FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q:	Who owns and operates "Church Logo Design"?
A:	Church Logo Design is owned and operated entirely by Mike Bennett of "Mike Bennett Graphics". Mike has been a professional graphic designer since 1982 and a Christian since 1984. He began his professional career working for one of the largest printing and advertising companies in the USA and has worked with such clients as Sears, DC Comics, The RX Place and Pep Boys just to name a few. In 1988 he formed his own company, Mike Bennett Graphics and began by designing and selling Christian T-Shirts. Soon after this he began to offer graphic design services to churches, ministries and small businesses and in 1996 he launched the Mike Bennett Graphics website. In addition to his artistic talent, Mike has had a desire to serve the Lord in other ways as well. This has led to him serving in churches as a sound technician, webmaster, church elder and youth pastor. "Having myself served within church leadership has given me a unique perspective, allowing me to serve my clients from the viewpoint of both a professional graphic designer and a church leader. As such I have had the privilege of designing logos for hundreds of churches over the many years that I have been in business."


Q:	I have seen other logo design companies on the web that offer free unlimited changes to my logo... how come you don't offer free unlimited changes?
A:	The bible teaches us in Luke 6:31... "Do to others as you would have them do to you. - NIV". ...and so I have designed my business practices the way that I wish other businesses would treat me. It is not possible for a company to truly give *unlimited* changes for free and still remain profitable, and if a business is not profitable, then it will not continue to stay in business. Therefore, I believe that it is disingenuous and abusive to try and take advantage of my customer's good faith in me by telling them a "white lie"... that I am giving them something for free, when in truth I (and they) know that this is not possible. Instead, I have chosen to simply tell my clients the truth, even at the risk of losing their business to another company because they were lured into believing that another business was giving their services away for free. The truth is that I do not give away my services for free (nor do the other companies), but I also do not "pad the bill" with made-up charges or lie to you just so that I can make a sale... I only charge you additional fees if I need to do additional work. That is how I like to be treated and so that is how I treat my customers. If you ask me to do additional work, then I will need to charge additional money for it... if I do not need to do any additional work, then I will not charge any additional money- period!

Q:	Other logo design companies offer me several logo designs to choose from for one price... why do you only offer a single design?
A:	Actually, I have two flat-rate plans, one of which offers five different designs for one flat rate. It is my "Full Package" which offers five designs and up to three hours of alterations for only $1000. My other design plan, the "Á LA CARTE" option is the one that has a single design for a flat rate of $250. I created the "Á LA CARTE" as an option to the "Full Package" in order to make it affordable for my clients to get a high quality, custom designed logo without requiring them to purchase all five different designs in the Full Package. Here's how it works... Instead of choosing my Full Package and paying $1000 to purchase five different designs, you buy the designs "a la carte"...one at a time for only $250 each. This way, if you decide that the first design that I create for you has "hit the mark", then you just saved $750 by not having to purchase the other four designs. If you like the first design, but would like me to make some minor changes, then you pay only for the additional time it takes me to make the changes for you instead of paying for another design. If you decide that you would like for me to create a second design, then you have the option to do so at the flat rate of $250, and if you choose the second design as the final design, then you have still saved $500. With this method I have created hundreds of logos and my clients are happy because they get a great logo design at a fraction of the industry standard cost, and most of the time my clients end up choosing the first design, and so I am able to save my clients a lot of money!

Q:	I have seen a lot of other companies offering several designs for very cheap prices, some as low as only $100 for several different designs and unlimited changes... why do your designs cost so much more than those companies?
A:	There is an old saying that I am sure you are familiar with... "you get what you pay for". I have seen many of these sites myself, and I have also talked with clients of mine who tried some of those places first, then came to me. Many of those places have all sorts of slick "come-ons" and marketing ploys such as lowball tactics designed to get you in with the lure of an unrealistically low prices, then once you've taken the bait, they switch you to something else to milk more money out of you. Additionally, some of them do nothing more than give you an already, pre-designed logo and simply change the name on it to your church's name... and I have also seen some who create logos by simply picking some clipart from a clipart-library and adding the church's name. It takes them all of fifteen minutes to do this five or seven different ways, then present them to you as your "custom" logo designs. If you look at my logo designs you will see that my designs are different... they are truly custom. I do not use some simple. pre-fab clipart and text to design your logo, instead each design is a custom illustration made according to your specifications. Yes, you can pay less elsewhere, but what will you be getting from them? Have a look at the logo design samples on my site and you will see what kind of design you will get from me! I don't have slick marketing gimmicks and lowball tactics to try and lure you in like they do... I just have straight-forward, up-front and honest prices and services. Just ask my clients!