03-15-2021, 05:51 PM
I make a whole heap of money designing E-Covers.
That is some of the easiest money I make.
I can bang one of those out in half an hour, at $50 a pop.
Some days I design half a dozen, plus whatever else I have going on.
E-Covers are not hard to create these days.
There are literally free templates all over the web.
There is simply no barrier to entry into the design world.
The only thing you need to do is practice a little bit. That's all I did.
So how do YOU get in the game?
The same way I did amost 20 years ago.
If I lost all my customers today here's what I'd do, ...again.
If you have no skills with PhotoShop don't worry I didn't either.
I'm about as creative as a door knob, and about as artsy as a Mack truck.
I learned how to 'GET' creative as opposed to BEING creative.
More about that in a minute...
I had a neighbor who was always flipping cars, I mean this dude would flip at least a couple vehicles a month.
He only wanted toyota cars because he knew them pretty well.
He wasn't a mechanic or anything, he'd buy them clean them up and flip them over and over.
I got to talking to him one day and convinced him to write a guide for people who wanted to flip cars.
So he did, I designed an ecover for him (it was so bad) but he loved it.
He converted his manual into a .pdf and sold a lot of copies.
I did the work for free because I had no customers, and I kept approaching people who had a story to tell but no digital skills.
I saw a guy working at the gym in the mall, I found out he owned the franchise.
I told him he should write a guide for people who were out of shape and how if they came to his gym he could help them.
I had to talk to him a few times but once he saw that I would help him he really warmed up to it.
Magic words here, "Write a guide"
People get scared when you say write a book.
Most people couldn't write a book, but a guide?
Yes! Sell it for $10.
I'd help people convert their story into .pdf format then design an E-Cover for them.
There's how you practice, that's how you build a customer base.
You don't wait for them to come to you, you go to them.
Almost everyone has a skill that can be capitalized upon.
Friends and family are a soft base to start from.
When you run out of friends and family you show strangers the work you did for your friends and family.
This is a viable long term career for anyone who wants to learn the craft.
Look at this dude here,
Code:
https://killercovers.com/
You can start by charging $15-$20 once you get a little practice and increase it up to whatever you want.
You have as much of a chance of becoming successful training yourself on Photoshop than you do becoming successful doing anything else online. More so in my opinion.
So how do you get creative when you think you don't have that in yourself?
Look at every book cover you can get your hands and eyes on.
Just look at the design, copy what others do.
I ripped off so many ideas from other people it was shameless. But completely legal.
There are thousands of e-cover templates out there you can get your hands on for free.
If you need help finding them let me know I'll be happy to show you where they are.
You can do this!
I can help,
Code:
http://bestblackhatforum.com/Thread-PHOTOSHOP-BOSS-I-NEED-BETA-TESTERS-REVIEWERS