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Rob Cubbon
Thailand
Приєднався 5 лип 2008
Online business and life
Winding Down My Business and YouTube Demonetization
It's been a long time. I'm sorry! In this video I'm keeping everyone up to date.
For 20 years I've been a content creator. I've taken my foot off the gas since Covid and look what's happened. This is a lesson to us all. Start working. Keep working. And, don't ever stop! (This is if you want to be a successful content creator).
I hope this video helps someone. Please feel free to ask me a question in the comments.
For 20 years I've been a content creator. I've taken my foot off the gas since Covid and look what's happened. This is a lesson to us all. Start working. Keep working. And, don't ever stop! (This is if you want to be a successful content creator).
I hope this video helps someone. Please feel free to ask me a question in the comments.
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Adding Text to Coloring Pages with Inkscape (and Midjourney)
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Free course on selling low content books on Amazon: courses.robcubbon.com/p/free-course-how-to-sell-notebooks-low-content-books-on-amazon This is a video about adding text or slogans to coloring pages for sale as a coloring book on Amazon KDP or as coloring pages on Etsy. The process starts by getting a background pattern from Midjourney. Use this prompt: /imagine: a printable black and white c...
Make Your Coloring Pages STAND OUT with Inspiring QUOTES!
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Get my Creative Journal and Coloring Book geni.us/AclQv to color in the examples in this video! And here is my book on Enhancing Your Creative Potential: geni.us/kvU5H Just have a look at coloring books for adults on Amazon! You'll notice that there are loads of them and that they sell pretty well. They are also incredibly easy to make as I show you in this video. The real magic happens in Adob...
Making Coloring Books To Sell on Amazon KDP (Complete Tutorial)
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Creative Journal & Coloring Book geni.us/AclQv . Enhancing Your Creative Potential geni.us/kvU5H Ever thought about self-publishing a coloring book on Amazon KDP? Dive into this step-by-step guide where we navigate the entire process, from brainstorming with Midjourney prompts to perfecting your images. Learn the secrets of editing (Photoshop, Affinity Photo, GIMP), upscaling ( upscayl.org ), a...
My New Amazon Paperback Just Arrived! My Reactions!! (5x8" or 6x9"?; matte or gloss?)
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Enhancing Creative Potential on Amazon: geni.us/25RJpgi In this video I talk about my new paperback book that I just bought on Amazon. I talk about the cover decisions (5x8" or 6x9"?; matte or gloss?), and creating the interior with greyscale images in Adobe InDesign. If you want to know more about how I wrote the book with ChatGPT, here is a blog post I wrote about it: robcubbon.com/how-i-wrot...
How Chat GPT & I Wrote A Book (Amazon KDP)
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Here is the book in the US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD4BBXZR and in the UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CD4BBXZR Today I'm taking you on an incredible walkthrough of how I wrote my brand-new non-fiction book, "Enhancing Your Creative Potential," with the assistance of ChatGPT. 📚✨ It took three months, 30,000 words, a sprinkle of creativity, a whole lot of swearing, and a lot of help from ChatGPT. I asked...
Writing An Amazon KDP Non Fiction Book with ChatGPT
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Free course on selling low content books on Amazon: courses.robcubbon.com/p/free-course-how-to-sell-notebooks-low-content-books-on-amazon You don't get ChatGPT to write the book for you. But you get ChatGPT to help you with everything else. There are many stages to writing a book: Idea Plan Research Write Edit Format Sell Marketing This video is about how ChatGPT (the free version) can help you...
How To Write Better Prompts for ChatGPT
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It’s not really about writing better prompts in ChatGPT! It's what you write the prompts ABOUT! robcubbon.com/how-to-write-better-prompts-for-chatgpt/ I'm using ChatGPT to help me with: ideas for content or products, keyword research, sales copy, and writing blog posts and books. These are huge parts of my business. This video is about what I've learned in the last few months of using ChatGPT f...
Delete Background and Vectorize Midjourney Images with Free AI Tools for PoD (Print On Demand)
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Free course on selling low content books on Amazon: courses.robcubbon.com/p/free-course-how-to-sell-notebooks-low-content-books-on-amazon This is an awesome way to upscale and increase the quality of Midjourney (or any) images so that they can be used for Print On Demand. Recently, I’ve been using Midjourney for my Print on Demand AI images. Midjourney is a great AI image generator that you can...
Midjourney Prompts for Print on Demand T-Shirt Design (eg. for Amazon Merch on Demand)
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Recently, I’ve been using Midjourney for my Print on Demand AI images. Midjourney is a great AI image generator that you can use for t-shirt design for Amazon Merch on Demand, for example. First, of course, we have to do the research. Niche-down within subjects to something less popular and less saturated on the PoD platforms. And then have a look on Amazon and Google to summarize the competiti...
Midjourney prompts for coloring books and low content Amazon KDP books
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Free course on selling low content books on Amazon: courses.robcubbon.com/p/free-course-how-to-sell-notebooks-low-content-books-on-amazon Recently, I’ve been using Midjourney for my Print on Demand AI images. Midjourney is a great AI image generator that you can use for Amazon KDP coloring books and other book covers. Here are the prompts mentioned in the video. A printable black and white colo...
Midjourney to Vector! Improve AI images to use on PoD with Illustrator
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This video shows you how to write good prompts in Midjourney in order to get great images to use on PoD (Print on Design) products like tshirts and book covers. The images on Midjourney aren't high enough resolution to be used on a tshirt for Merch On Demand on Amazon, for example. But there are a variety of ways to re-size or upscale the images. In this particular method, I upscale the image f...
Using ChatGPT for Amazon KDP Book Ideas and Content
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Check out my free course on How To Sell Low Content Books On Amazon: courses.robcubbon.com/p/free-course-how-to-sell-notebooks-low-content-books-on-amazon In this video I will show I'll show you how to use ChatGPT, an advanced AI language model, to generate unique and creative book ideas and content in minutes. I guide you through the entire process, from setting up your ChatGPT account to gene...
Stressed? Depressed? Poor Mental Health? Try Neutrality!
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In this video, I explore the benefits of being neutral in arguments and how it can positively impact your mental health. Engaging in heated debates and taking sides can lead to increased stress and feelings of depression and isolation. By remaining neutral and avoiding the pressure to pick a side, we can reduce these negative effects and improve our overall well-being. Additionally, being neutr...
Gen X and The Great Resignation - Why We Are NOT Working Anymore!
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This is a video about people who, for whatever reason, are leaving employment. This is a phenomenon that is happening across cultures, across borders, across age groups and across all income groups. Here I talk about leaving work from the Gen X (Generation X) perspective.
Stopping Work, Laziness, and the Meaning of Life (with Victor Frankl and Richard Feynman)
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Stopping Work, Laziness, and the Meaning of Life (with Victor Frankl and Richard Feynman)
How I Deal with Online Negativity, Doom Scrolling and Toxicity
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How I Deal with Online Negativity, Doom Scrolling and Toxicity
Looking Ahead To 2022 (Work, the Economy, Culture, etc.)
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Looking Ahead To 2022 (Work, the Economy, Culture, etc.)
How To Successfully Live A Dream Life Abroad Or Travelling
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How To Successfully Live A Dream Life Abroad Or Travelling
Make a Facebook Group Header Image in Canva with Background Image & Text
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Make a Facebook Group Header Image in Canva with Background Image & Text
Creating a Facebook Group and Group Event Meetup
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Creating a Facebook Group and Group Event Meetup
Letting Go Technique by David R Hawkins
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Letting Go Technique by David R Hawkins
Sleep Hacks After Quitting Alcohol Or Substances
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Sleep Hacks After Quitting Alcohol Or Substances
Download Free Daily Self Care Check in Sheet for Focus and Motivation
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Download Free Daily Self Care Check in Sheet for Focus and Motivation
How I'm Rediscovering My Passion for Business & Life - Increasing Motivation
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How I'm Rediscovering My Passion for Business & Life - Increasing Motivation
Amazing Reactions To My "Burnout' Video! - What People Said...
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Amazing Reactions To My "Burnout' Video! - What People Said...
Why I've Stopped Working On My Business
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Why I've Stopped Working On My Business
My POSITIVE Life Lessons from 2020! [Personal Development]
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My POSITIVE Life Lessons from 2020! [Personal Development]
Since the dimensions of the cover are mentioned on this same template, why are you looking elsewhere to find them?
You are an inspiration. Live your life! Love it
There is nothing more exciting than holding and feeling your product at hand! Great work.❤
Great another step ahead
how to do it on Android phone?
Walmart? So funny... thanks for sharing your work. Much appreciated.
As of May 2024, you can only download one image per day despite registration. The image must have a resolution of no more than 1448px x 2172px
Sorry to hear this. But this video really helped me. After seeing your video I realized YT could do the same to me, And they did, less than a month later. but I was mentally prepared for it. I'm pushing to increase my numbers back up this month to keep monetization. thanks for the help. Hope all is well w you.
Hello Roman, how are you? Really great to hear from you. Everything is OK with me. I should keep my video output going as well. It’s a great reminder that we need to diversify our income streams, but we already knew that, of course!
I see that you are selling 2021. Are you selling the InDesign documents for 2024 or 2025?
No plans to sell them this time but you can get in touch with me. Try my email rob@ robcubbon.com and we can sort something out.
Thank you for this easy to understand tutorial!
You're very welcome!
Many thanks for all the tips and vids, Rob, best of luck with whatever you do in the future!
Thank you, Sean
Sorry to hear you are pulling back from content creation, but I totally get it. Priorities change as we get older, so good for you Rob. Best of luck and enjoy your retirement. You inspired me to start teaching and in fact, I have partnered with another guy and we are part way through creating a training program. All the best Rob.
Thank you, Mark. Honestly, it’s really nice to hear people say that I inspired them. I really do. I did try to help people. It pays off.
Ok now its time to unleash your inner rock-star !!
I can't disagree with that! Inner rockstar is coming soon!!
Sorry to see you go Rob take care stay...... Happy
You stay happy too, Kevin. I will make more videos but not about online business.
What!? They can take you off the partner program simply because you haven't uploaded? Imagine Amazon seizing all profits from your books if you haven't written a new one in a while. Even by UA-cam standards that's disgusting.
Don't give Amazon any ideas, please.
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Yup! They can and do. They can do what they want. They're Google. Imagine Amazon saying that you can't receive profits until you've first sold x amount of product? You can't exactly take your business elsewhere. There are a few powerful tech companies that are monopolies.
Sorry to see you go, Rob. Always enjoyed your vids and advice in earlier days. Good luck for the future!
Thank you. I will make more videos but not the same as earlier ones. Thank you for your support. It means a lot.
Amazing. What a great tutorial
Glad it was helpful!
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I can't get it to work. Everything shown here in this video is different on my Windows 10 computer. Can't highlight the http either.
Canva seems to be giving me an error where it tells me that the pixel size for a 6x9 is too many pixels? Is there a way around this?
When this happens convert the template PNG to be a JPG to get the pixel and filesize down. Try this site: png2jpg.com/
Liked for learning people buy a coloring book of Wal-Mart LOL
they do, I promise !
Vectorize AI is asking for a subscription.
You're a great teacher! I learnt what you taught and it worked! Thank you!!!
3 years old…Still great information…thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. Good to see the size comparisons.
Thanks 👍
this didn't work but someone in the comments said to try "elements" in developer tools and hover over text to see which link is the image. well that worked but the image was compressed for some reason. then as a last resort I tried looking in the "sources" tab and after opening some folders I found the full resolution version! (and the compressed one) so sources might also work if you look for a folder with a name that sounds like it could have images in it
Didnt work to the big picture of this link i.natgeofe.com/n/d94216e5-eaf6-437b-bc10-1070de09461f/05-sharbat-gula-house.jpg?w=636&
Thanks for this, so helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Man that 5 x 8 size looks. BEAUTIFUL! I prefer that size as well. I’m going to be making mine in that size as well. I know the standard is 6 x 9. But for a book like mine which is 111 pages. I know that 5 x 8 will look beautiful. Thank you for this video!
Yeah, I was doing 6x9 for non-fiction books before as well. I don't know why either.
How to apply this horizontal cover page in Google docs? Thank u
Great video Rob, a problem I’ve been running into is my vector creations have too many small shapes and vectors. Do you have a process for limiting those once vectorizing?
same question , have you found out any solutions
Can you convert the vector to a PNG after you've finished to make it more easy to manage?
No ofense: This method is a copy of the Sedona Method
Works beautifully in 2023, thanks so much!
I try to upload PNG and it says file not compatible? Why?
It may be too big. Try converting it to a JPG. png2jpg.com/
Amazing video, please keep doing more Midjourney to Inkscape videos!! If you can do a video on making logos with Midjourney and then edititng them on Inkscape, that would be Amazing!!
Thanks. I'll try.
How do you resize by pulling out corners? Can’t find how to do this
Awesome 👍👍
Verygood. One query please. If for front and back and spine you have your own images ready, are these to be positioned to the inside edges of the orange margin, the outward edges or the trim line?
So, this depends on if the images have a background color. If they do, they need to extend beyond the trim line to the bleed line (to and over the outside of the orange/pink lines), if that makes sense. In the example I do above the front image is on a white background so I didn't have to bother with this. I hope this helps.
I got mine 😉
thank you for getting it, Peter!! :)
Thank you for writing it! Keep the good stuff coming, Rob .
Great video. Can you please confirm that it can be done 100% with the free version of Canva, whatever the dimensions of the book you target (ex: 5x8, 6x9, etc.)? Thank you
I believe it's still possible. I had a look on Canva and it's all the same. the KDP template generator has changed a bit since but it's still the same in essence. Yeah whatever book size should be OK with the free version of Canva.
HI. Thank you for this. My PDF Reader Pro does not give the page size in file properties. Is there a specific version you are using to get this? I only see 8,5 x11 in the document info. Thank you again.
Actually, the actual size is written on the PDF you download from KDP!
Great video Rob! Thanks for sharing!
thank you for watching, Penny
Thanks Rob, have you sold any copies yet? Mike
Yes, I've sold loads ... all to my friends!
Great explanation there, Rob. One question though. For the spine, how do you fill in the colour when you use full-length coloured pictures for the front and back and have stayed within the pink margins?
Thank you so much. Yeah, for the spine, or the front or back covers you can just put a black or some colored box for the background color and then add the text. I usually put a black box to cover the whole of the back cover and the spine and then the front will be an image. But you have to be very careful to make sure the box is on the line between the spine and the front cover. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
I really enjoyed the video and it was very helpful to me. Cheers, mate.
Glad it helped, Matthew!
Really valuable video ..thanks a lot..v
So nice of you, thanks
Thank you Rob. That was very helpful.
My pleasure
Beautiful book mate! Thanks for sharing
You bet, Robert. Will be in touch more :)
Not working for paintings.
As we say in these videos, Paul, you only should vectorize certain types of images. Basically, in Midjourney, you should put "vector graphics" or "flat colors" in the prompt so you get a vector-type image. Otherwise, if it's photorealistic or a painting you shouldn't bother.
nice informative content
Glad you think so!