Tell us about yourself:  My name is Dennis Bosher. I am from Naples Florida. Up until two months ago, I worked for the last 3 years  as an Engineering Technician for a large firm. Due to the economy I was laid off. During my employment there, in my off time, I searched for a way to allow my wife to work at home. We have two kids, and it would have benefited us greatly. So I searched and searched, fell for a work at home scamor two, then I found the wonderful world of webmaster forums. I initially was looking for data entry, but nothing was really worth the time. While looking I noticed design contests within these forums. It reminded me of a fascination I had with graphic design many moons ago. The first thing I did was borrow a copy of Photoshop 5.0 from a friend of mine. Anyways long story short, my journey to find my wife a stay at home job, turned into a  part time business, and now a full time business. Over the years I got better and better, and my business became more and more established online.

How long have you been designing?  Officially for 3 years

How did you get started designing? I started my designing career, when I discovered logo contests on forums.

What do you love the most about designing: The main thing that really makes me feel good about what I do, is when I visit a website, that’s using a  logo that I designed. When you see that people are willing to pay decent money for something you enjoy doing, it really does something for ones pride.

What do you HATE the most about designing: Clients that don’t know what they want. There was a time when I offered unlimited revisions with all of my services. NEVER AGAIN.

What has been your experience at eLogoContest: eLogoContest, has really surprised me, I had never heard of them, I was a member of the NamePros.com forum, and they mentioned eLogocContest would be taking over the contests for now. I was initially skeptical about how much work there would be, but to my surprise, there was a steady amount of contest being held, and with decent prizes. I reviewed many of the designers works, and felt confident that I would fit right in. I have been really happy with eLogoContest. After winning my first contest, it encouraged me to keep charging on, and assured me that I could make some decent money here.

If you could see one thing change here at eLogoContest, what would it be? When I receive notifications, the link takes me to the main page, instead of the contest the notification was referring to. I would like the links in emails to link directly to that contest. Other than that don’t change a thing

Do you have a website where we can learn more about you:  My design website http://www.skilledgraphics.com

Thank you Dennis for taking the time to do this interview, it’s really been nice getting to know more about you (it’s always great to put a face to a username!).

If anyone else is interested in doing an interview please see this post for more information.

While “No Minimum Prize” was useful when building up our user base we feel that now is the time to set a solid prize minimum and we have done so, the prize minimum for a logo design contest is now $100. There are ALOT of REALLY talented designers on this site, and if you don’t feel that having them work on your logo is worth at least $100 bucks, then, well, there’s always MS Paint.

For those people that have a simple graphic design job they need done we will soon have the option available to run a “Graphic Design Contest” where the prize minimum will be less (so will the time the contest runs). We are also going to be adding banner ad and website design contests, along with a bunch of other LONG awaited features shortly.

Now you can promote your website or business on eLogoContest in our special “advertising section” at the bottom of all external pages (pages where you don’t have to be logged in - over 15000 of them) on this site, the spot is a 125×125 banner ad and there are only 6 available, current rates are only $59/month, which is really quite a steal!

We are welcoming just about anybody to purchase an ad on the site, however, we are not allowing any sites that fall into the following categories:

• Directly competing sites (you know who you are)
• Any sites that promote racism, hate language, adult material, and so on and so forth (you know who you are too)
• Any sites that we don’t feel are a good match for the eLogoContest Community.

If you have any questions please let us know!

You can buy ad spots here: http://www.buysellads.com/buy/detail/1324/

The benefits:

• Tell the world about your personal/company site
• Promote your services
• Tell the eLogo community about yourself

Requirements:

• Need to be able to write well in english
• Must have won at least one contest
• Must submit a 125×125 pic or drawing of yourself
•  That’s all!

How it works:

• We send you a list of questions about yourself, your company/freelance experience, your experience here at eLogo etc.. via email
• You respond to the questions via email
• We post your response on the blog along with an “about you” section

How to volunteer: simply send an email to support@elogocontest.com or post a comment on this post.

Looking forward to working with you!

We apologize sincerely, and we are attempting to work things out so this doesn’t happen again.

Please direct any questions to support@elogocontest.com

Thanks so much for your patience!

Enjoy what’s left of the weekend!

Hi,

We apologize but due to some temporary balance transfer issues with PayPal the prize payouts for October 1st (today) will be delayed a few days. We expect to have all payments out by Friday (10/3) but it may be as late as next Monday. We will keep you updated.

Thank you for your participation and your patience.

Listen to the interview here: http://www.smbtrendwire.com/2008/08/14/how-to-revolutionize-your-logo-design/

For more information go here.