SNM124: Boost Your Income By 30% With the Power of Audiobooks
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Pruébalo GratisI’d like to pay you three times as much money for the job you’re doing already? Man, that sounds pretty good! Too bad my boss never said that to me, but Amazon sure did. Stop leaving money on the table and get into the audiobook game. Sultry Tones I’ve been emailing on of my tribe members, who also happens to be an awesome author. She lives outside the United States and been trying to set up an ACX account for a while. In this episode, I share with you two ways to overcome this hurdle, but since recording the episode I have found a new path. The only challenge with this new option is that you have to record the book yourself or hire a professional. ACX lets you profit share, but these guys don’t. I’m talking about Authors Republic. They now offer to get your audiobook onto multiple platforms and are a new alternative. With a Grain of Salt Their service might be great, but I only discovered these guys this morning. I went through their recommendations section and I don’t like what I see so far. They want you to spend thousands of dollars hiring a narrator from the most expensive providers on Earth. They also think a book cover should cost at least three hundred bucks. These are red flags for me; it just means that they will post a link to any brand that lets them be affiliates. My advice is to be a little savvier. Get your narrator handled using the old “Serve No Master” way for pennies on the dollar. Then give these guys a crack and see if they can deliver. I may do a test book with them next month, but I like to keep you guys cutting edge with my discoveries. They do offer you a lot more control than ACX and there is the potential to make triple the money, so they are definitely worth checking out. Show Notes: Key Points: There are more audiobook options now Take a peak at CDBaby Give Authors Republic a look Resources Mentioned: Breaking Orbit Serve No Master on Amazon Most other links can be found in my TOOLBOX Send in your questions to podcast [at] servenomaster [dot] com Sponsor: Read Full Transcript Boost your income by 30% with the power of audiobooks on today's episode are you tired of dealing with your boss do you feel underpaid and underappreciated if you want to make it online prior you start living your retirement dreams now you have come to the right place welcome to serve no master but how to open new revenue streams and make money while you sleep presented life from a tropical island in the South Pacific by best-selling author Jonathan Greene now I've got a few emails lately about audiobooks I thought it be a great topic to share with you today getting early this morning record the special podcasts in a light rain audiobooks are very intimidating for some reason there the category there the space that people are the most hesitant to get into and their couple reasons but the first reason is that we assume we are in the book ourselves now if you've read any of my books you know that's not true because I don't read any of my own books even when I create a book by dictation there so many problems with the audio I would never try to turn my own voice into the audiobook it's a lot of work it's very daunting and I simply don't have that time allocation now some people I work with some people I coach your part of a partnership with the publisher of the author and you have more free time when you working as part of the team and you can then record your audiobooks this episode is brought you by writing jobs your number one resource for high paying writing jobs to join the thousands of other writers who have already been paid over $8 million so far go to Servicemaster.comwriting jobs I just don't have the patience to sit down and record myself talking without making any mistakes is your house additionally I don't know if I get the background noise perfect enough to please the good people@audible.com left to decide if your stuff is good enough but there are so many pieces of an audiobook that we have fear about but it's all because of assumptions my first urgent books I thought I could never did audiobook I don't know how to do it it seems like it's really hardy and audiobook out there and it certainly keys my own voice even right now for the past week and there's a reason that I've been a little bit slow the couple of things is that my kids are sick with colds and it's been getting into my throat my throat hurts right now normally I get up in the morning and record to podcast episodes of little bit of a buffer but this morning I think it might really able to do one again because my throat started hurting the thought of sitting down to record myself for eight hours straight or hour long it takes two tough additionally for your I am booked to cut hit a certain classification on Amazon Cassie perfect that means you have to match every bird to every word in your book that sinking is how they allow you to your Amazon listing will say get the audio version 2 it was Salic synced up for the exact phrasing of camera what it says but will offer the book and audiobook as a package if you get the timing perfectly if every word is correct so you really sure I have a gimmick a few edits to the book the go out of sync and you'll do it often anymore an essay often that any Amazon will do will whether you want to or not so it will hurt your sales also my voice isn't that great someone who does so much audio I don't have the dulcet twins of an audit what if you listen I know this second sounds amazing go to an amazing British voice he sensed so much were eloquent to me and my favorite is people who find me by audiobook alleles of the whole audiobook enemies new podcast episode and a message you will have in your voice is exactly so little like a frog I know that so getting audiobooks can be very very good but it's very intimidating and I want to basically break through couple those fears right now from my technical understanding there's two ways to create audiobooks one is to create the audiobook download which is MP3 download the file and the other ways to create a CD that you can send some in the mail now there are services for both it's not easy to directly deliver your own audio files you kind of have to go through a middleman in either place the minimum that I often talk of the one owned by Amazon and ECX.com ASICs.com is really great for two types of people it's great if you want to be a book reader is actually great place to find work and it's also great for people like me who have books you're always agreeable to read them the process is actually really recent because Amazon owns it the process is that you search for the name of your book what your books on Amazon what you can the book is live and you click a book and say this is my book I want to hire someone to read it that she gave me three choices you can say I want to record myself I want to upload a recording of Artie made and I want to hire someone what you see one hire someone should answer questions the questions are really really simple how many words is the book what's the genre of the book to a male or female voice years are much these questions and I usually say just the gender to match whatever the pen name as of right female books it's a female after my books for semester two males actually mostly hired female audio people voices once you list your booking courtesy we are looking for you doing to provide a sample I tend to provide a couple hundred words a 340 words of a section from the book yet upload that so that someone has a demo script and the people who are interested will message you and say here's my addition Fennell said he knew little addition thousands really great now there are couple of steps in this process we will get stuck the first step is not knowing what a sex.com the second step is taking them to do your own voice the third step is when humans interview process to send you all the audio files and it will say you want to download the file or listen to it to the website ASICs.com is notorious for making audio sound so if you play all these files on the website you had Wiley had on the terrible people messaged me a printout of all is also terrible but if you download them they all actually some pretty good now when you have create the final version of it audiobook and it gets uploaded onto Amazon audible.com which again are both owned by Amazon the dual lower quality than you're expecting the audio won't be the same what is a CD no matter what they say to lower bit rate but as a matter you must most of you listen to audiobooks on the K that is one thing that will come up as we talk about alternatives that people really care but if your process of audio fidelity I get that I spent a year studying audio engineering something around people that obsessed with audio engineering the only listen to music that's an FLSA format which means fully lossless audio codec therapy would never listen MP3 they'd rather die now for music I understand that if you listen to the same song especially song live if you listen to recording for concert if you listen to the MP3 and FLA see file you can hear the difference it's the same as when you listen to a CD and then you listen to a piece of vinyl final actually records twice the width of signal so people often say vinyl sounds warmer because their sound we can't officially hear certain spectrums like dogs can hear what respect we can her dog whistle but there's a part of his thinking how to detect them because the waves are still hitting our body and that's why people were excessive audio fidelity hate lower lower bit rates because it means less status being covered this is something to think about but society works have no music it's not really a big issue because people don't speak in a wide spectrum but I do understand why people who use a set sometimes upset that it's not using the correct bit rate it claims it CD-quality but stock is not using the bit rate of the city the next area were people who really struggles you put your book on audible.com you got your whole description and no one send you any requests and now this happened to me on my I think fourth book upon a six so my first three I got tons of people who asked to do it is really easy I just chosen town within the fourth window message to me as a white person they were very good so I said you know what I'm be proactive given appear at first I was little doubt about this way over this and I started messaging people I sent emails to about 22 just with an AC etc. go to a sex as a dealer for this book I want a lady let's say that she's got a voice that sounds fortyish ill you choose pretty extensively in H Vance so I said the author of this book is a little bit older owner some 40 sporting up and I messaged maybe 20 women were good voices and I said oh my gosh your voice is amazing would love for you to read my audiobook please just take a quick look the book is already doing really well it's Artie selling copies every day and I know that I can sell a ton more copies with your amazing voice with my words combined with your beautiful voice we could do something magical please just check out and I got seven and seven were additions about what are the three people I messaged sent in addition that everything worked out some of the people sometimes you message people it turns out someone's running their ASICs account and mulched it it gets a little I don't know that it's not even it felt sketchy to me one person's inhaler actually an audio company so if you hire this lady you have to pay a fee the studio fee and will split it with you and then you have to split the money with her she audibly either peppers or flat fee or you do a 50-50 revenue share there's no other options of these people want me to do both very naughty not illegal but naughty and made me uncomfortable said the voice of Slate is amazing but still I'm getting going on that rabbit hole I found another voice and you know it I don't even remember I can't read what book I'm talking about right now because I done so many I deserve the experience and then goes to show that voice was and voice isn't that important as lungs which is a good or above your fine the reason you have to do this step in this is a step that most people miss is because it's a search engine so people login and fair readers they can just see the latest books that were posted so if your book was posted yesterday and utilizing today won't see it unless they scroll back five or six pages depending upon people to find you through what I would say is pretty rough search engine that's in they can add in like what gender they looking for age look for but it's pretty hard to get a good Sangha and is a lot of just a lot of books on Amazon and a lot of oxidase exit known has read this you will post the books are just really crowded to all these books have never sold a digital copy there trying to get someone a sex to do it and the people on a six that want to make money so job if you have a good voice and I know some of you do because some people have a semi-emails or videos that have like these deep amazing voices are usually eloquent voice like an angel the right now that the lady who did my potty training but has made a killing she makes writing books exactly as much as I do every time I sell potty training audiobook we split 20 5050 I like to do revenue share with people because they want the skin in the game and this is valuable for couple of reasons it means that one is a mistake to put in more effort to improve it with the absolute best in the book is the better they do the more the make they want to get those really good five-star reviews and also Amazon had the process in a six is that once the book is recorded and makes us submitted you have to prove it first and then Easy Access to prove it so if you prove something in a sexist note if you will back that person to hey can you fix it if you've Artie release the payment to them you've got a problem now I don't know that Amazon does that way Amazon may not release the payment until after they approve the book I have never paid anyone's I don't know for sure I voiced on the revenue share with the revenue share model the person is also the reader the voice is motivated to drive traffic so my readers will post a check of the books I read on their Facebook goods are people who follow voices still generate a minimum traffic additionally on audible.com it will say other books read by this deaerator so when they're giving recommendations you can get recommendations based on the voice of getting a really good voice getting with the skin in the game would drive people to all these pieces of process additionally and this just have me last week someone out there was violating my copyright now normally found anything about it what can I do if someone is downloaded so, my book gives to friend up was our bit torrents I even try and become some is always sending cease-and-desist but it's a real big hassle however if someone trying to sell my book now that's not cool. Steel for me and Sally okay someone out there had taken from one of my readers had stolen his resume which means he had a two minute clip of him reading my book and they put on YouTube and below is a link to another website to try to look back on what icon to get people to sign up for audiobooks I don't know if that site has stolen copper by both of the try to sell I didn't sign up to the site and look for it is all it leads you like a sketchy rationally he doesn't leader like a real domain the letters and nothing made sense in the survey was unreadable was on YouTube's on YouTube sums playing a stolen and so I found much a cease-and-desist on YouTube's and hey don't let someone steal my content and send people to buy something to buy more of it that's ridiculous YouTube do a better job and they took my down you don't want to spend a week working audiobook in the making four dollars I never thought I would do one of those millennia back copyright takedowns peace of this guys voice which is not happy about he owns writers voice that I own the copyright to the contents of he can't file the cease and desist with YouTube he emailed all the people who use of the assets at someone's using my voice and you deal with this took my steal my book apart on YouTube and then get people to pay 30 bucks their estimate that's not cool I would've to be honest you I probably wouldn't of had a problem with it if they were sending people to audible if there was any work you've actually buy their audible.com affiliates that probably fine by me to be honest as you if there sending people back to the correct place and they're just running an affiliate commission I was living there are things Hannah tried driving traffic fine but because they're sending traffic to a competitor that stealing all that no way they alert about a guy name and services he not a lot of people were told their client base and I also discovered that it wasn't just him as all my books were up there so products that had under other pendants he had a red-brown there as well so it's not him it was just him they got stolen it was entire audible.com preview catalog so install it uploaded to YouTube using private is a software automation and all has these links so image log and taken down he noticed a total of 1003 Hon. to help staff sums on your team because guess what she gets paid every time you make a sale so he's motivated to make sure no one steal my stuff and pay someone flat fee which is fine you have a heavy upfront investment one of the things it holds people back there an article today that said you should bend to the $10,000 to your audit would put together what no thanks I would never recommend doing that I don't think it's a good messiness of the my work with a biblical ship chosen to go that route suffer me in the long run I sometimes pay the person more for the potty training book the woman would read the whole book pricing 2 to 4 dollars a number which she said since since that book emanated 50-50 she's been paid more than two to $4000 should be 10 times more money that's okay I totally appreciate that she has skin in the game I don't mind paying people percentage when they have done good work she did it on spectacle in the book attacked I'm in the mood was arty number one when I brought her aboard to do it but was really I want to reward people and they do great work and I think the voice is very important for the audiobook so if you read… Unless you are the guy's voice yeah he gets as much as I do every time an audiobook and that's fine don't feel bad for me it's still a nice penny for both of us as really great I love that guys getting rewarding because I thought he did a great job I thought is was really nice and actually got a couple emails of people, the ice was to until he realized that I'm not British but another hurdle this came to me recently is that you not allowed to join a six or every country initially was only in America I think now to Canon UK as well I can remember they sent out email saying the new countries are adding and I know they don't have a straight right now I can't remember South America is in a row I know they were talking about it but you from these countries how can you do audiobooks and this was the second set of questions of God recently and is a couple ways to deal with this the first is that for ACS you simply need to have a year to its tax ID I thought this meant Americans only but actually someone I know who is in the VA heavy country not a Western culture in English speaking countries call the IRS and asked for business tax ID and they gave him what I was in a tax ID to build do it section on ecology and process in a way makes sense because then the moneymaker a sex measure how the taxes work maybe is beholden to US taxes or maybe it's not but either way if you only presents America's AC accidentally make $100,000 you're just basic Excel audiobook sales it is a matter is not taxable yet so don't worry about that's one way to do it and I was shocked how easy was I was in shock he was on hold for now though shocked that he did and that he was getting located a tax ID number so I can start a section American accent once and yes if your legs got one MN that's one way to do it and that's probably whatever I think is it's easier but there is an alternative if you're an audiophile and really care about audio quality obsessed with that stuff you can go to a service like CD maybe it was see maybe still, process for their selling physical CDs I thought about that actually for a couple reasons I like what I see books and it says you can have this book in Kindle paperback audiobook or MP3 see I believe that the MP3 CD haven't done so this is a little as I would've done before but I will share with you something about about I believe the MP3 CD thing is going to see maybe now the challenge is that how do I get someone's content resected print CD maybe make sure that person fairly that's why haven't done it because you end up in a bit of a copyright conundrum with a six I don't have to do any accounting but if you go this other mouse even you certainly do so if you can record the book yourself. Pay the person that's different if pain flat fee than you totally on the content you knew to be what I don't own the audio content for anyway audiobooks co-owner they have a revenue share split and I would honor that so you can do the CDB route you could pay someone a flat fee you you can do arrangement record yourself and then you have that version now I would love to figure way take that my audiobook remover to see the baby do the same thing it's a little complex to have entered yet and something you figure out feel free to email me explain how to do it or offer help me do it very interesting that I was interested in stuff like that they may need to hire a second narrator to do the CD version I don't even know people want a CD in the mail at or how much themselves as air have entered into but I do know that she debated pays you much better than doing audible is audible the percentage in a great it's okay as for me just gravy I really use Amazon for traffic more than anything else Amazon sends me love the customers that's wonderful OCD maybe you also get higher quality audio the audio sound much better because it's the highest level it's way figure bit rate than Amazon does build a CX and that means you get a really great quality recording the challenge and this is something accessible personnel assigned another blog is following is that they can only put the book in one category because CD baby is considered to be a music company when they do the book when they put your audiobook on Amazon he can only go into the Amazon spoken word category you can choose what category you want to go into for your audiobook honestly that's not that important to me once you merge audiobook in your listing then your current you only get to choose one category anyways ASAP she'll get a lot of controls security Troyer pricing so I don't worry about that stuff what I do worry about is that you're not audible.com and a lot of my sales go through audible so when you publish a book the racy exit goes on audible.com and it goes on Amazon.com this was an iTunes review other places are all controlled by single platform in the room when Amazon owns are over the tree like it's a separate company since you could've played a little bit of a game I want to be on audible because that's where the majority my audiobook sales come from some come from Amazon but not all assets are brightens in several other places I don't track it to have that headers look at the numbers at the end of the month and make sure the trends are good I don't really split up how to better iTunes than here is not always comes from Amazon or audible but don't look at the split too heavily in the numbers I really did again when you're looking at your plan for an audiobook CD baby's option and their other options as well if you want to deliver by CD but I couldn't find and haven't found another way to get an audible other than going to a six I don't know of another route Amazon is very complicated because of the way they structure their business and know has to laws and taxes and those ends on every country's different business every month and I get paid I get paid by Amazon Japan separate from Amazon Mexico Sever Amazon UK 7 g in Canada separate Amazon you separate from Amazon America all separate businesses fail semi-separate wire transfer direct deposited in the month that's fine more complicated is that ATX audible.com create space they all pretend like they're different companies and so they all do different things like recently Kendall has started trying to get me to do our paperbacks to to say hey your digital books on what you do pay back your book your two and I know people are surpassing about that some talk about it now I don't know if that's worth doing I haven't messed with it may be that running all your books to the same platform is the right thing to do maybe there's a benefit because your tracking is little more detail if you upload through Katie P instead of uploading through create space but I don't know you haven't done it I don't have a system that works I like having great faith separate from Katie additionally create space pays you faster so for Kindle books you have to wait at the end of month +60 days but for Christmas it's only in a month +30 so that way one extra month even better is audiobooks A6 actually pays me at the end of the month plus about two weeks so I get paid the fastest body looks fascinating else penny first so for everything until this month firstly paid by audible by audiobooks in a month and only pay for the paperbacks in a month after that I get paid for the digital sales all from this month's when you're looking at doing audiobooks don't be overwhelmed by the complexity it's really not that hard the set up is not complicated if you buy copywriting orbit have a step-by-step walk-through of the can get that stuff I thirst at PF it takes you through each step of this process which I can explain the big picture here and doesn't have to be overwhelming as to become engaged 523 voice they remit booklets with the money we can ask them what they would be paid in the Tyler fee upfront people ranging from $20 an hour up to $500 an hour the really is wide spectrum and if your summons reading books you can also get paid pretty good living you could build up your own catalog business discuss what it through the voice read all of my books you make an exact what I do value books are salaries would be is everything in audiobooks is 50-50 with the voice over the phone with Zito integrate hours on hold most of the time you answer a few questions as a howitzer and this is the state's this is a great market to enter it doesn't need to be overwhelming and as always with every challenge you face you can either see an obstacle or opportunity I love audiobooks because very few people doing close to an understandable trip or terminated up to the opportunity that means is very little competition there I have a book on Amazon that has over thousand books in the same category the direct competitors but I look@audible.com there less than five I dominate certain spaces and audiobooks because there aren't any other books in the category that's wonderful so if you want to boost your income by 30 to 40% every single month what their head of ASICs.com and make that audio version of your book it is a special treatment below this recording low this episode at the bottom of the blog posts I have a linked we can get the audiobook version observed restaurant and breaking orbit absolutely free something very cool you can do with audible as well as give away copies of your book for free audiobook to show you how the bottomless episode thank you for listening to this week's episode serve no master make sure you subscribe so you never miss another episode will be back tomorrow with more tips and tactics on how to restate that reference it over to serve no master.com/podcasts now for your chance to win a free copy of Jonathan's bestseller serve no master all you have to do is leave a five star review of this podcast see you tomorrow thank you for listening this episode of the serve no master podcast make sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode I like having motorcycles who have had months so crazy Laster had a month were my audiobooks did really bad but had a motherly payback to buy that her month were my digital bat but because I get paid from the different months I didn't get it all once you could've missed mixed them all up that's what's good to have these different payment cycle of them came with it what you get going it's great to see Becky retired so you pay for a couple of months The post SNM124: Boost Your Income By 30% With the Power of Audiobooks appeared first on Serve No Master.
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