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Creative name for a new company
-Spitfire-
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My friend and I are looking into starting a plumbing business of our own in the near future, but we seem to be at a bit of a loss in terms of what we should call it.
We want to stay away from something like "Tom's Plumbing" or anything involving either of our first or last names. We're both fairly young, fit people (just over 25) and are both well educated and present ourselves well. Most of the plumbing companies around here have fairly boring, standard names "A1 Plumbers" "Milani Plumbing"... stuff like that. We obviously want to stand out from the crowd in some way, but still appear professional if someone were looking us up in the phonebook.
Both of us seem unable to come up with much of anything, so I thought your excellent creative minds might be able to help us out!
We want to stay away from something like "Tom's Plumbing" or anything involving either of our first or last names. We're both fairly young, fit people (just over 25) and are both well educated and present ourselves well. Most of the plumbing companies around here have fairly boring, standard names "A1 Plumbers" "Milani Plumbing"... stuff like that. We obviously want to stand out from the crowd in some way, but still appear professional if someone were looking us up in the phonebook.
Both of us seem unable to come up with much of anything, so I thought your excellent creative minds might be able to help us out!
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I don't know. Whatever you name it though, you shouldn't make it so creative that no one knows what the hell it is you DO. Maybe "Plumbers R us" or something. Spitfire Plumbers. Super Fast Plumbers. PP Plumbers.
plump plumbers
There's also Fortified Aqueous Plumbing.
Or perhaps Aqueous Solutions.
Aqueduct Quacks.
Chip N' Dale: Rescue Plumbers
Plumbing related... uh... Rowdy Roddy Piper?
Oh Danny Boy? (the pipes, the pipes are calling...)
Pan's Pipes?
Yeah, it's tricksy - as I said we're having a lot of trouble, too.
Unfortunately we are neither Italian nor fat. Also, one of us is a girl. :P
Yeah, I almost fell out of my chair when I read that one... points for awesome!
Gets you right at the top of the list in the phone book, it's eye catching, different and it will connect with the customer at their time of plight. You don't want to be subtle about this sort of stuff, plumbing isn't an artsy fartsy industry.
It's pretty much the ideal name for a plumbing company, especially one that deals with emergency call-outs.
With
Tighten my Nuts and i'll clean out your pipes, as a strapline.
Power Flushers, Plunger Company, Series of Tubes Plumbing, No Shit Plumbing, The Stopcock Warriors, The Excrementarians, Porcelain Partnership, The Cleanwater Company
Samophlange Plumbing
Dunny Plumbin' (apparently dunny is slang for an outhouse in Australia)
Seriously.
[edit]alt:
All Your Pipes Are Belong to Us (AYPABU)
The Pipe Twisters
Harry T. Italian and the Plumber's Quartet
Spitfire Plumbing
I mean, it looks serious enough, but it's also pretty cool. The only drawbacks that I can see is that some people might assume you can do gas piping (pipes that SPIT FIRE) or that you do airplane plumbing (Spitfire is a kind of plane, right?)
Otherwise:
- Pipes of Peace (especially good if there are a lot of hippies in your neighborhood)
- World 7 Plumbing (this is a somewhat obscure reference to SMB3, that won't be offensive to anyone, and might make some people smile when then finally "get" it.)
- Pipe Dreams
-
(or some similar picture or drawing) with the text below:
"Ceci n'est pas une pipe."
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Ooh. I like this one.
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I'd call a plumber with that company name.
rofl, I like that one
No Dum-Dum Plumbum Plumbing Company.
Hmm... "Tank Girl Plumbing"? I'm picturing an advertisement with tank girl standing in front of a giant toilet (instead of a tank) holding an oversized wrench.
If you can get two more girls on the team, you could pull off "The Powerplum Girls."
"Fixing sinks
making sure your toilet whirls
Here we come, we don't stink:
the Powerplum Girls"
...
(I fail at life, apparently)
# Pipe Plumbers
rofl
That is a good idea though... definitely a plan. I suppose it could be like
A+ Plumbing
or
Alpha Plumbers
ooh...
Aleph One Plumbing
"The Infinite world of Plumbing"
I like the last one... but mileage may vary with non-dorks.
That's why I went with the non-alphanumeric character first.
Just double-check though; some have started listing them LAST.
The Porcelain Gods
Snakes in a Drain!
But only us computer literates would get it as "Hashpipe Plumbers".
To everyone else that would be "Number-Sign Pipe Plumbers" or "Pound-Key Pipe Plumbers"
I was referring to it as "Pound Pipe" Plumbers.
alternatively
Clog Busters, but you have to go with a whole ghost busters theme for your outfits and logo, and everything.
I'm wary of stuff like "snakes in a drain" since that's a bit more of a fad that will end up dating us in only a few years - even though it's really clever, too.
In terms of advertising though, from my previous business advertising experience, we only got about 5-10% of customers through the yellow pages, the rest were actually through the internet. This makes me much less concerned about "getting the first alphabetical listing" than it does about investigating Google ad bidding.
"Pipe Dream" though, and "Clog Busters"... now we might be talking...
Thanks guys, this is very helpful!
If it weren't for that, the "#" idea was clever enough to probably be top billing in my book. But that's just my opinion.