here are the others

Could you explain the concept for each one? Why the gears and why the ladybugs? 1.b-1.e all look flat and empty, like they're frames with nothing substantial in it. Maybe you should try some more typographic treatments in the name and stay away from icons right now.

Looking at these, I still feel you're at square one (no pun intended) with the concept. I understand that you put in a lot of work with your initial presentation and it shows compared to the other clip-arty ones here.

Grab yourself a pint and a pad and sketch and sketch and sketch until something develops. And as aroberts mentioned, perhaps just stick to a typographical treatment at the moment...ie square font; text filling a square; text outlining a square...

Dump this. None of these even make sense. Seriously, ladybugs? And what's with the capital Q in the bottom right one?

Mama's right - looks like the first ideas out of your head. I read your explanation on the other thread and it seems like you really thought things thru, but you need to find a way to better express those ideas so we can see what you're thinking.

My mind wanders : \ sometimes.
The mission statement of the company is "fairly priced effective and competitive advertising directory for all businesses in ireland and throughout the eu."

Lady birds came into my head with the word beneficial which is linked to the word effective (see above). Lady Bugs are also very industrious busy creatures.
The square borders was triggered on seeing a photo of wine bottles in a wine rack with one bottle in particular standing out from the rest. (told you my mind wanders)

The top right orange one came from, well actually that one is shite as it has no real relative meaning.
The bottom left same, apart from the horizontal lines meaning "list" or "directory"

At the moment I have gone back to the drawing board with the first one I posted. I made a little book with square pages, took some shots. Am moving away from the sharp pointy triangles : P
Thank you very much for all your help.

I don't like any of them, I'm sorry. Start fresh and aim for something super simple.

i guess make things simple rather than complicate things like the bug and yah its kinda going to the farm ^^ sori... it takes usually font based play what i do sometimes when my head dnt generate is browse to logo cyts and snaps when i see smething if it doesnt work walk around a park or smething and come back fresh and start thinking again ^^ gudluck

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I really appreciate your comments. So valuable to me.
I am going to take your advice. the funny thing is I started out developing the concept by using the key words of the business, fair, advertising, business directory and I ended up with square pages anyway. : )
Back to working on a typographical logo and see where I get to. In the mean time, I was up late last night working on something, mind if I post it to see if it's worth perfecting?

one of the things i have noticed in your description of how you got where you did in many of your designs is that you make things very complicated. it's a long road to get to where you're going. and if you force the end user to go a long way to get somewhere, they're going to stop following your lead and go another direction.

follow the KISS theory (keep it simple stupid) and don't try to complicate your work so much. especially with logos. remember, you can generally only get across one or two concepts with a logo, and sometimes those aren't easy to do. if you over think a logo, you'll lose people right away.

I'm seeing this like back in school, when we had to resume a story in 400 words, we'd always go up to 600, maybe 700 words. Then we'd cut away till there was nothing to cut away anymore. We'd read sentences, and it they weren't absolutely necessary, we'd cut away.

Right now you're at 700 words. You need to cut away and make it simpler.