My question to people who are already publishing puzzle books or want to start publishing them: what are your top three roadblocks? What are the three questions that, if solved, would help your income grow faster? For example, if next month you could get one major struggle solved for you for free, what would be the struggle you would want solved? 🔑 The question is not exactly theoretical; it could be that you will get the real magic wand, who knows.

I finished my book and went back to the Guild in full force. This week will be dedicated to final tweaking and preparations for the launch of the "3-in-1 Review Toolkit" for the Guild members. One of the tools in the kit is the special offer from BookVillage for the Guild members: - The first 30 days are free - Performance guarantee (description below) - The next 2 months are 25% off ($15 a month) - A fixed price of $20 forever, as long as the subscription is active. Even if the price is raised for other users. To get the special conditions register by the link: https://bookvillage.pub/?via=guild What is Performance guarantee: "If at the end of your free trial there is a net difference between all the reviews you have posted and the ones you have received, and you have followed the guidelines BookVillage recommends, which are essentially based on requesting paid verified purchases as much as possible (for your safety), then BookVillage will extend the free trial". BookVillage invests significant effort in researching best practices for Amazon reviews and shares them with its users. It's really worth reading messages from the service and acting on its guidance. The second and third tools from the toolkit will be discussed at the online meeting on Friday, February 6th. Stay tuned.

✨ Reading Time: < 1m | Utility: High Answering questions about the tools I use for niche research, I realized that 90% of the time I use BookBeam is for the Book Tracker function to track BSRs and reviews of my books. BookBeam is a pretty expensive tool, and I started to question myself: Is it really necessary to pay for the subscription just to have the tracker? Of course, Publisher Champ has all the data, and I can look at BSR and reviews there, but Publisher Champ is so informationally dense that I still prefer to use the clean interface of BookBeam. It looks like a hard decision to make. Since I do not like to burden myself with unnecessary, hard decisions, I decided to choose the third option: create a Catalog Tracker for myself. Decision made → done. Now I have the Catalog Tracker. It is lightweight, clean, and highly functional. And if I did it and I like it, why not share it with others, right? So, you can try it right now. Comment "TRACK" below, and I'll message you the link to try it out for free. You can track up to 50 books. But the most important thing is that if you have a catalog of tens or hundreds of books, you do not need to make a decision which books are worthy of tracking - start from the Royalty Guild Sales Analyzer and add your most performing books to the Catalog Tracker automatically. If you are using your BookBeam subscription the same way I am, and the tracker helps you save on it, that would be great. P.S. If you do use it, let me know: What’s one feature you wish BookBeam had that could be added to this?

The question of @Laura Diaz made me think about the fact that sometimes we all need to convert a lot of physical documents into one file. It can be notes for a manuscript, receipts to claim expenses, or a multi-generational notebook with recipes from our grandma. Of course, we can use a scanner or take photos page by page. Well, some people can, but I am too lazy for it. I decided to share how I operate in such a situation. Basically, you just need to show documents to your phone and the phone will do the rest. Do you know a more effective way?

Just a quick update: we have a new leader for image generation - GPT Image 2 (ChatGPT). It's not a small improvement but a huge leap forward. Have you tested it already?