Re: Company Name
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 always tried to avoid names which conjour up in the minds of customers (or more importantly, the revenue) a small company. So, Redvers Davies Ltd or Name Based names were always out the window for me. Thanks for this, and other advice. One good thing about advice, is that you don't have to take it :-) So Shiels Consulting Ltd is now active and ready for business! I will be leaving my current employer very soon, maybe even today if we can get the paperwork sorted out. Wish me luck... /Robert
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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 does: Critical Integration Ltd; I integrate critical systems. The other stuff I do could have produced: Random Perl Ltd. EWIC Ltd. (Encapsulate Workflow in Code) I've always tried to avoid names which conjour up in the minds of customers (or more importantly, the revenue) a small company. So, Redvers Davies Ltd or Name Based names were always out the window for me. Red
Company Name
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. I guess I could try Shiels Enterprises or Shiels Inc, but they seem pretty naff. 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. TIA -- Robert
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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. Get something that sounds nice :) Also check companieshouse.gov.uk to see it (and anything similar) hasn't gone. Mega-Shiels 2001 Ltd. :) c. (who has ruined many an expensive brand consultant's day) -- every day, computers are making people easier to use http://www.unorthodoxstyles.com
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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.
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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. :-) Andrew.
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* 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 obvious, and I already own the shiels.com domain. I guess I could try Shiels Enterprises or Shiels Inc, but they seem pretty naff. 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. you could always try one of those anagram generators. struan
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* 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 and call it PerlIsMyBitch Ltd. and randal thought the t-shirts were bad? struan
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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: Shiels and Company. (Examples from real life: Ede and Ravenscroft, Coutts.) Professional companies possibly contain a name and give *some* indication of what they do: Robert Shiels Consulting, Shiels IT Services. (Examples: Merchant Ivory Productions, Barclay's Bank.) Informal companies contain one or two words which *hint* at what they do, and no names (and are much harder to come up with. :) : The SAP Workshop (Examples: Microsoft, NetThink.) -- The FSF is not overly concerned about security. - FSF
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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 kitty' douche. If you are getting some and you know what hello kitty is... Well, you're an exceptionally lucky man. -- Megahal, trained on IRC.
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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, professional or informal. Established companies contain merely names, and give no indication of what they do: Shiels and Company. (Examples from real life: Ede and Ravenscroft, Coutts.) Professional companies possibly contain a name and give *some* indication of what they do: Robert Shiels Consulting, Shiels IT Services. (Examples: Merchant Ivory Productions, Barclay's Bank.) Informal companies contain one or two words which *hint* at what they do, and no names (and are much harder to come up with. :) : The SAP Workshop (Examples: Microsoft, NetThink.) 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 :-) /Robert
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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 crap but then it's the fashion) -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -- albert einstein
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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 they think of contractors. Oooh get her :) /J\
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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 Webster Gateway: shiel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shiel \Shiel\, n. A sheeling. [Scot.] --Burns.
Which leads to :
Sheeling \Sheeling\, n. [Icel. skj?l a shelter, a cover; akin to Dan.
Sw. skjul.] A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as
on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds,
fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. [Written
also {sheel}, {shealing}, {sheiling}, etc.] [Scot.]
So you can pass of your company as a shelter n 1: a structure that
provides privacy and protection from danger.
All this from playing with
http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster
Cheers,
--
Merijn Broeren| Fridge Theory: You should go round every corner assuming
Software Geek | that just out of sight round the corner is a double width
| chest freezer which has fallen off of a truck.
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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 the domain off Paul and call it PerlIsMyBitch Ltd. Perl is your limited bitch? dha, who, yes, knows what limited means in this context... sheesh -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ I see people didn't read the smiley I didn't include. - John W. Baxter
