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I need a home theater design business name

• Hi, I have been designing home theaters for about a year. I have a web page but it is through a friends web page. I want to get my own domain but I think I need a new name before I invest in a domain. The business name I currently have is ¡§All Star Home Theaters¡¨ but I don¡¦t feel the name flows or portrays what my business niche is. I would like a name that is easy to remember and easy to find when someone is running a web search for home theaters. Currently, I primary design home theaters for do-it-yourselfers but, I don¡¦t want to limit myself to just those clients. Here¡¦s a brief history of my venture into home theater designing. In 2001 I contacted the largest audio & video magazine to see if they wanted to feature our home in an upcoming article. Shortly, a writer from the magazine contacted me and said yes, they would like to feature our home and questions in an upcoming issue. The issue came out in the fall of 2001. The 5-page article with many color photos featured three experts giving advice about our home theater setup and equipment purchases. This expert advice, and the desire to have a first rate home theater started us down the road to do exactly that. During the next 10 months, we researched, spoke with experts, ask a lot of questions, designed and built (we did 95% of the work) a high quality theme Mexican Courtyard home theater, complete with fiber optics twinkling stars. The magazine was so impressed they featured our completed theme home theater in another issue in the fall of 2002. We receive so many calls from readers asking for advice I decided to start a home theater design business, but with a different twist. Most electronic companies that design home theaters only work with clients that are willing to spend many thousands of dollars. They want the client to purchase all the electronics from them and they handle the installation as well¡K for big bucks. These business¡¦ must do the whole design, sell the equipment and installation because they have large overhead. But, the customer pays for service. This is fine for people who have huge budgets but what about the people with smaller budgets and who are willing to do some or all of the manual labor... themselves! Since I live in a remote area, starting a home theater business the ¡§normal storefront¡¨ avenue wasn¡¦t an option. I design home theaters from my home and communication to the client is via e-mail and phone, I will even travel to their location if they want. I have had customers from all over the US, such as, New Mexico, Philadelphia, Michigan; I even have a potential customer in Singapore. I charge by the hour and have no minimum required hours. I recently worked for a client for 3 hours; he only wanted questions answered and a floor plan. Since I don¡¦t sell nor endorse any products I offer the client an unbiased opinion Here¡¦s a list of my services; „h Travel to a client¡¦s future home theater location to gain an understanding of their goals and to make suggestions. „h Design a normal home theater or create one-a-kind theme home theater. „h 3d color pictures showing how the new home theater will look. „h Floor Plan Layout. „h Acoustic Requirements & Treatments. „h Seating location. „h Screen selection. „h Speaker selection & location. „h Fiber Optics Lighting Selection. „h Insulation & soundproofing. „h Flooring & Wall Coverings. „h Lighting Fixtures, Dimmers & Controls. „h Remote Controls & Sensors. „h Furniture & Color Selection. „h Construction tips and ideas. If you need any additional information please let me know. Thank you,

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  Greetings Upnorth: I have conceived the following business names for you and have checked for their availibility for purchase. Currently, all the domain names below are available. I do suggest you go with a dotcom as opposed to ".net" or ".org" so I have kept my suggestions to the dotcom names. DesigningHomeCinemas.com CinemaPersonal.com CinemaMine.com [I like this takeoff on the movie title "Enemy Mine" but it may denote a movie collection instead of your purpose. However, I wanted to include it for your consideration.] CinematicHome.com HomeCinematic.com CinemagicHomeTheater.com PersonalCinemagic.com HomeCinemagic.com LightsCameraActionHTD.com [HTD = HomeTheaterDesign] TakeOneHomeTheaterDesign.com TakeOneHTD.com [Slogan either of these with something like "Our design is the only take you'll need for a successful shot at the perfect home theatre"] HomeCinematrix.com ContinuityHTD.com HouseLightsHTD.com MasterShotHomeTheaterDesign.com MasterShotHTD.com ["Master Shot - A single shot, usually a wide shot, that incorporates the whole scene from beginning to end. Typically a master shot will be filmed first, and then all the close-ups and other shots afterwards." From http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/film_courses/glossary_of_film_terms/glossary.html - This is actually what you do with desgin from beginning to end - first, the overview and then the details.] PerfectExposureHTD.com CloseUpHTD.com ************************* I used some industry terms in my ideas as well as abbreviating "home theater design" as "HTD" - with any of these domain names, you would also have a keyword string on all your pages to identify your service but I chose names that *I* would relate to "home theater" and the services you offer. Should you require clarification (or additional suggestions), please request thusly and I'll be happy to respond. Best regards, journalist-ga SEARCH STRATEGY: whois [domain name availibility search - you may search their records for available domain names at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/ - it takes about three times longer to make the searches than it used to because they have inserted a entry code into each individual search] glossary film terms