half bubble, post: 389350, member: 175 wrote: I work for "Gold & Mean, Land Surveyors".
Is Gold & Mean's office phone number 1.618.033.9887?
At least no one has claimed 'Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe" yet. A friend of mine stole that bit and named his ranch that, and I might steal it myself some day.
Monte, post: 389360, member: 11913 wrote: At least no one has claimed 'Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe" yet. A friend of mine stole that bit and named his ranch that, and I might steal it myself some day.
My fav is the "Two Lazy Two Pee" Ranch Brand.
Probably several ranches with that name. I haven't checked the brand registry to see if it's registered.
Every company that I have worked for has the founder or principals' name on it.
Monte, post: 389360, member: 11913 wrote: At least no one has claimed 'Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe" yet. A friend of mine stole that bit and named his ranch that, and I might steal it myself some day.
Reserved for lawyers
I. Yankum, DDS
Dave Karoly, post: 389376, member: 94 wrote: I. Yankum, DDS
That would work for some surveyors, as well.
"Ahh, ya doesnÛªt has to call me Johnson! You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJÛ? but ya doesnÛªt hafta call me Johnson"
Bill Saluga
In the old days at Williams, Hatfield and Stoner I got a call from a pushy salesman who informed me that he was a good friend of Gex Williams. The salesman pronounced it Gecks, now knowing it was pronounced Jay, which is how I knew he was lying. Whoever he was, he certainly didn't know Gex.
Bruce Small, post: 389397, member: 1201 wrote: In the old days at Williams, Hatfield and Stoner I got a call from a pushy salesman who informed me that he was a good friend of Gex Williams. The salesman pronounced it Gecks, now knowing it was pronounced Jay, which is how I knew he was lying. Whoever he was, he certainly didn't know Gex.
My son Jeffrey often uses "Geph" on name tags and waits for responses.
Bruce Small, post: 389397, member: 1201 wrote: Gex Williams. The salesman pronounced it Gecks, now knowing it was pronounced Jay
How do you get "Jay" out of "Gex"? Any insight into the origin of the name?
P.S. I'm not sure I'd have a lot of confidence in a firm with "Stoner" in the name.
Jim Frame, post: 389439, member: 10 wrote: How do you get "Jay" out of "Gex"? Any insight into the origin of the name?
P.S. I'm not sure I'd have a lot of confidence in a firm with "Stoner" in the name.
There's a chain of pharmacies up in the Midwest called stoner drugs. Still cracks me up like I'm 15.
I don't think it really matters all that much. I tend to think that the business itself -- how it's run, customer service, etc. -- are bigger factors and people will get used to any name. It seems that there's always something that has to be explained.
Of course, this is coming from a guy who recently changed his business name from Harness Technology to Harness Media because too many people equated "technology" with computer repair (which is a service I don't offer). The word "media" doesn't necessarily clear things up, but it certainly has cut down significantly on the number of people assuming that I'm an IT guy. Now they just ask what I do instead of assuming what I do, which is a massive improvement. How much business did I lose because people didn't bother asking?
Also, I'm lucky in the sense that I have a last name that can be found in the dictionary and can be used in my company name to have two meanings. I don't see a problem with this if I were to ever sell the business.
I thought about using my initials in the name, more out of humor than anything, because WTH Design just cracks me up. It's in line with another local business called Oregon Marketing Group, or OMG for short. They had a billboard up near the interstate sometime ago that said "OMG F Us!" with the F represented as a Facebook icon. I've always loved that name, wish I'd thought of it first. I had also thought about naming the business Oregon Social Marketing (or something like that) so I could have the OSM acronym. If you don't know where I'm going with this yet, try pronouncing OSM as if it were a word...
OSM will always mean Office Support Module to me.
Wendell, post: 389442, member: 1 wrote: Of course, this is coming from a guy who recently changed his business name from Harness Technology to Harness Media because too many people equated "technology" with computer repair (which is a service I don't offer)
Really....I thought you were in this line of work
Jim Frame, post: 389439, member: 10 wrote: How do you get "Jay" out of "Gex"? Any insight into the origin of the name?
P.S. I'm not sure I'd have a lot of confidence in a firm with "Stoner" in the name.
Gex, pronounced Jay, is French.
Jim Frame, post: 389439, member: 10 wrote: How do you get "Jay" out of "Gex"?..
You might need to live a little closer to a part of the US where French is generally understood...;)
Tommy Young, post: 389156, member: 703 wrote: Here is a good tip for anyone looking to start their own business.
If you have any hopes of growing this business to include other people in positions of authority, do not name the business after yourself, or any other human.
Absolutely right, Tommy, er, should I say Carbon-based lifeform 2139-7732-9115? The ideal firm name should be one that leads the consumer to believe that no actual people will be involved in the performance of the service or even in any way *responsible* for it.
So, there's
R2-D2 Geomatics,
Commander Data Mapping,
HAL 9000 Survey Expertise,
or, better yet, just abstract ideas like:
Distilled Surveying,
Gravity Associates,
Mathemagical Mapping
Kent McMillan, post: 389484, member: 3 wrote: The ideal firm name should be one that leads the consumer to believe that no actual people will be involved in the performance of the service or even in any way *responsible* for it...
Glad to see you're out of the sun, back indoors and getting rehydrated. I was beginning to worry you weren't going to see this post and miss a chance to give us a piece of your mind...;)
paden cash, post: 389487, member: 20 wrote: Glad to see you're out of the sun, back indoors and getting rehydrated. I was beginning to worry you weren't going to see this post and miss a chance to give us a piece of your mind..
Dear Mr. Cash, In the interests of full disclosure, I should tell you that Mr. McMillan contracts with us, the highly reputable firm of Sudarshan & Associates of Bangalore, India, to handle his internet postings when he is temporarily indisposed. Mr. McMillan gives us very strict guidelines that we agree all content posted under his name will meet. I know from his most urgent instructions that he feels very strongly that actual humans should be involved in the practice of land surveying, so I doubt very much that he will demand a refund for August after reading what we have posted on his behalf above.
Most respectfully,
D. Rajkumar
Sudarshan and Associates
