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How to make money from design awards?

There are more than eight ways to earn money from A' Design Awards, and you do not even need to be a designer nor a winner. We are pleased to share with you our experiences and knowhow.

1) Buy A' Design Award nomination tickets packages with bulk discount pricing and sell these tickets with standard pricing.

There are many PR agencies, design associations and individuals that buy A' Design Award nomination tickets in bulk with discounted pricing and sell them to their clients. This practice of buying low and selling high is most profitable during late entry period where the design award entry fees are at highest. Exploiting this principle is easy; purchase A' Design Award nomination tickets and sell them to third parties.

2) Sell design award participation and concierge services to large enterprises and brands looking to promote their offerings as prestigious award-winning products and projects.

There are many public relations agencies and design award agencies that offer services to help companies make an entry to the design awards. You can charge a premium for your services for helping your clients take part in the A' Design Awards.

There are many ways to earn; you may charge your clients to create a free account, you could get paid to provide consultancy for following A' Design Award presentation guidelines, you can get paid to relay the free preliminary jury review and comments to your clients, you could get paid to provide consultancy for text and image preparation, rendering or visualization. You could get paid to relay the preliminary jury feedback you obtain for free at a premium to your clients. You could get paid to follow up and help clients get post-competition services; you may charge hourly or a set rate.

You may combine this with the first option; You could buy multiple A' Design Award nomination tickets packages with bulk discount pricing and sell nomination tickets with standard pricing plus charge design award participation and concierge services to large enterprises and brands looking to promote their offerings as prestigious award-winning products and projects.

3) Sell marketing, promotion, advertising, public relations, press release preparation, press release distribution, media placement, international publishing and international design exhibition participation services to designers and companies.

A' Design Award winners get immense marketing and publicity opportunities such as getting published in many publications in many languages. Press release preparation and distribution service is provided to laureates. In summary, if an entity wins the A' Design Award, a lot of services that include but not limited to marketing, promotion, advertising, public relations, press release preparation, press release distribution, media placement, international publishing and international design exhibition participation are provided. Using the free preliminary score service, you may know whether you could use A' Design Award to provide all these services on behalf of you as the service provider, and you could charge the clients for the provided services as in a deal package; in general performance-based packages would yield highest returns for you such as if you charge clients by the number of publications or media mentions, for each language.

4) Sell brand building or reputation management services to designers and companies.

Because winning the A' Design Award helps laureates get published in many languages in many websites, it is useful as a reputation building tool, and as such maybe used as part of brand building, awareness creation or reputation management packages.

5) Resell award-winning design, architecture and engineering services to high-end clients and customers looking for world-class solutions.

The A' Design Awards, is a very large international event in which thousands of leading designers from around the world, participate in a variety of competitions to obtain international fame and recognition. World’s leading designers, artists, architects, brands, creatives, illustrators, engineers and design-oriented brands, usually representing the best in their fields and countries take part each year with their latest creations, newest products and best designs each year. World Design Consortium, is an entity that brings all award winners under the same umbrella. Winners of the A' Design Award can join World Design Consortium, help sell other award-winner’s creative, design and engineering services, and obtain a commission that could reach very significant numbers especially for big consultancy tasks or grand projects.

6) Sell your own design services as award-winning design services. Sell your own products as award-winning products. Sell your own services as award-winning services.

Many designers, artists, architects, design offices, architecture studios, creative agencies use the prestige and fame provided by winning a truly international, influential and respected award with a grand jury to help aid their sales. Designers use the award-winning status to charge more for their services, to convince local and national media to feature their work and obtain publicity, as well as to convince clients, consumers, customers and convert leads. Winning the A' Design Award could help you sell your own design services as award-winning design services.

This is of course not limited to designers. Large Enterprises, SMEs, Businesses and Companies in all industries can benefit from award-winning status, provided that the award is from a trusted, well-known, respected entity. Simply placing the A' Design Award winner logo on product packaging and marketing may provide the competitive edge to your product needs to succeed. Winning the award also creates a reason to market and outreach media, providing new and unique ways to reach new customers, clients and audiences.

7) Sell products of other companies and obtain commission.

There are many individuals and marketing companies that make use of the A' Design Award in a rather unique way. In general, these are affiliate agencies that work with in tandem with companies; they help marketing products and services of other companies. With explicit permissions, they nominate company products or services to A' Design Award and exploit marketing, promotion, publicity and advertising services provided to winners of the A' Design Awards to earn affiliate referrals.

8) Buy A' Design Award nomination tickets with affiliate pricing and selling your newly purchased nomination tickets with MSRP pricing.

It is really that simple. When you apply and get accepted to be a member of our affiliate program, you would get a commission from your sales. However, you may also directly purchase nomination tickets and resell your tickets as well. You could buy discounted A' Design Award nomination tickets packages with affiliate pricing and sell nomination tickets with MSRP pricing plus charge design award participation and concierge services to large enterprises and brands looking to promote their offerings as prestigious award-winning products and projects. This works best if you purchase your entry tickets in the early entry period, as you could sell them during late-entry period when the ticket prices are higher.

10) Get Creative. We are sure you can think of more ways to exploit, earn money and profit from the A' Design Awards? Contact us.

We are very easy to work with; contact us today; a real person, ready to help you, is waiting on the end; you may call us or you may send us a letter, we will get back to you and help you with your endeavor. Contact us now. Do good by promoting good design. You could potentially earn extra revenues by taking part in our PR-Partner, Authorized Agent and A’ffiliate Programs or you could even Get A' Job.

11) Apply for A' Design Award Authorized Agent Program

If you are in to marketing and media relations and if you just want to provide leads and earn commissions on those who join the A' Design Awards per your recommendation than you will like the A' Design Award's Authorized Agent Program which rewards you for your referrals. Different from A'ffiliate which tracks your referalls digitally, this program is for offline marketers.

12) Apply for A' Design Award Authorized Seller and Service Provider

In this model, we will provide you with an official A' Design Award Authorized Seller and Service Provider Certificate that is verifiable with a special qr code, which you obtain after signing the Authrozied Seller and Service Provider agreement. This way, you can officially approach large enterprises and serious clients in your territory and earn money for selling A' Design Award Nomination Tickets.