CAN I MAKE MONEY ONLINE DESIGNING LOGOS?
Do you really think you can make money online from logo designs? or Do you know what is called a logo? Okay let me start by defining a logo. A logo is a symbol or design adopted by an organization, business or individual to identify its products and services. It is a way of promoting a business identity or brand and a person that designs a logo is called a “logo designer”.
Would you like to be a logo designer? Do you know how to use the computer? Can you play around with the mouse? Can you type with the keyboard? Did I hear you say “yes” then congratulations as you’re on your way to make money on the internet through logo designing.
Have you seen the Google’s logo of recent? Do you notice that it keeps changing almost everytime? That’s because they keep changing their logo to fit latest happenings around the world.
The tweaking of the “Google” letters is wonderful that’s the handiwork of some logo designers! Have you also seen the Apple macbook logo? I mean the apple icon? Have you seen the Yahoo logo as well, Facebook, HP or Dell or Toyota motors, samsung, etc…
Do you know that you can make lots of money online designing logos? There are lots of individuals, companies, websites who will actually pay you if you can design a logo for them.
Some may pay you between $250 and $1000 or even more per one logo designed, especially if you are lucky to meet big companies that need logo. What if you can complete 3 logo design jobs @ $250 per week, at month end you should be realizing not less than $3000. Not bad hey! Then you should seriously consider delving into logo creations as soon as possible as you are guaranteed of making real money on the internet doing this business.
WHAT MAKES A GOOD LOGO?
There are five basic factors to be considered when creating a good logo for your client, which are;
1. Creativity; Creativity is key when designing a great logo as you’ll need to think outside the box while designing logos. Bearing in mind that there are millions of designers competing with you and you’ll need to stand out with your design.
2. Simplicity; A good logo must be simple and should not be too complex or flambouyant! It must be able to pass a message to those who sees it and mustn’t have more than two choice colours.
3. Relevance; A good logo should not in any way go out of trend irrespective of the time it was created. A good logo should still be relevant even if it was created several years back, maybe a little tweak “here and there” but not something entirely different from what it once were. Take for instance, the Coca-Cola logo which is still very relevant!
4. Memorable; A good logo must be attractive enough and memorable in the sense that if the eyes should see it once. It is something one can easily remember for time to come.
5. Resizeable; A great logo must be resizeable to any length such that you if you decide to use it on badges, tee-shirts, face-caps, mugs, ID cards, etc…it’ll still fit in.
A logo I created sometime ago
WHY ARE LOGO DESIGNERS IN DEMAND OR WHY DO PEOPLE NEED LOGOS?
Some companies may need to have their logos redesigned and therefore will be looking for designers who can actually give them what they want in terms of logo creation. On the other hand, some new companies/businesses springing up may need to create a logo for their businesses because their logo is like their identity.
WHAT IF I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DESIGN A LOGO?
Well, if you are new to this industry or if you’re just hearing about it for the first time. Not to worry, we all have first time! All you need do is visit youtube and watch as many as possible logo designing tutorials from experts and you can even download them, save it to your computer and watch at a later time.
You can also visit some logo desiging sites like www.davidairey.com, www.justcreativedesign.com where you can learn the rudiments of designing a logo.
HOW DO I GET SOFTWARE TO CREATE LOGOS?
For you set to off your logo creation enterprise, you’ll need softwares that will help do that and there are some very powerful logo creation softwares which will help make your work easier by creating stunning logos in no time at all.
Softwares like this are Corel Draw{any version will do}, Adobe Illustrator{Cs5 prefferable} and Adobe Photoshop{latest version prefferable} respectively. These three are unarguably the most powerful logo creation tools around.
There are two options of getting these softwares; it is either you buy them or get them free. You can purchase them or get free trials by searching Google, you can search in these format “Software name+free” or “free;Software name” plus there are sites you can get them for free and full version!
Now you have the knowledge, you have the software, the next thing you’ll need to know is the place you get clients that’ll pay you for your efforts. Websites such as www.logomyway.com and www.99designs.net will be a very good place to start!
WHAT IF I DON’T LIKE TO DESIGN LOGOS CAN I STILL MAKE MONEY ONLINE?
Of course! You can still make money online by outsourcing it. What you’ll do is look for people who can design logos, give them the job, pay them off and collect your share. Everybody is happy! Cool, isn’t it?
You can even take this further by seeking for logo designing jobs offline, yes offline! You can approach new or old businesses, organizations, schools, churches and tell them that you’ll create a logo for them or redesign their logo at a very reduced fee.
Make sure you’ll have some copies of logos you’ve created for other clients or for yourself in the past either in printed form, flash drive or CD format so that you can easily slot it in and show them your previous work. With this you’re guaranteed of getting more jobs aside online and you’ll even make quick money doing this.
Now! What are you waiting for, add some value to yourself by getting some basic knowledge on logo creation and start making “really cool” money online from today.