Can I Start a Blog Before I Choose My Business Name?
AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design
Pat Flynn
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2017
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today's question comes from Kit, who hasn’t chosen her company name yet. Can she still start a blog without choosing a name? Kit mentions using the lessons from my book Will It Fly? (http://willitflybook.com) to start her business. If you are starting a new website and need website hosting, I recommend Bluehost (http://askpat.com/bluehost). Do you have a question about starting a business? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | AskPath. |
| 0:05.1 | AskPath.com.com. |
| 0:09.0 | AskPaths. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, what's up, everybody? |
| 0:12.0 | Patflin here and welcome to episode 789 of Ask Pat. |
| 0:15.2 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:16.9 | As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. |
| 0:20.6 | All right, now here's today's question from Kit. |
| 0:23.3 | Hi, Pat. |
| 0:24.1 | My name's Kit. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm inspired by your writings and podcasts and move forward with my own business idea. |
| 0:30.7 | I took your advice and I hit the streets talking to anyone and friends that I could so I could validate my idea. As a result, I've got my first |
| 0:40.4 | customer. I'm a newbie having a blog and I don't have a company name yet. My question is, |
| 0:48.5 | can I start a blog site without having first settled on a business name. Thanks for your help. |
| 0:56.1 | Hey, Kit, thank you so much for the question. |
| 0:57.9 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:58.6 | And thank you even more for following my advice and taking action and going out there and |
| 1:04.0 | talking to people about it. |
| 1:05.1 | It's so cool that you've gotten your first customer. |
| 1:06.8 | I hope that you are motivated by doing so. |
| 1:10.0 | To answer your question really quickly, and then I'll get into a few more things there. Yeah, you can set up a site before picking a business name. I mean, even in my history, when I started out, I built a website to help people pass and examine the architecture industry, and I didn't even form a business until several months later, once I started to get some sales and stuff. |
| 1:30.3 | So, yeah, you can do that. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pat Flynn, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Pat Flynn and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.