There are a few strategies that can help you increase sales on Amazon’s KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) platform:
Write a compelling book description: A well-written book description can help entice potential readers to purchase your book. Make sure to include key details about the book, such as the plot, characters, and themes, and use descriptive language to make the book sound appealing.
Use keywords in your book title and book description: Using relevant keywords in your book title and book description can help your book show up in search results on Amazon. Consider using tools like Google’s Keyword Planner or Amazon’s Search Terms field to identify relevant keywords.
Utilize Amazon’s promotional tools: Amazon offers a variety of promotional tools that can help you reach a larger audience. For example, you can use Kindle Countdown Deals to offer temporary discounts on your book or use Kindle Unlimited to make your book available to subscribers of the service.
Build an author platform: Building an author platform can help you reach a wider audience and increase sales. This could include maintaining a website or blog, being active on social media, and building a mailing list.
Get reviews: Reviews can help convince potential readers to purchase your book. Encourage readers to leave reviews on Amazon and consider offering review copies of your book to book bloggers and other reviewers.
Price your book competitively: Pricing your book competitively can help increase sales. Consider the price of similar books in your genre and adjust your price accordingly.
By implementing these strategies, you can increase your visibility on Amazon and drive more sales for your book on the KDP platform
Amazon Associates Program is the affiliate marketing program of Amazon. You can earn in hundreds of dollars through the commission for each successful sell through your amazon affiliate link.
In this article we will discuss every aspect of Amazon Associates program in an easy-to-understand manner.
This article will attempt to answer these questions:
This article contains: What is Amazon Associates Program? How do you Join Amazon Associates Program? How do you earn from Amazon Associates Program? How does Amazon Associates Program work? How do you create product link for Amazon Associates Program? What is the most important thing in Amazon Associates Program? Website and Blog Strength- How does it affect your performance as an Amazon Associate?
What is Amazon Associates Program?
In simple language, Amazon Associates Program is Amazon’s affiliate marketing program. This means you are paid for the purchases made through your affiliate links at your website, blog or social media platform. Associates are paid commission. For example, if the commission for a Nike Shoes is 20% and someone buys a pair of shoes by paying 200 $, you will be paid 40 $ as the commission.
How do you Join Amazon Associates Program?
To join Amazon Associates Program, you need to apply at below link.
After the registration, you will be asked details about the blog/website/platform where you will be putting the affiliate links. Provide required information. You will be assigned a unique store ID. This will be linked to your account. Put your payment details and thus your account is set up.
Please note that account set up is the easiest part, driving traffic and making sale is the crucial part.
Account settings at Amazon Associates Platform
What you need to understand first before starting your journey as an Amazon Associates?
How do you earn from Amazon Associates Program?
How does Amazon Associates Program work?
How do you create product link for Amazon Associates Program?
What is the most important thing in Amazon Associates Program?
Website and Blog Strength- How does it affect your performance as an Amazon Associate?
We will explore these five questions to help you better understand the Amazon Affiliate Program and focus on most important thing.
How do you earn from Amazon Associates Program?
You earn at Amazon Associates Program through referral commission once a sell is made. The referral commission refers to the percentage of revenue earned as part of the sell made through your affiliate link. For example, if the commission for a Nike Shoes is 20% and someone buys a pair of shoes by paying 200 $, you will be paid 40 $ as the commission.
Referral commission vary for different product category. This link provides details of different referral commission for different categories of product.
Indicative Commission rate for different categories of product
How does Amazon Associates Program work?
Simple. You put the amazon product link at your website, a user clicks on the link and makes a purchase, you get commission for this sell.
So, the key is to make sell. Before that you need to prepare yourself where you can put the product link
How do you create product link for Amazon Associates Program?
Use Site Stripe: You can create Link to any page on Amazon using the Associates Site Stripe. The Associates Site Stripe lets you build your Associates links right from the Amazon page itself. The Site Stripe will appear at the top of every Amazon page and provides quick and easy access for building links and sharing links easily on social media platforms. The Associates Site Stripe is a convenient alternative to using some of the Associate Central linking and reporting tools.
SiteStripe for getting the product links
If you have an active Amazon customer account and you are also an Amazon Associate, you will get this Amazon Associates Stripe at the top of amazon page. From here you can generate the product link which you can share at your blog or social media accounts.
What is the most important thing in Amazon Associates Program?
The most important thing in Amazon Associates Program is to develop strength and expertise in a particular niche. You must become an authority in particular niche. This will establish your credibility in that particular product category and you will be able to get higher conversion rate and hence will be able to generate higher revenue commission for yourself.
Website and Blog Strength- How does it affect your performance as an Amazon Associate?
Your website strength is your USP. People will associate your recommendation with the content you provide. To illustrate, lets assume you want to focus on Sports Shoes niche. In that case you should be able to generate content on Sports Shoes and its various brands, should give genuine feedback and first-hand experience. This will establish your control over the niche and people will buy from your links, leading higher conversion rates. Thus, the way to become successful at Amazon Associates Program is to choose a specific niche and establish your credibility in that niche by creating genuine content, blog post, reviews etc.
You can earn upto 10-15 $ per audio hour through Transcriber job. This can be a good work from home job opportunity for all and especially for those who are good at typing and have a good control over grammar. Native speakers will be at an advantage due to higher pay rate for transcription in the native language. In this article we will discuss the opportunities for Transcriber job especially from the perspective of work from home job set up.
What actually is the Transcriber job?
A transcriber is one who listens to an audio or video clip and writes that into a clean document. This is utilized in providing subtitles. If you watch a Netflix movie and read the subtitles, then it is actually the work of a transcriber to write that audio in form of a text.
Thus transcriber is a language based job. If the audio is in English, transcription can be done either in English, Hindi, German, Chinese French or other languages. So a native speaker will have higher chances of making a transcription in the native language and earn while doing that.
If you enjoy watching movies, this can be a good work opportunity for you.
What is the pay rate in Transcriber Job?
Pay rate for transcriber job usually ranges from 10-15 $ per audio hour. It is to be noted that audio hour here means total 1 hour of clip or video and does not mean that you will get 10-15 $ for one hour of work. How efficient you are, will decide how much you will be able to make per hour. Depending on your efficiency, it can vary from 1 $ per hour to 10 $ per hour.
Step 2: Choose you language and click. The next screen will take you to the test page where you will have to transcribe a given sample.
https://gotranscript.com/transcription-jobs/apply
Step 3: Complete the transcription and submit your work. You will get a confirmation within 2-3 working days. Once you have been approved you can start working.
You can join this Facebook group which is an informal group of people working or those who are willing to work at GoTrasncript. Here you will get a lot of help through community post and mutual interaction.
Step 2: Choose the language you want to work upon. And then complete the subsequent process.
P.S: TranscribeMe is currently taking job requests from selected regions only. Hence you might see this error in case TranscribeMe is not offering the job opportunity in your area:
If you have one YouTube channel and you are wondering on how to branch out or create a more niche specific channel, you might have asked this question to yourself.
Many a times I have to look up for methodologies to add 2nd YouTube channel. In this article I am giving step by step guidelines to add 2nd YouTube channel so as to save your time in getting the idea about this process.
Step by step guidelines to add 2nd YouTube channel:
Step 1: Go to YouTube Studio of channel by clicking on the link https://studio.youtube.com/ . This is how the interface will look like:
YouTube Studio
Step 2: Go To Settings on left hand side of the page. This is how the interface will look like:
Settings Page
Step 3: Click on “Channel” and go to advance settings. This is how the interface will look like:
Advance settings page under Channel option
Step 4: Click on “Manage YouTube account”. This is how the page will look like:
Manage YouTube account
Step 5: Click on “Add or manage your channel(s)”. This is how the page will look like:
Most of the KDP starters launch a series of books in form of journals, coloring book, activity book and then start looking for niches on various platforms including youtube and other platforms. While these are good efforts it might not always bring results as well as the satisfaction you want from your work.
Children’s book is a good option both from creativity point of view as well as earning point of view.
Like, most of the new starters I was also very skeptical about making children’s book.
The main reasons are:
Poor knowledge of bleed and trim settings
No experience on double spread pages
How to get that professional look.
Due to these reasons, the entry barrier for children book for new KDP writers become very high.
In this article, I will share my experience on how to write your first children book and break this entry barrier for you.
How to break the entry barrier for children’s book:
To make things simple, I am giving you a template to follow. This will ensure that you do not face errors while uploading on KDP and get approval immediately.
I will choose 8.5″ x 8.5″ book size with bleed. Bleed means that the designs will spread to the corners of the pages and will not have any white borders. This is how most of the children book look like.
For this size with bleed you need to add 0.125″ to the width and 0.25″ to the height. SO, the effective size for interior pages will become 8.625″ width x 8.75″ height.
Steps to create the children book easily:
Step 1: Choose a custom size 17.25″ x 8.75″ in Canva. Below I have shown the two books which I have created using this method. Please note that 17.25″ is twice the size of your interior width (8.625″). Idea here is to create two pages together and transfer it in interior pages by selecting 8.625″ x 8.75″ size later.
Step 2: Start creating your pages in this 17.25″ x 8.75″ custom size template. Aim for 17-18 pages so that you will get around 35-36 pages book in your 8.625″ x 8.75″ interiors.
Step 3: Create a blank interior with size 8.625″ x 8.75″ size. In your main interior design, leave first page for copyright and other details and start transferring your custom pages from page 2 onwards. This is important to get the double spread pages in final print.
Step 4: First upload your first image in one of the interior page (page no 2), then click in the center and then drag it towards right. This way you will get the first half (it will be page no 2). In next step simply duplicate the page, click in the center and then drag towardsleft for getting the 2nd half (it will be page no 3). Repeat this for all remaining custom pages which you earlier created. This way when you will upload your book on KDP, you will get a continuous page without any break.
This is how the two pages will look together in KDP preview page.This is how the two pages will look together in KDP preview page.
Step 5: Create your cover template using KDP calculator and then upload your files on KDP.
I am giving the link of the YouTube Video which I created showing these steps. It is only a 2.5 minute long video and will help you by showing these steps live.
How to make Children Book for KDP using Canva | Secret which no one wants to tell you.
This is the book link which I was able to create and which I got published in one day.
If you love to write, you can earn while doing that as a freelancer. In this article we will discuss about various platforms through which you can earn while writing an article, story, blog post or poem.
1.Write for Bustle:
you can write for magazine Bustle on various topics like fashion, life style, entertainment, culture etc. The detailed guidelines for submission of freelance articles are given at this link:
Below we have listed few freelance articles which were published on Bustle. This will give you a fair idea of the quality and formatting which is needed for publication at Bustle.
There are dedicated email address provided by Bustle where you can submit your article. These are listed below:
Idea/ Pitch
Mailing Address
Life and/or Wellness
lifestylepitches@bustle.com
Style pitches
fashionbeautypitches@bustle.com
Entertainment pitches
entertainmentpitches@bustle.com
Mailing address for different pitches
2.Write for Freelance Mom
Freelance Mom is a platform where you can share your stories related to pregnancy and motherhood. The article should be original and should help the reader or give a new insight into this new phase of life. If your article is selected you will get 75 to 100 dollar per article.
Freelance Mom has shared the steps which you need to follow for making a submission for the website. This below snippet captures those steps:
Steps to be followed for making a submission at Freelancemom
You can go through this page for more detailed guidelines:
If you want to share some insights about healthy life style, diet plan or for general well being, you can share your article at Healthy Living Magazine. They usually pay 150 dollars for a 1500 word article.
Vibrant Life is a bimonthly lifestyle magazine that promotes physical health, mental clarity, and spiritual balance from a practical, Christian perspective. If you like these topics you can write articles and make a submission at Vibrant Life.
Articles should focus on one topic and stay with that subject to the end. Short articles (450 to 650 words) are always in demand. Feature articles should not exceed 1,000 words and, if the article is informational, should include at least one sidebar (helpful tips, steps to take to accomplish a goal, and additional resource information, etc.). Payment for articles ranges from $100 to $300 per article.
Other detailed guidelines for submission are mentioned at below link. Make sure to check before making a submission:
If you are a traveller you can share your travel experience in form of an article for publication at Transitions Abroad. This is a travel magazine and allows freelancers to share their story. They pay upto 150$ for one article.
Some of the key requirements for making a submission is mentioned below:
You article should be:
Useful, practical information gained from first-hand experience and geared to readers who travel to immerse themselves abroad while respecting the culture and land of the people whose countries (homes) are being visited.
Articles that inspire others to enjoy and explore off-the-beaten track travel respecting natives, their culture, and the land being visited. TransitionsAbroad.com is primarily a space for travelers and travel writers to share information with an emphasis on the practical yet inspirational, or what is currently called “transformational travel” and avoiding over tourism at locations that are saturated
They have given detailed guidelines for making a submission at below link. Make sure to check them out before making a submission:
PhotoStudy is an online platform where you can solve home work questions and earn money. There are different subjects for you to start working. This is the link of platform. The platform is based on bidding system.
PhotoStudy works on a bidding system. Once you have qualified their test and are selected as an expert, you can see the questions in your expert page. Once a question comes you need to make a bid. Bid is made in terms of credit. 8 credit equals 1 dollar. Once you are assigned the bid, you need to provide the answer in 120 minutes. After answer is processed, the bid amount is transferred in your account.
This is how the expert page will look like. This is your workspace. All questions will come here and bidding will take place here.
PhotoStudy workspace for qualified expert. Once you click on “Explain”, below screen will appear.Actual bidding happens at this page.
How do you apply for PhotoStudy?
To apply for PhotoStudy go to this particular link:
The first test “Product & Policy test” deals with behavioral questions like how to answer, how to bid, what are the rules and guidelines for PhotoStudy questions. You can consider this as a general aptitude test and HR round. Once you have qualified this test then you can take subject specific test. Once you qualify subjects specific test you are ready to work on this subjects.
Please note that for subsequent test you don’t need to qualify for product & policy test. It is a one time test and is applicable for all subjects. Hence to work in new subjects you just need to qualify their subject specific test.
Test exam page
How many subjects are being covered at PhotoStudy?
A total of 11. Below screenshot shows all the offered subjects at PhotoStudy Portal. This includes 7 subjects under Homework help and 4 subjects under Tutor chat.
11 subjects being offered.
How much you are paid?
The actual earning will depend on number of questions solved by an expert. Thus it will depend on how many hours of work you put in ever day. It will also depend on your bid amount. Please keep in mind that there might be times when you will not be offered any questions due to shortage of questions and hence there might be a wait time. This usually happens during lean period but again gets improves during semester ends when exam period is near.
On average you can expect to earn 1 to 2 dollar per question for every correct answer submitted by you. This means if you can solve 10 questions everyday, you can expect to earn 15 to 20 dollar every day.
I hope this helps in you getting started at the platform. Feel free to ask any questions in the comment section and I will be more than happy to help you.
Appen is a platform where you can work as a freelancer for micro projects and earn good money. It offers both short term projects and long term projects. Payment varies as per the nature of job.
Various type of freelance opportunity available at Appen Platform
Steps to start working at Appen
First you need to sign up and create your account at Appen. It is very straight forward. you can sign up at the given link https://connect.appen.com
Once you have created your account, you can log in using your credentials at the link https://connect.appen.com
You will find this type of interface after your log in.
Appen log in page for freelancers
You can apply for various projects.
How much you can earn at Appen?
As shown above the pay out can be 6 USD to 10 USD per task.
Once you have applied for any particular task, there will be a short screening test which you can easily qualify after some basic preparation. Once you have qualified you can start working on that particular project.
I wish you all the best.
Let me know if there is any help you need while working at Appen.
