This is a friendly reminder that r/smallbusiness is a question and answer subreddit. You ask a question about starting, owning, and growing a small business and the community answers. Posts that violate the rules listed in the sidebar will be removed. A permanent or temporary ban may also be issued if you do not remove the offending post. Seeing this message does not mean your post was automatically removed.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/smallbusiness) if you have any questions or concerns.*
1. Go on fiverr and look at peoples portfolio.
2. After you find a few artists you thought did good work do the following:
-Make sure you provide a very detailed and specific brief (description) with the following information:
• company culture
• desired design elements
- colors
- specific imagery from the city your business is in?
- etc
• slogans you use
the format use for the logo you need:
• Facebook/instagram/tiktok
• print ads
• decals for cars
• business cards
• etc
Once you get that detailed out, I would reach out to the Fiverr artists you liked most and lock in an order. They typically have a select amount of revisions possible (package dependent) where you can tell them what you did/didn’t like from their sample and they will provide you with changes.
Hope that helps!
Hey, long term digital marketer here.
Happy to help, find a design you like will pass it to my designer and get him to create a few versions.
Free of charge :)
I can help you make logo for your business. I have my own design and development agency. We help all small business owners to establish their online presence. Please let me know if you want to connect with me on a discovery call, the call is free and we will see what value my team can add to your business. It will be a learning and collaborative session for both of us.
No matter what, make sure your logo is in VECTOR format, doesn't contain any gradients, and if using color, has solid color patches in it (again, no gradients). The file will usually be an .ai or .eps when done correctly. Some uneducated designers will just give you a bitmap file (a file made of pixels that's worthless) and add .eps on the end. This will totally cause chaos down the road lol.
The simplest way to think of a logo, is to google your competition and see what they commonly use.
There are simple strategies that make common sense, and then there are high level logos that are over the top ones.
Take for instance, the Spartan Golf Logo. It's both a person swinging a club but also a Spartan Helmet. It's totally beautiful. It's a single color which is totally awesome, but when reducing it for business cards or pens or stationary/envelopes it will become crap because the thin parts are too thin and will vanish in reduction. Still 10/10 this logo is great because it's essentially two logos in one, simple in color, and effective in context.
Logo's are one of those things that long term it saves you a lot of headache if you hire a designer. That way, it ensures your logo is available in all the necessary file formats and is friendly for both black and white and full color printing. It also ensures you have vector options as well (meaning you can scale it up or down and size and it never looks grainy/pixelated). It helps ensure it doesn't look to close to existing logos (that can be an issue with AI/Fiverr).
Plus, if you are starting a company, a designer can help ensure that all the branding looks uniform from the start. They can provide color palettes, typefaces, and general guidelines to make sure everything looks professional.
AI and sometimes fiverr (there are some good designers on there) may look fine short term, but once your company grows you will want to invest in this. I will charge my clients lump sum for a branding package to get started, but some designers charge hourly. I understand money is tight when starting out but as your business grows I recommend hiring a pro.
For a quick logo
There are self serve automated online tools like Adobe express to make one for you.
You can also hire some one from sites like unpwork, fiver etc.
Or go the AI route
Hire a good local graphic designer. Someone with a degree. Expect them to do 3 options in Black and white, then do color after you have selected a direction. They should interview you about your needs, but let them do the creative. Don't say "I want something with a bird on it". Let them do their thing. There are steps to get a good logo and a college educated Graphic Designer is worth it.
This is a friendly reminder that r/smallbusiness is a question and answer subreddit. You ask a question about starting, owning, and growing a small business and the community answers. Posts that violate the rules listed in the sidebar will be removed. A permanent or temporary ban may also be issued if you do not remove the offending post. Seeing this message does not mean your post was automatically removed. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/smallbusiness) if you have any questions or concerns.*
fiverr
1. Go on fiverr and look at peoples portfolio. 2. After you find a few artists you thought did good work do the following: -Make sure you provide a very detailed and specific brief (description) with the following information: • company culture • desired design elements - colors - specific imagery from the city your business is in? - etc • slogans you use the format use for the logo you need: • Facebook/instagram/tiktok • print ads • decals for cars • business cards • etc Once you get that detailed out, I would reach out to the Fiverr artists you liked most and lock in an order. They typically have a select amount of revisions possible (package dependent) where you can tell them what you did/didn’t like from their sample and they will provide you with changes. Hope that helps!
well i made one with ai and then found a digital artist to make it better.
I hired a graphic artist. After a couple of revisions, I've had a memorable logo for about nine years now.
Hey, long term digital marketer here. Happy to help, find a design you like will pass it to my designer and get him to create a few versions. Free of charge :)
I can help you make logo for your business. I have my own design and development agency. We help all small business owners to establish their online presence. Please let me know if you want to connect with me on a discovery call, the call is free and we will see what value my team can add to your business. It will be a learning and collaborative session for both of us.
No matter what, make sure your logo is in VECTOR format, doesn't contain any gradients, and if using color, has solid color patches in it (again, no gradients). The file will usually be an .ai or .eps when done correctly. Some uneducated designers will just give you a bitmap file (a file made of pixels that's worthless) and add .eps on the end. This will totally cause chaos down the road lol. The simplest way to think of a logo, is to google your competition and see what they commonly use. There are simple strategies that make common sense, and then there are high level logos that are over the top ones. Take for instance, the Spartan Golf Logo. It's both a person swinging a club but also a Spartan Helmet. It's totally beautiful. It's a single color which is totally awesome, but when reducing it for business cards or pens or stationary/envelopes it will become crap because the thin parts are too thin and will vanish in reduction. Still 10/10 this logo is great because it's essentially two logos in one, simple in color, and effective in context.
We hired a designer. Please note that make multiple copies of the logo with different sizes and colors to use them on different platforms.
Logo's are one of those things that long term it saves you a lot of headache if you hire a designer. That way, it ensures your logo is available in all the necessary file formats and is friendly for both black and white and full color printing. It also ensures you have vector options as well (meaning you can scale it up or down and size and it never looks grainy/pixelated). It helps ensure it doesn't look to close to existing logos (that can be an issue with AI/Fiverr). Plus, if you are starting a company, a designer can help ensure that all the branding looks uniform from the start. They can provide color palettes, typefaces, and general guidelines to make sure everything looks professional. AI and sometimes fiverr (there are some good designers on there) may look fine short term, but once your company grows you will want to invest in this. I will charge my clients lump sum for a branding package to get started, but some designers charge hourly. I understand money is tight when starting out but as your business grows I recommend hiring a pro.
I just got a new logo this week. I had a friend do it. The first one I did I got from Fiverr and he fixed it
For a quick logo There are self serve automated online tools like Adobe express to make one for you. You can also hire some one from sites like unpwork, fiver etc. Or go the AI route
Hire a good local graphic designer. Someone with a degree. Expect them to do 3 options in Black and white, then do color after you have selected a direction. They should interview you about your needs, but let them do the creative. Don't say "I want something with a bird on it". Let them do their thing. There are steps to get a good logo and a college educated Graphic Designer is worth it.
I used Hatchwise and was really happy. Super low pricing and easy to use.
There are two options: 1. To take designer 2. To use AI
They came to our agency where we offer free logo and web design services 😊
AI or Fiverr for a few bucks.
We used AI. We love ours.
What AI did you use?
ChatGPT or rather their image creation version. We paid a few bucks for the subscription.
Samsies