Re: Company Name

2001-04-30 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Redvers Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] How did contractors here come up with the names for their companies, and can you think of anything with Shiels in the name that sounds good. I will mainly be doing SAP work, but hope to get other IT work too, so don't want SAP in the name. I've

Re: Company Name

2001-04-26 Thread Redvers Davies
How did contractors here come up with the names for their companies, and can you think of anything with Shiels in the name that sounds good. I will mainly be doing SAP work, but hope to get other IT work too, so don't want SAP in the name. Well, my company name is a description of what my

Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Robert Shiels
I've decided to set up my own company and become a contractor. There are quite a lot of decisions to be made, but the hardest one I'm finding is thinking of a company name! So far my only ideas are simply Shiels or Shiels Consulting; this is fairly obvious, and I already own the shiels.com domain

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Chris Heathcote
on 25/4/01 9:02 am, Robert Shiels wrote: I will mainly be doing SAP work, but hope to get other IT work too, so don't want SAP in the name. I came up with Diatom Consulting for an ex of mine (mainly a SAP sysadmin). Old chemistry and physics books are good starters, as are other languages.

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Philip Newton
Chris Heathcote wrote: Mega-Shiels 2001 Ltd. Shiels-Up! PLC Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

RE: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Chris Heathcote wrote: Mega-Shiels 2001 Ltd. Shiels-Up! PLC In a similar vein, how about 'Green Shiels Temps'? It has a certain ring about it to those of us old enough to remember reams of the things being dished out in Woolies and the like.

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Struan Donald
* at 25/04 09:02 +0100 Robert Shiels said: I've decided to set up my own company and become a contractor. There are quite a lot of decisions to be made, but the hardest one I'm finding is thinking of a company name! So far my only ideas are simply Shiels or Shiels Consulting; this is fairly

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Struan Donald
* at 25/04 13:15 +0100 Jonathan Stowe said: On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: I've decided to set up my own company and become a contractor. There are quite a lot of decisions to be made, but the hardest one I'm finding is thinking of a company name! Get the domain off Paul

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:02:16AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: How did contractors here come up with the names for their companies Your main choice is between sounding established, professional or informal. Established companies contain merely names, and give no indication of what they do:

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: I thought of Shiels IT Services, but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-) Well, that might be a feature, you know. After all, it's what a lot of people think of when they think of contractors. -- Simon: `hello

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2001 13:15 Subject: Re: Company Name On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:02:16AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: How did contractors here come up with the names for their companies Your main choice is between sounding established

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Mynott
Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nice summary. I was going to go for Shiels, but there is some plastics company in Lancs that have it already. I thought of Shiels IT Services, but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-) What about Shielsa or Shielsia? (OK they sound

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: I thought of Shiels IT Services, but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-) Well, that might be a feature, you know. After all, it's what a lot of people think of when

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Merijn Broeren
Quoting Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Nice summary. I was going to go for Shiels, but there is some plastics company in Lancs that have it already. I thought of Shiels IT Services, but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-) Oh yeah, I trust you know about : Hypertext

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:15:38PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: I've decided to set up my own company and become a contractor. There are quite a lot of decisions to be made, but the hardest one I'm finding is thinking of a company name! Get