My competition has been running for almost 6 full days and I have to say that I am overwhelmed by the response from the design community. I have about 22 good submissions out of 87, which is astounding. I have been communicating with every designer (through comments and private messages) who has been producing good results in order to steer their designs towards what I want. The designers are very receptive to all my comments and have been very forward about asking me to clarify my objectives. One thing that I have notice in going through other competitions, as well as the public and private comments the designers have left me is that there is definitely a right and wrong way of running one of these competitions. First off for your sake you want to be as clear and descriptive as possible when you are writing up the title of your competition. You want to give people clear reason to click on your post over that of others and I will insure that they know what its about before they get into the nitty gritty details. The evidence is in the clicks…All the surrounding posts except for a few other well written ones have about half the number of click and submissions. The second is that it is important to summarize the project clearly in the sub description so that designers know what to expect. The third and most important in terms of getting exactly what you want is to have a clear, outlined and precise project brief. From the comment that the designers have made, they were pleased with the bit of extra time that I put into the brief. This has also helped me in the sense that I know what I want and if a designer is not giving me what I want I can just refer him to the brief