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Finding a logo for your site, blog, or whatever has always been somewhat of a crap shoot, articulating exactly what you are envisioning can be difficult. Once you start working with an artist or design firm you were usually committed to following the process through and paying regardless of the results. To minimize risk you would usually be given X number of initial concepts from which to have the artist develop further. Crowd sourcing has emerged as viable alternative, you increase your odds of achieving success for a given problem by spreading the possible source of a solution amongst a large pool. Addressing the graphic design space in this way is a site called 99designs.com, which helps connect you with graphic and website designers. The process is very simple, register a competition, it costs $39 to do so, give a title, summary, and list of “wants” and “don’t wants”, and set the prize amount. Then the competition is live for a predetermined number of days. Artists will submit their take on what you are looking for, you can then rate each submission and provide feedback for further tweaking if desired. Once the competition ends you determine the winning entry, arrange payment, and you get your new logo. You can check out the
competition I arranged for a new logo here.

My only reservation is that the one size fits all price of $39 per competition may limit the sites usefulness for getting quality work for your niche sites. And it would be prohibitively expensive if you wanted to outsource creation of more frequently needed lower dollar items such as banner ads. It would be nice if there was a sliding scale, the bigger the price the more the competition posting fee.

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