Here’s my favorite resources and tools used in Infopreneur: Below I have compiled a long list of useful tools, templates, courses, low-content ideas and much more!
Free and Paid Book Promotion Services For Infopreneur
Tools for Generating Book Titles
– non-fiction
– fantasy
– sci-fi
– horror
– romantic
– mystery
– crime
– children
– comic
Tools for Generating Character Names
– author
– fantasy
– sci-fi
– horror
– other
Tools for Generating Plot Ideas
Tools for Infopreneur Research
Tools for Infopreneur Reports
Tools for Book Templates and Descriptions
Tools for Creating And Formatting Content
– Rewriting / Creating Content
– Music
– Formatting
– Documentation
– Utility
Tools for Generating Book Covers and Graphics Editing
– creating book cover
– editing of PSD files and creating infographics / graphics
– how to use Photoshop
– image editing
– animated gif Tools and stock gifs
Providers Creating Book Covers
Recommended Infopreneur Sites For Images and Icons
Recommended Infopreneur Sites For Music
Private Label Rights (PLR) providers
Public Domain materials
Recommended Ghostwriting services
All-In-One KDP Book Creation Tools/Templates
Recommended Providers To Publish Your Books, DVD, CD etc
Recommended Online YouTube Channels On Publishing Tips and Tricks For Infopreneur
Recommended Next Step For Infopreneur
Free and Paid Book Promotion Services For Infopreneur
Reedsy vast database of free and paid book promotion services.
Pubby is a paid services that provides authors with visibility and credibility on the largest online bookstore through verified reviews and still meet Amazon guidelines (it does not do direct review swap). It can provide Amazon verified reviews. It is at $240 / year. You can check out Nelly video for more info on this services.
Bookbite is the third paid service and newest to the group. It can provide Amazon verified reviews. The lowest plan is at $47.99 / year to $240 / year
Get Books Reviewed is another great paid services that meet Amazon guidelines. It is at $180 / year
127+ Top Free and Paid Book Promotion Sites compiled by Kindleprenuer. Great list. To see how you can manage this better, watch this video from Dave on the 5 steps on how to schedule your book promotion sites to increase sales.
Tools for Generating Book Titles
For more list, refer to this article. Tips for writing a great book title and book subtitle.
1.For non-fiction titles:
Portent’s Content Idea Generator
Kopy Writing Kourse Book Name Generator
2.For fantasy titles:
Random Story Title Generator 2.0
Reedsy Fantasy Title Generator
Random Fantasy Novel Title Generator
3.For Sci-Fi titles:
Reedsy Sci-Fi Book Title Generator
Space Adventure Title Generator
4.For Horror titles:
5.For Romantic titles:
Random Romance Novel Title Generator
Reedsy Romance Title Generator
6.For Mystery Novel titles
Reedsy Mystery Title Generator
Starman Series Mystery Title Generator
7.For Crime Book titles
8.For Children Book titles
9.For Comic Book titles
Tools for Generating Character Names
1.For author name:
2.For fantasy character name:
3.For Sci-Fi character name:
4.For Horror character name:
5.For other character name:
Tools for Generating Plot Ideas
1.For Horror plot:
2.For generating ideas on content/sub-topics:
Answer The Public – Free clever consumer insight tool that combines the suggested searches from Bing and Google and visualises them in what could be called a search cloud. Organised in categories such as what, where and why, these search clouds provide an overview of the questions people are typing into search engines from their various devices.
Tools for Infopreneur Research
KDP category browser is a great tool to identify KDP category for your book. Just copy your competitors’ categories on Amazon and paste them in this page.
BookBolt KDP Category Finder is a free tool to help as many relevant categories in KDP as possible for your keywords
Kindle Best Seller Calculator is is a great online tool from Kindlepreneur that converts Amazon’s Best Seller Rank (BSR) into sales per day. Make sure you choose “Book” if you are researching on Paperback books.
AMZ Suggestion Expander is a free Chrome extension that expands the number of search suggestions that are shown in the Amazon search bar by showing the keywords that Amazon would suggest before and after the keywords you have entered.
DS Amazon Quick View is another free Chrome extension that add amazon ranking and sellers information to the Amazon search page so that you do not need to click in to check such details. Real research time saver for me.
BookBeam is a paid Chrome extension that identify the best book niches, keywords, search volume and opportunities in the Amazon marketplace.
Keyword Surfer is a free Chrome extension that allows you to generate keyword ideas and see search volumes directly in Google search results.
Self Publishing Titans has free keywords Chrome extensions. You need to create a free account before using.
Publisher Rocket is a great paid research tool for KDP. Helps to cut down on a lot of research time and effort.
Helium 10 is a great paid research tool for KDP.
KDSpy shows competitor research, keywords, book tracking, revenue estimates and more
eRank is free Etsy/Amazon/eBay SEO, Keyword Research, Top Seller, and Trend Tools
PickFu is a do-it-yourself consumer research platform that instantly connects you to real people giving honest opinions. In just minutes, you’ll get in-depth feedback on your creative ideas. Use these insights to help your business thrive.
Tools for Infopreneur Reports
Kindle Book Report (Get Book Report) is a Chrome extension for your browser to see your sales of kindle books on daily, monthly etc basis. Really useful.
KDP Champ analyse and track your KDP Earnings.
AKreport offers a variety of options to sort your sales table. Sort according to Total Revenue, Paperback Revenue, Pages Read, Free Units, Paid Units, or even Rating and Ranking
Tools for Book Templates and Descriptions
Tangent Templates is a paid services for creating KDP interior for Low content book.
Profitable Journals interiors templates
PLR Planner interiors templates
Yong’s Templates interiors templates
Creative Fabrica has many brilliant interior templates, fonts. It also has a good library of free templates you can use.
Pixel Pod Studio has many great interior templates.
BookBird offer KDP interior Low Content templates and courses. It has some good free Low
Color PLR Monthly has a lot of great paid colouring template interior you can use.
Ritchie Media offers lot of good coloring kits, templates. Check out her Low Content Resource Monthly as well.
Bookow creates KDP cover template and also help in formatting your manuscript online.
Amazon Book cover templates is another good source. The most common trim size for non-fiction book is 6″ x 9″ cream
Amazon Paperback manuscript templates is another good source
Kindlepreneur Book Description Generator is an online tool to help craft your book descriptions with HTML codes (to spice it up). Just don’t overdo it. 🙂
Amazon Book Description HTML Editor is another great online HTML generator for KDP book description.
Just Create – Great resource on tools for how-to Create Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Comic Strips and Web Comics
Tools for Creating And Formatting Content
1. Rewriting / Creating Content:
Rytr is an AI writing assistant that helps you create high-quality content, in just a few seconds. It has a good free plan that you can test out. The paid plan starts from $9 per month with 50,000 characters per month. See this video on how to use this.
Quillbot paraphrasing tool helps millions of people rewrite and enhance any sentence, paragraph, or article using state-of-the-art AI. You can try the free version and upgrade to Premium should your needs increase. This website document 15 other quillbot alternatives.
Smart Copy is AI Copy Assistant. It has a 14 days trial.
Jarvis is another great Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes it fast & easy to create content for your blog, social media, website, and more! It has a lot more functions than Rytr. That’s the reason why the paid plan starts off at a higher range of $29 per month with 20,000 words per month. You can check out the video on this.
Copy.ai has a limited free option to test out their tool for creating product descriptions, blog ideas, bullet points, website copy and social ads. See this video for more info.
Write Sonic is a AI writer for creating content
Otter.AI generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations with Otter, your AI-powered assistant using your phone. Turn audio into social media content
2. Creating Music:
AI Music Generator creates original and royalty-free music that you can use for commercial usage. This includes your product, Youtube, intro etc. Check out this video on how to use this tool.
Audio Trimmer is a simple online tool which lets you trim your audio files on the fly.
3. Formatting Tools:
Atticus is the all in one formatting tool to help you get your book print and ebook ready in less time.
Hemingway is similar to Grammarly. It’s like a spellchecker, but for style. It makes sure that your reader will focus on your message, not your prose.
4. Documentation Tools:
Tango creates step-by-step documentation with screenshots, in seconds. Check out this video on how to use this tool.
Witeboard is a free online Whiteboard that you can use during webinar or discussion with partners
Diagrams.net is an online alternatives to Visio
Microsoft templates for powerpoint, calendars, brochures, newsletter and much more
5. Utility Tools:
iLovePDF gives every tool you need to use PDFs, at your fingertips. All are 100% FREE and easy to use! Merge, split, compress, convert, rotate, unlock and watermark PDFs with just a few clicks.
PDFEscape has a free online or desktop version of PDF Editor. This also allow me to create basic PDF Forms which I used as checklist in my products. Do check out video on how to use this. You can also upgrade to have more advanced features.
Jotform PDF Editor creates customized PDF forms that users can easily fill out and submit from their digital devices.
DocFly PDF Editor creates online form which can be exported. The free plan comes with 3 credits that can be used to export the file.
TinyWow has more than 50+ free tools that solve file handling problems (eg. removing background, conversion to PDF, QR Code generator etc)
AmzRun Chrome Extension helps you keep track of the changes in your listing rank for given keywords, allowing you to locate your listing.
Duplichecker detects plagiarism from your text more accurately
Tools for Generating Book Covers and Graphics Editing
This video shows how to make a book cover for Amazon KDP with lots of tips
1.For online tools for creating book cover:
Canva has a lot of great templates and designer that you can use. There is a free decent version that you can use. Highly recommended.
Icon8 Mega Creator can be an alternative to Canva. It comes with lows of templates that you can use to create your Illustration, social media posting etc.
Smartmockups has a free plan which offers about 200 mockups with only basic features. The Premium plan gives you thousands mockups and advanced features, such as URL screenshots, changeable background, changeable device color, crop tool and much more. This great website is closing operation on 27 September 2024. You can continue to use their templates on Canva (go to Apps–>mockups)
Free Mockup is the biggest source of free photo-realistic mockups online. Use that to showcase your books or products
Mockup Bro create awesome mockups without any graphic software
DIY Book Design is another great site to explore
Pixel Studio FX 3.0 has more than 5,326 awesome looking book cover designs that you can change and use. Note that this is a paid site.
Bookbolt is another paid site that have tools/templates for book covers, researching of niches and more.
Aududu is another paid site that offers templates, cover builder and Journal builder. Good site for checking out. It also provides a monthly freebies (open for 1 week).
PicMonkey is paid site that allow you to edit your images / photo, create designs and touch up portraits
Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign are a great design tool.
Affinity Designer is another great design tool
2.For online editing of PSD files and creating Infographics / graphics:
Photopea is what I used online to edit PSD files when my desktop is not available.
Piktochart is great for creating/editing Infographics.
Gravit is a great free online tool for vector editing (great for creating coloring books). There is also a paid pro version which comes with more features. When you first signup, you will get 15 days trial to the Pro version. If you do not upgrade, it will downgrade to the free version. You can check out this video on how to use this tool to create coloring book from scratch. Do note that the free version can only export up to 150dpi image.
Vecteezy Free SVG Vector Editor is a free online tool to do vector editing which is better than Gravit (in my opinion). Use this in Chrome browser.
Blush Design create illustrations where you can customize the style, the art and the design.
3.Free course on how to use Photoshop:
Free Photoshop Courses and Tutorials from Udemy shows you how to use Photoshop. You can also use this for use on Photopea (link above). I used this tool for creating my book cover and interiors (where applicable).
4.Image Editing Tools
DeepAI uses AI and ML to colorize black and white images or videos using the image colorization API. Add color to old family photos and historic images, or bring an old film back to life with colorization. Very useful for public domain images that you would like to modernise for your book.
Color Hunt helps to identify complementary color palettes.
Color picker eyedropper is a Chrome extension that zoomed eyedropper & color chooser tool that allows you to select color values from webpages and more.
Inpaint is a great tool to remove objects from an image.
Removebg is another great tool to remove image background
5.Animated GIF Tools and Stock GIFs
GIF Brewery by Gfycat help in creating fine-crafted animated GIFs from videos. It is packed with tools to make the GIF stunning.
GIFMaker helps to create animated GIFs after you upload multiple images or video to it. Do check out the other tools on this website as well.
GIPHY has large selection of ready-to-use animated GIFs. Do read the Terms of usage on their website.
Providers Creating Book Covers
Recommended Infopreneur Sites For Images and Icons
Noun Project – a great collections of icons. Do check out their licensing terms.
Icon Finder – has more than 6.2 million icons and illustrations
Freepik – has lots of free as well as paid images for commercial use. Can try the yearly subscription for unlimited downloads for about 2+ months ago.
Depositphotos – usually have good sales once or twice a year and I would order fairly large quantity (downloadable anytime).
Dreamstime – another good site for royalty-free images.
iStockPhoto – this is what I started with.
Vecteezy.com – is a great site for free vector art. Great for coloring low content book that you can use. Look for image with solid outline and solid filled colors for it to be easily workable.
Unsplash.com – fantastic resources for free professional stock quality photos that do not need attributions. Attribution is encouraged but not mandatory. Personally I will give them attribution.
Coverr has beautiful free stock video footage
Neen James Contextual Models – great tool to create contextual models
Flaticon has over 6.8mil icons and stickers for projects. Great for presentation and product documentation
Lordicon has over 4,800 animated icons to use digital products, presentations and videos
Free Illustrations has compiled a great portfolio of illustrations which you can used on your projects.
Recommended Infopreneur Sites For Music
Filter One has a great collections of royalty-free high-caliber, stress-free music for your video. Do check out their licensing terms.
Youtube Audio Library is great free audio library where you can find background music and sound effects for your video.
All-In-One KDP Book Creation Tools/Templates
Book Bolt has tools for research, interior creation, wizards and more for low content books.
Book Beam has tools for KDP books creation
Private Label Rights (PLR) providers
PLR.me: This website offers a range of PLR products including ebooks, articles, graphics, and more.
PLRDatabase.com: This website offers a wide selection of PLR products in various categories, including business, marketing, and personal development.
IDPLR.com: This website offers a large selection of PLR products including ebooks, software, articles, and more.
PLRProduct.com: This website offers a variety of PLR products in various niches, including health, business, and personal development.
PLRContentSource.com: This website offers a range of PLR products including articles, ebooks, and graphics.Below are providers that provide unrestricted PLR products. Please do your own diligence check to avoid duplicates. It is important to carefully review the terms of use for any PLR products you purchase, as the rights and restrictions may vary from seller to seller. More info at this video:
Digital Product Pro
PLR Content Source
Clandestine PLR Articles in various niches
Buy Quality PLR
Free PLR Download
Public Domain Materials
Project Gutenberg: Oldest digital library where most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books in the public domain (> 64,000).
Internet Archive: Non-profit digital library with over 6,000,000 titles are fully accessible public domain eBooks, movies, image, audio
Open Library: Provides access to 3,000,000 public domain and out-of-print books.
Classic Literature: Well organised collections of public domain books
Public Domain Movies: Impressive public domain movie database, packed with quality films like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Archive.Org: More than 16,000 public domain movies, animation. The 222 great public domain films are listed on Open Culture.
Public Domain Pictures: Has lots of high-quality free public domain images (where some are only available with a premium membership). Do check the license listed on each individual photo (some required you to credit the author)
Buyout Footage: The hottest place to buy public domain films in different categories.
Live Music Archive: Can find films of live music shows.
Old Book Illustrations: Has a nice collection of public domain illustrations from old books and vector illustrations. Read about their terms here.
The British Library Has 1 million images into the public domain. Scanned from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books.
Recommended Ghostwriting services
This video provide pros and cons using freelancers and ghostwriting services
Recommended Providers To Publish Your Books, DVD, CD etc
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is a great place to start publishing your books. They handling the printing-on-demand and the delivery.
Draft2Digital publish to multiple publisher at the same time
IngramSpark is an online self-publishing company that allows you to print, globally distribute and manage your print and ebooks.
Lulu publish, print and sell books internationally with print-on-demand network.
Clickbank is the largest marketplace since early 2000s and still growing strong
Kunaki is great on-demand cd / dvd / blu-ray / vinyl manufacturing-publishing-distributing-fulfilling-shipping all roll into one service. I used this for sending my DVD to clients.
Disk.com has been a trusted partner to produce, manage, and deliver physical products worldwide.
Below are the others provider to sell your book:
Podia
Shopify
Gumroad
Etsy
Teachers Pay Teachers
Kobo
PayHip Publisher
Smashwords
eJunkie
Scribd
eBookIt
Recommended Online YouTube Channels On Publishing Tips and Tricks For Infopreneur
Rachel Harrison-Sund channel is what started me on the Low Content Publishing business and I simply love it. Do get her course too if you can.
Keith Wheeler’s Part-Time Publishing is about self-publishing books around a busy life.
Self-Publishing with Dale is publishing books that sell and building an unstoppable author brand. There is live videos every Wednesday and Saturday as well.
Kindlepreneur on learn how to sell more books today.
Kelli Publish is a regular gal who create passive income from low content book. She pumps out around 40 daily. Great to hear and learn from her experience. This interview with Rachel is a good starting point.
Recommended Next Step For Infopreneur
Guide for Authors and Writers – this compile resource that are applicable for writers
How to turn your Kindle eBook into a Print Book – this is a great summary of what to do.
Book Descriptions That Sell by Keith Wheeler. Do check out the description in this video for additional resources which can help you further.
Book Description Bullet Points by Keith Wheeler
How to Validate a Book Idea is part 1 of keyword research video
Keyword Research Research Tips is part 2 of keyword research video
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