How I Made $100,000 in Book Sales But NOT on Amazon KDP!
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 30. 01. 2023
- Why should you publish wider than just Amazon KDP and utilise other POD distributors like IngramSpark? In this video, I show you EXACTLY WHY I publish wider with over $100K in Book Sales by using the platform.
IngramSpark is a great platform for self-publishing authors to expand their distribution and increase book sales. With access to a global distribution network of over 40,000 retailers, libraries, and schools, your book will be available to a wider audience than ever before.
One key factor to take into consideration is the ISBN. Remember, you are NOT Permitted to use the Free ISBN that KDP provides you when uploading your book. You need to purchase your own unique ISBN for each book you upload to IngramSpark.
Links referenced throughout the video:
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IngramSpark Course Outline: bit.ly/3OrrCdu
Join Alli (Alliance of Independent Authors) to take advantage of the 5 Free Uploads each month (available at the time of filming - January 2023)
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IngramSpark Content Integrity Guidelines Blog Article:
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đœSelf-Publishing Courses Created by Romney Nelson
Courses Hosted on Udemy.com
1. How to Publish Low and No Content Books with KDP (Best-Seller): bit.ly/3om49QI
2. How to Self-Publish with IngramSpark: bit.ly/3oDO2hk
3. Email Marketing using ConvertKit: bit.ly/3s8Cp4z
4. How to Create Standout Book Covers for Amazon KDP: bit.ly/3CHrqCU
5. How to Write, Create and Design Childrenâs Books for KDP: bit.ly/3vOa9G7
6. Mastering Amazon Advertising: bit.ly/3xQ0Ypx
7. How to Launch a Book on Amazon KDP: bit.ly/3gSx662
8. How to Plan, Create and Design and Online Course with Thinkific: bit.ly/3XeqD66
Courses Hosted on SkillShare.com. Visit: skl.sh/3MAAwVJ
My Top 25 IngramSpark Tips - Free Resource: bit.ly/3OUlJ8Y
đ Tools and Resources I use.
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ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors): bit.ly/3uuyPn3
On this channel, I provide a wealth of information for new and experienced self-publishers to Create, Build and Scale their Self-Publishing business.
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Great video, Romney. Your courses are great! They have really helped me out, thank you.
Thank you Simone for your support over such a long time! I really appreciate it and thank you for investing in my courses. Take care, Romney
Love the video! Subscribed
Thank you very much Amber. Much appreciated.
Super off-topic, but you are incredibly handsome. Thank you for the time to share this info, appreciated it!
Ha ha! Thanks Katie. âșïž
Iâve been looking at IngramSpark for a while. I think Iâll try it on my next book.
Worth looking into Michael if you have the right books to upload to Ingram.
@@globalselfpublishing thank you, I will.
@@globalselfpublishing thank you, sir. Agreed đ
Thank you for this video! đâš A question: is it advantageous to use your own purchased ISBN-nr and publish on both Amazon and IngramSpark for the same book? Is this possible, or must I purchase a separate ISBN-nr for each platform? Thanks!
Best to purchase your own and upload the book to both platforms as long as itâs the âexactâ same book. Eg. Same title, subtitle, author, book type etc.
Great content. Can you publish activity books?
Thanks for the feedback. You could publish Activity books but just double check the Catelog Integrity guidelines or even contact IngramSpark directly and show them an example and see what their response is?
thanks
My pleasure!
Romney - is Ingram Spark primarily for the US / North American market? Iâm just wondering if itâs the best fit for the UK publishers?
I do sell most of my books on Ingram to the US Market. Just say I sold 500 books in a month on Ingram, the breakup would be 400 US, 70 UK and 30 AUS. Hope that helps.
I've watched about 49 videos on Ingram Spark in the last two days. It appears they are constantly changing pricing. I uploaded my children's book - it didn't cost me a dime. But the ISBN cost $85. If I wanted to be in their catalog it would have been an extra $150. I didn't do the catalog. I ordered a copy of my book as I want to see the quality. I found the site to NOT user friendly. Huge learning cover that I didn't master. I hope I got everything correct. There doesn't seem to much customer service help available. With that said, the possibilities seem worth the risk. Fingers crossed.
Always worth trying. I'm so happy I started 3 years ago.
Good news Ingram Spark is now free to upload.
Yes, I created a video about that early last week. Great news
Hey life graduate, I have followed your course. But I am still not get it. Is there a way, you can mentor me personally. Though I don't yet have all the tools, you prescribed in your course!
I have my Publishing Academy where I mentor students but itâs currently closed as I have a full allotment. Itâs priced at $990 USD for 3 months including all my courses.
Tell me I am incorrect but I read somewhere that Ingram Spark have removed the initial upload charge. đđ»
Correct! This should help you. czcams.com/video/VxBSE-DPakc/video.html
What Kind of Books do you have on Spark ?
A variety of medium and high content books.
What should i do.... I'm getting very less sales... Please help me
Start by taking a course on Udemy. For under $20 you will significantly fast track your learning.
@@globalselfpublishing I already took course and learn . Are there any marketing tools in ingramspark?
Oh! Thank you for taking the course. It's all about creating better books. Unless the books are really high quality, there's not much you can do to increase book sales on IngramSpark. You could potenially increase the Wholesale Discount to 55% to encourage more of a discount to bookstores to stock your book/s.
Hey,
I started publishing in the US market late 2022, I am now making 8k/month but everyday I feel stressed and anxious because I invested a lot of money into tools, books, promotions, reviews services, graphic designers, all the lead magnet and freebies... It is satisfactory for sure but I am now at a point where I am questioning my choices in life...i am now seeing more terminations of accounts than ever and KDP is very big... I opened my LLC and I am waiting my EIN number to arrive so I can buy cheap ISBN from the US (In my country they are very expensive), I will publish on Draft 2 Digital and Ingramspark, but still with the AI the market will be super saturated so I don't see this business as viable long term, I am therefore thinking to devoting less time to self-publishing and allocate a couple of hours per day trying to start a new business such as maybe drop shipping, white label or e-commerce, while growing my account, go wide, and open another one using a nominee (my mother), I just wanted to know your thoughts ... Am I paranoid? Should I scale to 100-150k/month before moving to something else? What should I do? I am scared that the time, energy effort I put into growing this business is not a wise investment long term and that probably my energy would be better spent somewhere else in building something for the long term
Firstly, congratulations on your success to date. An excellent acheivement. I completley understand your dilemma as I too faced a similar challenge a couple of years back. Too many eggs in the one basket can cause sleepless nights so diversification is crucial. It's like when people want more and more money but the more money they have can cause greater money complications and they spend more time worrying about money than when they didn't have as much!
I suggest you create a plan to develop multiple streams of income over the next 12 - 18 months to dilute your risk with just KDP. Eg. you could have KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Affiliates, Stocks, create an online course etc..etc. This will help you to absorb any issues should one of the incomes streams turn off. Think of it like having multiple dripping taps that are filling buckets with water. You want to have lots of buckets filling with water because if one bucket tips over and empties, you still have your other buckets that continue to fill 24/7, 365 days.
I hope all of that assists. Kind Regards, Romney
Hello sir can you please help me what are the trending books and kids books on Ingramspark? Actually I am new to Ingramspark
IngramSpark is a distributor of books and not an online bookstore like Amazon therefore it doesn't have 'trending' books.