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YouTube Keyword Research for Affiliate Marketing: A Guide
Most affiliate review videos fail for a reason that has nothing to do with the video. The camera work can be fine, the script can be fine, the product can be good. The problem is the keyword. People pick a product they like, make a review, and only afterwards find out whether anyone was searching […]
How to Promote Your Book With Short Cartoon Videos
Most book promotion on social media looks the same. A cover, a link and a line that says “my new book is out”. It rarely works, and it isn’t hard to see why. Nobody stops scrolling for an advert, and that’s exactly what it looks like. Yet a book is full of the things that […]
How to Write a Thriller Novel (With AI): A Real Guide
How to write a thriller novel that readers finish: the promise, the twist, planting fair clues, pacing, editing AI drafts and launching on Amazon KDP. Thrillers are one of the most-read genres on Amazon, and thriller readers are a gift to a new author. They don’t read one book. They read a shelf. Finish one, […]
How to Write a LitRPG Novel & Lessons Learnt Publishing One
If you’ve never heard of LitRPG, you’ve almost certainly seen the idea. In Jumanji, four teenagers get pulled into a video game, wake up with a list of strengths and weaknesses, and have to level up to get home. Now imagine that as a series of novels. That’s LitRPG, short for “literary role-playing game”: stories […]
How to Write Science Fiction With AI (Without the AI Mush)
Ask an AI to “write a science fiction story” and you’ll get something. It’ll have a spaceship, probably. Someone will gaze at the stars. Everything will be resolved neatly in the last paragraph. It won’t be something anyone wants to read twice. The good news is that the problem isn’t really the AI. It’s the […]
Amazon Affiliate Marketing on Pinterest: A Practical Guide
Ask most people where they’d go for free traffic and they’ll say TikTok, Instagram or Facebook. Ask the people quietly making money with Amazon affiliate links and a surprising number of them will say Pinterest. There’s a simple reason. On most social platforms people are passing time. On Pinterest they’re planning: a kitchen makeover, a […]
Broken Affiliate Links: How to Find the Money Your Old Content Is Losing (and Get It Back)
Somewhere in your back catalogue there’s a post, a video or an email that’s still getting clicks today. Traffic you earned months or years ago, still turning up every morning. The question is where those clicks end up. If you’ve been promoting affiliate offers for more than a year or two, there’s a good chance […]
How to Choose the Right Sales Angle Before AI Writes a Word
Last week I needed a name for a new product, so I did what most of us do now. I asked ChatGPT. Then, for good measure, I asked Claude. They picked different names. Fair enough. So I showed each one the other’s reasoning. They both switched sides. Two very capable AI models, two completely convincing […]
How to Write Narrative History: A Practical Guide for Authors
Most people who say they’d like to write a book don’t actually want to write a novel. They want to write about something that happened. The war they’ve read about for twenty years. The disaster they can’t stop watching documentaries about. The expedition, the siege, the trial, the family story that turns out to be […]