Writing to publish on KDP has taught me an important thing.
I'll get to the point: Need to learn something? Do the research yourself!
Want to get viral on YouTube? Research it yourself! Google, using AI chatbots, etc.
Want to succeed on Amazon KDP? Research it yourself! Amazon keyword search, competitor research, demand verification, etc.
For every field out there on the internet, when you search for it, you will always come across a "Guru" who tries to suck you into a landing page where they give testimonials, promise things they can't deliver, and literally charge you x10 times what they are offering is worth... For literally something you can immediately find on your own! In a few hours!
I randomly found an opportunity in writing an Amazon KDP book for a topic that I have some experience in. In the course of researching for the book, I had to research about each chapter.
Every. single. time. I would find whatever a guru would charge money for, for free. Without any paywalls.
The best places to learn anything is to read the blogposts of the [insert whatever here] and to reverse engineer successful implementations of that particular idea.
For Amazon KDP, you DON"T need a $2000 academy to learn "secrets of self-publishing". If you know who I am referring to, you know.
You just need a keyword research tool (KDPSpy, Rocket Publisher, etc.) and a means to write the book you want (MS Word? Atticus? Scrivener? Your call). All the rest is literally learnable on your own.
I learned a rule: There is a difference between caring about improving yourself by investing in something and between being lazy and delegating organizing information to someone else.
What I mean by that is that you might think you are smart, a hard worker, and a no-bullshit no-trial-and-error person who wants to cut through the fluff and do it right the first time. However, in reality, your motives are laziness - paying anyone to teach you any learnable skill is akin to literally asking ChatGPT 3.5 with a lame prompt. Trust me, it's as ridiculous.
Don't pay gurus anything! Nothing is rocket science. Do it yourself. I don't want to jinx my niche but I am writing a book in a niche full of gurus and I literally found the to-the-point, actual, realistic best way to do it FOR free. I hope my book sells.