5 Reasons to Use 99 Designs for Your Logo Design

The Crowdsourced Concept

Crowdsourcing has proven to be an effective solution for design projects, mainly logo design. If you need a logo designed for a company, product, project or service, crowdsourcing allows you to reach out to a fresh pool of creative professionals willing to compete and competitively bid for your business. The best crowdsourced solutions for logo designs comes compliments of 99designs.com. As if crowdsourced logo design wasn't great enough, here are a few more reasons why it'll work for you:



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1. Creative Juice

A great advantage of crowdsourced logo design is the variety you can expect from talented designers all over the world. If you're not happy with your current logo, or the progress of what's currently being designed for you, consider a crowdsourced design community to offer some new inspiration.

Choose from thousands of pre-made logos at 99designs.com, only $99! We'll even add your business name free within 24 hours!

2. Speed

In a corporate, beurocratical environment, logo design projects can take anywhere from 2-6 weeks to complete, at best. This is primarily due to unnecessary meeting time between a company and it's design agency, and poor project management. 99designs.com provides an effective solution and methodology that will ensure your logo design project gets completed in record time without sacrificing quality.

3. Award-Winning

In 2010, 99designs.com was the proud recipient of the People's Voice Webby Award; an accolade worth bragging about, and ensuring that - like thousands of customers before you - you'll be happy with the logo produced by the crowdsourced 99designs.com community.

4. Low Cost

How much does a logo design cost, really? Whether you're a penny-pinching business owner looking to have a logo designed at low-cost, or simply gathering quotes from various vendors as part of your own due-diligence, you'll find the prices vary significantly. We encourage you to reinstate your old-fashioned "get 3 quotes" rule and certainly do so. Start by getting a quote from a local, reputable logo and/or graphic design agency. Then pick a wildcard designer online based on the portfolio you like the best. Lastly, visit 99designs.com. You'll find 99designs.com to be the lowest-cost solution, and given the sheer number of creative professionals at your service, you're sure to find fall in love with one or more portfolios.

5. Long-term Relationships

What happens after you purchase a logo design from 99designs.com? You can best that your chosen designer is hungry for more work. You'll find that freelance and crowdsourced logo designers are quite reliable, and available for support after you logo project is completed. You can count on your designer to help with other elements such as business cards, letterheads, envelopes, presentation folders, brochures and more.

99designs.com is an online community consisting of thousands of passionate designers from around the globe looking to connect with businesses who need logo design projects completed. Logo design projects are always completed in a timely fashion without the possible risk or cost associated with professional design you might expect from a local logo design company.

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Is Facebook Advertising Worth It?

Yes and No. Why? It depends on your business. For example: In our experience, facebook advertising sucks for professional services companies. However, a facebook ad can be very successful for a retail or entertainment industry business. Although statistics prove facebook users are engaged on facebook.com longer than the majority of other websites they visit, their attention span is limited making it difficult to engage as a potential consumer. Facebook users do not respond to advertisements like a patient researcher/searcher would when exposed to Google ads. Facebook users are also, statistically, younger and not in a purchasing-mood. They're killing time, snooping, networking, chatting, and sharing pictures. At the time of this article, Facebook does not include ad extensions like phone numbers or maps, which is critical to most advertisers.

That being said, it never hurts to try and experiment. If you're going to dabble in Facebook advertising, try LinkedIn, Yahoo, Bing and Google all at the same time. Measure your results - before long you'll have all the data you require to make the best, informed decision moving forward.

Be Careful OUTSOURCING Web Site Design and SEO

Be Careful Outsourcing Web Site Design and SEO

Our office receives at least one message per day from an off-shore company requesting that we outsource our web design and SEO services to their off-shore company.

We've never subscribed to these services, and neither should you:

These Guys are Annoying
The same companies will call and email over and over again. They pester. Who wants to do business with someone like that?

They're Relentless
When you tell them "no", they keep on asking.

They're False
We investigated a few off-shore website design and SEO company portfolios and found the majority of them to display false portfolios. Many also make claims to have worked with dozens of reputable companies in Canada and the USA, including Fortune 500 companies, which has proved to be false.

Black-Hat Methods
These companies might have better luck if they didn't sell black-hat methods. Their products, services and solutions are not best-practice, they're questionable at best. Many also employ cheap labor from 3rd world sweat shops.

Where's the Support?
The best support you can receive is local. Period.