Being proactive and providing details during the contest can ultimately give you better results. Here are some tips to running a more successful contests.
Provide a very clear brief and during the first few days, if you’re unhappy with the initial entries, you may wish to revise your brief or give more information that can guide the creatives.
Give creatives feedback by commenting on the entries, thus, encouraging those creatives to submit new entries along your suggestions.
Make your feedback specific and constructive. The more feedback you provide to creatives the more likely you are to receive new entries from creatives.
For logo design contests, tell the designer what you like or dislike about the style, color, structure, typography (font) used etc If you want to see more designs from them, let them know.
Eliminate the entries that aren’t what you want, so you're left with what you like.
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