I wish my story was as interesting as the others I've read so far.

I went to an all girl catholic school in Jamaica and the visiting nuns from the Sisters of Mercy would visit once every year to teach latin to the upper high school. I looked forward to it because I was tired of the french and spanish classes. Unfortunately for me the year I moved into the upper school the Sisters didn't visit (their visits became less frequent). So I never got a chance to learn latin.

I took the opportunity to use a language I love from a far and what my business will be to others 'help" but not plain help but "good help".

BONUS PROFICIO

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Tania Knowes
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"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible"

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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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.