This strategy is not ideal for all self-published authors.
It’s designed for aggressive non-fiction self-published authors and also intending self-published publishers who want consistent book sales resulting in more money from writing and published non-fiction books.
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In fact, it’s the exact strategy I used to sell over 1200 books in a year without having to deal with Amazon KDP and it many shenanigans (contrary to what most self-published authors do by becoming a slave to the giant of the self publishing world).
This same strategy cost me $0 in ads cost. If you want to start making consistent money from being called an author, then THIS is the self-publishing strategy to do it.
Read on to find out how I transitioned from an author who makes less than a $500 a month to one who have been consistently making £3k ($4k) a year (yes, I live in the UK and for the sake of my US self published author folks, I will be using the US$ in this post for regeneration purposes)
The Anti Amazon Cash To Book Strategy: The Sales Focused, Anti Thesis Strategy That Is A Complete Opposite Of What Many Self Published Authors Do
Amazon KDP, yes, that giant player of the self-publishing world and one that many self-published authors want to have their book on for visibility. No doubt, Amazon KDP publishing, and its many advantages have come to stay…
BUT after 10 years of going the usual way that everyone has been conditioned to go when publishing their books, I found out that I want to play my own game in a field where I have more leverage to win and this is what gave birth to the Anti-Amazon Book To Cash System that I will be showing you in this guide. Here is what my book publishing dashboard Amazon looked like today. And as of today, here is what my results is like following the exact strategy I am about to show you.
Ask any non-fiction self-published author how to get sales for their books and they’ll tell you this:
- Publish your book as ebook and paperback on Amazon KDP
- Enroll the ebook into Amazon KDP select to launch and lower the price to $0.99 for those times.
- Wait and pray to get sales
- Run some Amazon ads when waiting and pray won’t bring sales
That is an old play from the playbook of self-publishing of 2013. The competition for sales and visibility for books on Amazon is so fierce now and no thanks to the AI gold rush, it has been so easy to just write anything and dump it on Amazon and this means your book is now competing with thousands if not millions of other books. And even if you do get some sales by sheer luck, you have no clear strategy for how to consistently get sales for your books months in, months out.
The Blue Ocean Mindset That Changed My Self-Publishing Story For Good And One That Will Change Yours Too
Let’s face it, Amazon KDP isn’t the only platform you can publish your book on to sell it. Prior to February 2024 when I started experimenting with this Blue Ocean strategy, the best month I had with my books on Amazon KDP is $300 and that was even from me spending $90 on Amazon ads with some elements of luck with one of my books that has the same title as an evergreen best-sellers that made readers thinks my book was written by the best selling author.
I just realised there are other platforms where the competition isn’t that much and ones that could churn out book sales for me without the risk of been shut down by Amazon KDP (my personal KDP account of 11 years was terminated out of the blue moon in 2022 and I lost $421 waiting to be paid to me inside that account)
Not only that there are other platforms beyond Amazon that you and I could publish to, I also realised as an English speaking author, I might have been alienating my non-English speaking and reading book audience who wants my book but won’t buy the English one I have been writing for years. And really, I was right about this.
I have sold more than 300 copies of the Spanish version of my books in less than a year, outside of Amazon KDP!
The 5 Steps To Using The Anti-Amazon Books To Cash Strategy To Get Consistent Book Sales And Revenue Every Month
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Now to the good stuffs. These are the 5 Anti Amazon Book To Cash Strategy You Can Steal To Consistent Make At Least $500 A Month Selling Book You Don’t Need To Write
Step 1: Find A Profitable Niche And A Market That Have A Pressing Need Using Real Time Book Sales Data
The first step in our Anti-Amazon book to cash system is to find a profitable niche that has a growing and hungry market of people who have a serious problem and in need of an urgent solution.
Think about the times you bought any non-fiction book, chances are you bought it to solve a problem you have.
And that’s it! Proper only but non-fiction books to solve a particular problem and before writing any book, you will give yourself a better chance of succeeding in selling a lot of books when you write a book that solves problems that a lot of people need a solution for.
When I started using this system in July 2023, my go-to strategy to figure out the best profitable niche is to just make assumptions of niches I believed people have a pressing need of a solution for and it was a trial and error things that helped me waste a lot of my time and energy writing books that didn’t sell.
Over time, I realised I am better off using real time book sales data to make a better judgement on data instead of relying on my thinking and assumptions.
There are many tools out there that make the claim of giving you the book sales data you need to make a better judgement of books you can write that will sell well.
I tried a lot of them and I realised most of them are working based on past book sales data and not real time book sales data. I don’t want to base my decision on what has worked in the past.
I want to write books about topics that are currently selling. So I created my own real time book sales data software that used real time book sales figure from Amazon, Google ads and other trusted book sales figure sources online to give me a live insight into books that people are buying more of at any particular time.
Step 2: Use AI To Write Your Book, Write It Yourself Or Hire A Ghostwriter
I started off writing my books myself, but this takes a lot of time and also make me spend sleepless night sitting down to write.
Then, I was able to write two books a month.
If you are reading this and you think using AI to write books is unethical or something that shouldn’t be, then you surely need to understand where the future of books and even content is going.
I struggled to see how AI can write a book that actually solves problem for people at first but after experimenting with two books at first and see those books selling well with nobody returning them or complaining about them, I then realised things are about to change for me in terms of what I can do and what is possible turning what start as a sidekick project to a full time things.
With this tool, you can get your first book out in less than 30 minutes and you will be marvelled at the quality of the book you can get, all for the price of a visit to your favourite restaurant. And it’s free for your first two books!
Step 3: Use My “Omnipotent Book” Strategy
As an English speaker, I have only bought and ready English books. And that is one problem most non-fiction authors won’t pay attention to.
Do you know English isn’t the only popular language in the world? Yes, it’s not. But most authors and writers are only focusing on writing English books.
This means many authors and writers are leaving a truck load of money on the table by ignoring and alienating every other non-English speaking reader who want their books! My financial life have turned around for good the day I realised this simple truth.
So instead of just writing and publishing English books, I am translating my books into other major languages, especially Spanish and I am currently planning to add more languages. Now you may ask if anyone is buying Spanish or other non-English books. And I will tell you most months, my Spanish books are selling more than my English books! And that has been an eye-opener for me I must say.
This means, I can write a book in English and then translate it into more languages and that means I can make money from that compared to just having the English books.
This isn’t about books alone. I have a YouTube channel where I now dub my videos into Spanish and Russian languages and those video outperform the English ones in many cases. Think of it this way.
There are millions of English books competing for spaces and visibility on all book platforms, but I can bet there are only few books who are in other languages on those platforms which means the competition is very low for books that are not in English.
And yes, there are buyers for those non-English books. Non-English speaker who can’t read English will happily buy a book in the language they understand and even the ones who can speak and read in English will also buy books in their native language.
And this means you can meet the needs of millions of people who don’t speak, read or write in English to make more money from just one book.
And if you are asking how I am translating my books and what is the best way to turn your English books to other languages, you can download the Anti Amazon Book To Cash Checklist and Toolkit to get all the tools, tricks and tips you need to start printing money from selling books with or without the use of Amazon.
Step 4: Meet Your Book Reader Anywhere They Are Be Buying Books
Really, apart from translating books to other languages, one smart way to make more money from your book is to distribute it to as many places you can reach your book readers and in as many formats they love to buy books.
Let me explain.
Since writing my first book in 2012 till June 2023, all I do when I have a book to publish and even for my author client is to publish them on Amazon as a Kindle ebook and as a paperback.
And then I or the author will go back home to hope and pray to sell a lot of books And in most cases and times, that just doesn’t happen.
And here is why.
One, the competition is too high on Amazon for books and except you have a big following or audience online or you are ready to spend a lot of money on Amazon ads, you are not likely to make a living from writing and selling books primarily on Amazon.
And to make things worse, some authors will trade their book’s broadband visibility and reach for Amazon KDP unlimited’s exclusivity all in exchange for just 5 days in 90 days to make their books free and attract tons of freebie seeker who doesn’t really need their books in the first place.
At first, this might seem like a better option when the share of the book market that Amazon controls is taken into account.
But deep down, it’s a losing strategy as it not only limits authors and anyone who publish books to not been able to reach more book readers that are hanging out elsewhere outside of Amazon but also gives many authors and publisher a false sense of number knowing the numbers of download that is gotten from this are mostly people who won’t ever read their books or even remember downloading them.
And again, no matter how much you make from the shared KDP unlimited fund for free downloads of your books, you can be make a lot more reaching your readers somewhere else.
So here is what I have been doing and what you should do when publishing your book to make more money. I publish my books in different languages on different book stores and in different formats.
Can you see the opportunity you might be missing if you aren’t reading this case study?
You should have your books in:
- eBook
- Paperback
- Hardcover
And also publish them in as many platforms as you can manage and the best part, there are some amazing solutions out there that will help you push your book to all these platforms.
When you download the Free Anti Amazon Book To Cash Checklist and Toolkit which is a complimentary companion to this case study, you will get a break down of all the platforms you should be publishing to and also get a list of platforms I have been using to push my books to these platforms.
Step 5: Rinse And Repeat
To start making a considerable amount of money months in, months out like I have been doing for two straight years, you need to have a portfolio of books.
There are books I published two years ago that are still selling till today.
This is because these books are proven best sellers and are solving problems that many are looking for a solution for.
With some of your books even after getting them out based on data, might take time to pick up.
Because of this and many more reasons, you want to make sure you are compounding your chances of hitting the consistent passive income results you want with your books.
Since the time I published my first book using this Anti Amazon Books To Cash System, I have never skipped a month without publishing books.
With the income I am bringing in for my books, I am able to hire and maintain two full-time assistants for more than a year now.
This means I can sit down and just assume the role of a manager oversees how my book empire is being built and run.
Your first, second and even your third month surely won’t give you this kind of result but months down the line, you should be able to look back and not want to stop doing this.
Why?
Because there isn’t a better motivating factor than making money from doing something.
The more I make, the more I want to keep doing this, and the more I keep doing it, the more I keep making.
That’s how it works and you can give it a try as well.
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Why This System Works And Produce Better Results Than What You Have Known Before.
I so much love my Anti Amazon Book To Cash System
This is because, apart from the monthly passive income I have been consistently making from doing this, I know why the system works and because of that, I can replicate it month in, month out to bring results.
And if you are wondering why this system is so potent at giving you a consistent influx of passive income (at least after you have set it up well and get it working) every month, here are why you it’s more predictable and consistent in terms of the results you can get out of it:
1. You aren’t relying on Amazon and it many shenanigans.
I woke up one day in 2022 to know my 10 year old Amazon account has been banned.
Till today, I still don’t understand the rationale behind Amazon’s robotic email system telling me I violated their terms and conditions and I couldn’t even find a human to talk to for a manual review of their robotic rules I will never want to put a lot into something that doesn’t guarantee longevity and even some sense of security. Amazon of today is now a nasty giant that bans account for fun and even imposed draconian rules on publishers and authors.
The Anti Amazon Book To Cash System isn’t dependent on Amazon (even though I am limited in a lot of ways on what I can publish, I still have few of my books on Amazon) and can and will run perfectly without the need for Amazon who can break your heart at any time.
This doesn’t mean there aren’t risk in publishing to the other platforms, but due to the fact that they aren’t Amazon and the giant Amazing is, there are more sense of security with them and you can even chat with a human if you have any issues and you will be attended to promptly.
2. The most important reason why this system is working and will work well is the blue ocean Framework of publishing your books in multiple languages in multiple formats on multiple platforms.
Unlike Amazon that sells to end users and backend consumer alone, most of these other platforms sells to bookstores, libraries and other book wholesalers and retailers.
This means your book is reaching more people and also not competing for spaces with millions and if not billions of other books like you have on Amazon.
3. This system doesn’t run on ads or spending money to promote books to make money.
I have spent zero minutes to promote any of my books for two years now and I am consistently getting results in terms of money made and book sales.
This is one of the many beauties of this system as you don’t need to spend a dime and even time promoting your books, the platforms and the system itself is enough to sell your books and give you monthly passive income.
Although, I am presently working on a massive system that will help me sell directly to buyers and create my own book selling system which could double or triple the results I am getting now but one which I need to spend a lot of money to build but you can just enjoy the system as it is now without thinking of doing any promotion.
4. The advancement in AI technology has helped to cut off a considerable part of the time it usually takes to write and publish a book, and with that, it’s easier for anyone to come in, albeit the fact that it’s not a system that anyone is who lazy and won’t be consistent can get results from.
It’s easy but requires consistency and putting the initial work it needed for the first few months I have seen some people who I have shared this system to, got excited, try once or twice, and then moved on. You can print money with this system over time, but it’s surely not a get rich quick system.
This isn’t for anyone who can’t put in the work consistently but does it work? Yes, it works. And if you think using AI to write books is not your things, that’s fine, get to work, sit down and write those cashflow books and get to print money months in, months out.
If you in the camp of anti-AI writing, you surely will still need the use of AI to research for best-selling book ideas using my recommended tool. So brace up and embrace AI or get left behind!
DISCLAIMER: I have to tell you…results like this are not typical. I’ve been doing this consistently for more than two years now. I’ve also been writing and publishing books since 2012. Most people start out need four to six months consistently implementing this system before making $500 or more, then scale up their system and operations to make more.
How To Get Started.
You have two options to get started.
Option One:
Take the step-by-step process I laid out here and give it a go on your own.
This isn’t brand new stuff.All you need is just a tool like PubliScribe to create high-value, high-quality “solution focused” non-fiction books that people want to buy.
With this option, you can learn and unlearn things as you move to finall figure things out over time.
Option Two:
Download the Anti Amazon Book To Cash Checklist and Toolkit to get all the tools, tricks, and tips you need to start printing money from selling books with or without the use of Amazon.
With this option, you save time and money from figuring out the best way to make this system work and go enjoy your new found monthly passive income source.