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hey guys sorry we're a little late trying to get us streaming into the group
if you're there and can hear me hop on board
hey hey camden how are you good how are you sorry i'm like moving because over here just one sec
um sorry about that guys i was trying to get us to get live streaming but i don't know if it's
working so we are just going to hop on and help people join us uh let me see going back over here
okay
all right i feel like just with our transition within to the new
app it's taking people longer to realize that we're having our call
um
on these days so let me put in there
in case people people don't have it on camden are you in the the um the kdp group because i
looked and i wasn't sure if you were in the kdp group on the new app oh maybe that's the issue
i thought i was but i haven't been getting any notices or anything so i was like oh i don't know
maybe no one's asking yeah that might be it because i searched for you inside of the group
and i couldn't find you i was like oh i don't know i just was like i don't know maybe something's
happening okay i will good note to self here let me put our link here and then when we get off the
call i will i think that's probably might be what's happening um let me get our link here
okay see if it has it
all right well those who want to join us if you are seeing us live come on in
and i'm hearing that maybe uh our little group might be or i might be in the wrong i don't know
i'll check on our group within the app sounds like maybe i don't know what's
all right guys let's get going if you have any questions on a kdp throw them out
throw them out gaby are you i do and i am sorry i'm i'm actually uh at the hospital at a birth
but um yeah but my client she's resting so so i'm stepping out to um to join but
yeah i i okay so i am kind of in this um place right now i am going to um soon release release
the the first journal and um i and i really i'm not exactly sure how i'm
going to go timeline wise after that but um
But I'm thinking about Helium 10.
And if you had to choose the two most important tools
that you use Helium 10 for, for KDP, which would they be?
What would you say?
Between Helium 10 and Publisher Rocket?
No, within Helium 10, between X-ray and Magnet and Cerebro.
Well, I use several.
So do you mean, I guess my question is,
are you just trying to figure out
if you need to do the premium or?
Yeah, I'm making decisions about
whether I'm gonna stay with the premium or not.
And even that might be like temporary.
So I'm like, hmm, yeah.
I do not have the full, sorry.
I'm making sure I say the right one
because they change the names of what you have
and don't have.
So let me double check the name of the one.
I don't, I at this time don't have the full,
whatever it is, the Platinum highest level.
Yeah, the Diamond.
Yeah, but I have the one that,
the one right above the basic.
Yeah, the premium, yep.
I did for a while have the Diamond,
if that's what they're calling it right now.
And I used it for a while for ads and such,
but then I went back to premium.
But as far as the tools that I use a lot,
I use X-ray a ton.
And of course, then Sear Bro.
And yeah, I use, well, I'm looking right now.
I will tell you the exact ones.
I use MyList a lot.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
I have so many things on my list.
And then of course I use Magnet, Sear Bro.
I use Index Checker.
I use, so basically I do a lot of the product research tools,
keyword research tools.
And then I do use the listing optimizer
when I'm making a actual list.
But I don't use for KDP the operations really that much.
And then of course analytics,
if you put that on your computer,
but I'm pretty sure that's part of the premium or basic.
So what's going on with the basic?
What do you not get that you're worried about?
Yeah, I'm actually, I'm gonna have to double check,
because I couldn't see the details
for what was in the basic or the free to use,
but I did see that they have an a la carte option
where if you are on the basic,
you can a la carte purchase the specific tool.
So you could create your own tech stack
with X-Ray or Magnet or Sear Bro
or just as many as you want.
But you don't, you actually,
like beyond like purchasing two tools,
you really are better off just doing the premium,
that whole plan that has all of them at a cheaper rate.
And so, yeah.
And everyone does what works for them,
but then there's people who will turn it on and off as well.
So you just have to figure out
what works best for you and your goals.
But Helium 10, I keep on at all time for me and what I do.
So I don't know if that was helpful at all.
No, no, I think it was.
Well, okay, this might help me a little bit.
Do you feel like you use Magnet more than Sear Bro?
I use them both equally.
I hate to say it, but I use both of them.
Okay.
I use both of them.
It just depends on which way I'm researching.
Yeah.
Cause I'm almost wondering
if I can get some of the Sear Bro benefits
by still keeping X-Ray
or if it would actually just like block out
some of that information if I didn't have Sear Bro,
but still have X-Ray.
Yeah, so I'm not sure.
And of course there's Helium 10 groups
that might be get better responses as far as who likes what.
But for KDP specifically,
it's like any other product other than the refund genie.
So it's like any other time
you want to check up on your products, so.
Okay, okay.
Well, this is helpful.
I'm just gonna keep thinking it through, yeah.
All right.
Okay, does anyone else have a question?
Tammy, do you have a question?
I see your face.
If you guys are...
Oh, and then Tammy's saying,
what is she saying about Helium 10?
Let's see what her thoughts are.
I think it's just depending
on where they're at in the process.
Yeah.
If you're actively building
and you're using all those tools,
then like, I don't see why you wouldn't want them.
But then after you launch and stuff,
you're still gonna want to track things.
So like, you know, I know people always want to turn off helium 10 like that's the first thing I always hear students say and I'm just like, just depends on how you're using it like, you know,
Yeah, yeah, it's just one of those that you have to kind of figure out but I keep mine on at all times because I use it all the time.
So, but I'm always building.
Yeah, that's how that's a great, a great point. And you can that's I'm saying some people will like do it in bulk checks and research and then use it for something else but yeah.
Do you have a question, Tammy, are you just here to hang out, which I mean I kind of was listening. I'm in that I have some keywords that like for a
So I actually was listening to a webinar recently, and the guy was talking about KDP, he has like over 2000 like he has so much KDP.
And he was talking about like pairing it with products and, you know, using it like, you know, just constantly and how people like if you have a book, people just see you as valid, you know, regardless of, you know,
It's just, you know, so it was, it was fun to see that that we've had that in our community, but just to hear that from, you know, a different, a different perspective and some high level, you know, top sellers and stuff so
Yeah, one thing that I'm like playing with is a
And I don't have the keywords in front of me, but it's there's like 59 keywords around kind of end of life journals.
Mom, tell me everything type of thing, you know, like
So, I mean, there's a ton of keywords. And I know that the TSC RK you guys. I mean, in KDP, we basically just follow that along like finding your TSC RK
Correct smaller keywords, you know, and the important thing is having that TSC RK or in your title.
It's still I mean it's like any product right it's just that our book title also
Is our product title. So yeah, I always advise to have three to five keyword or keyword phrases in your title or subtitle evergreen phrases or keywords.
And as far as the numbers. I still like to look for as high as I can, but I don't go under 1000 for those
But I have some that are 10,000 20,000 so it just kind of depends on where you find your niche.
Yeah, I found some and some pretty high
I mean, like everything looks really good. You know, like there's the, you know, the competing products aren't terrible, you know, like that kind of thing, but
One of the things that I've kind of dug into a little bit because I have a laundry brand.
And part of my laundry brand is like it's with that it's to do with the loss of my mom of building a kind of a heritage brand of like what women went through before. So after that, listening to that I started writing
A book with stories of the laundry stories from our family like times gone by, you know, the first ringer washer that, you know, no one had for towns around. So everybody came to see it in action, you know, I mean, you know, those kind of things that kind of to preserve memories, but like
So if you are putting that together like what would you go into word formatting. Would you go into like what what formatting, would you do for
As you're building it. Yeah, so, um, I keep, I do a lot of Google Docs and things. And I'll give you a link to one of those as well.
Um, to me, that's the easiest. Everyone's different, but it's because I'm such a big fan of Google Docs.
So, um, I do a lot of Google Docs and things. And I'll give you a link to one of those as well.
Um, I keep, I do a lot of Google Docs and things. And I'll give you a link to one of those as well.
Um, to me, that's the easiest. Everyone's different, but it's because I'm such a big fan of Google Docs.
So, um, I do a lot of Google Docs and things. And I'll give you a link to one of those as well.
So, like, when I'm starting to build, it's kind of like sticky notes. That's kind of how I treat it.
So if I see something that would fit more under this chapter or this, like, kind of grouping, then I kind of move them together.
Even if I just call it group one or whatever. Um, because then it helps me keep my thoughts together.
Especially as I'm building. Um, when it comes to a book like that, when it's more of a...
you know, story narratives of your life,
then you can group it that way.
I still think it's the easiest,
but that's because I'm a visual person.
Some people like Monday boards.
If you really like Monday boards,
some people will do it that way.
But I just find Google Docs the easiest.
And I don't even put them in.
Now I will say I keep a lot of like numbers
and info in Google Sheets.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But when it comes to just the actual manuscript itself,
I just, the Docs to me are the easiest.
Well, I've gotten out of Word.
Like I have a Mac, so I don't have Word.
Like I'm not paying for Word or, you know, like Microsoft.
And so I was like, okay,
I don't wanna be like setting myself up
to where I have to like change everything down the road.
Yeah, because I'm not really working
on formatting right now.
I'm just like working on like content.
So that's why I just thought I just wasn't sure like,
and I've been going through the KDP course,
but you know, it's like you go through it
and then you start getting sidetracked.
So I just wanted to like, as I'm doing that,
I don't wanna be like, oh shoot,
I have to reformat and do all this stuff.
I will say another cool thing that ChatGPT will do
is format it for KDP specifically.
I don't know if y'all have ever tried that,
but you can actually pull your whole manuscript in.
And I would suggest doing it like,
if it's in chapter form,
do it in chapters or certain chunks
because it can get overwhelmed, ChatGPT.
And then just name it a new, like a new project.
And it will format it for you.
You can say, I need it to be KDP size eight and a half by,
like you can literally put everything in
and it will even make it certain fonts for you.
Like you can give it how you want it to look.
So it's a new, it's becoming a new way
to format books as well.
But you can also format it in Google Docs.
Like you just start a new doc and you just copy and paste.
Or if you have it so organized and it's done,
the thing is it's about the sizing, right?
So you just have to make sure you get the sizes right.
But otherwise, yeah, you can do it right there
in Google Docs and export it as a PDF and you're good to go.
Okay.
Yeah, I was kind of, that was my plan.
And then, you know, I was talking to somebody,
I have a friend that she's trying,
she doesn't take any training.
So she's trying to do like some of the stuff.
She's like, oh, I have to reformat these things for Word.
And I'm always telling people about Google Docs,
but then I'm like, okay, wait a second.
You know, like when people are, you know,
like old school and used to this, that's what, you know,
so I'm just like, I don't want to be setting this up.
Well, I use all of them.
Like I also then format in,
cause I do all for like clients and stuff
in Adobe InDesign, which is a whole nother thing,
but I still organize in Google Docs.
Cause it's easy and it's accessible to everyone.
That's why I like it, especially like if, anyway,
that's what I like.
Doesn't mean you have to do it that way, but I like it.
I mean, I used to be like Word everything,
but then I've had my Mac for a while.
So it's like, I've just been out of that spectrum.
And then with us team-wise,
we use Google Docs all the time and it's so easy
for collaborators, for, you know, anything.
So I just.
It's also nice if you have proofreaders,
you can just send them the Google Doc link.
Like there's, it's just the easiest to me and it's free.
Like, so, or overall it's free.
So that's what I would do exactly what you're doing.
Awesome.
I just thought, well, before I get too far, but.
And I will say, I try to be organized in the sense of,
like I said, keeping it like a sticky note.
So like if I'm doing a story of that day,
then I make it, you know, a title or subtitle
so that I can keep it on the left-hand side.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, so that,
and if y'all don't know what I'm talking about,
it's just basically you can put a heading,
subheading, subtitle,
and it will make you basically an outline
on the left side of your page.
And so that you could click to it and go to it easy.
So that would be my only thing for anyone
is just to try to keep it organized from the start.
Even if it's just the date,
like just some way that you know where to go back to
so that you're not scrolling through hundreds of pages
if you end up with a book that large.
Because that gets real confusing.
Hopefully not.
Well, you might, you'll be surprised.
It's like going,
because I actually was asking chat,
DPD, I'm like, how long do you think this will be?
Because I'm going to like my great grandmother
and then my grandmother and my mom.
And then I was talking to my aunt
because like some things with laundry are like,
how did they dry everything in the middle of winter?
When they washed everything by hand.
And so I was talking to my aunt about it
and she's like, oh yeah,
I remember we had like those drying racks
in front of the stove.
Like, you know, and, um, just things that like our history gone, gone by, but,
you know, like kind of going through.
So I just thought it would be fun, you know, and maybe use it for snippets
for my social media is my, kind of my goal.
So.
Amazing.
And you should totally do that.
Like always two for one or three for one, I'd say.
So, um, I think it sounds amazing as far as that.
And then I don't know if you're saying you want to take that with the end of
life or those two separate things kind of, but they're going to, like, I'm
trying to figure out how to marry everything together because some of like
me starting my brand was to do with my mom passing, you know, and like, it's
preserving memories that people don't realize that they should ask questions
and do some of those things before it's too late.
And so it will be like, I can use the one brand and promote the other brand
because they're going to like, you know, um, that's awesome.
I know.
Cause I can just see a whole, even just book on, you know, the, it is it's
asked the, ask the mom, I don't know the exact keyword, but the one that
you're talking about, it is got good, good, um, Numbers.
That's the word I'm trying to say numbers.
Um, but it's always like, yeah, tell me everything.
That's another one.
There is one of those that you need.
Sorry, go ahead.
There's one of those to just double check the, um, trademark on.
Yeah.
I was kind of telling me a story.
I think that's the one just check it.
If it, if the numbers look too good to be true, just check it.
Um, and I don't, some of these, I don't even know how they become
trademarked because you're not really actually allowed to trademark phrases.
So I don't know how some gets snuck by when we're trying to just
trademark a brand and they won't.
Yeah.
It's like a five minute journals.
Right.
Like, how can you trademark that anyway?
Just double check that otherwise looking at it.
And when I was originally taught GPT with my idea, um, it was like two books.
Mom, um, kind of tell you, tell me your story.
Mom, tell me everything.
There's like two, like a book set and it would be like for some, yeah, just.
Um, but there's, yeah, there's some things that I could definitely add
to it with the whole KDP part of it.
Recipes, you know, all those kinds of things.
So, um, yeah, I feel like it could be the random stuff.
You don't think to ask your mom would be a great one too.
Like laundry is one, right?
What we don't ask, what do you do?
And then you find these things out and you go, oh, that's smart.
Like here's one.
I didn't know for years, the silly little cups that you put underneath
to get the, like detergent out, you know, your little, the little cup that
you can just throw those in the wash when you're washing your clothes.
I was like 40 before I figured that one out.
I should have asked mom that anyway, that's I'm digressing.
But my point is, so when my mom passed away, I think she had five ironing boards.
She had how many boards?
Five.
She had a built-in one and then she had like a tabletop and then she
had like two, two to three others.
So either four or five and like three irons.
So she would iron everything and she would put it in the, like, she would put it away.
She'd hang it up and then she'd iron it again before she'd wear it.
And I'm like, what's the use?
She's one of those, but I feel like you're either an ironer or not.
I am a not ironer.
So, but I used to be like, I grew up in that era, but like, yeah, it's just funny.
Cause I was like, mom, what's the sense?
Like you ironed it already, but like what, you know, so she'd
always have a basket of ironing.
Yeah.
Well, you could even do like, look how my brain, you know, me, you could even do
how fun would it be a whole coloring book just on ironing boards for those who love
to iron and they could all have different patterns on them.
I love that.
Anyway.
Um, I think it sounds great.
I can't wait to see it.
What you do it and the whole, whole brand.
Yeah.
It's going to be amazing.
Yeah.
It's a lot of work.
It's a lot of thinking, but you know, I'm like, okay, I'm like in Camden's
world, thinking about all this stuff.
And then when I was saying that I was just like, I never thought about like
putting the stories together from, you know, I think it's, I think it's amazing.
Yeah.
Yes.
You are in my world now.
Just make yourself a list.
That's why I said, I use the list too a lot.
Helium 10, all my lists of all my keywords.
So, oh, I know I have like that.
I mean, it's the mom told me your story, that whole thing.
There's, there's like 59.
There's one book that's like, um, there, there was a, there was worse
moms than you or something like that.
You're the worst dads and there's a worse dad than you.
And I was like, kind of like,
Yeah, yeah.
In that world.
Yeah, it's a good one.
All right, Tammy, let me see if anyone else wants to say anything.
If not, I will do all the other books.
I have a zillion questions.
Well, you go for it.
Let's do it.
I'll only ask one at a time.
OK, perfect.
So I have a copybook that I just launched.
And I had wanted to put a little companion book with it.
And I was going to do an e-book.
But Amazon, I'm having a hard time getting them out.
Because you can't send the emails to the customers.
Half of them have opted out.
So it never ends up getting to them.
So I'm thinking maybe I should switch to a KDP book
that I can just companion with them.
So you guys were kind of talking about companion things.
And it fits right in.
So I guess my first question is, if it's
a book that's specifically going to be bundled
with that other product, it's not necessarily one
that I would sell independently.
So how much of the keywords should I
try and incorporate into the title and the subtitle?
Or do I just put the basics that I will just bundle with that?
I hope I'm making sense.
OK, you're totally making sense.
So I just want to clarify a few things.
So you cannot bundle just automatically.
You can't do virtual bundles.
You cannot do a virtual bundle with FBA and KDP.
And KDP, you can't.
OK, I thought I read somewhere that you can't.
You can't virtually bundle them.
So I'm going to tell you how you can do it.
But you can't just like we can do
when we go into our Amazon seller account.
And we can go link this product and this product as a bundle.
You can't do that.
Because KDP is a totally different.
It's on the same platform.
But it's like its own little world over here.
So the thing that I have seen people
have the best luck with, what is your product, by the way?
So it's a grouped copy book.
Oh, it's already in a book form.
OK, and it's already printed, like fully printed?
And selling?
OK.
So the thing that people, to me, have the best,
I hate the word luck, but that's what it is.
That seems to work the best is if you
have like a QR code in your product or product insert.
That then links them to an e-book.
Because you're correct, it's hard to,
it's not even that we don't, they're sending emails out.
The problem is that we get so many emails
that people don't check them, I think, is what's happening.
And so I have found that if you just add an insert,
then that makes them, then they know
that's where the e-book is.
Obviously, your books are probably already there.
Are they already at the warehouse?
Right, they're already, so, and that's my plan for next time,
is I should have added an insert.
But by the time I figured out all of this stuff,
it was too late to add the insert or the QR code.
And so I was using the Helium 10 follow-up for the emails
to include the QR code and a link to a portal that
would gather emails and get them the e-book.
But I've had a bunch of them say that they opted out
of Amazon emails, and so it won't even get to the customer.
Yeah, so next time, I'm totally going to do an insert
to include it.
But yeah, it's been a pain.
So unfortunately, because that's starting to happen,
I think that's what I'm seeing.
That's the trend I am also seeing,
is people are, too many emails from Amazon.
And so it's like, we don't want any more emails.
And so it's like, how then can we reach our customer
if we can't depend on emails?
So you have a cookbook, which is even better.
You could just put a QR code anywhere in the book,
and it's all within the legal terms of service, because,
or also, you can include in any of your products.
But you do have to have a way for them to get it.
So in the meantime, let's think this through.
Let me help us think it through.
If you can't get the email, so is there
anything in the book at all that tells them to go anywhere?
Is there any type of QR code or no?
OK, it's just the cookbook, OK.
Well, it's a handwriting book, a copy book, not a cookbook.
A copy book, not a coffee.
Not a coffee book, a grooved, so it's a grooved handwriting
book for kids.
Oh, this is making more sense now.
I was like, well, I don't know.
You might need to e-book with your coffee book.
What do I know?
Um, oh, the silly emails are the problem.
Okay, the emails are working.
Is that working?
Everything's working just fine.
It's yeah.
The emails are working for people who haven't opted out.
Okay, perfect.
That's good to know.
So how many, how many do you have left?
How many products do you have left before you restock?
A lot.
Okay.
So if you, if it is that important to you for them to have it with that product,
then you're either going to have to have them pack it and, or you
call them back and pack it.
So I think what your pros and cons to that.
So what I would, this is what I would do.
If I were you, I would go ahead and figure out what your ebook
is and make it a KDP book.
Like, what is it first off?
What is it?
And then I, that will help me too.
So what it is, I can show you actually, it's just a companion book.
So it has, let me flip my screen around and I can show you if I can flip it.
There it is.
Cause I've got it all designed.
So this is the cover.
And then if you zoom out, so there's just tracing pages, it's the alphabet and
tracing pages, and then like 10 blank pages.
So I want to do a more thorough one that I'll actually go through the whole KDP
course, like keywords and sell it all by itself.
But this one will just be kind of a companion one.
Okay.
So in the meantime, you're already giving people that
download if they get the email.
And does it say in your listing that they get that?
It did, but I pulled that out because it wasn't working very well.
So right now it doesn't say anything about the ebook.
So I would go ahead for now and be like, okay, we're doing plan B and
we're going to make this work.
And then when we send a new product, go ahead and put an insert in.
Okay.
But in the meantime, I would go ahead and make an actual KDP book.
You can either do the digital, you can, I would do paperback and
I would do an ebook personally.
And the reason why is the ebook I would set up on Kindle unlimited
and it's part of the course, but basically you're going to set up
what's for something called Kindle select.
And that means anyone who has Kindle unlimited could get your book for free.
So it's a way for someone to get their book for free.
If they have Kindle unlimited.
And then also in that, you're going to put a page that links back
to your actual physical product.
Okay.
Inside of that book.
Then you're also going to make a actual copy, like an actual paper
copy, right, like a physical copy.
And you're going to make that, if you want it to sell by itself, then yes,
go ahead and go through the course and make sure you understand
the keyword part of it.
But it's just like any other product.
We're trying to find those keywords.
I would actually make that.
And then if you really want to, really, really want to, then you
could actually physically, like you could do, you could obviously do a
bundle if you list that as one of your products, then within
your Amazon seller account.
That was a long ways to say.
So you though, would either have to mail in the books into Amazon,
Amazon seller, or you would have to ship them like FBM.
Does that make sense?
So it just kind of depends on what you want to do.
But in the meantime, you already have it all.
You need to get it going and launched, and then that could bring in some
money as well while you're waiting.
And then if you really want to just go ahead and mail that in as an
option for people to bundle.
Okay.
So there's no way I'm just rephrasing to make sure that I'm on the same page.
Um, so if I have the KDP book up, there's not a way to have the FBA
per, um, product linked with the KDP companion guide, I would have to print
out the companion guide and send it in as an FBA product in order for
those to be bundled together.
Correct.
They don't link it as of this, as of now, they don't just
automatically link.
Okay.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
And then, so do I, well, I guess I just have to decide if I want to just do
the companion guide or the full book.
Yeah.
And you, you need to run the numbers as well, because as soon as you do
bundling, like books are a different world on Amazon, so I doubt your
tracing book, is it in the book category or is it under children's like
supplies or education or it's in something like that, right?
Another category.
Okay.
So the only thing is if you do a bundle, like, right, like we're talking
about and you mail some in is then you're going to be switching book
category as in your book will be in a book.
category and the one negative to that is you have all your normal FBA fees and
then you have a closing fee on top of it okay I know I don't know why there's
certain things but books are one of them they have an extra closing fee when you
sell them through Amazon seller so I'm just telling you that up front so when
you're running you can make a educated decision in all of this on where to
spend your time and energy but either way I would go ahead and get that going
like you have a product so just get it get it going and then eventually you
could also use it on Etsy or any of the other sites as well because you'd
already have it done and ready okay sounds good I think that answers most of
my questions okay I think I'm sure I'll have more but I'll come back and ask
more later all right I know we have our small little group until everyone gets
used to finding us on the new app I think we we have right which is nice
because then we get one-on-one time Tammy do you have another question well
there's um there's a couple people commenting in the app on the time so
thank you and there is any questions in the app but I did say it's now three
Pacific time so somebody might hop in perfect so it looks like this whole time
I thought I've been in the KDP group on the new app but it looks like I'm not in
the KDP group so that's if y'all are like wise came to not answering
questions doesn't look like you're so you're not in the group so we'll have to
make sure I don't know silly me this whole time I thought I was in there are
you able to access it at all the KDP group or the Rainmaker family app the
KDP app a group in the app I don't see it the only one I have is the Rainmaker
mastermind now I used to have the KDP when it first was done it was up there
and so this whole time I thought it was up there and then today when I went into
my groups when someone said you're not in it and I'm like I'm not and that
weird I don't know I'm sure it's with all when we were creating it it got me
mixed off somehow I'm man but maybe not admin and I know isn't that funny here
let me see
yeah well while you can see their questions yeah I was gonna I'll tell you
what cuz there there's a couple questions that might just be nice to
talk through so oh so the reviews for the journal so how's everybody getting
reviews on the journals I don't have a friend or family review team so it's
been slow going for me trying to keep the cost down and using different
services recommended in the course would love to hear your successes is this
something that I mean oh we talked a little bit about the review thing do you
do you know like were we talking about maybe having it to where they can post
it and you know post them in this channel so other people can yeah anytime
for reviews and books but also once again the ends stuff I'll just say
state Steven stuff email is the best resource I use oh it's free you're in
have it linked in the course and you have to do the work of asking people
like but that's a whole giant group of people that will review your journals
for like every time because it's once again you're saying hey it's all within
terms of service you get to send it to him you could literally tell them review
it this is for reviews only the only reason you're kidding like you can do
all of that and so I my biggest recommendation will always be to use
that group if you want to do it for free you're gonna do the lead leg work but
it's free and it's a lot of people right there and then yeah you can ask in in
the group who wants to do reviews so I think the biggest thing I see with
people is that it is you just have to do the work or hire someone if you have
someone that can do the work for you but the only way that you're personally not
gonna be able to have to do it is either signing up for some of the resources I
tell you about that you're paying basically getting your time
back by paying them to do it. Or if you have an assistant that will do that for you. But otherwise
that's the easiest group. There's also tons and tons of KDP groups on Facebook.
Awesome.
Like all you have to do is put KDP low content book groups and they'll all pop up
and they're all on there and you can get reviews that way too.
And to clarify, Steven's Free Stuff is a form that goes out to that community and then people
respond. So then you would reach out to those people.
Correct.
So just, I don't, you know, some of the newer students probably aren't aware of it because
we haven't been doing the Maldives as much, you know, so.
Right. So in the course we talk about it more and I, we talk about that. It's probably not
always going to be called that, but for right now it's the Steven's Free Stuff and I explain
what that is and then to how to do it. So if you guys are like, I have no earthly idea,
Tammy's right. It's just basically you send out, I have, there's the link there. You can
also find it in the Rainmaker app and you send what your product is and what you need and then
you can get names from that. And then you can keep those names for future. Like I reuse people
all the time now.
Yeah, I agree. And that's a, like, I actually have that for one of my products and I'm going
to use that to build my email list from, because.
Exactly.
You can put on there on your form, whether they want to be included in your email list.
So that's a good way.
Yep. I do the same thing. And if you want any future products.
Yeah.
See if it's KDP, a lot of times it's going to be someone that would normally buy your
products multiple times and they will get a email saying there's a new product out by you.
From your name. So a good group of 30 to 50 people. Like a lot, but it really, really,
really isn't.
No.
You just stuff and then you can re-ask them over and over again. Yeah.
Here's another question.
Ask in the group. Did someone else have something?
Yeah. Here's another question. If I previously published a book on KDP,
but now want to relaunch it using Camden's method, can I just delete the original and
upload it again? Or will KDP flag it as plagiarism since it was already published
on the platform before?
Right. So the bottom line is you have a few options. The first option is you just
redo it and do it as a second edition. And then that would take care of the plagiarism part
because they wouldn't think it was plagiarizing. And they're never going to think it's plagiarism.
What it is is now with all the AI that's coming in, the bots that are the ones who like scan
over everything and they do a ton with KDP because of all the writing. It's the easiest way.
And if you're flagged, you'll just be flagged. Well, this is exactly what it is over here.
And so probably the easiest would be just to do a second edition, like just say edition number two.
But if it's, I didn't hear what it was, why they were wanting to relaunch,
but is it because they don't have the keywords or it doesn't say? I didn't say.
I think she just sounds like she's wanting to do your method. So I'm not sure. Yeah,
I'm not sure if it's. Right. So you can't delete any book that's finally on Amazon and is in the
ISBN, which is the International Standard Book Number. You never can delete it. Like it's not
going to exist. What you can do is you click a button that's called unpublish it, which just
means that Amazon will stop printing it. And. I have a book I had to do that with when I shared
out and then I just uploaded a black cover, so it's just black. So what will happen is it'll.
Oh, I thought it was just me, is it is Camden the one that's frozen?
I thought it was me, too. So I don't know.
OK, I was like she was like talking and I thought, oh, so I just kept typing because I was.
Trying to like answer that question.
And I was like, I've been known to do that.
So I'm like, oh, it's just, I'm like, I came on and she's like, not there now.
I don't know.
Looks like she's disappeared altogether.
So that's funny.
That's funny that we're still here.
So like that, it didn't end the zoom, right?
I know she should be coming in anytime.
I would think she'll be back.
I, that's the thing that I can't stand is, um, like calls, like,
yeah, people just come and go.
Who's the cutie behind you?
Well, this is my Addie.
Hi, I thought it was Barbie.
It's Barbie too.
I get you.
I got to see you twice today, Aubrey.
I know I have.
I feel like I have a million questions that I'm like trying to
figure out a piece at a time.
And when you mentioned that there's so much going on in your brain, like I
know I have, like, yeah, I need to be better about compartmentalizing.
And I'm just not, I'm back.
Sorry.
I have no idea what happened, but I was gone for a minute.
No, that's okay.
I was like, I thought it was me.
And so I was just trying to type like responses to the answer.
So, um, since you're not in the group, um, I can, I can put the recording and.
Thank you for that and we'll get that situation.
And anyone who's watching, we'll get that fixed.
Since I thought I was in the group.
I just thought y'all weren't asking any questions.
I'll be honest.
I thought maybe nothing was going on that you needed help with.
Oh, I asked her for more context on that.
Cause I don't know why she's, you know, um, wanting to do that, but kind
of just responded with what you're saying.
So, um, yeah.
And many times it's just because, um, you learn that there's an, it depends on how
many reviews you have and all of that.
If you have a lot of reviews already, then I wouldn't relaunch it.
I would just work on getting back up to the front page of some keywords.
So there's, it's not initially black and white answer on that one.
Awesome.
Um, do you know anything about international sellers?
Like, I know, uh, Sarah folk has asked about setting up her KDP account.
She's trying to figure out like, you know, why is, is the, um,
or you can transfer money.
I don't know if you've used wise before.
Um, but she's trying to figure out like opening an account to have payment.
Do you know anything about that?
Okay.
You cut out.
Is she international?
No, it's Sarah.
She's not international.
She's saying from her international sales, she's needing to get paid.
She's saying I should set up my KDB account, but that is no way to
do a regular connection to wise.
They say I have to open my account on Amazon before I
do connection from that end.
What kind of account do I need on Amazon to sell KDP?
And is it the same, um, more I need as an international seller?
So yes, she's an internet international seller.
I'm not sure if she's just in Canada.
I think her problem, cause I remember her asking, am I cutting out?
No, it's Camden again.
I feel like looking at another screen.
So I'm not seeing like, like, dang it.
She's not answering me or Camden.
She's sitting in the same spot.
There's Amanda.
Amanda's coming.
Oh,
off my phone and came back on, on a different device.
Cause I thought it was me, but she looks like she froze.
Oh, very stressed out situation.
Are you needing help?
Do you have a question?
I just signed up like a day and a half ago.
So I'm super new.
Um, and this is my first call in for, I thought there was actually going
to be a link that's just this group.
So I thought there, I was looking for one that was different than
the one that's in the calendar.
Um, so we have the calendar, um, zoom, and then if you look on the app, you
should see a KDP in the app as a specific group, I do see that as a group.
I thought that this call was getting changed to a different
link that was just in the group.
So that's what I had been looking for.
Well, Camden's not in the group.
She didn't realize she wasn't.
So we're going to get her out of the group.
So it's not, um, it's not, um, going into the group right now.
So I'm being fed into the group right now, but I'll have the
recording in the group later.
Okay.
That sounds great.
And it's going to be a delightful one because somehow it keeps cutting me off.
Like all of a sudden zoom's gone, but I'm back again for the third time.
I'm sorry.
Guys, I have no idea.
Amanda said that she just joined a couple of days ago.
She just joined KDP.
So she was just trying to figure out the calls.
So.
Yes, Amanda there every third Friday at three.
So it's three.
Yeah.
Third at three.
So welcome to the group.
Well, but to conclude the question about KDP and accounts, you have to have an
Amazon account, but you can have just the basic Amazon account.
It's because they need info to connect.
That's it.
So I don't, the international, um, if you have to have an international
Amazon account to do KDP.
I think she's struggling with the payment part of like trying to figure
out how to set that up.
So the Amazon.
Cause so Amazon, that's the coolest thing about KDP specifically.
So when you sell in any other country, they automatically change it all for you
because you get for KDP, you get something called royalties, not payments.
And so the royalties will always come to you in wherever you're at.
So like for us, us currency.
So that's, what's funny to watch when you, when it comes in each
month, you'll have multiples.
So like I'll have 10 and it'll say from each country, how much you're
getting and your bank account.
It's kind of funny to watch.
That's cool.
So I have a question about that actually.
Sorry, Tammy.
Do you know, I just wasn't saying, so it's not the country that
she has to worry about then.
So that's good.
Awesome.
Go ahead, Amanda.
So, so people are, I guess I'm trying to figure out if I'm understanding
exactly what you're saying.
Like, if you have a personal Amazon account, just I've had one as a consumer.
Um, but now I'm into this Rainmaker world and now the KDP world, and I want to make
sure that I'm setting it up such that there's a business entity that's part of
this and there may in my future be more than one.
So what's, what is the method for that?
Is it, do I need a business type Amazon account or you're saying all that is
still attached onto the individual?
I personally have one.
I have a whole business Amazon, and then I have a personal Amazon.
I keep them very separate.
Not everyone does that, but that's what I do.
Um, and so they're all linked together.
That's what will happen.
Amazon will just automatically start linking them.
So.
Like I've heard, some people will start off with a business and a personal,
and then if you don't want.
Oh,
it's always at the juiciest part of the sentence.
If you don't watch, I'm going to guess, I'm guessing she's saying you're going
to be buying your business supplies and your personal account.
Yeah, it is good to have the separate personal and then that way, like you
have your own bank account for your business and just have everyone feed
into that, you know, Gotcha.
So you have a business level Amazon account.
And that's what you use to attach KDP with.
Okay.
Sorry guys.
I've now hooked to my phone, so hopefully it won't happen.
I don't know what's going on with my internet.
Okay.
Where did I cut?
Y'all said I cut in the juiciest part and then I was gone.
Oh, you heard that you were kind of, yeah, you look like you're whistling.
Um, you were just saying about having, if you don't like kind of being careful
of not having the two, so you're trying to, so all that will happen is Amazon
I just blame it on Amazon.
Pretty much if I'm having a bad day, I just blame it on Amazon.
It's my go-to it's Amazon.
Anyway, um, what they start seeing is if you have a personal one and a business
one, but you get on KDP and your personal ones, like up on your screen,
they'll start linking them together.
So you have to be careful to like, so for me, I will do business on my computer.
And then I do personal shopping on my phone.
Like that's how I do it.
And then I also eventually got a VPN for me, but that's because I have
so many different Amazon accounts.
And you're like, why do you have so many?
Well, because I have Amazon handmade.
I have Amazon seller.
I have Amazon, uh, KDP.
I have Amazon.
There's another one.
What's my other one.
There's one more.
I can't think of what it's called, but it's another one where I do wholesale.
So I've, and then I have my Amazon, uh, KDP, and then I have my Amazon
So I, and then I have my Amazon business account that buys things for business.
And then I have my personal Amazon.
So I lumped all of this in one and I do it all in one area.
So it's no big deal.
If it happens by the way, like it's not this dot, you just go in and change it.
Like it's, it's, it's not that big of a deal.
So I don't want you to be like, Oh no.
And when you.
But when you hopped off, I said, you know, if it's business,
it's nice to have all your payments going to one business
account. So you're not like having it go to personal and
have to try to figure that out with tax wise. But
yeah, and just do it from the beginning, set it up that way.
But that's what I'm saying. Let's pretend one day it
switched over to personal or when it comes up to buy
something, it's really you're buying your Amazon buying
account that would happen to, well, for me, it'd pop up and
it would say not my business name, it would say my name.
And so then I'd be like, Oh, I'm on the wrong one. And I
would just go to the other one.
So you can still do like the profile, like you're just
changing your profile. So it's, it kind of knows Amazon knows
that you're a common thread to all of those. Okay. So when you
set up a KDP account, do you attach it to one of the
profiles? Or is it just
I personally, once again, when I started in the business, I went
and opened up my Amazon business account. And then I did, it's
all connected to my email. So they connected to your email and
phone numbers what they're going to do. So if you want to keep
them all separate, which I advise most people to do it, let
me put this way, your KDP account should stay with your
business, name, phone number and everything. If you one day want
to sell your KDP account as your business, like, if you're never
going to sell it, then do what you want with it. But if you
want it to be part of your business, then keep it separate.
And if you think you might have multiple businesses, do you need
multiple business?
I'm going to tell you what KDP says and then you can make your
own choices. You're not supposed to have more than one KDP
account at a time because they think it's under more than one
business. However, that's your own personal KDP account. If you
like ask them say I'm part of another business with other
business members, can we open up a KDP account, then they'll say
a word like we do not advise it not know they just say they
don't advise it. So I have my brand, my personal brand that I
have my KDP account on this last year, I started another one with
a group of people that were all on it from different parts. So I
have to get on sometimes. So that's also when I use my VPN.
So um, that is up to you. But I'm just telling you what it
says on KDP. I think they did that also because of AI. They're
like, we don't want people just using them and having 20 KDP
accounts. Right? So um, you you're more than welcome. The
other thing to note is on KDP, you can have multiple brands
under one account. So yeah, what you can list as multiple
authors or however you identify those. Let's say you're gonna
one day if you decided to put three brands under one account
and one day sell one of those brands will in that you can
either say will give you access to the KDP account with your
brand or you will pay them royalties from that brand. So
there's ways to do it. I just keep it all separate personally.
But I just want y'all to hear the legal jargon from KDP what
they will say. But write them, ask them. And then if they don't
say no, then you have that as evidence. You didn't say no, you
just said you don't advise it. So that I have, I have another
one that I do with a group of people.
So do you get do you all get to have your own access as your
own selves? Or are you you're sharing?
Yeah, we're like one entity. So we have each of us have access
to it if we want. I have the I do it the most because I make
the books and do all the uploading stuff like that's my
part of it. But anyone has access to it at any time. So
yeah, it's just different logins and different emails and
everything else. So yeah, Amanda, I'm glad you're here in
the crew. I love you. So welcome. Yeah, it holds a
special heart a place in my heart. But I do love it. So we
are here every month. And then if I'm supposed to be in the
group, that will get me in the group. You can ask me questions
in there too, on the Rainmaker app. And I will answer them. I'm
in there every day looking. So just ask it in there.
Fantastic. Yeah, I signed up with the accelerator. So I need
to focus in on where I'm going. And yeah, that's the task ahead.
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Hey, we'll see you in the
accelerator too. So yeah, yeah. Camden, I'll put a note out to
see I'm not sure who adds so we'll get you added to that.
Yeah, and I'll do the same. And yeah, and say what's going on.
So I'll do the same and get it fixed. I'm sure it was just the
initial and I just got kicked out.
Like happens sometimes. So we'll get it fixed.
All right, guys. Well, sorry, I was on and off so much. They kept you on your toes.
As usual.
Camden.
Thanks.
Y'all have a great day.
You too.