Graphic designers can now deter idea theft, and get paid for their designs

Let's say you are a graphic designer. Ordinarily you create creative pitches, marketing plans, logo designs, and more.

One day you respond to an invitation to pitch to the marketing department of a large company.

The problem is when the prospect declines your ideas (“we are likely to go with another agency”), only to implement your creatives by themselves or hand them to a competing design firm to execute. Worst of all, you see your designs on websites, billboards and the media a few weeks later without receiving any acknowledgement, let alone payment.

Now with PitchMark^® Ideas.Exchange you register your designs before you present your pitch.

During the pitch meeting you display your PitchMark^® certificate on one of your slides and offer the prospect a choice: either they can declare you the winner of the pitch round and award the contract to you, or they can license your concepts from you. That way you get paid even if they engage someone else.

You still might not like them finding someone else to execute on your creatives but at least you get paid for your creativity, your time and your experience – which you didn’t get before. Besides, now you don’t have all the work associated with the execution of the project.

Best of all, you get paid by credit card straight away when you transfer the certificate to the client.

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