Naming your new business

When we set Best Years up in 1999 I have to confess that we didn't put much time or energy in to the name of the company. Infact the only thing of any sense that we did do was check that the domain name was available. We were concentrating on how we could be the best soft toy and teddy wholesaler (no knitted or crochet toys in those days!) and didn't think the name of our business was that important.

I was thinking about this the other day because one of our customers is just starting her business and is putting the sort of effort in to it that we should have!

The websites we have seen which seem to be the most help in naming your company are as follows

www.nameboy.com - type in the 2 key words which sum up your business and it comes up with various ideas and whether the domain names are available

www.squadhelp.com - this is like launching an online competition to help you name your business. This is the option I would have gone for if I had my time again

Seth Godin has a good post with tips on naming here http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2003/06/naming_a_busine.html 

Finally how about http://wordoid.com/  This gives various suggestions based the words you enter and is great fun but you can end up spending hours on it

As ever we need to point out that we are a soft and knitted toy wholesaler not a marketing agency or anything sophisticated but hope this information is a help