Over the years, I’ve fielded countless phone calls about our services. Until the recent phone number changeover, I always answered with my name. And nine times out of 10, this response followed my greeting:
“Yes, is this Tog Solutions?”
OK, the confusion is totally understandable. We really don’t have an explanation of the reasoning behind the TOG Solutions name, nor have we mentioned that TOG is the acronym T.O.G., instead of Tog.
At least until now.
The T.O.G. in TOG Solutions is Teed Off Guy.
Yes, now you see why it’s abbreviated.
But, there’s a story behind that as well. The Teed Off in Teed Off is actually the sports column I wrote many years ago when a part of Cleveland State’s student newspaper, the Cauldron. And since there are about 100 different Bob McDonalds (including my father) and to cut down the confusion with other, more prominent companies with McDonald in the name (self-explanatory), I used the Teed Off Guy moniker, shortened it up to TOG, for the sake of the other people (if any) who would be working with me.
In the future, I’ll be more forthcoming with why I do what I do. It seems to make better business sense…
