Woo! We're changing our name!
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Well I guess the rationale is this:
1. The boss hates names like 'Fat Tuna Design' whereas me (designer) and the other guy (programmer) quite like non corporate names.
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yeah, I think Fat Tuna or whatever would be a mistake if he has to take that into the kind of rooms he does. It can be less Skatecore and still leave enough room around it to mean many things though.2. The boss is very business to business orientated. Attends networking meetings and traditionally finds much of our work from them.
*aye, see above.
3. The kind of work we're getting is very 'low end' and we want better work and know we can do it well. (Much of the time we spent on our current client base is completely lost on them. Eg. Ajax/design with grids/typography/etc)
*I think you get the work you align yourself to. Internet Essentials to me comes from a time BEFORE the net was essential. Your pitching as a meek service provider rather than a company which exists in a vital position where your clients WANT to be. The intertubes aren't some new crazy thing anymore, the web dezigners aren't snowboarding, they're making people money.
4. 2009 is going to be a big year where we're all going to get out the and market the company. And frankly, I cant market Internet Essentials.
*yeah, me neither. What are internet essentials? kind of suggests loads of it is INessential eh?
5. Universal Mode to me sounds like a quality name that's not 'faddy'. The idea is it will lend itself to the corporate bods my boss like to meet and the cool kids the rest of us will be trying to impress.
*not sure here, I think it does sound a bit faddy, but its definitely better.
Sorry for the long answer!!
*not at all, its a wee bit important, your name, you should have a lot to back it up
Make sense?
*aye, more or less :)
- the end of your post has no words in commonmistermik
- haha, whit do you mean?kelpie
- its gobblegook haha - or maybe i just can't read it.mistermik
- which bit?kelpie
- *not sure here, I think it does sound a bit faddy, but its definitely better.
Sorry for the long answer!!
*not at all, its a wee bit important, your name, you should have a lot to back it up
Make sense?
*aye, more or less :)mistermik - that didnt work - not one jotmistermik
- oh soz - meaning I'm not sure it isn't "faddy", but I'm sure its better than Internet Essentialskelpie
- ah yes thats true - think i was more surprised at amount written - you must be as busy as me. :)mistermik
- I wish, I'm just pretending furiously that my procrastination is useful in some way! ;)kelpie