I often say “If a picture is worth a thousand words; then your online image is worth a million dollars!” A major component of that million dollar image is the graphic “look and feel” of your company image. 

But, as a small business owner where do you start when you need a new logo, or want to freshen up an old logo, or maybe you want to have a custom background designed for your Twitter page.  Perhaps you want a T-shirt that smacks of your company brand, for all employees to wear every Friday. 

Creating the perfect graphic look that represents your small business can be a challenging and expensive proposition.  The balancing act of finding the right person for the creative process and the associated cost may cause you to put the project on the back burner.

99designs to the Rescue!

But hang on, 99designs.com turns a painful process into something that is FUN and productive!  99designs connects clients who need design work done with a thriving community of 34,918 talented designers.  In a nutshell, you submit a project description and set a “prize” amount that will be paid to the winning design.  In turn designers will submit their design for review.

The best part of this process is that you have multiple design minds interpreting your project from their perspective.  So the creative process literally explodes on your behalf.  Instead of having the traditional 1 or 2 people working on your design project, you’ll have lots of people coming up with unique designs. 

You’ll feel like a Fortune 500 company who has hired the best and brightest design agency!

But Does It Work?

And if you’re wondering if this process really works, consider this:  since its founding a couple of years ago, over  21,941 contests or design projects have been initiated, resulting in over 1,801,044 designs with over  $4,971,661 paid out to designers!