How This One Book Made Hundreds in One Day (Amazon KDP)

About this video

Sean says one book made him $565 in profit in a single day, showing his KDP dashboard for June 29 (filmed in early July), when he says he cleared over $1,000 total on KDP. He says the book had 82 sales that day, was pure profit because he runs no ads for it, and made close to $1,000 for the month after otherwise doing a few paperback and Kindle sales every day or few days. He stresses he did nothing to trigger the spike — the book was simply sitting on Amazon — and argues such take-offs happen more often when you have many books published consistently, so a diversified portfolio is more stable than relying on one title. The book was a Spanish translation. He recommends translating your best-selling English book first, Spanish first as the most proven market, then German, Italian and French, because foreign markets are less saturated: as an example, he shows about 50,000 US results for ‘keto diet’ versus 344 for its Spanish translation. He advises keeping the same cover design (translating only the text), and also translating the manuscript, description and seven keywords. For translation he recommends using a ghostwriting company rather than hiring alone if you cannot check quality yourself, naming The Writing Summit and citing its claimed price of $1.49 per 100 words.

Key takeaways

• Sean claims a single Spanish book sold 82 copies on June 29, earning him $565 profit in one day with no ad spend
• A large backlist makes occasional sales spikes more likely and income more stable if one book fades
• Translate proven English best-sellers first, starting with Spanish, before risking translations of unproven books
• Foreign-language keywords can be far less competitive than the same English keyword on Amazon
• Keep the original cover design, and translate the manuscript, description and keywords; use a vetted translation service if you cannot check quality

Episode details: published July 26, 2021 · 9:34 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Sean Dollwet’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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