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n · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: new name?

I have been thinking about the name for my new venture.
I have thedroppedspindle as a domain name with nothing attached at the moment. I got it just in case when I was thinking about spinning yarn for sale. I have used it on ebay twice and it's also the name of the forum and the blog.
The forum will stay because the joke of the name is a spinners joke.
The blog could be transported and renamed easily.
Should I have a new name?
I'm unsure that the dropped spindle will mean much to a yarn buyer, and I need something which is easily memorable (we had this discussion before, I know), so that when someone says "WOW, great yarn", the knitter will say instantly "got it from xxxxxx on the web", not "got it from someone on the web, wrote the name down somewhere, now what was it called again?"
Although maybe 50 people know about the current name, it's an insignificant number compared to the number who might walk past a craft fair stall or find me on a www search for hand dyed yarns. So now is the time to change it if I'm going to.

So, what do you think?
Lots of ideas please.

Doesn't have to be yarny, just memorable. There are yarn dyers out there called poshyarns, sundara, sweetgeorgia, bluemoon. (Mostly American/Canadian).
OH suggested

the yarn yard or nats yarn yard. But it doesn't really trip off the tongue.

woolly haggis (quite like this one)

What else?
n
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mrutty · 2 Star Club Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 827

I have to say the the droppedspindle is quite a memoryable name.

two3five was made up from B and I = 2, 3 kids total of 5. I dodn't know what the company was going to do and didn't want to paint myself into a corner.

thecardbee was because B had a bee picture that she really loved and she's used it ever since.

Think of some good names and then see what domians are avaiable.

Highland Yarn
Tall Yarn
Stretched Yarn
Yarn Storming
Yarn 2 dye 4

Leonie2 · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject:

oh gosh I'm no good at this Laughing

, but I'll have a think Very Happy

Becki · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject:

It's good to have continuity ie: you have blog, website, forum, business all the same name.
I do like the dropped spindle and I think it is memorable.

The Wooley Haggis is quite fun though!
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Cabbagepatch · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

I like the droppedspindle too, its very memorable and catchy. Also agree with becki that the continuity is good.

Sorry, probably not much help but not good at this sort of thing...when working regularly as a holistic therapist I spent hours trying to think of a name to go on the business literature..........I gave up in the end and settled for my name with the relevant letters after it.........how original is that?..... Embarassed

But, word of mouth definitely works, do you have a card to send out with your sales? Customers/clients do keep them and use them as a way to make a recommendation Smile

Kathy · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject:

Droppedspindle, I always remember it and as I have a pretty awful memory that speaks for itself! Laughing

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Hairy Haggis

Kathy · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject:

No comment. Shocked