What's one of the best side hustles?

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Kindle Direct Publishing

Why it worked

The video leverages a common pain point (saturated markets) and offers a tangible solution (KDP) with a personal success story, making it relatable and aspirational for viewers looking for side hustles.

Summary

The creator discusses Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) as a lucrative side hustle, highlighting that while the market can be saturated, finding a niche and creating diverse book types like coloring or activity books can lead to success. They share personal experience of having many books with low sales, but a few that have recently started gaining traction organically on Amazon.

Structure

1Introduction to KDP as a side hustle
2Explanation of KDP and its low barrier to entry
3Addressing the saturation concern and emphasizing niche finding
4Sharing personal experience with KDP book sales
5Highlighting a book's recent organic sales growth
6Promise to explain the process in future videos

Product placement

Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) ACTS - it is a platform for self-publishing books. Removing it would change the video's topic. Amazon ACTS - it is the marketplace where the books are sold. Removing it would change the video's topic.

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Follow me. Let me know if you do KDP, and how it's going for you.

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Transcript

I think one of the best side hustles you could possibly do is KDP. Hey, my name is Michael. I talk about loads of different side hustles. So if you want a little bit extra each month, then make sure that you follow me. So today I'm going to talk about Kindle Direct Publishing. That is Kindle Direct Publishing. It's where you can create a book from scratch, completely free, sell it completely free, you get the profit on Amazon. It costs literally nothing but your time. The biggest issue with KDP and a lot of people moan about is that it's saturated. But the thing is, you have to find your niche. I've been doing this since 2021 and I have 280 books and I guarantee that 80% of them haven't sold a single copy. However, the other 20% are ones that I've actually done a bit of research on and I've created them from scratch. I've done a bit more than just lined notebooks. They are books, coloring books, activity books, and they are doing pretty well. The other thing is that they can just take off. For example, I've noticed this month I've got a book that I published, uh, in May 2024 and, you know, sales too past six weeks, it suddenly sold 10 copies just randomly, and it's only going up. What this means is organically, it gets more pushed by Amazon, therefore more people see it. I don't use any ads, I don't do any promotion. I basically make the book and forget to to forget about it and I'll move on to the next one. I will absolutely explain how I make books, how I price the books, how I do the research, a couple of this, of that. So please do make along, let me know if you do KDP and how it's going for you.