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Did you receive many quality and intriguing design concepts at your MycroBurst design project?  Not sure which to choose?  Could you use more than one of the designs?  Do you know that you’re going to need more than just one design?  We’ve got a solution for you!

Back in October we posted that Project Holders at MycroBurst can select additional winners to their project, once it commences. We’ve brought that to the next level.

Project Holders can now notate that they will be picking more than one winner, before their project is over!

As you may have seen on our site, here are a few brief guidelines for selecting additional winners:
- Notating early that you will be selecting more than one design will save you time during the finalization process and motivate designers!
- We recommend that you pay the same prize amount (or higher) as your project’s prize amount to additional winners.
- After you’ve finalized your project, you will select the additional designs you want.  Each additional designer will be contacted.  The designers must consent to releasing the designs at the prize amount offered.  Once they do, the file sending process will begin.

Let’s take a closer look at what each step will look like.

Here’s how it works:

When a project holder logs in to their account and is goes to their “My Projects” section.  They’ll notice the new addition of the “Add Winner(s)” to the right of each active project.

Once a Project Holder decides that they want more than one winner for their active project, they will click “Add Winner(s).”  It will bring them to the “Winners Information” area.  This is the area that Project Holders will tell MycroBurst how many additional winners they want and how much they will be awarding each.  This is also the billing area.

Once at the project page, you’ll notice the “Winners?” field number has changed.  This shows designers how many winners (including the project winner) the particular Project Holder will be choosing!

If one was to click on the “Winners?” field, it will bring up the pop-up below.  This will show what a Project Holder will be paying to each additional winner chosen.  Please note, this includes all winners.  Winner #1 will be the winner of the entire project, the rest will be the additional winners.

Once a Project Holder is ready to finalize their project, the process is simple.  After going finalizing the winner of the contest, the Project Holder will be brought to the screen below.  To choose additional winners, there are two links to follow to do so.

The Project Holder will then see the remaining designs and get to choose which they want to award as their additional winners.

Project Holders please note:  The order in which you choose your additional winners, is the same as the order in which you awarded additional prize money.  For example, when you click on the “Winners?” and see the order – The first design you select as a winner here will receive the award for Winner #2 shown in the previous pop-up.

Every time you check a box, you will receive a pop-up confirming the prize amount that the designer will receive.  If you wish to not award that designer, simply uncheck the check box.  You will also be brought to the Winners Information screen to finalize the additional winners.
This is the last time you can change your winning drafts.

And that’s it!  The Project Holder has now finalized 4 designs!

A brief note about the file transfer process:
- Designers will be notated through our messaging system and email that a Project Holder has indicated they want to choose them as an additional winner.  The designer has the right to decline or accept this offer.  If they choose to decline, the Project Holder can choose another winner or get a refund.
Attention Designers:  If you decide you do not want to accept an additional winning offer, you must contact support via email, live chat or phone asap.
- Final transfer process for the ultimate contest winner will begin immediately.  Once MycroBurst receives confirmation from the additional winning designers that they accept the Project Holder’s offer, then file transfer will begin.

At times, this can get confusing and we understand.  Feel free to give us a call at (877) 525-5646 or send us an email at support@mycroburst.com with any questions or concerns!

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The time of year can have an affect on what types of design contests MycroBurst project holders are starting.  This time of year is no different. Currently, the United State’s political front is heating up and so are campaign design projects!  And with MycroBurst at your side, your design choices are virtually limitless.

Political campaigns rely on a number of graphic design outlets to promote their candidates.  There are posters, flyers, buttons, car wraps – basically everything and anything!  One of the most popular promotion items are campaign t-shirts.

T-shirts are a way to make politics fun and interesting, no matter what your opinions are!

One of our project holders has already jumped into the search for amazing political design.  They have started a captivating t-shirt project for none other than President Barack Obama.  This particular project holder was even thoughtful enough to begin two contests – one for each viewpoint!

Interested in taking a look?  If you would like to see or submit your designs to the t-shirt project for Obama supporters, you can see that here.  Do you oppose Obama?  Take a glance at that project here.

MycroBurst supports our clients’ varieties of ideas, opinions and views.  We are excited to see all of the new contests!  Enjoy submitting designs and watching similar contests get started.

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MycroBurst.com has over 30,000 designers that are registered to our site.  These amazing designers are what make MycroBurst contests incredibly original and successful.

Over $2.5 million dollars in prize money has been given to winning designers at MycroBurst. With an average of 110 drafts submitted to each contest, we can see this number only going up.

Thus, we’ve added another way for our designers to receive prize money!

MycroBurst offers payment through PayPal.com and now Western Union as well!

What does this mean for Designers?

With offering payment through Western Union designers will benefit significantly. A few of these benefits include:

-  Choice of payment options
-  Payout currency – Receive payment in US dollars or your local currency!

How does Payment work?

With PayPal.com you can be paid through your PayPal ID that has been previously set-up with your personal email account.

With Western Union you will first have to submit information. This information includes name, address, phone number, email address and all of your bank account information.

What are the Fees?

With both PayPal and Western Union there are fees. With Western Union there is an additional charge of 5.5% on top of the 10% processing fee. This is comparable to PayPal fees as well.

How long will it take to receive Payment with Western Union?

Payment via Western Union will take about 5 to 10 days. This range depends on your country’s and your bank’s policies.

What does MycroBurst suggest?

When you register at MycroBurst as a designer, we recommend that you also try to set up a PayPal account. If you cannot set up a PayPal account for any reason, after you win your first design project, please contact MycroBurst support at Support@MycroBurst.com and set up Western Union payment.

As always, if you have any questions feel free to contact us at any time!

Want to connect with us? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter! We’d love to hear from you and chat!

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All of us at MycroBurst are always looking for ways to make our website better for our clients and designers.  Thanks to your feed back, we are able to update and tweak our site as necessary.

Now, we’re taking our great customer service one step further!

As of this Saturday, August 20^th, we will offer customer support on Saturdays as well!  From 9am-5pm Eastern Standard Time our team will be ready and able to help you if you should have any questions or concerns.

We will now be available to you Monday through Saturday from 9am to 5pm EST.  Have a question about your project?  Need some assistance with uploading drafts?  Contact us!

You can reach our team the same way as you did before!  Visit the “Contact Us” section of our site to fill out a form, give us a call or email us at any time at support@mycroburst.com!

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As some of you may know, we ran a t-shirt design contest to help honor September 11^th.  The t-shirt design will be worn by those participants of the Garden of Reflection 9/11 Memorial’s 5k race, located in Bucks County, PA.

As mentioned in our previous blog post, the Garden of Reflection 9/11 Memorial is a physical memorial that was constructed to remember and honor those affected by September 11^th.  It was created and is maintained by the Garden of Reflection committee.

The Garden of Reflection committee holds the 5k to raise money to help maintain the memorial.  Over the past 7 years, thanks to participants and sponsors, the 5k has raised $85,000 for this effort.

This design contest is coming to an end and that’s where YOU come in!

Our amazing MycroBurst designers have submitted over 180 designs and we need your help choosing the winning design!

The Garden of Reflection has added the top five designs to their facebook page.  They are conducting a vote on their page to choose the final winner.

Here’s how you can vote:

1)      Go to the Garden Of Reflection Facebook Page.

2)      Find the album called “2011 5k T-shirt Design Contest.”

3)      View the top 5 designs.

4)      Vote for your favorite one by “liking” one of the deisgns!

But HURRY!  Voting ends this Wednesday, August 17^th!  The design with the most “likes” will be the winner!