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By admin on Apr 1, 2012 in brand naming, empty bucket name | 0 Comments
Testing our K-12 children is becoming more frequent and more rigorous. Mastering a wider variety of subjects is both stressful and boring. Pearson just rolled-out a new tool, called Zeos™, to change all of this on March 30th: The Zeos name is short and catchy. It is also fun as is the offering itself… “Zeos [...]
By admin on Mar 11, 2012 in best names, brand naming, differentiators, international naming | 0 Comments
On Feb 22, 2012, Maritz Research introduced its Capella(tm) platform, a new way to measure the complete customer experience. This solution promises to revolutionize how you can improve your customers’ interactions with your firm, products, services and people. It is moving the industry away from tools that just report data to tools that help drive needed change [...]
By admin on Oct 23, 2011 in basic naming questions, best names, brand naming, company names, competitive names, creative inspiration, differentiators, international naming, naming guide, naming strategy, naming tips, product names, trademarks | 0 Comments
It’s always exciting to see a thoughtful article about brand naming in a mainstream, American staple like the New Yorker. The article, “Famous Names: does it matter what a product is called?” written by John Colapinto in the October 3rd, 2011 edition was certainly a fascinating read from beginning to end. Tools like Mind Maps [...]
By admin on Sep 26, 2011 in basic naming questions, best names, brand naming, company names, competitive names, controversial names, descriptive names, differentiators, empty bucket name, master brands, naming pioneer, naming strategy, naming tips, product names | 8 Comments
The Naru (Naming Guru) has emerged from the naming reflecting pool to finish sharing his/her branding perspectives from earlier this month. 5b.) Literal / descriptive names are better than emotional names when developing specific product names underneath a family brand. While emotional, short & snappy brand names should establish strong connections with consumers (e.g., Northface, [...]
By admin on Sep 15, 2011 in basic naming questions, brand naming, differentiators, naming guide, naming strategy, naming tips, product names | 5 Comments
One of the special educational services NameStormers offers is access to the sage naming philosophies of the revered Naru (Naming Guru). (The identity of the Naru is protected so he/she can go about day-to-day life without being chased down the street by marketers and branding strategists demanding one-on-one audiences.) 1) Think like a customer, not [...]
By admin on Sep 7, 2011 in basic naming questions, brand naming, company names, competitive names, differentiators, master brands, naming research, naming strategy, product names, retail storefront names | 6 Comments
“Consumers are buying private label food and drink products in greater numbers, typically because these products represent better value” (Mintel, The Private Label Food and Drink Consumer, Dec. 2010). But, is this causation or correlation? Are consumers knowingly buying private labels in larger quantities because of their perceived value, or is something else driving the [...]
By admin on May 24, 2011 in best names, brand naming, competitive names, descriptive names, differentiators, master brands | 0 Comments
We recently helped develop the CorFire™ name and a corresponding naming architecture for SK C&C. Here is a little background: The CorFire solution suite lets retailers, phone companies and others deliver mobile commerce to their customers, today. The CorFire team has over eight years of real world experience providing systems that seamlessly serve half a [...]
By admin on May 18, 2011 in basic naming questions, competitive names, descriptive names, master brands, naming architecture, naming strategy, product names | 0 Comments
The Harvard Business Review published an article this month discussing two possible approaches when naming next generation products: 1. Brand-Name Continuation (or) 2. Brand Name Change. Callaway Company launched its first Big Bertha driver in 1995 and then chose the brand-name continuation strategy: following with Great Big Bertha and then Biggest Big Bertha. This [...]
By admin on Jan 9, 2011 in basic naming questions, best names, brand naming, competitive names, differentiators, naming strategy, naming tips | 0 Comments
“Consumers are not buying based on price alone,” led a recent article from Brandweek. Personally, price is always a factor for me, but only decisive when all other things are equal. I agree – “there is a price-value formula consumers use to calculate brand differences” when deciding which brands to buy. Otherwise Chi straighteners ($100) [...]
By admin on Dec 14, 2010 in basic naming questions, international naming, master brands, naming linguistic issues, naming strategy, product names, translating names | 0 Comments
One of the biggest naming challenges can be in transnational markets, where a myriad of languages are spoken and customs are practiced. Besides being sure that you don’t recommend something in English that will offend somebody speaking Cantonese, there are fascinating linguistic nuances that both reveal a lot about what goes into a name and [...]
