Kindle publishing income is a great way of making money passively and you need not even have great writing skills for it. You can always outsource kindle book writing (there are many affordable platforms and online work forums like Freelancer, Fiverr etc) where you can get the job done for less. Apart from that, following are some more easy ways to make money with eBooks, not free of cost but for less.
1. Select your niche
Niche is an area you are interested in. If you are an expert in making money on stocks, why not write a detailed eBook on it? After all, your expertise will certainly help others and people would want to pay you to learn from you and get the tips and tricks they need for making it big in the stock market. Here are some popular niches on Amazon kindle for eBooks:
- Antiquing
- Anxiety
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Astronomy
- Back Pain
- Backpacking
- Bass Fishing
- Beauty
- Become A Nurse
- Bird Training/Train Your Bird to Talk
- Boating & Sailing
- Bowling
- Boxing
- Camping and Hiking
- Ceramics
- Cheerleading
- Chess
- Chicken Coops
- Chronic Fatigue
- Classic Cars
- Cooking/Recipes
- Copywriting
- Credit Problems
- Cure Hemorrhoids
- Debt Management
- Decorating
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Divorce
- Dog Training
- Dropshipping
- Eating Disorders
- Gambling
- Gardening
- Golf
- Greenhouses
- Hair Loss
- Happiness
- Headaches
- Heart Disease
- Hiking
- Home Improvement
- Honeymoons
- Horse Racing
- Horses
- Training How To Be Confident
- How To Budget
- How to Get Rid of Panic Attacks
- Hunting
- Hypoglycemia
- Insurance (home/auto/life/pet)
- Interior Design
- Invest In Gold
- Investing
- Knitting
- Landscaping
- Lawn Care
- Life Coaching
- Low Fat Recipes
- Make Money
- Marriage Advice
- Memory Improvement
- Menopause
- Mental Health
- Model Trains
- Motherhood
- Motivation
- Mountain Biking
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Muscle Gain
- Mutual Fund Investing
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Organic Food
- Parenting
- Pet Problems
- Photography
- Pottery
- Quilting
- Racquetball
- Rafting
- Real Estate
- Remedies
- Rugby
- Running
- Saltwater
- Fishing
- Scrapbooking
- Scuba Diving
- Self-Sustainability (solar power/wind-power/water filtration)
- Single Parenting
- Skateboarding
- Skiing
- Skincare
- Snorkeling
- Snowboarding
- Stock Investing
- Stop Smoking
- Stop Snoring
- Stress
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Time Management
- Travel
- Volleyball
- Wedding Planning
- Weight Loss
- Weight Training
- Wine Making
- Woodworking
- Wrestling
You can also go to Kindle website and see the top niches as well as popular searches in areas of interest. For example, if you love food, you could consider writing a recipe book which could be in a particular diet such as Vegan or Paleo. These are hot selling niches. Make sure you select the sub categories in the main niche properly. The key is to select a category that will be in demand and easy to rank. For example, if you select the uber-popular health and fitness, which the broader category, there are a minimum of 15 sub categories in it. Drill down further and further in the link to nearly thousands of sub categories. For example-health and fitness>alternative medicine (popular topic!)>Aromatherapy essential oils (another popular topic)-end of category. (Note that once you have finished your eBook, you can always add it to multiple categories. You can always select health and fitness but aromatherapy would be the micro-niche that would help you cash in on the niche.) The key, as always, is to choose the niche that is most in demand.
2. Find a niche that is hot and with less competition
To find untapped niches with tons of potential, use Google keyword tool. It gives you local and global searches free of cost. Find keywords that pull in at least 1000 searches. Once you have found a relatively hot though untapped niche, go to Google.com and find out the competitiveness of the keyword. Based on the results, select whether the niche and its keywords whether they are Go or No Go!
3. Spy on Kindle competitions
Once you have a rough idea on the topic to write for making money kindle publishing, spy on your competition. You can use paid tools like Quancast which help you measure the demographics and so you can understand your audience, find your customers and get the right insights.
4. Search for keywords on Kindle itself
Next step is to find out what search terms people are using to search for eBooks in your niche. So, in the above example, if you type Aromatherapy, you get different searches like essential oils guide, essential oils for vibrant health and beauty, essential oils for dogs, etc.
5. Write on popular themes in that niche
In the above example, essential oil in pregnancy and essential oils for dogs are both popular. You can target these areas or go for topics like essential oils for baby and mother or essential oils for dogs and puppies or essential oils for pet problems.
6. Select a pen name
A pen name helps you write different books in the same niche. You can then use a different pen name for penning books in some other niche. This way, you do not lose sales if people doubt your expert status in a particular niche. Choose a popular name which people can relate to.
7. Start with an outline
Once your niche and pen name selection is done, come up with an outline for the book-whether you decide to write it yourself or outsource the job.To make a good outline for your Kindle eBook, start with some questions. How do essential oils help women? What are the safety dos and don’ts? Which oils should not be used in pregnancy? Use article directories, forums, blogs and social media pages to find the best topics in the niche. If you are not good at writing, hire someone or rewrite existing content with your own inputs in a better way. Note that Kindle does not tolerate porn, illegal content, offensive content etc.
8. Invest in graphic design
A killer graphic design is essential to help you sell your eBook faster. A clever designer can help you design a cover that screams ‘Buy Me’! Be ready to spend anywhere in the range of $5 to $600 for an attention grabbing copy. Sites like www.99Designs.com are also worth checking out. Amazon also offers its own design section. The latter two resources naturally cost a bit more than Fiverr etc.
9. Sign up
Once your killer eBook is ready, sign up with Kindle publishing-Independently Publish With Us.You can sign up using a new account or use your existing Amazon account. Read all the terms and conditions carefully. Create a good author profile. You will need to provide your Tax information and complete the Royalty payment details. You must also enter your bank details based on your country of residence. There is an option for joining Kindle Select for prime members of Amazon. This makes you eligible for the share into Amazon’s growing profit. It also gives you higher royalty payouts.
10. Market the book
Marketing Kindle books is the topic of an article by itself. Use the right title and get the correct meta-data. Get your friends to download the book and get some reviews going for it. Like all other Amazon products, reviews are necessary to sell eBooks too. (You could even consider donating the proceeds of the book to charity as that is one of the top tactics to get your book to the top of search results). And do consider giving away freebies on forums like Reddit to get reviews and put your book out there.
We hope these 10 easy ways at least get you motivated enough to consider making money with kindle eBook publishing. Good luck!