Naming Consultants Background

Brighter Naming is Silicon Valley's independent professional naming agency formed by a great team of experienced worldwide namers, headed by Athol Foden. Please see Athol's Bio for full details.

He has had extensive success and coverage in the media over the past few years (see News Room), but the most important success story will be about your new name. Athol heads a creative and process driven team that speaks your language and not that of some linguistic doctoral thesis. He is perhaps the only head of a naming service in the world who has two computer science degrees to his credit. But once he worked for Sony, the real lure of his hobby and passion rose to the top, even though he had to hold many other senior sales and marketing positions before moving into naming full time. Athol has worked in large and small companies, and worked or traveled on five continents.

Other naming consultants include Ben in L.A., Roseann (in the U.K. & Spain with an international finance, property management and medical equip background), Felecia (Ph. D) in New Mexico, Pierre and Kyra in Canada, and a worldwide team of proven namers who live in real business environments. Most of the brighter team are strong in one or two foreign languages, unlike Athol who speaks a little bit of many different languages.

Don't be surprised if we understand many of your business issues as well as your marketing, branding and positioning issues. Do expect that we will be diligent listeners, as this is what differentiates good namers from the rest of the world.

On all full service projects we will ensure you have input from namers based across the US and Canada, as well as in Europe. Different people are exposed to different names and ideas in different places. Different creative backgrounds and education lead to different marketing, language and image ideas. So that is why you need the input from at least 4 or 5 professionals on your naming assignment. Every human has a personality style that will be reflected in his or her work. If you were to only engage a "one man band" namer, you would only be offered names of one style. Brighter Naming ensures you see multiple styles, and facilitates the process until you have a name that suits the personality of you management team and target audience. The final name may not have even been on the original master list, which is why we never just e-mail in name lists and leave it up to you to work through them. Great results happen when we work together to present and discuss, prune and persevere, polish and search, across a wide variety of names and themes.

Naming agency fees tend to be based on how old the agency is and how famous are the names they have created in the past. Brighter Naming is now over six years old, and the principles ran another agency for ten years before that, but we are still able to offer superb creative services at very, very competitive prices.

For clients in India, Pakistan and the Middle East we have a partnership with AndTherefore, a Mumbai based brand naming agency.

Ask about our fast turnaround name checking research services too.

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