Nonfiction Writing & Research: Unlock Success

About this video

Sponsored by Dibble Create, Dale shares his nonfiction research system, drawn from what he presents as writing and publishing over 50 books in nine years. He opens with Emerson’s beaten-path idea and Stephen King’s rule to read a lot and write a lot: read every book in your niche, as he did before an eight-book series set for 2024, including authors such as Joanna Penn, David Goggins and Craig Martell. On Amazon, study titles, subtitles, series names, descriptions and metadata, use bestseller rank as a first filter, then mine reviews starting from one-star ratings upward to catalogue exactly what readers felt was missing, ignoring content-free praise. Add outside citations for credibility, research on YouTube and Google, and compare keyword search volume in Google Trends to judge demand and discoverability. On AI, he warns ChatGPT output must always be fact-checked against citable sources, noting the free GPT-3.5 tier lacks real-time information and the paid upgrade runs about $20 per month by his account. His main tool is Dibble Create’s Kip research tab, which runs Amazon, YouTube and Google search-term analyses, returns metadata, ratings, bestseller rank and price, analyses of books with 100 or more reviews, short and long-tail keywords, and a Competitive Edge section; he says he used it to outline a write-a-book-in-24-hours title and for his book-in-a-week and book-in-a-day challenges.

Key takeaways

• Read every book in your niche before writing, and keep reading while you edit
• Mine Amazon reviews from one star upward to find the unmet demand your book can fill
• Use Google Trends search volume to test whether a topic is rising or fading
• Fact-check all AI research against citable sources; free ChatGPT has no real-time data
• Dibble Create’s Kip returns keyword sets and a Competitive Edge analysis from Amazon data

Episode details: published December 16, 2023 · 11:36 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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