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Help me Name My Business
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1-59253-088-5) that has a whole section on naming your business. It was $40 but you could always just go to Barnes & Noble and have a good read. There are companies out there that charge thousands of dollars for their naming services but Chuck shares some of their secrets in the book for coming up with logical, memorable, unique names. It`s definitely worth considering the points he makes. Keep us posted on your progress. starpointe2007-1-10 0:32:12
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One word of wisdom among all these others is to take your customers
perspective. They are probably not skaterboys. They are professionals
looking to you for help and solutions-not the word of the day. I do have
experience in identity work. I have named 2 marketing leading products
and a 80% market share company.
Good luck in your venture
- Large Hosting Domain provider (Oldest in the biz)IT Solutions
- Over-worked and over used.ITworks - Hm???? BORING to me and it`s just my opinion.
Fulcrum Networks (leverage point)
(Fulcrum Microsystems exists)Quantum IT consulting
- Huge hard-drive and tape drive manufacture. They have consulting branch that uses this name.Concept Networks - broadband/DSL providerThese names are boring and as a long time buyer of technical services would a)either get them confused and/or b)look right over the typical. Everyone who can print a business card writes, network this and tech that. BORING!Now, if they`re just hung up on a given name, then some of the naming depends on region versus national. However, if you`d googled most of these names, you`d see that they`re all taken.PS.. I have no vested interest or am self promoting, just offering a perspective.
coscooper2007-1-10 11:50:44
Here is what I did:
I wrote down random words that were associated with the industry, the business I do, the work I do, my customers, etc. (it was about 6 pages long when I was done). THEN...I started mixing them around...stuffing them together...I wrote out about 4 pages of possible name ideas...then I went through those and scratched the ones that REALLY made my stomach turn to have to say them or put them on letterhead. The ones that were left, I started looking at marketing ability...how easy would it be to put on a business card, letterhead, or a storefront!? I scratched the ones that just WOULD NOT market easily. I just kept working at it until I had it down to about 5 that I liked, marketed well, and were easy enough to understand...THEN...I asked friends, family, strangers, etc. what their opinions were...eventually...I just threw my hands up and went with the one that felt good for me!
Hope that helps...some! Best of luck! If I think of anything REALLY catchy...I will stop back by and let you know!!
I didn`t take it personally.
Going on limited info and just throwing out ideas and starting points.
Name registration is regional and industry specific and you should do a
quick trademark search to be safe
It`s all subjective-you could make it personal related and you have a ice
breaker on taking about your name.
One that felt the best to me, but I never used, was a combination of letters from my full name. I came up with Wascoda. Unusual, yet possibly memorable.
Have you tried doing something along those lines?
Heck...Just make up a word.
Google did it.Heck....I did it too when I named my corporation.Actually Google it from a "Peanuts" cartoon, but Charles Schultz may have taken it from somewhere else!
Whatever you name your business........ Before you do.
Search the name in Google.com Your better to choose a unique name no-one else has.
So if people search for you or your business name in google....... yours is the only site to be listed at the top of the search.
rexiedexie2007-1-13 6:12:38
Kennerly Clay
Titles & Taglineswww.titles-and-taglines.comkennerly6/19/2009 10:31 AM