Thread by @NickDiFabio1

The numbers behind my Amazon self-publishing business:

• 300 books published
• $1,000,000+ in revenue
• $100,000+/year in profit

& I started with 0 experience.

Here's the simple system I used: 🧵

When I started in 2014, I was working 6pm to 6am shifts at a warehouse.

Two 30-minute breaks. 12-hour days.

I knew there had to be a better way.

A friend was making $3,000/month with Amazon publishing, and for me it might as well have been $300,000.

I made every mistake you can imagine:

• Ugly covers
• Poor niche selection
• No launch strategy
• Random topics with no connection

But I kept going.

The formula I eventually cracked has 4 core pieces:

1. Choose profitable niches first, passion second.

I learned this the hard way.

My first book was about dog training. Terrible cover, short content, no marketing plan.

It flopped.

Now I focus on what the market wants, then find ways to make it interesting.

2. Quality beats quantity every time.

In 2020, the world shut down. My wife had just given birth.

I had to simplify everything.

Instead of complex launch plans, I focused on just two things:

• Getting reviews
• Running Amazon ads

That book did better than most of my previous ones.

3. Build systems, not books.

Each book follows the same process:

• Niche research using BookBeam
• Create compelling titles & covers
• Outsource content to proven ghostwriters
• Launch with my proven 7-day system

Once you have the recipe, you can move fast.

4. Think assets, not just income.

Most people see books as products.

I see them as assets I can sell.

I sold one pen name for $71,000.

The buyer loved the consistent monthly revenue and the systems I had in place.

Now I build every business like I'm going to sell it.

The biggest mindset shift?

You don't need to be a writer to publish books.

I've published 300+ books and didn't write a single one myself.

Focus on market research, quality control, and marketing.

Let the experts handle the writing.

Here's what my typical day looks like now:

• 30 minutes checking royalty dashboards
• 1-2 hours on active publishing projects
• Rest of the day with family

3 hours of work. Six-figure income.

That's the power of building systems instead of trading time for money.

The compound effect is real in publishing.

Each quality book adds to your monthly royalties.

After 10 years, I have books making me money that I published in 2015.

That's true passive income.

If you want to build your own publishing business and learn the exact system I use…

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