PASSIVE CASH COW..
Thank you so much for purchasing this eBook.
Really Passive Income contains a method that really WORKs, truly PASSIVE and
totally WHITEHAT. So, you need not to worry. All you have to do is to take action.
One thing I want to tell at the outset is that this is not ‘Get Quick Rich’ scheme. It
requires hard work and patience. This method works and you will notice it when
pennies start rolling in once you set the method up. You would want to gradually
scale it up.
Being on BBHF I have learnt a lot of techniques and strategies, which I’m going to
share with you. Using them you can greatly reduce the amount of work needed
and build your business very fast.
The amount of money you going to make with this method is directly related to the
effort you put in. The more effort you put in the more money you would make.
And, remember this is passive income, and not one time profit. You will continue
reaping profit forever should it last that long.
This ebook would look useless if I don’t tell my own story. No want to learn about
making money online from a person who has not tested himself.
I started this method nearly a year back. I was not very serious about the method
until recently. Now I make nearly $1000 every month without doing anything. The
site has a ready-made traffic. All I had to do is to publish as many ebook as possible
and cash it.
I have around 78 ebooks in best of the niches and prices are between $2.99 to
$10.99.
My goal is to publish 100 eBooks and earn $1500 passively every month. I never
did personal promotion of my ebooks or the figure could have been even higher.
Now I plan to price the rest of ebooks in the range of $8.99 to $10.99 to achieve
this
Heard about of D2D?
D2D is also known Draft2Digital. This is an ebook publisher cum distributor. It is
popularly knows as D2D. Henceforth, I’ll use D2D instead of Draft2Digital for
convenience throughout the book.
D2D allows you to auto format and publish your ebooks on their platform. Once an
ebook is published, it will be distributed to their 11 partner storefronts that
include among others the likes of Kobo and Apple iBooks. You can even exclude
retailers you don’t like. For example, you don’t want your book to be distributed
to Baker & Taylor. With just one click you can exclude them.
D2D sends monthly payment. It has a single but very simple yet powerful
dashboard where you can track sales, royalty and distribution from one place. It
even allows you to edit the already published and distributed ebooks.
Authors hold the copyright by default. The ToS of D2D is very transparent and
author friendly. Their customer support service is second to none. They get back
almost instantly.
Last but note the least, all this awesome services from one place like formatting,
publishing and distributing are totally free. Their auto formatting software is
arguably best in the internet. You don’t have to invest a penny.
‘So, what’s the catch?’ You may be wondering.
Frankly there is no big catch at all. D2D will just deduct 10% of your royalty payment. It makes
money only when you make money. The 10% cut is very low
and much below than 30% standard rate that Amazon KDP charges. You won’t
get a better deal anywhere.
The biggest advantage is that you don’t have to promote your ebooks. D2D does
that for you and for free. Lack of promotion and marketing is one of the main reasons why many
authors fail. Henceforth, you don’t have to worry. You mind in your writing business and D2D will
take care of the rest.
Some of the D2D’s partner storefronts such as Kobo, Barnes and Noble and Apple
iBooks have sizable number of readers but the supply of quality ebooks is somewhat inadequate
and not up to the standard. You have golden opportunity
to fill up some of the voids. Your published works will have lot of eyeballs in short time.
At present D2D have 11 retailer partners. They are as follows:
1. Amazon KDP
2. Kobo
3. 24 Symbols
4. Apple ibooks
5. Scribd
6. Barnes and Noble
7. Baker and Taylor
8. Hoopla
9. Tolino
10. Over Drive
11. Bibilotheca
My experience shows that Amazon KDP, in most instances, does not accept nonfiction books published via D2D though they are partners. The usual excuse is the
content being found in public domain.
I usually don’t care about Amazon KDP because it’s too much crowded and heavy
promotion required. Average writers like us have less to no chance to make big
money with Amazon KDP. However listing your ebooks on Amazon KDP whether
through D2D or KDP select is always advisable. Who knows, your book can turn
out to be the next ’50 Shades of Grey!’
Note that you can individually publish your work on 11 partner retail stores of
D2D should you want to retain the full royalty amount instead of sharing 10% with
D2D. Individually publishing with each retailer has many big disadvantages:
The main problem is formatting. Formatting styles such as types of extension (viz.
pdf, epub, awz), font color and font style, spacing etc vary from retailer to retailer.
It’s an uphill task to meet requirement for each retailer individually.
Another problem is monitoring of sales. You would not want to login to many
dashboards to monitor your ebook publishing business. Obviously, it will be very
time consuming and virtually impossible especially when you have many ebooks.
To solve these problems D2D entered the market in 2012 and is growing in popularity day by day.
It’s future of ebook publishing industry. Those who hop in
early will be making big money. And remember. You are not required to make any
investment.
D2D even allows you to build a subscriber list on their platform for free. To tap
into such massive quality and free service is up to you.
D2D vs Kindle KDP
You may be wondering how D2D differs from Kindle KDP. They have less similarity
but more differences. Both are publishing platform but D2D in addition to
publishing distribute to its partner retailers that include Amazon KDP.
An agreement between D2D and Amazon KDP was signed in 2017 to make the
latter part of former’s retailing partner.
If you would like to choose Amazon KDP for publishing through D2D, make sure
your work is not listed on Amazon KDP. Amazon prohibits double listing. Whether
you like it or not KDP software will detect the double listing. Even you change the
title but the books have same content, Amazon KDP can detect the duplicated
content.
D2D auto format software is far better than Amazon KDP. The auto formatting
software used by D2D even can detect chapters. It’s also very fast. Once you specify
your preferred retailers, D2D auto-formatting software will format the content
and convert it to appropriate doc types before submitting the work to the retailers.
Even pricing model of D2D is much better than that of Amazon KDP. KDP’s loose
pricing model allows authors set the price of theirs ebooks arbitrarily. D2D has a
better model. It prescribes minimum price depending upon the file size. Files up
to 3 MB has a price tag of $0.99, $1.99 for 3 MB to 10 MB, and $2.99 for 10 MB or
greater. Obviously this model prevents scamming and spamming.
Anyway Amazon KDP has changed many lives. It has made many authors
millionaires. Even larger number of them makes their living on Amazon KDP.
Compared to KDP, D2D is a somehow new and they are still improving. It is
undeniable that D2D has a lot of potential with its unique services. It also makes
self-publishing easy.
In nutshell it can be said that D2D is going to revolutionize the self-publishing
industry with their excellent features and services.
How to Use D2D?
The first step obviously is to sign up with them. The process is self explanatory. So,
I’m not going to guide you. Make sure you provide correct information. I’ll assist
you with important steps.
After you sign up and before start submitting your ebooks you need to configure
your account. Follow the following steps.
Login to your account and click ‘My Account’.
The ‘Payment Options’ is most important step you need to configure to get timely
payment. It has also tax information page.
In addition to Paypal, D2D also has other payment options. They can send the
payment via check, Payoneer or direct deposit as per your preference.
After filling your personal detail and specifying your payment information click
‘Launch Interview’. This step information is very simple and note that this is not
face to face or video interview. You need to answer questions correctly and
provide tax related info pertaining to the country you reside accurately.
The verification and confirmation may take few days but this won’t stop you from
uploading and distributing your ebooks on D2D. Remember that you will get
payment only when D2D confirmation the info you provided as valid. Nothing is
to worry about this step. You will be approved fast if your information is correct.
How to Upload Your Ebook?
Before you upload your ebook make sure your work is error free and proper
chapterization has been made. You don’t need to pre-format your work. You also
need your book cover designed. There are a lot of free templates available on the
web. Some well known graphic designing sites like Canva and Snappa have free
plan.
I usually design cover for my books using Amazon KDP and it’s breeze. They have
pre made templates for various categories. You just need to input the book title
and author name and you are ready to go. Then download the designed cover and
save.
Snappa is very good and has nice collection of templates and very high quality
graphics. Hardly 2 minutes needed to come out with a descent cover. If you are
concerned with look of book cover, you should choose Snappa. It’s better than
Canva.
Uploading your work to D2D is really very easy. You will be guided in every step.
Log in to your account and on the dashboard click ‘My Book’. You will be taken to
a page that looks like following snap:
Click ‘ADD NEW BOOK’ tab, which should at the top(circled). You will be redirected
to the page like following
Click browse to upload your work. It is important to note that you keep your ebook
and manuscript in DOC format before you attempt upload.
Once you successfully upload you will see a green check mark (blue circle) as
shown on the above picture.
Look the white question mark inside the orange circle (purple circle on above
image) right next to every field. Point your cursor to it and it will provide a detailed
instruction about each section in the form. Just follow the instruction and fill up.
The process is very self explanatory.
If you ebook or manuscript is brand new leave the ‘ISBN’ field blank. D2D will assign an ISBN
number after the work is published. If your ebook is already published somewhere then you should
input the ISBN number in the field. It’s important to prevent duplication.
The BISAC subject section (Snapshot below) is the most important section to care about.
Here you decide five categories to add your book to. Choose appropriate
categories, so that your book will appear when buyers type relevant search terms.
You should not make mistake like adding your comic book to business section.
The next important field is adding search terms or keywords. You would want to
add keywords that are relevant to discovering your book online. It’s important to
research about appropriate keywords. Check Google.
There are many free online tools. I would suggest Keyword.io, Google Trend and
answerthepublic.com. They are best out there to find related keywords. Usually 5
to 10 keywords or search terms would suffice.
Next Save and Continue. The next page will look like following:
Here you have to upload your cover image. As I said earlier you can make a simple
cover using Amazon KDP software and download it. Now upload the same to D2D
by clicking the browse button. Once uploading is done you will see a green check
mark.
Now let’s check the ‘Add End Matter’ section. This is nothing but to add
automatically some readymade pages to your ebook such as a separate ‘Title Page’
besides the cover, ‘Copyright page’ etc. If you have not included a copyright page
or title page in your manuscript/ebook, just select these pages and they will be
added to the content you already uploaded. I usually select the ‘Title Page’,
‘Copyright page’, ‘Also By’ and ‘About the Author’ page.
Choose ‘Also By’ if you have published multiple books. This ‘Also By’ function will
display list of other books authored by you when a potential buyer click on one of
your books.
Selecting ‘Teaser’ allows you to add a teaser of your book to the current work. I
don’t use it as I write non-fiction. If you are writer of fiction you should select it.
Now look at the right side on the above image. The auto formatting software
displays a list of probable chapters by detecting font sizes or/and headings and
subheadings. If some of displayed texts are not your chapters, then click ‘Help!
These Aren’t My Chapters!” You can now remove the chapters that are not part of
your ebook. Next click ‘Save and Continue’.
On this page you can preview your work. Check every page of your ebook carefully.
If you spot a mistake you can edit there right there.
On the right side you will see ‘Choose a Style’ section. It’s just a page lay out feature.
For fiction work you can choose an appropriate category. For non-fiction choose
‘D2D Block’ under ‘Non Fiction’ tab.
Here is an example of what happens when you choose a style.
The software just adds a graphic/style at the beginning or/end of the chapter.
Above image shows how a page looks like when ‘textbook’ style is chosen. The
below image is an example of ‘Classy Mystery Style’.
The style section is not relevant but if you are style conscious then takes some
time to browse through various styles. Personally, I chose D2D block under ‘NonFiction’ tab as I mostly write nonfiction.
This page also allows you to download copy of you own work in PDF, Mobi or/and
Epub format. Once you review the preview check the box that says “I have
reviewed the manuscript and approve it for release for distribution to any sales
channels I select” and then click ‘Save and Continue’.
You will be redirect to the ‘Publish’ page. You will see a page like following. On this
page you are going to price your book and select the retailers you want your work
to be distributed. It is advisable to price your books not more than $10. Books
should be affordable
Usually I price my book low so that it has a higher chance of selling and I select all
the distribution channels. There is no reason to exclude any channel. Ideally you
would want your works to be displayed in maximum places possible.
Then click ‘Publish’.
Congratulations! You published your first book on D2D.
As you can see the process is very easy. Once you do it yourself, the process is very
smooth and you will enjoy uploading your works. Upload as many as you want.
The Strategy
It is important to note that success on D2D does not come immediately. You have
to wait but I assure you that once you successfully publish your first book you will
see pennies coming to your bank account.
The key is to continue and pile up your portfolio with more good books.
The obviously question is where and how to write good books?
Come on, nobody is born author. Anyone can write with basic English language
knowledge.
Even you are not an author you can too write books. I’m going to show you how
you can do it.
The first step in experiencing success with D2D is selecting a right niche. You want
to avoid competitive niches like Weight Loss where almost everyone is involved
and a lot of quality information out there on the web and that too for free.
So, the best bet would be to write ebooks on little known niches but having good
demand. I find Nichehacks.com by Stuart Walker is a gold mine. He has over 250
niches with in depth research. He also publishes few blog posts in new and
emerging niches.
With just $1 you can subscribe to his 1 month trial and download all the reports.
Then you can cancel the subscription before the payment due date. Google has a
lot of free info about many hidden and little known niches. You just gotta do some
research.
NB: I’m not associated with Stuart Walker anyway. I had once subscribed to
his trial offer and mightily impressed. His $69 a month subscription is too
costly for most of us. Search on BBHF. Some might have shared.
After you decide the niche the next step to write your content. Writing content is
a tough task. Not only writing you have also to do editing, proofreading etc.
So, what is the option?
Easy! There are lots of PLR and MRR contents. Don’t go for PLR or Private Label
Right books unless the contents are of high quality and from a reputable source.
They are just plain craps.
Buy books that come with MRR or Master Resell Rights. They are of good quality.
MRR does not give you right to label it on your name or alter the content anyway.
Don’t worry. Nobody is going to sue it. The authors take the info from public
domain and jot them down. Edit the book, give a new title, put an author name and
publish it. The whole work should not consume more than one day.
In 3 months you will have realistically a minimum of 30 books assuming you publish around 10
books a month. Very achievable. You just have to take action. 100 books in 1 year
should be the goal.
Let me show you places where you can get contents for your book.
1. Resell-rights-weekly.com
This place is one of the best for PLR and MRR ebooks. Just signing up for free subscription will give
you access to wealth of materials. If you pay $1 for one week trial to Gold membership, you will
have unrestricted access to their entire content. You can download as many materials as possible.
Then you can
unsubscribe.
