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Name of the Week – Mail Chimp
For a long time I have wondered how Mail Chimp grew so big so quickly, despite some formidable competitors like Constant Contact, Vertical Response or emailforce.io. The more I looked at it the more it seemed to me they did…
Name of the Week – Hello Sunshine
Many years ago I started my first iteration of Name of the Week when I learned that search engines wanted fresh content regularly to maintain your SEO score. And this was long before blogging and social media existed, let alone…
Tagged with: Name of the Week
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Sustainable Brand Names, Trademarks
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Sustainable Brand Names, Trademarks
What a great name – Hint
Sometimes you come across a name that is so simple and elegant you just have to ask why didn’t I think of that? And how the heck was the reg TM still available? And you won’t get a better example…
It takes some spunk to name your company Splunk.
When I first heard the name Splunk® I thought how cool a name it was. Surely one of those new mobile apps for and by millennials. No, rather it is the name of a back end data server and privacy…
Tagged with: #scientificnaming, Creative Naming, naming agency, naming ideation, trademarking
Posted in Branding, Domain Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Technology Names, Trademarks
Posted in Branding, Domain Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Technology Names, Trademarks
Patreon – Patrons for the Ages
From the minute I learned about Patreon I have been pleasantly overwhelmed with the cleverness of their offerings, and the memorability of their name. Of course I wondered why they had not tried harder to be Patron or Patron something.…
Tagged with: Blog Names
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Hospitality & Travel, International Naming, Name Origins, Naming News, Strange Names, Trademarks
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Hospitality & Travel, International Naming, Name Origins, Naming News, Strange Names, Trademarks
When your brand logo has a nickname
A few blogs back we asked if you knew the nicknames for the McDonalds and Ford logos. Surely most of you knew the easy answer to the first part of this: The Golden Arches for McDonalds ubiquitos big M symbol.…
Tagged with: Creative Naming, naming consultants, trademarking, Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Naming Education, Naming News, Retail, Trademarks, Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Naming Education, Naming News, Retail, Trademarks, Transportation
Brand quiz answers
(Disclaimer: I did rely on search engines and Wikipedia for some of the amusing and interesting background info. As author of the quiz, I knew most of the answers to these questions when I posted them – except Question 1)…
Tagged with: Creative Naming, food naming, naming consultants, Naming resources, trademarking, Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, People Names, Trademarks, Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, People Names, Trademarks, Transportation
Family brand name quiz – while you eat and drive
While putting together a previous post (“Nomen Est Omen?” Uh, Not Always…) I got to thinking about both family and given names that are now well-known brands. There are enough quirky examples and stories that I thought I’d put together…
Tagged with: Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Name Origins, People Names, Trademarks, Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Name Origins, People Names, Trademarks, Transportation
What’s in a classical musical name?
I do enjoy seeing articles about naming, as long as it is not YASOI (Yet Another Set Of Initials). Today I had the pleasure of seeing such an article as I pulled up my favorite classical radio station KDFC on…
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