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What is Google Bard: a definitive guide

Google Bard is an experimental Google chatbot that is powered by the LaMDA large language model. It’s a generative AI that accepts prompts and performs text-based tasks like providing answers and summaries and creating various forms of content.

Google wrote on its website,

We believe that these technologies will promote innovation and further our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Google Bard will be another useful tool from the stable of Google Inc.

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How do you access Google Bard?

Though Google Bard is still in Beta. It’s still open only to some selected people from selected countries of the world but you can help yourself to know about this innovation and how to use Google Bard.

Let me allow Googlytake over from here to give you comprehensive knowledge about Google Bard and how to use it.

What does use Google Bard for?

You can use Google Bard to help move your ideas forward. With a little help from Bard, you can do things like:

• Brainstorm ideas, develop a plan, or find different ways to get things done
• Get a quick, easy-to-understand summary of more complex topics
• Create first drafts of outlines, emails, blog posts, poems, and much more

 

Before you use Bard

Don’t rely on Bard’s responses as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice.
Bard’s responses don’t represent Google’s views, and should not be attributed to Google.
Bard may give inaccurate or inappropriate information. Your feedback makes Bard more helpful and safe. Learn how to give feedback.

 

How to start a conversation in Bard chat

Go to bard.google.com.
If you’re not already signed in, sign in to your Google Account. In the text box at the bottom, enter your question or prompt. Select Submit

 

Examples of conversations you can start

The following are examples of conversations you can start on Google Bard.

• Help me finish my art studio tagline: craft, create, and …
• Outline my blog post about summer mocktail recipes
• Draft a packing list for my weekend fishing and camping trip
• I want to write a novel. How can I get started?
• Help me understand if lightning can strike the same place twice

 

How to edit your prompt

If you want to revise your prompt to Bard, you can edit it, and Bard will regenerate the response.

To the right of your prompt, select Edit text.
Edit your prompt. Select Update.

How to check other responses to your prompt

For some prompts, you can review other drafts that Bard creates. This option is only available for Bard’s latest response.

At the top right of Bard’s response, select View other drafts. Select that draft you want to review.

Other things you need to know about Google Bard

The following are the other things you need to know about Google Bard:

To start a new chat: at the top left, select Menu   Reset chat.

To search for topics related to a response: below the response, select Google it.

You should know that Bard is an experimental technology and may generate inaccurate or inappropriate responses. When this happens, you can report a response.

Bard’s ability to hold context is purposefully limited for now. As Bard continues to learn, its ability to hold context during longer conversations will improve.

Google Bard and authors

What is the relevance of Google Bard to authors? Let us look at some tips below:

• Google Bard helps authors to plan out outlines for new books
• Google Bard assists authors to write content for their books
• Google Bard allows authors to research book marketing strategies
• Google Bard helps authors with author blogs to research and write good blog posts

I believe you are going to find out more about this innovation from Google. It will surely help more people in different ways.

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What does it mean to build an audience as an author?

Building an audience as an author is all about using different strategies to gain new readers and also retain old reader membership.

Authors who want to sell more books on Amazon or other online sales stores must learn to consistently build an audience.

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Benefits of building an audience as an author

The following are some of the benefits of building an audience as an author:

• To gain new readers
• To retain old readers or fans
• To expose your books to more readers per time
• To get feedback from fans and readers of your books
• To get ideas about new book titles
• To sell more books
• To help in the launch of a new book

 

A potent way to build an audience as an author

This is what, according to a news release from Written Word Media, consider a potent way to build an audience as an author:

If you’re looking to increase your author earnings, it’s important to focus on what your author business will look like in the future and how you can get there.

So, in addition to a solid catalog of books, what do high-earning authors have? A large audience of readers who buy the author’s new titles, buy their other titles, leave reviews, and spread the word to other readers.

How do they build this audience? Lots of ways, but one of the easiest and most effective ways is by running free promotions where they make their book, usually the first in a series, free. And shout it from rooftops.

 

Running free promotions for your published books on Amazon KDP

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Why must you do free book promotion on Amazon KDP? This post will show you three reasons why you should price your book at free on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing).

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What is free book promotion on Amazon KDP?

Free book promotion on Amazon KDP is all about pricing your published book at $0 on Amazon KDP.

I believe that will sound crazy to some authors especially, newbies authors, but I am letting you know that Publishing and pricing some of your books at free on Amazon is one of the best marketing decisions or practices you can take as you make effort to sell more ebooks on Amazon.

I have engaged in this practice of free book promotion on Amazon KDP for many years and most of the organic ebook sales I have on Amazon today is as a result of some of my ebooks that are free.

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How to publish an ebook free on Amazon KDP

Publishing your ebook free on Amazon KDP is not a straightforward thing as Amazon does not allow books to be priced at free during the Publishing process.

So what do you have to do to list your book free on Amazon KDP?

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Why you should do free book promotion on Amazon KDP

The following are the reasons why you should do free book promotion on Amazon KDP:

 

You have a book series

You can run a free book promotion on Amazon KDP if you have a book series with 2 or more books.

You can decide to price the first book in the series at free to entice readers to read for free and to put the other books in the series in their faces.

I did that with my Christian romance book series. I priced the first, The Prostitute at free in order to sell the second book in the series, Thorns Inside the Rose.

I have lots of good reviews and downloads from the first free book. This has also given good promotion to the second book in the series.

 

You want more reviews and ratings

If you want more reviews and ratings for your books, you should consider doing a free book promotion on Amazon KDP. I mentioned earlier that my best selling Christian romance novel has gotten lots of downloads and good reviews and ratings so far.

This has really helped my others books in one way or the other. This is also the case with some of my other free ebooks on Amazon.

 

You are enrolled in Kindle Unlimited

Yes, if you publish and sell ebooks on Amazon, you need to have your books enrolled in Kindle Unlimited or the Kindle Select program. There are many benefits for authors and their books if they participate in the Kindle Select program on Amazon..

You can check out this post to read more about the Kindle Select program

When you enrol your book in Kindle Unlimited, it will be available at free for Amazon paid subscribers. At free, more readers can know about your book.

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Amazon KDP authors build audience on Amazon. Pricing books at free is one of the easiest and most effective ways they build audience for their published books on Amazon and their author brand.

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If you want to archive books in the KDP dashboard, this post will show you how. Archiving books in your Amazon KDP dashboard is new and for an Amazon KDP author like me with so many published books in my KDP dashboard, this is a welcome development.

 

What does it mean to archive books in the KDP dashboard?

To archive books in the KDP dashboard is about freeing up space in the Bookshelf section of your Amazon KDP dashboard.

The following scenarios can warrant archiving some books in your KDP dashboard:

If you have published lots of books and you want only the recently published books to appear on your bookshelf.

If you have unpublished some books and you don’t want them to appear again on your bookshelf

If Amazon had refused to approve a book and you don’t want to see it again on your bookshelf

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How to archive books in the KDP dashboard

The following tutorial shows you how to archive books in the KDP dashboard:

 

Log in to your Amazon KDP dashboard

I believe you should be able to do that.

 

Go to the exact book

Go to the exact book you want to archive in the Bookshelf section of your KDP dashboard. Click on the three dots to the far right of the book (see picture below).

 

Click on the archive book

From the drop-down menu, click on ‘Archive title’

 

You should take note of the information on the next page shown above. Amazon informs you that though you have archived your book, it remains on sale in the various Amazon stores (that is if it was published in the first place).

You can finish the process by clicking, ‘Archive Title ‘

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How to see archived titles in your Amazon KDP dashboard

In case you want to see the archived book titles again in your Amazon KDP bookshelf, you should do this:

In your Bookshelf, click on ‘View’ and select, ‘All Titles’ or ‘Archived Titles.’

This will either show you all titles you have published including the archived book titles or only the archived book titles. Please see the picture below:

 

 

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What are sponsored brands on Amazon?

Sponsored Brands on Amazon are cost-per-click (CPC) ads that feature or show your business brand logo, multiple products and a custom headline. These cost-per-click ads appear in relevant shopping results and they also help to drive the discovery of your business brand among customers shopping for similar products.

Amazon Sponsored Brands, previously known as Amazon Headline Search Ads, can help customers find your business brand and products with creative ads that appear in relevant Amazon shopping results.

 

Steps to launch sponsored brands on Amazon

The following are the first set of action steps you need to take to launch sponsored brands on Amazon:

• First add your pen name and book(s) in Amazon Author Central. You should have registered for Amazon Author Central.
• Second, cick the Books tab on Amazon Author Central.
• Thirdly, click add it now located at the end of the paragraph at the top of the page.
• Fourth, in the Search field, enter the book title, ISBN, or author name and click enter.
• Fifth, once you find the book, click the book cover. If it’s your book, click Add this book.
• Sixth, if you are claiming a new pen name, you will see [Author name] is my pen name.  Note: If you’re adding a new pen name, we’ll notify you after we verify you’re the rights holder for the selected book. Once verified, it may take up to 48 hours for new claims to be reflected in your Amazon Ads account.

Note: To visit advertising console, click Reports + Marketing and Go to ads console.

 

More steps to launch your sponsored brands on Amazon

After you are done with the six steps above, you should proceed to follow the steps below:

Update your Author page

You will need to update your Author page on Amazon. You should understand that your Author Page shows essential information about you, like your biography, bibliography, profile photos, and blog feeds.

New readers will likely visit your Author page during their shopping activities to read about you, your business and your book selection. You should ensure your Author page is up-to-date.

 

Amazon adds additional Author page

Amazon will try to verify if you’re the author of the selected books. If that’s done and verified,  an additional Author Page will be available for you to use and maintain.

The pen name will then appear in the drop-down menu next to your name in the upper right corner of Amazon Author Central.

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How I sell ebooks on Amazon KDP

We have sold lots of ebooks on Amazon.

A lot always depend on what you do right or wrong during publication. The choice of keywords, titles, subtitles, categories chosen, descriptions, cover. You should also understand that you may have to try out paid ads.

This guide will be of great use to you.

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Dave Chesson’s KindlePreneur has given authors the audiobooks sales calculator. This is part of the promise made to the readers of his blog to update some of the free author tools on their stable this year.

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What are audiobooks?

Audiobooks are simply audio versions of books or ebooks. The demand for audiobooks has risen astronomically in the past few years.

It’s believed the demand for audiobooks will continue to move upwards. Lots of people now prefer to use audiobooks instead of ebooks or even paperback books.

 

What are audiobooks sales calculator?

Audiobooks sales calculator are simply author tools to calculate the potential sales of an audiobook.

Amazon is not left out of the new audiobooks wave. Its sister company, ACX helps authors to get their audiobooks published and distributed worldwide.

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Audiobooks sales calculator: free Author tool by KindlePreneur

I want you to read more information about the press release on the audiobooks sales calculator by KindlePreneur.

Dave at KindlePreneur takes it up:

“I’ve added a new FREE tool that does the same for audiobooks.

This has been something I’ve wanted to do for a long time because the ranking for audiobooks on Amazon/Audible runs on a different system from ebooks and print books. That made audiobooks incompatible with my original book sales calculator.

All you have to do is find your best seller rank by visiting the Amazon page of any given audiobook, then going to the details section and selecting the top number you see under “Best Sellers Rank”.

 

Then you just pop that number into the Audiobook Sales Calculator and PRESTO! You have an estimated number of sales per day for that audiobook.

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How to set up paid ad for Amazon KDP books at Written Word Media. If you want to sell more ebooks on Amazon KDP, you will need to use paid ad at one point.

This post will show you how to use paid for your published books on Amazon KDP at Written Word Media 

 

What is Written Word Media?

Written Word Media an online ad management agency which specializes in running paid book adverts for authors and publishers. This online company has many ad packages for authors like freebooksy, bargainbooksy and more.

Authors have the opportunity to choose whichever ad package they want for their books putting into consideration the genre of their books and also the number of email subscribers they want to reach out to.

 

Setting up paid ad for Amazon KDP books

You can follow the steps below to set up paid ad for Amazon KDP books at Written Word Media:

 

Register a free membership account

Register a free membership account at Written Word Media. I live you to do that since it’s a very simple process. Now, let us go to the step.

 

Login to your dashboard

Login to your dashboard with your email address and password. I did that below:

After you are logged in, go to the menu and select, ‘Books’

I did that below:

I have previously uploaded some of my published books on Amazon. You can see them in the image above.

Now, let me inform you that you have to add or upload your published books on Amazon KDP immediately you register an account and logged into your account. This will make the process of setting up a book promotion easier.

Let me show you how to add or upload your first book as a new member.

 

Click on add book

I did that below. See the image below:

As you can see from the image above, all you need to add your published book on Amazon is your Amazon book link. Just copy and paste into the box above.

Then, click ‘Ads book’

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Add description of your book

In the image shown below, you will need to add or enter the description of your book. Now, after you entered the Amazon link of your book and click add book, the system go online to extract and show some information about your published book on Amazon. Usually, the cover of the book on Amazon is displayed.

 

Finish adding your book

You can then click, ‘Add book’ to finish adding your book.

 

Set up your book promotion

Now, let’s set up a book promotion for your uploaded book.

Go to your uploaded book as I did below. Click on ‘Promote’

 

The next page shows the various ad packages available at Written Word Media.

 

 

 

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What is Draft2digital publishing?

Draft2digital publishing is all about publishing your ebooks, paperback books and audiobooks through Draft2digital. Draft2digital is an online book aggregator or distribution platform.

When you publish your book on Draft2digital, it will be distributed to online stores and libraries that are partners with Draft2digital.

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Watch video on Draft2digital publishing

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Is Amazon KDP profitable? That’s a good question in the heart of someone out there. Amazon KDP is Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and it’s the book publishing arm of Amazon Inc.

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How profitable is Amazon KDP?

Amazon KDP is very profitable and our results over the years will show you this fact very soon. This amazing ebook Publishing platform gives authors worldwide the opportunity to get the word out about their books at no cost to them.

This implies that as an author, you can start immediately. You can have your book published in Amazon stores worldwide in minutes.

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Is Amazon KDP profitable? Over 12 years of experience

We have had over 12 years of self-publishing and selling ebooks and paperback books and lately hard cover books on Amazon.

We have sold lots of books on Amazon and we have also given out lots of free books to promote our brands and to promote our other products and online courses.

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Our results selling ebooks profitably on Amazon KDP

Let me show you some of our results in pictures:

 

 

 

Do you want to give Amazon KDP a trial?

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If you want to know how to add your book to a series on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing), this post will teach you the step-by-step guide to ad your published ebook on Amazon KDP to a series on Amazon.

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What is a book series on Amazon KDP

A book series on Amazon is like a sectional grouping where authors on Amazon KDP can arrange their books. Authors can either put books that are in series together in a group or put books that look very much alike in a group.

Either way, this helps to increase the exposure of books to readers. Readers can know of more published books by authors after they visit the book page of a book on Amazon.

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How to add your book to a series on Amazon KDP (step-by-step guide)

This is the step-by-step guide on how to add your book to a series on Amazon KDP:

Log in to your Amazon KDP dashboard

 

Go to the published book you want to add to a series page on Amazon KDP and move to the far right of the book section. (Note that I am assuming you have already created and published your book series on Amazon KDP already. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this post )

 

 

Click the three dots to the far right of the book section to see a drop-down menu:

 

 

Click on Add to series (see picture above)

 

On the next page, as shown above, you can either create a new series or your ads to an existing series. In this case, you are adding to an existing series. So click on the appropriate button above.

 

Can you see an existing book series pages that I have already created in my Amazon KDP dashboard above (Mind Power)? If you have created one already or you have created more than one, you should just click on the appropriate one.

On the next page above, you will either choose whether the book you are adding to this series page on Amazon KDP is the main content or related content in the series. I leave you to choose that for your book.

 

 

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On the next page above you have to confirm the book information and continue.

 

 

You are done. Amazon will approve or disapprove your submission within 24 hours.

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