Curious Choice of Company Name??

[Nickrosis]

I've wondered why Swingle has kept their name for the same reason.

 

[dakota]

When you don't hear anything good about a company for a long time, you start to think that perhaps something is up. Or down in this case.

I can see treeseer's point about ONE OFFICE, IN ONE CITY. But Davey has, what?, 5000 employees across the country?

We tree guys gossip worse than the old ladies' bridge night. What YOU hear or don't hear about a company like that is not enough to generalize the whole company. Sounds something like Clearance painting all CAs and the ISA with the same brush.

 

[Nickrosis]

What IS a company but its branches? Seriously, don't try to imagine that because there's a sanctified office that you work in, no matter what the company, that the whole company can be viewed through that perspective.

The company that I work for, my own company, is as good as our worst pruning and our worst mulch installation. Davey's consistency issue IS the issue. They do a lot of great things, and I have some great friends working for them, but that doesn't change the fact that there are rogue offices scumming up the entire name.

If we tolerate weak links in our own company, we have to accept that our image is framed through them. Davey is thus viewed through their own worst, through the offices that they let go of and the ones that just do enough to meet the internal minimums.

 

[clearance]

I can see treeseer's point about ONE OFFICE, IN ONE CITY. But Davey has, what?, 5000 employees across the country?

We tree guys gossip worse than the old ladies' bridge night. What YOU hear or don't hear about a company like that is not enough to generalize the whole company. Sounds something like Clearance painting all CAs and the ISA with the same brush.

Not really, I have said here many times that I have worked with ISA certified arborists who are really good treeguys and met many who were useless. As far as Davey goes, here in BC, I know some Davey utility guys I like, but as far as the company, I have heard very little good, in fact heard enough that I would never work there. Management issues, I hear, bigtime.

 

[SilentElk]

I've wondered why Swingle has kept their name for the same reason.

Names do sell. Swingle, assuming the same one here in CO, has been growing pretty quick here. A year or 2 ago they bought a compnay that had a pretty good name. Arborworks. Arborworks/Swingle is probably the biggest tree compan in Northern Colorado currently. I may be mistaken but pretty sure they are.

 

[Nickrosis]

Names do sell. Swingle, assuming the same one here in CO, has been growing pretty quick here. A year or 2 ago they bought a compnay that had a pretty good name. Arborworks. Arborworks/Swingle is probably the biggest tree compan in Northern Colorado currently. I may be mistaken but pretty sure they are.

By far the biggest. I'm very familiar. But look up Swingle/swindle - it sounds bad. Somewhere down the line, I would switch to Arborworks or something less sheisterish sounding.

 

[Lumberjacked]

"AAAAAAAAAA Tree Service" or "ABC Tree Service" is always a favorite.

 

[Treeman14]

"AAAAAAAAAA Tree Service" .

I like that one too. What is that, the sound he makes just before hitting the ground? :jawdrop:

 

[notahacker]

I think it's ridiculous when people use their first or last names in the name of their company.

Why is it rediculous? I bet you since there was any form of commerce, people used their names to differenciate themselves from the competion. Think of a shoesmith, blacksmith, or a carpenter; I bet "Integrity Shoes" just wasn't trendy at the time.

I named my business after my first born son. (Parker Tree Service) At the time of naming the business I concluded: "I'll always be working for my son, why not name it after him?"--As it turns out his name is a family name too.--Is that ridiculus?

 

[Koa Man]

As was alluded to earlier, Nick said using the family name was ridiculous in jest. His company USES their family name. You guys can lay off Nick now, he needs to concentrate on work and making money so he can have enough to go to the Baltimore TCI and buy me and the wife expensive dinners every night.:biggrinbounce2:

 

[notahacker]

What is an ideal name for a tree service anyway? Are cliche words the best way to name the business? I think names like "Perfection Tree Service, Integrity Tree Service, A-Cut-Above, etc.. are difficult to live up to the name. Nobody is perfect! So, why set yourself up for failure?

Nickrosis: What is your tree service name?

 

[notahacker]

A mature approach to criticism is to provide an alternative. That is the problem I have with his opinion.

#1- State why you think it's lame in the first place.
#2- Provide a solution

That is a better way to criticize

 

[notahacker]

Sarcasim is difficult to read into on the web. You need to clarify your jokes somehow. For example, say you are joking!--Simple.

 

[KentuckySawyer]

In my town there is a company named "Climb Ax." (tacky)


"What's this all over my yard?"

 

[rebelman]

#1- State why you think it's lame in the first place.
#2- Provide a solution

I think it's lame when Hacks do it.
Homeowners should only hire tree services that put in writing that all work is to be done to ANSI pruning standards.

 

[Koa Man]

Sarcasim is difficult to read into on the web. You need to clarify your jokes somehow. For example, say you are joking!--Simple.

Although I know Nick personally, even I was kind of shocked when he made that statement about using your family name. Then I remembered his company's name IS his family's name and I realized he was kidding around. I think treeseer, who also knows Nick personally, scolded him about that on another thread.