Over $14K/Month on Amazon KDP Without Ads—Just TikTok! — Transcript

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1. 0:00If you're just getting started with
2. 0:01Amazon KDP and you're wondering how
3. 0:02people actually make real money from it,
4. 0:04then this video is for you. Because
5. 0:06let's face it, getting traction on
6. 0:07Amazon KDP can feel impossible. You
7. 0:09publish a book and wait and nothing
8. 0:11happens. And you're left wondering,
9. 0:13"What am I doing wrong? And how can I
10. 0:14make sales?" But what if I told you
11. 0:16about somebody who started from ground
12. 0:17zero, no books, no ads, no sales, no
13. 0:21followers, and is now making over
14. 0:23$14,000 a month from Amazon KDP, all
15. 0:25thanks to Tik Tok. In this video, I'm
16. 0:27breaking down a self-publisher and how
17. 0:29she built a viable coloring book brand
18. 0:31all using Tik Tok. No paid Amazon ads,
19. 0:33no prior experience, no prior audience.
20. 0:36She started from ground zero. And here's
21. 0:37the wild part. She didn't even publish
22. 0:39her first book on Amazon KDP until 2
23. 0:41months after she started posting on Tik
24. 0:43Tok. Now she's pulling in over $14,000
25. 0:45in just royalties alone. Not to mention
26. 0:48how much money she's getting paid from
27. 0:49Tik Tok lives where she colors her books
28. 0:50and gets paid in real time. Let's get
29. 0:52into how she did it and how you can,
30. 0:54too. And really quick, if you're new
31. 0:55here, I'm Katherine Westbrooks and I
32. 0:56make videos about how you can make money
33. 0:58from home. Be sure to like this video
34. 0:59and subscribe so you don't miss any
35. 1:00future content. Now, I'm going to go
36. 1:02ahead and share my screen and let's get
37. 1:03into the video. The self-publisher that
38. 1:04I'm talking about is called Sunflow
39. 1:06Colors. Here's her Tik Tok. I am on the
40. 1:08desktop version right now because you
41. 1:10can sort by her oldest videos, which is
42. 1:12what we're going to do so we can see
43. 1:13where she started. So, here's her latest
44. 1:14post right here, but we're going to go
45. 1:16back to her oldest posts, and that takes
46. 1:18us back to February 12th, 2024. So, this
47. 1:20video right here is her first video ever
48. 1:22posted on her account. I'm going to mute
49. 1:24the audio, but this is not her book that
50. 1:25she's coloring. This is a book by Megan
51. 1:27Miles Art. She also has videos coloring
52. 1:29Bobby Goods coloring books as well from
53. 1:30Amazon. So, she started her Tik Tok
54. 1:32posting videos of her coloring other
55. 1:34self-publishers coloring books. Anyone
56. 1:36can make videos like this. And I'm going
57. 1:38to scroll, scroll, scroll, and she
58. 1:40doesn't actually start posting her own
59. 1:42books until this post right here. I had
60. 1:46to scroll for a little bit, but right
61. 1:47here is her first post about her own
62. 1:49coloring books. So, if I click on it,
63. 1:51these are two still shots of her two
64. 1:53coloring books that she first published.
65. 1:54Wild West Bold and Easy and Just Girly
66. 1:57Things Bold and Easy. So, this post was
67. 1:59on 425, 2024. And here's her Amazon page
68. 2:02right here, Sunflow Colors. And I'm
69. 2:04going to scroll all the way down. So,
70. 2:06her Wild West coloring book was
71. 2:08published on April 22nd, 2024. And her
72. 2:11Just Girly Things was April 18th, 2024.
73. 2:15So just a few days after she published
74. 2:16her first book was when she made her
75. 2:18first Tik Tok about her books. And then
76. 2:20after she posted her first coloring
77. 2:22books, she just did the same thing that
78. 2:23she was doing before. She just kept
79. 2:25making videos on Tik Tok but just
80. 2:26coloring her own coloring books in the
81. 2:28same way. Her videos are super simple,
82. 2:30but she has built a following on Tik Tok
83. 2:32and almost all of her book sales on
84. 2:34Amazon come from followers on Tik Tok.
85. 2:36She drives all of her own traffic from
86. 2:38Tik Tok right to Amazon. So I did all
87. 2:40the hard work already. I took all of her
88. 2:42BSRS for all of her books. I made this
89. 2:44spreadsheet right here with her
90. 2:45estimated book sales per month, her
91. 2:47royalty rate, and then her estimated
92. 2:49income, and she's making over $14,000 in
93. 2:52just royalties alone. Now, what Sunflow
94. 2:55also does to build her brand up is she
95. 2:56goes live 6 days a week for 3 hours at a
96. 2:59time. She just cycles through her own
97. 3:00coloring books and she colors them in
98. 3:02her lives. So, all of her followers that
99. 3:04attend her lives are constantly buying
100. 3:06more copies of her books because she
101. 3:08colors the same books over and over
102. 3:10again. Her lives are honestly really
103. 3:11fun. She does a great job engaging with
104. 3:13her audience, asking questions, asking
105. 3:14them to comment. Her videos are really
106. 3:17simple and anyone can do this. I highly
107. 3:19recommend that you go watch her videos
108. 3:20and take notes of which videos went
109. 3:22viral and why. Attend her lives and see
110. 3:24how she interacts with her audience and
111. 3:25builds a true fan base who'll buy her
112. 3:27books time and time again. She has a
113. 3:29loyal following because she shows up
114. 3:30every single day. And now she's making
115. 3:32over $14,000 a month from her royalties
116. 3:34alone. Sunflow Colors didn't wait until
117. 3:36everything is perfect. She didn't wait
118. 3:37until she had a massive following. She
119. 3:39started messy. She just took action one
120. 3:41day and because she actually started,
121. 3:42now she's building a six-figure brand
122. 3:44from home. So, if you've been waiting on
123. 3:46a sign to publish your first book to
124. 3:48start a Tik Tok and to post that first
125. 3:49video on Tik Tok, this is your sign. The
126. 3:51only difference between you and then
127. 3:53somebody making $14,000 a month is that
128. 3:55she started. And that's what I did, too.
129. 3:57I took inspiration from Sunflow Colors.
130. 3:59I started a new book brand. I used Chat
131. 4:01GPT to create a book that was similar
132. 4:03but also different from her brand. And I
133. 4:05just started posting. In my next video,
134. 4:06I'm going to show you how to start
135. 4:08promoting your KDP books on Tik Tok.
136. 4:10From how to film, your setup, what kind
137. 4:12of videos to film, materials, text
138. 4:14hooks, how to use Chat GPT to help you
139. 4:16post more. I'm going to show you
140. 4:18everything. So, make sure that you
141. 4:19subscribe so you don't miss that video.
142. 4:20If that video is already posted, by the
143. 4:21time that you're watching this, it'll be
144. 4:22right here on the screen. If you like
145. 4:24this video, be sure to like it and
146. 4:25subscribe. Comment down below what
147. 4:26questions you have, and I'll see you in
148. 4:28the next one.