Don't know any designers? No sweat! Used a designer before but the cost was rather pricey for the limited design options? Would you like to see lots of design options for a reasonable price? Why not have a contest and let close to a 1,000,000 designers world-wide have a shot at your logo. Yes, that is close to a million designers all for you!

Have a design contest

Really in just a few clicks you can have designers from around the world working on your business logo and other branding material. www.99designs.com does this for you as they have created a network of designers and the tools to help you launch a contest to have your logo created.

You simply sign up and fill in a design briefing which tells the designers a little more about your business and the things you would like to see.  The questions are simple questions like: your slogan, colour choices and other logos you might like. After that, you enter your credit card information and your contest begins.

The site tools do guide you through the process and one of the steps is to invite designers to your contest.  The designers are presented to you for selection with some samples of their previous logos.  Selecting designers doesn't have to be done but it does get the word out that you would like people to join in.

If you don't find a design you like, you don't have to pay anything but you do have to walk away without a design.  There is a big TIP which you may want to consider and it is to guarantee that you will pay and this will bring in some better designers to your contest and you should get many more designs.

The site has different pricing levels with the bronze level producing an expected 30 designs.  Although maybe not typical, however, I have seen bronze level guaranteed contest for logo designs to bring in over 200 designs from over 60 designers. One word of caution is that you will want to put aside some time for your contest where you can participate because the better feedback you provide to the designers the better designs you will get which will match what you are looking for.

At the end of your contest when you have selected a winner there is a copyright hand off between the designer and you where you get the copyright and all the design elements for your logo. You will be set and ready to go to market with your new branded logo.