My Personal Blog ~ daily inspiration

[virgoscorpio]

Howdy everyone! I hope you all have a beautiful Easter weekend.

So I've started my own blog in the New Year. I am getting the site re-designed, so I was going to wait and show everyone once it was fully finished. But I need your help so I thought I would go ahead and share it now.

robertandjoseph.blogspot.com

What would make me really smile is it you all bookmarked the page and visited everyday. I would really, really appreciate your support. I will make it worth your while with something beautiful and inspirational posted each day.

BUT I NEED YOUR HELP! I'm having issues with a name. I was originally going to use my own name "Robert Joseph" but I don't think it's very original. I then decided on "The Creative Gent" which I am not too sure about. I know you are all a creative bunch, and was wondering if you thought of any cheeky, catchy blog names?

Enjoy - and let me know your thoughts!

[greer]

It might help you to write down the main ideas of your blog. I think it's the kind of thing you have to name yourself. The name of my blog seems pretty obvious to me, but it's very meaningful to me on a personal level and encapsulates what the whole point of my blog is. You may want to go back and read some quotes about design that inspire you, etc.

So far I see that your main goal is beauty/design + inspiration + daily. What does this mean to you? What do you, specifically, bring to the table that other blogs of a similar nature don't have? I think then you'll come upon the perfect name.

[virgoscorpio]

Waaa! I'm still stuck, greer - help! I tried following your advice and thought about it all day and night but I can't think of anything. For someone who considers himself creative, I've definitely come up with a road block.

The names I was considering before were: robert&joseph (my name, but then people might think I'm 2 different people) or The Creative Gent.

[greer]

Apr 8, 2012 13:28:32 GMT -5 virgoscorpio said:

Waaa! I'm still stuck, greer - help! I tried following your advice and thought about it all day and night but I can't think of anything. For someone who considers himself creative, I've definitely come up with a road block.

The names I was considering before were: robert&joseph (my name, but then people might think I'm 2 different people) or The Creative Gent.

Well, with the Creative Gent, I think that it seems more like a personal blog or a blog just for men, and I think your blog is gender-neutral.

[celaeno]

I actually like the name Robert & Joseph; it sounds like a fancy clothing brand! But yeah, it would give the impression that the blog is run by two people.

[zoar3]

Greer you wrote a beautiful reply above. I don't have blog experience but if you like Robert Joseph what about "RJ Reflections?" RJR. Almost like BB&B. (Bed, Bath, and Beyond).

[candykane]

I'll admit I'm pretty bad at thinking up titles for things! I'm trying to get a blog off the ground myself, just as a hobby. I mostly want to write about life in Michigan, but I'm not sure exactly what direction I want to go with it...I think I want to use it to write about places I visit around the state, as a way to remember them, and to show pictures.

I wanted the title to be about Michigan somehow, but had trouble thinking of something that didn't sound generic or completely boring. I finally settled on "Three Sides Surrounded." This site had some good advice about choosing a name: www.chrisg.com/catchy-blog-names/

If anyone cares to peek at my fledgling blog, it's threesidessurrounded.blogspot.com . I only have one post so far, though, so it's nothing too spectacular right now! I'm still deciding on how frequently I want to update, and what I want to post about next.

[virgoscorpio]

Thanks for all of your feedback. I really, really appreciate it!

^ I joined your blog. I liked the name you picked because it's fitting to the state of Michigan. I grew up in Canada, right across from Port Huron!

I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found a name: SEPTEMBER & SUN. It's personal to me because I love September. My birthday is in September (so it could be a play on sun/son). I also love weather, months, seasons, etc.

[candykane]

Thank you for following my blog! I want to follow yours but the link here is not working anymore. You must be tweaking a few things before putting it back up?

I like the title you've settled on!

[booboobrewer]

Nice blog names, guys candykane, I like the idea of your blog, it'd be fun to do something like that with my own home state (TX).

[virgoscorpio]

I am writing this post in the hopes that anyone on here with a Blogger account will follow me. It would make me happy if you guys visited my daily blog once in a while. I hope it leaves you feeling inspired

www.septemberandsun.blogspot.com

[candykane]

Hey virgo, I am following your blog, but it doesn't update for me in Google Reader. If I go directly to the URL from Google Reader, it still doesn't work. I'm not sure why.

I like your posts. Will you come to my house and decorate it?

[virgoscorpio]

Thanks for pointing that out, M. I am guessing it might be because I changed my blog name recently. I'm also noticing that my feeds aren't updating on Google Reader.

By chance, do you - or anyone else - know how to fix them? I've tried Googling and it's not helping much

[candykane]

Looks like it's working! I'm on Google reader right now and all the posts I hadn't been getting from your blog have come through.

[virgoscorpio]

Great! Did you unsubscribe and subscribe again?