What do you
need to start making money designing logos?
Creativity
–
in order to succeed you must be creative and original enough to design
logos
that stand out from the crowd. You are not the only one logo designer
online
and for every project especially those
that are paying large sums of money you will face a lot of competition.
If you want an edge over competition you must come up with creative and
original ideas.
Skills in
using the necessary tools – when we say tools we mean computer software such as
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and similar. You must know how to use them
if you are serious about making money designing logos.
Patience –
Patience is also important for everyone starting as freelance logo designer. It
takes time to build your reputation so be prepared to work for less money in
the beginning until you build your reputation and increase you chances of
landing a high paying project.
Where can
you find logo designer jobs?
There are
many websites online where you can monetize your talent. Some of them are
freelance sites like:
Odesk – one
of he greatest freelancing sites online.
Joining odesk is free and takes a minute. Once you join you should put
some of your best past projects on your portfolio and take free tests relevant
for the type of jobs you you wish to do. This will greatly increase your
changes to be hired, because there are many other designers bidding for the
same project as you. There are thousands of clients looking for a skilled logo
designer on odesk.
Elance – is
a freelance jobs site similar to odesk. There are many design jobs you can bid
on, some of them very lucrative. Make sure that every project you are awarded
you complete to the best of your abilities and receive positive feedback which
in turn will increase your odds of being hired to do more jobs.
Other
freelancing sites where you can find logo design jobs are Freelancer,
PeoplePerHour, iFreelance.
Another way
you can make money online designing logos is to participate in logo designing
contests. You can find logo design contest on these websites:
99designs –
is a website where graphical designer participate in contests posted by the
employers. The designers then pick which
contests they wish to participate in themselves and submit their work according
to the requirements. At the end the contest winner gets rewarded.
Crowdspring
– is similar to 99designs.com, and unlike 99designs is not exclusively for logo
designers, writers can also monetize their work on Crowdspring.
Another
logo design contest sites are Logomyway, Hatchwise, Logotournament, Designcontest, Designcrowd.
