Are cheap overseas’ freelancers taking our jobs?

I realized long ago that te only way to gain new clients is by networking. There are plenty of sites where designers can bid on a project, but who can compete with the bids there? No designer that went to school for four years or more and respect his work would create a logo for less than 50 dollars.
Clients do not care were they get their crapy designs, they mostly care about saving a couple of bucks.
Sadly, everybody complains about the economy, but if business keep sending their money overseas, things are far from improving. Anyone with a cracked version of photoshop calls himself a graphic artist latelly. There are many factors that clients do not take into consideration, and one is not giving enough credit to a designer. If you use free fonts and clipart for your business image, and least that could happen is that people do not respect your business, the worst, a lawsuit for using graphics or content that you cannot proof are yours at the end.
Trusting your business image to some random guy in India, is a problem waiting to happen. Please respect the artist’s work and remember than you get what you pay for.

Now What?

Ok, people. I just decided to create this blog, but now what? If you just happen to stumble on this site, please forgive the lack of content, I am still trying to figure out how it works. In the meantime, I will tell you a little bit about me:

I am a graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer. please visit my portfolio at http://anainroibal.carbonmade.com

My new website is comming soon. I had lost my domain www.anainroibal.com (how original but yes, it is my name and it would make sence to anybody that is looking for me). Anyhow, just yesterday I recovered my domain, and it is just a matter of time before I finish it and put it up.