We got that. Okay. Go ahead and say hey in the chat, everybody. Welcome back. Same time,
same place. Day number two. The excitement that was here yesterday, let's bring it today.
has some amazing information for you, as always, around KDP. So go ahead, come on in, say hello.
Welcome you. And I'm just gonna continue letting a few people in real quick before we get started.
I see your question, Wendy, I will check on that on my back end about the replay. Thank
you. Writing that down. Um, yeah, welcome, everybody. So glad you guys are here. So we
talked yesterday, Camden, let us know the who, what, where, why, when about KDP. And
today, she is going to just go a little deeper, go a little further, let us know a little
bit more. And kind of how we did it yesterday was Camden taught us for a little bit. And
then we did q&a at the end. So we're gonna do that again, if that sounds good for everybody. I
will be monitoring questions in the chat. So go ahead and any questions you have dropped them in
the chat. And yeah, we are so fortunate to have Camden, our KDP queen, coming to our little
part of the internet. How cool is that? We get our own KDP expert just for us. Excited. She's
share is sharing her time, her talents, her energy with us. And so how cool and she's such
an inspiration of somebody who said yes to something, and then built from there. That's
what we're all trying to do here. That's what this community is about saying yes and building
things, right. So without further ado, can we just give a warm welcome in the chat to Camden
day two.
Hey, everyone. So glad you're back and we get to talk more KDP. We're actually going to do
training a little different and interactive today. Let me turn all my alerts off. If y'all have
alerts too, you can turn them off. I'm going to turn mine off so that we don't hear me clicking.
Um, okay, so today we're going to actually do something a little more interactive. And what I
mean by that is the most common thing that I get questions about or confusions about is, hey,
Camden, this is great. But how do I find a niche? Like, how do I find something to make in a book?
Right? Like, I feel like that's the number one question that people have, or they just think,
well, there's nothing I can do. I can't write, I can't, you know, we go, we go into that. So
today, what we're gonna do is, have you ever been to those shows where they just shout out
ideas? So we're gonna do this live. So let's see how it goes. So what I want to know is, let's
find our who first. So what do we want male or female put in the chat, and I'm going to go with
the first one that comes up. Male or female for who? Female. Okay. And is she a mom or no mom?
Mom? Okay, where's her favorite place to shop? Anyone? Anyone? Target? Okay, I'm doing the
first one that pops up. So y'all get ready. Target, Target. Um, what is in the morning does
she drink coffee or tea? Or neither? Someone said coffee, we got coffee. Thank goodness, since I'm a
coffee drinker, I can relate. Oh, that's so funny. Um, let's see. What if she was going to, I'm trying
to think one more, if she was gonna do an activity, like her hobby, what would be a good hobby that she
would like? And we can pick a few. Sewing, okay, running, yoga, sewing, running and yoga it is. Sewing,
running and yoga. Whoa, I gotta write that down. So I remember when we're doing this research. Okay, so
the reason why I want to do this in training today is because we can find a niche or a way to make a
book anywhere. Okay. And I'm going to just show us a few different ways how to do that. And then
later on, we can go into more questions. So we have a mom who likes to shop at Target, who loves
herself some coffee in the morning. And she
She likes activities like sewing, running, and yoga.
Is she, oop, one more question.
Is she a stay-at-home mom or a working mom?
They're both working, but you know what I mean.
Is her job job, what's her job job?
Oops, working, okay.
Now, I do wanna say this, I know we go into this a lot.
The main reason we ask these questions
is so that we can find our niche easier, right?
Quicker and faster.
Okay, so I'm gonna share my screen in just a minute.
Let me shut all my little tabs down
because y'all would be shocked at all my tabs.
Anyone else have tons of tabs open?
Okay, here we go.
Would not be me, actually.
I think I have like 30 of them.
I always have like,
let's see how many things we can bring up at once
and then see what my latest thing was.
Oh my goodness, guys, it looks like my,
it closed down, just one moment.
This is what we get to do for live.
Okay, so while it's opening up,
let me go into a little more things
that we talk about more in the course
of how we can find these niches in our keywords, right?
Because keywords are gonna be the first thing
that can help us sell our book.
If our goal is to sell books, that's where we need to look.
If your goal is just it's fun, a hobby,
then that's a totally different thing.
But our goal in here today is to sell the books.
Um, okay, let me open mine up.
So one of those ways is to look at the subject or the who,
that's what we're gonna start with.
The other thing is for the genre specifically.
You're still gonna use your who,
but it's what genre they would be looking for.
And then the last one would be what kind of hobbies,
there's actually two more,
the hobbies, what we talked about,
and then the last would be authors.
Are there any authors they follow?
And y'all could do that in the chat.
Is our who, does she follow anyone, any company,
any other authors, anything like that?
Then y'all can let me know that as well.
Okay, so we are gonna start,
and all we simply do is we're gonna go to Amazon,
and as I said before, here are my shrinky dinks.
There they are, as always, my shrinky dinks.
Okay, so we are, we have a mom who loves sewing,
running, yoga, and she also has,
she works outside the home and inside the home,
because she's a mom, and she loves herself some Target.
All right, so let's think.
Oh, oh, sorry, nope, nope, it doesn't want it, okay.
We're gonna start, so bestsellers for sewing books, okay?
What is going on today?
Okay.
All righty, and so, just like any other time,
we are gonna have our little Helium 10 up here.
We're gonna use Helium 10 mainly today,
just because we are all fairly used to that.
So let's go up here and do a little reverse search.
And I always like to compare like research
to when you go to like a thrift store, right?
Like you're on a mission, but we take time
to kind of look around and figure out
those little gold nuggets, right?
Okay, so let's go on sales.
I like to always see, how many are they actually selling?
Well, looky here, what's this?
Oh, that's a sewing kit, a repulsory sewing kit.
Do, do, do, do, a Hopscotch Girls, I'm confident.
Nope, and so some of these, as we know,
aren't even gonna be in our wheelhouse.
So we're gonna go through until we finally find one
that we're like, oh yeah, that's something that people...
Okay, we're gonna click on them.
So this one is make, sew and mend traditional techniques.
Here's a sewing book, they're selling 341 a month.
And then how to sew, okay, let's do it.
And then we're gonna reverse run it.
And we're gonna find us some niches today.
Now, the other cool thing is you can combine
two things into one.
So if she loves shopping at Target,
you might get your style more from that, right?
So once we find the niche, you might be like,
oh, but her style is more of that Target flair,
which would then help when you're actually
designing the book.
But I think this part is the part
that a lot of times we get stuck on
and I don't want you to get stuck.
I wanna teach you how to just always move forward.
All right, here we go.
We're gonna start with search volume
and then we're gonna go.
over here to the sheet you bro that I never say right
that I always say that, but it's just the truth.
Woo.
And see some of the search volume.
Remember, we're looking for at least 1,000.
That's my goal.
I'd like more.
More is always better.
But that's what we're trying to find at least.
And we will go over, we're just gonna start doing it.
I also tend to, a lot of times,
we'll go to this score first
because it seems to kind of bring it down faster.
So the dressmaker, no idea what that is.
Oh, of course.
It's the book, the dressmaker.
Silly me, silly me.
Let's see what else.
Bound by threads.
Oh, probably not.
I will say, that's the only bad thing about books.
Sometimes things are gonna pop up,
so you just be aware.
A pattern language?
I don't know.
Now, y'all might be like,
this is the most boring training, Camden.
The reason why I'm showing you this
is because this is really what you will do.
This is what I do.
We sit around and we find it,
and we keep hunting and hunting
until we find the little niches.
And if we're like, this is a dead end, right?
We go, oh, I don't know.
This isn't really working for me.
I'm not finding anything.
Like Barbie book is not what we're doing.
How to do work, is that something?
So this could be a possibility, how to do work.
So if y'all didn't see that, how to do work,
it just popped up and it is, you know,
2000 searches, competitions under 1000.
So that could be an option.
I already have it.
Sewing cabinet, that could be something.
And stitch book.
Let's go on stitch book.
Oh, wrong stitch.
Okay, I thought it meant like this, like a stitch book,
which are this, you know,
like an actual book that they practice stitching on.
Okay, I'm gonna do it because I feel like that's fun.
We're gonna just go that way and avoid the stitch book.
We're gonna look at stitching and just see.
So I keep doing this.
Literally, I just keep going and going and going.
Okay, let's actually find the stitches.
Two piece mini book, here we go.
Book, book, book, book, book.
DIY stitching and threads.
Okay, and we're gonna do it again.
And so it's so similar, right, to what we do already
when we're looking for our products for FBA.
It's similar, it's just a different way to do it.
So right now we're doing it by subject matter.
Here in a second, we will try it by author.
And then we'll do a genre.
Okay, let's try it again.
It's by Stitch.
Manny Moves Stitch.
I don't know.
It just keeps being Stitch.
I mean, not that I don't love Stitch,
but you know why, it's probably too,
because that movie's coming out of it.
So, coloring book, visible mending book, mini sewing kit.
So you could even, like this,
the mini sewing kit right here that has 7,000 searches,
this could be a way to go because, right,
you can make a book that would go with the mini sewing kit.
So also remember that.
It's not that you always have to be in the book category.
You could then do a book on little mini sewing kits
that would go with it.
Does that make sense?
So you make a book about mini sewing kits,
and it could be a whole, like, mini sewing series.
So you could go for a mini kit Stitch like that.
See right here, I get ideas just doing that.
Mini sewing kits for kids, travel, bulk.
So you could do a whole mini series on just sewing.
And then you could still use the mini sewing kit,
and there's 7,000 searches, less than 1,000 competitors.
And you could do a whole line on mini sewing books and kits.
Okay?
Like, we already found one, whoop!
There's one, and what would you do?
You'd click it, and I have a giant list of all my things.
If y'all don't know about this, I always have a list.
So I have lots and lots of lists.
Make a list, and you can have just your idea list or you can start a tab and then you're going to keep building off of that, and so, if you if we're like yep that's what we're going to do we're gonna do a mini sewing kit book, then you would keep going back and forth and back and forth until you find all the keywords what you want.
Is that making sense guys can y'all say or shake your head or say yes, or yeah cool alright so look, we already found one and I didn't even prepare.
Sometimes it happens fast sometimes slower, but I want y'all to see a can be done, but also the realistic ways of it happening Okay, so I don't want you to get down if it takes you a little while what I want you to do is get energized going, this is kind of fun, we get to go on a scavenger hunt to find something.
Okay, so there we go we did one by subject right so awesome so let's now go into bestsellers.
knew we want to do up here all we actually want to be in books.
Go.
And then over here is where you're going to find you can click on any of these and the bestsellers or the top sellers are going to come up Okay, so we have she's already a mom she's a like sewing running working she works outside so there's lots of areas that we could go into.
um so let's pick.
let's pick one i'm just going to go into calendars, why, because we all need a calendar.
All right, here we go here are the top sellers under the calendar category under the bestsellers so let's do it again let's do our reverse search and look at what's going on.
So this is, then another way, this is when you use the categories to search for things.
Okay, so let's do a little bit of a search.
But i'll see here.
Oh, do you see what I did I don't know if y'all ever done this but look what I did it's such it's actually using the word bestsellers not actually the book.
wasn't that fun.
Here we go.
This is better okay day to day calendars there we go.
I don't know why it's not doing calendars it's putting up.
All the little calendars, which is fine, we can still find things this way, you can actually use products to find things so let's just go with it.
If it'll let me.
it's not gonna let me okay that's fine.
So sometimes it just won't let you do it.
And it's going into all these book areas, so if y'all don't know this, the book categories, like a whole nother world.
Up here, so you would get in the books, do you see how it's another toolbar I don't know if you've ever noticed that with books specifically so let's just try it again no worries it's just not wanting to do it on there so.
let's try calendars again and see if it works it's still coming up to that all right, it is not, you know healing 10 is like i'm not going to work on that today and that's okay so let's do something else.
Here we go self help.
Will it come up on this one.
Interesting all right well we're going to pivot so what we do so let's do just self help books.
For working moms.
Right we pivot today helium 10 like I don't want to do that, and you go okay ah finally here it goes.
And then, after we did this one, we will do one more, where we can think of a book that possibly they would be buying and you can go that way, so I just want to encourage you guys that you can find something, no matter what just take the time.
And it also could be something that you can combine two different things so like right now we're looking at self help books help books for moms.
Well, how about if you did find a calendar specifically for self help books for moms see what I mean, so you can combine them.
into two different products, into one.
So if you find something that easily goes together,
I have found that does really well
because they're like, oh, if they're already looking
for a calendar self-help book and a calendar,
then you could just combine them out.
Do, do, do.
And I'm gonna get a lot of questions on,
can you use titles?
Does anyone know that answer?
Can you use titles in your title?
So we go over this in the section in part of the course,
and what we talk about is looking,
double-checking if something is copyrighted or trademarked.
You are not allowed to trademark your title
unless it becomes an entity of its own.
What that means is something like Harry Potter.
Harry Potter, before it was a series,
and its own entity,
other people could use that word Harry Potter.
Now they cannot.
However, let's just pretend this was untamed by,
why don't you know what this is?
But let's just pretend that that is a book
your person would be looking for.
I still want you to save it
because you can advertise against it, okay?
So don't just be like, oh, well, I can't use it.
Well, if it's got good searches
and you know that yours would be the same audience,
then please save it
and you're gonna use it for advertising.
And I do go in the course about that more.
Like where do we get our,
where are we gonna find things to advertise on?
Make your bed.
What is that?
All right, let's do it.
If you don't know if something,
basically, if you see something
that has very high searches, low competitions,
I want you to double check that,
the trademark or copyright, okay?
And let us see here.
Well, make your bed has 4,000 searches a month.
That is interesting.
I find that interesting.
Let's see.
The mountain is you.
All right, sure, let's look.
Okay, so through this, we are gonna keep going
and finding, once again,
find those words, those keywords.
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
So we're gonna keep going.
Oh, well, I know what that is.
We won't do that one.
Leverage, your story,
and you're gonna keep going down.
The courage to be disliked.
Oh, I like that.
So you could do research on this,
the courage to be disliked,
and say, can I make a calendar
if it's not trademarked or,
right here, the courage to be disliked
has 22,000 people looking for it.
And less than 100 competing products.
Now, what does that mean?
That means you probably should make sure
that it's not copyrighted or trademarked,
but if it's not, you can use this in your title
or your subtitle, the courage to be disliked, okay?
All right, let's do one more version,
and I know I'm going through this quickly, guys.
Remember, if y'all hop on calls with me once a month,
then we can go into a little more details
or you can book a call if y'all really are like,
I have no idea what this means.
Let's do a very much product base.
So if,
if she's,
sorry, I'm looking at her list,
sewing, running, yoga, coffee,
let's think of like an actual product that she would want.
Let's say she wants to,
something with running shoes.
I have no idea, let's do it.
This is what I do sometimes.
You know, another great place is to ask chat GPT.
Say, hey, what are some products
that someone who loves running does?
And it'll come up with, you know, give me 30 things.
And then you can find it that way.
Now, the reason we're doing this is,
you're like, well, Kim, these aren't books.
That is true, but this is when you never know
what it's gonna be that's gonna give you
that gold mine of something that you go,
oh my goodness, what is that random thing
that I had no idea?
Because a book is also a product. It can be both, right? A book can be
an actual written text, but then a book can also be an actual product or an activity book.
I'm trying to think what I would do if I was a running mom.
No show socks, Brooks. Okay, so the very first thing I'm going to tell you that just came to
my mind is you could do a totally, well these are all advertised, I tried to sew it, a book on,
a coloring book on running shoes, as silly as that sounds. Or I know we talked about paper dolls,
but you could do that and have it so that it's a mom and me, a mom and me running journal.
Mom and me is a big category. I do know that one. Or in here, it could be design your own
running shoes. Do you see what I mean? So it doesn't always have to be literally what it
is. It could be something that then is going to spark the idea for the next idea.
There's always a next idea. It can always keep growing.
And so this one is, we may not get really get anywhere with this one.
I don't know what lime means. There's just lime that has 107,000
searches. What is just lime? It literally means lime. Interesting.
All right, make a lime book. I don't know. But I mean, if you're like, oh,
oh, it's probably lime. Not, well, it's both actually. Look at that. How funny is that?
You know, like you never know.
You never know that you go, oh, I'm going to make a book on recipes with limes.
Right. Recipes that use limes or where you use lime, the other one. And you can go into,
I have a resource that you can go into and buy a public domain book, change it up a little bit,
and publish it the same week. Like, do you see what I mean? Okay, I could do this all day long.
So I think I'm hopeful that you guys are starting to see the ways that you can figure out different
books without actually having to like write a book book. Right. Like you can do that.
And I give you some of those tools. You can also record yourself talking like I'm doing right now
and put that into chat GPT and have it summarize up what you said. Right. That is just using AI
as assistant. You're not doing AI. You're letting it take your what you've said and put it together.
So there's so many ways that you can get that book done. But also, it's kind of endless,
all the niches. That's what I want you all to know is you can find a niche. It's endless,
endless, endless. All right. I think if we're good, let's have some questions.
Awesome. I see a few in the chat already. I'll start with and then as you all think about
questions, drop them in the chat and we will get to them. So when you save that,
Sarah, these are your questions. When you save to advertising, where do you save that
information? And then how do we know if something's trademarked or copyrighted?
All right. So once again, I go into way more depth in this in the course, I'll do the abbreviated.
There's two sites. It's trademark.gov or copyright.gov. And you go in and you can
and, you know, put it into there. If you are really questioning, then I'm always going to say
do a copyright or trademark attorney. However, those are very black and white. You just put it
in and it'll say, yes, no, maybe so. Like it'll say dead, active. And then when I say save, what
I mean is in Helium 10, have you ever used the keyword folders, Sarah? Okay. Let me just show
you. They are my go-to. And this is for anything, guys, when we're using Helium 10. So right here,
let's see if you like clicked on embracing all beginnings and it says add to my list,
you'd go right here to add to my list. And then if you have a new folder, you can do a new folder
or if you have a idea folder. See, I have a random idea folder. We should look into that.
I haven't looked at it in a while. And then you just add it and it says keywords added to your
folder. Okay.
And then what you can do is it keeps all your keywords and that's why I mean if you find one
that might be copyright or trademarked that's okay keep it because you are allowed to advertise
against an ASIN. So literally you could be by that book at all times. Okay and then right here
in keyword research it's right down here my list keywords and then it pops up right here.
Do you see how many I have? I have a lot. I have a lot
because that's how I keep it all organized.
Okay random ideas. So I have a whole list of random ideas. Here they all are
like just random things that came in.
Okay does that make sense?
Sarah did that help?
A little bit? Okay good. And then what you can do is you can take those and then pull them over
into when you're building out your description and all your other keywords. Yeah I know right
like when I found that Jasmine when I found out about that folder thing I was like what?
That's like so good. So good. All right and now do we have another question? Sarah that
answered it okay-ish? Well Sarah has got another question. Okay. What do you mean by use their ASIN?
That's a great great question. So when you're in your PPC dashboard you will be able there's
different ways to advertise and one of them is to advertise against another product which would be
their ASIN right and so you click that you say yes I want to advertise against another ASIN
or product and then you would put that book's ASIN in it and then you set up your campaigns the same
way. So what it does is you every time that book pops up then your book would pop up next to it.
I don't know if y'all have ever seen that before that you'll see all of a sudden if you're like
looking for something specific and you'll see the same thing keep popping up and then you'll
you'll see the same thing keep popping up next to the same product and it's sponsored that's
what they're doing. They're like they're advertising with that ASIN and you still set
up how much you want to spend and so on and so forth but I find with books that's a great way
to be able to use those high searched keywords that then legally we can't use. Does that make
sense? Okay cool. Can what you're doing right now can this be done in the Helium 10 free version?
You know I'm so sorry guys I don't know off the top of my head what is available in the
free version. I assume you still get this search volume. You do you get that. So if you get the
search volume and you get competitors I'm 99% you get competitors and then you still can.
I don't have the premium version. I don't know if y'all notice that I have like the middle version
so I don't have the up the the you know there's like multiple levels. I have like the medium one
so I don't even have the highest one right now. Yeah that's usually what we have people in
Rainmaker get to so yeah. Okay and then a question about how to start ranking.
When I typed in mom and me journal I was trying to find a good search keyword that I could use
for the title but once I launched only my friends have bought the book and so she's wondering how to
start ranking. Okay so like anything when it comes to ranking your goal is to get to the front page
with books specifically you will not start selling until you have 10 to 20 reviews.
So your first goal always is to get 20 to 30 review 20 to 10 to 20 reviews the more them
the better. I have seen that there's no point of doing I say that of course we don't do any PPC
until you have 10 to 20 reviews because you're just going to be throwing away your money.
Books will not sell without those reviews. I think sometimes it's because it's more like
an education thing like a product people are more willing to be like but books it just won't
happen. So if you're not ranking I want you to first make sure that you have enough reviews.
See how many reviews your competitor has. Okay and then after that if you're still not making
any sales go ahead and run your your book through just like what we just did run it through and do
a reverse search to see how many keywords you're ranking on. Take your competitor
see how many keywords they're ranking on,
and then you're gonna take the ones that you're missing
that you could rank on easily from their listing,
and you're gonna pull it over into your description, okay?
So the way we rank is we get those keywords in,
people start finding us,
and then we start getting onto those other keywords, okay?
At that point, if you're still not on page one or page two,
then that's when you would start thinking about doing PPC,
okay?
Now, before that, if you are on page one or two,
and you are not selling at all,
then the next thing would do, and the keywords are good,
then the next thing to look at would be your cover.
So I always say that, right?
First is keywords, next is cover, and so on and so forth.
So rankings, just like any other product,
you gotta get people to buy on those keywords,
and you have to start being shown up
on the keywords to be bought.
Did that answer it, Katie?
Okay, cool.
So cool.
And then are there niches that are less competitive
or a price point that's most purchased to look at?
So I'll tell you the most competitive,
I don't know the least
because it changes all the time, right?
And just like any products on Amazon,
of course, there's gonna be some
that I won't even know off the top of my head,
the most and least.
I will say the most, I'll tell you what I know,
the most competitive is if you just put the word
children's book in and nothing else.
Children's books are the most competitive,
so that's why you have to niche way down.
The example I gave yesterday,
the company Modern Kid Press,
they have all their books are very geared
towards homeschoolers and activity books.
So they're still children's books,
but they've niched down
so that they're still under that category,
but they found a niche within the niche, okay?
Books are always gonna be a niche within the niche.
The most like one that all my like groups talk about,
if you're just like,
tomorrow I wanna go and make money
and I'm gonna hire a ghostwriter,
you're gonna laugh at this, ready?
Paranormal romance.
There you go, that was your nugget for the day,
paranormal romance.
I think I've never heard that one before.
There you go, that's what all the groups say
that there's like,
that's like one of the most categories that people buy
and it's also the most easiest to rank on.
I know it's funny, every time I say it, I'm like,
well, whatever, it's funny.
Okay, does KDP have a Vine program or something similar?
No, it doesn't.
I know that was easy.
No, unfortunately no, no, it doesn't.
And then Sarah was saying she saw a YouTube clip
that your book has to have a boost
the first 30 days from launch.
Right, so this goes back to the same concept
that we know with our normal just Amazon products, right?
It's called, we used to call it the honeymoon period.
Some people still do, some people don't,
but basically it's that window of opportunity
that Amazon gives you a little more like boost
because you're a new product.
So yes, that's why I'm so adamant
about get your reviews in place,
get everything in place before you hit publish.
In the perfect world, if you've already done it, it's okay.
But if you're gonna do it, and I kind of go over that
the way that I lay out the like 30 days before I launch,
because also reviews help you rank.
So that's why I'm always about reviews
on those first days, get those reviews, get those reviews.
And there's so many ways now that you can get them
and easily to do that.
So you, I've lost my train of thought
because I was, I saw Tara's comment, sorry.
She's thinking of making a historical romance novel.
Awesome, see?
So what was the question again?
I'm sorry, Daniel, I should have looked over there.
I should close this down.
You can.
Oh, boost in the first 30 days.
Oh, yes, sorry, I apologize.
I've closed out the chat, so I can't see y'all chatting now.
It's so funny.
So yes, you are gonna get a boost
the first 30 days to say all that.
So get everything in line, get that launch team,
get your A plus content all set up, get everything.
You can load everything up on KDP
and just don't hit publish until you're ready.
With eBooks, you can actually set up a launch date
ahead of time, which is cool.
So that if you're making the eBook version,
you can say, I'm gonna set it up for 60 days from now even,
and you don't have to worry about it.
just to automatically upload on that day, okay?
But yes, keep those first weeks,
try to get as many reviews as you can,
start climbing your way up.
On the topic of reviews,
how do you get reviews if you're not published?
Right, it's a great question, great question.
I know it feels, I know it appears that it's confusing,
but it's basically what you're gonna do
is send out a copy, a digital copy,
to your, what I call review team,
and they're gonna read it or look at it,
and then the day it goes live,
you send them a link to review.
So you're, what I mean by collecting,
you're giving out, you're collecting as in,
you're getting that group ready
so that the day it goes live,
you say, go leave me a review.
Yep, and so this is the help collect
before officially your launch.
Correct, because if you don't do that
and you're sending out your book the day you launch,
then it's gonna be days or weeks
before you can get those reviews in.
Right, that makes total sense.
Yeah.
So smart here.
Okay, so somebody's asking about their product.
They wanted to upload their digital product.
The only option was soft, softback,
or black and white with a coil binding.
How do you know like which one to choose?
Is there like a way to get data
or something ahead of time?
Do you just pick?
Okay, I'm reading what she said.
You see Micaela?
Yeah, and there isn't coil binding on KDP.
So Micaela, I would need more what you mean by that.
They don't have coil binding
and they only would let you do softback
or black and white.
Is the, is your planner normally black and white
or is it color?
And you can unmute yourself.
I'll let you talk to me.
Yeah, there you go.
I'm not that scary.
I promise.
Okay then.
She said no color.
She's at work.
Okay, perfect.
No worries.
Okay, so it's color.
And when you go to upload it,
they're saying you can only do color.
I mean, black and white.
It looks like, yeah.
Okay, then you need to check your color settings.
Or softback and color.
For 200 pages?
Okay, guys, I'm gonna show you what I do.
Here we go.
Another share moment.
This is what I do.
I know people think, oh, I'm this great.
No, I just look things up.
Okay, so let's look at this.
KDP color, actually let's do KDP price calculator.
If you ever, and the reason why
is because they change the numbers.
So as soon as I memorize them, they change them.
So we're just gonna go right to the source, okay?
Okay, so you're saying they won't let you do hardcover
in color for 200 pages.
Correct.
I'm just double checking that it's like,
that that's allowed.
Woohoo, has to be $31.
Okay.
Oh no, 3108, 3108, there.
Okay, so as far as that, I thought it was,
it's 70, I believe you have to have 72 pages
to do the color.
Let's see if that's still, yeah, oh, 75, see?
75.
So there's no reason that they shouldn't be allowing you
to do hardcover on it.
The only thing would be, and once again, guys,
this community tab, we go over it more in the course,
great tab to go in and ask questions
if you can't get ahold of someone like,
you know, like if you can't get ahold of me,
you can go in and they already have some information.
But the other thing to consider is maybe it's your interior.
So anytime I'm wondering, I just literally Google KDP
interior color, you know, like what does that,
what does it have to be?
Okay, color.
And I just Google it and it pops up.
So I do wanna encourage all of that,
that a lot of times it's just what I do and I go,
well, I can find it, it's on there somewhere.
Okay, only because I know this.
Is KDP RGB or CMYK?
Here we go.
So that would be the other thing to look at,
is if you are, see right here it says,
recommended.
RGB, which is red, green, and blue interiors, okay? Or CMYK, which is cyan, magenta, yellow,
and black. It's just a different type. So double check that for me to make sure that you are in
RGB, okay? And then if all else fails, yeah, get on a call with Amazon and ask them. Or KDP,
excuse me, not Amazon, but KDP. Because there should be no reason why. So it's either a
formatting issue would be my guess, okay? So go ahead and hop on with them on some customer
support and they could help you more. Awesome. Kind of in the same category with details about
the book. Are there binding options available? Not on KDP. Okay. Paper stock? Yes. So there's
only like two options. And one of the thicker one is like basically it's a little thicker than
printer paper. Let me see. I have one. So if you're making an activity book, a lot of times
I will make the back side either like a gray scale or blank. Oh, my goodness. Things have
fallen. So just so y'all can see. So like this is the thicker one. I don't know if that's helpful,
but you know, there you go. That's that. It's not. And you can always get, which I recommend
you need to get a proof anyway so that you can see it. But like this one, I can kind of sort
if I hold it up to the light, see through a little bit. So. Okay. And then I think you covered this
more in detail in the course. But where can I find the template to put in Canva to build the
book? Yeah, that's all in the course. And I also have in the course a resource that's it's basically
like a document that walks you through Canva. Like it's like a dense down version. If you're
like, I don't understand Canva. It's kind of like a crash course on a little ebook too. But we go in
that more detail in the course. Oh, thanks, Katie. The templates are amazing. But ultimately,
what I try to teach you is each book is different. So while you have templates, you still have to
make the book to your size. We go through that. We go through where we find it. How do we find it?
How do we pull it in? And I do use Canva only because it seems like it's the one that people
feel the most comfortable with and have easy access to. But you can do it in all different
programs. Like my day job, I do it in Adobe programs. Do you see what I mean? So it's not
that you have to do Canva. You don't have to do your formatting in Canva is what I want y'all to
hear. You can even do it in Google Docs. Like you just have to get the formatting correctly.
Katie's saying getting the cover right is the hardest part. Yeah, you have to get that template
and it has to be the perfect size. Yeah. Do you suggest a different company to print with
coil binding? So there are several once again, just if you Google there are several print on
demand companies that do coil binding that you can look into. They aren't going to always be
the in their print on demand. It's just that they won't fulfill automatically. So I don't go into
that as much because my whole goal for you or at least for me is to do it as passively as I can.
If you really were into coil binding, if you really had to have that, I have some resources
that I print with a printer oversee and she gets it done really fast. So you could also she doesn't
have, you know, minimums that you have to order with her. So you could price out that too. If
you're like, nope, I really want it. I have someone that you could use.
Okay. And then I'm just checking to see any last minute. We've got like a couple more minutes here.
Any, any thoughts on quality, higher quality photo or somebody says I've tried to verify my
ID for kdp.com several times and I don't know how I could take any higher quality photos of my
license. Has anyone else had this issue? Have you heard this before? I have not heard of this issue
before. So they're just not letting you open your account because they're not approving your ID or
do you already have your account open? Says Cheney.
This is you.
She says she's tried to verify her ID for KDP.com,
it looks like, to open the account.
Okay, so I guess that's my question.
Is your account open?
It'll be a different answer, that's why.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, so my account's open,
but it just, I assume it's not gonna let me move forward
with anything until I verify my ID,
and it's, I'm probably just gonna have to send them
a message to support is what I'm trying to do right now,
but for some reason it's not taking it.
I would actually get on a call with them.
I would email.
If you can, anytime, get on a call, more than that.
But no, you should still be able to get paid and everything.
They are just, have started because of the influx of AI,
on specifically KDP specifically, they are making us verify.
So like, I don't even know if my account is verified yet,
cause I've been with them for so long.
So keep moving forward, but I would just hop on a call
as soon as we get done with this and just ask,
I don't know, but it's my ID, is there a better way?
All right, thank you.
You're welcome.
I wanted to know if you had an account
because then you would have access to the contact.
That's what I was asking.
That makes sense, yeah.
Yeah.
Is there a way to connect KDP to TikTok shop
so you could also sell there?
Right, so there are some like creative ways
of workarounds for sure.
You cannot, what is not at this point
is that you connect directly to your KDP account.
Like nothing connects to your KDP account.
Part of that reason is because KDP is free.
So some of the benefits of the FBA
or Amazon seller account or any of the others
is because you pay for them.
So there's gonna be a little more features.
I do give you a list though in the course,
there are some different places that will connect
that they're starting to make.
I believe one of them's called Book Byte
off the top of my head.
Let me double check that.
That you can,
I think it's Book Byte.
That will then link to like your Shopify store
which then TikTok would link to Shopify.
And then do you see what I mean?
So there's nothing that will link directly
to TikTok at this time.
You have to link it through another store
for books specifically.
Okay, and I'm just checking the chat one more time here.
I think that is about it.
Any other questions?
We're about to wrap up here.
Okay, so that's it.
So right now some of you have already purchased
the 2.0 version with Camden.
She's gonna be releasing the 3.0 tomorrow.
And Wesley is gonna be coming on the call
and just giving you all the deets.
So make sure you're on this call tomorrow.
We're gonna be going over that.
Also, we heard you loud and clear.
Those of you who are really serious about KDP
and wanna really build this,
we are actually creating a separate community
just for that with Camden.
So that is gonna be through the 3.0 version.
And again, we're gonna talk more about that.
We're gonna talk prices tomorrow.
We're gonna talk if you already have 2.0,
what does that look like for you?
We're gonna talk about going forward,
getting time with Camden and getting into her experience.
You know, leadership and space with KDP.
I know so many people are excited.
I know, get excited.
It's gonna be good.
So yeah, we'll answer very specific questions
about that tomorrow,
just for the sake of us all being on the call.
So yeah, anything else you'd like to drop about that, Camden?
No, I'm excited.
It'll be nice to have us all in one area
that we can still learn from each other.
So it's like a little area for us KDP peeps.
That's also where the replays will be.
It won't be available to the whole group anymore.
It will only be in that area
that we will keep it in the group.
So that is another change.
I know people were asking, that's a changeover.
We used to let the whole community have it,
but now it'll just be the KDP group.
Okay, yeah, exactly, exactly.
We heard y'all, we're doing it.
Tomorrow's meeting will be recorded.
There will be, the replays are found in our Rainmaker app.
Not up on Search Rainmakers yet, but they are in our app.
So everybody who has access to this call
should have access to our app.
And it is under replays.
And Wendy, I saw you, and I got your email.
I'm going to get with you on that.
Yeah.
How long will we have the recordings available
before you switch them to the KDP group?
I believe seven days is what we have right now.
That's a good question, Caitlin.
It is a good question.
See, y'all, that's one of the things
that we don't think about.
Then we're like, well, I don't know the answer.
That would be good to think about.
Yeah.
Who's in the KDP group?
That's going to be the people who
are in the 2.0 and 3.0 version, basically.
3.0.
And we'll get to you, Sarah.
Can you make the call tomorrow?
All right, cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
Awesome.
All right, everyone.
I'm going to wrap it up here.
Thanks, everybody, for being here.
What a cool opportunity it is to build our brands on KDP, too.
Can we just thank Camden just for being here
and just being amazing.
You're awesome, Camden.
Thanks for being here.
Well, I love being here with you guys.
So it makes me excited to see what we're all going to do.
I know, right?
Yeah.
I'm excited.
All right.
We'll see you all tomorrow.
Same time, same place.
Bye.