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Help me think of a name for my company

 
  

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captain piss
17:26 / 18.08.04
In a bid to make my freelance writing operation seem a bit more professional, I’m trying to come up with a company name and logo – to put on letterheads and stuff.
Any ideas?

So far I’ve had tongue-in-cheek suggestions, including:
* Publicity Shaman (I love this idea – a wee logo of a guy in the lotus position hovering above a pile of magazines)
And
* The Copy Cat

The remit is to - hopefully – cover just about anything under the heading of "writing", although at the minute I'm doing marketing materials, trade mag articles, whatever i can get...
 
 
Loomis
17:47 / 18.08.04
Publicity Shaman is cool. But what about Meme Buggerer?! Although you might run into trouble if they google you and find you on Barbelith.
 
 
Grey Area
17:52 / 18.08.04
If you're open to something foreign, might I suggest 'Schreibgut'? It's German, pronounced shr-AIB-goot, and the literal meaning is stationery. But it's a union of 'schreiben' (to write) and 'gut' (good), so can also be taken to mean 'good writing'.
 
 
Fist Fun
18:44 / 18.08.04
Memematic
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
18:44 / 18.08.04
Spoonworks Ltd.
I don't know why. It just sounds cool.
 
 
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18:52 / 18.08.04
Pageburner.

joking.

Realcontent, Transword or Finelines.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:09 / 18.08.04
Scribe-o-tron.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
22:26 / 18.08.04
How's about "Glaswegian fucker that can write some shit for you if you like"?

I'll do you a logo for it.

It'll be brilliant.
 
 
sleazenation
07:28 / 19.08.04
I like copycat idea with a logo of a cartoon cat wearing shades...
 
 
invisible_al
09:08 / 19.08.04
I'd go with the cool for cats idea, but you'd need to get a cool logo. But hey Brighton is stuffed full of unemployed arts students so that shouldn't be a problem.
 
 
Michelle Gale
09:12 / 19.08.04
"Lined Thinking".....yeah! (does jazz hands)
 
 
_Boboss
09:19 / 19.08.04
the write stuff

pen2paper

the word


(this is great - just read design week, always good for stupid stupid company names: 'oh yah, pissflaps' new campaign for macdonalds will toadily revolutionise the brand')
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
09:22 / 19.08.04
What sort of image would you like to present? The name really should reflect your charater and style of business. it's a branding issue and one that can significantly affect the success of your business.

So what do you want to say about yourself and your work?
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
09:45 / 19.08.04
The name really should reflect your character and style of business.

I thought my suggestion accomplished this quite well.
 
 
captain piss
09:49 / 19.08.04
Heh- it does Gypsy (and my mind reels at the logo possibilities - maybe a big muscly arm holding a syringe and a pen at the same time- only joking)
Reminds me of business cards once given to me as work leaving pressie from Ariadne, which included the sub-head "Gies a call and I'll write for ye's all (Available only after 11am"

yeah, I suspect Meme Buggerer or Meme Buggery, Inc might raise a few eyebrows at Companies House. The German word’s quite intriguing, but I can see myself getting bored explaining that one to people… Quite liked “Finelines” but naah- nothing too sales-y. Needs to be something a bit more oblique, but possibly communicating what I want people to think I’m about, in a subtle and clever way.

It would be nice if it sounded quite professional and serious, but also with the possibility of creative or unusual solutions to things…

Brand values: precise, reliable, creative, easy-to-get-on-with, empathetic

The stuff I mainly do is quite serious magazine articles and copywriting relating to technology, gadgets and the like – but I’d like to move into a more general field, so don’t want to have anything with “tech”-something in the name (plus, that’s complete crap sounding and loads of people have that).
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
09:53 / 19.08.04
Let me put that through The Seldom Killer company name engine and I'll be back to you later.
 
 
Jub
09:56 / 19.08.04
"The Freelance Writing Company"

Seriously. It's a good name and everyone would know what you did. If you insisted on having a logo, you could base it around FWC or have a little knight holding a lance-sized pencil.
 
 
Bed Head
10:07 / 19.08.04
Oh, Stoatie has it, dude. Scribe-o-tron. It’s fun, it says "oooh, creative" with just the right amount of it’s-a-bit-of-a-silly-job-but-I’m-really-fucking-good-at-it archness, it’s retro-futuristic but in a *good* way, and it means you can have a Barbelith competition to see who can draw the best Transformer-style robot for your logo. And having a robot on your letterheading is a really good idea. Everyone knows that robots always meet their deadlines.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:08 / 19.08.04
Probably worth noting also that most of the names suggested above are already the names of copywriting businesses... anything obvious will have been done. Starting off with your name, which is kind of your one PoQ at present, might not be a bad idea...

Alternatively, just find a new and exciting pun on "write". Titles I pondered when a freelance copywriter included:

Write back at ya
Write from the start

and, the ultimate winner

Write up my arse

It's a winner... you could have promotional biros printed with "this pen has been...", and your logo. Which is a pen being shoved right up etc.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:40 / 19.08.04
For a moment I thought The Ultimate Winner was a suggestion. I like it best. Although consideration should all be given to MindBomb Productions.
 
 
captain piss
10:52 / 19.08.04
"The Ultimate Winner" would be a good name for a band, maybe... MindBomb Productions is already a recording studio in Pittsburgh while The Freelance Writing Company is already operating in San Diego...it's true, lots of the names have been taken..

Other names:
Paul's Propoganda Hut
Reality ShaperTM
Good Copy/Bad copy
Will Lie for food
The Apocalypse Lamination (??)
 
 
Jub
10:57 / 19.08.04
The Freelance Writing Company is already operating in San Diego

Oops. Sorry MB.

*hangs head in shame*
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
10:59 / 19.08.04
Still forming some ideas here along the lines of

Salient Point
Incandescent

They need to be run through google though to check availability status.

Be very wary of using humour as it lacks timelessness and you occasionally need to appeal to humourless people. I would advise mulling over any name for at least a week. This should include defendingthe company name if things suddenly head south.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:00 / 19.08.04
I do like Good Copy/Bad Copy, although it may not be giving off the brand values you are looking for....

Maybe an added modifier.. Paul's Propaganda Palazzo?

How about a joint copywriting/baking venture called "Lies, damned lies and ma biscuits"?
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
12:56 / 19.08.04
hmmm....

Hard Copy
From the Word Go
Sticks and Stones
Something More Compelling
Do It Write
Ditto
I Make It Sound Good
Media Massage
Fact/Fiction
Lex Make a Deal (ouch!)
I've got the brains, you've got the brawn/Let's make lots of money
Free-Range Articles
Word Matters
The Sharpest Pencil
Contentious
Writes a Passage


Although I rather like Publicity Shaman, too.
 
 
grant
13:06 / 19.08.04
Scriven-o-tron.
 
 
grant
13:08 / 19.08.04
[Last Name] Memetics, Inc.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:09 / 19.08.04
I'd still go for "Paul Surname Writing" or "Copywriting". Simple, clear, doesn't make you look like you're pretending to be a global multinational. When you get up to three people, think about a stylin' name, perhaps.

Although "Writes a Passage" does give me a happy. No client would ever get it, though. Ever.
 
 
sleazenation
13:16 / 19.08.04
something classy, which would ideally include a knob gag...
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
13:19 / 19.08.04
Another classic excerpt from the Ben Elton school of PR.
 
 
Saint Keggers
19:18 / 19.08.04
Mightier Than The Sword
or
Meatier tahn the s-word
 
 
Analogues On
19:52 / 19.08.04
"superscript" - written, of course, in super-sexy superscript

"The Last Word"

"Complete Works"

"Word to the Wise"

"Cast Iron Alibis" - might attract the wrong type of clients, but at least you'd get to be creative and fastidious in your work.
 
 
rizla mission
21:27 / 19.08.04
How about something cool-sounding (yet inoffensive) and utterly, utterly random like..

Rabbit.

Mountain.

Bubblegum.

Hopscotch.

Space Rocket.

Volcano.

Pelican.

Shed.

..and so on..
 
 
Char Aina
02:35 / 20.08.04
Writes a Passage

dude.
i'm lovin that.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
06:00 / 20.08.04
Yeah, if meme b doesn't take it, I might just reserve it for myself... it's always the one you come up with after 20 duds!
 
  

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