I Hired Archangel Ink for Book Cover Design and You Chose

About this video

Dale Roberts documents hiring sponsor Archangel Ink for an a la carte book cover design for his forthcoming short nonfiction book ‘Secrets Of The Permafree Book,’ after a previous experiment hiring five Fiverr designers and letting viewers vote. He describes Archangel Ink as a done-for-you service also offering editing, proofreading, interior formatting, and audiobook production. He walks through its cover design checklist, which he fills in on camera: supplying a large headshot and business logo for the cover/spine, the book’s size and page count and white paper choice, pasting in his existing blurb for what the book is about, linking Amazon covers he likes as vision references, listing must-haves and do-nots including not using Amazon’s trademark logo or implying Amazon produced the book, providing a favorite pull quote from the book, and declining an endorsement to keep the cover uncluttered. He stresses doing this research before onboarding so designers are not guessing. Archangel Ink returned designs in less than a week, which he says was faster than Fiverr. He reviews ten concepts on screen, reacting most positively to a blue design matching his brand and series, liking fonts and a clicking-finger motif referencing a permanently free ebook on several others, and disliking one that resembled his brother’s book cover. He then polls viewers across YouTube Community, Facebook groups, his personal page, and Archangel Ink’s page. He reports the winner was cover nine with 72 votes, ahead of cover five with 46 and cover six with 16, and says he honored the vote with one tweak he requested: changing the winner’s red to blue. He then shows the delivered files — ebook cover, paperback covers prepared for both IngramSpark and KDP plus source files, 3D cover images, a banner, and bonus social media assets for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the web that he notes are normally reserved for full-service clients — and endorses the print cover layout in particular.

Key takeaways

• Prepare before onboarding a cover designer: comparable covers you like, a blurb, must-haves/do-nots, a pull quote, and large headshot/logo files.
• Dale specifically barred use of Amazon’s trademark logo or any implication that Amazon produced the book.
• He reports Archangel Ink delivered initial designs in less than a week, faster in his experience than his earlier Fiverr experiment.
• Community voting he tallied chose cover nine with 72 votes over cover five (46) and cover six (16); his sole override was recoloring red to blue to match his brand.
• The delivered package he shows includes ebook and print covers for both IngramSpark and KDP, source files, 3D images, a banner, and social media assets.

Episode details: published October 1, 2020 · 16:21 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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