Know-How Exchange : Taglines/Names

There's going to be a seminar in July called Positioning, Naming and Taglines, and you might want to consider attending that.

Clicking on the link in the previous paragraph will take you to the page that describes the seminar.

Hi Mvaliunas,

Hope you're having a great day but more importantly a WONDERFUL LIFE!

PLAN THE RIGHT NAME AND YOU'LL CREATE THE RIGHT FUTURE FOR YOUR BUSINESS...

Planning on creating a powerful tagline that moves your customers toward you at an amazing speed?...that's Great! But take the time and invest wisely in a name that will change the future of your business because you were willing to sacrifice and make smart choices. It's very easy to make dumb ones...I KNOW I've made a lot of them. Fortunately I've become wildly successful. Not because of the mistakes but because of what I've been able to learn from making them. Now you don't need to make all the ones I've made so please let me help you. Many people make mistakes in the names they let others give them. Why? Because then they don't have to take full responsibility for failing when it's the name that has a great deal to do with whether the business becomes a huge success or it ends up just becoming a HUGE FLOP!!

THE FIRST BIGGEST ERROR mOST pEOPLE MAKE...BUT DON'T YOU DO THIS...
They take the matter lightly. And let me be the first to say that I am probably one of the most "Playful and Humorous" of all the experts here so being light has it's advantages...(click my name profile. Read some of the questions I've asked and you'll see). My degrees in ART & Accounting make me a cross between Leonardo da Vinci & Michelangelo. And while my prolific ability could allow me to create for you nearly 10-20 variations on a name I respect that the process is more than just "Name Generation". So making the right choice of a good quality name that will bring you much goodwill is not a light matter. ***So don't you take it lightly either*** and make the mistakes most people do.

So here's some research I've just pulled together for you to help you avoid the aweful blunders people make in name choosing and tagline creation. I reference other experts on our forum as I have learned so much about the process of creating powerful names and taglines from them through the past several years. It's full of some questions that will help you think more clearly about the process so that you can have a successful name that will make a difference first to your customers and then to your company. The only real reason why anyone goes into business anyway is to ---Take Great Care of a Customer---. If you take care of a customer your customer will take care of you :- )

Any additional information you offer us as we're helping you with your magnificent company name only brings you better results. The more you offer the better the results. The less you offer the poorer the results. If you offer less you're probably going to get less even though we want to give you So Much MORE...It's like trying to build a Great Big house on a little bitty small teeny weenie foundation. If you give us enough foundation will build you a Great Big House to put your name in :-)

Most people fail to do the above even though we highly recommend it because it's so much easier to let others do the work and you can always blame your failures on them RIGHT! But the right information really does make a huge difference for you and that's what you really want in the end right?...

Even in basic name creation or "idea generation" establishing a starting point often requires establishing purpose. Taking the steps using the following information below will start, direct and lead that process in the right direction for you.

A business name should be the out growth of the market you are trying to reach. All names including "A new business name or Tagline" must have some part or a lot of the following comments also made by my three expert friends who participate in our forum below.


williamarruda says…
"Your tag line should be 'catchy' and it should speak directly to your target audience and differentiation. A good place to start is to make a list of all the things that differentiate your offerings from your competitors. Then think about which of those differentiators is compelling to your target audience."

mgoodman...
provides these great suggestions...
"Who is the target audience? That's the most important input we need in order to help you with the name. Once we understand who the target audience is, the next question will be "What is the most important benefit they will realize if they use your service?" What makes you different from and better than your competitors?"



JBtron...
offers a great deal of insight on this...
"To really be successful with this query in KHE, your query demands answers to a number of questions regarding your product that will help guide the naming process:

-What ARE your USPs? Why would someone go to you v. any of the other businesses?

-Where are you located?

-What are the short- and long-term business goals for the company, and how are you going to market this new brand in a very large arena with few real players?

-What are your company’s Core Proposition and Brand Personality?

Core Prop: What makes you different? Tagline. USPs in a phrase.

EXAMPLE:

Bounty: The quicker picker-upper.

Brand Personality: Describe the product as a person. What is this person’s personality? Outgoing? Vivacious? Mysterious? Is this person an over-achiever? Friendly?

All these will lead to a series of statements, attributes and directions that are called a Creative Brief. With the properly developed Created Brief, virtually anyone can come up with a name that works."



This will get us started. By completely answering these questions it would make it much easier to provide you with a name that provokes your clientele to seek your business out over the others. REMEMBER... our only real problem in life is our failure to be "MORE Creative" than we’ve ever been. If you “Invent” your opportunity YOU WILL most definitely create your future. I'm only an email away from you if you need my help. Is there anything else I can do for you?

Your Servant,

Deremiah, *CPE (Customer Passion Evangelist)

Hi mvaliunas,

Love your response too...I have to admit that I was equally really hoping to get some feed back from you on the personality of your customer.

PASTED RESPONSE BUT SOUND CONCEPTS...I DARE YOU TO ASK YOUR DOCTOR?
Although my response is pasted my concepts are full of sound ideas. No different then when you make a doctors visit you will answer the same questions as you did the very last time you saw the doctor. Or to help you think about it more broadly in the beginning of your interview with your doctor you will answer the same exact introductory questions as everyone else ---BUT--- WALLA!!! The answers will be completely different and that's what the doctor is looking for in order to have you help him HELP YOU!

MY DOCTOR HAS ASKED ME THE SAME QUESTION OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS WITH A DIFFERENT ANSWER FROM ME and not once have I answered him the same way...PLUS... LEONARDO DA VINCI ASKED THE SAME QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT HIS CREATIVE LIFE TIME AND GOT DIFFERENT RESULTS...this leads me to wonder why should I fret about asking the same questions...or...WHY SHOULD I QUESTION THE FACT THAT SOMETIMES OUR GREATEST GENIUSES (Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Edison, George Washington Carver, Emerson, Franklin and all the other great people I have studied for the last 30 years) ASK THE SAME QUESTIONS???

For example most doctors begin by asking you "What's wrong?" and she may get 100 different answers from 100 different patients because they are all in a different place in their experience. So just see me as your doctor and please let me help you go deeper if you really want your business to succeed rather than remain in it's current dilemma.

As I've stated before I could easily churn out 10-20 names but rather than trying to impress an audience of on-lookers with a long list of generic names that are heartlessly aimed at no specific target I thought I would really provide you with something of tremendous value. It is quite hard for me to do that when I don't know if your customer (read end user) is male or female, young or old, rich or poor to name a few categories. But what I will share with you now that I've reviewed your website is that your tagline would be better focused if I knew who your audience is. Is your product for a "Target" or "WalMart" audience? or is it for a "Bloomingdale" or a "Walgreens" audience? Appealing to your audience does matter and you can't do that until you know who they are.

"LIKE ARROWS IN THE HAND OF A ---MIGHTY WARRIOR--- Know thy enemy FIRST before you enter into Battle"

1.) The primary reason most businesses fail is because most businesses don't know who there customer is.

2.) The second reason why they fail is because they fail to SERVE their customer in a way that is AUTHENTIC and Finally

3.) The Thrid reason why they fail is because those who run the business don't believe 100% in what their doing and this leaves much room for doubt and apprehension which is sensed by your customer who is looking to give her money to a business that shows some hutzpah and determination.

What I will share with you about a very powerful tagline for your business is this...with a name like "foreverstore" I'm not sure I can make a Tagline work. Personally I would have named the store.

GUARANTEED FOR LIFE...where our products last forever

So much more powerful a name than Foreverstore and what's more the guarantee is built right into the name of the store. What better way to back the value of your products and to power pack this concept right into the name. That's my take on it. Are you in good hands? REMEMBER... our only real problem in life is our failure to be "MORE Creative" than we’ve ever been. If you “Invent” your opportunity YOU WILL most definitely create your future. I'm only an email away from you if you need my help. Is there anything else I can do for you?

Your Servant,

Deremiah, *CPE (Customer Passion Evangelist)