

5:26 | of how you don’t just you know copy

5:28 | paste and rely on ai 100% you use ai to

5:31 | speed up the process but then you tweak

5:33 | it after to make sure it’s good the next

5:34 | thing you have to keep in mind is you

5:36 | got to validate the topic before

5:38 | creating the book so most people think

5:40 | of an idea and they don’t even check if

5:42 | other people are interested in that idea

5:44 | right they get excited about whatever

5:45 | idea they have they create the book they

5:48 | spend a lot of time and energy creating

5:49 | the book and then they’re like “all

5:51 | right i wrote this book how can i get

5:53 | other people to want this?” and that is

5:54 | the most backward approach ever so i had

5:57 | this one student in my coaching program

5:59 | that was doing exactly this he joined

6:01 | kdp he didn’t validate the topic before

6:03 | creating these books and he ended up

6:05 | making about a hundred bucks in his

6:07 | first six months of doing this but after

6:09 | i showed him how to fix this and the

6:11 | correct way of doing it he went on to

6:12 | make over $5,000 in a single month to

6:15 | hitting $10,000 in a month shortly after

6:17 | to doing over $2,000 per day pretty

6:20 | consistently and now he’s traveling the

6:22 | world so the big question is how do you

6:24 | do this how do you validate the topic

6:26 | before you create the book it’s as

6:28 | simple as asking are similar books on

6:30 | this topic selling well if other books

6:33 | are selling then that means people are

6:35 | interested there’s demand so then that

6:37 | tells you that you should go and create

6:38 | the book right if no other book on the

6:40 | topic is selling then it’s probably

6:42 | because no one’s interested in it so

6:44 | that means you should skip the idea so

6:45 | this is the step-by-step process on

6:47 | validating the topic number one you want

6:49 | to search for your book topic on amazon

6:50 | right if you’re doing ketogenic diet

6:52 | just type in the topic ketogenic diet if

6:54 | you’re doing animal calling books for

6:55 | kids just type in animal calling books

6:57 | for kids so just type in the topic check

6:58 | that on amazon and you want to check the

7:00 | bestsellers rank okay if the bestsellers

7:02 | rank is below 80,000 that book is doing

7:05 | an average of $500 per month so to get

7:07 | the bestsellers rank number you can use

7:10 | tools like bookbeam which is a paid tool

7:12 | you don’t have to get that if you don’t

7:13 | want to you can also use ds amazon

7:15 | quickview which is a completely free

7:17 | google chrome plugin so just search that

7:19 | up on google download the plugin once

7:21 | again it’s free so this is how you do it

7:23 | you just type in the topic so in my case

7:24 | if i want to check the topic of

7:26 | decluttering i’m going to type in

7:27 | decluttering on amazon right and on the

7:29 | search results i’m just going to start

7:31 | checking what’s the the ranking it has

7:33 | this is way below 80,000 and for that

7:35 | reason it’s making way more than 500

7:37 | bucks a month but this is one book on

7:39 | decluttering that is selling this is

7:40 | another book that’s doing really well

7:42 | there’s another book that’s doing really

7:43 | well right all these books are below

7:46 | 80,000 which tells me that decluttering

7:48 | is very very profitable like almost all

7:50 | the books on page one is selling well so

7:53 | there’s obviously demand people

7:54 | obviously want this book and for that

7:56 | reason now i know that when i make a

7:58 | book on decluttering then it’s going to

8:00 | sell so now that the topic is validated

8:02 | the next question i should be tackling

8:04 | is how can i make a book that is better

8:06 | than what’s on the market which is a

8:08 | separate conversation so to recap if

8:10 | there are multiple books under 80,000

8:12 | bsr then that’s a good topic if there

8:14 | are no books selling on it then skip it

8:16 | so now that you understand how to find

8:18 | profitable topics you’re going to start

8:20 | finding a lot of good topics like it’s

8:22 | not that hard finding profitable topics

8:24 | so you’re going to have a bunch of ideas

8:26 | of topics you can go into but that leads

8:28 | me to another mistake that i made early

8:30 | on and that is that i was all over the

8:32 | place when i was publishing books right

8:34 | i would go into one niche and then i’ll

8:36 | publish another book and another niche

8:37 | and another book in a completely

8:39 | different topic and i was once again all

8:41 | over i was basically doing what we call

8:42 | the shotgun approach but instead what

8:44 | you want to do is to go deep not wide

8:47 | going wide is essentially shotgunning

8:49 | everywhere going deep is picking a niche

8:52 | and publishing as many books in it

8:53 | because every single successful

8:55 | publisher i know who’s making a lot of

8:57 | money when i say a lot of money minimum

8:59 | 10k per month and all the way up to 100k

9:01 | per month or more and what they do is

9:03 | they all focus on one to two niches

9:05 | they’re not all over the place so don’t

9:07 | jump between different niches like don’t

9:09 | do one log book and then coloring book

9:11 | and then try out a non-fiction book and

9:13 | then a fiction book that’s being all

9:15 | over the place right you want to pick

9:16 | one niche that you like and you want to

9:18 | publish multiple books to establish

9:20 | authority you want to master one book

9:22 | type before moving on so if you choose

9:25 | to do calling book try to learn as much

9:26 | as you can master the calling book niche

9:29 | until you are so good that you’re bored

9:32 | and plus you have your team you know

9:34 | running the business for you that you

9:35 | have the bandwidth to try out another

9:37 | niche right if that’s the case go ahead

9:39 | and do it you do whatever you want but

9:40 | if you want to make as much money as

9:42 | possible you should really be focusing

9:44 | on one until you master it okay because

9:46 | the more books you publish in a niche

9:48 | the better you understand what works you

9:51 | know what kind of topics sell how you

9:53 | should position the book how you should

9:54 | title the book you know what topics

9:56 | people are responding to what problems

9:58 | do the customers face that you can solve

10:00 | in the book those audience insights

10:03 | comes from being in the niche for a long

10:05 | time and this is exactly what this

10:07 | student did right that took him from

10:09 | being a complete beginner in kdp to

10:11 | joining my coaching program and hitting

10:13 | over $6,000 in a month and shortly after

10:16 | hitting over $58,000 in revenue and that

10:19 | is him on the left so obviously these

10:21 | aren’t typical results like just because

10:22 | you join my coaching program or do this

10:25 | that doesn’t guarantee that you’re going

10:26 | to make six figures a year and travel

10:28 | the world like these students these guys

10:29 | worked very hard they showed up

10:31 | consistently put in the work and for

10:33 | that reason results followed the thing

10:35 | is most people don’t get the results

10:36 | because they don’t work as hard as them

10:38 | but those who do gets pretty great

10:39 | results obviously i cannot guarantee but

10:41 | that’s what we see and by the way i’m

10:43 | not trying to sell my coaching program

10:44 | i’m only bringing up these examples

10:46 | because people always ask for you know

10:48 | actual results and student successes and

10:50 | this and that plus i want to prove a

10:52 | point that if you actually follow these

10:53 | strategies i want to show you what’s

10:55 | possible the next thing you want to

10:56 | understand is that competition is a good

10:58 | thing so a lot of people who are new to

11:00 | business they think competition is bad

11:02 | if somebody else is doing it they should

11:04 | not do it you see this in youtube

11:07 | comments all the time of people saying

11:09 | “oh you know so many people are doing

11:10 | this business already or so many people

11:12 | are in this niche already and for that

11:14 | reason i’m not going to do it.” like

11:15 | don’t you think that’s stupid that’s

11:16 | like the worst reason ever to not do a

11:19 | business if everyone’s doing it it’s

11:22 | because it’s profitable and it’s because

11:23 | it works if it didn’t work if it wasn’t

11:25 | profitable no one would be doing it so

11:27 | your question is not whether other

11:29 | people are doing it or not what you

11:31 | should be asking yourself is how can i

11:33 | stand out from the competition what new

11:36 | angles can i bring how can i be better

11:38 | so if no one’s doing it it’s because it

11:40 | doesn’t work instead of trying to avoid

11:42 | competition just be better you want to

11:44 | study the competitors and the demand and

11:46 | ask yourself how you can stand out there

11:49 | are so many examples of businesses that

11:51 | came into a market that other people are

11:54 | doing and they gained their own market

11:56 | share and made a lot of money as an

11:57 | example netflix didn’t say “oh

12:00 | blockbuster is already renting out

12:01 | movies so i’m not going to do this.”

12:03 | right that’s what most people are saying

12:04 | you know this niche is too saturated

12:06 | other people are doing it instead

12:07 | netflix saw what blockbuster is doing

12:10 | and they’re like i think i can do better

12:12 | in this movie rental niche so they came

12:14 | in and now they transition into

12:16 | streaming services but this is a good

12:18 | example of going into a market where

12:20 | there’s already competitors blockbuster

12:22 | you know the red box thing that you can

12:24 | rent movies from right there are other

12:25 | services out there but netflix just did

12:27 | a better job and it won and after

12:29 | netflix came out now you see hulu amazon

12:32 | plus disney everyone’s coming up with a

12:34 | streaming service all these other guys

12:36 | didn’t say “oh netflix is already doing

12:37 | it we’re not going to do it.” they just

12:39 | came in saying “how can we be

12:40 | different?” right disney has obviously

12:42 | the disney angle you know amazon prime

12:45 | has the amazon angle so everybody has

12:47 | their angle and everyone’s making money

12:49 | so you just have to come up with your

12:51 | own angle so in terms of amazon examples

12:53 | uh this is a good example so this book

12:56 | blew up it was like the number one

12:57 | bestselling book in the entire bookstore

12:59 | i think two years ago made a crap ton of

13:01 | money even right now it still makes

13:03 | hundreds of dollars a day so the way

13:04 | this book did well is because it’s not

13:06 | like you know interesting facts book is

13:09 | a brand new concept a lot of people were

13:11 | doing it but no one had this book cover

13:13 | design where einstein’s brain exploding

13:16 | this was the first one and for that

13:17 | reason it was like a really high impact

13:19 | book cover and it sold really well so

13:21 | this is one example of standing out and

13:22 | that is simply to have nicer packaging

13:25 | in our case book covers having a book

13:27 | cover does that stand out even though

13:29 | the product is the same another example

13:30 | is this book the shadow work journal

13:32 | this book literally made millions of

13:34 | dollars like it’s insane how one book

13:36 | made millions but this book blew up on

13:38 | tik tok so the shadow work journal is

13:41 | not a new concept right a lot of other

13:42 | books are also doing it this book has a

13:44 | pretty nice book cover right now and it

13:46 | has a lot of reviews but it blew up

13:47 | because the publisher or the author uh

13:50 | knew tik tok marketing which was a new

13:52 | thing back in the day right as you can

13:53 | see it’s a smash hit on tik tok a lot of

13:55 | people started talking about this so the

13:57 | point is you can have the same product

13:59 | right but you can be better at marketing

14:01 | and that can be your angle which in this

14:03 | case it was so the first two examples

14:05 | showed that you can have the same

14:07 | product as everyone else but you can

14:08 | stand out by either having different

14:10 | packaging or marketing well this is an

14:13 | example of actually having a different

14:15 | product right a unique product and in

14:17 | this case it is a reverse coloring book

14:19 | so a lot of people are doing coloring

14:20 | books you can go the complete opposite

14:22 | way calling it a reverse coloring book

14:24 | right it’s new so this is a pretty

14:25 | simple one the product is just unique

14:27 | you know so you can obviously go with

14:29 | this angle too so there are many ways to

14:31 | stand out but the point is competition

14:33 | is a good thing just figure out what is

14:35 | your angle what new thing do you bring

14:37 | to the table the next big lesson is that

14:39 | you have to be okay with investing in

14:41 | your business so recently i did a poll

14:44 | uh on my youtube channel asking people

14:46 | how much money do they want to make from

14:47 | their amazon kdp business and this was

14:50 | the answer that i got okay so 50% or

14:52 | more said they want to make six figures

14:54 | a year over 16% of people said they want

14:58 | to make seven figures a year right and

15:01 | 9% of people said they want to make fu

15:04 | money meaning it’s like more than seven

15:06 | figures so if you add all this up more

15:08 | than

15:10 | 75% of people out of all the people that

15:13 | answered the survey said they want to

15:15 | make six figures a year now six figures

15:17 | a year is a top 1% income universally

15:20 | right even in the us it’s top 1% or

15:22 | something i think and what’s crazy is

15:24 | that even though 75% of people said they

15:27 | want to make six figures a year the same

15:28 | people absolutely freak out when i say

15:31 | you have to invest let’s say 70 bucks on

15:33 | this tool that’s going to help you do

15:35 | keyword research or that you should hire

15:36 | ghost writers to speed up the process

15:38 | and have a professional writer write the

15:40 | book for you right or you can invest 30

15:43 | 50 bucks on a book cover so that you

15:44 | have an attractive book cover whatever

15:46 | whenever i mention that you should

15:48 | invest some money into the business they

15:50 | freak out or sometimes it’s not even

15:51 | about the money right when i say you

15:53 | have to you know work on this business

15:55 | every day consistently for you know

15:57 | multiple months to see results they

15:59 | absolutely freak out because they want

16:00 | to see results within the first 30 days

16:03 | doing you know one hour a week or

16:04 | something isn’t that crazy like 75% of

16:07 | the people want a top 1% income and yet

16:11 | very very few people are actually

16:12 | willing to sacrifice and work like the

16:15 | 1% you have to understand that if you

16:17 | want something in life you have to give

16:19 | something of equal value like you cannot

16:22 | get something for nothing if you want to

16:23 | buy something you have to pay money for

16:26 | it right if you want a good relationship

16:28 | you got to work on it if you want to

16:30 | lose weight you have to put in the

16:32 | effort of you know going to the gym or

16:34 | eating less or something basically if

16:36 | you want something you got to give

16:37 | something it’s an equal trait so it just

16:39 | absolutely blows my mind how many people

16:41 | want a six figure or even seven figure

16:43 | salary without wanting to do anything in

16:46 | return anyways the good news with kdp is

16:48 | that you don’t always have to invest

16:50 | money right if you don’t have the money

16:52 | you can invest the time every single

16:54 | step in the kdp business process you can

16:57 | do it yourself but if you don’t have the

17:00 | time let’s say you are a busy individual

17:02 | you know you have a full-time job but

17:03 | you got some money to invest well you

17:05 | can also outsource every single step of

17:07 | the process in kdp so if you don’t have

17:09 | the time you can invest the money you

17:11 | can choose right whether you want to pay

17:13 | with time or pay with money but if

17:15 | you’re not willing to pay with time or

17:17 | money then you should not be building

17:18 | this business you should not be building

17:20 | any business because you’re not willing

17:21 | to sacrifice anything so honestly at

17:23 | that point you don’t deserve to be

17:25 | successful because you’re not willing to

17:27 | make the sacrifice and i think you

17:29 | should probably just stick to a job or

17:30 | something so the next thing i wish i

17:31 | knew when i started is that your book

17:33 | cover is the most important thing so

17:36 | most people create books like these

17:38 | right very very extremely generic like

17:41 | these are really really bad covers super

17:44 | hard to read very unprofessional the

17:46 | horrible color contrast the image

17:48 | doesn’t make sense and it just screams

17:49 | that you whipped this up on canva in

17:51 | like five minutes compared to that these

17:53 | are good book cover examples right very

17:55 | professional the color pops the title

17:57 | text pops the image makes sense so the

17:59 | question is how do you create a book

18:01 | cover like these if you’re not a

18:02 | professional designer well that is

18:04 | exactly why you should outsource and

18:06 | that’s exactly why you should invest a

18:08 | little bit of money into hiring someone

18:10 | that can make these book covers for you

18:11 | like as an example if you’re doing

18:13 | coloring books or activity books this

18:14 | gig can create a book cover for you for

18:16 | 25 bucks if you’re doing more fiction or

18:18 | non-fiction type of book then this one

18:20 | will do it for 10 bucks and the design

18:22 | looks pretty nice and obviously there

18:23 | are many many other options these are

18:25 | just two examples which by the way if

18:26 | you want to check it out the link is

18:27 | below this video but you don’t have to

18:29 | use these gigs specifically right you

18:31 | can use other ones just look it up on

18:33 | fiverr anywhere which fiverr is a great

18:35 | place to hire book cover designers and

18:36 | you can obviously pay more if you want a

18:38 | better quality one but if you’re just

18:40 | getting started these are a great

18:41 | starting point and once you start making

18:43 | money from the book you can keep

18:44 | reinvesting into hiring someone a little

18:46 | bit more expensive but maybe better

18:47 | quality so if you’re like “oh my god 25

18:49 | bucks for a book cover 10 bucks for a

18:51 | book cover that is too much that’s too

18:53 | expensive i’m scared of investing the

18:55 | money.” well let’s do some math here so

18:57 | let’s just say that your book cover

18:59 | costs 30 bucks okay and your book makes

19:02 | $4 in royalties for every single sale so

19:05 | that means if your book makes eight

19:08 | additional sales in its lifetime i’m not

19:11 | saying in a week not even in a month not

19:14 | even in a year i’m talking about

19:15 | lifetime okay if you make eight

19:18 | additional sales at $4 royalties each

19:21 | you make your money back you make more

19:23 | than that 30 bucks that you invested so

19:26 | my question is do you think you can make

19:29 | eight extra sales with a much better

19:31 | book cover i think so i think you’re

19:33 | gonna make way more than eight sales and

19:35 | that is pretty much how you want to look

19:37 | at it with everything right when it

19:39 | comes to book cover ghostriters because

19:41 | ghostriter is going to write better

19:42 | books for you which means you’re not

19:43 | going to get as much negative reviews

19:45 | which is going to help with your book

19:47 | not dying off because of bad reviews

19:49 | it’s going to keep selling it’s going to

19:50 | make more money same as formatting you

19:52 | know review services whatever so the

19:53 | next mistake i made a lot when i first

19:55 | got started was that i was consuming way

19:58 | too much content what you want to do is

20:00 | you want to focus on producing not

20:02 | consuming so i want to be completely

20:03 | real with you guys because you guys like

20:05 | my no bs most people who say that “i’ve

20:08 | tried kdp for one year and i didn’t get

20:10 | any results.” i get comments like that

20:12 | on my youtube videos of people saying

20:14 | “oh i tried kdp for one year and i

20:16 | didn’t see any results.” most people who

20:18 | say that did not do kdp for one year

20:21 | they watched kdp videos for one year and

20:25 | they probably worked on the actual

20:27 | business like a couple hours and they

20:28 | probably just whipped up couple super

20:30 | generic journals following a youtube

20:32 | tutorial and then they did absolutely

20:35 | nothing for the rest of the year right

20:37 | and they just kept watching videos

20:39 | that’s all they’ve done they didn’t do

20:40 | kdp for one year they did kdp for a

20:43 | couple hours and then they waited one

20:44 | year watching videos so that is a

20:46 | perfect example of just consuming

20:49 | without producing consuming is like

20:51 | watching videos you know reading posts

20:53 | or whatever as a consumer you’re

20:55 | learning but you’re not making any money

20:56 | because learning does not make you money

20:59 | you have to produce make more books

21:01 | market those books right those actions

21:03 | is going to lead to more money so if

21:04 | you’re waiting until you feel 100% ready

21:07 | to get started that day will never come

21:10 | like literally never okay you will never

21:12 | feel 100% ready you will always feel

21:14 | like you know you’re missing something

21:16 | that you don’t know something until you

21:17 | actually take action successful people

21:20 | learn as they go they start real quick

21:22 | and then you know by taking action by

21:24 | making the mistakes they learn from it

21:26 | not from consuming content your first

21:27 | book will probably suck and it might

21:29 | flop right but that is okay like the

21:32 | beauty of amazon kdp is that your book

21:34 | will stay on amazon for life and even a

21:37 | bad book is going to make some sales

21:39 | right i cannot guarantee anything but

21:40 | usually it does and over time it often

21:43 | makes your money back if you’re just

21:45 | patient enough like as an example with

21:46 | real estate investing right people often

21:48 | spend a crap ton of money buying the

21:50 | property and then they fix it up even

21:53 | more money and then they rent it out and

21:55 | it takes them like 10 years to make

21:56 | their money back and that is considered

21:58 | a standard investment or a standard time

22:01 | to make their money back 10 years and

22:03 | people do that all the time and with kdp

22:05 | i’ve literally never heard of a book not

22:07 | making your money back after like max

22:09 | one two years like that’s an example of

22:11 | if your book really really really suck i

22:14 | publish a lot of books and usually they

22:15 | make my money back after a couple months

22:17 | even the slowest one maybe a year but

22:19 | that is fine because even if one book

22:21 | doesn’t do well the other ones do well

22:23 | to make up for it so you got to stop

22:24 | being scared you got to stop just

22:27 | consuming and you have to start taking

22:29 | action so the final and the biggest

22:30 | thing i wish i knew when i first got

22:33 | started is that the highest roi comes

22:35 | from investing in yourself so when i

22:37 | first started kdp i was 21 years old i

22:40 | was broke and i’ve been failing in

22:42 | multiple different business models for

22:44 | four years straight in four years i made

22:46 | a hundred bucks while spending thousands

22:49 | of dollars in different business models

22:51 | right so i was scared of investing my

22:53 | money at this point because i just

22:54 | thought it’s not possible for me to

22:56 | succeed i thought i was a failure to be

22:58 | honest like everything i try i thought i

23:00 | was going to fail because i was so

23:01 | conditioned from failing in the past so

23:04 | i was scared to invest more money when i

23:06 | started now i watched tons of tutorials

23:09 | on youtube to try and do this for free

23:11 | but i never found a video that fully

23:13 | explained things like i never felt like

23:15 | i had the full picture like you might be

23:17 | feeling the same thing like i mentioned

23:19 | earlier right and i wasted so much time

23:22 | just consuming these content without

23:24 | ever taking action and in the end i

23:26 | finally got the courage to invest in a

23:28 | course and also a coach a one-on-one

23:30 | coach right and this saved me so much

23:32 | time ended up making a ton of money and

23:35 | saved me from making the mistakes so

23:37 | free content is great i watch a lot of

23:38 | youtube videos i learn a lot from them

23:40 | but whenever i want to go deep in

23:42 | something i always buy a course because

23:44 | i know that the time i’m going to spend

23:46 | is worth way more than the potential

23:49 | amount that costs to join the course or

23:51 | program or whatever so whenever i try to

23:52 | learn something i always try to get

23:54 | coaching and mentorship so back in 2016

23:56 | when i started i finally mustered up the

23:59 | courage to spend $6,000 uh for 10

24:02 | one-on-one sessions with my coach so

24:05 | literally $600 per session right because

24:07 | it’s 6k for 10 sessions and this is back

24:10 | in 2016 isn’t that crazy like the

24:12 | coaching program that i offer right now

24:14 | has way better value and it’s like 9

24:17 | years later you know because of

24:18 | inflation and everything things are more

24:20 | expensive and yet our coaching program

24:22 | offers way more for less price anyways

24:25 | after getting the coaching you know i

24:26 | hit $1,000 in a month very quick and

24:29 | then i hit $10,000 in a month after 10

24:31 | months because having a coach check my

24:34 | keyword check my book cover check my

24:35 | title just get that confirmation that i

24:38 | am moving forward in the right direction

24:40 | was huge right because i wasn’t in the

24:42 | blind anymore and that’s exactly what we

24:44 | do with our coaching program too we

24:46 | check your stuff we actually have

24:47 | one-on-one coaching sessions included so

24:49 | it’s not just a course is a course

24:51 | coaching hybrid offer that we have which

24:53 | if you guys want to learn more about it

24:54 | it’s the first link in the description

24:56 | if you click on it it takes you a page

24:58 | like this you can watch the video you

24:59 | can scroll down and see the testimonials

25:01 | what’s included and stuff like that but

25:03 | you have to apply here for a free

25:06 | discovery call and on the call which is

25:08 | free once again it’s like 30 minutes

25:09 | okay on the call you can ask us any

25:11 | questions but we’ll also ask you

25:13 | questions to make sure that this program

25:14 | is a fit for you if it is you can join

25:17 | sometimes it’s not and we’ll let you

25:18 | know that it’s not a good fit but if

25:20 | you’re interested in joining and you

25:21 | want to talk to us then this is how you

25:22 | do it this student says he was making

25:24 | 200 bucks a month on kdp before joining

25:27 | and now he’s consistently doing over 10k

25:29 | per month and scaling fast but once

25:31 | again you don’t have to join if you

25:33 | don’t want to in fact if you’re going to

25:34 | come in and you’re rude or you’re

25:36 | entitled you know you have a bad

25:38 | attitude then i don’t want you to join

25:39 | if you think i’m a scammer just because

25:41 | i make youtube videos or i sell a

25:42 | coaching program then please do not join

25:45 | because i don’t want to work with you

25:46 | because we don’t just dump a video

25:48 | course and then disappear right we

25:49 | actually sit down with you oneon one we

25:51 | got a lot of handholding which means we

25:53 | got to spend quite a bit of time to

25:54 | actually work with you so if your

25:56 | personality kind of suck obviously we

25:57 | don’t want to do that but the point is

25:58 | having some sort of structured plan to

26:01 | follow whether that is our program or

26:03 | someone else’s i think it is highly

26:05 | beneficial so if you don’t want to join

26:07 | ours you can join someone else’s program

26:08 | but i do recommend having a concrete

26:10 | plan very very rarely do people figure

26:13 | everything out on their own just by

26:14 | watching videos like i remember one time

26:16 | i asked in one of my videos if you made

26:19 | over $10,000 per month without following

26:21 | any course comment below right and that

26:25 | video got a lot of views and i received

26:27 | zero comment of someone who actually

26:29 | made 10k per month trying to do

26:31 | everything themselves so if you’re

26:32 | watching this and if you are someone who

26:35 | actually figured out everything yourself

26:37 | and you’re hitting 10k per month or more

26:39 | then yeah let me know in the comments

26:40 | and you can prove me wrong if you do

26:42 | like these longer form no bs video and

26:44 | if you want me to make more of it then

26:46 | the best way to let me know is to like

26:47 | the video subscribe if you haven’t yet

26:49 | and also comment and just straight up

26:51 | let me know so just comment no bs if you

26:53 | like these and if you want me to do more

26:55 | and i will try to do more with that

26:57 | being said thank you so much for

26:58 | watching and i’ll see you guys in the

27:00 | next one

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