Trade Names HELP!!!

[Enzman]

Hay everyone. Finding this forum great, starting to spend more time on hear as each day passes!!!

Dont know if this is a stupid question but i'm having majour trouble finding a name to trade as. I want something short and sweet, but also very rememberable (maybe somthing that sounds like a well known phrase or saying). But i cant come up with NAWT!!!! Really frustrating

Any suggestions would be well appreciated!!!

[GazTech]

[quote=Enzman;59469]Hay everyone. Finding this forum great, starting to spend more time on hear as each day passes!!!

Dont know if this is a stupid question but i'm having majour trouble finding a name to trade as. I want something short and sweet, but also very rememberable (maybe somthing that sounds like a well known phrase or saying). But i cant come up with NAWT!!!! Really frustrating :mad2:

Any suggestions would be well appreciated!!! :thumbsup:[/quote]Red Dragon Ceramics....have logo's printed on shirts, looks very professional.....Gaz:yes:

[Enzman]

Originally Posted by Gaz

Red Dragon Ceramics....have logo's printed on shirts, looks very professional.....Gaz

For the first reply to this thread Gaz....... I like it! Weird thing is that i thought of Dragons Tiles last night. But yrs sound way better!! Like the ring of red dragon due to it being on the welsh flag!! CHEERS MATE!!

Any more suggestion well appreciated!

[Dan]

RDC is spot on.

Always check with companies house, I'm assuming wales still use www.companieshouse.gov.uk

And be giving much thought to how to get that name out, not just what it is!

Chucky Tile Fixing

[tysfoot]

what i did was go on to yell.com and type in tilers for all of uk. there are hundreds of names. have a look play around, make sure there not in your area and hey presto

[Jimmy Boy]

The X-Tiles

[GazTech]

[quote=Jimmy Boy;59482]The X-Tiles[/quote]The 'water[B]proof[/B]' is out there !

[Enzman]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Boy

The X-Tiles

HAHAHAHAHA!! Thats amazing jimmy boy!! i like the ring to it. The slogan can be "The tiles are out there" or "trust no PVA".................... RDC is the best one so far!! Well appreciate everyones contribution.

[sWe]

Time for you to do a bit of brainstorming, I think.

Take a piece of paper and a pen and write the answers to the following:

• What are you best at (when it comes to tiling)?
• What do you do the most (when it comes to tiling)?
• What do you enjoy the most (when it comes to tiling)?
• What type of jobs would you like to do?
• Where do you live?
• What syntax do other businesses use in their name?
• Do you like any of them?

Etc... Jot down whatever you can come up with. It doesn't have to make sense.

Then you can either try to use what you've written as inspiration, or you can just ignore it, and go for something completely different.

I know what name I will use when I start a business of my own, but I'm not telling :P It's mine! However, here follows a rough outline of how I came up with it.

First I asked myself what syntax other businesses use. Over here, it's most often the (sur)name of the owner or the name of the area of operation followed by what they do, like "Peterssons Plattsättning" (plattsättning is Swedish for tiling, if anyone's interested), or "Uppsala Badrumservice"(Badrumservice = Bathroom Service).

That goes for the smaller ones and the mid-sized ones. The larger ones are usually a number random looking letters which are short for something, most often the names of the owners, like "BPAB" or some such.


Then I asked myself what I can do, what I want to do, and how I want to work.

Do I want to specialize in simple jobs, or more demanding ones? Will I provide a jack-of-all-trades service, or will I specialize? Will I aim to do jobs quickly, not really caring about the results, or will I aim at top notch every time? Will I provide standard solutions, or will I do artistic stuff as well? What type of customers will I target? Builders or private persons?

Etc... And then I dumped all of those thoughts and came up with something completely different.


Your turn I won't give you actual name suggestions, because then it wouldn't be "your" name, would it?

[Jimmy Boy]

Here's one I made earlier ...

[Ric]

Plum Tiling with a little logo of a mans testicle underneath

[Enzman]

Originally Posted by Aveytile

Plum Tiling with a little logo of a mans testicle underneath

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!