What Happened to Comit Strategies?
You are probably wondering why you are on this page and not a website for Comit Strategies. That is understandable. It is what I would expect as well. Sorry for whatever level of whiplash this may have caused. Let me fill you in on what is happening with Comit Strategies.
Here’s what the Comit Strategies website at comitstrategies.com looked like right before I took it offline.
The Genesis of Comit Strategies and the Struggle
I started Comit Strategies in 2012 when I first set out on my own. Originally, I tried to have the business branded as “ComIT”, but nobody really pronounced it the way I had intended. I quickly started using “Comit” and people read it as “commit” or “comet”. That was fine. I pronounced it closer to “commit” myself. Why “Comit?” It was a combination of communications and information technology. When I started, I offered everything under the sun related to both, from speech writing to server maintenance. Eventually, I focused on web development and hosting (via WP Covered). I share all this to say that “Comit” was never good for branding and I’ve never 100% felt comfortable with it.
Shifting Away from Comit Strategies to a Personal Brand
For all the reasons above plus the fact that after more than five years I still am alone in this venture, I’ve decided to move toward marketing and branding my service under my name, hence why you have landed here at joelmcdonald.me. I have found that it is much easier to speak as myself than as some obscure and unpronounceable company or brand.
What will happen to Comit Strategies? Well, at least for a little while, it will continue to be my business name until the needed paperwork, bank accounts, etc. are in place for the business to use my name. There is a slight possibility that I’ll keep the name, and just use my name as the DBA for the LLC. These are decisions I have yet to make. What I do know is that I wanted to shift marketing, website, and such to my personal brand immediately, which is why you have landed here instead of a site for comitstrategies.com. In short, different packaging. Same
In short: New look. Same great taste.