Welcome to the 14th edition of Royalties on Demand - your one-stop guide to generating consistent income online. I’m thrilled that you're joining me on this journey towards financial independence and creative entrepreneurship.

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In this week’s newsletter, you will find:

• August Income Report

• Do More In Q4 Masterclass

• Corvin’s Journey to Selling Over 150,000 Books

• Tool Of The Week

• Niche Of The Week

• KDP Content For The Week Ahead

• Comparing The First Month's Earnings Of Every Side Hustle I Started

August Income Report

_{I’m excited to share my income report for August 2023 with you all. My book royalties amounted to $4079.12, my second-highest month so far this year.}

_{My highest day of the month was August 15th and I made $221.58 and my lowest day of the month was August 6th where I earned $68.20.}

_{My top five best-selling books for the month included 3 activity books, a log book and a quiz book.}

_{My ad spend for was month was $1200.19 and this includes 20% VAT added to my UK spend as I’m based in the UK.}

My Products & Services

At Royalties on Demand, I offer an array of services tailored to aspiring authors and self-publishers looking to make a mark in the industry.

• My one-to-one coaching sessions provide personalized guidance and mentorship, allowing you to navigate the challenges of publishing with ease and efficiency.

• You can find free templates designed to simplify the design process and enhance your books' visual appeal.

• For those looking to delve deeper into the world of AI Coloring Books, my comprehensive eBook is packed with insider tips, strategies, and step-by-step instructions to guide you towards success.

Do More In Q4 Masterclass

Are you tired of missing out on the explosive potential of Q4 sales and leaving money on the table?

Don’t worry, Jenny Hansen Lane and I have teamed up again to bring forth a transformative masterclass called "Do More in Q4". The objective of the masterclass is clear - to harness the potential of Q4, the most lucrative period of the year for book sales.

Jenny was able to make over $19k during her first Q4 period and this carried over into January 2023 when she was able to make over $11k.

Key Features of the Masterclass:

1. Time-Saving Book Creation Tips: As Q4 swiftly approaches, one of the main goals is to streamline the book creation process. The masterclass promises to offer tips that will not only improve the quality of your books but also speed up the creation process.

2. Goal Setting: The masterclass will guide participants on setting clear, measurable objectives for every book they intend to create, ensuring a more organized approach to publishing.

3. Book Income Growth Strategies: The primary attraction of the course would be the growth strategies. Tailored for Q4 success, these strategies are tried, tested, and proven, guaranteeing results when executed correctly.

Exclusive Offer: The masterclass, packed with these incredible features, is available at $67. However, a special coupon code EARLYQ4 provides a $10 discount, bringing down the price to $57, but only till September 3rd.

Date and Time: The masterclass is scheduled for 7th September at 1 pm Eastern Standard Time.

You can sign up here: https://www.jennyhansenlane.com/q4

Corvin’s Journey to Selling Over 150,000 Books

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Corvin an enterprising individual who has sold over 150,000 books with Amazon KDP.

His success wasn't achieved overnight. With an unwavering dedication to their craft, consistent effort, a keen eye for untapped niches, and a talent for producing engaging book covers and titles, they paved their way to the top.

Corvin and his partner have not only made a name for themselves in the publishing world but have also developed invaluable tools and resources for the budding self-publisher.

Let’s delve into his inspiring journey.

1. Can you share your early journey with Amazon KDP? Why did you choose KDP as a side hustle?

We started KDP because we had an FBA business selling supplements and wanted a guidebook and a cookbook to go with it. One of these books became a best seller and getting really good sales (still selling to this day) and then decided to go all in on KDP doing it full time.

We went to Barnes and Nobles to get more inspiration for other kinds of books we could make and then stumbled upon activity books, puzzle books and more and felt totally inspired to make those books and create software to help us make our own books.

2. You have been able to make over six figures with Amazon KDP, what are the main factors that contributed to your success?

The main factors that contributed to our success would have been 1) being very dedicated and consistent 2) Really finding good niches 3) Creating as good or better covers than the competitors 4) Creating a good title that both works for SEO and conversions 5) Launching a book with Amazon ads.

3. @mouaadkd wanted to ask what type of book you published and found success with? how long it also take you to complete a book?

We have had mos success with 1) cookbooks 2) guidebooks 3) story books 4) and activity books. Cookbooks would take us many weeks, the guidebook also (we created them ourselves, not outsourced) Activity books were faster as we used our Self Publishing Titans activity book making tools for the interiors.

4. @HappyLifege wanted to know your daily routine and if you outsource work?

Daily routine usually: Daily routing is staring work usually between 6-8 AM, work until at least 8PM usually 9PM. Go for a daily walk around sunset. Work 7 days a week, sometimes take a partial day off once a week. Priority is on support and help users with our tools, mostly free tools. Get a lot of emails and messages daily and try to answer them as fast as possible. Helping users is first priority. When doing new book launches we check the product listing and ads daily to make sure everything is managed as good as possible.

5. Do you believe authors need to run ads to succeed with KDP or is it possible to succeed with only organic sales?

No. If you run ads you can rank faster and easier on Amazon in bigger niches. If you don’t have money for ads, you can still have success on Amazon, but it will be easier going for smaller niches.

6. What is the biggest challenge you faced whilst publishing on Amazon KDP, and how did you overcome it?

Finding the best freelancers for book interiors and covers. We overcame that by looking at hundreds of freelancers and testing out lots of them to find really good ones.

7. What advice do you have for aspiring self-publishers looking for success with Amazon KDP?

If you are an author, work on building a brand and get very active on social media to build a following and drive book sales. If I had to pick one platform I would pick TikTok. If you don’t like videos, I would pick Pinterest and Facebook Group.

If you publish low or medium content books, you have to be very consistent. Find a good niche, create a good book with a good title, publish it, ideally launch it with ads, and then repeat the process. Find the next niche, etc. Consistency is key. When you find success in one niche do another one in the niche and surrounding niches or even start a series if possible.

8. Do you have any other successful side hustles?

Getting more into Etsy now. Our first shop we created 4 years ago has consistently made sales every month. Now want to do more of it. Also our Self Publishing Titans Masterclass and our KDP tools give us extra income.

9. Do you think KDP is saturated and should authors focus on low, mid or high content in 2023?

Big niches can become saturated. But there are tons of smaller niches that are totally fine and also new niches get created all the time too. So definitely still an opportunity. I think puzzle and activity books have one of the best opportunities currently.

Low content books like notebooks etc. are so easy to make that “everyone” does them and now with AI coloring books and guide / how to books are getting flooded with books. Sadly mostly bad quality books that give a bad customer experience. But puzzle and activity books take time and effort and cannot be done by AI. So more people are staying away from it.

10. What are your future plans and goals for your publishing career on Amazon KDP?

Our plan moving forward is to focus very much on brand building. Fewer books, bigger launches, social media, website, etc. Create a few brands that customers love and keep coming back to and build a community around it.

Please list the social media platforms you can be found on below, you can also link any courses or other helpful resources you may have.

People can find our free tools and resources on www.selfpublishingtitans.com

We can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfpublishingtitansofficial

_{Tool Of The Week- Titans Pro}

This week I asked Corvin to provide more detail about his new tool added to the Self Publishing Titans library of great tools, Titans Pro.

Titans Pro gives the following benefits:

1) Shows more search suggestions than any other tool.

2) What makes Titans Pro unique is that it actually only uses keywords that are Amazon search suggestions and nothing else.

3) It gives estimated search volume for every single search suggestion

4) It gives the exact amount of search results for every single keyword

5) You have the ability to download all the data to your computer

6) We have also create an opportunity and demand scoring system to help you faster and easier analyze a niche to see if I might be right for you or not.

7) Our research tool is built right into the Amazon platform not away from it so you can easily view the niche or verify data.

If you are interested in using this tool I’ve attached my affiliate link: https://shorturl.at/ckpyH

Niche of the Week- Vision Board Books Part 2

In last week’s newsletter we discussed creating vision board books.

Just for a quick recap, vision board books are physical and visual representation of an individual's goals, dreams, and aspirations. They offer a portable and more structured way to categorize and represent different facets of one's vision.

To help you create books in this niche I have download a list of 50+ keywords using Titans Pro for you filter and find profitable keywords.

KDP Content for the week ahead

Watch one of my latest videos about what to avoid when creating books for Q4.

In the video below Ben explains how he earned over $5k a month from KDP whilst working full time.

Ken explains how to get ahead of 98% of publishers.

Kim George details the number #1 reason why your KDP low content book sales are low.

Royalty Wizard explains 7 more notebook niches to publish in.

Comparing The First Month's Earnings Of Every Side Hustle I Started

Read about my side hustle show down below.

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