Naming a Business

[Calamity Jane]

How do you choose a name for the company when everything you come up with is taken?

I don't want to use the names of the partners involved. I've done that before, and it's a pain in the ass when one partner's name changes, or a partner leaves.

Think web development/design company.

Suggestions?

 

[glamorilla]

pagan graphics is prolly taken huh?

ill post more if they come to me.

 

[just pet]

I thought of mine in the shower.
I wanted to be the first of my profession listed in the Yellow Pages.
I started with a list of 10 words that best described the essence of my business. I then belabored the point until I got bored. In the most unexpected moment of distraction, it came to me.

 

[alexandraaah]

Trouble Warehouse.

 

[plasticman33]

How do you choose a name for the company when everything you come up with is taken?

I don't want to use the names of the partners involved. I've done that before, and it's a pain in the ass when one partner's name changes, or a partner leaves.

Think web development/design company.

Suggestions?

I suppose you tried WDD Co. or PCG Co.

How about taking the initials or partial names of the partners and combining them to create a name. Like my initials are D. E. L. I could be Delco, ooops that one's taken!!

 

[glamorilla]

Trouble Warehouse.

that rocks.

it would also be a good name for a sitcom about lovable orphans in a foster home.

 

[alexandraaah]

that rocks.

it would also be a good name for a sitcom about lovable orphans in a foster home.

Starring Jason Priestly?

Wasn't that done already?

Can't remember the name of it.

Thank God.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Trouble Warehouse.

lol! Poifect.

Glam, it may not be taken... but it may offend the very catholic sensibilities of the partner in crime.

Something amusing... my graphic design company was S****** & M**** Design. 90% of the time, clients shortened it to S&M Design and never seemed to understand why I got the giggles.

Hmmmm.... in my dorkyness, I'm coming up with stupid crap.

Innovative.networking
Innovative.communications

Believe it or not, I used to be a creative person.

 

[Rambrat]

How about using favorite animals or colors...

BlueDogDesign

Or variances on professional terms

like Graphix or FrameWerks or ArtComp

Or the creative process

Artcept or ThinkTank, Inc.

write a bunch of things down...put in a hat...pull combinations

 

[alexandraaah]

Innovative.networkKing

 

[Lancecastor]

Just put an umlaat over a vowel in a regular word and trademark it.

 

[badasschick]

I used a nickname someone gave me.

 

[Rambrat]

I used a nickname someone gave me.

badass&co.

pretty cool...

 

[Angel]

How do you choose a name for the company when everything you come up with is taken?

I don't want to use the names of the partners involved. I've done that before, and it's a pain in the ass when one partner's name changes, or a partner leaves.

Think web development/design company.

Suggestions?

Buy my domain and use that.

 

[bluespoke]

Equine Innovations

 

[bluespoke]

Crazy Horse Design

 

[Calamity Jane]

I like Crazy Horse.

 

[MsSpellChecker]

The LITtle Web Shop




J/k

 

[badasschick]

badass&co.

pretty cool...

nope, but closer to an 80's detective show

 

[FastFastr]

Corporate Name

Try the street where the business is located, can make it seem larger then it is. (is this why guys name their penis after their street, I digress - LOL)

If your business is on Maxwell Drive in Anytown USA, use Maxwell Development.

Also, use Group, or the overused Solutions.

Maxwell Development Group
Maxwell Software Solutions

 

[Tranquility]

I put mine and my hubbys names together and came up with mine Jaicee's Fantasy Phones....wanna guess what I own

 

[cricketbug]

I used my last name... I make gift baskets "A Bushel and a Pech"

 

[CoolidgEffect]

Anal Designs

"Our clients call us perfectionist but be prefer anal."

 

[sorority_girl]

Shiny Things, Inc.

 

[dreamer]

Shiny Things, Inc.

How about

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