A colorful, professional e-book cover will help your new e-book stand out from the competition in the Amazon Kindle E-Book Store. When your e-book stands out, you sell more e-books. When you sell more e-books, you are very happy.
So if you want to be happy, don't skimp on a good e-book cover. Even if you have zero skills designing anything, for as little as $5 you can hire a professional designer on Fiverr to supply you with an e-book cover that will boost your sales quickly.
Fiverr.com is a very popular "micro-job" website featuring gigs encompassing a whole host of services -- writing, reviews, advertising, video, sending Twitter announcements -- but most importantly for you, there are skilled, qualified art designers who are a whiz at cranking out good looking e-book covers. All gigs are for sale for just $5. It's a bargain.
People selling their services on Fiverr -- or offering "gigs" -- briefly tell what they will do for the standard $5 fee. Most explain their offer in less than 50 words. They state what they'll do, how quickly they'll do it, and most add phrases like, "Will make changes to make you happy."
Some have accumulated enough positive reviews that Fiverr allows them to post "Related Gigs" -- these are add-ons or additional related services they can provide you, sometimes for $10 or $20.
If you've ever gotten frustrated dealing with a graphic designer who thinks you're wrong and they're always right, you'll appreciate this.
To hire one of these designers, create a free account at Fiverr.com.
Type "eBook covers" into the search box at the top of the page.
Sort the results by "Ratings." This will give you highly-recommended graphic artists listings. The good ones will prominently display their past work for your review.
Read through the reviews. Stay away from those who have lots of negative reviews.
It's not a bad idea to try someone just starting out. You'll be helping a fellow internet marketer get a foothold and build their portfolio, and you'll only be risking $5 if the project doesn't live up to your expectations. I'm betting, though, that you'll be satisfied.
Pick the "Gig" you like. You can send an email clarifying what work they will, won't or can't do. Once you're certain that you've found a good match, you can "Buy" the gig. You'll be directed to a PayPal checkout page to submit your $5 payment direct to Fiverr. They hold it in an account, and when the gig is completed, the graphic artist gets paid $4. Fiverr keeps $1 of the transaction.
Many of the good graphic artists will request information from you like:
What message are you trying to convey? Who is the target market? Do you want graphics included, or just words typeset on the cover?You can send in a rough layout of your own. I'd recommend just letting their imagination take over. You can always request minor changes -- center this, change color of that -- although I wouldn't recommend making major changes to wording or switch from simple lettering only to full-blown graphics design at this point.
The e-book cover image is then posted to your Fiverr account dialogue page often that same day -- allowing you easy access to download it and then upload to the website where your e-book is being sold. Just be aware that Fiverr actively discourages direct communications between buyers and sellers, probably to prevent them circumventing the Fiverr system. Accounts can be closed for violations of the website's terms.
Time is money, and spending just 10 minutes finding and hiring a professional graphic arts designer for only $5 on Fiverr is a good way for you to keep more of both!
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