May 12, 2026I wrote a book. It’s about Near Death Experiences.
Once the book went live I quickly discovered Amazon does absolutely nothing to help you sell it. Surprise!
They say “thanks for the free content” and take 40% of royalties per sale.
If you want to promote your book and pay for some marketing, then of course you have to spend money to advertise within the Amazon network. So, it’s a great deal for Amazon, and not the best deal for authors. All new authors face the same dilemma.
There are dozens if not hundreds of plans, programs, courses out there (spamming the hell out of my “for you” spaces on all social media) all promising to fix my problem. Once you do a search for “how can I sell more books” – you’re toast. Sell more books. Get more reviews. Use AI to get more sales. They all promise the same sorts of things – solutions to the problem, for a fee. But what works and what doesn’t? How much is just “AI Slop” that’s basically useless? Can you trust testimonials and recommendations from (supposedly) other customers on their platform who are using their services?
So what I’m going to do is sign up for these things to see what works and what doesn’t. My goal is a positive ROI. If a course or a plan or an AI solution costs – for example – $100 per month – does that solution generate at least that much in revenue? Do I get my money back, at the very least?
Or what if something is a flop? What if a course is just – bad? I’ll let you know. I’m not going to take any money from sponsors. If their program works, I’ll use it, make money on the book sales, and then tell you about it. If I try something and it turns out to be a waste of money – then I’ll cancel the service and let you know my opinion and experience.
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0:00So, good news, bad news. I wrote a book.
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4 secondsUm, wrote a book, published it on Amazon, and I was stupid and ignorant and I’d never written a book before. So,
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12 secondsI thought that all you got to do is write a book, put it on Amazon, and then magically it will sell. Wrong. I didn’t know. So what happens is you have to now
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21 secondslearn how to promote and make uh content for the internet for uh Instagram and
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28 secondsfor meta and Facebook and reals and Tik Tok and every place else you’ve got to and then of course long form videos.
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35 secondsYou’ve got to do all of these things.
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38 secondsSo as soon as you start investigating this, how do I promote my book? How do I sell my book? your algorithm instantly
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45 secondsturns into, hey, there’s a course for that. Sign up for this course. Do this course. That course will make you book.
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51 secondsAdvertise here. You’re gonna make your book sell. You’re going to get reviews.
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55 secondsYou’re going to get followers. You’re going to get blah blah blah. Use AI.
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58 secondsBlah blah blah. There’s a thousand of them. Okay. The question is this. Which one of them suck? Which one of them
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1 minute, 6 secondswork? And which ones um will actually, you know, do do good as advertised? Um,
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1 minute, 14 secondsso what I’m going to do with this series, and I’m going to do this on a lot of stuff. Um, I’m going to start signing up for these things. I’m going
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1 minute, 21 secondsto start learning them and producing more content and better content and using hooks and all of the crap that you can learn how to do to make better uh
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1 minute, 30 secondsstuff uh to promote. I’m promoting a book, but you can promote anything. A nail salon, a dog cleaning service, who knows? Whatever. It’s all the same crap.
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1 minute, 39 secondsYou’re trying to sell something, right?
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1 minute, 40 secondsSo, the question is, which one of these products work? And here’s what I’m going to do is if if I let’s say I spend a
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1 minute, 47 secondshundred bucks for a course or something, do I get return on investment? And and that’s going to be the key. If if I spend a hundred bucks on a course and I
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1 minute, 56 secondsget my hundred bucks back, it’s like, eh, okay, break even. Not a complete loss. If I spend a hundred bucks and it’s, oh my god, I get a million views.
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2 minutes, 5 secondsWell, then absolutely that’s an absolute winner. If I spend a hundred bucks on something and I don’t get anything out of it and it’s a complete waste of money
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2 minutes, 12 secondsand a complete waste of time, I’mma tell you. And that’s what this is going to be. And I’m going to be doing these videos um on every single thing that I
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2 minutes, 21 secondssign up for um over time and and then learn how to use them. And I’ll say, “Oh, I you know, in the comments or whatever, I’ll say, I use this kind of
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2 minutes, 30 secondsan AI or I use this kind of a service or I I learned how to do this on this course.” because there’s nothing out there that nothing that I can find where
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2 minutes, 39 secondsit’s honest reviews because it looks like half the reviews are paid for. It’s like you’re going to love this Sign up for it. Oh, yeah. Okay, great.
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2 minutes, 45 secondsUm, you can’t trust something that the advertiser puts on their own website saying that this person signed up for it and they’re doing great. Therefore, you
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2 minutes, 53 secondsshould buy my crap. Well, okay. I’m going to do this independently. Uh, these are going to be honest reviews. I’m not going to get paid from anybody.
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3 minutes, 1 secondUh, if I’m getting paid by if their crap works and I get and I sell books from it, then great, I’m getting paid, but I’m not going to take advertising money
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3 minutes, 9 secondsfrom any of these guys. It’s all going to be straight up. It’s all going to be uh non-biased and it’s going to be no Does it work or not? And uh let’s
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3 minutes, 17 secondssee how this goes. This is what I’m going to be doing all summer um is trying to learn how to use these different uh AI programs and content
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3 minutes, 26 secondscreation and all this stuff to get better at it and to see what really works. So, that’s what I’m going to be doing. Um, and let’s see how this works
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3 minutes, 34 secondsout. And if you watch this, great. If you don’t, then maybe nobody will ever watch it and I won’t know. Anyway, bye. Have a great day.