99Designs Review
99Designs is a crowdsourced graphic design marketplace with around 80,000 designers registered. Crowdsourcing is when you have a large group of people work together on a project collaboratively, in this case you offer a cash reward as a prize for a design competition where many professional designers submit original works based on specifications from the person posting the design project.
I first heard about this company through an internet marketing book that I was reading by Darmesh Shah. I have actually been doing this myself independently for a while using various graphic design forums and posting contests myself; 99Designs (http://www.99Designs.com) attracts a different audience than I was seeking as it brings in many professional designers rather than talented amateurs.
Competitions such as these have angered some within the design community as it can drastically cut down on the price of design. Rather than picking one designer and making many modifications to it, you get many designs and simply choose the one that fits best and then work from there.
99Designs Review:
- 100% Money Back Guarantee
- WordPress Theme Design
- Banner Design
- Twitter Backgrounds
- Professional Web Pages
- Logo Design
- Logo Store
- Graphic Design
- Print & Merchandise Design
99Designs Scam – 99 Designs Review
One thing you may have noticed if you found this site via Google is that many people are searching for “99Designs Scam” and this is not a reflection of the design services or the company itself. It is a bunch of angry graphic design bloggers that don’t like the fact that their industry is competing with itself; and while I see why that would make them unhappy it is completely wrong to blame in 99Designs. 99Designs is not a scam, it is a completely legitimate company with a good record but their ability to bring down prices of professional designs has made a few enemies.
99Designs.com Official Site – http://www.99Designs.com
I like the fact that they offer a full money back guarantee just in case you do not like any of the designs that have been submitted; usually people find something they like but if they don’t they won’t be out any money as a result. Overall 99Designs looks like a great site to work with for graphic design jobs, you know that you will end up with an excellent product and on the budget terms that you specify, not the other way around. I feel like we will be seeing far more crowdsourcing websites like Crowdspring and 99Designs in the near future.
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