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Old 22 January 2011, 11:22   #1
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Cat out of the bag help needed

Hi all like the title says help needed,
What are we doing.
We are going to set up a new company giving fishing charters on a 35ft boat, bareboat rib hire cat 4, RYA training center,jet ski hire.
Not going to say where yet the is still a lot or work to be done the problem we have got and its stupid is we can not come up with a name to cover it all,This is where we need your help NAMES.
Not sure where to put this hopefully the mods will put it in the right place.
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Old 22 January 2011, 11:25   #2
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Excellent, the best of luck for the venture.

For names it would help to know your target market, or are you casting your net wide to start perhaps?
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Excellent, the best of luck for the venture.

For names it would help to know your target market, or are you casting your net wide to start perhaps?

Thanks the target market is all four which is why we have found it hard to come up with a name ,i would say the two important ones are the fishing charter, and the bare boat hire of which we are doing on smaller ribs 5.4 and 5.8 so that more people can afford to hire around £200 for the day
and before any one asks we have sorted insurance for the bare boat hire not cheap but thats life
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Is the 35 footer a displacement craft?
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Pwllheli's Rib Inflatable Charter

Conway Or Caernarfon's Charter

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I guess you'll be on the north Wales coast. Best of luck. Wish I had the guts to do it.
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Is the 35 footer a displacement craft?
Vessel statistics


Cyclone 35 Basic Charter Version

LOA 10.7 Metres (35')
LWL 8.33 Metres (27' 3 3/4")
BEAM 3.87 Metres (12' 8 1/2")
Depth 2.011 Metres (6' 7 1/8") @ amidships
Draft 1 Metre (3' 3 3/8")
Displacement 6500 KG LIGHTSHIP
(No fuel, no extras, no cargo)
Speed 25 Knots (Iveco NEF 450Hp)
Useful power 400 - 500 HP
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I guess you'll be on the north Wales coast. Best of luck. Wish I had the guts to do it.

Its not the first two lol, its nothing to do with guts more life style change and to get a job doing what you love instead of one you hate.
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Its not the first two lol
Have you been in touch with Kawasaki then?
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Have you been in touch with Kawasaki then?
Oh, so subtle!
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Have you been in touch with Kawasaki then?

Sorry malthouse must be having a brain dead day do not get what you mean.
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Sorry malthouse must be having a brain dead day do not get what you mean.
I think he is suggesting that the member on here Kawasaki (http://rib.net/forum/member.php?u=5928) might have some useful local knowledge.
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I think he is suggesting that the member on here Kawasaki (http://rib.net/forum/member.php?u=5928) might have some useful local knowledge.
What the bloke with the phaser said

If that is the area your planning to operate in you could do a lot worse than drop him a line.
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What the bloke with the phaser said

If that is the area your planning to operate in you could do a lot worse than drop him a line.
Got it now doh
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Any way what about names for the new business?
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Any way what about names for the new business?
I don't think a name is going to make or break your venture, but here are some thoughts:

(1) it should be easy to remember, you don't want people who have already encountered your business having problems finding you.

(2) I'd suggest you go for a name that says what you do! e.g. North Wales Boat Charter (whilst not the most exciting name) will mean more to new customers than Blackstorm Boats.

(3) Think about domain names - they don't need to match the business name, but people who know you will assume that "Blackstrorm Ltd" has an address something like blackstorm.com or maybe blackstormboats.co.uk rather than welshboatcharter.com.

(4) With my understanding of how google's page rankings work, then "welshboatcharter.com" is likely to rank higher than "blackstorm.com" for things new customers will actually search for even if both had identical content. This is two fold, firstly google rank actually includes the words in the URL and their match for the search terms, but also because google looks at the words people use in their links, and most people are lazy and just use the url itself!

(5) try to make your name distinct from other competitors - not only could you get yourself in legal problems (e.g. if there is a "North Wales Charters" and you formed "N. Wales Charter Company) - but you also don't want people who were actually looking for you to end up at your competitors.

So all in all something like "Holyhead Charters" would probably server you as well as some "clever" name. [note if your average customer uses the word "Hire" rather than "Charter" in their vocabulary then "Holyhead Boat Hire" might be better!]
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