How to Create a Book That Makes ACTUALLY Sells on Amazon KDP

About this video

The creator walks through how to model a successful nonfiction book, using a mental toughness handbook as the example. Citing a research tool’s estimates, he claims that book earns over $10,000 a month across formats, with paperback the largest share, and points to several other mental toughness titles he says also earn five figures monthly as evidence of demand for the keyword. His process starts with identifying the generic search phrase buyers type, then validating demand by checking whether multiple books on that phrase sell well. Next he uses the book’s look-inside preview to study its table of contents and confirm the interior is text-only, which he notes is cheaper and easier to outsource than image-heavy books like cookbooks. He advises building an original outline and title from what is working, stressing modeling rather than copying. Production, in his workflow, means ordering the manuscript from a ghostwriting company he recommends, getting a cover through a design contest service, writing a short description, and uploading everything to KDP. He closes with a disclaimer that creating the book is only half the work, since marketing and promotion are still required to reach comparable sales.

Key takeaways

• Start from a generic keyword buyers actually search for, and validate it by finding several books on that phrase selling well.
• Use the look-inside preview and table of contents of successful books to build an original outline modeled on what works, without copying.
• Text-only nonfiction is presented as far easier and cheaper to outsource than books needing many images, charts, or recipes.
• His production workflow pairs a vetted ghostwriting service for the manuscript with a contest-based design service for the cover.
• He explicitly warns that publishing the book is only half the job; promotion and marketing are needed to approach the example book’s claimed sales.

Episode details: published March 25, 2022 · 10:47 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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