One of the hardest but most crucial tasks in building a site or blog is finding a logo. I myself, know from experience its one of the toughest steps to finish. The logo always looks slightly off, misspelled, wrong shade, strange effect and never ending problems. I am sure that you had the same problems with your logo design, so let’s think together for a minute about it.
Why should you care so much about your logo?
- Defines your site.
- Has the potential to influence whether a visitor is going to stay on your site for more than a few seconds.
How you can procure a logo (pay):
- Hire a professional logo design firm such as Logo Design Guru or The Logo Loft or Elogo Design
- Pay for a logo design contest on HatchWise or Logomyway
- Find a freelancer on Craigslist
These methods can prove to be expensive. Why pay, when there are so many alternatives?
How you can procure a logo (free):
- My favorite, barter your services for a logo from a freelancer. The best place to do so would be on Craigslist
- Download GIMP for free, and learn how to design on your own, if you decide to take it a step further Photoshop is the key
- My least favorite, use a free graphics generator on the web such as Cool Text or Logo Ease
You decide whether you would like to pay for a logo or free. Being an entrepreneur means saving money but also investing when necessary. Just remember you will always have a choice.
Article by Ben Lang
Founder of EpicLaunch.com which was previously known as Ben-Lang.com. Started an eBay business, at age 14 and was interviewed on Channel 12.
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Thanks Ben for this info. I’m on the hunt for a good logo so this will come in handy.
Michael
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Of course, good luck Michael
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December 21, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Logos are an important part of corporate and personal branding. Most of us can’t afford the cost of professional logo development – and there’s more involved in it than graphic arts skills. But there are so many talented graphic artists and brilliant people on the Web who are willing to share or barter their skills, it’s truly amazing and wonderful.
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Nice information. Thanks for sharing dude.
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I’ve had themes, logos, avatars, and all made relatively cheaply with great work. The key, for me at least, is to ask around to the people I respect and trust for referrals.
This works two ways, you feel better getting a referral you trust, and the referrer feels good about you coming from a name they obviously know.
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Hey Ben,
Thanks for reminding me of (yet) another thing I need to do over Christmas !
… and some good pointers about how to satisfactorily knock it off the list as quickly as possible
Cheers
Will
P.S. Posting about your site tomorrow – promise!
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Hi
Lol enjoy creating your logo on christmas. Thanks let me know!
-Ben
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Thank you Ben for the information about logo, my blog also required one nice logo, I will try those sites for make my logo.
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Hmmm, interesting. As a graphic designer, I would say another alternative to bartering via Craistlist would be via Twitter/LinkedIn. Craiglist means reaching out to people you may not know, which is great for if you’re trying to pay for the design services, but I think using Twitter/LinkedIn, which means reaching out to your network, would be more effective for bartering. I would definitely be more willing to barter my design services or offer a discount to a friend of a friend on LinkedIn or a reader of my blog or one of my Twitter followers, and more iffy about bartering with someone that contacts me blindly via Craiglist.
Thats a great suggestion, instead of using CL, twitter and facebook are both very good for bartering… Thanks!
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This is a good advise because most bloggera s who start have small budget.
Good to tell them on how to get what they want without spending an arm and a leg!
Thanks, thats exactly why I wrote this article
A few months ago, I paid $100 for my blog logo. I liked it and it was my first logo I ever paid for. I used that one for just over a year. I am in the process of creating my own logo, but it takes time as I’m no graphic designer.
I even thought of posting about it asking the users to submit logo’s and the winner would win cash. I will resort to that if I don’t come right.
Logo’s play an important role and users must not under estimate it at all.
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Thanks for sharing your story!
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nice post Benjamin! my favourite is getting it done by my self, by using Photoshop and GIMP! but most of the time i use Maya or 3D Max…. they helped me to build the logo im currently using!
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Thanks, I’ve never heard of Maya or 3d max, ill definitely check them out. regards
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Yeah — logo creation is hard. That’s why i haven’t use any logo yet until now. I already try to create logo in cool text but i do not like the result so i think i may use GIMP to create the logo on my own.
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Yes it is very hard, but a very important step. good luck
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December 17, 2009 at 10:28 am
I’ve just change my logo design brother. Its a second logo, I hope you like my new logo. If you have a little skills on Photoshop or GIMP or other design software, you can create your logo. Its fun when creating a logo.
About the cooltext, I enjoying playing with cooltext its amazing free online logo creator and I already post about cooltex on my blog.
Yes ben, we must care about our logo, our blog need promotion and nice logo will help people to remember our blog
Thanks for the article Ben.
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Hi Latief. I’ll go check out your logo soon. Glad you enjoy making logos yourself.
Your welcome!
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thanks Benjamin Lang… I am searching for this.. I tried in cool text and logomaker..Finally you came with this article. Definitely i try to make use of this article…
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Your welcome, I hope this article really helps you out.
Regards
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