To start a project, it’s an easy process
Step 1: Start a Project
Choose the Service that you want. We will ask you some questions that will form your creative brief. A creative brief is a summary of details of what you need designed.

Step 2: Set Your Price
MycroBurst will ask you how much you want to pay the winning designer to buy the design they have created. Prize amounts range from $179 to $2,500 typically depending on the type of design service you select. MycroBurst.com will charge you $19 for holding the project. You can also add premium services such as Expedite (To rush a project) or Highlight your listing to make it stand out.

Your cost = Total Prize Money (Package amount) +$19 listing fees + 7.5% of the prize money as processing fee + Additional Service amount (if any)

All payments are made with a 100% money back guarantee in case the project is NOT a guaranteed project. Please note that only prize money will be refunded. All other service charges are non refundable. For terms and conditions on a guaranteed project, please see the details in project holder guidelines.

Step 3: Give Feedback to the Designers
Once your project is started, designers from around the world will submit design concepts to compete for your money. It’s your responsibility to rate the designs and provide feedback to help the designers deliver what you are looking for in your design.

Step 4: Choose the Best Design
Once the design project is completed (typically after 7 days) you will choose a winning design and pay the designer the prize amount. The designer will send you their final design along with the copyright to the original artwork.

Guide to a Successful Design Project

Contet Holder Guidelines | Designer Guidelines

Starting a design project on MycroBurst.com is extremely affordable. There's a minimum prize of $149 which must be presented to the winning designer. There is also a $19 listing fee and 7.5% of the prize money as processing fee. You can also choose our premium services such as highlighting your listing and expedite, in order to speed up the design process.

Prizes in the Web Design category are for the design of a one page site; This includes coding such as HTML and CSS of one web page.

You can pay for your project using Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal. All charge and payments are in US Dollars.

We offer a 100% money back guarantee on all contests. The only exception is if your project has a guaranteed prize or you’ve awarded a winner and the designer has been paid.
Please note that only prize money will be refunded. All other service charges are non refundable.

If you run a project and don’t find a design you’re ecstatic about, just contact us within 15 days from the time your project ends and we’ll refund you your prize money only. Please note that the listing fees and any other premium or upgrades are non refundable.

Remember, if you choose to initiate the refund process, you are not legally entitled to use any of the designs submitted to your project. Once the refund request begins for any project, we will end that project and all designs submitted up to that date will be blocked.

If you’ve chosen to offer a guaranteed prize that means you’re guaranteeing that you will definitely choose a winner, thus your project will not be eligible for a refund. In the case, if you are unable to decide a winner within 7 days after the project is closed, MycroBurst will nominate the top 2 highly ranked designers based on your ranking and pay the project prize evenly between both designers.

There are no guarantees on how many designs will get submitted to your project. This will also depend upon the type of package you select. We do try to ensure that the minimum number of designs per the package you selected is available to you.

One of the ways to increase that number significantly is to do the following:
1. Increase the prize amount you offer to the design community
2. Provide a very clear and concise creative brief
3. Provide feedback and interact with designers extensively
4. Guarantee the prize money for your project
How do I run a thriving design project?

In order to ensure that you get the best design and participation for your money, please follow these simple guidelines.

Create an Attractive Design Project: The most talented designers in the community are much more likely to enter a project which is guaranteed and offers a larger prize. By making the project more appealing, you’re more likely to have a successful project.

Stay Involved: It’s your project, and it’s important to stay involved! While running a project, project holders should log in to the site everyday while their project is running. We will also help you by keeping you updated with any activity that occurs in your project.

Provide Feedback to Your Favorite Designers, Eliminate the Rest: Feedback is critical to a project. Eliminating designs you’re not interested in and leaving comments and ratings for those you are interested in ensures that all entrants get an idea of what you think of their designs. The best designs come from a collaboration between great designers and project holders leaving great feedback.

Leave Detailed Comments:Designers need constructive, well thought out comments and feedback. Simply saying “Good Job!” or “I don’t like it” isn’t enough—you should be as detailed as possible.
While you don’t need to provide feedback for every design, you should either eliminate or provide feedback for every designer who enters your project. The clearer and more concise this feedback is, the more likely you’ll be to receive great designs.

Make Sure Your Project Stays Healthy: Project health is an indication to designers of how involved you are in the project. If you make sure your project stays healthy, you’ll assure them that that you’ll respond to their questions quickly.

Check Your Project Entries: When you’re getting to the conclusion of your project, it’s a good idea to check that none of the designs you’re considering infringe on someone else’s or some business’s copyright. You’ll be the one liable if you do make use of a copyrighted design!

Get Feedback:The designers who enter your project want to know what you think of their work. You don’t have to comment on every design, but if you provide feedback to each designer who competes in your project, your reputation will improve— as will the numbers of entries your contests attract.

You can cancel a prepaid project and close it down without awarding your prizes and exercise your right to a refund but this won't exactly win you any friends with any designers. You might, find it very difficult to attract designers to your contests later. Instead of canceling, it's usually best to award your prize, and close the project.

The refund policy is applicable on the following basis:
1. The project is NOT a Guaranteed project
2. You have NOT selected a winner during or after the project duration.

The refund policy will NOT be applicable in the following cases:
1. The project is a Guaranteed project
2. You have selected a winner and you revoke the refund request after 1 week if the finalized source files of the winning project are sent to you.
Please note that only prize money will be refunded. All other service charges are non refundable.

Usually, a project is finalized and finished within 7 days after the start of the project.

In case you are still not getting the required design results, you can extend your project for 3 additional days. A small $19 processing fee will apply.

If your limit for the package you select is over and you still have days left with your project and you want to see additional designs before you can choose a winner, you can upgrade your package. A nominal $19 processing fee will apply.

If you have an event or a product/service launch, and want your designs on expedited, you can do so by choosing the premium service to expedite the project. This will push the designers to submit their designs in a faster time in order for you to finalize the project as soon as possible. The expedite project duration can be 2 days, 3 days, or 4 days.

To award your prize to the winner of your project:
Navigate to your project page and click on the design you wish to award the prize to. You will be taken to the design details page. Select “Finalize Project and Award Winner”
Congratulations!. The winning designer will soon upload the final design files for you to download.

Choose your own format. Don't forget to specify the format in which you require your finished artwork.

We recommend asking for the art in a vector format like that produced by Adobe Illustrator. You can resize vector graphics without any loss of quality — something JPG, GIF, TIFF and PNG can’t do.

To contact a designer directly, you can send them a private message.
To do this, go to the designer’s profile by either clicking on their user name, or by following the “View designer profile” link on their page for your project. Once you’re on their profile page, click “Contact” in the menu on the left.
Direct email correspondence with the designer is highly discouraged and is also against the privacy policy of MycroBurst.com

A private project cannot be viewed by users who aren’t logged in to MycroBurst.com, and also aren’t indexed by search engines, and designers will not be able to add their entries to their portfolios.

To report a design, click “Report” on the designer’s page for the project in question.
If you’re reporting a copyright infringement, make sure you include:
1. The URL of the copyrighted image in its original context
2. The number of the design that is in violation of copyright

Project winners deliver quality because of the brief. If you haven't read the brief carefully, and you miss an obvious detail, you aren't likely to impress the project holder, and you won't win the prize. Don't sweat the brief — take your time to digest it, and formulate your ideas. As we all know (only too well!), you can't force the creative process. Use the brief as your roadmap to a successful design.

Presently, MycroBurst.com pays only through PayPal to winning designers. Before you participate in a project, make sure you can accept the payment through the method offered.

All winning project are subject to a 10% processing fee which will be deducted from the project amount. Hence, the winning designer will get the project amount – 10% processing fees. E.g. if the project prize money is $299, the designer will get = $299 - $29.9 (10%) = $ 269.1

At present, MycroBurst.com is only offering payments to winning designers through PayPal. So if you are a designer, please make sure you enter your valid PayPal ID in the profile area.

Make sure you submit your designs in a timely manner. In case it is an expedite project, then you will need to hurry up! Since expedite contests will generally finalize the winner within 1-3 business days.

Keep it simple, and communicate it clearly. Make sure you communicate with the project holder, so you understand his requirements and also make him/her better understand your design submissions.

If you are a winning designer, Congratulations! You are just one step away from claiming your prize money. Make sure, you submit the finalized source files of the winning design along with all details given under the winning project guidelines. Once your designs are submitted to the project holder, your claim will be ready for transfer.

MycroBurst.com will pay the project prize to the winning designers on the following schedule:

• If the project holder has finalized the project and has received all source files of the winning design by and before 15th of the month*, then the designers will be paid on 17th of every month* the prize amount.
  
  • E.g. If the project was finalized on 10th Oct, 2009 and finalized source files were sent to the project holder by 12th Oct, 2009, then the transfer of prize money will be schedule for 17th Oct, 2009
• If the project holder has finalized the project and has received all source files of the winning design after 15th and before 30th of the month*, then the designers will be paid on 2nd of the next month* the prize amount.
  
  • E.g. If the project was finalized on 22nd Oct, 2009 and finalized source files were sent to the project holder by 24th Oct, 2009, then the transfer of prize money will be scheduled for 2nd Nov, 2009.
  
  

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE SCHEDULE IS ONLY APPLICABLE, IF THE CONTEST HOLDER DOES NOT INVOKE ANY DESIGN ISSUES/COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT/OR ANY APPLICABLE DISAGREEMENT WITHIN 48 HOURS AFTER THE FINALIZED SOURCE FILES ARE SENT TO THE CONTEST HOLDER.
ALL PAYMENTS ARE MADE TO DESIGNER PAYPAL ID.
* The above schedule dates are only applicable to business days

Follow the steps below to enter a design to a project

1. Click the “Submit a Design” button
   
2. Enter a description of your entry
   
3. Choose the image you’d like to enter into the project
   
4. Enter the details of licensed images you are using
   
5. Agree to the designer guidelines
   
6. Click “Submit My Entry!”
   

That’s it. Your design has now been submitted to the project.

Designers are urged strongly not to use clip art in their designs. The prize money offered by the project holder is for a custom design that should look and be totally unique. Repeated use of the clip art will have a harmful impact on designer ratings.

Remember that project holders aren’t going to be happy if they are legally pursued and sanctioned over copyright issues/disputes arising from your work. And that’s an understatement you will be liable for any costs and damages they incur or suffer as a result!

The use of Stock images/photos
If you have used stock images or photos in a web design, or a graphic design project, you must inform the project holder if the design is chosen as winning design. You will be obliged to provide all relevant details such as source of the image, URL, image ID, and image published to the project holder.

If the project holder wants to use the same image, it will be the obligation of project holder to purchase the image from the source.

Use of stock images in an identity project is not advised. Since the logo is typically trademarked, it can’t have an image that has been used by someone else.

Important Note:
Please make sure if you do you use the image you use the image as per the terms and conditions listed by the source.

Below requirements are mandatory for the designer while sending out the final source files of the winning design.
Logo Final Files Formats:

1. .AI and/or .FH: Adobe Illustrator and FreeHand – PMS/CMYK
   
2. .EPS: Encapsulated Postscript - CMYK
   
3. .PDF: Portable Document File - CMYK
   
4. .PSD: Photoshop Document - RGB
   
5. .PNG: Portable Network Graphics - RGB
   
6. .JPG: Joint Photographic Experts Group - RGB
   
7. .GIF: Graphic Interchange Format - RGB
   
8. .TIF: Tagged Image File Format – CMYK

* Spot colors can also be added upon client’s request
* Please only use “Pantone Solid Coated Shades”
* “Embed/Convert to path” all of the fonts used in a logo including tag line

Stationery Final Formats
Commercial:
1. .AI and/or .FH: Adobe Illustrator and FreeHand – PMS/CMYK
2. .EPS: Encapsulated Postscript - CMYK
3. .PDF: Portable Document File - CMYK

Desktop:
1. .JPG: Joint Photographic Experts Group - RGB
2. .PDF: Portable Document File - RGB

Brochure/Other graphic design Final Formats
Editable:
1. .AI and/or .FH: Adobe Illustrator and FreeHand – CMYK

Printable:
2. .TIF: Tagged Image File Format – CMYK – 300 DPI

Web related final files
3. .PSD
4. HTML
5. CSS
6. FLA & SWF
7. Images
8. Any other file used

Compression Utility
1. For Windows: Win zip
2. For Mac: Stuff it

Kindly add “Information.txt” file along with each set of final files for logo, stationery and brochure and include the following information:

Colors:
1. PANTONE xxx C
2. PANTONE xxx C
Or
1. Blue: C=100, M=80, Y=0, K=0
2. Orange: C=0, M=40, Y=100, K=0

Fonts:
1. Imperator Bronze
2. Imperator Small Caps

It is common that a concept of the two designs can be similar to a certain extent and it should be probable between entries in the same project.

If you think that your design has been unfairly copied by another designer, report it to us with the details of the designs and how they are similar.

Not if you don’t want to. Most designers will usually do some alterations or minimal revisions for free, but will charge for involved revisions at a reasonable price. But, this isn’t a requirement — it’s up to you.

They can, but you don’t have to agree. Don’t send any files to the project holder until the project has been won and you have received the prize.

The prize money is paid to MycroBurst before the design project is launched. MycroBurst won’t let the project holder withhold the prize without good reason.

When a project is refunded, your designs and any comments will be hidden from everyone — yourself, other users, and the project holder — and they will not be displayed again until MycroBurst unlocks the project. This is to protect designers from being plagiarized after a project holder has withdrawn the project.

Once all the source files are submitted to the project holder and he confirms the release of payment. The winning designer will be paid on the schedule given in the Payment Schedule.

At present, MycroBurst.com is only offering payments to winning designers through PayPal. So if you are a designer, please make sure you enter your valid PayPal ID in the profile area.

MycroBurst.com will pay the project prize to the winning designers on the following schedule:

A. If the project holder has finalized the project and has received all source files of the winning design by and before the 15th of the month*, then the designers will be paid on the 17th of every month* the prize amount.

E.g. If the project was finalized on 10th Oct, 2009 and finalized source files were sent to the project holder by the 12th Oct, 2009, then the transfer of prize money will be schedule for the 17th Oct, 2009

B. If the project holder has finalized the project and has received all source files of the winning design after the 15th and before the 30th of the month*, then the designers will be paid on the 2nd of the next month* the prize amount.

E.g. If the project was finalized on 22nd Oct, 2009 and finalized source files were sent to the project holder by the 24th Oct, 2009, then the transfer of prize money will be scheduled for the 2nd Nov, 2009.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE SCHEDULE IS ONLY APPLICABLE, IF THE CONTEST HOLDER DOES NOT INVOKE ANY DESIGN ISSUES/COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT/OR ANY APPLICABLE DISAGREEMENT WITHIN 48 HOURS AFTER THE FINALIZED SOURCE FILES ARE SENT TO THE CONTEST HOLDER.
ALL PAYMENTS ARE MADE TO DESIGNER PAYPAL ID.

* The above schedule dates are only applicable to business days

All winning project are subject to a 10% processing fee which will be deducted from the project amount. Hence, the winning designer will get the project amount – 10% processing fees. E.g. if the project prize money is $299, the designer will get = $299 - $29.9 (10%) = $ 269.1