Patron Technology wants an updated logo

Patron Technology

Patron Technology (http://www.patrontechnology.com) strives to revolutionize the arts industry by offering world-class customer relationship management (CRM) technology, including ticketing, subscriptions, fundraising, e-mail marketing and staff collaboration technology. The company’s PatronMail e-mail service is used by over 1,800 arts and cultural clients in all 50 states and eight countries overseas. Its PatronManager is a 100% cloud-based system that integrates box office services, fundraising, e-mail marketing, and staff collaboration, enabling organizations to put all their vital customer information in one place, accessible by the entire staff. With PatronManager CRM, organizations can sell more tickets, target their marketing and fundraising efforts more effectively, provide better customer service at the box office and beyond, and make their organization more efficient.

We have been using this logo for over 10 years and as such we have brand equity with it in our industry. So the challenge is *update* and make it more fresh, but make it recognizable as the same company. We'd like newer, as opposed to starting from scratch. We don't want people to think we are a different company - only that we have updated our logo to be more modern and more consistent with our PatronManager product logo which we designed two years ago. Please include the "circle R" in the design as we have trademarked our name.