Comments on: Moving Forward

By: Anju Dave

Anju Dave — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:42:17 +0000

Completely a distant person, having landed on your page, I was just imbibing your… sort of dramatic Hollywood name, the new name for your company and the people’s comments here.

Honestly, I did not feel elated with Humaan so much, until I went on the site and found the amazing expressions in the logo which completely detail the philosophy behind. It is definitely cool!

On Chandan’s comment : Though there is nothing against the name Hollywood but I think one should not mar branding for the sake of debatable “keyword in the domain name” for SEO

About sticking around with old one, I guess fertile minds keep evolving and they should not stop…:)

By: Mike Healy

Mike Healy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:52:01 +0000

Are you pissed that Julia Gillard stole the title of this post for her election slogan?

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:02:29 +0000

Sounds great Jay. Good luck on your new adventures! The work you’ve done over the last years have been improving so much – impressive skills mister BTW: Awesome logo and design on the page so far.

By: Chandan

Chandan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:42:12 +0000

Hi Jay,

Congratulations for new name for your business. But jay Hollywood is good for seo because its used Hollywood keyword

By: Design Informer

Design Informer — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:53:10 +0000

Congratulations Jay. I’m sure nothing will really change, you will still be producing top-notch work!

Anyway, great and memorable name and very nice job on the logo and landing page.

By: Mark McCorkell

Mark McCorkell — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:00:25 +0000

Jay, I love the name, and the logo!

By: Klayemore

Klayemore — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:36:36 +0000

Sorry Jay, but I have to agree with Gav.

Jay Hollywood is an unreal name and you should stick with it, freelancing or not. Anyways, good luck with which ever way you decide to go.

Cheers,
Klaye

By: Gav

Gav — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:05:42 +0000

hmm. I’m not saying “don’t work with others”, you can work with as many people as you please. In fact, delegation is lesson one in business. I’m saying that by keeping the Jay Hollywood brand, you can be a chameleon. Small businesses want a freelancer, big business wants a firm with infrastructure. With the Jay Hollywood brand, you can be what you need to be in any situation. The greatest asset of a small business is it’s ability to be nimble. Which should only be sacrificed when it prohibits you from making your business more sustainable. In this industry it would actually be a non-conformist decision to retain your name as your brand. Non-conformist = different. Different = good.

Please don’t take this as negative criticism, it’s meant to be helpful. I thought you could use an observation from a non-involved 3rd party observer. I think what you’ve created is amazing, and I think abandoning it right now, would suck. But I guess what REALLY matters in all this, is that a short .com is a requirement these days for a web firm, and I’m sure jayhollywood.com is taken.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:54:02 +0000

Thanks for the feedback and kind words guys, appreciate it.

Gav – I do agree with you in that freelancing is definitely picking up and people are becoming more receptive to hiring them. I think it’s great – for the industry and for business as a whole.

However the freelance model no longer fits my situation and for me, moving towards a business is the right move.

As for the name, we think Humaan works better for our underlying principles.

By: Dirk Kelly

Dirk Kelly — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:12:53 +0000

I’m going to have to disagree with you Gav, whilst there will always be work for Freelancers I think that Jay’s decision to ‘incorporate’ to move forward is exactly because a lot of companies can’t afford the risk of relying on a single person.

As Jay said, it’s about sticking to the values of a one man show, being responsive, caring about the quality of the work and building lasting relationships with people.

In the end a company is just a bunch of people doing cool stuff together, whilst being able to share skill-sets and disperse responsibility and operation knowledge.

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The only real flip-side is the fact that JayHollywood is an awesome name, but that doesn’t mean that people won’t just go to Humaan to hire Jay and his ‘peeps’

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Good Luck Jay