Company names: You could choose wrong

My company, Royce's Tree Service LLC, is my first name.

Oooh sorry, Tr33Climb3r!

I didn't really think about it at all. When I decided to get legit several years ago, it was because a customer asked who to make the check out to. It was my first pretty big check, had been getting nickels and dimes for a while, but I answered, "Royce's Tree Service."

Little did I know, I would have to go to the courthouse to register my pseudo-name, then file a bunch of papers at my bank, etc., in order to cash that check.

So that's how I got my name, sorry haters!

I don't really get bent about other people's company names, but I do think the A.AAA.A Tree service names are pretty rich - just to stay at the front of the phone book.

I guess it works, though, or people wouldn't continue to do it!
 
I started calling my company 'Tom's Tree Service' back in about '92. More recently I changed the name to 'Tom's Tree Care' as this more aptly reflects what I do (Thanks to Arborist News for the idea).

I have found that it's not really about the name, it's more about the service and branding/presentation. Sometimes I wish I had been more creative back in the day, but the plain old first name thing is working out fine, and there's certainly no going back!

-Tom
 
I got some new respect for a competitor when he moved to the front of the phone book by putting Ah ... Tree Service. He has a bad stuttter and gets stuck on "ah" all the time.
 
I crossed paths with Bob Root...he did stump grinding ;)

'They Might be Monkeys' is a friend's company in Austin. It works there but wouldn't in any other city...after all...Keep Austin Weird is the city motto.
 
For my local tree care is use Aspen Tree Service with the slogan "How's your Aspen?"

I kind of wish I had picked tree care, but around here whenever I mention 'tree care' I have to explain it, when I say tree service, they know...
 
I changed my company name from Canopy Tree Service to Care. The first person to mention anything about the name was a woman who was legally blind. She hired me to trim her tree but couldn't see what I was doing other than moving around in the tree. When she paid me she said that she didn't want her tree 'serviced' she wanted it 'cared for'.
 
"Monkey Man Tree Service " is a hack in my town who is advertising as a CA. I tear down every, hand stenciled poster board sign I see he has nailed to a tree on public land. Every tree on his street has been topped. I tried to contact ISA about it but it is a hassle to report him.

I plan on becoming certified and hate how he is using false credentials to further his business.

K&P TREE EXPERTS!

"K" is my last name Kemp!
"P" is for Presley my wife's maiden name!
I tell my customers"I'm something like a" professional." Hence the Experts
 
T.Breezy on my area there is a Tree Musketeers as well, spelt all in old english type of font on the truck and all.
There's also a Double "D" Tree Service, the Double D's being for Dan H. Senior and Little Dan, a kid i went to school with and still friends with. Also wondered what people who didn't know them thoguth of the same.

O.C.D. Landscape Serv. "We're obsessed with your lawn"
Out on a Limb Landscape (they emblem is a guy cutting the branch he's sitting on with a carpenter's saw? why? i dont know....)
No Bull Landscape Serv. and Eager Beaver Tree Service are two local fave's tho for sure
 
Even though I thought it was a winner, the wifey didn't care for the first company name I came up with.......Act of God Tree Service.
 
Three come to mind, not all tree related.

'The Tree Fella's' (3 climbing arborists)

'Rural Erections', his slogan 'have you had one yet?' (my mate owned this business in the Territory).

'Sly and Weagel' (My old boss worked for this legal firm as senior partner).
 
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