37 ways to name your company.

Fast and easy approaches to creating a meaningful moniker.
By Alan Sharpe



1. Make a name for yourself

Macy's

2. List your partners

Sears, Roebuck and Co.

3. Combine your name with your product

Hakim Optical

4. Link your product with a rare virtue

Virgin Records

5. Say what you do

Bonus Rent-a-Car

6. Say what your customers should do

Color Your World

7. Dominate the category

Toys 'R Us

8. Enunciate your niche

Big, Bold and Beautiful

9. Link benefit with product with superiority

Speedy Muffler King

10. Link what with where

Air Canada

11. Say it with initials

IBM

12. Abbreviate your current name

FedEx

13. Be first in the book

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Abba Movers & Storage

14. Be last in the book

Zurich

15. Salute your street

The Wall Street Journal

16. Nominate your neighbourhood

Village Voice

17. Tell of your town

Moose Jaw Times-Herald

18. Promote your province

Yukon News

19. Name your nation

The Scotsman

20. Publicize your planet

The Globe and Mail

21. Be a verb

Sprint

22. Be a noun

Time

23. Be an adjective

Mad

24. Be a suffix

Inc.

25. Be an exclamation

Yahoo!

26. Be a metaphor

Jaguar

27. Make something up

Kodak

28. Link your name with your benefit

Tilley Endurables

29. Alter a familiar word

Compaq

30. Give a subtle hint

The Second Cup

31. Echo your marketing plan

America Online

32. Think animal

Beaver Lumber

33. Think vegetable

Sask Wheat

34. Think mineral

Hard Rock Cafe

35. Differentiate yourself from the competition

Honest Ed's

36. Keep it in the family

Saatchi & Saatchi

37. Just say it twice

Pizza Pizza



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