- Hey everyone.
I'm Tony Aiden Durham with 180 Law Co in Colorado.
You are watching All Up in your business.
In my last video, I've talked about how I recently
separated my law practice business from my kind
of YouTuber influencer, content creator business.
I had one entity previously and I split 'em off.
Created a brand new entity
new business for my YouTuber stuff.
And in that video I mentioned I had a need
for a new logo for my new business.
I've already got my 180 Law Co logo
but now I've got this new business
and I needed just a nice, simple, clean logo
something that I can maybe stick
on the top of my invoices, nothing too fancy.
And I found the perfect tool for doing so
which is BrandCrowd.
And so what I'm gonna do today is walk you
through the BrandCrowd, logo designer tool
and give you my honest review of what I think of it
how I liked it, pros and cons, you know
things that I experienced
while I was using it to design my logo.
Few things before we jump into all of that.
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If you'll notice
I'm gonna put the paid promotion thing on this video.
This is a sponsored video.
I am being paid by BrandCrowd to make this video
but that is not affecting my review or my opinion of it.
I'm still gonna give you my full unbiased review and opinion
of it, despite the fact that I'm being paid to create this.
And if you wanna check out BrandCrowd for yourself
you can use the affiliate link down in the description to
do that and to make sure this is as impartial and unbiased
as possible.
You are going to see me using BrandCrowd for the very
first time.
This is my initial impression and initial reaction.
I haven't really gone through their website
or this logo design tool yet.
So the things that you're seeing are my actual
first impressions of using it.
If you're wondering why BrandCrowd, I love that they have
over 116,000 premium logo designs from designers all
around the world.
And each of these logos, all the logos available
on BrandCrowd can be edited.
The font, the coloring, the layout, you can even
add animation to it.
Each logo is handcrafted and unique and exclusive
to BrandCrowd as well.
Hi, Rocky.
Did you come in here to talk about BrandCrowd with me?
Welcome, pal.
It's really only gonna take you
a few minutes to create a unique and beautiful
logo design on BrandCrowd.
And then you can download the logo files instantly
with a subscription.
You can get access to even more of their tools using their
over a hundred thousand designs for things
like Facebook posts, stories, post covers, flyers, postcards
business cards, and even more.
And they're all gonna automatically be themed
and customized for the logo that you choose.
So you're always going to be on brand.
All right, so with no further ado
let's get into it and check out BrandCrowd.
All right, so we are on BrandCrowd's website.
We see logo, logo design right here.
Easy, enter your business name or you can browse logos
make designs, Facebook, Instagram, social media.
Great, cool.
Right now though
I really just need a logo for my new business.
So let's start with that.
My new business name.
It's very creative.
You guys will be so surprised.
Aiden Durham LLC.
Oops, let's type a little bit better.
Aiden Durham, LLC and create logos.
Let's see what it comes up with.
All right, tell us about your business.
Keywords related to your business and logo.
YouTube, I guess influencer, I don't know.
Content creator, maybe lawyer, but
with a lot of logo design tools.
If you put in lawyer or legal or something or attorney.
The only icons they always want you to use
like those scales of justice icons or the gavel.
None of those, why?
I don't, I'm not a judge.
Why do I need a gavel in my logo?
Okay, so I can choose icon and text or text only.
I think I want just text only for this one.
I don't need this to be super detailed.
Text only.
Let's try that.
Continue generating a logos.
Okay, text only.
Hmm.
All right.
And we've got a bunch, a lot of 'em has slogan here.
So looks like a lot of these are meant
for you to include a slogan in them.
I don't have a slogan, I don't want that to be in it.
I do like some of that AD.
Okay, okay.
Oh, wow.
We've got a lot.
9,600 total logos right here.
Let's see.
How can I, can filter by font styles, colors.
Okay, okay.
Text only.
Let's see what icon and text looks like.
Okay, all right.
Kind of a play on the YouTube logo right there.
That's interesting.
Okay, these are fun, but, huh, that's cute.
Let's go back to just text.
I think text only is better.
Search and colors.
Oh, I don't know.
I don't have like a specific colors.
I'm just gonna kind of go through and see what speaks to me
what I'm loving, what I'm not loving.
Oh, I do like, I do like having the initials AD there.
It's kind of funny, since I'm only using
I'm using this entity for my, like YouTube stuff
which a lot of it is sponsored posts like this.
And so instead of doing hashtag ad
I've got ad right in my logo with AD.
That's perfect.
Okay, I'm gonna find one.
I wish I could.
It's, I like, you know
you can search by font style and color.
I wish there was some other slightly, I don't know
some better way of filtering through all of these.
'Cause there's, I mean, what over 9,000?
I don't want to go through all of them, obviously.
I wish I could see just the ones that have like AD
in it already.
Okay, that's kind of, that one's kind of cute.
It's a little too, a little too fufu, I think.
Plus I want AD in the background, not just A, I mean
that one's pretty good.
Okay, all right.
Okay, I like this one.
Let's save.
Okay, gotta log in.
Gotta log in here.
No, we want text only.
Let's do font styles.
Let's do, I like handwritten kind of, and modern maybe.
And then colors.
I like pink.
I like blue.
I like gray.
I like yellow.
Let's try those.
Just cut 'em down a little bit so I'm not
filtering through quite as many things.
These are interesting looking, I don't
not gonna work for me.
I don't know.
You know, maybe someone would like something like that.
And I know I can
I know I can change the colors and stuff on them too.
Let me see.
Maybe an icon one might be better.
Okay, I'm not really feeling any other ones with the icon.
Keep it simple.
Add that one's.
That one's nice.
I don't know about all the paint colors.
I can probably change that.
Let's pick a couple more just to
so I can see 'em side by side.
L.
These are just kind of basic ones also
which I like, I like basic.
Okay, this one's kind of nice too.
This one's not too bad.
This one's, we can go with that.
All right, let's see.
Now let's look at my short list
of the ones that were speaking to me most.
I still like this elegant, elegant cursive letter.
I think that one's probably the best one.
I'm not, you know, I don't hate
I don't hate this one with the circle either, but I want
I think that's gonna take up too much space.
So let's go with this good old AD
in the background and Aiden Durham LLC
Okay, we're gonna customize.
Customize.
All right
now I guess I can change really whatever I want to.
This pink is maybe a little too pink.
How do I change?
Change that color.
What, like that?
Ooh, okay.
Okay, okay.
Gradient colors.
Oh, pretty.
Oh, I think I like this kind of darker purple.
Almost a mauve, almost a mauve color.
And Aiden Durham.
That one's dark.
Is that gonna be legible?
We'll see.
Maybe make it a little bit darker.
I'm not crazy about that font.
Maybe let's change this font.
Ooh, we've got lots.
Ooh, let's, oh, look at this.
This is handy.
Okay, I like this a lot.
So you can just see all the different fonts right here.
So you don't have to click
through each one and look at 'em separately.
Well, this is quite handy.
I think I want the Aiden Durham part in a handwriting kind
of font, but nothing too fancy, nothing too swirly.
You know, I like this one.
I think that's easy.
Not much to it.
Simple, okay, let's select that font.
I like that it's got these grid lines.
Ooh, that's handy.
Helps you line everything up.
Got the grid lines in the back.
Okay, just in case.
Let's save my progress so I don't forget what I'm doing.
I don't lose it.
Okay, how about background?
No, I don't need a background.
I want it just an opaque, opaque background shape.
Oh, okay.
I can add little shapes there if I want to.
Got other designs, decorations.
Okay, so if you wanted to add your own little icon
you could do that here.
They've got a lot, a lot of options down here.
And they've got symbols here too.
Okay, yeah.
Lots of options.
Oh, okay.
They've got the A, look at this.
All right, we can do that.
All right, pro tip you guys.
So I know you can add if you not, if you don't
recognize this, this is the R trademark registration symbol.
If you don't already have a registered trademark
don't use this symbol.
I do not have a trademark registration
for my Aiden Durham LLC business, so I'm not going to
use this icon, but that's nice that it's there.
Okay, TM.
Okay, but you know, you can't use the R symbol
but you can use the TM symbol.
And I'm going to do that.
Let's maybe sticker right there.
And I want her to be the same color
as that, which believe it is, right?
Yeah, okay.
Or should I just make this black?
Maybe just black.
Okay, cool.
Now I've got the TM subscript in there.
Perfect, let's make that a little bit smaller, though.
There.
Now everyone knows that I'm claiming my trademark rights
in this beautiful logo and my name.
Okay, I think we're good.
I think we're gonna stick with this one.
Guess next thing is download, right?
That's the last part of it.
All right.
And then it looks like that's it.
So I just have to put in my payment info
and then I get the download file
and I can start creating all these other posts and
and designs as well.
Cool, and I like that I can change my logo whenever I want.
Need a few versions, different layouts
same color variations.
That's great.
All right, so far a few pros and cons.
Things that I like, things that I don't like
I like, there's a huge selection.
I've said over 9,600 logos just
for this one business name that I put in huge selection.
I wish it was a little easier to kind of filter through
or maybe narrow down the results a little bit more
than just based on color and font style.
I did like the different icons.
I know I put lawyer in there
but I didn't see a single gavel
or scale of justice, so that is promising.
I like that.
Even right here before I'm done
I can still go back and edit it, change it.
I really like that with the subscription.
I can change my logo if I want to
even after I've purchased and paid for it and everything.
That's great.
I do kind of wish there was just
like a one time purchase option rather
than the subscription billing 'cause I don't
I don't really need, I don't need Instagram posts
or Facebook posts letterhead, business cards.
I don't really need all this additional stuff.
I really just kind of want the logo.
So I wish there was an option just to get the license
for the logo or just download the logo.
But I think if you've got, you know
a real business where you're gonna be advertising
you're gonna have social media accounts
you're gonna have business cards, I'm not gonna have any
of that stuff for my new
Aiden Durham LLC company because it's just kind
of the thing operating my YouTube channel.
I think if you did need all that stuff
this is a great option
because it's already gonna be kind of branded
and work for your logo design and kind of fit
that branding and the color scheme and everything.
And in case any of you are wondering
and since this is a legal channel
we talk about trademarks a lot
I'm sure the question's probably gonna come up.
Well, can I trademark the logo that I've designed
on BrandCrowd?
Can I register the trademark for my logo that I've designed?
I like to go into, of course all the legal documents
on these websites see exactly what their terms
and conditions say about intellectual property
and what I can and can't do
with the logo that I've just designed.
Let's see.
Works, all right.
Designer may post works, purchasing, work
purchasing a license provisions domain name
necessary rights clients are solely so we're the clients
I'm the client.
Clients are solely responsible for ensuring that
if they purchase any works or domain name rights
they will have all necessary rights to use such domain name
and works.
Including, for example
being able to register such works as a trademark.
So it's our responsibility
if we purchase something to make sure
that we can register it as a trademark
which is kind of what I expected this to say.
So can you register the trademark?
The answer is the same as it is
for really any other logo, BrandCrowd isn't saying yes.
The logos you create will be available
for registration as a trademark.
They're not making any kind
of promises about it really at all.
It does look like they have a different
a few different options
for licenses of what you are purchasing.
The buyout license
clients purchasing a non-exclusive royalty free,
worldwide irrevocable, perpetual license
and BrandCrowd acknowledges
that the work will not be available
for sale to other new clients.
So it's kind of that same work won't be available
but client acknowledges
that a right to use the works may have been sold prior
to the purchasing of a buyout license
and such third party will retain ongoing legitimate use.
So, okay, then the work won't be available
to other new clients, but it may have already been available
to somebody before you, exclusive license.
Okay, so that one your, the work will be unique
for the full period and with the exclusive license
and consideration BrandCrowd hereby assigns two clients
and its successors, all right.
Title interests in into the work
including copyright for any aspect of the work which are
that are unique to that work.
Okay, okay, so that's promising.
I guess that's good, standard license
it'll be available for sale to other.
So as far as the trademark goes, it really
what BrandCrowd's saying is they don't have any input
or say in it.
It ultimately depends
on if the logo that you designed is going to
be confusingly similar to somebody else's logo.
I would guess I'm solely, totally speculating
but like with the icons, the logos that use an icon rather
than just maybe text, those might be more
difficult to get the trademarks registered
because those icons might, you know
other people may have used them
and so they may have already registered trademarks
and if the icon's very similar, that might be a problem.
But, you know, it's still gonna ultimately come
down to likelihood of confusion when we're talking
can I now register the trademark
for this logo that I designed?
But overall, I think the legal terms are
are pretty fairly balanced and you know
they're not saying we own everything you create
on our website, they're giving us a lot
of kind of ownership and leeway
with how we can use these logos for the most part.
So yeah, there you have it.
I think as far as a logo design tool
I think BrandCrowd is really easy to use.
Lots of options, lots of customizability there
and I think a few things certainly could be improved.
Maybe the filtering or search function.
And then I do wish there was just kind of
a one-time purchase option as well rather
than this recurring subscription purchase.
But other than that I think it's a great tool
and could be really useful for someone just getting started.
So if you are interested in learning more about BrandCrowd
or if you wanna get started on designing your new logo
or Facebook posts, Instagram posts
even your own brand new website, you can check
out BrandCrowd using the affiliate link down
in the description.
I will really appreciate you for it.
If you learned a thing or two in this episode
go ahead and gimme a thumbs up.
Make sure you subscribe and click that little bell
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Thank you so much to BrandCrowd for partnering
with us for this episode and thank you to you for watching.
If you wanna stick with the all up in your business party
I've got another really great video that you can check out.
I'm gonna post it right there.
Okay, I'll meet you over there.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'm Aiden Durham and I'll see you next time.