Another fast moving Tangent Show!  Katharyne explains her quick method for generating ideas for KDP activity books, we talk about how to use sites like Statista to find content for your journals, we talk about emotion and relatability as selling points... and Isaac gives you a hot tip for finding free fruit - maybe on your street! 

 Links:  

 Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks 

KDP Group: https://facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace

 Ask Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit 

Statista: https://statista.com 

Gun Violence Archive: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ 

Five Thirty Eight: https://fivethirtyeight.com 

Martine Makes: https://martinemakes.com 

StingRay Qello (Concert app): https://qello.com 

Cash App: https://cash.app 

Cleo: https://meetcleo.com 

 Another fast moving Tangent Show!  We talk about Microsoft's new Mixer platform and why it is a serious contender to Amazon's Twitch, plus if you missed ASD, we show how to find products and private label vendors on their website, plus a new design tool that could add some pizzazz to your KDP books!  

Also, we talk about play by mail games and brainstorm how to bring them into 2019 and share the awesome thing that Standard Ebooks is doing!  

Links:   

Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks

 KDP Group: https://facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace 

ASD: https://asdonline.com 

Mixer: https://mixer.com 

Piktochart: https://piktochart.com 

Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ 

 Another fast moving Tangent Show!   

 We share our takeaways from Vidcon 10 - the annual YouTube Convention, including the social media platform that was more talked about than YouTube! (It's not Facebook, Twitter or Instagram!) 

 Plus, we updated Tangent Templates this week to allow custom uploads.  Learn more about that!  

We share a neat way to generate color palettes and schemes... and we tell you which industry is now officially sanctioned at CES (Consumer Electronics Show).   

Links:   

Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks

 KDP Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace 

Our ASD schedule:  https://asd.katharyne.com 

ASD Show: https://asdonline.com

 Coolors: https://coolors.co 

 Links:  

 Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks

 KDP Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace 

 Lots of news today!  From Earthquakes to Space babies...  

Find out who is paying $1000 a month to sleep in a bunk bed and who is selling their bathwater for $30 a jar.  Discover the new wave of easy to use wholesale sites.  Find a wealth of public domain movies and learn how you can use them to create unique products.  We talk about creativity - the best times to be creative and how to break a creative block.  Plus we draw a winner for our 10,000 member contest

 Links:   

Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks

 KDP Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace 

 Another buzzing Tangent Show with Katharyne and Isaac. If you watch this show, you'll learn how to get Amazon samples, find great niches for your books, discover how social credit can be super useful but is potentially about to ruin the lives of millions of people.  (If you're mean to people on Facebook, will elevators still stop for you?)   Also, we have a guest nerd corner with Sid who talks about Mario Maker 2 and why building game levels and assets may be the business of the future.  

Finally, we brainstorm around the concept of Battle Royales and generate a wealth of business and book ideas for you! 

 Links:   

Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks 

KDP Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace 

Amazon Samples: https://www.amazon.com/samples

 Movers and Shakers:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers 

Google Transit:  https://maps.google.com/landing/transit/index.html 

Line Social Credit:  https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18760928/line-conference-2019-score-sticker-vision-mini-app-tokyo 

 We're lazy AF this week and didn't do any research, so instead we're answering your questions!  

 Another fast moving Tangent Show!  We debate the future of STEM and maker culture, I share my new public domain content lead, Isaac shares the awesome new tool you can use to monitor the environment from your own home and we talk about Google's new gaming platform, Stadia and Steemit, the blockchain based social media platform.  Plus, Facebook's cryptocurrency launches this week!  

Also, we talk about our crazy week with rattlesnakes and back to school planning!  

Links:   

Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks 

KDP Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace 

 Another jampacked Tangent Show!  This week we went to see Sites Unseen by Trevor Paglen at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Downtown San Diego and it sent our creativity into overdrive!  We talk all about it here.  And share some relevant tips for making books like what the Freedom of Information Act is and how it can help you create content.   

 Also, we answer two of the most frequently asked questions we've heard this week - how to make coloring books (that will actually sell) and how to grow a Facebook group once you've got it started (see my previous video to learn how to start a group on the 'down low'). 

 Plus... what we can learn from Tide being repackaged, why LaCroix is losing money and Isaac explains what the deal is with the new iPod Touch.  

Lastly,  we go trendhunting at Google Trends to find an unusual trending niche that is very underserved - and Katharyne shares a bunch of low content book ideas for it.   We also show how to use Google Trends to find international niche ideas.  Great if you're making books for other countries outside the US! 

Links:   

Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks 

KDP Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace 

Cultivate:  https://cultivate.katharyne.com/curriculum 

Trevor Paglen: http://www.paglen.com 

Google Trends: https://trends.google.com 

 We talk about: 

The new Oculus Quest just came out and of course Isaac was first in line.  What he's using it for and how it's way more than a gaming system!  We also show how our 15 year old is using Google Tilt Brush for art projects. 

How to use AI to generate endless content on any topic you can think of including recipes, news stories, erotica and much more!  

Katharyne rants about why gamification isn't a substitute for fulfilling work and why you should probably quit if your employer does this to you (Jeff Bezos, we're looking at your 'Tetris' game in the Amazon warehouse).      

News about Paypal policy changes (and sadly they're not great!), Canva news, Tangent Template updates... and much more!  

Plus we go niche hunting at Twitch - it's not just for video games, we check out Curious Cat, explore tabletopping at Critical Role and much more!  

Links:  

KDP Group:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazoncreatespace 

Tangent Templates: https://templates.tangent.rocks 

Canva: https://canva.com 

Curious Cat: https://curiouscat.me 

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv 

Critical Role: https://critrole.com 

Tilt Brush by Google: https://www.tiltbrush.com/ 

TalkToTransformer: https://talktotransformer.com/