LIA Virtual Secretarial Support.

Well:

1. LIA is a nickname for me; and
2. LIA means Luxurious, Invaluable and Affordable - which is basically the ethos of the business

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Julia Neal ...because we ♥ admin!
http://julianeal.wordpress.com

Mine is so generic. However, after I had my logo created, and I came up with my tag line - its all coming together now. I have two domains - www.fortierbizsolutions.com (original business name) and www.YourBranchOffice.net (which is the new tag line). My secondary tag line is: "Hang on...help is on the way!"

My hubby, who is a cartoonist, is going to draw me a 'toon of a guy hanging from the branch in my logo (my logo is a branch with two leaves, hence the tag line - Your Branch Office).

So, anyway, the logo came about because I wanted a tree in my logo. I don't know why, except I really like the Survivor Tree from the Oklahoma City bombing (I'm from there origially before I moved to Michigan 13 years ago). Anyway, the Survivor Tree is trademarked, so I started researching trees and their meanings, and I selected the Alder Tree for two reasons: First, its Ogham symbol is for "F", which is the first letter of my last name. Second, its "meaning" is strength, durability and tenacity, which are traits I seriously hope that I have.

All of my marketing materials are going to start having "Fortier Business Solutions - Your Branch Office".

The dude in the tree is going to go on sticky pads and mouse pads for my clients with my contact info on them.

Dana,

I don't think that's so generic. I like what you decided to do for your new tag line. It's actually quite creative. Be sure to let us know when its ready to see. Also, great marketing solutions.

~Joni Snowden

I had originally wanted to go with something tree related (because I love trees) and was considering the name of Branches Virtual Office Resources. (I still like it quite a bit) but then I was driving one day and it came to me that I should call it JK Virtual Office Resources. The "J" is the first letter of my soon-to-be husband's name and my name, of course, starts with "K". I think I chose this in part for practical and for sentimental reasons.

On our second date, my fiance had burned me a copy of James Blunt's CD "Back to Bedlam." On it, he had written the artist's name and the name of the album mostly in one color, but he used another color just for the "J" in 'James' and the "K" in 'Back' to represent the first letter in each of our names. I thought this was so sweet that he had taken the effort to do this. I also later found out that he went through writing this on several discs because he wanted it to be just right!(Ok, everybody all at once...AWWWW!) I found it endearing that on only our second date he was already thinking of us in a "together" kind of way....I'm also just a mushy romantic at heart and he was able to capitalize on that!

Anyway, so the JK to me represents "us" in so many ways, but it is also a way in which I am recognizing that even though this is my business and I'm creating and running it, I really couldn't do it without him and his support in so many other ways.

Also, JK are next to each other in alphabet and seem to roll of the tongue naturally. (As a side note, his last name and my soon-to-be last name starts with "L", so we will actually be JKL....) seems like destiny to me!

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I came up with my new company name, Your Office People, after noting the cleverness of the H&R Block "You've got people" campaign. My target market is those professionals that don't have an office or don't have a staff (tradesman and small businesses) so I thought it worked out perfectly.

I knew I wanted a business name that started with an A. Not necessarily because of the alphabetical thing but also because my daughter's name is Ava, so I wanted the acronym for my business to be AVA. I can't remember what other A words I came up with first but "Advantage" was about the 5th one that came to mind.

April,
I have a daughter named Ava too. I also have one named Emma. Sooo, I was thinking of doing something with A&E *yadda* *yadda* (A&E Business Solutions, etc.) I don't know, I'm stuck (see Name??? Help?).
I love the way you did yours though - that's awesome!

I was talking to my mother, (who is my best friend) about the business and how it would be the perfect solution for me to stay at home and take care of my son, have the flexibility to do so, attend College to get my Bachelor's degree, make an income and stay in the so called corporate world. The VA business would also be a perfect solution for employers also wanting to save a few thousand dollars on the business accounts by hiring me as their assistant. Over all, the perfect solutions for everyone involved.

When I asked her about what she thought my business name should be, she clearly stated, without a hesitation "Perfect Solutions - you've only mentioned it three times within the last 5 minutes!" And that's how I got the name. I checked it out with Network solutions, got a .us extension and viola...Perfect Solutions - A Virtual Assistants Group was born. I called it a VA Group to plan for the future. If I cannot handle the work assigned, or it isn't in my expertise, I'm sure I will know a good VA who will take on the client.

Lisa

You all have some great stories of how your names came about - thank you so much for sharing them. It's always interesting to see what takes people's attention and how things happen.

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It is awesome to read how everyone came up with the names of their companies. Mine was a little less thoughtful (I think). The area I live in has been call the Fox Valley, so I incorporated that in my company name. Right now I have "Fox Valley Virtual Admin Services", but since I am not fully up and running on my own yet, I have not sealed the deal yet on the name. I have so much to do yet. I have to get a website, register my business, etc.

The first step is always the name!

Stacy

Mine wasn't so creative. I work from my desk. My keyboard is on top of my desk. The computer 'screen' is called a desktop. It's mine, so Robin's Desktop. I chose 'Virtual Administrative Services' to allow for a variety of service offerings.

Keystone Promise came about due to my love of thesaurus.com.

I entered the words "virtual" and "assistance" and came to Keystone Promise.

Virtual = essential = fundamental = foundation = Keystone

Assistance = support = endorse = pledge = Promise

So basically my name is redundant. Virtual Assistance Virtual Assistance just didn't have the same ring as Keystone Promise Virtual Assistance. Plus the initials, KPVA, are easy to rattle off on the phone.

That was a really cool way to come up with your name. Good thing I'm not totally set with my name, I may have to take some of these suggestions and come up with a catchy name that says it all.

And it shows that you are able to think outside of the box. Most people would not have thought to do that to come up with a name!

Stacy

I've finally come up with a business name.. Xcelva Business Solutions! Xcelva means "Excellent Virtual Assistant".

Wow! That is an excellent name. Congratulations on the name.

Stacy