How do I make up a good name for my business of selling party decorations & supplies & gifts & accessories?

The naming of your business could be one of the most important decisions you will make. A name's originality and legal availability will create a real asset value of its own, as it becomes marketed and gains market acceptance.

The name you choose will become the focal point of all the benefits and features that relate to your business. Customers will be able to find and refer others to it in the future.

Since any names that are suggested here may already be owned by another party, I wanted to go a different route...

I suggest either hiring a name creation firm or get together with your friends and/or family and throw a "name party" & have everyone bounce some ideas around. Compile a listing of names that you like the best. Once you have that list, do as much free research as you can before you delve into comprehensive research.

I listed some links where you can do some preliminary name checking. However, please be aware that this is merely scratching the surface of what's out there.

Only comprehensive research will tell you if the name is truly available. But, these links are free & a great place to start, so I'd try them out first.

Comprehensive research consists of looking at marks that are similar in Sound, Appearance or Meaning in the pending & registered Federal AND State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files.

There are other sites that offer free searching capabilities in conjunction with their commercial services, so I'm not able to post those links due to the Yahoo! TOS. You'll also want to check domain names & yellow pages, so simply do a search for "free domain name search" and "national yellowpages" and the appropriate links will pop up.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

hi.
first, are you sure you want to have a single brand name for all the 3 product lines? you could think it over and probably consider what would suit you best depending on how you will provide these to your final consumers.

the name should reflect the core or essence of what you are offering--for that you could begin by identifying the one emotion that connects your product with the consumers and capitalize on that.

good luck!

You could take a phrase using the word party and make a pun out of it. Like if your last name is Hardy, and you take the phrase "Party hearty" you can make a play on words and say "Party Hardy." Or you can say "Hardy's Party."

Keep the process simple: go buy a book on brainstorming. Get some friends together and for a brainstorming session and come up with a list of names. Then pick one and move on. If you have the right business proposition, you just need a good name, not a great one, to succeed (i.e don't confuse people or turn them off).

Come up with at least 5 to 10 names and put them in front of actual consumers and get their opinions of them...afterall, they are your potential consumers that you're trying to make a good impression on.

how about the party pooh person?

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