company name

[Farrell]

My business card and Yellow Pages ad reads:

Piano Tuning & Service
......by Terry Farrell

That way I get "piano" in there, I have my name in there, and if I sell the business, it can still be called "Piano Tuning & Service". Kinda covers all the bases. If I wish, I can just use the name "Piano Tuning & Service" if I want something shorter for whatever reason. I've even had a few calls from folks that looked up "piano" in the white pages........of course, they found me!  :-)

Works for me.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Neuman" <piano@charlesneuman.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 3:24 PM
Subject: company name


> If you are self-employed and don't have partners in your business, which
> do you think is more effective for your company name: your own name, or a
> business-y name such as "Superb Piano Works" or "Piano-Toon"?
> 
> I have heard people in the past claim that your own name sounds more
> personal. On the other hand, maybe customers prefer something with more
> distance, which might be more "official" in their eyes. I don't know.
> 
> I notice that a lot of businesses have really boring-sounding names such
> as "American [whatever]", or "Mid-Island [whatever]". And putting the town
> name in the company name seems to be popular.
> 
> Charles Neuman
> 
> 
>