When it comes to getting a logo designed, you have a lot of choices. Should you hire someone you know personally? Someone another company recommended? Or should you try a site where you can offer a logo “contest” and pay the winner for a logo?

I’ve used several different options to get logos throughout the years:

1. I’ve designed a logo myself.
2. I’ve hired a designer I knew personally.
3. I’ve hired a logo design company.
4. And, most recently, I’ve outsourced logo creation through both 99designs and Design Outpost.

In this post, I will run through each of the above four options in detail, and suggest the best course of action for getting you a great logo design at a low price–based on my own experience.

Option #1: Design It Yourself

Doing logo design yourself is cheapest, but good logo design is difficult, and your result will usually be sub-par.

You can

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Join the Wedding Industry as a Part-Time Wedding Planner

The wedding industry is booming. According to US Census statistics, there are over 2.2 million marriages each year. Although the current economic climate has placed a crunch on most wedding budgets, brides and grooms still need experienced and knowledgeable experts who can help plan and coordinate wedding activities.

Skills Required: Event planning and organizing skills, wedding vendor networking, budgeting, diplomacy.

Most wedding planners simply go into business because they themselves enjoyed planning their own wedding, or a friend or relative’s wedding. A

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About 200 tonnes of maize is rotting in the Hola Irrigation Scheme after the National Cereals and Produce Board failed to buy it.

More than 650 farmers in the scheme are now watching helplessly as their efforts go to waste.

Millions of shillings were spent to revive the scheme under the National Economic Stimulus Programme late last year.

President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga were the chief guests in Hola during the launching of the project.

Farmers said at the weekend they could not believe that it was the same government that was frustrating them just three months after urging them to grow the food crop to alleviate hunger in the country.

Mr Said Mugawa of the Hola Farmers Cooperative Society said: “What are we supposed to do? H

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The source predicts that businesses that offer online social media consulting and online content production will thrive this year. According to reports from eMarketer, small businesses will spend more than $2 billion on building their social media presence this year. Many will need help developing their social network sites, and entrepreneurs only need a computer to offer this service.

Another inexpensive startup that might generate big funds is specialty food services. The source says consumers are more health conscious today than ever before and the demand for specialty foods has increased.

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Is Your Business Struggling? How to Access Interest-Free Short-Term Loans

To curb 2007’s financial meltdown, the US government enacted unprecedented bailout packages to some of America’s largest corporations. However, to many critics of the massive bailouts, too many other businesses were left in the cold. Considering that small businesses make up a tremendous percentage of employers in the US, shouldn’t they be eligible for assistance as well?

With this in mind, the US government now wants your small business to survive the economic crunch, and to help, it is offering short-term business loans with no interest. What type of small business loan offers no interest? It’s

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