My Q4 November Amazon KDP Earnings and What I've Learned

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Sean gives a November income report for his second KDP account, which he says he started in January and published his first book on in February, after selling his previous multiple six-figure business for $820,000. He says he outsources most tasks and spends between 0 to 30 minutes a day on it. For November he had 29 books — about nine of them high content, the rest low content and some medium content. Sean reports making $6,875.97, plus $856.37 from ACX, $345 from aggregates, and $230.82 promoting a product within his niche to his email list, for total revenue of $8,308.56. He says revenue dropped a little from October, but profit improved because he cut ad aggression after October’s hard push left a poor profit margin. In November he reports spending $2,930 on Amazon Ads at an ACOS of 60 overall, with UK ACOS down to 50 on almost $600 of spend and Canada at 61 ACOS on about $243 of spend. Profit was $4,538. He attributes October’s weak result partly to having evergreen, non-seasonal books with no Christmas boost in Q4. His scaling plans are to add more titles to ACX and IngramSpark, keep optimizing ads, start creating bundles, and test low content and shorter high content books.

Key takeaways

• Sean reports November total revenue of $8,308.56 and profit of $4,538 for his second KDP account, built from a 29-book portfolio.
• Income was diversified: $6,875.97 as the main figure, $856.37 from ACX, $345 from aggregates, and $230.82 from promoting a niche product to his email list.
• Ad spend was cut to $2,930 at an ACOS of 60, after October’s aggressive push hurt the profit margin.
• He says his evergreen, non-seasonal books did not get a Q4 boost, unlike seasonal or children’s books.
• Next scaling steps he names are more ACX and IngramSpark titles, continued ad optimization, starting bundles, and testing low-content and shorter high-content books.

Episode details: published January 9, 2023 · 8:36 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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