Comments on: How to Choose a Great Company Name http://startupprincess.com/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:09:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Bartmann http://startupprincess.com/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/comment-page-1/#comment-66947 Bill Bartmann Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:02:51 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/#comment-66947 I don't know If I said it already but ...Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I'm glad I found your blog. Thanks, :) A definite great read.. <a href="http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/~bill-bartmann" rel="nofollow">-Bill-Bartmann</a> I don’t know If I said it already but …Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks, :)

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]]> By: Heather Allard http://startupprincess.com/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/comment-page-1/#comment-4061 Heather Allard Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:35:07 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/#comment-4061 As the owner of 2 Virtues Inc., maker of Swaddleaze & Blankeaze (safe sleepwear for infants & toddlers), I can say from experience that you should DEFINITELY choose a name that makes what you DO or what you SELL abundantly clear. I can't tell you the number of times people said to me, "2 Virtues? What do you sell, religious items?" I'd then have to go through the whole shtick about how I named my company after my daughters, Hope & Grace and that I sold wearable blankets for kids. UGH! Choose wisely! Heather Allard As the owner of 2 Virtues Inc., maker of Swaddleaze & Blankeaze (safe sleepwear for infants & toddlers), I can say from experience that you should DEFINITELY choose a name that makes what you DO or what you SELL abundantly clear. I can’t tell you the number of times people said to me, “2 Virtues? What do you sell, religious items?” I’d then have to go through the whole shtick about how I named my company after my daughters, Hope & Grace and that I sold wearable blankets for kids. UGH!

Choose wisely!
Heather Allard

]]> By: Jamie Bird http://startupprincess.com/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/comment-page-1/#comment-3999 Jamie Bird Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:36:38 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/#comment-3999 This is such a funny topic for me. I did not invent or come up with the term "wet bag"- people were sewing them long before I was in business. However, after I started making them, I was at church talking to a new couple and this is the conversation that followed: Male: So, what do you do? Do you work full time, stay at home? Me: Yes, I stay at home with my son, and I sew as a side business Male: Oh, that's cool. What do you sew? Me: Baby items Me, thinking to myself that I have to get better at pitching my products in person. Male: What kind of baby products? Me: Well, my most popular item right now is a wetbag, and another Male, Interrupting: A wetbag? Me: Yes, a wetbag Male, smirking: Do you know what that is? Me: Yes, it is a waterproof bag Male: You might want to look that one up Befuddled, I googled it. Talk about a term inappropriate to promote on a baby site! Since I did not come up with that name for the product, I just had to reinvent and brand it myself as the "Wet Happened?" wet bag:-) This is such a funny topic for me. I did not invent or come up with the term “wet bag”- people were sewing them long before I was in business. However, after I started making them, I was at church talking to a new couple and this is the conversation that followed:

Male: So, what do you do? Do you work full time, stay at home?
Me: Yes, I stay at home with my son, and I sew as a side business
Male: Oh, that’s cool. What do you sew?
Me: Baby items
Me, thinking to myself that I have to get better at pitching my products in person.
Male: What kind of baby products?
Me: Well, my most popular item right now is a wetbag, and another
Male, Interrupting: A wetbag?
Me: Yes, a wetbag
Male, smirking: Do you know what that is?
Me: Yes, it is a waterproof bag
Male: You might want to look that one up

Befuddled, I googled it. Talk about a term inappropriate to promote on a baby site! Since I did not come up with that name for the product, I just had to reinvent and brand it myself as the “Wet Happened?” wet bag:-)

]]> By: startupprincess http://startupprincess.com/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/comment-page-1/#comment-3972 startupprincess Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:21:54 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/#comment-3972 Hello Rony, you're right...the name SHOULD be the simple part. Branding and reputation is much more challenging! Hi Matt, great to see you here...thanks for rescuing me the other day with our tech issues. I love finding new blogs, particularly about this topic, I'm brand girl a heart--thanks for the recommendation Hi SUP Sarah, even if you HAVE your name...I still recommend doing the keyword, competitive, and demographic research, you'll need it anyhow for your Business Plan. Speaking of which, I should be working on OURS. ;) Hello Rony, you’re right…the name SHOULD be the simple part. Branding and reputation is much more challenging!

Hi Matt, great to see you here…thanks for rescuing me the other day with our tech issues. I love finding new blogs, particularly about this topic, I’m brand girl a heart–thanks for the recommendation

Hi SUP Sarah, even if you HAVE your name…I still recommend doing the keyword, competitive, and demographic research, you’ll need it anyhow for your Business Plan. Speaking of which, I should be working on OURS. ;)

]]> By: Sarah Jane http://startupprincess.com/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/comment-page-1/#comment-3965 Sarah Jane Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:35:37 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/#comment-3965 that is great! I love how coming up with your name this way, also helps you to get to know yourself better...and your industry. Great ideas! that is great! I love how coming up with your name this way, also helps you to get to know yourself better…and your industry. Great ideas!

]]> By: Matthew Reinbold http://startupprincess.com/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/comment-page-1/#comment-3958 Matthew Reinbold Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:38:49 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/#comment-3958 A blog that I've come across recently and have greatly enjoyed in this area is 'The Name Inspector' - http://www.thenameinspector.com/ . In each post he takes a fairly well known company name and dissects it along aesthetic lines. Might be a good additional resource for anyone looking to come up with a solid, creative, new name. A blog that I’ve come across recently and have greatly enjoyed in this area is ‘The Name Inspector’ – http://www.thenameinspector.com/ . In each post he takes a fairly well known company name and dissects it along aesthetic lines.

Might be a good additional resource for anyone looking to come up with a solid, creative, new name.

]]> By: Rony http://startupprincess.com/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/comment-page-1/#comment-3953 Rony Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:11:36 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/how-to-choose-a-great-company-name/#comment-3953 I think that is very simple! for me, to make the great name of company is how the owner running a business, and brand introduction I think that is very simple! for me, to make the great name of company is how the owner running a business, and brand introduction

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