Looking for ideas for a business name

[mrnsx]

Sparkies!

nah, i do brand and product management in my marketing degree and here is some info to help u brand ur business.

Try to stick to this when choosing ur business name (brand)

Memorable-
Easily Recognized
Easily Recalled

Meaningful-
Credible & Suggestive
Rich Visual & Verbal Imagery

Appealing (likeability)-
Fun & Interesting
Aesthetics

Adaptable-
Flexible & Updateable

Protectable-
Legally (essential)
Competitively

Transferable-
Within & Across Product Categories
Across Geographical Boundaries, Languages & Cultures

then--- U can make a brand name on the following..

Descriptive-
Describes the function literally (Singapore Airlines)

Suggestive-
Suggests a function or benefit (Aerogard)

Compounds-
Combinations of two or more words (Aerogard, redhat)

Classical-
Based on Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit (Kleenex)

Arbitrary-
Real words with no obvious tie-in to the company (Apple)

Fanciful-
Coined words with no obvious meaning (Mambo)

this is super basic (would have helped u more but im busy doing assignments) but if u think along of what i posted, u should be fine... also u need to have a logo or symbol since your a service ;) Maybe a nice sticker to stick on everything u fix so u can build ur brand and not be like "Any other electrician"

[cArSiK]

Fix
Awful
Reception
Today

lol

[pecker73]

Curtain Call
"One Stop Entertainment"

[Pursuit_chick]

S.E.S - Sparkie's Electrical Solutions!

[Fordman1]

Home Entertainment Solutions.

Short and Catchy & easy to rattle off when answering the phone.

[SVR73]

Awesome audio visual (answer as awesome av)

[eb_5litre]

Watts N Pixels

[eb_5litre]

Hassle-Free AV

[b2tf]

Originally Posted by ddarby

Urm, who's Joan? A woman I don't know about? ( don't tell my wife!)

Some fantastic ideas people, I really appreciate your efforts here. I live in the southern parts of Adelaide so some ideas I had were,

Southern AV installs
Down south installations
Install Techniques
The Install doctor


Just afew. I don't want a name which refers to the business as it's main focus is on electrical work. The primary focus is on audio visual etc, like the products sold from JB, Harvey Norman etc. Thanks again for your ideas people! Keep em coming!

so your slogan could be "got problems down south - we can help"

[SVR73]

doctor digital/digital dude/digital dreams

[DOC]

Attached is a file i used to name one of my businesses, in the pic above you can see WORDA you add as many words as you want relating to what you want to do and any others, ( i just used all 3 letter and 4 letter words )

then where its says words A in yellow you can press this to sort and delete any duplicates.

Copy the list to WORDB or even a add a totaly seperate list or mix n match as much as you like.

Next in the light green above merge type the number to merge at a time 21 - 50 is good

press merge, this will take random words from col a and col b and place them into the merge section.

If you see a name you like click the meged name and the select the blue save option

I spent 7 days on this but eventually it spatt out

TRYINN

this lead to the grey cells changing it to TRYINHERE

as i was surley tryin here to come up with a name, i hope it helps

Pete

[dave351cid]

i like names that are catchy , easy to remember and actualy tell what you do.

aaa technical conections
a technical connection
technical connections
technology connections

are a couple that come to mind.

need to think of it from a customers position, who would you look for to do all the technical stuff of getting your new entertainment system, etc, connected.

the benifit of putting "a" or "aaa" in front is it will put you near the front of the listings in yellow pages. the more "A"s the higher up the list.

[WASP]

Before you fall inlove with a name, check to see if it's taken already here: http://www.search.asic.gov.au/gns001.html

After that, check to see if the domain name is available here:http://www.cdaahosting.com/Default.aspx?tabid=160

Oh, and by the way I normally make it a rule not to do this considering my professsion, but what the hell. Heres my 2 minutes of input:

[duaned]

I like it CDAA. It's available, and so is the domain! That's on the shortlist!