How to Make A+ Content for Your Self-Published Book Using Canva // Have you ever seen graphics on Amazon sales pages and wondered where those graphics came from? What you're seeing is called A+ content and it's a free and easy way to market your book and improve your book's Amazon sales page. In this video I'll be showing you an example of A+ content, and the rules behind using A+ content, and we'll also be doing a step-by-step tutorial on designing and uploading A+ content for your own self-published book.
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IN THIS VIDEO:
0:00 – Intro
1:18 – Examples of A+ Content
2:21 – Rules & Guidelines of A+ Content
2:53 – Pricing & Promotions
3:07 – Customer Reviews
3:30 – Time Sensitive Information
3:55 – Publication Quotes
4:13 – Claims & Awards
5:11 – A+ Tutorial
5:39 – Where to Upload A+ Content
7:39 – Designing A+ Content in Canva
13:53 – Submitting A+ Content
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I really enjoyed this video! Super helpful, easy to follow, and descriptive! I was always curious about how to do those cool banner things on Amazon (now I know that they are called: A+ Content haha). I got inspired by you and decided to add my book tropes as part of the design for my A+ Content too. In the future, when I have more time, I think I’m probably going to include some of my book quotes and/or editorial reviews. Thank you so much, Mandi!
Lovely! ❤
The resizing and arranging of A+ content on “Trail to You and Me” was so quick, and it looks great.
Great content with this video ❤❤❤
your video A+. i subscribed
This is great, Mandi. Thanks. I have always wondered how you made these
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Thanks for this tutorial.
thank you so much
Thank you!
Do you have a tutorial on what to do if you run into a tech issue KDP is having regarding getting your title out properly and it has now been over 2 weeks, your launch has been destroyed and it is still not resolved, you are no longer getting responses. Where can you go next to get a hold of help?
God bless you Mandy!! Much gratitude for your amazing work ?❤
Hi Mandi, when I try to upload my A+ content, it uploads really blurry. I haven’t tried the template with the dog that you used though. Any advice to unblur it? I used all the correct dimensions but it still comes out blurry.
Look at the download options. On the page where you can see all your projects, you can right click the project and see all your download options.
Here you can pick the file type like PNG, but you can also increase the size. This will make the data size bigger but the images better quality.
Another thing to try is opening your project. Find the image that is appearing fuzzy and see if you can enhance that to be more crisp. I think this option is something that can only be done on a computer (I do most my Canva-ing on my mobile).
@@allyaldridge so it finally worked! I didn’t change anything except instead of selecting their 600×180 template, I selected the one Mandi did with the dog and the clear text. Didn’t use the text so just uploaded my picture and it turned out nicely! Not blurry at all now ?
As a designer, what are instances where you use Canva over Photoshop or Affinity or other programs of the like?
I prefer Adobe 90% of the time. I use Canva for quick marketing materials like this.
Great tutorial. Cant wait to try this. Your videos have been such a great help to me.
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