 As you guys probably know by now Part of the magic formula for big money making audiobooks is longer audiobooks At least three hours long. So with that said we're gonna show you guys in this video How we like to make a audiobooks longer so they always reach three hours. Yes. Shall we do it? Yeah All right, so there's actually two components to this question Two that we want to talk about so one is how do you make your audiobooks longer after it's already narrated? So it falls just short of that three-hour mark or whatever mark you want to hit and then also How do you make just audiobooks longer in general? Because this is a question we've been getting a lot recently Like we've mentioned that we've had two to three thousand word books That we've had narrated and they can be two to three hours long and like how does that make sense? Three thousand words is supposed to be like 30 minutes or 20 minutes But there is actually ways that you could make such a few amount of words to a long audiobook Like let's just put this as simply as possible longer audiobooks sell better And the reason why is because their price higher and audible has this membership system thing Where they will pay a certain amount of money per month to get a certain amount of credits So the majority at least from us what was all we actually we actually have data to back this up now What percent of our sales come from credits like say from my on my personal account from around a little over 22,000 sales 17,000 out of those 22,000 sales has come from credits. That's a shitload. Yeah, so people aren't paying in cash They're paying with this monthly credit that they get from audible Where this one credit can be redeemed for any audiobook in the entire store whether it's 395 or 2995 it doesn't matter so people are obviously because they're smart They're spending it on these long expensive audiobooks. Yeah to them all audiobooks costs the same Yeah, they're paying with the credit So they're always gonna they could sort by longest audiobooks Maybe because they want the most for their money or the most for their credit So briefly yeah, that's why long audiobooks sell more as well on top of having like making twice or three times as much per So you definitely want to focus on making long audiobooks And that's one thing we're gonna talk about a lot in the course because it's just such a big aspect of creating these audiobooks They're raking sorry lots of frickin cash speaking of the course. Can we like talk about an update word? We're like 90% done. We're like super done or with it Yeah, all the lessons all the lessons have been filmed. Yeah, there's just like um like the sales page Look at sales video as mostly born back in stuff email shit funnels things that were learning. Yeah Speaking of email shit. We're trying to gain as many emails as we can. Oh, yeah We link in the description to the five keys to success to building a big audiobook business Yes, sign up get on the email list and get emailed any discount codes like the First 24 hours of the course is gonna be a 50% discount. Yeah, so let's just say that right now Yeah, just so you know so it's only 24 hours So like you got to be super quick. So I definitely join that email. That's why we're saying this ahead of time like this Yeah, so if you ever like I think about getting the course like not getting it in the first 24 hours It's just financially responsible. It's not smart. Yeah, if you ever want to get it Yeah, that's the time to do it actually before getting what we've been thinking we want to do another Q&A session We didn't want a few months ago. Yeah, that was fun and I think people enjoyed it. So we want to do it again Yeah So what are some rules that we have for the rules is no rules Okay, okay, the rules. There's one rule and it's like a limit of two questions Per person or something like that. Yeah, I will say one specific person left 15 questions a whole 30 minute Q&A Which basically just answering his questions Yeah We'd a whole video for him because we have our own rule and that is that we answer every single question that we get yes Yes, and then he answered 15 like Bro, that's I mean we have to is an episode for you. I guess then here's I'll say Here's the Vinay Kumar episode Vinay Kumar That's what was if you could leave two questions and I would like it could be one Publishing related or business related one business related and then one not business with no category attached to it Yeah, so I think that would be cool. So yeah, please do ask questions And we will be taking them and answering every single freaking question that we yeah That's that is a rule that we have all right. Let's move on to the video though for real. Yeah So how do you make your audiobooks longer if they just fall short of the next pricing tier? I'm put down the screen a little quick what these tiers are so you have a look at that But it's actually quite simple all you're gonna do is put a teaser slash sneak peek slash Preview slash whatever you want to call it at the end of your audiobook a cave I could end it right there because that's really all it is. Yeah, but I mean People don't know the exact step-by-step how to do it. So let's just cover that real quick All right, so what you're gonna want to do so just at the end or after the conclusion of your book You're just gonna write this after it something like this. I'm just quoting this reading off the screen I would like to share with you a free sneak peek to another one of my audiobooks that I think you will really enjoy The audiobook is called blank and it's about blank whatever the hell it's about enjoy Mm-hmm. That's it and then you have the narrator read the first one two chapters, whatever However long you need to get to the next pricing tier now. Don't let's not have an hour of right of preview I'm thinking half an hour. You can get a half an hour in there That's fair and then after they read that end it with if you enjoyed this preview of my audiobook titled blank Be sure to check out the full audiobook on audible.com. So it also promotes one of your other books bang bang That's a win-win. That's it. That's two birds one stone That's all it is. It's super easy like that So that is how you make your audiobooks longer after the fact like after they're narrated Now you there's a lot of things you can do before to make sure that it is longer So I want to say real quick on that note You can't really do this to your books that are already published. Oh, yeah I want that's like 250 like fucking at ten minutes. It has to not be released yet Yeah, sadly sadly because you can update it like you can update it and The book will get over three hours if you do this, but ACX most likely is not going to update the price Yeah, so and that's what we care about. We don't always don't care about the length care about the price We also care about the length. It's the price that we care the most about mm-hmm So I would not recommend going to your old audiobooks and adding books It'll probably end up being a waste of time. Yeah, I've done that before and then like yeah, we're not changing the price like sick All right now part two of this question We've been talking a lot recently about these short audiobooks or short manuscripts at least that turn into long audiobooks And I understand why that might be confusing like what house is that possible? But there's actually a lot of things you can do that can make this possible That's like one of the most common questions we're getting now Like what can you guys please elaborate on that please elaborate like okay? We will elaborate on it what you're doing is you're creating audiobooks where things like pauses are natural and Encouraged and help the quality of the audiobook so pauses parts where you would repeat the text You would say it once or twice over again Something where you would put some sort of music in the background or sound effects Or you would just add anything to the audio that isn't text or words anything that isn't words You have to think outside of the box of like it's really business and marketing Diabox keto paleo like it's not it's not those kinds of books. Yeah, not that type of books Yeah, it's expand your thinking when it comes to audiobooks a lot of these kinds of audiobooks are like types of books Categories last topics that would not do very well as ebooks or print books since because Consuming them as an ebook just wouldn't make that much sense and like so so it's something that it's best taken in As an audiobook stop thinking about ebook books Like there's way more with audio and I want to give an example. So yeah, here's an example So yeah, we've been looking to create these types of books and we're doing all kinds of research and Here's an example and the reason why I'm sharing it. Let's get closer to close the reason why I'm sharing this Okay, okay, so the reason why I'm sharing it is because it's actually not as profitable as we had hoped when we first Made this or when we first like into it, right? So an example here is Guided yoga lessons. Yeah, that's an example yoga lessons I'm at so like think about what we've been saying as an ebook like that that's not gonna make much sense Like it doesn't even like you can't even read a guy. I suppose you could roll out your yoga mat Put your Kindle reader down there and start doing these downward dog things Yeah, and then all this yoga shit that it explains Yoga shit, but it just wouldn't make much sense to sit there and read it But as an audio book boom you press play you have your narrator reading out I don't even our mom is like so yoga crazy, but I don't know anything about it still So I just like hold breathing and then breathe out You got the background music playing and this pause is like to give you pauses like now stretch your lower back And then it pauses like 10 seconds and breathe out. Yeah, like you understand, you know So these audiobooks can be super long so there's very few words This guided yoga script can be a few thousand words, but it could turn into a really long audio book Okay as an ebook no one's gonna buy it as an audio book like yeah I'm buying this turning it on and I'm doing my Monday yoga routine So that's just an example. We're not gonna say any more examples That's just one just to get the ball rolling in your head and you can look into the numbers But like from what we found the numbers were not as good as we had been hoping yeah I thought it would be super popular to be honest. I really thought yeah, I thought so as well So but got in terms of competition. Are there a bunch out there like that right now? There aren't that many but it's definitely worth trying. Yeah, so of these 60 books We just ordered none of them are guided yoga now, but fucking try it. I really try it Yeah, try just one a thousand two thousand words and it's a $40 risk you're taking if you just know yoga You could literally sit down and write this yourself This is what we're talking about this is what we're talking about you can sit down and write long audio books yourself Pretty easily and then get get you some non copyrighted background music to play playing the background like boom You got a really high quality audio if that's a narrative course and all that so yeah, that's more or less it Mm-hmm that I think that answers both parts of that question we covered how to make your this was just one example This was just one example of many more in the course I think we gave like 15 different examples We just throw it out every idea we've ever thought of and we'll give you the ones that we're trying out as well Yeah, oh by my course by my course. There's such good stuff inside That's not what I try to do. I'm no real They're not thinking that okay We're just self-conscious about people thinking that we're selling because I don't like being that online marketing guy That's trying to sell you shit. Yeah, okay. Well, that is the end of the video I guess that covers everything we want to talk about remember to drop those Q&A questions. Yeah, no Q&A questions Yeah, so if you watch this video to the end drop some Q&A questions That's how you can send us a message that you watched the end. Yes But you can also practice by saying I still watch to the end even though you asked this in the beginning So I still watch it to the end. Yeah, and then put a donut emoji. Okay. Okay. Thanks for watching Bye Do the thing with the hand. I always do it you do it You