Corporate ID Help

[Duke]

Originally Posted by NoTargeT

Will the products you will be selling be sticky?
(no not a lame joke, a serious question)

The main product that we're going with in the short term can be considered indoor and possibly outdoor furniture. This product idea is by no means a new one but it is a full 180 from what anyone else has considered in the past.

Product#2 is a lighting product such as fiber optics and is highly technical in design, manufacture and implementation.

Two of our other projects still on the drawing table can be considered footwear.

We're also discussing another product (possibly 2 products) for golfers.

[IR_Efrem]

you are asking for something that has pretty much been done before (the name of a company) take a look out there. there's thousands of A, Done right, Quest, Triple, Busy, Adventure, etc etc etc etc

Every company i can think of (when i think of a quality product or a decent company to work with or whatever) has nothing to do with the name itself. They have an awesome product or service and through the customers acutally using the product or service that company develops a good name.

"Done Right Auto-Repair" down the street doesn't get my business if my friend tells me he did a horrible job on his car.

The name is so important I think and it is rare that a company name "just speaks" a certain concept right from the get go.

Look at Xerox the name means what?

Think along the lines of what you will be doing. If you are going to be producing and selling the product yourself then pick an appropriate name X Manufactoring (or whatever), are you simply designing it X Designs....

Perhaps my answer isn't complete, you know more about exactly where you want to go with your company but again I really don't see the name making a huge difference. I say make is simple and easy to remember. Let the logo below the name speak for the products "Innovation and quality" (or whatever)

[Duke]

That's a really great point IR, thanks a lot.

[IR_Efrem]

holy cow my post is fulla typos and errors. ugh

[Meanon]

Every company i can think of (when i think of a quality product or a decent company to work with or whatever) has nothing to do with the name itself

Agreed. I'd stop looking for meaning and go instead for sound. One or two syllables, something with clear cut, easy to say sounds that gives an impression of solidity. Kenco, Ford, Coke, Jaguar, Shell, Orange - simple, distinctive sounds. Having chosen a few, do some market research to select the final one

[Luba]

Meanon brought this topic back to where it was meant to be; but it's SO easy to run these things into a funny ditch....

[Duke]

I actually picked up a "How to Start Your Own Business" Encyclopedia this weekend and it's pretty packed full of facts that I hadn't considered, it's by the folks who Publish Entrepreneur Magazine.

[Duke]

I actually found some good ideas contained in this Entrepreneur Encyclopedia that may help us get past the naming hurdle so hopefully we can come up with something soon for you all to vote on.

The good news is that we've nearly completed all the pre-design ideas and will be picking up materials to produce our first lot of R&D Samples this month.

I can hardly contain my excitement!!!

[TKDLady]

Can't wait for the update on your progress. Good Luck!!

[Luba]

Originally Posted by Duke

I actually found some good ideas contained in this Entrepreneur Encyclopedia that may help us get past the naming hurdle so hopefully we can come up with something soon for you all to vote on.

The good news is that we've nearly completed all the pre-design ideas and will be picking up materials to produce our first lot of R&D Samples this month.

I can hardly contain my excitement!!!

I'm SO happy for you, Duke! I have the honour of knowing you personally, what a wonderful person you are and how hard you work; how unselfish you are with your time!

[Duke]

Update:

We did settle on a name for now so unless we can come up with something better we may be using ITDADS. I've already purchased the domain name ITDADS.net for one year should we decide to ultimately go with the name.

I realize that the name may not be the most professional but in order to cover the products that we may end up covering (consumer up to technical in nature), the name fits.

Each letter in the name actually means something as does the name itself:

Innovative
Technical
Development
And
Design
Solutions

...of course it doesn't hurt that we're both fathers, thus DADS.

We've also completed well over 90% of the design and technical aspects of our first product so we're now hunting for potential suppliers of raw materials.

Hopefully we'll have a few R&D samples ready within the next 4 - 6 weeks.

[Vautrin]

That is good news. Glad you could agree on the name for your "child"