Another installment of my continuing series of comparing 99designs, my recommendation for business logo design, and other 99designs design team alternatives and logo maker.
Today I am reviewing Deluxe.com programs for custom logo design. You know Deluxe as the leading provider of business checks and forms. Their services include tax preparation and accounting systems.
I got my new logo designed at 99designs – and I love it! Check out the videos and review of my 99designs logo experience
About Deluxe Business Logo Design
Perhaps you know of Deluxe Business as the largest retailer of business checks and forms. I like their small business products, and good customer service, and have reviewed them positively here
Now Deluxe offers logo design services and website design in direct competition with 99designs.com
While they do offer Logo Design packages, they are not a crowdsource graphic design contest site like 99 designs. They have a team of graphic artists that will design your logo.
While I am sure their artists are qualified, this business model lacks the creative power of the crowd that makes 99design so good. This is more of an agency program where you order your logo and gets submissions from their graphic designers.
Logo Design Pricing and Packages
Below are the prices of the Deluxe logo packages starting at $195 for Bronze up to $995 for Platinum. Compared to 99designs starter package at $299 Deluxe is less expensive. However, you get a lot fewer design concepts at Deluxe.com.
They only offer four (4) in the starter Bronze package for $195 – compared to 30+ guaranteed from 99designs. I ordered the Bronze package at 99designs and got over 100 great logo designs! Plus the final files included all my fonts and color codes.
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I would find it hard to get the right logo from only four (4) choices. That is why I highly recommend 99designs logo and brand identity package for all new business startups. This package, which saves time and money, combines logo designs, business card, stationery and web social media graphics in one graphic design contests.
Comparisons of Logo Design Samples
When comparing the two logo designs you can see how the “magic” creative juice of the crowd from 99designs outshines the standard agency look from Deluxe business.
Professional designers offer more sophisticated font and color combinations and create visuals that communicate well even in black and white (like my new 99designs logo in my banner above!). Also, 99designs has worked hard to make the usually complicated design process simple and even fun!
Logos from Deluxe Business Services
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Logos from 99designs Designers
Customer Reviews and Testimonials for Deluxe Logo Design
Below are two customer testimonials from the Deluxe Business logo center. They look legit and are satisfied customers. One customer appreciated how a last-minute company name change was accommodated at no extra charge.
Reviews on the independent website BestCompany rate Deluxe with 2.5 stars out of 5 stars with 15 user reviews. They cite the negative of excessive use of template logos. While easy to use, and inexpensive, this route almost always results in a logo that is similar to other companies. Read excerpts of reviews below:
Positive Review:
The whole process was efficient and very productive. My ideas were incorporated into a beautiful design that clearly conveyed my message. I believe the price for the services and product was clearly presented and very reasonable. ” Marilyn Turner, Berthoud, CO – 12/18/2017
Negative Review:
“Signed up for the Gold logo package. I didn’t need anything fancy and I didn’t get anything any good either. All I got where designs that looked like newbies from the 80’s designed. I ended up designing my own logo and couldn’t get a refund so I figured I would get the business cards from them. At least I would get something out of what I spent. Well, I just got my business cards today and they are going in the garbage. This company is pure crap. The business card quality is crap. It’s so hard to read them. The email signature that they sent me was such low quality I could barely make anything out, I asked for higher quality files and got not as bad but still crap quality. I don’t understand why everything is such low quality.
If you want a real logo, either pay for an experienced graphic designer or go to your local grade school and ask a random kid to do it for you. Whatever you do, don’t hire these 80’s newbies if you want anything good.” Jason Pierce, West Milford, NJ 8/15/2017
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The independent review site Trustpilot readers rated Deluxe 4.0 stars out of 5 stars with 278 reviews. However, I am a bit suspicious of the validity of these reviews, since all of the reviewers only have one review (of Deluxe) and are posted within one day of each other. They could be bogus reviews. Read review excerpts below:
Positive Review:
“Website. We had Deluxe design a website for us. We were very happy with the process, the people and the final product. We wanted it to be clean and simple yet professional looking. That’s what we got. We’re very pleased with it.
The only thing, although we were given instructions on how to edit and work in the site, it would have been nice to be able to get a bit more help after it was launched. Thanks Deluxe!” Sandy Albrecht, 4/23/19
Negative Review:
Disappointed in the communication with the team. The website result was good, but there was a lot of miscommunication with the team when I needed to make updates. JA Willoughby 4/22/19
I got my new logo designed at 99designs – and I love it! Check out the videos and review of my 99designs logo experience
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