Low Content Self Publishing Journals

Organize Your KDP Business: Blank Template Notebook To Plan and Run Your Niche Research and Book

You have to plan for success – it doesn’t come without effort. Keeping an accurate record of your business goals, expenditure successes and failures is a key element in your business.

Our Low Content Self Publishing Journals blank book is an invaluable tool to enable you to plan and track for that success. Its handy size of 6″x 9″ and 120 pages means you can keep it close by at all times and jot down those ideas.

It’s the ideal way to help you track and build your self-publishing empire and watch it grow. This comprehensive blank journal has lots of space for you to record all the important information about your low content book publishing ideas with named sections to guide you through the process.

Sections included are:

Key World Events List – month by month

Looking for ideas about key events and days in the year? We’ve included some major ones in these pages. Some are fixed dates every year, and others vary depending on varying criteria.

Record Action Plan and Focus For Year

Setting a plan for the year enables you to have a structure to your business activities, and gives you something to use as a reference point throughout the year. There are many external influences on your business plan. Some you can have an influence on, some you cannot. Having a documented plan at least gives you a point to refer back to. You can then track your progress throughout the year and see how you have performed against it.

Some things you may be able to change to improve on your goals. Others, which are outside your control (look at 2020!) you just have to accept – or see if there is an opportunity within them that you didn’t see when you set your goals.

Disastrous though 2020 was, for so many reasons, it did create opportunities for low and medium content book publishers as millions of parents around the world turned into home-school teachers. That created an opportunity for a whole range of books to support them during these activities and to keep their children occupied when so many couldn’t go outside due to numerous lockdown situations.

Let’s no forget the adults too. with so much more time on their hands stuck at home, there were countless opportunities for puzzle books and activity books aimed at anyone from 15 to 115!

Record Quarterly Goals – What to Make, What To Publish, What To Market

Your activities each month has a section in the book and will be broken down into three main areas:

What to Make – You’ll need to set aside some time to do some keyword and content research and then create interiors and covers. You need to plan ahead here. It can take a few hours to create simple low content interiors and simple covers. However, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people doing that so unless you are confident you can stand out from the crowd, you will need to work a little harder and create some more complex books or search for niches that are untapped.As this extra work takes time (but brings extra rewards) you need to be thinking ahead of when you want the book to hit the market. Think two or three months ahead of where you are researching and preparing content. For example, in January you should be thinking about Easter. Don’t think about creating Christmas content to boost your Q4 income in November. That should be done and dusted by November so you can market and get the most out of the quarter.
What To Publish – It can take up to a week to get books through the review process. In Q4 you can at least double that for low content books. Activity books or books that have more content go through more quickly but the times are out of your control so don’t rely on a quick review cycle to get books into the stores. Some books you created in the weeks or months preceding should now be ready to publish so note them in this section of the monthly planner.
What to Market – Set aside some time for marketing each month. It may be paid advertising or, if your budget doesn’t stretch to that, look at the free alternatives on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram or even start your own blog or website to promote your books and pst content there.

Record Quarterly Sales and Outgoings

Keeping track of your income and outgoings is vital. We’ve included sections to record monthly sales, outgoings and then somewhere to record how good the quarter was. If it wasn’t as good as you hoped then don’t worry. Look at the quarter and see if you’re spending more than you’re earning. Only spend money on tools and advertising that you can afford. It’s not essential to spend a fortune on paid advertising to succeed at low content book publishing.

Review Each Quarter

Have a think about what went well, what you could improve on, and then record it in the Quarter Review page for future reference,

Review the Year

When the year is complete, look at the Quarterly Review pages and write a review of the year. Capitalize on the success and repair the failures (or at least don’t repeat them)

Niche Research Index

All of the pages in the book are numbered. That enables you to keep your own index of the ideas you have come u with so you can find them. Just add the topic and the page number you’ll find it on in the book.

Niche Research Templates

Now, we get into the details of each research for a book. We’ve included sections for you to record:

Topic – what’s the broad topic area for your book
Book Type – low content, medium content, logbook, activity book, etc
Page Count – how many pages (approximately) do you want your book to be
Size – What size do you want your book to be. It’s a good idea to see what sizes the other successful books in this niche are.
Cover Type – Matte or Gloss
Target Price – look at the market rate for successful books as a key. You may be able to charge more if it’s deserved but remember there has to be a real value in the price you are charging and all books will have a ceiling that will not be able to go over (well, not if you want sales any way)
Sub Niche Keyword Research – This is the real meat of the research. Record down all the variants of the niched down titles, keywords, and scores from whatever tools you use to do your research. Use this to decide which ones you want to follow up on and then tick them so you remember.
Cover Ideas – write down ideas for your cover or covers so you can then go and grab and images you need to create them from your website of choice. There are loads to choose from. some free and some paid but always remember to read the terms and conditions of the license so you are sure you can use the images on print-on-demand publications. Not all allow it and even those that do have some rules you need to follow so always read the terms properly.
Listing Notes – when you publish your listing, you’ll need to record certain details. This section is written around publishing on the Amazon KDP platform, but the same principle will apply to others. We have spaces for you to record the Author Name you are publishing it under, the Categories, and then the keywords you will enter in the 7 keyword boxes (5o characters per box including spaces.). We’ve provided numbers so you can see how you’re doing in each of the 7 boxes.