Logo ideas

[asta]

I think it is time to invoke one of the best pieces of advice given me by my grandmother - If you can't say anything nice, it is better to say nothing at all. Maybe the OP should edit the title of this thread to include "marketing ideas". Then the negative posters could post somewhere else.

 

[Megan_J]

Ok I'm going to bite... strange fruit...? Like pineapples are strange with thier weird skin and peaches are fuzzy and that's weird, or is there something I'm missing?

It's a Billy Holiday song about people being lynched. The term 'strange fruit' means people hanging from trees instead of regular fruit.

 

[acejka]

I've seen huge palmetto(sp?) roaches, German roaches and another variety here in Chattanooga. The palmetto ones crunch really loud when you step on them.

AHHHHHH! No stepping on them in our house! Unless I hide my ears! I haven't even seen a palmetto yet since living here... I do remember seeing one in our hotel on vacation a couple years ago now that you mention it.

We have these biting flies that are a huge pain (literally) everytime I get bit, I spike a fever and the spot swells up, but not normal I got bit swells, like changes size and shape swells and gets really hot and sore.... hmmm maybe that would be attractive on my logo. A nice yellow fly... maybe we are on to something here

 

[acejka]

I think it is time to invoke one of the best pieces of advice given by my grandmother - If you can't say anything nice, it is better to say nothing at all. Maybe the OP should edit the title of this thread to include "marketing ideas". Then the negative posters could post somewhere else.

good idea, i think i will do that. coming up!

 

[Disney Doll]

Magnolias, large plantation homes with greek-style columns, women in hoop skirts, and a slower pace of life.

This plus Spanish moss hanging from the trees and also the woodsy bayou areas.

 

[disneyquestions]

And then the OP went on a rant, which makes her look like a drama llama. All she had to do was ignore the post.

 

[EllenFrasier]

Mint juleps, large plantations with mansions that have big porches on them with a wing, weeping willow trees or some other really large type of tree with a swing on it. Heat so hot that the air does not seem to move. Fireflies at night. Someone in a garden bent over weeding and wearing a large sunhat.
A horse pulling a carriage. Really good cooking - think Paula Deen type of food with lots of butter and gravy. Pecan pie too of course! Banjo music.
Fields of wildflowers and butterfiles flitting about in the heat.

 

[DaParkers]

The OP asked for Old South marketing images.

WRONG! Read the OP's original post and tell me where is says anything about marketing. Good business owners listen to ALL sides, not just the ones they want to hear. The OP obviously doesn't give a ---- about anyone's opinions that don't coincide with theirs. They responded to a diatribe with a diatribe just to say that they are ignoring someone.

 

[acejka]

WRONG! Read the OP's original post and tell me where is says anything about marketing. Good business owners listen to ALL sides, not just the ones they want to hear. The OP obviously doesn't give a ---- about anyone's opinions that don't coincide with theirs. They responded to a diatribe with a diatribe just to say that they are ignoring someone.

Um mainly because no matter what image you choose for your logo someone is going to have a bad feeling somewhere... am I going to run off and change my business because someone's ancestors were harmed by that? Not any more than Disney is going to yank out Germany because of the holocaust or Chicago will yank out sky scrapers because of 9/11. Are those terrible events, of course they are, but its not going to change it.

I'm marketing towards people who sees a magnolia flower (we will use that just as an example) on a logo and it brings them back to their childhood, growing up in the south, long hot summer days and playing with their grandmother on a porch swing, family dinners and picking their own produce snapping the green beans for dinner. If someone sees my magnolia flower logo and goes oh gee I'm not going to that business because the magnolia flower reminds me of the south and my grandparents were slaves because of the south then I guess we just won't be doing business together, but like I said in the original post, I'm not looking for images of the south that stir up negative feelings, like rebel flags.

 

[asta]

WRONG! Read the OP's original post and tell me where is says anything about marketing. Good business owners listen to ALL sides, not just the ones they want to hear. The OP obviously doesn't give a ---- about anyone's opinions that don't coincide with theirs. They responded to a diatribe with a diatribe just to say that they are ignoring someone.

Look at the orinal post again. About half way down the OP asked for old southern ideas that could be used in creating a logo. That is a marketing issue at it's core. You would be nuts to solicit or put negative things in a logo for a business.

 

[DaParkers]

Um mainly because no matter what image you choose for your logo someone is going to have a bad feeling somewhere... am I going to run off and change my business because someone's ancestors were harmed by that? Not any more than Disney is going to yank out Germany because of the holocaust or Chicago will yank out sky scrapers because of 9/11. Are those terrible events, of course they are, but its not going to change it.

I'm marketing towards people who sees a magnolia flower (we will use that just as an example) on a logo and it brings them back to their childhood, growing up in the south, long hot summer days and playing with their grandmother on a porch swing, family dinners and picking their own produce snapping the green beans for dinner. If someone sees my magnolia flower logo and goes oh gee I'm not going to that business because the magnolia flower reminds me of the south and my grandparents were slaves because of the south then I guess we just won't be doing business together, but like I said in the original post, I'm not looking for images of the south that stir up negative feelings, like rebel flags.

I understand your position. I really do. But, why respond negatively to the poster who has a jaded view based on the treatment of their family? I'm not suggesting that you care or pretend to. Just don't come across as dismissive. For a lot of blacks and even some whites, their images of the old south are not pretty. Like I said, I see your point, but as a black man born and raised in the south, although I haven't encountered any blatant racism in my 34 years on this earth, I truly understand that posters position also. Wow! That was a long sentence.

 

[acejka]

I understand your position. I really do. But, why respond negatively to the poster who has a jaded view based on the treatment of their family? I'm not suggesting that you care or pretend to. Just don't come across as dismissive. For a lot of blacks and even some whites, their images of the old south are not pretty. Like I said, I see your point, but as a black man born and raised in the south, although I haven't encountered any blatant racism in my 34 years on this earth, I truly understand that posters position also. Wow! That was a long sentence.

Honestly, it was just the way it gave off a guilt trip vibe to me, like whyyyyy would you choose this for your logo when bad things happened in the south so long ago, and it wasn't anything more than that, I just didn't like the vibe it gave to me when I read it. Do I know for sure that is how she was wanted it to come off? No, and it was bad judgement to announce it that I was putting her on ignore but like I said there is an ignore list there for a reason and I have plenty of people on there because I don't like how they come off in their posts, I figure if I don't care for the vibe they give in their writing, why deal with it? Should they change the way they post because I read it in a different tone than they intended? no, because that is my hangup and I can easily fix it. To me it would be no different than avoiding a co-worker who I don't care to socialize with because I don't care for how they talk and carry themselves in a coversation. Or in my case, I go to a meetup group once or twice a month for a hobby of mine, there are a few women who I avoid all the time because all they do is try to make you feel sorry for them because of one reason or another.

 

[kirstenb1]

Ok I'm going to bite... strange fruit...? Like pineapples are strange with thier weird skin and peaches are fuzzy and that's weird, or is there something I'm missing?

it's a reference to lynching...very sad

 

[acejka]

it's a reference to lynching...very sad

I've never heard of it before. It's a good thing I asked before I went out and said something stupid referring to it.

 

[NotUrsula]

to me, the old south ended w/ the end of slavery, which might not be technically true or what you're looking for, but as a NYer, it's just the image that pops in my mind.

yes, the images of the "old south" to me are pretty negative, the images of the "new" south to me are... disney, florida beaches and beautiful, historic cities - which I haven't even been to, but I think of say Charleston, Savannah, etc, and would like to visit, and would feel like I would enjoy it and see lots of southern charm. I don't think of the old south when I visit the south now though, unless I see a rebel flag flying or on the back of a pickup truck (but, we have some of the pickup trucks w/ the rebel flag in NY too - but more rarely).

To most of us who lived there at the time, the Old South finally died just a little more than 100 years later than that, during the Long Hot Summer of 1968. After the assassination of MLK, the scales finally fell from many eyes, and Southern leaders finally realized that LBJ had been right, and that the South would be left behind economically by modern progress if serious changes were not made. By 1972 so many changes had happened that it was becoming an entirely new place. (Not entirely coincidentally, those were the years when many homes and schools were also finally retrofitted with air-conditioning.)

As to a symbol, in my mind there is only one that really endures - the live oak tree. It is associated with the best of the good and the worst of the bad, but still always welcomed as a shelter from both the sun and the rain.

 

[JaneBanks]

To most of us who lived there at the time, the Old South finally died just a little more than 100 years later than that, during the Long Hot Summer of 1968. After the assassination of MLK, the scales finally fell from many eyes, and Southern leaders finally realized that LBJ had been right, and that the South would be left behind economically by modern progress if serious changes were not made. By 1972 so many changes had happened that it was becoming an entirely new place. (Not entirely coincidentally, those were the years when many homes and schools were also finally retrofitted with air-conditioning.)

As to a symbol, in my mind there is only one that really endures - the live oak tree. It is associated with the best of the good and the worst of the bad, but still always welcomed as a shelter from both the sun and the rain.

Beautiful!

 

[The Pink Cupcake]

...there are a few women who I avoid all the time because all they do is try to make you feel sorry for them because of one reason or another.

Again, I was just giving my opinion. Please don’t ever feel sorry for me. I am one lucky person. You can feel sorry for my grandparents “because of one reason or another” indeed. Thank you for comparing the way they were treated in The Old South to the drama queens in your Mommy and Me Group. It all makes sense to me now.

You seem high strung and, in my opinion, not much of a business person if you only want to hear certain things from certain people. You snapped immediately.

To most of us who lived there at the time, the Old South finally died just a little more than 100 years later than that, during the Long Hot Summer of 1968. After the assassination of MLK, the scales finally fell from many eyes, and Southern leaders finally realized that LBJ had been right, and that the South would be left behind economically by modern progress if serious changes were not made. By 1972 so many changes had happened that it was becoming an entirely new place. (Not entirely coincidentally, those were the years when many homes and schools were also finally retrofitted with air-conditioning.)

As to a symbol, in my mind there is only one that really endures - the live oak tree. It is associated with the best of the good and the worst of the bad, but still always welcomed as a shelter from both the sun and the rain.

I really enjoyed your post. Thank you.

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

I don't think you can have one without mentionning the other, and it wasn't limited to a certain part of history. It's important to tell the truth!

I don't know much about marketing, but I agree that it's important to tell the truth. The negative thoughts about the Old South should be helpful to the Op because it tells her that people still have negative thoughts attached to the Old South and it might affect her logo decision. If a beautiful oak tree is a symbol of the O.S., it won't work as a logo if too many people think of strange fruit when seeing an old southern oak tree.

 

[bellebud]

I don't know much about marketing, but I agree that it's important to tell the truth. The negative thoughts about the Old South should be helpful to the Op because it tells her that people still have negative thoughts attached to the Old South and it might affect her logo decision. If a beautiful oak tree is a symbol of the O.S., it won't work as a logo if too many people think of strange fruit when seeing an old southern oak tree.

that makes a lot of sense! OP - can you not tell us what your business will be and who you're trying to reach as your customers? I think that would help us give you more ideas.