Today, I bring you a KDP niche that’s burning up the Amazon charts.
It’s in the health/workout/fitness & dieting categories.
I’ve covered other exercise niches in the past, such as Chair Workouts for Seniors, but this one is new to me. In fact, I had to Google what it even meant. 🤷♀️
But one thing I knew was that whatever this exercise involved, it was proving to be a very profitable niche with a growing demand!
It’s called Somatic Exercises.
These exercises are designed to improve nervous system regulation (and most of the sub-titles of the top-selling self-published books include that keyword phrase).
Let’s take a deep dive into this profitable niche:
First up, here are some of the top-earners on Amazon—all self published:
This one, earning an average of $3,660 (600-780 copies sold a day), as well as this one, earning an average of $1,231 monthly.
Here’s one earning an average of $981 a month, and this one that’s earning $2,831 a month.
Then there’s this one, earning an average of $1,447 a month.
Let’s keep going because there are plenty of other self-published titles ringing in daily sales in this niche.
Here’s one earning an average of $863 a month (around 120 daily sales), and yet another here, earning an average of $3,335 a month.
And here’s one (not self published) that’s on fire, with an average of $12,495 in monthly royalties!
Here’s some more information about this market:
Average Page Length: 120 Pages
Average Size: 6×9
Okay, so now that we have a snapshot of the niche, it’s time to determine what keywords we should use when creating our listing.
According to my research (combining scores from Publisher Rocket & BookBeam), here are some of the best keywords based on traffic volume and competition:
- Somatic Exercises for Trauma
- Somatic Exercises for Beginners
- Somatic Yoga
- Somatic Exercises for Nervous System Regulation (use this as a sub-title)
- Somatic Exercises for Seniors
- Vagus Nerve Exercises
Finally, the best category seems to be: Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > Weight Loss
Wishing you lots of sales!
Kathy Nielsen says
I just learned about Somatics after I hurt my hip from carrying a 75 lbs. package from my neighbor’s house to mine. It was one of those new walking pads but I was balancing the weight wrong. Oh well, I made a couple of trips to the Chiro, but I wanted something more mind/body/nervous system connection with my Yoga to heal and found a course on Udemy. The belief is to heal- your brain has to activate areas again to get to the injured area (mine was a tight hip). Your body needs to work in unison. I can definitely get behind this!
Thanks for sharing this one Kate!
Kate Thompson says
I’ve never heard of it either – but it sounds intriguing! Thanks for the tip!
Kate Riley says
You’re very welcome! I found another “weird” niche that’s vastly underserviced, but growing in demand. I’ll post about it soon!
Sue says
I have never heard of this either, definitely something to look into. When you publish a book like this do you have a generic author name or would you create a new pen name?
Thanks
Sue
Kate Riley says
I published mine under a new pen name. I don’t do a lot of “work” on Author Central these days, so managing multiple pen names isn’t as big of a chore as it used to be. I’d rather create themed pen names, where all the books are connected and I can establish myself as a go-to in that niche, then publish a wide variety of different books under the same pen name.
That being said, I don’t create websites, register domains or build lists for every pen name. I limit that to a handful (for my top niches) because these days I don’t have the time or interest in spreading myself too thin.
SK says
Whoa! Thank you for this post! I’ll get in this niche!
Kate Riley says
You’re welcome! It’s an interesting one!
Mark Becker says
Thanks for sharing posts like this! Great information to expand on 😊