Giving everything I've got into ebook publishing

[AG356]

• Take inspired action early. Don't wait until everything feels "right". Get busy taking imperfect but massive action and inevitable failing occasionally so you can learn and progress. Be grateful for failures and challenges. They are symptoms of impending success.

^ This is a great advice!!! Reminds me of a similar quote from Richard Branson!

Great work and congratulations on your financial freedom - you truly deserve it!!!

 

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[Mattie]

$40,000 or so from this consulting business.

So this is really from your consulting business more, than your e-book sales on KU borrows?

Basically You outsourced all your books, had other people write them, paid for reviews, and paid for advertisement? And you're making This every month now compared to what you said in January?

 

[Ziva]

So this is really from your consulting business more, than your e-book sales on KU borrows?

That $40,000 in June was just from consulting. My income from Kindle (an extra $20,000 or so per month) is separate.

Basically You outsourced all your books, had other people write them, paid for reviews, and paid for advertisement? And you're making This every month now compared to what you said in January?

Yes, all my books are outsourced. I have an assistant that helps me to get review swaps for my books. My Kindle income has grown a lot and continues to grow. I earned around $12,500 in February from Kindle. In May I earned over $22,000 from Kindle. Income from my consulting business varies every month due to how many clients I have. I had many clients for June, so my income was substantial for this month. If I chose to have no clients in July, my income from consulting would be $0. I recognize that my income from consulting is in no way passive. I love it though because it gives me the opportunity to really help people create transformational change in their lives. Even if I choose to not take on any clients, I still am earning the substantial passive income I've created from Kindle.

Oh, and I don't do any paid advertisement. I have done a couple of Facebook ads in the past, but don't currently have any running.

 

[Mikhail Joseph]

That $40,000 in June was just from consulting. My income from Kindle (an extra $20,000 or so per month) is separate.

Yes, all my books are outsourced. I have an assistant that helps me to get review swaps for my books. My Kindle income has grown a lot and continues to grow. I earned around $12,500 in February from Kindle. In May I earned over $22,000 from Kindle. Income from my consulting business varies every month due to how many clients I have. I had many clients for June, so my income was substantial for this month. If I chose to have no clients in July, my income from consulting would be $0. I recognize that my income from consulting is in no way passive. I love it though because it gives me the opportunity to really help people create transformational change in their lives. Even if I choose to not take on any clients, I still am earning the substantial passive income I've created from Kindle.

Oh, and I don't do any paid advertisement. I have done a couple of Facebook ads in the past, but don't currently have any running.

Wow, That's actually amazing income.

How many books do you have published to kindle now ? and sorry if this has been asked or not.. But are they non-fiction or fiction?. I'm going to be getting into the non-fiction books. =)


Amazing!

 

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[mws87]

That $40,000 in June was just from consulting. My income from Kindle (an extra $20,000 or so per month) is separate.

Yes, all my books are outsourced. I have an assistant that helps me to get review swaps for my books. My Kindle income has grown a lot and continues to grow. I earned around $12,500 in February from Kindle. In May I earned over $22,000 from Kindle. Income from my consulting business varies every month due to how many clients I have. I had many clients for June, so my income was substantial for this month. If I chose to have no clients in July, my income from consulting would be $0. I recognize that my income from consulting is in no way passive. I love it though because it gives me the opportunity to really help people create transformational change in their lives. Even if I choose to not take on any clients, I still am earning the substantial passive income I've created from Kindle.

Oh, and I don't do any paid advertisement. I have done a couple of Facebook ads in the past, but don't currently have any running.

This is amazing stuff. I have a stupid question though: what are review swaps? I have a couple titles up (non fiction) andy whole plan was to get reviews on them first. I've read about people paying for reviews but I have no idea how that works.

 

[Chazmania]

@Ziva

Congratulations on your progress! You've moved mountains in the span of like a year. Very impressive indeed!

 

[Mattie]

This is amazing stuff. I have a stupid question though: what are review swaps?

I'm aware of this because I'm on Facebook trying to get honest reviews for my book, and you swap a book with another person read it, and review it. I just ran into a guy from the Phillipines who showed me what people do, probably like here on Fastlane.

They go to elance, fivver, etc. and pay someone to go swap books with people like me, and have a list of books and they target like twenty or fifty books and get reviews for them.

So basically, the first hundred reviews on their book are all fake to make it go up in author rank and sell their books.

Not a path I want to go down, when Amazon just put a law suit up in April against paid review sites, and also track your i.p.

Amazon waits for these elancers etc. to get enough swaps, connect the dots, and suspend accounts. The guy I just talked to didn't even realize this, and fortunately, they're all doing reviews and Amazon knows every review they do is fake. He thought I did the same thing because I have 600 reviews on my account.

No, I read all the time on Amazon and do honest reviews. And don't give everyone five stars. And frankly, I'm not sure swapping books is a good thing, for this reason. You want honest reviews, and I keep running into these peeps working off elance. They don't read the book, and just give fake reviews which don't even match content inside the book.

I suppose some people don't care, but I don't see the point of doing all the work, and having it all collapse, because you want to try to beat the system.

 

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[JaxAttacks]

There is really no protection or way to prevent that. If you catch someone ripping off your work, you could report them to Amazon. I wonder how common that is though. hmm.. something to think about! Don't let that fear prevent you from publishing. In all honesty and reality, interesting characters and compelling stories aren't the most important ingredients for books that sell on Amazon. Of course it is a good thing to have a good story, but there are thousands and thousands of "good stories" published on Amazon that don't sell. Awesome covers, good titles, good keywords, good descriptions, and reviews are what sells books.

Thanks, I needed to be reminded of this!

 

[MTF]

Hey, @Ziva. Any updates?