I’ve been following with interest the thread (and other related ones) about 99 designs, free design templates and competitions etc, some interesting points raised and  i’d love to have your opinions on this:

Throughout my career (and i’m sure i’m not alone!), as a designer up to creative director for predominately London based design and advertising agencies, I have tried to add value to all client relationships and tried to always focus on the work & client business objectives rather than the cost.

This has not always gone down too well with my bosses but my feeling was that if we focused on the long-term value of the agency/client relationship, helping our clients achieve their business objectives without quoting £xxxx every time we moved a mouse,  that this approach would be recognised, leading to a stronger relationship with our clients , where their success would be ours.

Similarly, outside of work, I have used my skills and experience to help friends & family, from websites to wedding invites!, In both cases being helpful and useful has been worthwhile and rewarding.

In part due to the present economic climate, where people are losing their job’s, budgets are being cut and money is limited, and in part due to a belief that their may be a better way of working I have set up a design agency with a difference.

Aimed initially at the start-up groups I’m involved with, Mash interactive extends the notion of being useful, helpful and focused on value rather than cost. 

To this end, Mash does not  charge for the work  we do, rather,  we invite our clients to pay what they can afford or what they believe the job is worth to their business, after the work is satisfactorily completed. Simple as that, if our clients are happy and successful, we feel we will be to!

The url is www.mashinteractive.com and it should be pretty self-explanatory what we do. I’d love to hear your thoughts, comments, opinions, either on the blog or emailed here, many thanks in advance!

Kind regards

Doug

Hi,

Our designer anwered with

http://www.design.org.au/content.cfm?id=245

http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/The-Business-of-Design2/Winning-business/

= free pitching is not a solid method for a company.

Larry

 

On 4/3/09, Nick Barker <[address removed]> wrote:

Hi Jon/Harddeep

I’ve used both 99Designs & Elance for logos – here are my experiences, guidelines and advice on both:

Using 99Designs: Sourcing low cost logo designs – PART 2
Sourcing low cost logo designs – PART 1

Hope it helps

Best

Nick

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Hardeep Rai <[address removed]> wrote:

Hi Jon,

 

I have a good friend that has used www.99designs.com. When he showed me his end product I could not believe he’d only paid US$300 for it ! It was logo and a business card. Very impressive.

I think the way it works is that various freelancers read your profile and then produce a mock up. You can then say what you like / don’t like and they fine tune it until you get what you want.

 

I’ve not used it myself yet, but when I’m ready – I’ve always thought that would be my first port of call….

What attracts me to it is that there are a number of people pitching for your business. Needless to say – some of these will not be any good – but some of them will be…

Thanks.

 

Hardeep.

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