James Allwinton

My tweets will help you make more money publishing books | spent 8 years lending bonds at an investment bank

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

A self-publisher makes $25,680 a month from one book.

Here is how you could do the same with 4.4hrs of work and $138:

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@Tom_xpublish Doing well thanks mate! Things all good with you?

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@thearnieho Love it. I got mine to pull all my VAT invoices from the last quarter and send them to my accountant for the quarterly tax return

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@Kaizen_Nikko Hey mate, I don't use pubby any more, bookblaze is good for audiobook reviews, and pub champ is necessary for all publishers

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

My current publishing subscriptions:

- Canva
- Pubby
- Spotify
- Audible
- Squibler
- ChatGPT
- Bookblaze
- Grammarly
- Publisher Champ

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

In May, I made $9,262 selling books on Amazon and Audible.

Except for January, my earnings have increased every month for the past year.

Here are the 5 things I do to keep my earnings growing:

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[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@mattwelter Looks great. So we don't need to send to drafts anymore?

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@littlebirdsing Have a CTA in your posts telling them to check the link in your bio

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

How to grow your book royalties with zero ad spend:

1. Open a TikTok account
2. Name it something related to your topic
3. Film 60 videos of you flicking through your book (faceless)
4. Post two videos per day for a month
5. Add some trending music and a caption (hook)

Do this over and over and let TikTok find your audience

Make sure over time you improve your videos

Your reach will keep improving

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@BigJamezx @EmmaBams1 @Jesusboy_Lion @Henry_Ejiofor1 @ProdigalTroller Nice job mate!

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@chiwealth1111 A lot of work and a lot of different tools, sorry a vague answer but its different for all of them

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

Parts of the publishing process I now use AI for

topic selection - no
title - yes
writing - yes
covers - yes
editing- yes
book description - yes
metadata - yes
formatting - no
narration - yes

I use the odd human writer, editor and narrator but every week AI is getting better

Some things like descriptions, metadata, titles etc I almost exclusively use AI now

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@ProdigalTroller 100% but I never bothered because its not like I was publishing a big book like this very often. Ads management I'd be more inclined to train a VA

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

How to setup Amazon ads 101:

1. Get a list of 500-1000 broad keywords from Pub Rocket
2. Find 5-10 highly relevant keywords for exact campaign
3. With the exact kws, add words like 'ultimate' and 'book' etc to create a list of 200 phrase keywords
4. Download ASIN grabber extension
5. Search all your exact keywords into Amazon and extract all ASINs of relevant books
6. Use these for expanded product campaigns
7. Find 20 highly relevant books for exact product campaign
8. Setup broad, phrase, exact, expanded, exact category for each format of your book with starting bids of 30-40 cents
9. Repeat step 8. in all English speaking markets
10. Repeat step 8. and 9. with a video ad you get made on fiverr

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@BigJamezx @EmmaBams1 @Jesusboy_Lion Nice job bro!

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@ProdigalTroller End to end probably a day or two, yeah it literally takes so much time

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@ProdigalTroller Yeah absolutely

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

If I was genuinely trying to get a lot of reviews for a KDP book right now, this is how I'd do it:

1. Create a simple ad on facebook showing your cover
2. Run it to a very broad audience, offering book for free
3. Get people to DM you from the ad
4. When they DM, ask if they'd consider leaving a review after reading it
5. Send them the free PDF of your book
6. Do this hundreds if not thousands of times
7. When your book is live, follow up with every person until either a) they leave review b) they ask you to leave them alone or c) you've followed up 5 times

Around 7-10% of people who you give a free copy to will leave a review.

So if you want 100 reviews, you need to give out 1.5k copies.

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@ProdigalTroller I did it manually last time but would def look at something like manychat or at least a VA for next time

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@ProdigalTroller Honestly I can't remember but my guess is $800-$1500

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@BigJamezx @EmmaBams1 @Jesusboy_Lion @Henry_Ejiofor1 @ProdigalTroller @Muhammad__S__ Nice job bro 💪

[James Allwinton @jamesallwinton]

@alwaysmoses12 Amazing, nice job

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@Sarah_Miller_96 Nice will check it out