 Technical difficulties, everything just shut down on me. I'm turning things on and off, trying to get it to go again. Nothing would go, I'm turning things on and off. Restart, restart, restart. Unplugging stuff, putting stuff back in, and then I just punched the computer and everything went back on. Don't ask me why. Yeah, New York Met Fan. Thank you. Well, you know, suck of a punishment, what can I tell you? Well, we're not gonna have a baseball season to look like, it's pretty depressing, you know? I mean, pretty depressing that grown men can't get along. Anyway, we were talking about publishing a book. Everybody has a book in them, that's what they say. Everybody has a book inside them to express themselves, whether it was a short story, a biography, a mystery, a drama, a novel. Everybody has something, some story inside them to tell. And there's a lot of money to be made on Amazon KDP. Now remember, Amazon started out as a bookstore. People forget that Amazon started out as a bookstore and it's free. You could become a published author for free. None of this fortune 500 bestseller list and all of this. Right on Amazon, you could be up and published. It doesn't cost you anything. Of course, they're gonna take a kickback of anything you sell, if you're gonna do paperback and hardcover, but for eBooks, it's free. Everything is free. What keyboard do I use? You know, I don't know what the name of the keyboard is, it's called LullUp is what it says on it. I don't know, it was given to me as a gift for Christmas. Lights up, it's got red and yellow and blue lights on. It's pretty cool. Yeah, Jim, yes, I don't know what happened. It's just like everything just shut down, but it was so funny when I just popped the top of a computer and it went on. And then what are you gonna do? But I was on your live today. You guys are great deal casters. That was awesome. I learned a couple of things about microphones. As I told you, I used the blue Yeti and you know, USB, I'm an amateur, so I use the USB plug and play microphone because it confuses me. I did get, I believe it's called a condenser microphone. I bought it from China because I was trying to save money and then I bought, then I, you wanna see the keyboard? Okay, hold on. How's that? Veronica's asking to see the keyboard just in case you can't see the chat. If you're on, now of course we're going live, but we're on restream, I'm using restream. We're on YouTube, we're on Facebook, we're on Twitter, and we're on Amazon Live. Amazon Live is now is the new place now to go live. It's where YouTube was in 2007, breaking ground. You know, you get in on Amazon Live as an influencer and that's where you wanna be today, okay? You know, people that are on Instagram doing influencers stuff and YouTube are all coming over now to Amazon Live to get started over here. Live shopping is gonna be the next greatest thing going on. 2022 being a content creator is gonna be the fastest growing small business in the world. That's what they say, but getting back to Kindle. I should really pop some stuff in my carousel because it is about shopping, right? So this actually is pretty cool. This is my son's band, okay? They put this out, single out. I'm not sure how they do it, but you know, they do it and it's 99 cents and it's a pretty cool little song. I let it run for a couple of minutes. We all know I grew a fresh couple every day was it you know. Make a feast for your inner feast could kind of stop the cold. Look outside to feast your eyes on that ultraviolet glow. Sunday fair to jump in the rays of grass. Time to start the show. Feel the room wrap up to meet your feet. Feel the wind and you feel like there's some good. Got some spring, you're still. Got some master's degree in. All the powers, baby. Got some master's degree in. All the powers, be on top of it. All right, so I'm not gonna play the whole thing. It's a three minute song, but it's pretty cool stuff. You know, when you can publish your own stuff, you know, you upload it to Amazon, then I'm not sure how they did that with the music. Okay, but now I'm talking about Kindle KDP and we got a couple of people following us. So we gotta have a celebration. We gotta blow some horns over here. Let me scroll down here. All right, that's great. We got Jacobson following and MK Whitley following. Thank you very much for following. I appreciate that. That's pretty good stuff. I really appreciate that. So, you know, making money online, my YouTube channel is the Side Hustle Shuffle all about making money online, different side hustles. Okay, everybody needs a side hustle. You got it. One source of income is not enough today. You have the multiple sources of income coming in. So, you know, you do affiliate marketing, you make a course, you sell some stuff on Amazon, you sell some stuff on YouTube, you sell some stuff on Instagram. You know, yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, he does have a lot of that. Blue Boys to Cult is an influence too. Yeah, definitely pretty cool. I love going out. They play live shows, you know, clubs, bars, you know, some bars have stages and sound guys is really good. Other bars or dive bars, you know, but it's, I love live music. It's awesome stuff. And it's something I can't do. I keep picking up a guitar and trying, but I got short stubby fingers, little fat fingers, little sausages. And you know, I can't make clean stuff. And I give up after about a month of trying, and I get the calluses and I give up. But anyway, KDP, right? Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. So people write books and short stories, okay? 30 minute reads, simple short stories. And they research problems that people are having, questions that people are asking. And they answer the questions in a short story, 30 minute read. People pick up these books on the train, on the plane, you know, when they're waiting somewhere, who knows where, when they're camping, you know, when they're trying to, you know, people read, believe it or not, people do pick up books and read today. And of course, you can also put your affiliate links in there and make some money. And I'm gonna show you, here it is. You know, I got to share the screen, because again, one man's show, and I got to get what I'm doing here. So this is the screen for the Kindle Self Publishing, right? Kindle Direct Publishing, you come here, you sign in, you sign, make an account, okay? I'm gonna sign in, okay? So this is where you go and it's gonna tell you you can do an ebook, a paperback, a hardcover, all right? But before I go into that, I wanna show you what the book that I wrote a couple of years ago, I lost like 60 pounds a few years back and I was told that I should write a book. So then I said, well, maybe I will. And then someone else said, you can't, you won't be able to write a book. And I said, I can't. Well, here it is, weight loss stories, lose weight without diet or exercise. This is the book I wrote. Now, I did it a little unconventionally. I didn't work out and really diet. I mean, I changed what I was eating, but it really wasn't a diet, it was a lifestyle change. And as far as working out, it didn't work out. What I did was I got a part-time job at night, after my regular job, buffing floors, waxing, stripping and waxing floors. So I was like constantly going back and forth like this with the stripping wax and working out and within six months and lost 60 pounds pretty easily. So I wrote that little book and I'm not saying I'm not making money off the book. I'm just saying I was able to go ahead and publish the book for free on Amazon. And if I was a better writer, it probably would sell better. But see this over here, look inside. So people can look inside your book and see the beginning of it. So you can put affiliate links in the beginning pages. And I'm gonna show you what kind of affiliate links you would wanna do. So this is a weight loss book. So I'll be looking for a weight loss product. It doesn't make sense. And of course, there's places you can go. Everybody goes to ClickBank. I was gonna bring you to ClickBank to find a product but I'm not gonna bother you with that, all right? So the next item in, thanks Jim. So the next item is a glow-in-the-dog basketball. This was sent to me for free, okay? I'm gonna share another screen here but I'm gonna have to find where it is in my live carousel videos. All right. Yes. I know, it's tough when you're a one-man show. Here it is. All right, we're gonna talk over while that's playing. Share that. All right. So where was I? Kindle Direct Publishing. So, people are researching stories, right? What people are searching for? What problems are people having? If you're in a niche, you can make a workbook and solve people's problems. Now, you can also, like I tell you, I was gonna bring you to ClickBank to find a product but you would find a product in your niche and you would put the affiliate link in the first couple of pages. We'll all through your book really but in the first couple of pages so when they look inside that free portion everybody can open up and look inside they would be exposed to your link and they would see what you were promoting, right? Now, this is the basketball. It came, you know, flat of course and I had to blow it up and it came with batteries already inside it. This thing is pretty cool. There's no on-off switch for the basketball. It went by touch. When every time you touch it, it lights up. Really cool basketball. And again, it was sent to me for free. I ended up giving this to my nephew. He was up last week, schools were out. He was up visiting and so I ended up giving it to him because he plays basketball at his church. So that's a pretty cool product, you know? And, you know, playing in the dark doing free throws, practicing all night long doing free throws as I'm sure if you've got kids playing basketball they're out there in the dark shooting free throws because that's what you gotta do. So you find a product and you put it in your book and you upload it to Amazon KDP, right? And that's one way to do it. There's like, there's many different strategies. So you don't have to, it doesn't have to be even a book with any words in it. Okay? People are uploading journals and diaries and stuff like the workbooks and like to-do list books and coloring books and all kinds of stuff like that. Very quickly can put something together and I'm gonna put something together in a minute using Canva and a couple of downloads, free downloads that I got from other sites and I'm gonna put something up really quickly and you're gonna see you could probably put, you know, 10 of these a day up and, you know, start making some money on Amazon. The next thing is an air purifier. Now we got the air purifier and the thing with the air purifier was, as soon as I turned it on, everybody in the house started sneezing, you know, I guess, because we were stirring up all the dust. But after a couple of days, it kind of, we kind of noticed the difference in the house and, you know, between, we have a smoker in the house, we smoke, we got pets in the house with his dander and of course there's mold spores and there's all kinds of stuff in the house. So there it is. And again, this one was sent to me for free as well. Okay, and pollen, dust, mold, does it all, all that stuff, you know, small particles, bacteria, microbes, pet dander, smoke and more. All right, and it does, it handles. I got it in the dining room. We have an open layout with dining room, living room, kitchen area, it's pretty open and it handles the area pretty well and it came with the filters, carbon filters, HEPA filters and all good stuff like that. So downloading these simple books, okay, and it could be, like I said, a workbook, a journal, a diary, you know, people get these books. When I was a superintendent, I always had one of these little books in my pocket, a little notebook and I had them every week, I had a new one, actually it was every month and I would get a new one for every month and I would write down everything so I wouldn't forget even though everything was on computers and you had your cell phone, I still would write stuff down. So these books are very popular and everybody, you know, not everybody, but people do buy them, okay. So that's the air purifier. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put together a journal, okay, or a diary and we're gonna download a template for a cover, we're gonna make our own cover in Canva and I'm gonna, I already downloaded from a free website lined paper that we can just download lined paper so you make the cover, you make the lined paper is gonna be the body of it and you make it in a matter of a couple of minutes. It's pretty simple and I'm gonna show you to you right now. Let's get rid of this, okay. You get the point with the air purifier, it's a pretty cool item. Everybody needs one today because they seal up these houses, you know, I was a maintenance guy, superintendent, now I'm still a service technician in my regular job but they spray foam these houses and they seal them up so tight that houses have to breathe or you get mold and you have to have an air purifier in the house, okay. My recommendation is you need one and that one was sent to me for free and it was worth using it. Now, I've already bought filters to have ready for the change, all right. So now I was saying about Canva. So I'm gonna go to Canva and share my screen again. So Canva is free, okay. I have a paid thing on Canva but Canva is free, you don't necessarily need to pay for anything on Canva, all right. So you're gonna come up to create a design, you're gonna do a custom design down here, okay. And 1252 by 925 is the size I want, all right. Of course, there's different size books, you can do different size books. Now I already uploaded a template that I have. Now this template I got for free on a website, I searched Google, Google is your friend, go to Google University, YouTube University and find what you need if you don't know it. So you get a nice little template, you put it on over here, right. You get, bring it up there, you drag it to the size, all right, and this way you got the front page, you got the spine and you got the back page all set. And down here's where the bar code goes, okay. So your template's all set. So now we're gonna put a background image there, we're gonna just pick a color, any color, color do you like, let's try this color, all right. So then we go to transparency, and we go like this. So now we can see the template and there's the color. So now we're also gonna go to elements, okay. And we're gonna search, and we're gonna make some elements. I searched some St. Patrick's Day elements, some Easter elements, there's all kinds of stuff we could do the Zodiac, let's see all recently used, okay. So we can do some Zodiac stuff. So we could put that on there, throw that up there, you know, and of course I'm not gonna spend a lot of time of design. This is all, you know, up to you, how you do things, you know, and of course there's different themes. We're going with horoscope, okay. And you can make it as nice as you want, you can keep going with the back, then you would go to text and you pick whatever one you want, it doesn't really matter. And again, this is all just for, I can't spell and talk at the same time, right. So of course, this font isn't the greatest font to use and the color, I'm gonna change the color, make it, I think yellow would be good. No, no, it's not good, but you get the point, okay. So now you make that, all right, and you would download that to your computer. Now, then you would go back to Amazon, right. I'm gonna share it again. Now remember I said earlier that I had already downloaded a template of lines paper. So you come over here to paperback, click paperback. I'm gonna show you how easy this is, how fast this is gonna be. English, you're gonna put the book title in there, you could put any title in there in my journal, you know, right, subtitle if you want, series, you don't need to worry about addition number, you don't need to worry about author, you're gonna put your name in there, it needs to be in there, right. So I'm just gonna put my name, I can't even spell my name. All right, so there it goes there, contributors if you have any description, you know, I'm just gonna put something so it lets me advance. Okay, now here is the thing, now publishing rights, you own the rights, you know, if you own the rights, you own the rights, okay. Now, keywords, they give you seven keywords and you look for what people are searching in your niche and you can go to the search bar in Google and drop down menu and it'll tell you what people are searching for in your niche and you could put the keywords in here, it could be my journal, it could be Zodiac journal, it could be my horoscope journal, it could, you know, whatever it is, you know, you could do some keyword research and if you wanna learn, you can learn some other ways of doing keyword research and you would do all of that, okay. And I don't know if it'll let me advance by not doing it, it's not adult content and you choose a category, I'm gonna say fiction, just to advance, okay. It didn't, let me, let's just do that. All right, so we're gonna do, and I'm gonna write one words, but you're gonna use keyword phrases. Okay, and now again, I didn't prepare and think about what I was gonna do with keywords, but I'm just doing that so I can advance to the next one. So let's see if it'll let me advance, saving, success saved. Okay, so it's gonna go to the next one. It's gonna ask you if you wanna keep an ISBN, it's an international serial number for you, so you're gonna ask them to create one for you, okay. Publication date, you don't have to worry about, it could be right now. Now you get to pick, you know, if you want glossy paper, white paper, black and white. Again, this is the size we picked. We're bleeding no bleed is how the lines go across the page. We're gonna do bleed, matte or glossy, go matte. I mean, it's all gonna affect your cut, okay. Upload the paperback manuscript. So now this is gonna be your lines paper. So I'm gonna go over here, where is it? Long one. Lines paper, all right. So that's gonna upload line paper. And I think it was like 120 pages, okay. And then we're gonna upload or launch our cover. I always wanna teach you stuff. Now I'm lost, all right. Upload a cover. Upload your cover file, here we go. Cover one, I think this is the one I saved. Now stick with me, okay. So save successful, they're processing the file. I think they're gonna let me actually look through the book once that does happen. So the next item I'm awaiting is the Texar selfie stick, 48 inch, I love this selfie stick. It's on sale right now, almost half off. It's only $15. I use this thing all the time. Well, that's going, I'm gonna come back over here. Stop sharing for a little bit. So I have it over here. So it's a regular tripod, but it's also a selfie stick. What I really like about it is the phone mount is not one of those snap clamp things. It's a screw down clamp, very, very good. It goes out 48 inches and your selfie stick, it'll go hold your phone up like that. And of course, it's got the tripod on it. What I really like on it too is got the Bluetooth remote control USB chargeable. And this you can, I think 30 feet away, you can start video or take pictures. And I use this to take family photos at a whole family, now I can be in the goddamn pictures. And I also use it when I am doing my shop of videos and all my other B-roll and all that kind of stuff, I use this thing all the time. So if you're into that kind of stuff, there you go, that's what you need to do. Now let me see, did we, did it save? Did it come, processing your file? All right. So up here manuscript 120 line paper, right? And I don't know why it's taking so long to do that. Save and continue. Please highlight there, launch preview or book preview. That's what I was looking for. It's taken me a little longer than it did the other day when I did it. But, well, maybe it's got a process further. So we're gonna go through some other stuff in the carousel while we're waiting. This thing here, the next one is a lighter for candles, candle lighter, pretty cool. I used to have it sitting right here, but they took it to light candles. You know how family, they're always lighting the candles. So this thing is a USB rechargeable and it's long and you can reach down into the candle and it's not a flame, it's electrodes and it does like a buzzing like this and with electricity, like a Tesla type thing and it lights the candle. And I'll tell you what, the noise it makes, annoys the dog, the dog starts running around like the vacuum cleaner's on, but it solves a problem. So what is making money online? What is affiliate marketing? What is being an influencer all about? It's about solving people's problems. So a problem people have, people who like candles, the problem is they never have a light or it's dead. It's always out of fuel. They can't find it, whatever, but this solves that problem. So that's a product that solves the problem. So that's what you do when you're trying to make money online. We're gonna go through another thing quick that that was also sent to me for free. This next one is a shock mount for the Blue Yeti microphone, the Blue Yeti USB microphone that is for amateurs. So I didn't know I needed this. They sent it to me, it's a shock mount and I had, I didn't have a shock mount originally and every time I would hit my desk or table, you know, the microphone would move and it would ruin the audio. And they say that the number one thing people would tune you out for, the number one reason people don't watch you or listen to you is because you've got bad audio. The number one thing you wanna improve is your audio. So now that I have it, and this is another thing that was sent to me for free and it's on sale 10%, 11% off under $25 today in the carousel. If you have a Blue Yeti mic, it's made for the Blue Yeti and it fits other mics. So look at what else it's hooked up for. And that would be cool because again, hit the mic, did you hear anything? I just banged into the mic and it's suspended on bungee cords. So it's pretty cool, pretty cool item. We're gonna go through pretty quickly, a couple of other stuff. There's another thing that's great selves a problem. I love this thing. The Guard Line wireless driveway alarm. Again, this is on sale too. What the hell is that? 33% off under $60. Quarter mile away, picture this. What's the most chaotic time you can imagine? Okay, you want me to tell you what the most chaotic time you can imagine is when the doorbell rings. When the doorbell rings, the kids go nuts, the dogs go nuts, you know, you're on the Zoom meeting, you know, you're trying to cook dinner, you maybe you're in the shower, maybe you're doing whatever you're doing, maybe you're doing laundry down in the basement. Who knows what you're doing, the doorbell rings and the house goes eight crazy, right? Wouldn't it be nice if when they were walking up the driveway, a tone went off in your house, letting you know people were walking up the driveway and now you have five minutes before they get to the door to put the dog in the cage, give the kids a snack, telling them to go to the room, you know, excuse yourself from the Zoom meeting, walk to the door nice and calmly and answer the door and be ready for your guests, whether it's the pizza man, whether it's the UPS driver or who knows who it is. But, you know, that's the most chaotic time. Now I'm a service technician in my day job and I see it all the time, the kids run to the door, the dogs run to the door, people go crazy, people are on the phone, people are already trying to do their, everybody's working from home. So it's, you know, it's a big problem. And so this solves that problem. Again, being a content creator is about solving people's problems. And so find that what a problem is, that's a problem homeowners have and this is a product that solves the problem. So that's how, you know, what does salesman do? A salesman solves problems, a good salesman solves problems, okay? Megawise is another thing they sent me to, they contacted me or I contacted them, I can't really remember what and they're sending me products. One at a time to review. And this is pretty cool. You've seen a lot of these massagers lately and they're all cordless. This one's corded, this heavy duty thing, it's not gonna run out of gas on you. It's got all kinds of settings on it and it's got all kinds of heads on it, screws right off, really pretty easy stuff, screws right on. And I've been using this, like I said, I'm a service technician. I walk around houses and with all the snow around houses, I'm walking through four feet of snow, snowdrift sometimes really deep. My thighs at the end of the day are barking. So now I rub this thing down my thighs for about 10 minutes and, you know, I'm surviving the season, pretty cool. Let's see if it's ready. Let's see if that is ready. No, it still says processing the file. I apologize, I don't know why it's taking so long. But anyway, it would upload, okay? And you'd get to preview it, right? And then the next page would be about pricing it and how much your cut is. They're gonna take a cut if it's paperback, if it's hardcover, they're gonna take this much, that much, you know? And you end up making like $3 a book. You're gonna price it at like $6.99. This particular book, the journals, if you look on Amazon journals, they go between, you know, $6 and $15. So you price it somewhere in the middle, $6.99 or so. And when I worked it out yesterday, when I ran through it, it ended up being like $2.90 for each one you do. So you would not just do one and call it quits, you know? You could do 10 a day, 20 a day, 50 a day, 100 a day and just, and not just journals, it could be a to-do list, handyman list, shopping list, you know, you name it, you think, you know, expand your mind, I'm not gonna put ideas in your head, you know, I should be doing it for myself. But it's volume too. So, and again, it's Amazon. People go to Amazon with their credit card in their hand to spend money. So, you know, it's what's called warm traffic, okay? It's the most valuable traffic there is warm traffic, people who are ready to buy, okay? That's the biggest roadblock for people to make money online is warm traffic, is finding people that are ready to buy, okay? And Amazon is masters at that. They know how, they don't know how to make sales pages. They know how to drag you in. They know how to add stuff to your cart. You say, you know, people also bought this, this and this when they bought that, you'd be done not to. And, you know, they make a lot of extra sales online like McDonald's, would you like fries with that? You know, I mean, Amazon is the king of that. They're always asking what else you need. So, the next item in the carousel is my book, Weight Loss Stories, okay? Again, I was told, maybe you should write a book, someone else said, you can't write a book, so I wrote a book. And, you know, let me see, so simple, okay? It's not a hard, where is it? I used Google Docs, okay? Weight Loss Stories, Google Docs, how I lost 50 pounds in six months, so can you without diet and exercise? Here's a table of context with all links so they can go right to the chapter they want to go to. And, it's just a Google Doc, okay? Broken up with headlines, okay? Again, these are headlines for chapters and they're also, and you gotta put keywords in there, so, you know, that's a whole nother story, okay? Shopping lists and all kinds of stuff like that. So, a pretty easy, simple thing to make in Google Docs and then you can upload it. And, if you don't wanna make your own cover like we did with the template and there's different sizes for different size books, you can get different templates. You can always go to a place called Fiber, freelance website, they'll make them, you know, you don't wanna pay five, maybe you wanna pay a little more to get a better quality, but you can get something made, you know, and if you're doing your own book with your own story and not trying to, you know, mass produce stuff, like I was talking about the journals and stuff like that, right? So, let me take a sip and I'm getting a little dry. You know, you can make money selling the book, the keywords, Amazon's a search engine. So, people are gonna search certain keywords and I only put in single words. You wanna research what's, it's called long tail keywords where it's actually a sentence, okay? What people would search, like how do I do this or what do I need to do that or you know, things like what people would search and you can start typing stuff out in the search engine and it'll drop down a dropdown manual and all that stuff, those suggestions are things other people have already searched so that you know that that's active search keywords. So, that's how you find obscure keywords that you can rank for. You gotta try to find the ones that you can rank for, okay, you don't wanna rank for, like I said, notebook or journal, you would go for um, my sleepover journal or you know, my summer camp journal or when you started following, now that's amazing. Thank you, Wendy. We're gonna go up here and we're gonna air horn ya. Ten, we gotta do it. Great, I love the follow, that's great stuff. And so you're gonna try and find, you're gonna do long tail keywords, right? Long tail keywords. So, and I try to find obscure stuff that no one else is using so they could be your keywords. And you can, and then once the search engine kicks in to that keyword and you start getting searches and you can start getting activity, what's called engagement, right? Engagement is the key. Once you start getting engagement, the algorithm starts kicking in, all right? And that's really important stuff. The next thing in my carousel was also sent to me for free. Holly Stone, this is the HS190 drone. Now, I told them they contacted me and I says, I've blown like probably about $500 worth of drones, I've ruined crashing them into things, losing them in trees, losing them, hitting walls, you name it, not a good drone pilot. This is on sale, they told me, don't worry, this is a beginner friendly drone, you're not gonna have a problem. So I said, well, I'm gonna take it, I'm gonna take it right out of the box, put it on the table, turn it on and see what happens. I'm gonna video it right from the start, I'm not gonna even read the instructions. Well, I was reading them as I went, right? So they said, sure, you're not gonna have a problem with it. So I said, okay, so here's the video of me to Holly Stone. Are you kidding me? I can't look into it, he's watching it, it's fine. It's okay sweetheart, James, James, James. Okay, this video goes about three minutes, I do creation to the wall, and actually it's on slow speed right now, it's kind of multiple speeds. If you wanna click down into the carousel, see how many speeds it has, I think it's three or five, I'm not sure, but it starts off on slow speed. I actually bump the wall and bump off of it and turn the thing around and keep going, didn't crash, it was because of slow speed. So it says, I think, like up to nine year olds or 14 year olds, a young kid could probably control this thing, anybody with any kind of dexterity. I was pretty impressed with the drone and how easy it was to maneuver right out of the box. So you saw me, I put it on a table, you hit a couple of buttons so that it synced up and then you hit the gyro and then you hit the automatic take-off. And of course it has the standard hover, one button hover and land and it'll go back to where it took off from, but don't do that in the house because it does a circle to get the GPS right and then it'll figure out where it is and it goes and you're gonna crash into the wall, which I've done, okay. So yeah, anybody have any questions about Amazon KDP and about uploading stuff to Amazon and the book, I know it kind of was publishing and I'm not sure, I'm gonna take a quick look, see. Oh, there it is, okay. So we're gonna share the screen. We're gonna go back and it's bonus time here. No, that's not it. So this is to print the preview. So this is the cover that I made before, okay. And you can see it's front and back, got the spine right here, front and back. Now here we're gonna check the pages, line pages, page one, page two. Now it's gonna have 120 pages of line pages and that's the book, all right. Now you can go down here in the bottom right corner or approve, I'm gonna approve it, okay. Now we're over here again, I'm over here now and they're gonna recommend, the printing cost is gonna be 229, okay. So now I'm gonna figure out how much I'm gonna sell it for and it's also gonna tell you and all the other Amazons, whether it's in UK or wherever. Okay, so you're gonna go all territories. You know, amazon.com is the place and here you go, what you're gonna, your price. So we're gonna do 699. So that would give you, oh it's only $1.90 royalty, okay. Because they have printing price. Now you can do research and decide what your price is, okay, I've just picked the middle of the road. They're between $6 and $15, $20, depending on how many pages and the graphics and if it's matte or glossy, you know, it all depends. And you know, again, you're not just gonna write one of these, you're gonna write a bunch of them, all right. And it's gonna tell you what your cut is in all the different Amazon areas, okay, all the different markets, all right. I'm not gonna publish this right now, but you get the gist of that, all right. So Amazon KDP and now all you gotta do is push the button at the bottom and it publishes it, okay. Well, it doesn't happen that quickly. It's gonna go into a review and if that book had written words in it, they would proofread it and make sure that it was no plagiarism, no copyright issues and stuff like that. And believe me, they will flag it if you do any plagiarism, any copyright, any anything like that, they will find it, they will flag it. You're gonna have to put things in your own words, you might have to reword stuff, they might kick something back to you just because it sounds like something else that was already done. And again, you're dealing with artificial intelligence. So you're gonna have to deal with that as just the way it is. The next thing is something I bought for myself. I needed it for my work truck. The back of my work truck doesn't have lights in it. And then with the time, it gets dark early. So I needed some lights in the back of the work truck. So I said, I needed two. I wanted one on each side. I needed a magnetic base. So it would flip, go right onto the side of the truck. I wouldn't have to worry about mouthing it or anything. So these look like they fit the bill pretty good. And they're on sale today, 39% off. This is a great price. This is a great price with two lights, but here it comes, here it comes in this box. And I was a little disappointed because the box was really small. Two lights, this little box, right? But I love this light. I use it, okay. I only need one in the truck because the light is so bright. And this is the light right here. Okay, now there was two of them. And it has full range of motion all the way around and goes all the way around like this. So any, and the magnet is there. And I drive around with this in the truck, with it like this, and it doesn't fall off. Okay, pretty good magnet, pretty good stuff. And it's got three settings as far as the light goes. And it's got a flashlight on the front of it. Okay, very impressed with this light. And again, I was disappointed when I saw the box, but it really, I mean, it really surprised me and impressed me and I would recommend it highly. And it's on the back of my pickup, sitting on the tailgate on the sides and like open the tailgate. Come October, November, 430 is getting dark and I'm working till six o'clock. I need to see in the back. So I needed light. And this thing was perfect, it was great. So Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon. Amazon has so many different programs. Okay, you have the Amazon Live, you have the Amazon Associates. I just showed you Amazon KDP. This Amazon music, this Amazon, everything's Amazon. So many different Amazon, right? And they have so many different programs to make money. So become an influencer, go to my YouTube channel. If you go to my website, which is youdidn'tknow.live, you didn'tknow.live, that'll have all my information so you can sign up for mailing lists and get involved. I have a course there that I just made. You can check that out. And sign up for my YouTube channel where I go oversight hustles and different ways to make money online just like we did tonight. We go live every Tuesday at eight o'clock and I pick a different way to make money online and we make it the subject of the live stream. I've done affiliate marketing, I've done email marketing, I've done work making money on Amazon, I've been making money on Instagram. And so I'm not sure what next week's gonna be and whatever hits me, hits me. And if you have some suggestions, you can always hit me up, let me know, send me an email or a message. And I'll be glad to explore some stuff. And I didn't like to research stuff to figure it out. And that's why I started the YouTube channel Side Hustle Shuffle because I got ADD, I'm bouncing all over the place. I tried this, I tried that and I don't really give anything a chance. I know that if I gave stuff a chance that I could get stuff to work. But I'm over here now, I'm focusing on this now because I'm bouncing all over with my ADD. Next thing in the carousel is full motion TV monitor. Now this thing is pretty cool. I've had this thing out on my deck and if I can find it, there it is. You know, I put it out on the deck and we started watching TV after work at the end of the day. It's got a full range of motion. I can watch it wherever I'm on the deck over here or I can turn it over to the other side. We got a lower deck over there and I can turn it in, we can watch sports, we can watch movies, we can watch concerts, whatever. I use the fire stick out there so I don't have to worry about the cable. I use a wifi connection out there and I get to see everything and love it. Love it, love it, love it, full range of motion. Awesome price, look at the price on that thing. Under $20, 32% off. You can't get one of those for 20 bucks. That's a heavy duty one, okay? So, of course, it's not for the biggest TV in the world. I don't really remember off the top of my head the sizes of the TVs, but there you go. The next item is also sent in. The TV mount I bought was mine, okay? I needed it and I needed it and I was very happy with it so I endorse it. The next item is the bed shore calming dog bed which was sent to me, bed shore sent me a bunch of stuff and they are a great company. I was buying their throw blankets for the living room for the winter and we had a rescue dog. I made some videos with the rescue dog, Benny, the rescue dog and they contacted me through the Facebook group and was like, want to send me some pet stuff which I gladly accepted and this is the calming dog bed. Now, Benny is a rescue dog, high strong, Jack Russell, you know, very high. He runs from person to person, jumping and barking and nipping and he would not be just in one place like this. He'd be jumping. There's like four people watching him right now and he'd be jumping and running up around everybody. The thing is so soft, it just sucks them right in, they don't want to leave it really cool. The middle piece comes out, everything is washable. He hides stuff in it underneath. You see him sticking his head, nose under there. He loves it, you know, he sticks bones under there and bits of cookie and anything he gets. And again, it's durable. He chews on it, pulls it once in a while and hasn't ripped. We've had it since Thanksgiving now and hasn't ripped as good as it was then. Now, he loves it. He doesn't come out of it. It's so soft. This thing is so soft. It's just incredible. Love the Bedshore Company, they're a great company and I can't emphasize enough how he doesn't sit in one spot. The way he just plops down on that, he doesn't do that. I mean, he doesn't. And see, things are distracting him but he's not running after it like he would normally. He would normally be running and checking out whatever he sees. He doesn't sit in one spot but that calming dog bed is doing, I don't know if it would work for separation anxiety, if a dog has separation anxiety but it would definitely help give him a place to come to relax and feel comfortable. I mean, this says it all. How comfortable is he? He's not moving, he even puts his head down on it, nice. There he goes and that's all you say. That should sell a lot of dog beds. That's worth it. Look at that detail wagon. He loves it. It's crazy stuff. I mean, that's a great thing. That is a great, great item. Bedshore, sent to me for free. We fell in love with Bedshore as a company. Very good stuff. So the next item, we're gonna run right through it because we gotta keep the ball rolling. If you have any questions about the KDP direct Kindle Direct Publishing, remember, we could do e-books, we could do paperbacks, we could do hard covers and it's the difference in the cut and how much you're gonna earn per, and you get to set your own price. And here's a tip for you. You can make your book free for the first two weeks, let's say, and hopefully you'll get some reviews because that's another thing. The algorithm, you wanna get five-star reviews, you wanna get purchases. So when you make it free, people will purchase and download your book when you make it free and of course, this only works with e-books and what was I gonna say? I don't know if I froze there for a second. You'll get some free reviews because the book was free, okay? Hopefully, hopefully. So the next thing is the Bedshore Cat Cave Tunnel thing. I'm not a cat person, but this thing was pretty cool and I put it together pretty easily. It just kind of folds out, just kind of folds out, which was easy for me. And I gave it to my son's girlfriend, she has cats and I'm gonna get some feedback, some footage with the cats in them. But this was, it's foldable and like I said, I put this together in no time. Went really quick. So everybody has a book in them, okay? You have a story to tell and it could be as easy as, you know how to do something. Maybe you have a certain strategy in chess. Maybe you have a way to solve a certain problem. Maybe you, I could throw out a million different ideas and different things, but it's up to you to figure out what you know. Brainstorm, what do you know? What can you fix? What are you good at? And write a book, right? Write a book. What problems do people have, right? So in the niche, I didn't go over what a niche was. So if you don't know what a niche is, leave a comment. But in the niche, whether it's the activity, sport, hobby, that's a niche, right? So they have a problem in that niche. There's a problem. Something that stops people from going forward. Some of them quit. There's a roadblock somewhere in the niche. Find that roadblock, find that what the problem is. Write the book to solve the problem, okay? Present it to the public to solve the problem. See how easy that was to put together? Pretty easy. Pretty easy with the little dingle ball there that I'm sure cats love, okay? Again, that was sent to me by Bedshore for free. And it's not the most sturdiest thing in the world, but it's for cats, not dogs. My dogs were destroyed, I think, but cats, I think, are a little bit more dainty. So again, you could write a long novel, you could write a short novel, but what's going now is people have short attention spans. You wanna do like a 30 minute read, 70 pages, something like that, between 40 and 70 pages, something that can go quickly. People are on the bus half hour an hour. They wanna kill time, and you're gonna solve a problem for them, okay? That's the key, solving problems. The next item I got in the list is also on sale. This sounds a problem for me. I bought this for myself. I was having a hell of a time with sciatic pain, pain running down my legs. Every time I was in the car, more than two hours. And of course, I'm a technician, so I'm in my car all day in my truck. But on long trips, when I was actually sitting and not getting up for two hours, I'd get shooting pains down my leg, and I'd have to stop and stretch and walk every two hours. So I got this everlasting comfort cushion, and I'm sitting on it right now because it's an amazing thing, okay? It's got the washable cover on it, on zips and everything, and I've had this about a year, a little more than a year, and it's still as memory-forming and cushy as it was. It's got the cut out here for the tailbone, and that's the key. No pressure on the tailbone, and that solves the problem. Okay, now I'm all maladjusted. So, hold on. So, it solves the problem, okay? And it's solved the problem for me. And if this ever wears out, I thought it would wear out in a year, and I'd have to get another one. I thought I was gonna get one for the car, one for the house, one for the truck, one for the car. This has got a handle on it, and I carry it back with me everywhere. Pretty cool stuff. Pretty good, pretty good stuff. So, what kind of book do you have in you? Do you have a novel? Do you have a mystery? You know, do you have a comedy? Do you write short stories? Do you write mysteries? Do you write horror? I mean, what is it? Do you write, do you want to do an autobiography? Do you want to write, do you overcome something in your life, okay? Do you have an addiction? Do you have illness? Do you have a problem? Do you have a pain? How did you do it? Okay, here's what you do. You want to know how to do it? I'm gonna show you how to do it right now. I'm gonna share the page, stick with me one more time, all right? Write down, give yourself a piece of paper, write down this line, this line, on one side you're gonna put a problem, whatever there it is, whatever the problem is, on the other side you're gonna put a solution, and then you're gonna write down the steps you took to get to the solution, and those are your chapters in your book. You've got an opening, and you've got a closing, beginning and an end, and you have the chapters, what did you do to solve the problem? What steps did you need to take? You write those down, and then those are short stories about what we did, okay, and you put all those short stories together and make yourself a book, all right? So, that's what you do. I just talked to how to write a book you didn't know. Problem, solution, and what were the steps, the steps of the chapters, okay? Just so you don't have a run-on book where it's one big mess, you know? You break it up into, okay, first I had to do this, and I had to do this, and I had to do this, and I had to do this, okay, and what was the result, okay? And that's how you do it. And that works universally, of course any niche, you name it, whatever it was, problem, solution, okay? Again, I say it all the time, the key, the formula, audience, problem, solution. Find an audience on what kind of problem they're having and offer them the solution. When you do that, you become an influencer, you become an authority in the niche, in the activity, in the hobby, in the sport, whatever it is, in the profession, right? So you become the authority, people turn to you when they have a question, now they're listening to you. So once you have that, you can start steering people in the direction of what they want to buy. This is what you need, okay, in the niche. This is the new fishing reel that everybody's gonna get this year, and everybody runs out and gets it because you said so, right? So what do you need to be a content creator? Okay, what does it take? You need a $600 camera, $100 microphone, $1,000 studio equipment, you have what you need in your pocket, you need a cell phone, right? You need a cell phone, and of course you need lighting, you're gonna use natural light in a cell phone, you get started with what you have. You don't need anything, okay? But then you're gonna need to upgrade stuff, and I told you earlier, the number one thing you wanna upgrade is your audio, and the first thing I used was a lavalier microphone that went plugged into my phone and clipped to my lapel, okay? I have it over here, has an extension wire to it, so you can have it far away, and you can video from your phone, perfect upgrade to your audio, okay? This one's on sale, you can't beat $12 for a microphone, right? And that's the upgrade. So the first upgrade that I got was the pop microphone, the lavalier microphone, and it definitely upped my game. If you go back to 2017, when I first started making videos, they were grainy and bad, I just used my cell phone and did my thing on, I was reviewing apps at that time I think, and very grainy, very outside, because I was using natural light, what we do to get started, because this is an ongoing learning experience, being a content creator. Technology's always changing, softwares are always coming out, people are always beating problems and roadblocks in the niche. So you start with what you have, and you move on from there. So you start with what you have, what you sell phone and use natural light, get a microphone, it's the next thing, okay? Now the next thing I got was this webcam, and this one's, again, under $20 for a camera to go live. I'm using it right now. It's not the greatest camera in the world, but it's good enough to move on, right? Someone told me not to get moved, good enough to move on, I love that. Use what you have. I got this microphone back when COVID started, and we started doing meetings, Zoom meetings, and I needed a webcam, and it was expensive, because nobody had them, they were sold out, everybody needed one, the demand was crazy, and I ended up getting this, and I'm very happy with it, but to be quite honest, I wish I would have paid $20 for it, because I think I paid more like $60, but like I said, good enough to move on. It's not something that's, again, it's not a $1,000 camera, it's not even like the GoPro camera is, maybe higher quality, maybe I should use that as a webcam, but good enough to move on. Then eventually I'm gonna move up to a DSL camera, Canon, who knows what, Sony, I don't know. We'll see, we'll see, we'll see, but again, that scares me, because again, you get comfortable with what you have, and you get good with what you're using, and then there's a learning curve when you upgrade, and so like when I had a video editor, and I wanted to upgrade my video editor, and I had to learn a new video editor, my skills suffered, because I was good at this one, and now I have to be good at this one, and I don't know how to use it, so there is a learning curve as you're getting better, but the whole process of being a content creator, is your learning, or the whole time, the whole time, learning new skills. Okay, again, I was talking about it before the Blue Yeti microphone, again, it's not a professional microphone, this one you're gonna see, a lot of podcasters use it, a lot of beginners use it, I use it because I saw people using it, my son uses it for his podcasts, and so I knew it worked, and it's a USB plug and play, no worries, no problem. I did buy a condenser microphone from China, I forget from AliExpress, I think it was, and it didn't work when I got it, I realized I thought I needed a power source, so I ordered something else, and I got that, I still couldn't get it to work, so I gave up on it and I got the Blue Yeti, but I'm probably gonna go back to it eventually, because I do have to upgrade, again, audio is the number one thing, you wanna upgrade, all right, so how is the audio, how has it been? Content creators need stuff, so when I first started, I was in my basement, at night, no light, no natural light, very dreary, background, dingy, nothing exciting, nothing worth talking about, but I got myself a green screen kit with lighting, the green screen that goes behind you, and so you put the green screen behind you, and when you edit, you can key out the green and put whatever you want back there, you could be in a Manhattan corner office, you could be on the moon, you could be in the desert, you could be in the ocean, you could be on the beach, you could be on the ground, you could be anywhere, all right? So I'm gonna show you a quick clip, me in the basement, it's about 11 o'clock at night, shooting a video with the green screen behind me, okay, just a couple of seconds. Don't you hate it when you're trying to pay your bills and you don't have enough money? I was always hustling all my life to make ends meet. I painted apartments, I did odd jobs. So that was a while ago, but that's the Lake House, that's Lake George behind me there, but I'm not at Lake George at the Lake House, I'm in my basement, okay, and that's just a photo of Lake George through somebody's million dollar home. Pretty cool, I stopped doing it, I didn't want people to think that I lived in the house there, but I just, I thought it looked cool, and I liked the lake, I like lakes and mountains, it's my thing, I like the lakes and mountains, kind of like why I live here, but I was in my basement, so I've since graduated, I've gotten an area that I'm kind of happy with, that it's not the greatest, again, good enough to move on, again, I'm probably gonna upgrade my studio as my live streams get better and the products and the needing space to do stuff, I'm gonna need space, and other cameras to bring in and all that kind of stuff, but the green screen opened the door for a lot of things for me, and if you're a creative person, green screens are great, and if you've got kids, they can do all kinds of fun stuff with the green screen, they get the green suit and they can make things fly and all kinds of stuff, they do trick shots with the soccer ball, where the kid holds the ball wearing the green suit and he goes like this with the ball all the way to the net and it looks like the ball does that, but all you do is take out the green and there you go, but it's pretty cool, pretty fun stuff. Now, lighting is another thing that we got going on and this is a three-pack LED light on sale, I got these for accent lights for colors, I don't use them anymore, I got them in a box in my closet, maybe one day I'll give them away on a live stream for somebody who wants a lighting set, but these things had color lenses in them and remote control and it came with three lights for $50 with three tripods, now they're not tall, super tall, they're like to put on your desk, right? But they did the job, what I needed them to do, they were cheap, and that cheap inexpensive is the word inexpensive, not cheap. Again, it's 10% off under 50 bucks for three lights, three stands, you can't beat that, you can't beat that at all, LED lights. So, start writing a book, okay? Come see me next Tuesday, every Tuesday 8 o'clock we're gonna go live, we're gonna find something again, again, side hustle shuffle on YouTube, okay? You didn't know.live, go to you didn't know.live, you can check out all my stuff there and sign up for my email stuff, we're gonna go live every Tuesday, we're gonna pick a subject, side hustle shuffle is all about different ways to make money online, different ways for side hustles, different income streams, multiple streams of income is what it's about, you need multiple streams of income and here's what happened, back when we got married we started a family, somebody had to stay home to raise the kids, so you lose half your income when one of you stays home to raise the kids, you got two incomes coming in, right? Married people or partners, whatever and somebody stays home to raise the kids and now you're down to one salary, half your salary's gone, now you gotta start saving for college, you've got more expenses cause you got kids and you just took a hit, half your salary's gone, half your income's gone, that's crazy, crazy. That's why people are forced back to work, that's why people, kids are growing up in daycare and it's not worth it, not worth it daycare. So you gotta have some side hustles so other streams of income are coming in, now are there a lot of money? Wouldn't you like to make $100 here, $200 there, $500 there, $1,000 from this one and as they build, it increases and all of a sudden you realize this month, hey, it's covering the cable bill, hey, it's covering the cost payment, hey, it's covering the mortgage. That's real life changing stuff, right? Being a content creator, the number one business to have the fastest growing small business in the United States this year, gonna be a content creator, gonna be an influencer, get started, check out my YouTube channel for ways, I have many ways, we're gonna go live every Tuesday, come ask me questions, I'm here for you, we're gonna do it. So that's it out of me for today and I'm glad you, I'm very happy you hung around, we got some people in the chat rooms and everything was good and we had a little technical difficulties at the beginning, we recovered, we had a good stream, we went through everything in the carousel, we learned how to self-publish a book for free and make money on KDPK Amazon Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing, you can be an author, a published author, it's easy. We might do this again because I think it's a good subject, I think it's a fun subject, everybody has a book in them, right? Don't you?