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Hey all you successful business folks up in the bar! Here's the story: I previously owned a long-established landscaping company that was called Reliable Gardeners in Vancouver, BC, which was handed off to me in a haphazard manner. I was given no client details, including no actual prior invoices, so I had to make the rules as I went along. I crashed and burned a few times and learned some valuable lessons, but also learned to increase my profitability year-over-year. Also sold the business for a modest $15K, which helped me move across the country to be closer to my daughter and get a mortgage on a house, so it could have gone a lot worse. 3 years later, I'm ready to start up again.
I have an incredible arrangement with my boss, in which he's willing to give me all of his high-paying work (hedges, trees, gardens) at a very reasonable 10% commission, plus flexibility to work as many sub-contract hours for him as I need to fill my schedule until my own clientbase is full-time. So I'm really in a good spot to hit the ground running.
Just need to lock down the name.
I'm using a strategy that's almost never implemented in my city, naming the business after a neighbourhood. Many local businesses in Thunder Bay go with "Superior-whatever", as we're on Lake Superior... or "Thunder Bay-whatever", as it's Thunder Bay... Or "North-West whatever", as it's NW Ontario... but seemingly no mobile businesses (only neighbourhood convenience stores, really) have tried the neighbourhood tactic. I want to target the neighbourhood with the richest clients and the most gardening needs, so I'm trying to work "Mariday Park" into the business name. But I also want to convey the type of upper echelon work that I provide without sounding absurd.
There's already an Artistic Landscaping Thunder Bay, which I think sounds a bit overly masturbatory to me. So I'm seeking that, but toned down a touch.
I've been stuck on the vanilla, safe pick for a name Mariday Park Landscape Services for a while.
Can you think of a better Mariday Park Landscaping business name? MP Landscaping Experts, or Landscaping Professionals? Landscape Artisans is too much, but it's that vibe I want to convey, like I'm a badass landscaper that TBay never sees, Vancouver trained and seasoned. How to convey this?
Any help would be enormously appreciated! TIA
I have an incredible arrangement with my boss, in which he's willing to give me all of his high-paying work (hedges, trees, gardens) at a very reasonable 10% commission, plus flexibility to work as many sub-contract hours for him as I need to fill my schedule until my own clientbase is full-time. So I'm really in a good spot to hit the ground running.
Just need to lock down the name.
I'm using a strategy that's almost never implemented in my city, naming the business after a neighbourhood. Many local businesses in Thunder Bay go with "Superior-whatever", as we're on Lake Superior... or "Thunder Bay-whatever", as it's Thunder Bay... Or "North-West whatever", as it's NW Ontario... but seemingly no mobile businesses (only neighbourhood convenience stores, really) have tried the neighbourhood tactic. I want to target the neighbourhood with the richest clients and the most gardening needs, so I'm trying to work "Mariday Park" into the business name. But I also want to convey the type of upper echelon work that I provide without sounding absurd.
There's already an Artistic Landscaping Thunder Bay, which I think sounds a bit overly masturbatory to me. So I'm seeking that, but toned down a touch.
I've been stuck on the vanilla, safe pick for a name Mariday Park Landscape Services for a while.
Can you think of a better Mariday Park Landscaping business name? MP Landscaping Experts, or Landscaping Professionals? Landscape Artisans is too much, but it's that vibe I want to convey, like I'm a badass landscaper that TBay never sees, Vancouver trained and seasoned. How to convey this?
Any help would be enormously appreciated! TIA
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