Need your opinions about logos!

I'll tell you my vote........
I want one designed just for me. Custom designed because I'm worth it and so are my sales.

Peace,
Donna

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Forget about predesigned, I'm having one custom designed.

My choice with a reasonable price.

Recently, I had a bad experience with a template seller who wanted to charge me $25 to recolor a topper. I couldn't believe it. I recolored said topper several times within a 2 minute period. I could have recolored 100's in an hour. Anyway, for those who don't know, $25 to recolor a topper is such a bargain but for those of us who do, we feel scammed.

I would prefer a custom logo at a reasonable price.

Suthrnjewl<-----hijacking this thread

Hey Magie,
Hope everything finds you well.

Back to the discussion at hand.

Peace,
Donna

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Originally posted by Magie Noire:

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Forget about predesigned, I'm having one custom designed.

My choice with a reasonable price.

Recently, I had a bad experience with a template seller who wanted to charge me $25 to recolor a topper. I couldn't believe it. I recolored said topper several times within a 2 minute period. I could have recolored 100's in an hour. Anyway, for those who don't know, $25 to recolor a topper is such a bargain but for those of us who do, we feel scammed.

I would prefer a custom logo at a reasonable price.

(Hi from me too!)

Gonna play devil's advocate here...

Depending on how something is done, recoloring something can be a PITA. I make a lot of my stuff in a way that it isn't too much trouble to change colors...but if it's all feathered or something it can be.

Design services seem to go pretty cheap on ebay. I don't know any local designers who charge less than $20/hr and those are the more affordable ones. Many people/places around here charge $50-75/hr. (sometimes even more!) And many designers have a minimum to make something worth their while. So your designer may have been quoting $25 as a minimum, or might charge customers $50/hr for custom work, and might figure by the time they email back and forth a little, dig up the original file you wanted, make the changes, plug it into the template, email you, etc. they might have 20-30 minutes of their time into it. Also if someone wants something done that involves an expensive program not everyone has, it doesn't matter if the task itself took 5 minutes; you're also chipping in toward the program and the hours of practice that made that person able to do that so quickly.

On ebay if you charge $25 for a custom logo, it's high, but that's a STEAL for offline work.

I'm struggling with myself somewhat that I'm trying to put my graphics and photo skills to use in another way, and I hate to give myself almost nothing for my time/talent, but I want to generate some sales too.

If I sell the same designs more than once, I can lower my prices on those some, and maybe generate more sales. I don't want to give away one of a kind work, but I don't want to make it and have it sit forever either.

(She says, her wallet still smarting from her latest software upgrades.)

I know there are other designers on here too and I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes. I'm hoping to get a better fix on what people want so I have a better idea of how to offer things.

If I were seeking a new logo, it would definitely be custom designed (that is, if I had the money!).

If I didn't have my graphic art talents, I would definitely seek a custom design. Mine is simple, but it's mine. If I didn't have the know-how, I would pay for it.

I can pay to have someone do that? Geez, and I spent over an hour with my stinkin card maker software and my extremely limited knowledge to make my own... Ok, so now where do I go, who do I pay to make this better? And, how much do you think it should cost? I do kind of like what I have, but I would like it to be more centered, and not have that little bit of white around the top and left.
http://stores.ebay.com/Chiks-Cool-Collectibles-Cafe

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Originally posted by WaitressChik:
I can pay to have someone do that? Geez, and I spent over an hour with my stinkin card maker software and my extremely limited knowledge to make my own... Ok, so now where do I go, who do I pay to make this better? And, how much do you think it should cost? I do kind of like what I have, but I would like it to be more centered, and not have that little bit of white around the top and left.
http://stores.ebay.com/Chiks-Cool-Collectibles-Cafe

There are lots of places to get logo's done!

I had Kathy from www.KWKDesigns.com do mine but I have now ventured into doing my own, with Kathy as my teacher of course.

Anyway I'm currently offering this service as well.

So as far as I can tell there are at least 3 of us offering this service here at Auctiva!

But I guess it the one who starts the threads and yells the loudest that will get the work.

For the best service I highly recommend Kathy at the link posted above. She's been doing this along time and she is really great at what she does

Danielle,

Don't sell yourself short!

You did a New Year logo for me and I was VERY pleased! VERY VERY Pleased!

Danielle does great work..and There's KWK, Starry and FlightofFancy, too!

Best of Luck Waitress,
Donna

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But I guess it the one who starts the threads and yells the loudest that will get the work.

I assure you that's not the case!

I hesitated to start this because I'm kind of shy and didn't want to look like I was doing shameless advertising, but I really did want to get some ideas of what people wanted.

Danielle, you are very talented! I haven't seen your logos, but if they are anything like your templates, don't worry! If you haven't started already, I think you should be selling templates

I offer custom logo design on my Auctiva Store for $20 if anyone is still looking for this service...

Cheers.

Chickaboom

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charge me $25 to recolor a topper.

What is a topper?

And $20 for a logo is an incredibly good price.