in this video I'm going to review your books show you what kind of mistakes you're making and show you exactly what to improve so you can get a lot more sale what's going on guys welcome back to another video if you're new to the channel my name is Sean and I've built and sold a seven figure publishing business and now I'm building my second KDP account so if you want no OBS publishing advice from someone who's actually doing it then make sure to subscribe and if you want a free training on how I built a publishing business to this level then the link to the training is in the description below all right I've done a few videos of these in the past but I'm going to review and critique your books and show you exactly how you can get more sales these are books that you guys submitted to me through Instagram so if you want me to analyze your books in the future then follow me on Instagram and DM me your book and I might feature that in future videos my Instagram handle is in the description below all right guys let's start with book number one so we got car trip trivia for smart kids 8 to 12 beat the boredom with 200 fascinating facts and mind-boggling questions plus 20 bonus games so we have 4. 9 average reviews at 26 ratings and we are at BSR 1,478 th000 so it's not selling at all so everything looks decent right the title is SEO optimized you know it sounds nice okay the cover I think is decent I don't think it's amazing but I think it's a pretty good cover uh considering that the text over here it pops really nice car trip trivia right and it has the image of a family driving a car I think it's pretty nice and also if you go down here there's a pretty decent A+ content there's only three modules so you can add more but you know it's not so why is this book not selling well the biggest issue that I see is when I look up car trip trivia or road trip trivia you can see that there's not a ton of other books selling on the topic of road trip trivia this one is an ad uh road trip Adventures hidden objects so it's different it's hidden objects and that's selling decently actually so perhaps that's a better keyword than trivia books but in terms of road trip trivia this book is not selling well this is not selling this is not selling you know there's not a single one that's selling in the topic of road trip trivia so that's the issue right here is before you go and make a book you have to confirm that the topic of the book that you're making is actually selling if there's actual demand where customers are looking for these books and buying these books right so if you don't see anyone else any other books on the topic selling well or selling at all then that is probably a sign that no one's looking for a book on that right it's it's not profitable so that is probably the issue here is you just chose the wrong keyword so you do a good job creating the book right so you just have to find better keywords and I think you'll do okay so the final rating I'll give this a three out of five all right next book we have cultural diversity and digestion how to eat your way to happy gut health so it's a book on I'm assuming gut health cookbook or something like that and it is selling at 4. 7 star average 14 ratings 13.
99 on the paperback I don't know why why there's no ebook I don't know why there's no hard cover that's something that you should do immediately and it is at 3 million uh in the BSR so it's not selling at all it's it's doing really really bad right so the first thing that I see here is I don't know what the book is about when you say cultural diversity and digestion what is that right it's something to do with gut health but it's not clear so what I would do is just change the title to gut health cookbook or how to improve your gut or something that is more keyword optimized uh because that's what the customer is going to type on Amazon no one's going to type cultural diversity in digestion okay so you want to put your title as something that you know the customers will be typing in on Amazon because one your book is going to rank on those keywords so it's going to be a lot easier for people to discover you but two it's going to be a lot more clear on what the book is about so it does both things right so if I go and look at gutal cookbook then the topic itself seems pretty good right we have this book right here 73,000 in the bookstore and this book right here is a low uh fod map so I don't know if it's related and this one is your other book actually mental health and digestion it's doing a little better but nothing amazing right so we have this gut heeld cook uh book is $3,000 in the BSR making $67 a day and we have uh quite a decent other books which are gutal cookbooks uh that is doing decently so $43 a day $36 in royalties a day so this topic itself uh shows that it's decently profitable and so that's exactly what you want to rank for is gut held cookbook if that's what your book is about so that is the change number one is I'll change the title to that now you can update the title so obviously you have to unpublish and republish you know as a new book but that's completely fine so that brings me to the book cover which is once again it's not bad but it's not great because improving your gut health is the main part of your book and that's what you want to really feature but that is in a smaller text right here at the bottom okay and it's not really the main focus right so you really want to have that as a main focus at the top so either the title text right here so the first thing customers see or as an image so something that is like you know representing your gut healing or something like that although if you look at your competitors it so images of vegetables and Foods so maybe this works uh right but I would still make the main text uh gut health cookbook or something like that next thing once again I don't know why you don't have an ebook version definitely add that I don't know why you don't have a hard cover version definitely add that it's super easy to do it's super cheap very quick you can do it in just couple hours and it's just extra formats that you can sell your books at next thing is you don't have much reviews 14 reviews is okay but not great right considering if your competitors has hundreds of reviews you definitely want to have a lot more than 14 reviews as well so there's many ways to get reviews I covered it in a lot of my videos but the easiest way is to use services like pubby you do have to pay a little bit but it's super cheap right and it's the easiest way to get reviews uh over time so if you look at the website it kind of explains how it works there's a free trial you can check it out but if you want to check it out the link is in the description and once again that is probably the easiest way to get reviews and that's what I would recommend is to get your review count up so that you can get uh more sales now I also see that you have a A+ content but it's a very simple block now I do like that you're pitching your other books which is super good but you can do a lot more on your A+ content so you can make A+ content very easily with you know tools like canva yourself so you don't have to pay but if you don't want to spend the time you can just hire other people to do it uh such as this gig right here so I'll leave a link in the description if you want to check it out but this gig will create A+ content for you and you can see that this one right here is kind of similar to what your Niche or topic is about so this is a plant-based cookbook and this is the kind of A+ content that you want is showcasing what the benefit of the book is what's inside what is covered right really speaking to the customer so that is something that you can create once again on canva yourself if you want to spend the time time or if you just want to hire other people to do it for you then this gig is a good one so overall I think there's potential in this book just because you're getting good reviews and you know there's books on this topic selling very well so you just have to fix these small things and I think you'll do a lot better so the final rating is four out of five next book we got is book of Mazes for 6 years old maze activity book for kids so it has zero reviews it's selling at $6. 79 on paperback and it has no BSR ranking which means it hasn't sold a single copy right so the number one thing is you don't want to repeat what you said in the title in the subtitle so the title is book of Mazes for 6 years old and the subtitle is maze activity book for kids it's basically repeating the same thing the subtitle is where you call out the benefits who the book is for right so talk to your audience and also explain the benefits okay so you want to make it a lot more descriptive what I would recommend is something like awesome mazes for smart 6 years old or something like that or awesome mazes for smart kids and in the subtitle you want to explain a lot more about what the book is about such as how many mazes right who is it for is it for kids is it for adults is it for smart kids you know and the difficulty of The Mazes and what kind of Mazes like is it animal mazes unicorn mazes right so you know try and Niche down that way uh because right now it's very very broad it's just book of Mazes so you're competing with all the other maze books which is going to be super competitive so the improved subtitle could be something like 200 amazing and challenging animal mazes for smart kids or something like that I don't know but hopefully you get the point now the next thing is the book cover so I like the text right here mazes for kids right the text stands out but the issue is with these kind of books you always want to showcase the interior to show the customer how it's going to look once they purchase the book right right now you have some images here you have some text but you're not showcasing the actual mazes okay now you have some mazes in the back cover but you want to do that in the front cover because if you look at your competitors here so when I search search for mazes for kids almost every single one or basically every single one has the maze on the cover we have the maze on the cover we have the maze maze maze right almost every single one that's doing well even this one it doesn't look like it has a maze but in the background there is the maze right so every single one is showcasing the puzzle and the maze on the cover and that's exactly what you want to do as well next you want to get book reviews just like all the other books that we reviewed like almost every single one has this issue of not having enough reviews and that's why your books are not selling and you also don't have any A+ content and if you once again want to do it yourself you can do it on canva if you want to Outsource to someone uh there's a cheaper gig than the one I showed you earlier so you can do both you know I tried both and they're both very good obviously the more expensive one is a little higher quality but this gig by W creates a A+ content for you so you would want a minimum of three modules for your A+ content so that'll be $30 but if you want to try him out I'll leave a link in the description so the final rating for this book is 2 out of five all right so next we got word search for kids aged 8 to 10 101 search and find word puzzles so once again the subtitle is kind of just repeating the title so you want to change it up but uh this book is at Four Star average with one review and it is at 1,769 BSR it's not selling much and one thing I noticed is the book cover is really high quality I really like the book cover it's still showcasing the word search right here a little bit although it's not the main element of the cover you know it does stand out it's it's about the kid playing with the word search might work right so I do like that aspect of it but once again just like the last example you know if you look at your competitors every single one of them you know their main element is the word search and then they have the kids around that so the kit is not the main element it's the word search and it's the puzzles right so perhaps you want to kind of model that uh in the future but who knows maybe this cover will stand out because it's different and you don't always have to copy your competitors right so you know it could work and I think the issue could be something else which is that you're not niching down enough so kids 8 to 10 is not enough niching down you want to do you know something more specific like adding a theme to it like animal word search unicorn word search for kids age 8 to 10 right so you can do that to Niche down even more as well as you need more reviews than just one and because you didn't Niche down enough you probably have to run as after getting the reviews if you still want to make this book successful uccessful but if you do a good job niching down then you know the amount of ads you have to run to rank the book is going to be a lot less and that's why niching down is so important but it looks like you're one of those people that is really really good at designs uh because I'm looking at your book cover I think it's really good if you create this from scratch I don't know it could be you know if it's a template maybe not but I'm looking at your interior and it also looks amazing right the word search you have the designs so I think you make really high quality books and the issue is just the marketing as aspect so you want to do better keyword research and better job at getting reviews and perhaps running a little bit of ads or if you don't want to pay for ads you can always do it for free with social media marketing so you know it could be either way but you want to drive some traffic to the book so the final rating is four out of five I think you have the skill set to succeed uh you just want to kind of change your approach a little bit all right so the next book is essential oils absolutes and co2's hidden message word search so this is a interesting one right it's uh it has one star review or one five star review it's at 5 million BSR so it's probably the worst BSR that I've seen uh making this video today and the main reason is because I'm assuming that nobody really is looking for a book on essential oils word search right a better keyword would have been hidden message word search uh rather than essential oils word search uh I feel like that is way too Niche down and I don't think you've done proper keyword research to confirm that there's other books uh on the topic of essential oils word search that's selling well because I don't think there's any other books on this topic selling well okay so that's number one so you want to you know title the book better which is hidden message word search uh is what I recommend as well as you want to improve the cover it looks like you made this on canva I don't think it looks good okay so once again pay somebody five bucks 10 bucks on Fiverr that can design you know something better for you or practice a little more on canva and you know make something better okay so when I say better it's essentially just you know it it looks kind of cheap right you're putting you know grass and flowers but it's not quite you know adding uh to the cover the main feature or the main element is the puzzles once again so you want to showcase that better and then you want a better color contrast than just black and white you know add some more colors to it make the font a little more uh easier to read and just those kind of things like analyze your competitors and see what you can do here get more reviews once again same advice as every other book but that is like the number one thing that most people aren't doing is that they're trying to sell their book at one review or zero reviews and then they ask them themselves why are their books not selling well obviously because you have no reviews right so that's the main thing and until you get more reviews I would not price your book at $12. 99 because for a word search book $12.
99 is a premium price and you can do that you can sell your book at a premium price if you have a ton of reviews but if you don't then and you want to price it lower until you get more reviews okay so I will price the the book a little lower improve on the cover and go from there I also would recommend just as a side note to not use uh bold font for all your description or at least half of it it makes it kind of hard to read so just bold the important section of your description that you want to highlight but not the entire thing so the final rating for this book I'll give you a 2. 5 out of five all right next book we have is knowing the United States independent history and important events since Independence so this book is at $2. 99 uh paperback is $8.
99 it has no reviews and no sales okay so issue number one I don't know what this book is about after reading it after looking at the cover so is it a US history book is it a US trivia book right you have to be super clear just say that in the title US history book us trivia book right so that's like step number one is you have to title it better and then you know you can kind of practice on the subtitle copywriting as well you also want to capitalize the first letter of each word to make it look more professional right here the book cover is basically your backyard and the text over it uh which you know it's it's cute but it's not going to sell okay so you once again want to improve it look at your competitors so what you want to do is look up US history books or us trivia book on Amazon see what kind of style your competitor has and try and model that into your book cover okay and then you can take that on canva design the cover or Fiverr once again pay someone five bucks to design a cover for you with your instructions of how you know the cover should look like based on your competitors okay so based on your successful competitors is what I should add so do that and uh get more reviews and you can also improve on the book description uh I don't know why it's quoted you don't want to do the quotes thing so remove the quote and then improve the description you can literally just ask chat jpt to write you a product description of a book on US history or something like that it'll write up a description and you can just edit that a little bit and use that as your description so you know you can improve that very easily so the final rating I'll give you a 1. 5 out of five all right so the final book is welcome to the soulmate scam an educational workbook for narcissistic abuse recovery okay so first thing uh capitalize each letter of the word once again to make it look professional and so this book is 99 paperback uh seven review used and it is at 82,000 BSR which is actually good right this is the best BSR that we've seen today it is actually selling more than one copy a day book beam is saying it's selling three a day I think one to three making $9 a day in royalties and I think if you make these few tweaks that I'm about to show you you can do a lot better so the first thing is you got to add ebook versions and hard cover versions on this listing you only have paperback version and there's really no reason not to create a eBook in a hard cover because to create a eBook version and a hard cover version you literally just have to format the interior and the cover for it which is like $5 a piece so it's super quick super easy you just upload on KDP as a new format and that's how you can start making money selling eBooks and hard cover as well so the strategy that I recommend is to set your ebook price closer to Paperback something like $7. 99 $8.
