The Ultimate Guide to Stencil for Merch By Amazon, KDP & POD
What you'll learn
- How to use Stencil to make t-shirt designs for Merch By Amazon.
- How to use Stencil to make Kindle book covers for KDP.
- How to use Stencil to make designs for Popsockets, Phone Cases, and Hoodies for Merch By Amazon.
- How to use Stencil to make self-published paperback book covers for KDP.
Requirements
- Students should have access to a computer or laptop, high-speed Internet connection, and Chrome browser.
- Students will get a free trial to the Stencil design software.
Description
In this course, you will learn how to use Stencil (a web-based online design program) to quickly and easily make amazing designs that you can use for Merch By Amazon products, KDP book covers, social media images, and much, much more. Stencil gives users access to over two million royalty-free images and photos as well as over two million icons that you can use to make eye-catching Merch By Amazon designs and KDP covers.
This course covers the different dimensions and file-type requirements for Merch By Amazon and KDP. This course includes videos showing students how to use Stencil to make Merch By Amazon designs for t-shirts, tank-tops, v-necks, long-sleeve, raglan, sweatshirts, hoodies, cellphone cases, and Popsockets. For KDP, this course shows students how to make Kindle covers as well as specific dimensions and size requirements for full, wrap-around covers for self-published paperback books
You can use Stencil from any Chrome browser, you can upload your own image assets, and you can save your designs to the cloud.
New users get a free month of Stencil included in this online course. Create and download as many Merch By Amazon designs and KDP book covers as you want during your free trial of Stencil.
Who this course is for:
- Designers who want to learn about more ways to make great-looking designs for Merch By Amazon.
- Authors who want to make amazing covers designs for their Kindle and paperback books.
- Designers and authors who want to learn about simple and easy ways to quickly create eye-catching designs for their products.
Instructor
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I'm a Professional Book Marketer and I help authors SELL MORE BOOKS.
The business of books is 1% about having a "good book" and 99% MARKETING.
I coach authors and writers how to write their books in such a way that THEY BENEFIT even when they give their books away.
How is that possible? It's actually pretty easy, barely an inconvenience.
Authors should be including 'calls-to-action' and access to additional content within their books to incentivize readers to visit their websites and collect email addresses.
They should also include links to their social media profiles within their books.
And they should also use their websites to give away sample chapters (or other types of digital lead magnets) to collect email addresses and build a valuable email list of interested readers and prospective customers.
You want to get your book into as many people's hands as possible and, if you're a new author, giving away books can be a lot easier than selling books.
I teach my clients about the 80/20 rule of book marketing this way:
Give away 1,000 books (these can be digital so no cost).
20% of those people (200) will JOIN your email list.
20% of those people (40) will BUY SOMETHING from you (physical book, online course, membership, webinar training, etc.).
20% of those people (8) will BUY WHATEVER ELSE YOU'RE SELLING such as coaching or consulting.
To find these EIGHT CLIENTS, you give away 1,000 books.
Since 2011, I've sold hundreds of thousands of books and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties exclusively as a self-published author.
Leveraging self-published books is easily the most powerful thing you can do for your business today.
Where else can you have a physical product available for sale on the world's largest and most trusted marketplace and, when it sells, Amazon will literally do ALL OF THE WORK and send you a royalty check every month?