Yes, as much as I liked the shortness and sound of the name (when pronounced correctly); I am in the middle of a rebranding campaign – now to be called “La Bella Security Group”. We just launched a month ago and going forward, I have made sure all ideas and concepts are shared with my mastermind group to avoid this kinds of problem. Lessons learned, Thanks for speaking up!
– Richard La Bella
LOL. I’m from Poland, and there are at least two world brand names thats are funny for us: “Osram” (lightbulb producer) – it means in polish “I’ll make a s..it on something”, and “SyFy” (Poland is the only country where station name is, and wiil be “Sci-Fi”) – it means “crap”. You don’t wont to watch crappy TV, do you? Brand names can be tricky ;-)
Brings me back to the bad name I chose for my web design business years ago, “well-developed design”. Don’t think I didn’t consider the double entendre but, hey, the url was available and I thought the play on the word “develop” was cute, lol. Unfortunately, since my initials are LM, my email address was lm@welldeveloped.com. Damn lowercase “L” looks like an uppercase “I”! When a client said he deleted my email because he thought it was porn spam, I finally decided to change my name.
I am pretty sure this name was thought up by a non-US/European person/body (or someone who doesn’t understand innuendos) and was/were paid a lot of money.
From the people that brought you ‘Updation’ – awesome!
Yeah, they really didn’t think that one through.
That’s too funny, haha.
I like the “Richard Analify” business card treatment toward the top right.
Hmmm…not so much awareness it would seem.
I’m kind of saddened that your
altattribute is empty on this one. Did you not want to get into the Google SERP for this one?Good point, Rich. I’ve reconsidered the alt attribute and updated the entry accordingly.
Their tag line should be: Missing no holes to keep your business safe.
It’s bad, but http://www.ferrethandjobs.com is worse :D
Yes, as much as I liked the shortness and sound of the name (when pronounced correctly); I am in the middle of a rebranding campaign – now to be called “La Bella Security Group”. We just launched a month ago and going forward, I have made sure all ideas and concepts are shared with my mastermind group to avoid this kinds of problem. Lessons learned, Thanks for speaking up!
– Richard La Bella
Shades of Tobias Funke’s Analrapist business cards on Arrested Development.
This “connection” comes to mind as well when seeing Google ANALytics.
LOL, its seems like some position for sex :D
Well maybe they did think about it exactly to get free publicity just like this ;)
Well, when it comes to security you HAVE to be a bit retentify
LOL. I’m from Poland, and there are at least two world brand names thats are funny for us: “Osram” (lightbulb producer) – it means in polish “I’ll make a s..it on something”, and “SyFy” (Poland is the only country where station name is, and wiil be “Sci-Fi”) – it means “crap”. You don’t wont to watch crappy TV, do you? Brand names can be tricky ;-)
Brings me back to the bad name I chose for my web design business years ago, “well-developed design”. Don’t think I didn’t consider the double entendre but, hey, the url was available and I thought the play on the word “develop” was cute, lol. Unfortunately, since my initials are LM, my email address was lm@welldeveloped.com. Damn lowercase “L” looks like an uppercase “I”! When a client said he deleted my email because he thought it was porn spam, I finally decided to change my name.
Wow, thats funny! Roaring at that company name right now. Somebody didn’t do their market research!
too funny. surely someone spotted that somewhere along the line…
LOL, meanwhile there is an error 404 on the site so i assume they did read your post as well.
Chris Armstrong, what’s amazing about that one is their slogan:
Is your business in the right HANDS?
It’s like a double rainbow of obliviousness.
But luckily they too are changing their URL, according to an alert on their site…
Haha,
I am pretty sure this name was thought up by a non-US/European person/body (or someone who doesn’t understand innuendos) and was/were paid a lot of money.
From the people that brought you ‘Updation’ – awesome!
/Nice logo though/
Ever notice why they added a hyphen to the URL for http://www.experts-exchange.com?
@scott> good point! They should change it to anal-ify to avoid confusion ;-)
I wonder what Accounting (or Back Orifice) package they use?
Ha good one, my GF got me this book slurls you might like it as well.
maybe they could get the Butthole Surfers to write a song for their next commercial…
How about an Assoicated Work agency? http://www.asswork.pl/
No, wait, there’s a better one. Go on IT: http://www.goonit.ch/
Both the companies are contractors for my company. Nice mix, eh?