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How did you come up with the name of your business? 💭

Hiiii Seller Community! 

 

Here with another question of the week!

 

How did you come up with the name of your business? Is there a story behind it? Have you ever thought of changing it? 

 

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Feel free to share your business name, how you came up with it and your logo too if you want! 💕 We look forward to reading your replies

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Our kids helped us come up with the name, and our daughter drew the logo. She is a great artist, and has even come up with an updated logo picture. 

I do appreciate any and all feedback that you or anyone else may have.

Have a great day!

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Thanks @WolfMama77! Thanks for the reply 😊

 

What is your business name? If you want to attach your logo for feedback, you can select the insert photo option:

 

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Our Company name is Lancaster downtown deli. I used s.e.o words to create the name. I designed the logo using an on-line logo design site. Chose the colors using an on-line site that shows how people respond to certain colors.

 

 

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I started my business in memory of my son. He had foxes on everything. So we started Fox Towing.

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The name of my company is Max Creations. Max is the reason my company came about. I went from Hair Stylist to Stay at home dog Mom in the blink of an eye. Maximus is my furbabies name. My company makes handmade products and accessories for pets.

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I love my family so much, and there are 8 of us.... My husband can always tell when I've had enough noise or when I need some me time, he always asks me "You straight baby?" We have 6 kids and I'm constantly telling their lazy booties, "I'm not your maid!" So when I decided to open up my maid service,

I came up with "Maid Straight"  cleaning service. It made sense and stuck out. Cause God knows I was made, "Straight Maid" after all these youngins!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 

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My instructor actually gave me the idea one afternoon when I stayed after to make up some class time I’d missed because of my participation in Skills USA, which he pushed me into the 2nd week of class. He’s from Laos and we were talking about the tea he was drinking while I made a fresh pot of coffee for myself. He was explaining how that tea company came up with its name. The name was catchy and combined a few letters from their country & a few from the owners name. I played with it a while, being from California and it being a big part of me, “Cali” was definitely a good fit with my personality.
But I was at the lowest point in my life at the time and jewelry making was the only thing that kept me from sinking deeper into the abyss of chronic unemployment, depression, anxiety, and homelessness. Even though I’ve been a maker since 2005, and started selling my jewelry in 2007, I wasn’t fully committed or confident of my skills and I went back to school. What I learned on my own up to 2015 was now being strengthened and recognized by beginners in class and acknowledged by our instructor and myself. Now “Jewels” are my trade and I am more confident in myself, but I’m no longer in Cali, that spelling no longer sat right. The name had been Simply Katie’s in my early days evolving into SK Wire Jewelry later on. God has been better than good to me through all of my struggles and I am now KaLy Jewels 

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Yes what Olive said. Show us the logo, please. 

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We came up with the name of our business out of a desire to be inclusive of the three communities that make up our metro area.

 

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Absolutely 🇺🇸❤️🎉👍👍👍

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Hello @isabelle !

 

When I was researching my coffee shop idea, the industry was right in the heart of the “third space” idea—where people are looking for a spot to gather that wasn’t home or the office. With that in mind, I wanted to create a space that was warm, relaxing, and somewhere you could go to forget about the real world for a while. R&R came naturally after that. 

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A few years after opening, my roasted coffee business was gaining quite a few wholesale accounts. I decided that I needed to spin it off into its own entity. This name was a little harder to come by. 
One evening, I was working on some paperwork in our dining area while a big thunderstorm was overhead. As it rained, the sun set below the level of the clouds, casting a vibrant golden color over everything in the store. I stepped outside and saw the biggest tree on our property bathed in the same golden glow. Golden Pine Roasters was created. 🙂 

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Would I change them? Probably not. We’ve been around long enough to where everyone knows us as “the R&R” so any change would mess with some minds. The roasterie is starting to really stand on its own now too, so I don’t want to change things there either. 

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I really dig the meaning behind both names, reading through these is a fun window into your lives and businesses... A deeper dive than we might usually get.

 

@ryanwanner - When I look at the golden pine logo and read the story, I swear I can smell coffee.

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That looks like a cozy place to curl up with a hot coffee or hot chocolate and nap (I mean read a book)! Nice place!

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Good for you! R&R is perfect for a coffee shop name. And it sounds very much like you offer some extra R&R to everyone that passes through your threshold.

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Names and logos:  The Riverview is named after the building it is located in.  This was my first ever designed logo and I just wanted something clean that incorporated blue and green for river and trees.  Order Up Café was a bazillion different names till we landed on the name and then designed the logo to emphasize the up and the city of Knoxville with the iconic skyline of the sun sphere.  Tombras Café was a specific operation for an advertising agency and represents  very clean and modern.

 

The last one city county cafe was to represent an abstract sandwich but still clean lines.  The key to all my names and logos were easy to remember and use web domain names.  What good is a great name if you can't get a great web domain?

 

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Fantastic and pretty unique business names. I really like the logos - the City County Cafe in particular 🥪 

 

Thanks for sharing @Donnie-M 😊

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🍞I like my logos minimalist and my sandwiches maximalist 🍞

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I once worked for a start-up company named, The Corporation. Stupidest company name I've ever heard of...  NOBODY knew what we did. Was it a security firm? A software company? A company run by the...well, you know. BTW, it was a 2nd rate software company that was doomed from the start. From then on, I knew if I ever had to choose a company name, the name would say it all...

 

Our biz name IV Airport Shuttle, represents exactly the area we cover (IV for Illinois Valley in North Central Illinois) and exactly what we do (Airport Shuttles to O'Hare, Midway and four other smaller regional airports). We toyed with names that were cute, catchy, funny, etc., but all were forgettable, we thought. The name has worked tremendously well for us. *Eight years later, we're doing great!

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Love it! A straightforward name like this is an advertisement for your own business, no need to add frills to complicate things. Fun names aren't the end of the world, but I would imagine you've gained hundreds of customers just by seeing your cars with the exact identifier of what you do out on the road.

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