What’s Holding You Back from Self-Publishing on Kindle? YOU CAN Do It!!

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I’m just writing this post off the top of my head (so the post is probably full of grammatical errors – you’ll see why I mention that in a moment), and I’m writing it because I’m fully aware that there are many potentially budding Amazon Kindle eBook writers within the internet marketing arena.

After all, publishing on Kindle is a “relatively” easy way to make money – it potentially can become a way to make a vast PASSIVE income for years and years to come.

And there’s no reliance on Google tactics, which will of course come as a huge relief to many marketers who’ve seen their webpages repeatedly dumped by the ever-changing Google search algorithms.

 

Now, this is not my typical blog post. Its actually WAY out there. But there’s good reason…

I’ve been reading quite a bit about publishing – self-publishing on Kindle. In fact, I’ve been reading quite a lot about all sorts of ways to earn a very good living by working (or not “working” as the case may be, because a lot of online income models are relatively passive). Let me relate to you a few pointers that I’ve learned for myself, and quite honestly – came as a real breath of fresh air to me too!

 

If you think you can’t write a book then think again!

And I don’t necessarily mean a book of non-fiction.

You don’t have to write how-to books to make a seriously huge income by self-publishing on Kindle – you can write fiction instead.

I see you shaking your head. You don’t believe that you can do that. After all, you are far from a literary genius, and you have to be a literary genius and have an amazing amount of creativity to be able to write fiction successfully.

Let me relate to you a story at this point. And I’ll try not to bore the pants off of ya! icon smile Whats Holding You Back from Self Publishing on Kindle? YOU CAN Do It!!

 

When I was a kid – between the ages of about… 8 and 12… I had this idea that I wanted to become a writer of fiction books.

In fact, when I was 10 years old, I entered a fiction writing competition and won top prize. The main prize was to have my story read out on national radio.

I never heard it being read out, but I was told it was read out, and apparently – potentially – there were millions of listeners. It was BBC Radio 4 which broadcasts in the UK, and abroad as the World Service (or part of the World Service anyhow).

I’ll tell you exactly why I was good at writing fiction in those days – at the age of 10. My sense of creativity had absolutely NO BOUNDS! I was a child and I thought exactly as a child thinks – BOUNDLESS LEVELS OF CREATIVITY!!

But, when I graduated to secondary school, things became much more systematic. English literature classes were structured in such a way as to knock all potential creativity out of you in order that you followed “their” system.

I “graduated” from my English literature class with a C minus, which quite frankly is a thoroughly mediocre result indeed.

And the reason why I graduated with such a pathetically low scoring was that I was being taught to write like a machine, and was being taught to avoid self-creativity at all costs. And there ended my boundless sense of creativity, which quite frankly had the effect of making me a thoroughly mediocre student!

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Making Money Online SHOULD be Fun – Forget the Daily Slog!

More Money More Money 300x200 Making Money Online SHOULD be Fun   Forget the Daily Slog!Yesterday I took the day off from “work”. Well, no, not really. I replied to emails and did stuff like that, but instead of writing some posts for my new “niche” Amazon site (the mini-behemoth in the making, which is in fact the work of a jv partnership, and currently stands at 37 pages of content after 2 weeks) and instead of drumming up a new post for my blog here, I decided to do some intense research instead.

So I cranked up my Goog AdWords Kwd Tool and zapped in around a hundred keyword phrases over the space of about 8 hours and studied some niches to try to get insights into “my” online world.

Why would I do that?

Well, the longer I’m purely focused on the “make money online” niche, the more I’m missing out on doing something different.

After all, folks such as your good self don’t come here to read about sheep shearing in New Zealand, or about life in Kuching, Malaysia. The latter being more appropriate to my current situation in life than the former.

Occasionally I”m sure its interesting to you to read about what I do here in Kuching, but in the main, your purpose for coming to my blog is most probably to read about my thoughts on the subject of money making online.

Even to this day, a very large chunk of my traffic comes from the Warrior Forum (via the 40 Days Warrior Forum thread), and a large chunk of my traffic also comes over from Pat’s backlinking strategy that works post. And there’s a sizeable chunk of traffic that’s recently been coming from the AdSenseFlippers guys blog too.

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How to Make Money on eBay – Part 3

how to make money through eBay 300x124 How to Make Money on eBay   Part 3Quick word on something topical at the moment – closure of AdSense accounts.

As many of you probably know, Spencer Haws of www.nichepursuits.com had all his AdSense accounts unceremoniously “dumped” by Google AdSense.

For what reason – well, that’s entirely open to speculation.

This is not the first time for a big player in the AdSense game to have all his (or her) accounts banned. Spencer was earning upwards of $15k a month on AdSense alone (that’s my presumption anyhow – I know he was earning a serious amount of money, but I’m not sure the exact amount).

I think it particularly important for anyone who is focused purely on AdSense income to rethink this strategy right now! (I’m certainly not implying that Spencer was solely focused on AdSense income – it was a large part of his portfolio).

Spread your eggs around – don’t rely on a single income source no matter how much you are making from it.

If you focus on one monetization method, you are asking for problems down the road way.

Do not take the risk!

Link to Spencer’s most recent post about AdSense

 

And a link to a super “what to do if your AdSense account/s is/are banned by Google” post by the guys at AdSenseFlippers.com

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How to Make Money on eBay – Part 2

ebay 2 How to Make Money on eBay   Part 2On to part two of the How to Make Money on eBay adventure.

Part 1 can be found out here.

Part 3 is here.

 

Please keep in mind that I’m trying to ensure this information is very easy to understand for anyone – from the greenest of newbees – folks who are new to all this talk about Google rankings. Hence I’ll discuss things in plain English almost all the time and any SEO type terms I’ll try to explain as I go along if that’s necessary for further clarity.

 

This is the easy part. There’s no aspect to this whole kaboodle that’s difficult. Although it may be tricky to source a product or product line that you can sell at a profit. Once that’s been decided, its all pretty much plain saling, believe it or not.

Fact of the matter is, my intentions are to aim this guide at people who have already sourced their product, and who are already selling on eBay, and want many more people to see their offerings. But this information is for anyone who has a healthy interest in making money with eBay regardless you’re already a seller or not.

 

So, the question is, how do we achieve the increased traffic to our eBay store by going out-with the boundaries of eBay’s search traffic alone? (i.e. the folks who are already on eBay and use eBay’s search system to locate products they are interested in).

What we do is to put our trust in Google and try to achieve rankings for relevant keywords that pertain to what we are trying to sell.

Let’s take an example here.

Say we want to sell coffee tables.

We decide to focus in (or “niche-down”) on “lift top coffee table” which has 4,400 global search volume in Google each month, and 3,600 local to US search each month.

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How to Make Money on eBay – Part 1

6 300x300 How to Make Money on eBay   Part 1Initially I was going to make this information into an eBook and sell it (yeah, that there over on the left is my eBook cover – nice, isn’t it? But don’t click it because it goes no where. You’re getting this info for free – its only available to those people who read this series of posts, because you’re very special icon wink How to Make Money on eBay   Part 1 ).

However, there’s so much good information similar to what I’m about to share with you (Steve Scot regularly discusses money making ideas similar to this one) that it makes sense to post this up on my blog and thereby make it freely available to everyone who cares to read it.

 

There’s far too much info here for a single post, so I’ll make it into a series of posts. Even if you have no intention of following through with these techniques, it still makes for an educational read, and the info here can be related to other techniques whereby you surely can make an impressive income if you so wish it.

 

The beauty of this technique is that its simple. So simple in fact that someone who is new to the SEO game and achieving Google rankings could gain success.

Could the technique I’m about to discuss with you have life-changing consequences?

Well, yes, I guess so.

Let’s move forward…

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Can You Make Good Money With Amazon Affiliated Sites?

Amazon Affiliate 300x125 Can You Make Good Money With Amazon Affiliated Sites?I been busy! What’s new?

Setting up the basis for a new blog/website, which although I fully intended to be focusing on a niche outwith internet marketing, lo and behold – its not – its fully IM focused. Awww shucks – this IM game has a total hold over me! icon wink Can You Make Good Money With Amazon Affiliated Sites?

 

Cristina – whom you may know because she comments a lot on the blog here – she helped me out with the new site set up, which has a subscriber list optin box in the header graphic. Something that I surely cannot do since there’s quite a bit of hard coding in the css files required. Thanks Cristina!!

More about this website in the days to come though. I believe it will compliment the JosephArchibald.com blog rather nicely.

 

What else has been keeping me busy?

Facebook stuff – more about chatter with my Bulgarian friend (Yavor) who now lives in Kuala Lumpur, and with John Sia who is part owner of a number of businesses here in Kuching.

Its social chit chat and very much about having a laugh about life, but its interesting all the same. Almost as interesting as the Kardashian’s chit chat, but the difference being that they get paid a few hundred thousand greenbacks per social chit chat episode.

I added a few images to my FB page that I took at a culture show I went to the other evening here in Kuching (Basaga Hotel) which was really very good indeed!

 

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My Twitter efforts have mellowed a bit, as I was intent on adding many more followers than I’ve managed. But the weekends are slow so that’s to be expected. At least I’m now over 500 followers – I never thought I’d see the day, LOL!

 

Also, believe it or not, but I’ve been buying a few info products.

There’s a good reason for this, and so far I’m very impressed with everything I’ve bought.

Seems you can really develop an eye for what’s hot and what’s not when it comes to IM related info product buying. Although my experience from a couple of weeks ago would beg to tell a different story icon smile Can You Make Good Money With Amazon Affiliated Sites?

 

 

Making Money as an Amazon Affiliate

There’s nothing new about making money with Amazon as an associate, or affiliate. Amazon practically invented the concept of affiliation after all.

I first cut my own IM teeth on making money using Amazon.

My choice of niche was terribly poor, has to be said, and my monthly income generally was no higher than $100 even though I’d often spend 60+ hours a week on getting the rankings and doing whatever else I thought needed to be done. Oh yes – I’ve been there too!

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