how to create best selling kindle books by empathizing
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Kindle Cheat Sheet No. 2 | by Mike Omar
How To Create Best Selling Kindle
Books By Empathizing With Your
Audienceās Emotional Driverās
Dear Self Published Author,
Welcome to the 2nd installment of my Kindle Cheat Sheets.
In the first version of these sheets, I talked about the importance of
validating your ideas within the Amazon categories ensuring there is demand
for your chosen topic.
We also talked about the importance of a āhard hittingā title and a hook
that resonates with your market. But, (please) If you havenāt read the first
installment, I recommend you read it first, before continuing below.
In this issue, we take things up a notch and start to talk about your
prospective book buyers, more specifically ā¦
Who are they, and what exactly do they want?
What is their real why?
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The why describes their motivation (deepest emotional reason) for seeking
a book in the first place ā¦ and in the non-fiction space, we want to
understand exactly why they are looking for a solution ā¦ and what questions
are at the āfore-frontā of their minds when deciding what book to purchase
on the subject.
If we understand this better than our competitors and address those
āchain of thoughtsā in your prospects mind ā¦ and seek to incorporate them
into your books title, hook, description, introduction, table of contents and
content ā¦ you win.
Your book becomes the only choice!
Just to recap.
If you can understand your prospects on a deeper emotional level than
your competitors (self published authors) youāll knock the competition outtaā
the park so hard ā¦ and so fast ā¦
ā¦ theyāll wonder what hit emā
Most business owners care squat about their customers and are just
looking to make a fast buck from them.
You, however, understand that in order to to build a lasting and ever-
increasing passive income for yourself ā¦ itās critical we truly understand the
pain points, wants, needs and overall mindset of our prospects ā¦ and seek to
solve any, and all their problems with practical (easy to implement)
solutions.
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Let me tell you a story.
A couple months back now, I tried out a new software solution that would
enable me to create shopping cart pages, one click upsell flows and manage
payment processing for my online business in a way that was MUCH faster
and easier than anything else on the market.
Knowing this software was in Beta, I was ok with the fact that there may
be some slight issues that they need to overcome.
Which there were.
Many, in fact.
No problem, I thought. Iāll just put in a support request and let them know
about the problems and hopefully theyāll take care of emā.
So I parked the software on the side, and used another method of fulfilling
orders. The next day I had a response from their support team telling me that
I did something wrong.
Now, Iām pretty clued up when it comes to software and knew for a fact
that the problems I was experiencing, was as a result of their software, which
was still in beta.
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After many (polite) exchanges of contact, I started getting a little
frustrated ā¦ and I just INSISTED that they place a test order on my site to see
that, in fact, the problem was with their software.
They did ā¦ and āit wasā.
I was given a work-around solution which in all honesty, works ā¦ but is in
no way perfect, as it could result in customers not getting what they paid for
right away ā¦ which I know, through experience, leads to unhappy customers.
ā¦ something I am not prepared to settle for.
Needless to say, the system is still parked while I use another solution,
but, knowing Iām still paying a monthly fee for the service is a little annoying
to say the least.
But, I donāt mind, because the concept of the system is excellent, and Iām
willing to wait it out while they fix the issues - or so I thought.
2 months later.
Nothing.
Not a response to be found in sight.
I contacted their support team again ā¦ and nothing.
Iām being ignored. Strange, but true.
Anyhoo ā¦
Instead of me going on and on about my experience with this company, I
just wanted to point out something that should be pretty obvious, but is
worth hitting home the point, anyway.
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Do you think I would recommend this company to anyone?
In fact, I was on Facebook just the other day when I was approached about
shopping cart solutions, and was asked about this particular company.
My response?
āAvoidā.
Yup. My exact words were ā¦
āIn the future, Iām sure this platform will be excellent. But right now, the
system does not work as advertised and their support is not great, to say the
leastā.
My point is this ā¦
If you can truly empathize with your customers mindset at all times, and
seek to overcome objections, provide tangible solutions, and o-v-e-r d-e-l-i-
v-e-r on their expectations ā¦
Like Iāve said before , youāll createā¦
Raving fans
For every book I write ā¦ and every niche market I enter, that is precisely
what Iām aiming for.
Without raving fans, youāll be eaten alive in the ādog eat dogā online
world. Competition is getting tougher. Standing out from the crowd is no
longer as easy as narrowing your market.
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ā¦ and on Amazon Kindle the competition is HUGE.
The potential of creating a (large) recurring income from Kindle is so
much easier than, setting up a website, fulfilling orders, dealing with
customer support and refunds etc.
Itās no wonder people are flocking to Kindle. But, to succeed, you want to
stay away from the āherdā mentality.
Stand out. Over-deliver. Go above and beyond.
This is a business ā¦ NOT a hobby!
Think NOW for a second, about a company or someone you did business
with that totally exceeded your expectations?
Just think for a moment.
You may need a little longer, as it doesnāt happen often.
hint, hint ;)
Got something?
Go back to that place in your mind and try to remember how that made
you feel. Then ask yourself these questions ā¦
How happy did they make you feel?
How likely are you to recommend them to your friends and family?
How likely are you to do business with them in the future?
My (personal) experience goes back to a shop I visited here in the UK this
past weekend, called; Mamas & Papas.
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Yup, my wife and I are expecting our first child in December āŗ
As this is our first child, weāre clueless about what stuff we need to buy
and what we need right NOW to prepare for our little arrival.
After being in a bunch of similar stores, weād ask some (maybe dumb)
questions only to get back a valid answer ā¦ then the assistant would carry on
with her normal duties, which, in all honesty, was to be expected.
But ā¦ in the Mamas & Papas store we received a service which went
above and beyond what either of us had expected.
When telling the assistant that this was our first baby, and weāre kindaā in
the dark about what we needed to buy, she proceeded to spend the next 2
hours (no joke) by our side telling us what we need in preparation for our
new baby ā¦
She didnāt speak to anyone else,
apart from us.
We even walked out the store with a list of what weāll need in the next 3
months ā¦ AND the specific amounts and types of clothes we should be
getting in preparation for a winter baby.
Needless to say, we weāre blown away with the attention we received and
went on to spend a small fortune in that shop ā and will likely never go
anywhere else again. We even asked her āwhat days she worksā in the store so
we can revisit her again next time.
I hope you understand what Iām getting at here ā¦ itās basic stuff, but
(sadly) often overlooked.
So, how does all this translate to you and your Kindle business?
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Glad you asked.
Firstly, we want to know more about āspecificallyā, who will be reading
our books. Then ā¦ we want to find out what type of (practical) solutions we
need to provide them to create happy, raving customers who recommend our
books and leave positive reviews.
Then ā¦ we want to understand their mindset to figure out their why for
seeking a solution in the first place.
To recap ā¦
Who (sex, age, attitudes, behaviours ā demographics/psychographics)
What (specifically, the solutions being sought to overcome āXā)
Why (deepest, emotional reason for seeking a solution)
In finding out the who, we want to understand basic demographics, so we
know who we are speaking to in the first place.
Hereās what we need to know ā¦
ā¢ Sex
ā¢ Age
ā¢ Income
ā¢ Family size
Once we understand this, we can ā¦
Tailor the book and messaging to our
intended audience (the who)
For example, if weāre writing a book about;
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Paleo Diet Recipes
Your research will tell you that the majority of people (82%) looking for
recipes of this type are; females.
So, youāll want to address this audience totally differently in the
introduction and description (for instance) to a book that talked to a male
dominated audience.
Your (demographic) research would also tell you that the majority of this
audience likely has kids in the household ā¦ so, donāt you think including
recipes for children and maybe the whole family would be a good idea?
Sure would.
There are a number of tools and websites you can use to find demographic
data, hereās the ones I use.
Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/ads/audience_insights/)
Quantcast: (https://www.quantcast.com/)
Letās take a brief look at Facebook audience insights.
On the left hand side, youāll see this ā¦
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Under interests is where youāll want to enter the name of a website or
Facebook page that your audience is likely to visit.
How do we find out the names of these pages?
Using the Facebook search feature, like this:
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As you can see from the seed search above;
People who like
And the seed keyword;
Paleo
Weāve found a Facebook page that exists (Paleo Leap) with 335,417 people
who like it on Facebook ā¦ and now, we can drill down into them to
understand more about the audience.
So, we just need to add Paleo Leap into the interests field, like this.
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Once you do that, youāll be faced with a āwhole hostā of data on the right
hand side giving you a thorough overview of the demographics of that
audience.
To save filling up this PDF with tons of screenshots, you can follow along
and youāll see (like I said) the audience is made up of 82% women, between
the ages of 25-44.
From this information we can then look into the other tabs to get an
accurate picture of who these people are and then determine how we should
address this audience in our books.
The next thing we want to know is ā¦
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What does the market want or
need a solution too?
This section is going to form the basis of our book. Now, we need to start
thinking about creating our TOC. Whether youāre creating the book yourself,
or outsourcing your book ā¦ I still recommend you create the TOC yourself as
youāve done all the research up to this point.
ā¦ and you understand your prospective buyers better than any
ghostwriter will ever seek to understand.
Weāre looking to create raving fans, remember?
Letās get to work.
Firstly, we need to identify their ābiggestā pain points and questions
theyāre desperately seeking answers too.
This is done with Q&A communities & forums.
Yahoo: (https://answers.yahoo.com/)
Quora: (http://www.quora.com/)
Metafilter: (http://ask.metafilter.com/)
What weāre looking for here is very simple. Weāre going to perform
keyword searches in our niche ā¦ specifically looking for content ideas based
on the questions our market is desperately seeking answers too.
These questions are their needs, their wants, their most pressing
questions and objections. Look for commonalities and patterns ā¦ as theyāll be
used to help form your table of contents.
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So, when looking to create your table of contents (TOC) we need to know
specifically the questions the market has ā¦ so we can address, or overcome
them in the content of our book.
This can be done within a chapter, or at the back of the book in the form
of a questions and answers section, thatās entirely up to you.
But, addressing them in the book is extremely important ā¦ if you can craft
ācompellingā chapters based on the most common needs, wants, questions or
objections, like I said before ā¦ you win.
Other places you can use for research of this kind, includes:
Facebook groups
Twitter searches
Niche related forums
(Sidenote: When doing your research, make sure you stay
highly organized along the way. I like to use Evernote to
store my research notes, which you can find here:
http://www.evernote.com/)
This cheat sheet is already getting pretty long (for a cheat sheet) so youāll
need to think for yourself about this ā¦ but, forums on niche related topics
can be a hugely valuable research tool for the kind of āinsightsā weāre looking
to gain here.
Another place youāll want to research for content ideas in on Amazon
itself. Youāll want to read the positive and negative reviews that the top 5 best
sellers in your niche are getting.
This kind of intelligence should give you some good ideas on what you
should include in your content (positives) ā¦ and what things you need to be
careful of, or address in your content (negatives) ā¦ to get good feedback on
your Kindle book.
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Donāt skimp on any of the above.
You should be making a note of ā¦
Commons questions.
Objections & frustrations.
Wants, needs & desires.
Positive & negative reviews
Also ā¦ pay attention to the language (slang) they use. (ā¦ this can be
deadly effective āfodderā for book descriptions and introductions ā¦)
ā¦ and on the subject of descriptions and introductions, we also want to
understand another ācriticalā element of our audience ā¦ their mindset.
More specifically ā¦
The REAL reason why this audience
is seeking a solution to āXā
Copywriters for decades have preached this simple, but often overlooked
concept, which is ā¦ if you truly understand the emotional drivers of your
audience, youāll be armed with all the ammunition you need to craft
compelling sales messages.
The same if true of your Kindle book.
Before making a buying decision on your book over your competitors,
your audience will be drawn in by your compelling title, hook and cover which
resonates with them.
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And then ā¦
Theyāll read your book description and click on your book cover to read
the introduction.
And what are these? ā¦
Your sales messages.
Think like a copywriter and seek to identify their problem, tell them how
you can help, why they should listen to you, provide the benefits of your
āquick and easyā solution ā¦ then provide a call to action to buy your book ā¦
The best way to find out their real reason why ā is to ask them.
When optimizing websites based on this whole concept, the best way is to
actually ask direct questions, like:
Whatās the No.1 reason youāre
looking for āXā today?
For example;
Whatās the No.1 reason your looking for Paleo diet recipes today?
And youāll undoubtedly get responses, like;
I have diabetes, hopefully Paleo will help me control this.
I want to lose weight quickly.
Tried every diet, nothing works, heard good things about Paleo.
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With responses like that, do you think youāll be able to write better book
descriptions and introductions to address these mindsets and sell more copies
of your books?
You bet.
But, getting this intelligence is a lot harder when you donāt have an
audience to ask ā¦
So, how do we do this with our Kindle business?
You just need to get creative.
Ask questions in Niche specific forum threads.
Use discussion boards
Create a poll in Facebook
This is another reason why Iām a big believer in using Kindle as a way to
start building a real business in ONE niche ā¦ instead of having TONS of
unrelated niche books bringing you in a small income each month.
Nothing wrong with that at all. But ā¦ if youāre looking to create a long
term āpassive incomeā you need to be building an audience that knows, likes
and trusts you for the information you provide.
An audience you can reach, email, contact and talk too.
An audience that buys every book, course or information product you
produce.
An audience you have empathy with ā¦ and truly understand.
More on this in another issue.
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Movinā on.
How to craft your killer
table of contents
The great thing about creating a table of contents is that 70% of the work
has already been done for you.
The best sellers are the best sellers for a reason ā¦ so, we need to at least
discover what their doing in order to join them.
Identify the 5 best selling books in your niche and use the āLook Insideā
feature in Amazon to take a look at EACH of their TOCās.
Then, write them down. ALL of emā.
From these, weāre going to start creating our own Table of Contents, but
weāre not going to just plagirize from our research, weāre going to ā¦
Repurpose. Combine. Improve.
More specifically, weāre going to marry the top 5 books and use our own
intelligence to figure out a logical TOC that makes sense for our market ā¦
based on the research weāve already done.
Have your questions, needs, wants, objections ā¦ and whatever else to
hand and start building your table of contents.
Hereās what weāre aiming for;
7-12 main chapters.
3-4 sub topics for each chapter.
3-4 talking points for each sub-chapter.
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What I also like to do is map out the entire book with a mindmap. For
example, as youāll see below ā¦ this is for a Kindle book I am working on
called, āHow to Write A Kindle eBook in 7 Daysā.
As youāll notice from the (small) screenshot below, each chapter is worked
out ahead of time, and each has a subchapter ā¦ and each sub has 3-4 talking
points (can include more if you wish) too for your book to cover.
Having a plan like this for your book, is excellent to ensure you not only
cover everything you need to, but to make sure your outsourcer creates the
type of book that the market will respond to, based on your research.
Screenshot below.
And that, ladies and gents, is how to create an outline for a (best selling)
book that your prospective buyers will love ā¦
Rave about. Recommended. Review.
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More to come.
Mike Omar
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p.s. Next issue weāll talk about something that I touched on at the
beginning of this cheat sheet (in my story) ā¦ and that is, how to create raving
fans by over-delivering on your content.
This is actually FAR easier than it sounds and Iāll give you around half
dozen ways to get prospective book buyers to see your Kindle book as the only
choice.