July 06, 2005
Curious Editorial George: Help with business name!
I'm looking at setting up a very small local freelance editing business, and need a catchy name before I can move on with website, adverts, etc. I think "Wordsworth" is already taken, as is "Wordswork", which makes me want to go off on quite a different tangent. Any brilliant ideas from you erudite monkeys? I'd like it to sound professional, possibly witty, definitely not goofy. Thanks!
Mr Edit
Check Your Ed
A Cut Above
CostCutter (may already be taken by supermarket)
Redacting Up
Preemptive Strike
Lose The Adjectives, Inc.
The Great Red Pencil of the Gods
I am tired and I should got to bed now
OMGWTF TEH EDTIOR!!!1!!111!!SEVENTEEN!!
Paragraft
Linguine
Awk. Inc.
Book Fuckers
I'm Better Than The Annoying Paperclip From MS Word.
Be nice, damnit! This is a matter of paying the mortgage. Thanks.
% egrep '^[a-z].{1,4}$' /usr/dict/words | sed -e 's/^/word/g'
Wordstumpler
In Five Words Or Less
The Word Nerd
Superfluous Extraction
Redundancies Redone
Inksavers
WriteRepair
TextWerk
Wordsrighter
Redquill Manor
Textfixer
Lorem-Ipsum
Scriptor Rescriptus
Virgule
You can go totall absurd like I did. Beleive it or not, my name on this site is a play on my company name "Rancho Calamari Productions". Honest, it sticks in folks minds.
The Word Nerd might be good for certain markets, but do nerds take advice? It has a good sound though.
What type of documents are you interested in editing? If you have speciality you'd want to focus on, the name might come from that. Or, is it just any kind?
Word Is Bond
The Wordatory
Wordminster Abbey
Fish Tick And Co. (est. 2005)
The Red Pen
Tickmarks
Sir Marksalot (I like Bic pens, you other writers can't deny, when page goes by, it looks pretty fly, with an editing mark within ...)
Sorry. You'd probably get sued for that one ...
Out of ideas. Hmm.
Word Bird
Nice & Concise
Edit Your Page
Edit This!
Clear Cuts
Precision Decisions
Succinctly Yours
Dudley Do Write
Word Wrangler
Gratefulled Editor
Grammar Moses
Writeousness
Textellence
I'd even sell you the domain name WordPowers.com for the change in your pocket...
Just reading through the current suggestions, the one that has stood out for me is ActuallySettle's Paragraft...
Monkey Business
4 words or *fewer*.
You're One Stop Print Shop [misspellings in print shop names add that extra bit of credibility]
Text like Grammar used to make!
Galley Slave
Proof of Concept
I think perhaps you should get away from the gimmicky business names (like the awful ones hairdressers seem to like).
What about "[Yourname]'s Editing"?
I like old-school establishment-style names. Like James Q. Farknuckler & Sons, Editors. That's over the top, but you get the drift.
Perhaps you could go with your MoFi username? And for your logo a pictograph depicting a fish with a tick coming forth from it's mouth, or such... Scales composed of jumbled alphanumeric characters...
Keep in mind that catchy names based on a real phrase might make it harder for people to Google you up.
Ink This!
Write Me!
You could look at Greek/Roman/Chinese et al mythology for gods associated with writing. It's what my wife did.
I WIN
Perfection.
I like Word Is Bond, still.
Me. The only difference between your writing and good writing.
...riffing...
TickTalk
Tick-Top
Tick's Tips
Word Wielder
The Write Way
By Wrote
Tick-for-Talk
Tick-Knack
Niche-Knack
Tick-of-the-Iceberg: Word Floes
Ticketty-Beau
Miss-Tick's-Margins
Font-Do!
LuckyStrikes
Weighing Words
I Weigh Your Words
All She Wrote
Red Ink and ...White-out?
Red Ink at Morning
Lucid Lines
Fault Lines
LifeLines for Lousy Writers
LunarTick
Art-Tick-le
Tick-lish Lines
A Tick in Time
"I can right"
"Literite"
"WordPolish"
'Inksavers' is a good one. It has multiple meanings that will attract the sort of custom you want. with 'savers' in the title it also implies low cost (which doesn't necessarily have to be true) that will also be attractive.
Ms Ms ('Miz Manuscript')
Invisible Emenders
King Charles's Head ('Mr Dick' wouldn't work, I think)
Unmistakable
Type Righter
Prime Cuts
Proper Copy
Proof Positive
Brought to you by the letter P it seems
Stetit
Editor's 'R' UsWe Are Editors
textual healing
The Write Stuff.
Textual healing is pretty darn good. That's a winner.
text therapy/text therapist could work.
textual healing! roryk wins!
i'm serious. great name.
I like 'Ms Ms.'
You're all amazing - thanks very much! There are a lot of winners there, and I will mull them over for some time. Yay!
hee hee - textual healing's a fine one - wonder about text maniac?
Textual Healing does sound like a winner, although I do share the concern lamearse expressed about gimmicky hairdresser names (A Cut Above, Shear Delight, Haircut 100).
On one hand, I'm glad no one picked Writing Academy (the one I use); on the other hand, nobody else seems to have any interest in it either!
Text Maniac sounds like you're gonna go psycho all over the copy. Textual Healing sounds like you'll lovingly seduce it to a, um, textual climax.
Good point, SideDish. Must-not-go-psycho, especially over "it's" abuse.
Unassailable Proof
Apropos, Inc.
Precision Blue Pencil, Grammar & Cie.
Le Mot Juste
WordSmith
I like Textual Healing and Word Nerd :)
One Monkey at a Typewriter
Wordinator!
Well, that's more wordy...let's see...neeed something more editty....
Edinator!
hmmm..I'm stuck...
TiCKDOR THE EDiTiNATOR!!!
ha ha ha
...still riffing...
The Write Mode
Proof Positive
Just Write
The Write Text
Font-'n'-Blue Pencil
Ticked Text or Tick's Text
100 Proof
Put To Writes
Text-Tack-Ticks
Write Side Up
Writeous Word
Writeous!
By Writes
The Writes of Man
Proof Writer
The Write Site
Write Angles
All the Write Angles
Wow, beeswacky - you're a veritable treasure trove! Thanks! Btw- I'm only a tick *here*, so tickish names lose their punch in RL.
Me own mum came up with "The Editorial We" - not bad, eh?
Ed Edited It
You'll have to be the one answering the phone. :-)
yeah it's a fun little tounge twister
Blue Line Editing.
Heh- nice.
Thanks also to silent-monkey Layne! :-)
Hey, monkeys- in the spirit of "help me name" stuff, I call your attention to a project-naming request by One Of Us over at the Green. Got suggestions? Fetch hither le fromage de la belle France!
(P.S. Comments here will reach the monkey in question, too, for non-MeFites.)
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