Sell your first EBook for FREE in less than 24 hours ($10,272 per month)

About this video

Hayes walks through creating and selling a first ebook for free, using a homeschool starter guide as the demo. She says ebooks can sell at a higher price point than other digital products and require no extra work beyond initial creation, and claims there are sellers making 5, 10, and even $15,000 a month selling ebooks they created for free. She advises picking a specific, valuable topic based on what people already ask you about, then checking demand by searching Etsy, Amazon or Pinterest. Her process is: draft an outline with ChatGPT (she refined hers to no more than 10 chapters), write the copy with ChatGPT and edit it in Google Docs, get 10 title ideas and pick a 3-to-4-word name (she chose ‘Homeschool Made Simple’), design the PDF in Canva from a template, download the PDF as the deliverable and the cover as a JPG, and build mockups in Canva. For selling, she lists Etsy, Shopify, Gumroad and Payhip, recommending Payhip or Gumroad for a free start, then filling in keyword title, images, deliverable file, price and description. For promotion she favors niche content plus email marketing via a lead magnet — in the demo, a free top-10 homeschooling tips checklist delivered through a Kit landing page.

Key takeaways

• Hayes claims sellers are making 5, 10, and even $15,000 a month selling ebooks created for free — presented as her claim, not verified income.
• Validate a topic before creating: choose something specific and useful you already know, then check that similar products appear in searches on Etsy, Amazon or Pinterest.
• Hayes uses ChatGPT to draft and refine an outline (capped at 10 chapters in the demo), write copy, and generate 10 title options, editing everything in Google Docs.
• Design in Canva from a template, download the full ebook as a PDF deliverable and the first page as a JPG to insert into Canva mockup templates for listing photos.
• For a free launch Hayes recommends Payhip or Gumroad free plans over Etsy or Shopify, and driving traffic with niche content feeding an email list via a free lead magnet.

Episode details: published August 5, 2025 · 16:49 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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