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How to do upfront work

Were talking about making money. Sometimes you need to do upfront work without certainty of potential income.

Many people assume, go on YouTube post videos and you’re golden, but many people just give away their labor for some views.

If you want to make money by doing upfront work, you need to get a deal before you do the work.

That could include writing a Kindle book, but publishing it with the deal attached.

It can be making a blog with monetization in place.

So you can definitely make money doing upfront work, but you won’t be certain about the income.

That’s why contracts and agreements are important.

Nobody would make 10000000 kebabs before they get the deal, but people make thousands of videos before they even have a change to earn… And that’s the problem of modern internet.

So the problem isn’t that you can’t do upfront work, you can, but you need agreement of potential revenue for the work you did or are doing.

Not like YouTube, Facebook – we will monetize your work someday, if you reach the monetization threshold.

So the platforms exploit their users who want to make a business, if they valued your work – they would pay you from the beginning. On Facebook or YouTube, it’s not upfront work when your content is not monetized, it’s just free labor for the platform, because when you publish you will get views, but not profit. So they benefit from your free labor.

They run ads on your content, but not for you, but for them. So you are left with nothing.

Low Effort Kindle Books – Is It A Viable Business?

Back in the day when I started writing kindle books there was no Gemini or other AI that could write them for me. So I wrote them myself.

For anyone wondering if writing low effort kindle books is a profitable business, I can say it’s not unless you believe 2€ a month is huge profit.

I have 100+ minibooks and they just make me 2€ a month every month. Writing more books didn’t result in a bigger amount of money.

I also tried selling sudoku puzzles, journals – they didn’t sell at all.

Those people who claim that you can sell low content books are full of lies, you can’t.

I haven’t tried, but making one good book that you actually plot and write for yourself, might be better. I didn’t write long good books for kindle, but I assume it would be better than spamming the market with low effort lame content.

Also don’t write books with AI, kindle is full of AI books, readers sense that and don’t buy them.

Making 100 minibooks is actually more work than making one good book.

But when your minibook is 0.99€ from which you get just 30 cents then even marketing of them is a waste of money.

If I would ever want to work on Kindle I would write one GOOD book and market it with ads and price it like 9-12€ for 75% profit.

Amazon Kindle doesn’t market your book for free, unless it already has sales, good reviews.

I would essentially give the book away for free to get reviews, you can do 7 day promote once a year or something like that.