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Hi everyone. This is Stefan from projectlifemastery.com. In this video,
I am going to walk you through step-by-step how to get a logo designed for your product,
your business, your brand or whatever it is you might need a logo for. In this
video, I am going to show you specifically how to get a logo designed by using 99designs.
99designs is the go to website that I've used throughout the past
few years to get logos designed for my products, my business or
whatever it might be. The great thing with 99designs is what you're doing is
you're essentially hosting a contest online where you will be able to attract a
lot of really talented graphic designers that will submit
their concept to you on the website, and you'll be able to provide feedback,
pick and choose out of many different concepts which I find to be very
valuable and very important in getting a logo designed. With 99designs, it does
cost a little bit more money to get a logo designed as opposed to going just to
maybe an individual graphics designer that you might be able to find inexpensively
online, but the challenge that I found just by going to one graphics designer, is that
you're only getting really one concept, whereas by using 99designs,
you're attracting many different graphics designers, you're getting a lot of different
ideas and concepts that you can pick and choose from and you can even have your
friends and other people that you might know provide feedback on the logos. I'm
actually right now in the process of designing a new logo for a new product
that I'm creating called Affiliate Marketing Mastery. I've already mentioned this in
previous video blogs about this online training program that I'm developing a
new product, that's going to help people get started making money online with
affiliate marketing. I thought you know what? As part of this video series
I want to be transparent with you guys, I am going to show you guys the process of getting
the logo designed, and I'm probably going to even reach out to you guys ask for
a feedback on the logo concepts that are submitted, and have you guys vote and
maybe pick the log for me. Stay tuned to the end of this video, you'll learn a little
bit more about that and I'll share a little bit more about the logos that I
get created and ask for your feedback
on it. Here I am at 99designs and I need a logo done. I've already signed up
for an account that I've been using for a while now. Click on get started and 99designs
by the way is great for a lot of different stuff. You can get web
designs, tons of different graphic stuff done, but I'm just going to pick a logo design. They start
at $299 which might seem like a lot, but I've always viewed it as worth it
because I think the logo is very important in representing your brand and
your product. Can help sell the product and brand as well. You don't want to cheap
out when it comes to a logo. Invest in quality.
The great thing with 99designs is they are going to ask me some questions to help
identify the style that I like. They have some examples of different designs
that I might like that I can pick and choose from, to help identify my style.
I've already actually picked a bunch already, but you can basically just pick
and choose which ones you like.
I've already done this already. They've got in different in logo designs that you can
pick and choose and they're just going to again help identify what style that you like.
Now I can filter the style a little bit more. This is very helpful with
providing this information to graphics designers, because it will help them
design what it is you want. I like more modern designs. I'd say more in between
mature and youthful, because I wanted the logo to be somehow professional. I don't want
it just to be childish or like a cartoon sort of thing. Masculine and feminine I'll put even because
my demographic is both 50/50. Playful or sophisticated. You know what? I think I don't
know playful would really work for affiliate marketing mastery. I'm going to go a
little bit more sophisticated. Economical or luxurious, I'm going to go a little bit
luxurious, because I want it to represent something of quality, something that is
high-end which I aim for with all the products that I create and I am going to leave these ones more in
the middle. Hit continue.
It's going to ask colors to explore. Pick up the 3 colors a slightly blue
here and each color has different meaning to it. Blue is more
knowledge, trust, calm and honesty. This aquas color is empathy, compassion, clarity
and precision. Green is growth, harmony and success.
Purple is imagination, spirituality, royalty and luxury. Pink, reds let's see. I think I like
the black and I'm just going to select let designer make suggestion and blue.
Those are the main colors. I wouldn't mind green as well but I can only choose three.
Let's just ... You know what? I'll select green here. Continue and by the way, that right there
is just showing the meaning of different colors. That's really
valuable right there. A lot of people don't realize that when creating a logo or a
website, how depending on the product or whatever your brand is about, you want the
right colors to reflect that. Very important. Background information so that
the name that I want on the logo is Affiliate Marketing Mastery. By the way I got
the domain for this as well. If you want to be actually on the waiting list
for it by the way, just go to affiliatemarketingmastery.com. I'll notify you when the
program is actually ready. Describe what your organization or product does and its
target audience. Step-by-step online video training program to teach
people how to make money online with affiliate marketing. Target audience is
men and women of all ages
interested in learning how to get started making money online. Industry,
there is a lot of different ones but I just pick business and consulting. I don't have a
slogan for this, maybe I'll think of one later or if you guys have ideas leave a comment.
Love to know your thoughts on maybe a good slogan.
You can actually add all the stuff later too. You can actually change it if you
want. Do you need more than one logo? No, I'm just going to start with the basic logo. Anything else
I'd like to communicate to the designer? This is really useful if you have
other examples of logos that you like that you can provide, but what I
like to do is I like to put in my contest out there and see what I get. you know like I
I don't want limit the designers too much because maybe they're going
to come up with something amazing I never thought of that they might submit
and I might be blown away by that. If I start giving them a lot of examples,
they're going to try to make a logo look like that, and I want really in the
beginning just to receive as many different concepts as possible so that I
can pick and choose and decide from there and then I can narrow it down later.
Cool, I have 100% money back guarantee too which is awesome. Continue and I can
always add more and update this later. Which design package do I want? Let's see
here. The cheapest is 299
and you'll get about 30 designs, good designers, money back guarantee. I think in the
past I've done silver and gold. I don't think I've ever done bronze. Gold is most popular, let's see. You can basically
get more designs. As I mentioned 99designs works, is just like a
contest. The more money that you put up, then more designers you are going
to attract to the contest, because there is more incentive for designers to submit
their concept. Gold is good to attract more expert designers, because you are
going to attract the higher quality designers as opposed to the bronze. They're really good
designers. They're going to be like 300 bucks is not worthwhile to them, so
they're probably not going to be that invested in that. I'll probably go with
gold for this one, because I really want expert designers. Although the design I'm looking
for is not sophisticated really. I'm actually looking for something a little bit more simpler,
but I think I will go with gold
and then there is platinum as well which is only the best.
I'll go with gold. Contest title. This is what's going to attract people to the
contest. How about let's see, write a descriptive contest title to attract more designers.
Design the new affiliate marketing mastery logo. I can't really think of anything really captivating right now. I'm just going to put that for now. Promoting it, costs more
money to promote it. They have a list of people. I've never promoted it
before in the past, so I'm just going to use the basics they have, but if you really want to
attract more designers, then they have extra packages and incentives for that.
Guaranteeing the contest, I found this the very important. When you basically
guarantee the contest, you can't get your money back. There is no money back
guarantee, but when you guarantee it, you'll get way more designers, because they
know that the money is guaranteed. When you don't guarantee it, you will have
people that will submit concepts but they not going to be that invested, because
you can back out at any time. You can ask for your money back if you don't see
anything that you like. When you guarantee it,
then designers know, they know for sure that you're serious and that you're more
likely to pick them and to earn money from it. What I did in the past
several years ago as I didn't guarantee a contest and I talked to
99designs I was like hey guys, I'm not that happy with what I'm getting.
The designs are not that high quality, but they say you want to guarantee it if you really
want to be serious and attract the serious designers. Ever since I did
that, and I've done that many times since, I've always gotten way more high-quality
designs and way more designers. I find this to be a must, don't go at 99...
designs ...
You got to go all in if you want the logo done. You want something of
quality. Just guarantee it, that's what I found to be very important and you
will get something you're happy with. 99designs is actually really helpful. I
remember for me they extended the contest and they actually I think before they even
highlight, they added some extra bonuses for free for me. If you're not
happy, they'll help you out which is really cool.
Blind contest. This is something that is important for some designers. I had
this one designer one time. He wanted me to put it blind because he did want
the other designers to copy
their ideas, and some designers submit really amazing
concepts and if they can see other people's work and the feedback
that you're giving, then a lot of designers won't like that and
they are not going to submit their best work. I usually make it a blind
contest. Let's see, invitation only,
no. Private contest, no. White-label, no. Again these are other options. Again if you're interested
in it, but I think I'm good. 7 days, that's a good period of time. Continue. The next
part is to put in your credit card information and all your details so you
can order so I'm just going to put that in right now.
That's it. Payment has been done. They're going to email the receipt to me. I'm going to hit
continue. Congrats on launching the contest. They have some
information here. There is different rounds. There's first the qualifying round
and everything. As you receive concepts, you basically get feedback on the
different concepts and logos that you're receiving. You're going to basically be able
to say what you like, what you don't like and rate each logo that you're getting
and you can even basically ignore certain logos as well and then you're going to pick which
ones after 4 days go on to the next round. Which designers, which concepts
you like move on to the next round. Then you are going to select the final list. You can
pick up the 6 designers to continue working on the final round and
then you get to the final round. The final round is basically where you
choose the winner. There is a lot of back and forth in
the process of getting a logo designed, because you're always giving feedback and all that, but basically you pick and
choose, you select the winner,
the design that you like the most. The great thing is, before I get to that point,
I'm want to get to the final rounds and stuff. I'll put up maybe
another YouTube video and ask you guys for feedback. I'll let you guys vote as
well which design or which concept you like the most, and that will help me move
forward as well. Once I pick the final winner,
then they're going to send me the files. They'll send me all the different files
and everything for the logo, and that's basically it. Right now there is no
designs. I may have to wait maybe by the end of today or tomorrow I should
have a lot of different concepts, but within four days is when I receive the
most logos. I'll continue this video by showing some of the different
concepts and logos that come up as well as an additional video as well that will
share the final logo that I get designed and what I pick. This is
part two of this video on creating a logo with 99designs for affiliate
Marketing Mastery. It's now been a week since I created the original part of
this video showing how to create the contest with 99designs. Over the
last week, as you can see here I had over 487 design concepts that have been
submitted for affiliate marketing mastery for my logo. I have been
very busy the last week going through all of these concepts and giving
feedback on each one of them. I also invited a lot of other designers to my
contest, which is another option the 99designs provide. For example, you can
find other designers, discover them, and you can send them a message and invite them to
your contest. You can invite up to 50 people a day. I probably invited like 100
plus people to my contest just because I wanted even more designers,
more concepts, more ideas that I can utilize. Right now I'm in the
qualifying round. There's different rounds of your contest. The first one is
just anybody can submit their concept, and then you are going to select six
finalists. That's the phase that I'm in right now. Selected six different
designers that I like. I like the concept that they came up and now I'm just
continuing for the next two days or so just going over their designs and giving more
feedback. What I'm going to be doing, is I'm going to be creating a poll. You create
polls right here and I am going to basically pick maybe the top three, top four, top five, top six
designs and I'm going to make it available on my YouTube channel, my blog, on my email list, and I'm going to ask
people for feedback. I want to ask you guys
from the poll and have you guys vote on which logo that you like best,
so that I can get your input and that will be the logo that I'll decide to go
forward with for Affiliate Marketing Mastery. That will be in another video,
but let me just show you some of the concepts and how to get feedback on
them. These are some of the latest ones that have been submitted. This is the
designer, this guy right here and he's just giving me a bunch of different variations
which I love because you just get so many different ideas, different fonts and
everything.
The main concept ... I'll show you just a few, the main concept I'm going for is
basically having a laptop, because a laptop can represent the internet lifestyle,
the laptop lifestyle, being able to travel, being able to have freedom.
Playing around with having like palm trees or something like that too.
I'm not totally sold on that yet and having
dollar signs or money or something like that in the laptop. That's
going to be interesting concept as well. We're playing around with that a little bit
more, but you can see these ones here have a laptop and the palm trees.
Here is another one. Different concept a laptop and palm trees. I might get rid of the palm tree
though. Affiliate Marketing Mastery. There's a lot to choose from.
That's the challenge. Here is another cool one. Has a keyboard
with a money sign. Let's see and some people it's cool what they can do
with logos and stuff. Here is a cool one. It's got a laptop with money and there is like an
airplane around. I really like the font on this one too. You can see that you
can give feedback so you can either eliminate the design if you don't like
it at all. You pick how many stars and you can leave comments and give them feedback.
These people are like machines when it comes to graphics design and logo
design, because I'll give them feedback and in like two hours later, they're going to
have like five more concepts and deliver on the feedback. They're really
motivated to win the contest which I love, because I hate working with
graphics people that take forever,
they're unresponsive, they're unreliable. Here you have a lot more
options. Here is a similar one. The airplane is there, the palm tree is there. Here is
another one the laptop, palm tree. I got a lot of different options.
These are the main one we've been narrowing down so far. There is one here it's
it's a little bit more simple. I'm not sure of that one as much… This one has got
like a money bag although I'm not sure. That's not the main thing of what the program is
about. A lot of different concepts, different colors. I wish I can show you
guys the like 400 plus that I've gotten, but these are the best ones that
I've liked so far, and like I said I'd do another video and send out a poll for
you guys to vote and give feedback and what I narrow it down to even further.
I'm going to continue giving feedback, but I love to get you guys' feedback as
Keep your eyes up for the next video from me asking for your feedback and to
vote on which logo that you like best, but in a nutshell, that's how 99designs
works. I've been more than satisfied with it. I've got a lot of great concepts and logos,
and the great thing with 99designs is that they really take good
care of their customers. If you aren't totally happy with what you're
getting let them know, and they'll actually promote even further for
you. They'll give you some extra upgrades and features. They'll extend your contest for
more people to submit their designs and concepts and what not.
They'll really help you out that's why I recommend them and had
such a good positive experience with them. That's 99designs guys.
That's the logo process. Keep your eyes up for the next video. Make sure to like this video if you've enjoyed it,
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Marketing Mastery when it becomes available,
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