 What's up guys and welcome to another video As you can probably see from the title, we're gonna tell you guys everything you need to know about Book covers so specifically what we're gonna talk about is what goes into a best-selling book cover Why are book covers so important? Then we're gonna look at good book covers versus back book covers and then show you exactly how to place and order to Have someone to create this book cover for you. So let's go downstairs to the computer talk about everything But first they catch this Oh, I'm not impressed by your performance. All right. We are on the rooftop of our house. Let's just check the view real quick We got some rice fields out. We got some cows a lady out here that honestly likes to yell. It's really weird You know publishing lifestyle y'all let's go Let's just sit down and get to it. Yeah. Mm-hmm. All right. Let's do a cool transition and up swiping transition. How's that? Yeah, so yeah, all right All right, so let's get right into it first off Why is your book cover so important first off people do judge a book by its cover? Literally and the book cover is the first thing that anyone is gonna see about your book and the first impressions are super important So there are two main things that you want your book cover to convey So the first thing is you need it to be attention-grabbing it needs to catch someone's eyes And it needs to it needs to be like a magnet for someone's eyes So people look at it and then they give it a chance. That means when someone is scrolling through Amazon or audible Right, they're strong strong strong strong and there's all kinds of book covers and then like oh, okay This one looks interesting. Yeah, you know And then you like you have to give them a reason to like want to look into this book now the first thing the cover Is gonna do that but how do you catch people's attention with your book cover? You need it to be eye-popping basically and how do you do that big fonts? bold colors and a Compelling stock image those are the three things that we normally look for in a good eye-catching book cover Yes, yeah, and then the second thing that you need your book cover to convey is professionalism professionalism and credibility so that when people see this book cover They don't look at it like a joke like we're gonna show you some examples of good and bad covers these bad ones Look like jokes. They literally look like if they're not serious like no You're not actually uses as a book cover eat like you're not gonna buy a book with this freaking cover So that is why your book cover is so super important And those are really the two things you want to convey with your book cover Attention-grabbing and then established credibility slash professionalism. Okay, so now let's actually dive into the computer We found some examples of good covers and some bad covers really bad I'm really bad ones. We'll look at the battle. It's first and then we'll we'll just talk about it Yeah, okay, and then after that we're gonna show you guys exactly how to get these epic book covers for a super low price Let's go to the computer now. We are now inside of the laptop. Here's the first shitty book cover wouldn't look at yeah, okay So this is not yeah, no need to show you code it. It's a what it is. It's straight trash Pure garbage so let's look at it and what makes it so hard We're not even gonna talk about the key where they chose parenting daughters So first of all, I'm not a designer for disclosure. I'm not a designer No, right, but I do have two eyeballs I should have two eyeballs and a brain that can tell a background to tease it Yeah, so look the problem with this one is a complete lack of professional professionalism exactly this we were talking about the point Of it before one is to catch attention I suppose this could catch attention because it's like a pinky color It has some color which is good, but it also has to convey professionalism people don't buy shit from jokes They only they only buy things from someone who they view as credible. Okay, and this This is conveying exactly zero professionalism and credibility Yeah, I mean it just looks like what happened, which is made in like paint dot net or Microsoft yeah paint It seems it looks like it was made in probably five minutes You know if I see someone a book with this cover, I wouldn't be like, okay They spent five minutes making the cover. They probably also spent five minutes writing the book Yeah, why would I spend money on that exactly? It's just there was no effort put into this in no time. Yeah, so that's first one. Let's go on the second one It's the same. It's the exact same problem. Just no professionalism. The font is retarded I don't know. It kind of looks like a Japanese Chinese style like why? No, it makes no sense. A lot of these it's just a bunch of whys Why oh, I just realized look at how nutritionist felt Nutrition no no Shit, I didn't even see that They even made a mistake that just shows how little effort they put in the book Covers so whoever made this book cover like it's probably if they see this is gonna get like offended but it's just like It's there's nothing to talk about like this is bad Look at you can't deny the spelling mistake on the cover. No, you can't like that's unprofessional Let's go on to the last shitty book cover. We don't look at I don't even know what to say about this again It looks like a three-year-old made it. Yeah, it's an image with text. Look at the font Yeah, it's a very childish font does not convey any sort of high-quality professional Specialism at all. So I think people get the point now. Yeah, so you these are probably like homemade book covers Oh, here's another thing we should talk about you should not be making your book covers yourself Unless you are a professional designer a really good professional. Yeah. Yeah, that is the only exception However, I know a lot of people they want to sit here and they want to sit on their high horse and be like Oh, I don't need to pay so let's make a book cover for me. I can make something way better than they can They don't know what they're doing. I'll just make it myself like you like you want to be a tough guy And it's honestly, it's just sad. It's self sabotaging and it's honestly fucking ridiculous And I can't take you seriously if that's how you're gonna run a business Yeah, like we are business minds There are these other self publishers who are gonna sit and just do everything from their grandma's basement And act like they're doing a good job. Look, you can get an incredible book cover made for ten dollars. Why why not? What's the reason as low as five but ten to fifteen dollars now? Let's not talk more about that people get it outsource. I just wanted to say do outsource it onto the good book covers Yes, I'm okay good book covers. Let me show this first one here. We're gonna learn more from these anyway Yeah, so here we have our first example of a good one the first thing you might be thinking is This is not like especially eye-catching doesn't have bold colors big font like you said in fact It can be eye-catching. It depends on what this book cover What the other book covers it's surrounded with when it's competing against yeah And I'm gonna show you an example of this right here. So here we have some slides from a course We would talk about covers. I just want to make this full screen so you can see the covers on the right So there's one super plain color that's all white and then it just has four black words that says why you're stuck So it would be like the least eye-popping cover you've ever seen But because all the ones around it are black and orange. It stands out. It stands out a lot like it's the like okay That's interesting. You're gonna click on that. So it's important to keep that in mind now Let's go all the way the one on the left hand side is a good example of the same Keyword but then like one that catches your attention. Oh completely yellow bold cover. Then there's all the one that just like Doesn't catch any attention Now I want to say for these book covers that we're gonna be showing the good ones are ones that I just went on Amazon.com and almo.com and I found ones that I like so that's also to say that book covers are subjective there isn't Come what matter of taste is what I'm saying is a matter of taste. There isn't a matter of fact This is a good. This is this is bad. This one's better. This one's the best This is these three examples are also not the pinnacle of the best book covers There's just three good ones that we found okay three bad ones You showed are widely accepted by the entire earth that they suck Okay, so let's get on this one. So what makes this look great? It's the professionals living in my opinion This is not particularly eye-catching this one really conveys professionalism. Yeah now when I see this I just think wow they spent a lot of time on this now. We're just repeating ourselves The information is how much you must be high quality as well Yeah, so let's move on the next one and see what that looks like so this next one This one is eye-catching really eye-catching now. We could try and search it and although we're not gonna do that And see how it compares to the other ones, but you'll notice that it stands out a lot It's a completely orange background color. That's something. I'm personally a fan of making your covers a solid color a solid bold color like with a yellow orange purple green blue red something like that instead of Like this one. So I just like the eye-popping factor and this one definitely has that with the eye-catching Attributes of this one. It does really well in that, but it also looks professional. It just looks clean That's really what it is. It looks sleek. Okay. It's a clean looking cover and it just yeah That's really what it is and then the last one here now I can tell that all three of these books are self-published really just by the title subtitle never mind that But this is also really a cover I think that the stock image on this one is awesome and the way they wrote the title like the font that they used It just looks clean. It looks professional and I think it's eye-catching. It's nice really the thing is You look at this one and then you could tell it was made in like a few hours versus these a few minutes Okay, like if someone made a cover in a few minutes Oh, they're probably gonna spend a few minutes writing the book while this person will spend a long time writing the book This is just the mind of a customer. Yeah, okay So those are really just three examples of good covers and three examples of bad covers Now if you took this cover and imagine it as a New York Times bestseller, could you see it? You put a little stamp on it says New York Times Does it fit in with all the best-selling books in the world put the yellow badge on I think it does it? Absolutely does this one could be there. This could be there They really could but can this be on a New York bestsellers list? Absolutely not There's there's nothing to talk about so that is good covers of his back covers now You know what to look for yeah now Let's show you guys how we get covers like this made for five or ten dollars covers this amazing like this good made For literally less than $15. So yeah, we go to what do we go to fiverr.com now a quick story My mom had a logo made for her yoga business and she paid like $300 for it because she thought oh more expensive means better I think she paid like 700. Yeah $700 for a logo for her business and I showed her use fiverr. She told us I was like no mom You've never heard of fiverr. Yeah, then I showed her fiverr And she got a better logo made for $10 and she was like hmm. Okay, so fiverr if you don't know what it is It's like a website with a bunch of freelancers who will do any job for you They're they're a talented freelancers that just like they don't really know how to get clients so we hop on fiverr Yeah, and we're cheap so you're just gonna go here in the search bar type Something as simple as book cover design design And then we have a handful of book covers that we've been using for years since 2016 But we have one specific one that we like to use We won't share them exactly because otherwise they might just get overloaded, but inside the course we do Show like our top five fair book designers that we've used on fiverr. So there we give the exact examples But for this case, we'll just use some random and show you how to actually order your book cover You go to anyone any one of these gigs will work What you're gonna want to do is simply click on them look at their portfolio. See if you like their style of covers These look there's nothing wrong with them, but let me just go with someone else. Let's look here real quick No, not really. Those are not good covers. Yeah, let's maybe scroll by best-selling Let's go to someone who I know can do I think this one I'm pretty sure I've worked with before has made good book covers. So let's yeah So let's just work with them for an example. So you're just gonna do here Order a gig you can read about it here basic front cover with a free 3d model as a gift Thank you But the way to determine someone is a good designer or a bad designer for one is working with them Like you'll never know So you work with them and then but really the other one is to look at their portfolio What are the previous covers that they've made? Do you like them? Yeah, if yes, okay, if not Keep looking for others, right? Yeah. So basically all you're gonna do. I am gonna just place an order real quick Confirm and pay just to show you what the checkout process looks like and just honestly how simple it is You can literally get it done in five minutes, but I would spend more than five minutes finding the perfect stock image and all that Yeah, we'll get into that. Uh, so here they're just gonna tell you about all of your requirements that they need to make your book cover So you're gonna tell them your book title. That's one title Title subtitle author name. Yeah, that's the text shit that they need Yeah, so they're not really doing a great job of telling me what it is, but that's really all it is So you just do title Keto for beginners I just hate keto for beginners. So title as an example how to There's wait author is mark jones jones And then you're gonna need to find a stock image for your cover You could simply go to a website like deposit photos a lot of fiber gigs will give you a free stock image included in your order I don't know about this one. Again. I would totally not have done this gig. I'm just showing you what it looks like um, it's gonna go in find a good keto Stock image that you would like for your cover something that looks good Let's do something Like this now choosing a good stock image for your book Is a whole different discussion. They don't have time for it right now to talk about but let's just use one Shall we let's go this one A nice cut of salmon with some nice marbling on it Half cut avocado and some keto foods. So all you're gonna do Copy paste. No, this is not my go-to stock image. Just an example. No use this stock image Confirm and then I'm gonna click start order and there, you know what they'll they'll make this book cover for me Let's see actually Let's see what it looks like when they gave it back to us in a few days Yeah, so that'll be pretty fun Now also I want to say is that I would have linked a bunch of book covers in the keto niche that I like Just use as inspiration. But yes, let us fast forward to maybe two days from now when we do get the book cover back Let's look at it and let's talk about it. See if it's good or not. Thank you All right, here we are back at the computer we've gotten our cover back and it's been more like four days now But never mind that let's show you guys what the cover looks like. Are we ready? Are we ready to show I've looked at already we've seen already you could tell by our reactions So we're not the most excited about it. Oh, you're gonna. Oh, it's pure. It's pure horror. This dude just ruined his fiber career Yeah, he's gonna be put on blast here. What is that? Let me make it big What in the world Is that First of all, he didn't even use the stock image that we gave him look Look, which is like you don't have to be talented to do that. You just have to listen Look, here's what we said title soap towel. I mean he got mark jones jones, right? I'll go man. Thank you respect jones jones respect for that. But I said use this stock image I gave you something. I could not make it more clear to use this Okay, so again, this is not a fiber gig. We would have gone with normally can you open up again? Yeah, this is not a fiber gig. We would have gone on the right side This is not a fiber gig. We would have gone with normally We just did it for the sake of the video and we thought for fun. We'll show you what comes out of it Shit came out of it. Let's show it up right now. Just so we look at like what the fuck is that? And it says keto on a white on a chalkboard written in white chalk and just points that What's going on? It's just don't use this fiber gig again. Let's put them on blast book underscore pro I'm sorry fam, but that was that was trash. Yeah, okay But that basically wraps up this video Don't do that. Do what we're talking about. Don't use this gig Let's wrap this up with the magic emoji of the day. Let's drop some tornado emojis Okay, let's have this shit up. Yeah, okay. Thanks for watching like the video if you didn't like that cover This video should get a lot of likes Comment comment whatever you like. Well comment the magic emoji Subscribe if you want more videos just like this one about publishing tutorials Because this is the best publishing channel on youtube because we make videos that you want to see So let us know what you want to see click training in the description and ask us any questions you have in the comments