Outstanding work. Very thorough. Opened up new doors. Would enjoy
learning about the researcher's own feelings in working on this
project, and whether this sort of thing would have an impact on the
way people view the news. Thank you for your excellent selections. I
look forward to working with you again.

this was totaly worth 15$ :-)

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Obviously important to get the question or briefing as clear as possible.

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Incredible. Thank you for hard work on researching this.  I am very grateful.

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See my request for clarification

A number of researchers contributed excellent work to this question,
and provided a standard for comparison. Some did not propose to answer
the question because they felt they did not have a complete enough
answer. Pelican did propose an answer which I felt initially was not
as thourough as other answers posted only as a comment. His
clarifications helped, and showed additional work done.

The standard of excellence on Google Answers is extremely high, and
for a $200 question it needs to be high. I would categorize this as an
acceptible answer, and therefore give it three stars.

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Thanks for your very good answer. It is very    much appreciated. Thanks again.

Pelican,

Thanks for your efforts at answering my questions.  

This was a valuable answer in that it pointed us to the 1997 Economic
Census which will be a great place to start digging to get a more
nuanced answer to this question.

Beyond the economic census, however, the answer was only of marginal
use.  This is due to the fact that the information that you came up
with related to average graphic design cost and average logo design
cost is based on such a small sample of the very low end of the market
as to render it unreliable.

To further extrapolate, I know from personal experience that it's not
uncommon for mid-market boutique design firms to charge between $8,000
and $50,000 for logo or corporate mark development.  The high-end
corporate identity market includes $2M+ jobs completed by branding and
naming firms.

The group that you sampled (with $300 as an average logo design job
and $2000 as an average graphic design job) is thus decidedly low-end.
 Further, it's impossible to know from your answer what percentage of
the graphic design market comprises this low-end, so it's impossible
to know whether these figures provide a meaningful basis.

In short, I'm going to have to do quite a bit more leg work to get to
the answer I had requested, but the direction you pointed us in was
valuable.

Warmest regards,
Patrick

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