I Paid 5 Designers On Fiverr To Design The Same Cover

I paid 5 designers on Fiverr to design the same book cover. But, I chose 5 different Fiverr sellers from all levels including new seller, level 1 seller, level 2 seller, top rated seller, and Fiverr Pro. Find out how the book cover design turned out in this video!

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[DaleLRoberts]

🔥 What cover would YOU choose? And, why?
Are you new to self publishing and not sure where to start?

[davenjogu]

The first design was fantastic, and cost effective for just $30.

[kathrinlake]

First cover $30 for me on front, but liked the back cover of the $800. Would combine those two.

[Dinosaurequation]

I am a typesetter. I really loved the first design. Great ideas! Following ideas were meh, and then came Marco. Holy s*it! It blew my mind off! So much attention to detail and great execution. And, over the top, cherry! Full media package! I am in awe!

[JQRose]

Call me crazy, but I liked the whimsical side of the first book cover. Very creative. The bold and busy Marco is probably more eyecatching as a thumbnail and I did like the back cover better, but the front of his design was way too much for me. Almost like he is screaming at you! I guess that would get your attention too, but not in a good way. !!! Tough decision. Can't wait to see which you choose. Thanks for spending nearly $1000. to give us this info!

[bernadettenadeau]

Found the first one captivating, The Pro had lots of great extra perks however, the cover was too busy. His style and flair for color and fonts were great but too much

[jupastick]

I chose Agneslena a couple of times for her different types of gigs. She has always been a pleasure to work with and as you say a real 'steal'. In my opinion her work was also the best one in this selection. Her cover was very clean and the others were too crowded. Not a great use of space at all, just way too much. Sometimes less is more. Great to see her in this video again!!

[carmenmoura]

Even for fiction, where the cover counts even more, paying $800 for a cover is beyond most people. They shouldn't go with homemade covers, but I've made lots of money with a $25 cover from Fiverr...

An indie author who has been in the bestseller list since 2017 with the same five books had originally paid oodles of money as a beginner (before selling books at all) for especially commissioned fantasy illustrations -- and had to ditch them all as he wasn't selling.

Bought illustrations of $10 from Shutterstock and had the design done in Fiverr for $15 each. Started selling like crazy.

Indies can only pay a lot of money for covers when they're making a lot. There are really, really good people in Fiverr making covers that are among the bestsellers out there. The writers' forum is FULL of stories like that ...

[lorrismalls]

Marko, because his work is super clean and organized. He's a very analytical person. Maximizing all of the space to fit all of your information without it looking overloaded. I also liked Angie's book cover as well.

[danielbroome]

Speaking as a designer, obviously we try to provide as good a service as possible, but honestly it's not surprising that sometimes there needs to be a lot more communication to finish revisions like with that one cover. When you reach the design concept you intended and it's "done" apart from revisions, unless the client is very specific about changes it's tempting to make less bold changes because A) ideation faze is over B) at the end of a design every change is exponentially more time consuming because each change necessitates adjusting the rest of the design to fit.

So unless there's a very specific change needed, you won't want to change too much and screw up the design, because they'd had positive feedback up to that point so you don't want too much to change.

[SnipeyDaSniper]

That Instagram set-up for the last service was amazing, I'll definitely be implementing that!

[HeidiThorneChannel]

I liked Agnes' front cover, but marmarko's back cover (plus all the extras). I suggest when deciding on a Fiverr person to handle your work, give them a small job to test out how it is to work with them. When I was selling my editing on Fiverr, I made authors do a manuscript critique with me before we did any work to make sure we were a good fit. And don't hesitate to ask for a custom quote on any service to get exactly what you want. Thanks for spending the money on these tests so we didn't have to. ;)

[danielbroome]

I also kinda love you raving over basic text wrapping :) it's nice to remember how professional designer skills look from the outside.

[FrankDaley]

I thought your work, the work of the designers, and the commentary were all stellar. A great service to everyone, Dale.

[andyw]

Nice range of services you covered! I'm impressed with the 800 one, you get lots for what you pay so it isn't "just a book cover" that you get

[ChrisC]

If we're going only for front cover, the cheapest gig is the best to me. The $800 one, this guy clearly did a lot of work for the money, though, and he delivered a full interactive service for you. Still, value for cost, $30 wins. You got almost an $800 cover for $30. Nothing beats that.

[AwardsWatcherwithBTSanchez]

The first and the last ones were my favs!!

[jenniferlewiswilliams]

Nice presentation on finding a cover designer. My favorite is the first one...I loved all the elements, especially the little cart and the key/lock! Very creative. While the $800 was nice, it was much too busy, in my opinion, but you did get a lot of items for the money. Still, the first cover would have caught my eye to possibly buy rather than the $800 one.

[BharathRamMS]

I feel $800 is a lot for a book cover. I liked the very first one. Very pocket-friendly and perfect. A video like this is very much required on YouTube. Thanks for doing this.

[andreaglass]

I liked the first and third best. I liked the final one, however, I don't like that everything was in capital letters and I find it difficult to read white text on a dark background so I didn't like the back cover of Marko's. I think I'd choose the first one. Personally, I've had minimal luck with fiverr. Those I've hired never gave me what I asked for and since I can't get their email address, I can't have decent communication or stay in touch after the gig. I was recommended to a cover designer who did an amazing cover for me for $100 with infinite revisions!