Best Kindle Guides/Software/Tutorials?

This will be a general defense of any Kindle publisher who creates a course/guide/whatever on how they built their success...so don't think I'm specifically defending Tim here, because I'm not.

I have noticed that when successful publishers focus their efforts on creating courses around their success the very fact that they're pulling time and energy away from promoting their books in order to create their courses reduces their book rankings and there is a temporary illusion of reduced success for their books.

I've seen this happen a few times for friends who had success with their books, create a product documenting their success, then their book rankings plummet because their attention was diverted for a little bit.

What publishers are now slowly learning (at least those whom I connect with) is that they need to outsource helpers/assistants who then maintain their book rankings, sales, marketing etc so they can concentrate on their courses and vice versa (assistants do customer service for the courses while they concentrate on marketing their books).

People are using Kindlespy and other tools as sort of an end-all resource for their market research, when that tends to only be part of the bigger picture.

I've personally seen the failings of the software, so we can't always rely on what it tells us anyway as a matter of principle and reliability of info it's giving us.

But I am hearing a lot of product creators get slammed for lack of success regarding what their sales pages and courses are espousing about what works, but it isn't always a sound argument to point at a arbitrary book they've published and question them for apparent lack of success.

I've seen this happen to Brad Callen for a health book he released, which plummeted in rankings for various reasons after he told some of his students about it. It's also happened to Stefan Pylarinos of the Kindle Money Mastery course and Wesley Atkins creator of KindleSpy. It happens to the greats as well as lesser known people as well. Those who have released WSO's on the forum, thereby focusing on the course instead of their book promotions, have felt the sting of diverted attention.

**On another note, can someone send me a link to Tim's courses as noted above? I can't seem to find anything on his courses, so I really can't comment on his work yet.

All I care about is results.

I have 3 bestsellers (fact)

I make 4 figures a month from these books (also fact)

Now - the question is - can you beat those results and the money made from them.

IF you can, I'm all ears and eager to listen.

If you can't, then I would suggest stop telling people more successful than you how they should do something.

I know that's harsh to hear but it's the truth - if someone is getting a result that you aren't, listen to them.

And I stand by my statement - look at all the people who trashed my products - none of them responded. They all gave up and moved on.

But I didn't and that's why I have the success I do in and out of self publishing.

Hate all you want, but numbers don't lie or have an ego.

Tim