Need opinions on a business name!!
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- Phillip Smeby
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Okay I have a friend who is starting a business in massage therapy. She is British and wants to have an English feel to the name so she decided that she wanted to call her business Mum's Massage, because the word Mum is English. I told her she should name it Bloody Good Massage because American's don't understand how bloody could be a swear word and they find if funny. This is the same theory that Fat Bastard Chardonnay used to become so popular. My friend doesn't know if that would be a good name because people might get offended, but I said that American's wouldn't find it offensive, so my friend settled on Jolly Good Massage instead. I was thinking that we could spell bloody differently to distract from the swear of it like spell it blutty or bludy, so I thought that I would ask around and see what people think.
Mum's Massage, Bloody Good Massage, Jolly Good Massage, Bludy Good Massage, which one would you most likely visit? Any opinions on a different name? And is Bloody Good Massage offensive (for the Americans)?
Thanks any help will be appreciated because I am going to be building a website for her with joomla. Thanks
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- komang
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- Bludy Good Massage is good
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- Joe K
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- Captain Randall
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Mum's Massage is good. American's are facinated with the British (as long as they hava a good accent).
I have a friend who called his Flower Business "Lady Di's" (before she died) and it did very well. So how about Lady Di's Massage?
If the name is catchy, people will remember you. If the service is bad, people will remember you. So have her do it right, and she'll have a goldmine.
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And with this amount of a bank loan, my customer service will have to be good! - Ladies Man, SkyDiver, Casual Hero, Scuba Instructor Extraordinaire!
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- Chad M.
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I don't think it's necessary to change the spelling of 'Bloody' if you were going to use it in the business name. In fact, I'd recommend against it since it's likely to confuse at least a few people and very few Americans are even aware that it is an offensive word in England, and most of those who do won't consider it offensive anyway.
That being said, my opinions on the names you originally mentioned:
Jolly Good Massage = +++
Mum's Massage = ++
Bloody Good Massage = +++
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- rudolph
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I am american... go look at my ride.. its a truck tranformed into a nascar..... and i wouldn't go to any of these.....
... when i think of massage I think of asians.... sorry....
but a name that would appeal to me would be something soothing... giving me peace of mind...
refering to mum(mom) while getting a massage doesnt appeal to me.....
... now a name like blissful transitions massage.... works for me.... now i walk in and here an interesting accent is just a pleasent surprise...
... but i don't judge by race color size shape,, just by how you sell what you got...If it works together...I am ;D
oh and the whole blood thing would work for a halloween novelty store...
it 2008 novelty things like accent...are nice...but content is king
its not how you say it... but what you say that counts!
I have a master degree in B.S. i can smell good stuff a mile away...lol...so advertising is what i do... (just another view) - Last Edit: 16 years 9 months ago by rudolph.
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.... round is a shape.
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- Chad M.
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Hmmm... though I don't agree with the last poster, they do have a couple of points. The first and most important being that you need to consider the region where the massage business will be. The more cosmopolitan the area, the less likely it will be that you'll get undesired associations with words like 'bloody' or 'mum' or 'jolly' and the more likely it will be that those words will have their intended appeal to the locals.
The second point actually came unintentionally from the poster before last, being that some people associate massage with erotic services (calling it "Happy Endings Massage" would obviously be a bad idea unless that's the sort of business you're going for
), which means it's probably a good idea to be aware of how the business is promoted to local perceptions to avoid that sort of thing.
So, where is the business going to be located, anyway? Any feedback or suggestions we have to offer could be much more targeted if we know the city or at least the region. *shrug* Just another couple of thoughts for you to consider, Phillip.
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- Bob Ateah
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I vote for "Ye Olde Therapeutic Massage Clinic".
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