Hey Scott,
Thanks for the quick reply. Truthfully, I'm not happy with the other designs I've seen from the other contributors. They're too generic and say little to nothing about our brand. My background is in marketing (7yrs) so I have somewhat of a decent eye for design. I have to appease my partners as well so it's a bit of a give and take in terms of the rankings.
The more I look at logo designs, the more I gravitate to these unique/personalized styling such as the ones seen here:
http://www.downgraf.com/inspiration/weekly-logo-design-inspiration-39/I know those are likely not possible through a contest like this as these have many hours put in and a lot of back and forth between designer and client.
To get a better idea of what we do, you can check out our current site (the name and layout is being changed):
www.four925.com
I definitely don't want you to follow what the others are doing. Those designs, for the most part, could easily have another brand in there and still work.