I hate naming things. I'm not creative enough for that s*%&

[e.rose]

So I have been thinking a lot lately.

I want to officially launch a women's brand, but I need to keep it separate from my senior brand, because of the potential for boudoir to crop up once in a while with the women's line.

That being said, I need to name one line or the other (One of them I'll just keep under my current name probably), but I'm TERRIBLE at it.

I can't think of anything that isn't overly hokey or that doesn't just sound like it's chock full of terrible photography buzz-words.

I look at some of the names my peers have given to their senior or boudoir lines and they're brilliant... and then there's me floundering around for even just a half-decent idea.

And THEN to throw a curve-ball into the whole thing... I eventually want to get back to shooting music, so I have technically have to have a 3rd brand separate from the other two.

::shakes head::

I'm a mess.

I can't even begin to figure out how I want to break all this up... or if I want to keep anything combined, which seems like a really bad idea, no matter how you look at it. Ha.

/vent

 

[Bossy]

I can relate! I'm no help at all though, a wordsmith I am not.

 

[ronlane]

Don't think this would work for a Female brand, but Maybe for another. "Shot by E Rose!"

 

[e.rose]

I can relate! I'm no help at all though, a wordsmith I am not.

I swear, some day I'm going to hire someone to write copy for me and name things.

You're talking to a person who named her car, "Car", calls her cat "Kitty" (although to be fair, his name is Robin, he just never gets called that), named her Mac Mini, "Mac" and her T2i "Tewey". -- The 5D doth not have a name, because... I gave up on trying to name things. :lmao:

 

[sm4him]

Rose's Poses. :lmao:

Oh man, I crack me up.

 

[e.rose]

Don't think this would work for a Female brand, but Maybe for another. "Shot by E Rose!"

See, but I hate words like "shot", "capture", "memories", "frozen", "time", "moments", etc.

I want whatever I name them to be "XYZ" and in smaller print below will be, "by Emily McGonigle Photography" so I can still relate it to my overall "parent brand", if you will, but other than that, I'm at a loss.

I HAD a name for the women's brand last year, and I even had a logo made up for it, but as I have honed the idea of what I want that brand to be, I'm really not liking it anymore.

I know. It's a problem.

 

[e.rose]

Rose's Poses. :lmao:

Oh man, I crack me up.

No.

But that's funny.

:lmao:

 

[ronlane]

Don't think this would work for a Female brand, but Maybe for another. "Shot by E Rose!"

See, but I hate words like "shot", "capture", "memories", "frozen", "time", "moments", etc.

I want whatever I name them to be "XYZ" and in smaller print below will be, "by Emily McGonigle Photography" so I can still relate it to my overall "parent brand", if you will, but other than that, I'm at a loss.

I HAD a name for the women's brand last year, and I even had a logo made up for it, but as I have honed the idea of what I want that brand to be, I'm really not liking it anymore.

I know. It's a problem.

I see your point. Maybe something like "Beautiful Women - by Emily McGonigle Photography"

 

[e.rose]

Don't think this would work for a Female brand, but Maybe for another. "Shot by E Rose!"

See, but I hate words like "shot", "capture", "memories", "frozen", "time", "moments", etc.

I want whatever I name them to be "XYZ" and in smaller print below will be, "by Emily McGonigle Photography" so I can still relate it to my overall "parent brand", if you will, but other than that, I'm at a loss.

I HAD a name for the women's brand last year, and I even had a logo made up for it, but as I have honed the idea of what I want that brand to be, I'm really not liking it anymore.

I know. It's a problem.

I see your point. Maybe something like "Beautiful Women - by Emily McGonigle Photography"

Meh. I feel like that's still too generic.

For example, a dude here that has since moved to Colorado named his boudoir line "Flaunt".

Love it.

Wish I had thought of it.

I didn't.

So there's that.

:lmao:

I'm trying to think of something that is relevant to the brand, but not necesarilly a generic statement or one of the aforementioned "buzzwords". LOL

 

[ronlane]

Am I making you feel better yet? My attempts have shown you that your aren't alone in not coming up with anything.

 

[sm4him]

I would have seriously questioned your sanity if you had actually wanted to USE that.
Not that I don't seriously question your sanity anyway…it's one of the reasons I like you. HAHAHA

But in all seriousness: I like to think I'm reasonably skilled with words. I do a good bit of writing for work and as a hobby, plus I'm a speaker for women's ministries, which requires a lot of writing as well.
But when it comes to NAMING things??? Yeah, I stink too.
ALL I can do is come up with hilarious and/or cheesy stupid names. And the REAL problem is, I can come up with those in spades. I'll now be coming up with ridiculous names for your business all day long. I'll probably even wake up at 3 in the morning with some new, stupid name for it. So, thanks for that.

 

[tirediron]

"Allure" ? "Sublime"? (If you're looking for a one-word brand)

 

[tirediron]

"Beautiful you"?

 

[e.rose]

Am I making you feel better yet? My attempts have shown you that your aren't alone in not coming up with anything.

thanks

I would have seriously questioned your sanity if you had actually wanted to USE that.
Not that I don't seriously question your sanity anyway…it's one of the reasons I like you. HAHAHA

D'awwww :hug::

"Allure" ? "Sublime"? (If you're looking for a one-word brand)

"Beautiful you"?

I like Allure, but it's too common (just googled it), Sublime makes me think of the band and gives me the image of high, dreadlocked, music recording technology students (this absolutely has NO relation to my previous college experience........ ::shifty eyes:: ), and Beautiful You is too... too... Well, I'm trying to stay away from "beautiful" and "you" as brand names.

 

[EIngerson]

"Clique"