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Product Naming Service

Finding the Perfect Name for Your Products & Services

Getting to know YOU is the first priority of our strategic product naming process. We ask targeted questions to unearth and understand your deepest vision for the product or service, how it fits into the framework of your brand, and what you want it to mean to your audience. We also dig around for your likes and dislikes: What captures your fancy? Which competitors do you admire for their branding savvy? Have you already written off any ideas for brand names, and why did they end up on the cutting room floor?

After we get to know your brand, we have the insight to provide a fresh perspective for your naming strategy. Pouring your heart into a creation can make it difficult to see through an objective lens, especially if you’ve developed an attachment to certain words or concepts during the inception stage. But we are able to step back and place your new product or service name into the context of your overall goals, audience receptiveness, potential roadblocks, and unique value proposition.

We work fast and allow you to have input in our process of product naming, absorbing your reactions, and revising with you as many times as it takes for you to have that revelatory “ah-ha” moment. This is an important part of the creative journey, ensuring that your brand identity is strong, and accurately represents your company through the product name. It is our mission to ensure that you are attracting your target audience with the new name that we helped create for your company and your brand.

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Our Unique Service & Product Naming Process

We love the freedom of bouncing around compelling ideas during a brainstorm session, but we don’t just brainstorm and head out to brunch. As professional product naming consultants, our seven-step naming process delves so much deeper than mere ideas for brand name development. In fact, the process begins and ends with research.

Here’s a breakdown of our strategic — some would even say scientific — approach:

Step 1) Gather information. In addition to a thoughtful questionnaire about your brand, we also take a look at your customers and competitors in this initial step.

Step 2) Ideate. As we start dreaming up descriptive name ideas for your brand, we center our conceptualizing around the story your brand is telling and the response we want it to provoke.

Step 3) Screen. You don’t need to get into the weeds with trademark issues and conflicts — we do that for you. Our extensive preliminary trademark screening, domain availability check, and linguistic viability screening prevent your brand from getting attached to a name that could cause you trouble down the road. Only usable ideas make the cut.

Step 4) Pitch. This is where you come in. We present our refined list of name candidates and ask for your evaluations. After you’ve had a chance to go through the name development journey so far, we’ll either move to the next step or revise as many times as needed until you are completely satisfied that your new product name is telling the right story for your brand.

Step 5) Fine-Tune. We take your reactions, comments, and suggestions as well as the input of others in our organization and tweak to perfection for your brand.

Step 6) Test. We thoroughly test the performance of the name and promptly provide key results, providing an Executive Summary with relevant data and recommendations.

Step 7) ROI. We take pride in developing name candidates and data that pay off for you. We love to hear that the new product rollout was a success!

As part of our naming services, we want to hear about exactly what you as our clients want from the services we offer. Certain business names hold a lot of weight in their industry, and illustrating the brand story while creating names that are fresh and new can be a challenge. We can help your company present as a family brand, or whatever else you need as long as you communicate with us throughout the process, having helped companies like Lexicon Branding in the past. You may be looking to create a whole new category with your next product, meaning that your company name may also need to be looked at.


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Naming Architecture

  • Name Audit
  • Naming Decision Tree
  • Nomenclature System
  • M&A Strategies

You may need to move beyond a simple Nomenclature System to a comprehensive Naming Architecture. While a Nomenclature System provides the specific guidelines for how to develop future names, a Naming Architecture examines the strategic relationships between all of your product and service names, your naming hierarchy, the messaging associated with each, how to optimize your brand name strategy and overall portfolio structure, and much more. Once constructed, your Naming Architecture will provide a clear road map of where your business is today and where you need to go to maximize your name equity throughout your organization. And at the end of a Naming Architecture engagement, we will provide you with the tools to educate everyone in your organization regarding the value of your brands and how to effectively nurture them.

Why Choose NameStormers for Your New Service or Product Naming Needs? 

You deserve a service or product name that’s worthy of your creation. It’s for this reason that the brand naming process is essential. Over 30 years as a product naming agency, we’ve built a diverse portfolio of reputable brand names and products from food and beverage to finance by providing inspiring names that take into account business development needs as well as the quality of products and services. We like to generate great names that spark excitement inside and outside an organization — names that can change its trajectory and position it for greater success. Our clients will agree that our product naming service is the best in the business! So, when you need naming experts that understand everything from trademark and domain all the way to improving company names, we have got your back.

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