ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area On the humorous side...Not-so-great slogans

I tried this "catch phrase" but it actually decreased business.

Acme Electric...

"We put the Con in Contractor"

We actually have two businesses here that could've picked better names, IMHO....

OOPS Handyman Services
and
Sideways, Inc.

One idea I had was calling our company "Shocking Electric" - but then I figured - that doesn't exactly sound good...

Around here we have:

Spark & Burn – These are the guy’s names that have the company.

Zappem Electric – Kind of scary if you’re going to work for him.

The guy that used to live up the street ran

Blue Arc Electric

Another outfit in town goes by the one word:

Wired

Minnesota is home also to:

Wirenut Electric

In this area {for real} one had the slogan: "Let us check your shorts!" to which everyone revised to the more accurate {for them especially}: "Let Us Eat Your Shorts!"




[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 08-23-2002).]

Bjarney, You beat me to it. Are you talking about the now extinct Bloodhound Electric?

Bjarney, My Dad went a little farther with that one. On his business cards, trucks and all the free gadgets he would give out he had printed on them "Let us remove your shorts" People got a real chuckle out of that.

Wirewiz

How about "Old electrician's never die. They just blow their fuse." Or "Electrician's do it better ..In the dark."