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Ask HN: OK to use the word "bullshit" in our company tagline?

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We're doing a homepage redesign and part of that is exploring a new tagline. In a meeting, one of us randomly threw out that one of our value propositions is "no bullshit" when finding a credit card processor. Somehow it stuck, and we all like "no bullshit" in our tagline... but we're unsure how the market perceives this.

Do you guys know if this turns some people off? We are a B2B site - FeeFighters.com … many of our customers are online businesses, but we also have a number of small businesses - dentists, restaurants, etc. We're contemplating changing our tagline to "Compare credit card processors. They compete. You win. No bullshit." Is the general population offended by the word "bullshit" or has that gone by the wayside?

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Risky, but I think in the end it'd be a positive that'd attract me to your product if I ran a small business (which I do). But your tag of 'no bullshit' might not be feasible for an entirely other reason: Gandhi.net seems to have trademarked the phrase and uses it as part of their tagline as well: http://en.gandi.net/no-bullshit

I can't find any outside references for the trademark registration however.

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Links Current site: http://feefighters.com Wireframe options: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/homepage-pick-winner-keep-ho... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/homepage-they-compete-you-wi...

Better a two-sentence tag line than three-sentence.

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Links Current site: http://feefighters.com Wireframe options: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/homepage-pick-winner-keep-ho... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/homepage-they-compete-you-wi...

Better a two-sentence tag line than three-sentence.

I agree. I think "They Compete. You win." is a better tagline without the "No bullshit." not because I'm offended by your word choice, but because it's more succinct.
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