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General Category => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Newbabe on 07 July 2012, 08:04:30 pm
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Ladies
What importance do you give to having a surname ....say AmyBrown.co.uk...., AmandaJones....whatever.....humour me here
Personally I feel its quite important so as not to get lost in the quagmire or other Amys in the escorting world??/ No?? Am I wrong. Your working name is a brand....and therefore important
You dont want someone else getting your reviews by mistake ( unless your planning on being crap and scamming or something like that and then dont care)
What are your thoughts
Emma x
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i chose ParisB Because I'm a total bitch and I'm from Bristol ;D nah the paris came from when david beckham got the red card in Paris in 1999 and the the B was to distinguish me from all the other paris that are around however i didn't add the B bit until quite a few years later
my friend Tiffany had the name Tiffany B and i like the sound of that so when she hung up her stockings i liberated her B her website was stunning blonde which i always thought was a cracking name for a webiste ( its still available should anybody want it ( and they are blonde of course)
i think if you have a common hooker name ( and apologies for that ladies) then anything you can do to distinguish your self from other is a good thing
you have have to look at the post that Chole Harris wrote recently about another girl copying her profile and her first name to realise that guys sometime only look at the boobs and unless they are a regular of yours it can only take a few quick punches on the keyboard and people are associating you with someone else
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I don't have a surname, but I do have a double-barrelled (so to speak) first name, and I definitely chose it in order to stick out that little bit more. :) Makes it easier for them to remember you too if they need to get back in touch. Wouldn't remember me as easily if I was one of a huge sea of Tiffanys for example.
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I get the point, but i personally dislike any names which include an action. Y'know the gushing ----- type ones. Just my preference! I quite like my work name and it seems remembered. X
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I think if you have a very unique USP such as I do you'd be a fool not to use it as some part of your AW nick/website name etc as that really helps you stand out from the crowd. That being said I don't use it in all of my advertising
I think there are so many girls who use very common names/surnames and always wonder how they don't just get lost out there on the internet.
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i think if you have a common hooker name ( and apologies for that ladies) then anything you can do to distinguish your self from other is a good thing
you have have to look at the post that Chole Harris wrote recently about another girl copying her profile and her first name to realise that guys sometime only look at the boobs and unless they are a regular of yours it can only take a few quick punches on the keyboard and people are associating you with someone else
I chose Amy when I first started advertising online - I'd had a break and wanted everything new, and I used to get Winehouse comparisons because of my hair so it was just a lazy pick really. I chose my surname because it's got personal connections (but not ones that strangers would know about) and it never occurred to me not to have one - if I only had a first name I'd feel like a budgie.
There are always lots of ladies with names starting with A (partly I think because some of the directories used to list alphabetically and I think PLink still does) so I think it definitely doesn't do any harm. I remember at the time there were about a million Ambers as well which completely put me off picking it; I actually liked another name better but it was down the bottom of the alphabet. As far as second names go I don't think it's crucial but if like Paris says, if you want to stand out in a busy area it's one fairly low-energy way to do it.
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I use a different name on adultwork which i had to change this year so certain people couldnt access me !. and also on here. like to keep things seperate.
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I started with Gemma as the G is simular to my first name..I didnt want to call a client and by accident say my real name when I first started out so I'd be stuck if it was completely different and they called me my real name. Then I changed it to Emma once I settled in as I prefer Emma (sounds more sweet) clients used to call me emma and gemma anyway so it didnt make alot of difference.
Probably has nothing to do with what you are asking! I wouldnt have a clue what I'd choose if I had my own website and was indi x
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I would go with the addition of a surname, it does make a difference and (most) clients can then know which Amy, Anna, Emma, Lucy, Jas they are talking about.
Or you could add something at the beginning. Kinky, naughty, flirty etc.
Every other Indian escort seems to be called Jas, Jasmine etc. So to stand out from them I just added naughty before Jas. And now I get some clients that phone up and ask for Naughy Jas! So it does work. Besides you now what they say, naughty by name, naughty by nature. ;)
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Thanks ladies...I think the market is so saturated that we have to have something in the name for clients to distinguish us by. Whether its a tag ...naughty, B, or surname....
emma
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I'm personally not a fan of using descriptive words in a username, my username is taken from a character in one of my favourite films, Indecent Proposal ;D I don't think anyone has ever put the name to the film character and a lot think I must be Irish and it's my real name, which of course it isn't!
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I picked Lydia when I started off doing adult phone lines- It was after the naughty youngest Bennett sister in Pride and Prejudice; the one who ran off and had premarital sex with a soldier and shamed her family. Just the sort of thing I would have told if I were a 19th century daughter of a country gentleman! It is also a name which is not too unusual, but not too common and most people can spell it. I added the Minxy part because my friend used to call me a minx when I was telling her of my latest exploits and I like it because it denotes naughty and isn't as graphic as 'slutty' or 'kinky' or 'dirty' etc.
As has been said I think having two names helps to distinguish you and works in getting remembered. I don't get lost in the other Lydia's out there. Not that there are *that* many! Also it's a fairly ageless name and doesn't make me sound younger or older than I am.
Incidentally if you Google 'Lydia Escort' or 'Minxy Escort' I come up in the top hits, so either my SEO work has been awesome (takes a bow) or both names are unique enough. Advice I would give any new girl is go with something different and something men can spell when they are looking for your website again!
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I think it's really really important. I did advertising and promotion at university so I chose a name that represented what I wanted people to think. Annabelle to me is feminine and has a sort of 'higher class' undertone to it (than say 'blondbitch69' for example).
And I agree, you don't want to get lost which is why changed it from Anna.Belle to Annabe11e so hopefully people would remember part of it's spelled with numbers.
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When I 1st started I used the name Bustyscotlass as Im a natural 36M and was all I could come up with but decided to change it last month, my new name is my 1st pet and 1st street I lived on, not very original but I like it and it sounds better when clients ask is this Chrissie rather than is this Bustyscotslass.
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I think Gemma is one off the most used working girls names, im not sure why!! Im Gemma because i first started at a cardiff parlour and on my working interview the boss said what do you want to call yourself and my dog (at the time) was called Gemma and thats all i could think off!! Id love to change it now but i think iv morphed into gemma, sometimes i don't know where she ends and i begin!
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Ooh this is killing me at the moment as I've decided that once I get back to the UK that I'm going to set up a new profile and start again. I can't reactivate my old profile - and to be honest am not that bovved as I want to ditch some old clients - but for the life of me I can't think of a new name :FF I don't want anything overtly sexual, nothing to boring and as I'm Irish maybe an Irish name to give people a heads up (but nothing too twee - Orla O'Lovely :-X)
But...I've been thinking that Irish names when written out look totally unpronounceable and could put some people off. The ones I'm thinking of are:
Niamh
Aoife
Aisling
Eimear (Emer)
Though I think maybe I'm over-thinking the whole thing (recovering from an op, nothing else to do!), and my last working name was pulled from the sky as I was in such a rush. Hopefully I'll be hit by divine inspiration...Ohh Madonna?I wish I could use my real name as I love it, but hey-ho that's life and it's fun trying to think of pseudonyms (I wish Carmen San Diego wasn't taken). God what am I going to be like if I ever have a baby/puppy?
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:) I took a nice Irish name though I didn't now at that time. My inspiration was Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, though this name has also secret emotional meaning to me. I did find one retired escort and an agency sharing my name, excellent! Not much competition.
ThreeFaces, how about ?ine, Brenna, Caitlin, Carlin, Morrigan, Noreen, Riona, Shinead, Una?
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This is embarrassing but I've always struggled to pronounce Caitlin correctly (I think it's cattch-leen if you're doing it correctly). And ?na is out because if I ever have a baby girl that's the name I'm picking (or more realistically if I ever get a dog I'll call it Una, the massive Peter Pan complex I have means any poor baby I have would only have to wait 3 years before it's more emotionally mature than me ;)).
I do love Oriana I was admiring it a few days ago...Though I promise I won't steal (maybe...).
The name Niamh is stuck in my head, I could write it Neve which is how it's pronounced and it won't scare people with the 'mh' which is actually pronounced as a 'v'.
Ho-hum, I'm putting way too much thought into this, but my last working name didn't suit me and it sounded a bit soppy and weak (I really am reading way too much into this ::))
Thanks for the tips xx
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I like Brenna... it's pronounceable and fairly original :)
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I do love Oriana I was admiring it a few days ago...Though I promise I won't steal (maybe...).
I am an anarchist and copyleft ho so if you like it just grab it and run! ;D
ACTA has been recently killed at the European Parliament; yo ho,it's a pirate life for me! :D
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Everytime I try to download something illeagaly my laptop dies - it's like instant karama :P
I'm now thinking Aoife-Belle, one of The Saturday's called her baby that lately (is it totally wrong to steal a baby's name?), and I think it's sweet and original. So I am now rechristened, just have to take some photos, get back to Blighty and I shall be back hawking my wares on AW in about a week - wish me luck!
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Do you really think people will be able to say your new name?! ??? ;D
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Agreed, I know how to say it, but that's because a friend at school had the same name. I think a lot of men would be baffled.
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No...I could phonetically sound it out (Eee-fa), but f*ck me that's more hassle than it's worth.
Maybe I'll just think of the world's least sexiest name and go with that - Moist Mildred or Erotic Ethel?Gyrating Gertrude?
So much easier, but I've gone totally off topic so I'll shut up and put my thinking cap on!
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Some lovely names mentioned above but one or two are hardly easily pronounceable.
Men who phone us really need to feel comfortable with who they ask for.
The name Niamh is one of my favourites but you have to admit it is a strange one for
saying out loud and guys could get embarrassed if they say it as it reads and you have
to correct them.
My imagination plays games when I think of men phoning and saying
"hello is that HotSlut4u?" or something similar.
Keep it real is my advice, and there are some delightful names out there to do just that.
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Thanks everyone for the tips - divine inspiration hit with thanks to The Cure. And then I was listening to The Smiths and started wishing I was a BBW 'cuse if I had my own website it'd totally be called SomeGirlsAreBiggerThanOthers...
Anyways thanks for listening!
Charlotte xx
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I chose my name mainly because it's got "BBW" in it....and I want to make it easy for those Guys that are specifically searching for BBW's.... ;D
But I DO state on my Profile very clearly that my name is Helen and most Guys just ask for Helen when they ring me, it also shows that they've read my Profile....
I decided to use the same name here so that I have an Internet Presence with the same name all over the Place....if that makes sense....