Comments on: Trends I Don’t Get: Making Your Name More Trendy

By: Wally

Wally — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:56:57 +0000

Geeks + Faith: Beliefs and Potential Interests of a Person Inclined to Technology and Speculative Fiction.
Use that long one as a subtitle. “G+F.”

By: Breann

Breann — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:24:36 +0000

Another couple of examples are Walmart and Kmart. The bigger the store, the bigger the name. And maybe I just don’t like change, but the new Pepsi look doesn’t appeal to me. I remember not really caring for the new McDonalds catch phrase when they came out with it either…”I’m lovin’ it.”

By: Kim L

Kim L — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:33:03 +0000

I have to say I don’t know if I could subscribe to a blog called “The FaGe Page.”
I think what is interesting about the discussion of rebranding is that strangely enough, just renaming something is enough to convince people to buy it. Same product at the grocery store, one labeled “store brand”, one labeled “Kellogg”, and people will pick up the one labeled “Kellogg” and pay twice as much. Funny how people work like that. Of course, as you say, if you relabel disgusting cereal as “Kellogg”, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s disgusting, but you might still manage to get more people to eat it.
Christianity doesn’t have to be trendy, of course, and it kind of seems antithetical to the whole point, but I don’t think that’s going to stop people from avoiding real issues and trying to fix things with rebranding.