Big Reveal! 🌟 Launching the LogoArena Marketplace!

[LogoArena]

Hello designers,

It’s time to unveil an exciting new chapter for LogoArena:

The launch of our new Design Marketplace!

With our Marketplace, we are entering a whole new era for LogoArena. We are expanding our horizon beyond logos, presenting a marketplace that offers unlimited new design possibilities.

A Design Marketplace Beyond Logos

Our marketplace will open doors to new categories, giving you the ability to offer a wider range of services. From social media graphics to print-ready posters, your creativity can now open up to many more design

Increase Your Earnings

More categories mean more opportunities to monetize your talent. Attract a broader audience and increase your earnings as you expand your service offerings. You have full control over the package pricing. Craft custom projects, offering Bronze, Silver, and Gold packages that outline exactly what the client will receive. It’s your portfolio, your choice.

How It Works: From Concept-to-Completion

Same familiar LogoArena, with an upgrade. The process will be a two-phase journey. First, the concept phase, where you align with the client’s vision. Next, the design phase, where your concepts come to life.

• Concept Phase: In this phase you present clients with a set number of design concepts/directions to choose from. For example, you can set 3 concepts for Bronze pack, 5 for Silver and 10 for Gold.

• Design Phase: Once a winning concept is selected by the client, you’ll continue to work on detailed designs based on the winning concept.

• Finalization: Once designs are approved, you upload the final files.

1:1 Projects vs. Arena Projects

For now, Marketplace projects will always be between a single designer and the client purchasing the project. But, we are already working on an exciting upgrade of making Arena Projects, which will follow the same familiar contest format that makes our platform so unique.

Opening Soon for Designers

Next week, we’re opening up the Marketplace for you to upload your projects. You can start preparing the assets and projects information following the details below.

1. Project information and cover image

Provide a clear title and description about your project, explaining what the client will receive when working with you. Upload a cover image (1000X750px) to showcase what a demo of the delivery.

2. Package settings

Define the specifics of each package, including number of concepts, detailed designs, delivery time and the total price. Each field has a detailed info description when you hove

3.Client requirements

Ask clients for questions, and add frequently asked questions and answers.

4. Review and submit for approval

When your project is all set, submit the project to review by our moderation team.

We can’t wait to see your creative services on our Marketplace!

Feel free to ask any questions you may have, and we recommend getting started with preparing your offering (especially the cover images). You’ll be able to upload projects next week, and we plan to open up the Marketplace to clients in two weeks time.

Cheers to new beginnings

Daniel & Aviel

[LogoArena]

If all goes as planned we’ll be opening up the marketplace to designers tomorrow. Get ready!

[RetroMetro_Steve]

On first blush, this looks like it could give serious competition to sites like 99d. Congrats!!!

[LogoArena]

Hello designers – the Marketplace soft launch phase is live!

You’ll now find a new Marketplace tab in your account dashboard, where you can create and submit projects for review here: https://www.logoarena.com/account?tab=marketplace

[LogoArena]

After publishing for review, your project will appear here:

And you can review how your project will look like once published:

[LogoArena]

For reference, you can find an example approved project here:

https://www.logoarena.com/marketplace/mockups/project/Zip%20Bag%20Mockups%20(Example)-n1

[LogoArena]

Our first Marketplace project has just been approved, congrats @sdotype

Great to see the submitted projects so far, keep them coming!

[sdotype]

maybe add share button, so I can post on my social media or share link direct to my client.

[LogoArena]

Good idea, thanks. We will add it. How was the overall experience so far? Primarily creating the project?

[RetroMetro_Steve]

I see a problem: making public the price of any given project sets a precedent which other designers may not wish to follow. Speaking for myself, the price for the business card project shown above represents less than one hour of my time IRL. Concept generation (x3), execution of each, upload, dialogue at each step of the way, handover of final files, etc…

Of course a designer wants to be able to establish their own pricing, but not all designers will agree as to what that should be. I see this as leading to a ‘race-to-the-bottom’ scenario - a client-side benefit, perhaps, but a bad thing ultimately for the designers.

Perhaps what is needed is discussion of final pricing not in a public space where precedent is sure to be established. And maybe, too, there needs to be pre-defined minimum pricing below which no arrangement can be entered into…

I’m imagining a button on the project offering page/public page that says something like “Press here to Receive Your Quote” which could come from LogoArena or the designer via LogoArena

[LogoArena]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, we appreciate your perspective on this!

With the design marketplace, we’re talking about pre-defined projects that the designer is offering the client – with both the deliveries and expectations made clear upfront. So in this case, it’s not a custom project scenario, where a quote is needed.

Regarding pricing, our approach allows designers the freedom to set their prices starting at a minimum of $25 (for example, this could be a “Simple email signature, 1 concept”). This gives designers the flexibility to reflect the quality, requirements, and their professional valuation of the work. Likewise, clients can choose projects that align with their budget and quality expectations.

With that said, we’re not looking to be a ‘low-cost platform’ that compromises on quality by approving every project. That’s why we have a review phase where we take a close look at the project as a whole and decide if it’s a good fit for our platform.

So while a baseline package may be priced more affordably and serve as an entry point for customers to experience our marketplace offerings, we aim to demonstrate the potential and quality of our designer community and encourage customers to continue to more premium packages.

Hope this helps clarify our thinking around this, and as usual, thanks for your valuable insights! We’re looking to make our Marketplace a place where our designer community can thrive, increase their earning potential, and showcase their unique offerings.

[RetroMetro_Steve]

I believe my concerns and all of your objectives can still be met whilst not having pricing broadcast publicly. I should be a fairly simple matter to have a prospective client have to click through for pricing (perhaps including a requirement to provide email contact info).

[LogoArena]

We’re selecting 3 projects to be featured as staff picks during our initial Design Marketplace launch.

To be considered for a staff pick, you need to:

1. Submit your project by May 31th
2. Have it approved by June 10th

Quick links:

• Create your Marketplace project
• Review approved Marketplace projects

Don’t miss out!

As our marketplace grows, clients will have the ability to sort projects by popularity. Having your project featured during launch will give it valuable extra exposure.

[LogoArena]

Due to a bug – designers couldn’t create new projects during the past week. We have now fixed the issue, and extended the deadline for submission until June 30th.

[LogoArena]

Also, notice that in your profile you will see a new Account Status section:

This is because we are starting to approve new designers to the marketplace, but not yet to the logo contests (i.e. there will be designers who are only approved for the marketplace, but not yet to the logo contests).

This is a good time to submit your projects to the marketplace

@LogoArena

We’re selecting 3 projects to be featured as staff picks during our initial Design Marketplace launch.

To be considered for a staff pick, you need to:

1. Submit your project by May 31th
2. Have it approved by June 10th

Quick links:

• Create your Marketplace project
• Review approved Marketplace projects

Don’t miss out!

As our marketplace grows, clients will have the ability to sort projects by popularity. Having your project featured during launch will give it valuable extra exposure.

[LogoArena]

If all goes as planned – The Marketplace will be launching later today

[LogoArena]

Hello designer, LogoArena Design Marketplace is officially live!

Now clients can:

1. Purchase a Design Project with a single designer.
2. Purchase a Design Contest with multiple designers.
3. Create a Custom Design Contests for multiple designers.

Design contests are a bit different than Logo Contests, and have 3 phases:

1. Concepts Phase: In this stage, you will submit top-level ideas and concepts for the design, including the overall style and the look intended for the project. After the client selects their top three concepts, you will move on to creating detailed designs based on these concepts.

2. Runner-ups: During this phase, the three runner-ups will further develop the concepts into detailed designs. Here, you will collaborate closely with the client, refining the designs based on their comments and feedback until everything is perfect. Once a winning design is approved, you will proceed to prepare the final files.

3. Winner: Now that the design is finalized and approved, you will provide a .zip file containing all the necessary assets for the project.

Prize Distribution in Design Contests

• 10% is distributed equally among all designers who submitted a concept.
• 20% is distributed between the three runner-up concepts.
• 70% is given to the winning designer.

The money will be released at the end of the contest, once the client has approved the final files. (Note: all prizes are submitted to the same LogoArena platform fee as in the logo contests).

Visit the new Design Contests page to view all live Design Contests.

[LogoArena]

We have just launched our very first Custom Marketplace Contest!

LogoArena Designer Badges:

https://www.logoarena.com/marketplace/order/LogoArena%20Badges%20Design-n1

This is your opportunity to leave your creative mark on LogoArena’s legacy.

Let the design contest begin!

[LogoArena]

To follow up on a few questions we received,

For our first design contest we are looking for badges designs, to celebrate achievements on LogoArena.

For example, a creative badge design for celebrating how long a designer is on LogoArena, and the badge design should have a placeholder for a small number - 1, 2, 3… for each new year. Each year that passes, you unlock the next badge.

Or another example, we’re looking for creative design badges to celebrate the designer level on LogoArena. So we’re looking for a Level badge for: Arena Rookie, Arena Warrior, Arena Gladiator, Arena Master, Arena Legend. For these, we don’t need a number placeholder.

How do design contests work?

In the concept phase, you submit 1-3 options for style and concept direction. If one of your concepts it chosen, you move up to the next stage, where you submit fine tuned designs based on your winning concept.

All participates are guaranteed a 10% split of the contest prize, runner ups designs get 20% split, and winning design gets 70% (subjected to LogoArena fees).

What we are looking for in the first contest:

We are looking for 10 badges, to celebrate designer achivements on LogoArena. The badges are:

1. Level (Arena Rookie, Arena Warrior, Arena Gladiator, Arena Master, Arena Legend)
2. Shortlisted (1, 10, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000+)
3. Wins (1, 10, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500+)
4. Time on LogoArena (1 year, 2 years…)
5. Created a marketplace project (1, 3, 5+)
6. Affiliate Level (level 1,2,3,4,5 – based on the number of customer referrals)
7. Top-Rated (level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – for accumulating 5-star reviews)
8. Won a logo design contest
9. Won a design contest
10. Rising Talent (a designer who is quickly raising ranking positions)

We will extend the contest time to compensate for the confusion and allow more participants to join

Participate here: https://www.logoarena.com/marketplace/order/LogoArena%20Badges%20Design-n1?tab=brief