literally everyone shops on Amazon your mom your dad your grandma literally your dog I'm not kidding his shirt is from Amazon so what if there's a way to make money through Amazon as a teenager from home without spending a bunch of money time and effort well guess what there is and today I'm going to show you exactly how it's super easy takes about 10 minutes to set up and is an amazing source of passive income so that means while you're at school while you're hanging out with your friends literally while you're sleeping you will be making money after my three video series of how to make money as a teen you guys have been asking me to go more in depth on all of these different methods so this is my first ever step-by-step guide I'm going to be walking you guys through the entire process so what exactly is this method well to break it down basically we are going to be creating low content books which is basically like journals and planners sketchbooks whatever you can think of and uploading them to KDP AKA Kindle Direct publishing which is an Amazon official company the cool thing about this is that you literally only have to design the book which is not hard at all I will show you guys how to do it and then Amazon whenever you get an order will actually print the book and send it to the customer this is a three-step process and it will literally only take you about 10 minutes and I love this side hustle so much that I'm actually going to be doing it at the same time as you guys so while you're setting up yours I will be setting up mine this method is something I've been wanting to try for a long time because I've seen so many people who have been so successful with it but I didn't really know where to start because I kind of got like the general concept but I didn't really know like how to upload it or how to create it or how to format it or what type of books would even sell so I was super confused but then I found this really cool tool called book bolt it'll literally help you create the book it'll help help you research for keywords format everything like all the confusing Parts this video is sponsored but I would not be collaborating with them if I didn't really believe in the potential of this side hustle I'm literally going to be doing it at the same time as you guys that's how much I trust this you can sign up for a free trial down below and if you really like it you can get the paid plan which is $9.99 a month but with my code it's only $7.99 a month so Lulu 20 step number one is to research this is such an important step and I don't recommend you guys skip it I never really knew like how to research for this like I could just go on Amazon and like look at things but we don't really know like which books are actually selling and that is obviously very important so I'm going to go over to the book bolt Cloud tool you can start by deciding which type of low content book you want to sell you could do a journal A Sketchbook a planner today I think I want to make a prayer Journal because it's a little more Niche it's important to choose something a little more Niche because then you'll stand out against a competition so think a prayer Journal a high school planner or a self-care planner something like that where it's more specific you can Niche down even more and be like a 365 Day prayer journal for women or something like that that is niche down by like three different categories so it's very very specific which will help your target audience and your Target customer find your book so just type that in now we can see book bolt has analyzed all of the prayer journals on Amazon so find one that has a lot of monthly sales I actually really like this first one and it gets over 500 monthly sales which is amazing that is over $4,500 every single month in sales for just this one book I think this book is so successful because of how Niche it is like I said not only is it a prayer Journal but it's for women it's guided and it's going to last for an entire year I love this so I'm going to do the exact same thing but I actually might do a little spin on it and design a 365 prayer wait 365 day Journal prayer journal for teens because I don't know there's a lot for women out there but there's not as many for teens now for the fun part step two create this is my favorite part and it's actually super easy to do we are going to design the cover which is like the most important step so you can go over to the create Tab and choose book bolt studio for the dimensions I recommend you just do the dimensions of whichever book you're taking in ation from so I'm just going to literally do the exact same one as the one on Amazon which is usually listed right under the book and for the page count I recommend doing like 120 Pages books with over 100 Pages tend to sell better because I don't know there's just more content I've heard from multiple people that 120 pages is like the sweet spot and don't worry you don't have to design every single page there's actually a hack you can do through book bolt it's super super easy super quick I will show you guys after we design the cover and I'm going to pick black and white interior with white pages because those are cheaper to print and that's what most books are so as you can see this is the front cover the front is on the right and the back is on the left because when you think about a book closing that's how it's going to close so design the front cover on the right and the back on the left it starts out with a template but I'm just going to press this button right here because honestly it distracts me and I can't like think straight from here you have a lot of different options on how you can design the cover I'm going to walk you through all the different options you guys have I also want to say if you are an artist which I know a lot of you guys are artists I get comments all the time saying how can I monetize my art how can I use this this skill to make money as a teenager and if you're an artist listen up because this is an amazing opportunity for you to take a picture of your art or if it's digital art just download it and you can upload that as the cover which is really really amazing so you can just go over to this little like picture thing upload your art and make that into the cover I am not an artist like I'm not terrible but I don't think anyone would just buy my art as a cover like I haven't reached that level yet so if you're like me and you don't have like the most graphic design experience or art experience I will be showing you three different ways you can design a cover on book bold the first way is super simple and probably the easiest so you can just go over here and start by grabbing one of like these shapes and just kind of making it big enough to cover the entire cover and then once you have the whole thing covered you can choose whatever color you want I'm going to do a really pretty pink because what can I say it's pink then you can add in your title so just add in a heading right here and you can just type in prayer journal or whatever you want it to say definitely note that whatever you say on the cover has to be listed as the title on Amazon so make sure you think it through I'm going to do basically the exact same thing as the one I'm taking inspiration from through book bolts but make it for teens and once you write that in there you're going to want to choose a really cute font because the font is going to carry this cover design I am going to make it a very coet book and we're going to choose this like really swirly really bougie font and I'm going to select that and put it right there and I'm just going to keep it black you can play around with it you can add in little shapes you can add in a little heart a little bow whatever you want but for this design I'm just going to keep it super super minimalist honestly it's really cute it's really minimalist I would totally have this like on my bedside table like it looks really pretty this is the easiest way to design your books and if you're a beginner I definitely recommend you start with something super simple like this the second way is to go over to this little photo icon from here you can access pixabay and unsplash which if you guys didn't know those are basically collections of copyright free stock photography so you can search in whatever you want I think there's also like is it called Vector art I have no idea that makes me think of vector maybe not but I don't know what it's called copyright free designs are in there as well so it's not just photos you could search up floral design or like beach photo or anything like that I'm going to search across which that is actually really pretty I'm going to do this picture and you just upload it and make it cover the entire cover and then you can just add in a title I'm going to use a different method but if I were to do this I would spend a little bit more time on it trying to perfect it and make it look really good and again choose a font that looks really cute I feel like the font just carries it like the font the font is what pulls the whole thing together the last way is actually my favorite way to design things just because I have a little bit more experience with canva I use canva all the time and I love that they have such a great assortment of copyright free designs and they have a lot of fonts that you can use to design your cover for your book so I already made this one and it has a little disco ball and it says he turns morning to dancing which is from Psalm 31 you have turned my morning into dancing you have taken away my clothes of morning and clothed me with joy that is what Jesus did for me he is my king he's my best friend and he saved me this is just your reminder that Jesus loves you so much and he has big plans for you the Bible also says says in Proverbs 3:6 in all your ways acknowledge Him and He Shall direct your paths so I truly believe if you invite God to be a part of your money-making journey and if you use it to bring him glory and honor him that he will bless you he will make your path straight he will direct your steps and if God is for you who can be against you okay can I get an amen so I'm just going to download my design and then bring it over to book Walt and right on the little picture icon you can press that upload it in and make that your cover design so now that we have a cover it is time to design our pages and this is super super easy I remember being so intimidated I was like girl how am I to design like 120 Pages like that's a little bit much but book bolt makes it super super easy click this little puzzle icon and then it's going to show you all of the different things you can put in your book every single little page there are so many different options this is also a great place to look for inspiration because you can look at like the different types of books you can create there are templates for line journals crossword puzzles mood trackers reading lists calendars literally so many different options but since this is a prayer Journal I'm just going to type in prayer journal and there it is right there from here you can further customize your book you can change the title on all the different pages but I honestly just like what they have so I'm just going to keep it because I think it's cute and then I'm just going to apply it to all of the pages and that is it youve now created your entire book and you are ready to upload it I'm just going to hit download and make sure you choose the CM YK option because that is the option for printed books which is what we want now for book Bol you're going to have a 3-day free trial just to make sure that you like it so if you do like it which you probably will then you can move over to one of their paid plans so you can download it their paid plans start at $9.99 a month but if you use my code lulu2 you will be able to get it for $7.99 a month which is really really good save a full $2 I know as a teen you probably don't want to spend much money at all to get your side hustle started but everything usually has some sort of startup cost and this is one of the cheapest side hustles you can start because the $7.99 a month is literally the only expense KDP is free canva has a free trial if you want to use canva and book bolt literally does everything it is 100% worth it and as soon as you start selling books you will make this money back in no time and now you can move on to step three upload we are now going to go upload our book to Amazon and to do that we're just going to go over to Kindle Direct publishing so just search that up and basically this is Amazon's official printing company so you can self-publish your own books just like this and make money and they will print it for you they will ship it for you it's completely passive like you don't have to lift a finger you just collect the checks you just collect the money rolling in and you will need to create a KDP account which basically all they need is your name an email and possibly a phone number I just did it last night it takes like literally 3 minutes like it's so fast and you're just going to go here here select create and then you can choose paperback I recommend paperback you can do hard cover books but paperback books just like sell better because they're cheaper and it's cheaper to make it's cheaper to sell I just recommend you guys go for paperback you're going to start out by adding your title for the best results I recommend putting exactly what you put on the cover of your book just because Amazon's really specific and they want whatever it says on your cover to be the title on Amazon and then you can add a subtitle which is an amazing opportunity to add in keywords keywords are going to help people actually find your book and it's going to help help it rank better on Amazon so you can go back to book bolt and use their keyword tool to find all the best keywords you just search in like prayer journal and it'll give you everything you want to put in there so just incorporate some of those keywords into your subtitle or yeah subtitle that's why on Amazon like every single book you find it'll say it and then have like two dots and then it'll say something after and also when you scroll down you will have the keyword section right here you can just copy and paste them straight from book bolt into the keyword section I think book bolt is amazing because girl I would have the hardest time finding key wordss if I did not have this tool you literally just type it in hit the button and it like has a whole list for you like I could not do that on my own I would be like struggling and the thing is if you don't have good keywords then no one will find your book and no one will buy it because they don't even know it exists so work smarter not harder let book bolt do the work and find the keywords for you so I'm just going to copy and paste those in there I recommend selecting English as your language even if there aren't any words inside the book The Cover language is technically English and as for this option you're just going to select that is a low content book it's going to ask you if you used AI create the book but book bold actually isn't an AI tool so you're just going to select no and make sure that you select to publish without an is ISBN number okay I don't even know what that is everyone said to publish it without an ISBN number because basically low content books don't need that I think you only need that if you actually like wrote content within the book then just fill out the rest of the information this will just be all based off of your specific book and it's super easy to do and then it's time to upload your book cover so wherever you downloaded it whether that's your desktop or just like an external hard drive whatever take it off of there and upload it to Amazon the cover usually uploads really really fast because it's a pretty small file once this is done you're going to do the same thing with the manuscript or the inside of the book like all the pages and you're just going to upload it this might take a little bit longer just because it is like 120 Pages it's like 120 little files that it has to upload but it shouldn't take that long and now you can set your price and you can start making some money so I recommend going to the book bolt cloud and look at the books of your like competitors and look at their prices look at which ones are selling I'm just going to use the exact same price as that one book that I've been taking inso from this entire time because they're getting over 500 sales a month like that's really impressive as you can see here it'll show you the money you're going to make from each sale for the royalty and as you change your price it'll adjust it'll compare it all and show you how much you're going to make now you might be looking at your royalty like girl how am I going to make money if I'm only making like $3 per book like girl that it's not going to make me a millionaire but here's the thing as soon as you upload the book you will literally like not touch it ever again Amazon will completely take over and they will be printed the book for you they will be showing it to customers literally they're going to be doing all of the customer service you will never even have to like basically lift a finger once you upload it so it makes sense that they would get a higher percentage they also have to pay for printing the book and all of that so that's why your cut is going to be a little bit smaller but once you start selling books this is going to add up really fast so just trust the process and just choose like an honest price when you look at some of the best side hustles and the best forms of passive income usually it's really really small because of course you're not doing that much work once you upload it even like starting a YouTube channel you don't make that much money per like 100 views it's like really small but the more views you get and the more people watch your video slowly but surely it starts adding up and you actually can make a lot of money so this is the exact same type of thing and then all you have to do is submit your book wait 72 hours for Amazon to approve it and boom you are now a published author and ready to make a bunch of money on Amazon now whenever you get a sale Amazon will literally print your book ship it to the customer and you will just collect your check I know I don't know a better way to say that I always say like collect your check make money I don't know you will make money basically I recommend you make as many as possible maybe try to make it habit to make like three a day or even just like one a day maybe make it like a little challenge for yourself because the more books you have on Amazon the more potential you'll have for sales and if you want to you can actually advertise your book on Tik Tok Instagram pin all the social media I actually have a link down below for you guys if you want to use Tik Tok ads which is actually one of the best ways to Market my deal I don't know exactly what my little deal is but it's an affiliate deal so check that out down below I actually think this is a really great opportunity and I actually use this deal before or you can just like post it on your own social medias and tell your friends about it maybe start an aesthetic Pinterest account and post about your books on there or you can just be completely passive and upload it to Amazon and let Amazon do the work definitely keep me updated with your money-making Journeys I always get so excited whenever you guys tell me in the comments about how much money you've made especially if it's from one of the ideas that I told you guys about I am so impressed with you guys you guys have been doing so well and I'm just so proud of you so keep me updated in the comment section because it actually really does encourage me a lot and I know it definitely encourages everyone else who watches God bless you keep smiling and I will see you in my next video bye