I'm frustrated and stressed but okay. I've also just noticed that I've gained a large fat roll on my midriff. Not good.
Been trying to name my company all week. My friends are unanimous in that they hate the name I came up with (too stuffy/boring/sounds like fiber optics).
My designer friend ixnayed "Communications" and likes "Press." Communications is definitely telecom but I've noticed design firms and writers using it a lot more lately. I'm against using press because it sounds too print and publishing related.
I kind of like "Writing Company" as a tongue-in-cheek and throwback name ending but it's too long. Like The Nitty Gritty Wiriting Company.
Even when I find something I really like, it's already taken as a domain name. I feel unoriginal and stupid. I'm also putting a whole lot of pressure on myself because I want to get this done as soon as possible so I can get my marketing collateral done and get working. I also know that it's imperative to come up with the perfect name. Just like it's imperative to have perfect marketing collateral. It's not a perfectionist streak. It' s just that I'm a copywriter and I'm marketing myself as a professional who knows what she's doing. If my marketing materials and my name don't convey that in the first ten seconds of looking at it, I'm not doing a good job, am I?
The plus point: a lot of the copywriting websites I've seen are wholly unprofessional looking. Many of them have decent/good/great writing but the sites look like someone used a template and threw it up. Awful design. A few are really stellar. Like I drool when I saw them. There's a design shop with a flash site that I am totally in love with. I hate Flash with a passion--it's one click away from a sale in my book, but the site totally made me stay and watch the intro. That's NEVER happened to me before.
So, I'm stressed and fucking crew desk keeps converting me to ready reserve which means I can't go into the city and see the cherry blossoms or anything.
What I'm hoping for: an aha moment. Where I'm excited about my name and it's available with the .com extension and everyone likes it too.
So any encouragement, love, kisses and inspiration would be lovely. And sex would be nice if you can find someone who doesn't mind a rolypoly Miss Em.
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So, I'm stressed and fucking crew desk keeps converting me to ready reserve which means I can't go into the city and see the cherry blossoms or anything.
I'm not buying it, my dear. While you're freaking out, the cherry trees are opening themselves up and putting on a show for you. This may be your only spring in DC!
Of course, you don't have to drive into the city to see them; you could drive to Reston; they're all around. It's just that the Mall is lined with them.
As for sex, old matchmakers never die; I still think that you and my brother would enjoy keeping company; sadly, with all his broken bones, he's down-for-the-count right now. Besides, it's getting to be election season. . . .
You're doing great. *I* would hire you in a second if I had a budget. This whole name thing -- just remember that Paul Revere did fine in his business without branding it. Then again, there WAS that fellow Poor Richard. . . .
final thought: why does the friend need you to VISIT to give you a laptop? What is it, quid pro quo? If he seriously wants to help you, he can be moved to put a Dell Inspiron on his credit card and let you start paying him back in nine months.
STAND STRONG!! YOU ARE A STRONG, SMART, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND YOU ARE MAKING SHIT HAPPEN! xx
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