Colorful and professional eBook covers help your new eBook stand out from the competition in the Amazon Kindle eBook store. If your eBooks stand out, you’ll sell more eBooks. You will be happy if you sell more ebooks.
So if you want to be happy, don’t skimp on a good ebook cover. Even if you have no experience designing anything at all, for just $5 you can hire a professional designer on Fiverr to give you an eBook cover that will quickly increase your sales.
Fiverr.com is a very popular “micro jobs” site that offers all kinds of services – writing, reviews, ads, videos, tweet announcements – but the most important thing for you is that there are skilled, qualified art designers who are masters of creating beautiful ebook covers. All shows are only $5. It’s a steal.
People sell their services — or offer “gigs” — on Fiverr by briefly telling them what they’re going to do for the standard $5 fee. Most people explain their proposal in less than 50 words. They state what they will do, how soon they will do it, and most add phrases like “will make changes to make you happy”.
Some people have accumulated enough positive reviews that Fiverr allows them to post “related gigs” – which are add-ons or additional related services they can offer you, sometimes for as little as $10 or $20.
If you’ve ever been frustrated with dealing with a graphic designer who thinks you’re wrong and they’re always right, you’ll appreciate this.
Create a free account on Fiverr.com to hire one of these designers.
Type “ebook cover” in the search box at the top of the page.
Sort the results by rating. This will give you a list of highly recommended graphic artists. Excellent will highlight their past work for your review.
Read through the reviews. Stay away from those who have a lot of negative reviews.
It’s not a bad idea to try someone who is just starting out. You help an internet marketer gain a foothold and build their portfolio, and you only risk $5 if the project doesn’t meet your expectations. However, I bet you will be satisfied.
Choose your favorite “Gig”. You can send an email explaining what they can, can’t or can’t do. Once you’ve determined you’ve found a suitable match, you can “buy” the gig. You will be directed to the PayPal payment page to submit your $5 payment directly to Fiverr. They keep it in a bill and when the show is over the graphic artist gets paid $4. Fiverr keeps deals from $1.
Many good graphic artists will ask you for the following information:
What message do you want to convey?
Who is the target market?
Do you want to include images or just put text on the cover?
You can send your own rough layout. I suggest letting their imagination take over. You can always ask for minor changes – center this, change the color of that – although I wouldn’t recommend making major wording changes or switching from simple text to full graphic design at this point.
The ebook cover image is usually posted to the conversation page of your Fiverr account the same day, making it easy to access and download and then upload to sites that sell your ebook. Note that Fiverr actively blocks direct communication between buyers and sellers, presumably to prevent them from circumventing the Fiverr system. Accounts that violate the site terms may be closed.
Time is money, and spending 10 minutes on Fiverr to find and hire a professional graphic designer for just $5 is a great way to get both of you!