Questions about creating an image for your company or yourself. Specifically, how the business is represented to other people and other businesses.
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What is the best branding company or agency worldwide? [closed]
Which agency would you use if you had unlimited resources to allocate in your startup's branding?
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How to make a brand book to document company's visual language [closed]
I need a way to bring together all the visual language of my business into a coherent document complete with reusable files, textures, colours, fonts etc. I have heard of companies having a 'brand ...
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Domain hacks for website [duplicate]
I am trying to register a new domain for a software product website and thinking of using domain hacks. Something like http://del.icio.us or bit.ly or fold.it. In our case ending with .it or .io. But ...
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Should I use my company or website logo on my business card
I have a start-up company and currently working and promoting one website. Should I use the logo of the website or the logo of the company on my business card when I approach corporate clients to ...
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If I were to Create a couple of brands
Hello there I was just wondering if anybody can advise me on the following. I am a designer that can design and create a broad range of garments from swimwear and underwear to ball gowns and suits. I ...
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Co-Founder for a Small Pet Care Shop
I'm about to open a Pet Shop mainly Dog Food Services and I have a friend who can add wide branding experience. The question is, should I pay for it or co-founder with him?
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How to successfully use a LinkedIn company page?
I created a LinkedIn company page a while back, but never did anything with it. Now I’m considering spending a little bit of time trying to use the company page to create brand awareness and ...
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Which is the best naming strategy scenario to follow for our startup?
a colleagues and I are trying to find the most appropriate name for our startup, is about software consulting for small companies. We already have established a small company that we deal with web ...
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I don't agree with my social media marketing team. Please advice who is right
I am working on developing a platform that allows sports fans to interact with their star athletes. I have outsourced social media marketing for initial 2 months. Now we have developed differences ...
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What do you think about company names that end with Land?
I'm thinking about naming my company (financial services) with a name which ends with "Land". E.g. if I was selling books it would be bookland or aqualand if I sold bottled water. My friend says it ...
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How do I develop my personal brand with two unrelated topics?
I have a full time job and career but I also have a side business developing desktop and web apps. There is very little overlap between my career and my side business. I have been using my personal ...
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Is it legal to use google / youtube / bing logos? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can i use a logo on my website to sell THEIR product without permission
I want to use Youtube,Google and more logos in my android application.
When pressing on a logo it ...
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Launching a team collaboration web-based software: questions about its name
We are about to launch a product similar to Basecamp, Asana and Podio (hopefully not too similar).
It is a team collaboration web-based software targetting small and medium businesses.
We have been ...
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What should we trademark?
We have some game development software called Construct 2. We are based in the UK.
As far as we are aware, we're the only business with game development software called Construct.
We'd like to ...
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What's the best way to get early stage Beta-testers for a B2B product?
With a MVP product ready, I am planning to launch my start-up in the coming days. My product is aimed at the recruitment industry. Any suggested ways to get people to use the free trial?
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Which business domain to forward to?
Question:
Should I forward my business website to my easier to remember .co or my longer .com?
I have two domain names, one of which I was going to forward to my longer .com one. Except when I ...
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Does creatively naming a product make it look inferior?
I have developed a product and did a basic search for domain names, and to get the domain name I want I will need to more creatively name my product. Does this creative naming turn off some customers ...
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How to market my customer's webshop?
I have my own web development company and I created a web shop for a customer using Drupal Commerce.
My customer was selling children's clothing in a regular store. This store, however, no longer ...
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Can I use a derivative of a trademarked name in my product title?
For example, say I develop a piece of software that helps eBay users. Can I call this software 'Ebayer Helper' (note 'ebayer' not 'ebay') or are there potential legal repercussions?
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How can I do branding research online cheaply and quickly?
I'm just starting my business, I have an idea for a game that I think will be very popular. Trouble is, I can't decide on a good name for it that fits and is memorable. So I want to do some market ...
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Semicolon in company name?
I have a great idea for a company name, but it requires the semicolon character ; in order to work. Do you think it would be possible to have a semicolon in the company name? I know dotcom-companies ...
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Can I have different co founders on different parts of the company?
I want to launch different web services which have different co founders under one company, And still keep them separated from each other? for example should one of the apps not do so well I don't ...
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What social media accounts should a business have?
I know this question has a lot of possible answers, so I'll break it down to several questions so you'll understand exactly what I want to know.
Which social media accounts should I maintain to help ...
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Camel notation in company name
The name Microsoft logically consists of two words - micro and soft.
On .cn zone sites I often see it written as MicroSoft, and it just looks terrible.
I am starting a mobile platform development ...
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Using brand logos for polls on my website?
I make some polls on my website, like :
What do you prefer Ford Explorer or Toyota 4Runner?
Is such a poll allowed without explicit permission of Toyota and Ford?
Next step:
Can I use their ...
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Personal Branding: Better to use your full name or a nickname?
I have read a lot of questions asking if it is better to use their name or their business name on their twitter/facebook/youtube accounts and so on. The answer was it is better to separate those, use ...
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Is it unprofessional to brand your self using your surname and jr (junior)?
I would like to know your thoughts about my question/problem. I care a lot about online presence and I want to brand myself this period for some auditions and interviews.My surname in my country is ...
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Does It Make Sense to Co-Brand When All or Most of the Brands Are Unknown?
It’s your premier product/service launch, and a colleague (not a VC) invests money/time in it—do they get to put their company’s name on it too? Whereas I think it might make sense when it’s an ...
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A Co-Branded website?
Our start-up is not yet launched but has been proposed to make a co-branded website with a big player on the market, where both parties would be presented equally through a number of ads and links to ...
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Difference Between Lifestyle and Aspirational Branding
The two terms 'Lifestyle Branding' and 'Aspirational Branding' seem to be used in the same or very similar context. Is there a difference between them or are they just synonyms
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How people may react if you ask them to join your “hospital” for internet ingorants?
I came with an idea, it is mainly a small internet company that will help and guide people with no or little experience with computers and internet. Something like e-learning.
My main problem is not ...
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Which one of those emails are the most appropriate to give and print on cards?
I need your opinions about which email structure should we go with. For example my name is Gregory Gillespie.
gillespie@company.comggillespie@company.com g.gillespie@company.com
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What is the best branding strategy?
I want to have my brand strategy in place when I finally launch my startup. I'm not sure what the best strategy is for a multiple product brand. I see some brands like 37signals have a different ...
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Should we tag our new website as 'beta'?
What does tagging your new website as 'beta' say to your potential customers. We intend a 'soft' launch to our website and are not planning any significant marketing at this period. We intend to use ...
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single word names vs multiword names
We are trying to come with some names for our new startup, and wondering if a multiword name is better than a single word names?
The startup is going to be focusing on food/cooking. Some of the ...
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Freelancing - Naming Advice?
I do web development and graphic design as a hobby; I'm an enthusiast that's been immersed in these communities for more than 5 years. Recently I've been doing more serious work in these fields. I've ...
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Will social media take over traditional means of marketing?
With the increasing number of social media websites, and businesses all over the world using social media for promoting and branding their products, will this over take the traditional way of ...
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Are .st domains reliable for web startups? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
what's more important - .com or name?
Are .st domains reliable for web startups? Is there any known issue with them?
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Does a brand provide any value for a local business? [closed]
Disclaimer: This question is not about how to get famous and not about how to be a well-known entrepreneur. It's only about making money.
It is common knowledge that a company should have a brand: to ...
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internet business name?
Ok im having trouble finding a company name that also has an available domain name. Now I want to know is it ok if I just register a company and than try and find a domain name that us not my ...
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Crowdsourced logo and web design work. Recent experiences? Site you'd recommend?
I'm at a fairly established startup, and we need our logo and look/feel overhauled. I'm thinking about using a crowdsourced design site, along the lines of 99designs. Lots of similar sites now exist. ...
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What would be the drawbacks of this OEM model?
It is time for you to play the devils advocate.
We have created some software, which is conceptually similar to Excel, in that it is multipurpose and useful in a multitude of domains. Let's say that ...
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Domain Name/Branding Question
Note: the following is not my sites name or subject matter it just being used as an equivalent example.
Consider that ExampleArchive.tld is registered but nothing is even parked there. The contact ...
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What is the best way to increase brand awareness when you have no physical building?
I have the most experienced and talented people (120 instructors making up 20 MLB teams) for teaching baseball in Minnesota but no one knows because I don't have a building (overhead). How do I get ...
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What is the most cost effective way to create a name for my food product?
I have an energy bar that I'm taking to market now and I want a strong name/brand for it. My product is very strong. I've been eating my bars for over 7 years now and recently it has received ...
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Reliability of .me TLD
I would like to start a website with the .me TLD and this domain name should be the brand name as well.
But as all .yu domains have been deleted, I'm a bit cautious.
Is it safe to register a .me ...
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Do I have to have the company type in the name?
I'm creating a new startup in DC and corporating as an LLC. Do I need to have Company Name, LLC or am I free to name it just Company Name?
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Question about a Food Brand
I have a friend who makes very good banana bread. She tried to sell it on the street and got sold out of a huge batch within a very short time.
She wants to stay local within her city, but isn't ...
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Managing multiple online personas
I currently own a resume writing business, but am also starting up a separate B2B copywriting business as well as another online marketing site. All of these ventures have very different customers, ...
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Branding vs. domain name availability… and the consequences to creative solutions?
With the introduction of more versatile domain names, people have been utilizing subdomains and clever suffixes to create more unique domains (ie. del.icio.us.)
I've also come across others that use ...
