A few days ago, I went on Amazon in search of ideas for “pocket change” offers. That’s after I went through a training that Ning Li put on last week about the same.
I don’t think I’m giving away a huge spoiler for Ning’s course by revealing that a part of his research process is going on Amazon and seeing what else is selling in his niche.
So there I was on Amazon, looking at best-selling books.
As I’ve hinted a few times, this year I’ve started a new newsletter in the health space. I was doing research for possible “pocket change” offers I could create to grow that newsletter.
I was stabbing around various categories and following random hunches. I scrolled down in one highly specific but popular category to about rank 40…
… and then I guffawed, snorted, and chuckled.
I saw a familiar book among the bestsellers:
One o’ mine own.
I wrote this particular book about 9 years ago. I hadn’t really seen it or thought about it since. It was part of about a dozen alternative-health how-to books that I wrote at that time under various pseudonyms.
All these books are still up on Amazon, and some continue to rack up reviews and sales. This particular book is the best of the bunch, and is doing well enough to make me a best-selling author in a fairly competitive category, without any effort, without any promotion, and without even being aware of the fact.
But let’s get biblical:
The only book I currently have on Amazon under my own name is the 10 Commandments of A-List Copywriters.
It’s currently only #96 among best-selling Kindle books in the “direct marketing” category.
But there was a brief period last December when my 10 Commandments book was ranked higher among Amazon bestsellers than Gary Halbert’s Boron Letters and Dan Kennedy’s Magnetic Marketing.
Maybe, with your help, I can get my book back up in the rankings, to the top of the charts where it belongs. Plus, it’s only 5 bucks. If you’d like to take a look: