KDP Rocket Review - Is It Worth It? ππ (Actual Results Included)
About this video
Sean reviews KDP Rocket (now Publisher Rocket), which he describes as a $97 one-time payment for lifetime access rather than a monthly subscription, and which he says may later move to subscription. He walks through its four features using ketogenic diet as the example. First, keyword research: type a seed phrase and get related keywords readers actually search on Amazon, with number of competitors and estimated monthly Amazon searches, to break a broad niche into less competitive sub-keywords. Second, category research: find categories and see the bestseller rank (BSR) of the number-one book β he shows an example at 238 as extremely tough β so you can pick a category where number one is beatable and earn the orange bestseller badge for social proof. Third, a competition/sales lookup similar to KD Spy. Fourth, and most important to him, AMS keyword research: instead of manually copying Amazon search suggestions letter by letter to reach the recommended 1000 keywords for an AMS campaign, Rocket generates a couple hundred keywords in seconds, which you export and repeat with related terms. He claims his AMS results improved after using it, citing campaigns including $6 spent for $23 in sales at 3% ACoS, and $136 spent for $1036 in sales.
Key takeaways
- Sean describes KDP Rocket as a $97 one-time payment for lifetime access, with a warning it could switch to a subscription model
- Use keyword research to compare competitors versus estimated monthly Amazon searches and find sub-keywords within a broad niche
- Use category research to check the number-one book’s BSR and target a winnable category to earn the bestseller badge
- Use the AMS feature to quickly build toward 1000 campaign keywords instead of manually copying Amazon suggestions
- Sean claims strong AMS returns from the tool, including $136 spent for $1036 in sales on one campaign
Episode details: published December 26, 2018 Β· 12:15 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 β they are not typical or guaranteed.
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