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Check out some of the courses, tools and services that have helped me build my online business.
Yep these are all tools that I ACTUALLY use and courses that I have ACTUALLY taken.
I know that when I first got started myself, this is the kind of info I looked for myself.
I wanted to know what other people were using & what they’d recommend…
So, I’ve done the same here.
Let me know if you have any questions at all… Feel free to contact me here!
COURSES:
I must have spent thousands on courses over the years when it comes to making money online and KDP publishing. Here are a few of the highlights…..
- THE SELF PUBLISHING SUCCESS STRATEGY. – This course was created by BEN, from “money on the side.” Is an extensive KDP course for anyone interested in low and medium content publishing. It’s excellent for beginners and covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. Find it here.
- HOMEBOSS – Nuria from the Homeboss has created several useful courses that I have purchased. The most extensive was her Children’s book course, there are also additional courses to help you with A+ content creation and creating printables to sell. I imagine she will continue to create more over time and you can find them all here.
- IMAGINE – An awesome course that walks you through – step by step how to create a coloring book with Midjourney and upload it onto KDP. It also includes Tangent Crystal, a tool that removes greyscale from Midjourney images and vectorizes them. Furthermore, Tangent Templates is also included in this course, which is a brilliant tool for creating low and medium-content books for KDP.
- WEALTHY AFFILIATE – Where I took my first baby steps into online business. Here I learnt how to build a website, how affiliate marketing works, how to make money from affiliate marketing and much more. If I hadn’t stumbled across this platform years ago, I highly doubt I would have made a full-time income online today. It made me realise what was possible and also contains a huge community of other like-minded people. You can also start for free here.
- SELLING DIGITAL – A great course to help you get started with selling digital products, including on market places like Etsy. There is also a monthly drop of PLR templates that you can sell to customers. Courses included ones on – how to sell planners on Etsy, how to set up a shopify store, how to set up Facebook Ads and more!
- NANCY BADILLO – ESTY MASTERY COURSE – An all-round course if you are considering setting up an Etsy store. It’s the sort of course you’re likely to go back to again and again because it’s so in-depth and you will most likely have to look at the information more than once!
AMAZON KDP TOOLS:
Not sure what Low content publishing is? This post explains it!
I use several tools that have helped me on my publishing journey. These are ALL of the tools that have helped me the most to date:
- Creative fabrica – this is where I find illustrations and fonts to use on my books and I’m in here DAILY! (You can try it for only TRY CREATIVE FABRICA FOR FREE HERE!).
- Imagine & Tangent Crystal – A course and software that shows you step-by-step how to create coloring books with Midjourney. The software included also removes greyscale from Midjourney images and vectorizes your images, removing the need to upscale them.
- Publisher Rocket – I use this to help with keyword research and finding categories. I love this tool and use it most days.
- Placeit where I am currently creating some of my mockups for A+ Content.
- Tangent Templates – An incredibly useful tool. I do not use the ready made templates, (aside from simple lines/basic planners) because I believe you should always create unique interiors. However, they do have a design builder, a great listing helper and a book builder which makes creating your books incredibly easy. This is one of the first tools I ever purchased and still one of the best! For even better results, get IMAGINE, which includes Tangent Templates in the bundle.
- BookBolt – Useful if you are interesting in creating puzzle books. It also has many other features. You can design covers, do keyword and niche research and much more.
- Creative market – this place has some absolutely fantastic art work. It can cost a little more but is worth the price if you want to make your books stand out. You will find far fewer books using the artwork here than on other sites.
- CANVA – I spent my first year purely usin Canva to create my covers AND my interiors for KDP. I still almost exclusively use it, but sometimes also use affinity publisher.
- Affinity Publisher – a high quality program that can help you to create professional looking interiors. There is a learning curve here but plenty of free training available online.
- Midjourney – Where I have started creating Ai Art & graphics.
- Lets Enhance – where I enhance all the images I download from Midjourney.
- Publisher Champ – Great tool for checking your sales and various sales metrics and statistics. Compare sales and various stats over different months and years, connect your Ads to see total profit made, check out your global statistics and more.
ETSY:
Having recently started on selling on this platform and I use this tool right now to help me specifically on ETSY.
- ERANK – help to find products, tags and keywords that have low competition and a high search volume. I love this tool!
KEYWORD RESEARCH:
- Publisher Rocket – one of the primary tools I use for Amazon KDP outside of the Amazon platform.
- Jaaxy – the keyword research tool that helps me find great keywords that rank in Google. Get 30 free searches here.
AFFILIATE MARKETING NETWORKS:
- AWIN – affiliate network that has thousands of big name companies on their books, I primarily use them for the ETSY affiliate program, on another website and Fiverr.com
- Shareasale – – Another large affiliate network that I use regularly to promote things such as Tailwind & Genesis blog themes. Find my Shareasale Review here.
- Panthera Network – A CPA network that I use for certain survey-site related offers. Find my Panthera Network review here.
- Amazon Affiliate Program – One of the first affiliate programs I ever joined. Read why I think it’s great for beginners here.
- Maxbounty – Another CPA network I use, mainly for survey related sites.
WEBSITE ADVERTISING:
- I’m currently with MEDIAVINE for Ads.
One of the highest paying options if you would like Ads on your website and they’re great for bloggers!
You do need at least 50,000 sessions per month on your blog to apply now, (sessions are different to pageviews). Other alternatives to Mediavine include – Monumetric and Ezoic.
While many bloggers to start with Google Adsense, you need a tonne of traffic to make much with Adsense and once you DO have that much traffic, you’re better off applying for a higher paying network.
OUTSOURCING:
- Fiverr – awesome site where you can purchases for as low as $5.
You can purchase a huge array of thins, writing, art work, editing, copyrighting, seo work, ebook covers.
But quality varies! I’ve found ebook covers are good quality. Read about Fiverr here.
- Upwork – Where you could outsource things such as VA work, article writing, ebook formatting, website design work and much more. Visit Upwork.
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