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Entries Tagged as 'branding'

Bimbo - Naming Mistake?

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Charlie O’Donnell, CEO of Path 101 posted this image on his blog. I laughed, a little… Just days before I had had lunch with the founder of one of the first – if not the first – naming firms During our conversation, he mentioned he had met with Bimbo maybe 20 years ago and the [...]

Tags: useful sites · branding · company names

Guy K. Points to Hugh MacLeod’s “How to be Creative”

July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

A nice little download that I found while searching for quotations on the idea of “home.”

Macleod’s quote:
The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren’t even young anymore; their B-plans having been [...]

Tags: useful sites · branding · Creativity

Strategic Name Development: Branding Foods - New Trends

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

The folks over at Strategic Name Development explore the naming of premium and “whole” foods in response to two other blog posts. Two trends of note:

1) Foods that are named the same as the company that manufactures and markets them.

2) Popular snack foods are investing heavily in the concept of the personalized brand experience.

 

Tags: useful sites · branding · company names

links for 2006-09-13

September 12th, 2006 · No Comments

BBC NEWS | Technology | Delay for .xxx ‘net sex’ domain
(tags: altnerate domain suffix)

ICANN approves .tel domain | CNET News.com
(tags: recently approved domain suffix)

Lawyer buys hundreds of ‘Aussie’ domain names : – Flash Player Installation
One domain squatter’s tale

Domain name system – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
domain names
(tags: domain system basics)

Howstuffworks
basics of domain names and dns

Tags: useful sites · branding · company names · corporate identity/logos

links for 2006-09-12

September 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Zillow.com – Real Estate Search Results
gives you prices of recent sales with satellite or hybrid views
(tags: real estate)

Agenda Inc. Live Feed
(tags: branding, trends, coolhunting)

theproguy: Most expensive adwords – ‘Loan consolidation’ clear winner
(tags: google, adwords, adsense)

Richard Dudley : Dotster Worries Domain Names Are Running Out
(tags: domain squatters)
Domain Hijacking: A Dirty Business
(tags: domain squatters)

Domain suffixes not an [...]

Tags: useful sites · branding · company names