Publish Profitable Puzzle Books on Amazon KDP

In this lecture, we will have a bit of a closer look at the different types of puzzle books that you can make for publishing on Amazon KDP. What are the most popular? What is best to start with? This introduces you to the huge variety of puzzle books and aims to inspire you to start to come up with potential ideas for your puzzle books.

An important part of publishing profitable puzzle books on Amazon KDP is to ensure that the type of puzzle book you are going to make is a really popular one. That means you have more chance of making sales. Secondly, you will want to also establish if there is an audience for that type of book. In this lecture, I will show you an effective way to find a winning broad niche.

After deciding which broad niche you are going to tackle. It's important to get the sniper scope out to start looking at your competitors. This is mostly to get an idea of the sort of things that are working well for that particular puzzle book niche so that later when we create the book and Amazon listing we know that we have a book that should do well within the niche.

When you are creating your puzzle books for self-publishing on Amazon KDP you need to collect all the metadata before publishing. This means you need the research and decide on things like the title and subtitle of your book. Have a compelling book description, decide your categories, pricing not to mention your 7 backend keywords. In this lecture, I take you through the tool I have made to keep you nice and organised as you create the above Metadata for your puzzle books.

Keywords are the words that browsers are typing into Amazon. The way Amazon works is by matching what people type in with what keywords are associated with your book. The closest matches will rank higher in the search results which means a larger potential to be seen and hopefully convert into a sale. The game then with keywords is making sure that you choose relevant keywords that have a high search volume but that don't have much competition. In this lecture, I will show you the free method for finding Puzzle Book keywords.

The following two methods are quick ways to find great keywords. Both are super powerful and equally easy to use. If you are going to be creating a business puzzle book these two tools will massively save you time. Additionally, the data they generate gives you valuable insight into each keyword which means you can make better decisions on which words to use.

At this stage, you will probably have a fantastic shortlist of highly searched keywords on Amazon with low competition and masses of potential. However, how do we input these into book listings? There are a few important things to do to optimize your keywords to ensure you get the absolute best out of them that you can.

Now that the keywords for our puzzle books are selected, we focus our attention on finding categories. In this lecture, we will explore how to find the best categories for your books and avoid ones that won't help your book get seen.

To make your puzzle book creation as easy as possible I decided to create a basic layout of a puzzle book interior so that anyone taking the course could use the template to build their puzzle books without fear they are doing it wrong. Puzzle book interiors vary massively but this gives you a good idea of the things you need to include in your puzzle books.

When creating word-based puzzles often, you need to create a set of words. These word lists can be created by yourself via brainstorming or you can potentially, use some free online tools to create your word lists easily. In this lecture, I will show you a simple and quick way to create your word lists.

Now that we have a lovely bunch of word lists we created from the previous lecture we can go ahead and start making our word searches. In this lecture, I will show you how to easily make word searches and their solutions using free online software.

Creating word searches for your puzzle books can be time-consuming. However, there is another option which speeds up the process massively. In this lecture, I will show you how you can speed up your word search creation to 20 times faster.

In this lecture, we move across to creating crosswords using a free method. It is very simple to do and you can make great crossword puzzles in just a few minutes.

This lecture shows how to make a better quality crossword with some great customization options.

My favorite type of puzzle book is a maze book. Using these free tools you can create aMAZEing puzzles with ease which you can use in your maze books.

In this lecture, we take a look at the best tool for making mazes lightning quick. You can make the contents of an entire maze book in one click!

This lectures shows you a couple of free tools to make really great look sudoku puzzles for publishing in your puzzle books on Amazon KDP.

Can you make a whole sudoku puzzle book in one click? Yes you can and in this lecture I will show you how.

When creating your puzzle book interiors, sometimes its nice to have some creative elements or nice fonts to make your book stand out from the crowd or to tailor your book to a particular niche. In this lecture, I will show you have to get these creative elements whilst making sure you have full rights to use them in your puzzle book designs.

This lecture will show you the correct way to make sure that your puzzle book interior pages are formatted correctly so you can upload your print-ready file without any issues.

We know what size our book pages should be, we have loads of puzzles ready and we have some creative assets. Now its time to make our puzzle book interior!

This neat little trick is so helpful for a variety of reasons and in this lecture, I will be showing you how you can generate and use QR codes to make sure people who have a copy of your book can scan your QR codes to direct them to the important places!

Making the process of making puzzle books quicker is key to making many puzzle books and giving you the best possible chance of making sales and plenty of profit. This lecture takes you through my favorite shortcut when it comes to making puzzle book interiors.

One of if not the most important thing you need when making a puzzle book is a fantastic cover. If you dont have a great cover it doesn't matter how good your book is in any other respect as no one will click on the Amazon book page. Therefore it is vital that your book cover hits all the correct things a potential browser expects to see from a puzzle book like yours.

In this lecture we will take a look at how I decipher what features I need to include in my puzzle book covers. It cycles back to an earlier lecture and gives you more of a detailed look at the method involved.

Creating your own book cover doesn't need to be difficult. You do need to ensure that you have formatted your design into the correct PDF print-ready file. In this lecture, we will be looking at how to get the correct dimensions of your book cover and how to use the template required to achieve this.

In this lecture we take a look at the method I use to create puzzle book covers myself for free. Taking in the pre-design work we have already looked at in previous lectures we will put together a puzzle book cover that will stand side by side with the best-selling books in the example niche.

In this lecture, I will demo an all-in-one tool you can use to create your puzzle book covers. Using this tool means you do not need to go to third-party websites for fonts and creative assets and can use all of their pre-programmed ones already in the tool. 

The quick method of creating your covers is outlined in this lecture and also a comparison between using your own time to create your books vs using freelancers.

In this lecture, we look at what you need to get yourself set up with Amazon KDP.

It is important at this stage to create a book description for your puzzle book. This is the description that will be seen on your Amazon book page. There are several things you need to consider when creating a description that involves a mix of compelling language, emotive tone, selling, and SEO. I have created a process and a method to ensure you will always nail your book descriptions.

Pricing Strategy is important. Simply because we are here to make a profit. However, these things are not always a straight line. You cannot simply put your book on for a huge price as people will not buy it. There needs to be a plan to give the momentum of your book and with it profits.

In this lecture, I will show you how to upload a puzzle book to Amazon KDP using an example puzzle book. It will also show how useful the puzzle book metadata tool is now and why we put work into making sure all the metadata is done before starting the uploading process.

A+ Content is a great way to increase the conversion rate of your puzzle books and make your book's Amazon page look more professional. It also has the advantage of linking browsers to your other books which could increase those sales too!

Hardcover options for your puzzle books are a great way to increase your keyword use for the same book but also to give people a perceived deal when buying the paperback version of your book. In this lecture, I will go into some detail on why this is a good tactic to increase conversions of your puzzle books. 

One of the major elements in having a successful profitable puzzle book on Amazon is having reviews. You need reviews to give power to your keywords, give you better visibility on Amazon, and convince browsers via social endorsements that your book is for them. This ultimately increases the conversion rate and brings you in heaps more sales. In this lecture, we will discuss ways to amass reviews early in a book's life.

This lecture will go through some strategies to use when using Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) for Ads. This is a short cut route to getting your books seen by the correct browsers. This means you can pick up sales on your puzzle books relatively quickly if you don't have your own audience.

Social Media is a great free way to gather plenty of attention for your epic puzzle books and puzzle book brands. You can set it up easily and be posting in minutes. This can give you access to audiences far and wide relatively easily. In this lecture, we will go through some of the things you need to consider when setting up socials for your puzzle books and how to excel at them.

If social media is a fishing rod then we need to have some bait, don't we? In this lecture, we will discuss ways in which you can entice people onto your hook with some good old-fashioned freebies.

Building an email marketing list is an extremely powerful tool to have in your marketing toolkit. Doing regular email marketing not only builds a strong relationship with your audience but also create potential sales opportunities. In this lecture, we will take a look at what to include in your email marketing and how to do it regularly.

To become a KDP Ninja, you need to constantly evolve your skills and have the belief and determination to succeed. In this lecture, I will talk about what mentality you should have when making your KDP puzzle book business.

In this lecture we will reflect on everything we have learnt in the course and draw some conclusions.

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Here I have included some pretty sweet bonuses as an extra thankyou for taking the course!