I think you would be happy to know that we are slowly gaining attention of the media as we cater to one particular niche… Graphic Designing. Slowly more and more buyers are looking at us to cater to their designing needs. Please read the full press release here :-
It has been noticed by us that using the message board judiciously helps you to win a design contest. Designers who have won contests were sent some questionnaires and they specifically mentioned the importance of the message board. Planning is been made to launch a private message board too for designers to send private messages to buyers. In this way if a buyer likes a particular aspect of a designer then he or she can ask the designer to optimize / refine that part of his design so that so that he or she has greater chance of winning a contest.
The public message board also offers great versatility as everyone can exchange thoughts and ask questions to the buyer to clarify any part of the brief. It acts as a secondary project clarification board. So take full advantage of it to see yourself in the winning seat!
1. You dont need to browse through 100s of profiles of designers since you get to see what you are paying for even before you release the fund for the job.
Nice is : choose the work you are paying for and not commit for a particular person not knowing what he will deliver.
Profiles can be copied from here and there and there is no way to verify if a particular design features in the profile at all belongs to that designer.
Hence its always better to see what you are paying for before you release the funds. The designer is also protected as the money is held in escrow by shopfordesigns (SFD). So a buyer with an intention to get design ideas and then run off cancelling the contest is eliminated! So its the perfect answer to freelancing and outsourcing needs…
So its a win-win situation for both the buyer and the designer!