I Paid 10 Designers On Fiverr To Design The Same Cover

About this video

Following an earlier video hiring five Fiverr designers, Dale hires 10 designers at deliberately cheaper prices, roughly $5 to $15, to design the same e-book cover for ‘How to Write a Book in 48 Hours,’ asking them to keep his logo subtle rather than a focal point. After one week he reviews them from cheapest to most expensive. RebecaCovers ($5, a Level Two seller he had used for fitness covers) earns an A+ for color, font layout and subtle branding, plus a 3D rendering and licensing agreement. Dhananjayaeffec ($5) is readable at thumbnail size but uses a familiar open-book-with-stardust image. Lauria ($5) is the only designer he asks to redo a cover after she made his logo the centerpiece; her second attempts, using pictures he picked, pop much better. Printok ($5) becomes an early favorite for blue brand-aligned colors and a yellow ‘48 hours’ that pops, despite a delivery delay. GermanCreative ($10) is good but feels templated; Pro_ebookcovers by Angie ($10) is okay, marred by a white stroke, though it includes a PSD file. New sellers Manish414 ($10) and past vendor PixelStudio ($10) both impress him with typography-heavy designs he compares to John C. Maxwell covers, readable as thumbnails. Pro_graphics360 supplies two covers; he dislikes the yellow, glittery first version but likes the red second one. The winner is the most expensive gig, Dcamorlinga (Danielle) at $15, a designer whose fitness covers he credits with earlier sales traction. She uniquely sent multiple design concepts first; Dale liked layout A and his wife Kelly liked D. Her final cover cleverly incorporates a stopwatch/timer into the word ‘book,’ and he calls it in his opinion the best design and one he could actually use at launch.

Key takeaways

• All 10 covers cost only about $5-$15, showing cheap Fiverr gigs can produce usable e-book covers
• Thumbnail readability, font layout and subtle logo placement are Dale’s main judging criteria throughout
• Danielle (Dcamorlinga) at $15 won by sending multiple concept layouts first and integrating a stopwatch into the word ‘book’
• Revisions can transform a result: Lauria’s redo, after Dale picked images himself, was far stronger than her first attempt
• Extras vary widely by gig: some include 3D renderings, licensing agreements or PSD source files, others deliver only the cover

Episode details: published January 4, 2021 · 22:39 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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