Hey Josh,

I appreciate the stuff you’ve done here on pmstudent.com, but I hope you don’t advocate crowdsourcing. Not trying to be a naysayer, but sites like 99designs serves no real benefit to service providers. Granted that the providers should know better about putting a lot of effort for nothing (assuming they don’t get selected), but I wish clients would find alternative ways to get quality work done. On a branding note, I think it affects any client negatively because the basic premise of 99designs is “Want quality work for a cheap price? Take advantage of designers risking their time to get noticed and paid!”.

I hope you’ll reconsider using these guys in future and choose companies like The Logo Company (http://thelogocompany.net) instead. Their logo designs are a loss leader for them, but at least they get something out of it. And no, I’m not affiliated/partnered with them in any way, but I’m just using an example of a company that does quality work for a good price (lol, though it would suck if it turned out that they use 99designs for their work).

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