Just wondering why you are posting under two different user names.
Haha! I have 2 acct an one of which i dont use, didnt realize my iphone was still signed into the old one.
They all look great, I’m so jealous. I called up a logo design company and they wanted 600$, I told them i’d give them $200 and she said she would do it but wouldn’t redesign it a bunch of times. Soon as I get the cash im gonna try her out. [MENTION=8215]nickholasbr20[/MENTION]
You may want to consider Designcrowd.com for logos. Cool concept and not expensive.
Don
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I couldnt really notice the words, “pressure washing” or “power washing” anywhere. It needs to communicate who you are and what you do…BOLDLY. If not they, potential customers, might think that Bermuda One is a travel agency, airplane tours, etc. Benjamin Franklin was a very smart man. He was approached by a hat seller, who’s business name was something like “blah blah’s boutique”, and was asked what would make the best sign for his hat business. The sign Ben Franklin came up with looked like a hat and it said, Hat Shop. From then on the Hat shop was more than twice as profitable.
True but i look at things from a different perspective. 80% of top businesses logos have nothing to do with what they do an in no way portray what they do. Those businesses are so huge an well known that we just see the name an know what they do. Like amazon, mcdonalds, nike, go daddy, apple, etc. So i guess I’m shooting for the starts. I dont want my name to look “pressure washy” just want my name to stand out an thats it. They will see what i do on my trailer, business cards, website, i shouldn’t need to tell them in my name also.
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I like number 7 the most to be honest.
I’m doing a name change pretty soon and I’m just going to be called “-------- Exteriors” and have a slogan, something like “cleaning specialists” or “specializing in improving the curb appeal of your home or business”. I’m thinking big picture too and would like to have a yard maintenance, window washing, pressure washing and painting division eventually.
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I’ll license the rights to you to use my company name"Curb Appeal Cleaning Solutions" for a good price. lol
Actually my wife thought of the name and I like it but it can be a bit if a challenge for SEO for your website. Using Pressure Washing in your name and domain name can help with SEO. Or for that matter whatever your main service is, having it in your domain name can help with SEO.
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There are already 2 companies in my area that are called “Curb Appeal” but that was actually my first choice for a name but I’m going to be bold and use my last name for the company. Probably have a huge amount of pride since I’ll have my name on everything.
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Having it in one’s domain is surely good, but considering the relatively limited amount of competition when it comes to a lot of these services SEo-wise, I’d focus on a brandable name over one that necessarily has “pressure washing” in it. It does help, but if you come up with an ingenious name, then I’d go for that for sure.
Having it in one’s domain is surely good, but considering the relatively limited amount of competition when it comes to a lot of these services SEo-wise, I’d focus on a brandable name over one that necessarily has “pressure washing” in it. It does help, but if you come up with an ingenious name, then I’d go for that for sure.
Branding is fine but it takes a long time for people to become aware of new Brand Names. So unless you have been around a long time and they don’t know who the Brand Name is and what you do, it may take a lot of time to get business. Of course, you can overcome this in getting to the top of the search engines for your services in local search by doing a great job with your SEO on your website and having good authority back-links to your website such as from this forum.
When people are doing a search in one of the search engines for “Pressure Washing Services or Pressure Washing”, for example, they aren’t going to search based on your Brand Name, initially. Most likely it will be something like the above and possibly the city, for example, Greensboro Pressure Washing or Greensboro Pressure Washing Services or just Pressure Washing Service. A quick search using Google’s Keyword Planning Tool can help you find which keyword terms are most popular. But again, you can use a Brand Name but make sure each of the services you offer that are listed on your website have their own separate pages and you have done the correct SEO for each of those pages and have good content plus back-links.
My ingenious name would be “City Name Pressure Washing” if I were starting out and people didn’t know my Brand Name, at least in my domain name. If you form an LLC or Corporation and use some other name, then you can use DBA and the name you want to advertise.
As to my own name, people don’t search for “Curb Appeal” for pressure washing or any of the other services I provide. So, in order for my company to get to the top of the Search Engines in my area, I had to do the SEO things listed above. They may search for “Curb Appeal Tips” for their home and then I may show up in the search results but they could be also looking for many other ways to add Curb Appeal to their home.
People do search for “Cleaning Services” but they aren’t doing a search for Pressure Washing or my other services by typing in Cleaning Services. Again, I may show up in the search results and they may decide they want to have my services in addition to the house cleaning.
I am not discouraging a Brand Name just trying to make the point that it can be harder to get to the top of search engines without good SEO.
Sure, if you start from scratch, having the keyword in the domain is best. But a lot of the sites I monitor receive a lot of traffic either from brand name or a person working there (I monitor a lot of dental clinics’ sites as well as other niches). If you want quick business, I’d obviously go for PPC, though SEO is often cheaper if you have time to wait for that to kick in.
If you do however already have an established site with a lot of backlinks, I’d more than likely rather keep using that rather than dealing with 301s or contacting webmasters to redirect backlinks to the new site.
I like #9, with #8 as a close backup. 
