We've went over how to find clients and how to have clients find you in logo design.
Another way to find work is to use third party websites, but there's
pros and cons for that. So I'm just going to go over couple of these. dribbble.com. It has a
jobs board. Some of these are full-time part-time or remote anywhere where you
can work even if you're not in the area of the business that you'd be working for.
That's just another portfolio site that you might want to check out but it does have
jobs on there and some of them, I think, look pretty good but there's some like, it used
to be odesk, now it's upwork. That one you might want to check out. You might want to
check out fiverr, freelancer.com. The problem though, sometimes, not always, but
sometimes, is that these don't pay very well. I would say always, some of these
don't pay very well. Like fiverr, you know their whole thing is they start work
at five dollars and then they take a cut so you get about four bucks for
designing a logo. So that's not very much. You kind of get what you pay for sometimes.
Sometimes people are just using clip art, I've heard or they create stuff and
they're just trying to go for quantity rather than quality. So they do a lot of
Gigs, what are called Gigs on here. It is possible to build a portfolio if you're starting out.
You could try this just to get more clients and to build your portfolio to
show people that you can do really good design but if you have a portfolio and you
have a couple of examples already, I would say it's better to just do work for
traditional clients. You might find some good paying Gigs on here, good paying
jobs on upwork or freelancer. I'm not saying it's not possible but a lot of times in
the creative areas you get what I call kind of a race to the bottom mentality.
So you have people willing to outbid each other and just say, hey I'll do this
work for practically free so if a logo is taking you a couple days to create,
you're doing the research, you're doing the design, the consultation, which a lot of that
you might not do with the site like this. You know, if you're just getting $4, that's,
even if it took you one hour, that's not minimum wage, at least in the US and many
other countries as well. So there are pros and cons. I suggest, that's just my advice.
Use one of these sites if you really just need a lot of portfolio examples.
You're getting started, you don't have any examples, you've created things for
your friends already but you just want to branch out and create other work so that
you can build your portfolio.
Well, use one of these sites and use it to create some initial work but then,
once you have a really good portfolio, you want to just start charging, just my
suggestion, is to start charging a lot more than $5 a logo. I mean add a 0 or
even one more. You know, charge $50 or charge $500 for a logo. Say it's a non-profit. You just
want to do it at a discounted rate of 50, OK. You know, if it's a business,
charge them 500, great. So that's the pros and cons. The pros are that you
might find well-paying work in some of these but some of them, it's going to be really
really low compensation. So that's a pro and con. A pro though is that it will
help you build your portfolio. In the next lesson we'll be going over another
way to build your portfolio and that is logo design contest. Some of them pay,
some of them don't. Some of them are specific to one area for participants
while others aren't but check that out as well. I'll see you in that lesson.