Kindle Direct Publishing Low Content - (5 Biggest Mistakes)

About this video

The creator lists the five biggest mistakes he made with Amazon KDP low-content publishing. 1) Covers: assuming a t-shirt design would work as a book cover and sell immediately; instead, study what is already selling in the niche and make the cover pop and be unique so you create less competition for yourself. 2) Subtitles and keywords: at first he focused only on the title and put nothing useful in the subtitle, but customers cannot buy a book they cannot find, so research the keywords buyers actually search with and place them in the listing. 3) Not understanding the niche: putting, say, a fishing design on a plain lined notebook and hoping for sales, instead of understanding what a fishing log book buyer actually wants inside the book — customers go to Amazon for a product they cannot find in stores, so meet that specific demand. 4) Backend sizing/dimension errors: covers and interiors at wrong sizes, text too close to the edges/margins where it can be cut off in printing, and a small left-to-right cover gap that the preview does not catch — he says he once had ten books uploaded in one day all rejected, and approval normally takes about 24 hours, sometimes longer. 5) Interiors: copying everyone else’s generic lined interior; a unique, harder-to-make interior creates less competition. His overall advice is to aim to be the best and rank number one in a niche for long-term consistent sales rather than doing the least work for quick money.

Key takeaways

• Mistake 1 — weak covers: a t-shirt design does not translate to a book cover; study top sellers in the niche and make a unique cover that pops.
• Mistake 2 — neglecting subtitles and keywords: research the terms buyers actually search with and put strong keywords in the subtitle so the book can be found.
• Mistake 3 — not understanding the niche: do not put a generic lined interior behind a niche cover and hope; build the interior around what that niche’s buyer actually needs, e.g. a real fishing log.
• Mistake 4 — sizing and margin errors cause rejections: keep cover text inside margins, get cover/interior dimensions exactly right, and check for small cover gaps the preview misses.
• Mistake 5 — copying generic interiors: a unique, harder-to-produce interior reduces competition and supports ranking number one in the niche for long-term sales.

Episode details: published January 21, 2020 · 9:05 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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