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1. Let's Find The Perfect Brand Name: Creating the perfect brand name has nothing to do
with being creative. You're just looking
in the wrong place. A grid brand name is never going to just fall on your lap. If you want to get somewhere, then you create a
plan or have a map. And if you don't have
a map, then you're going to start
feeling very lost. What I would like to
give you in this program is my proven process
for developing super memorable brand
names so good that no one will ever believe you when you see you came
up with them yourself. Some people spend forever
searching for the brand name. That just feels right, but the secret is there's actually hundreds out there
that are perfect for you. You just don't know
how to recognize them yet forget everything you thought you knew
about naming a brand. If you want to
create a brand name that truly connects
with customers, you need to start with
one core message. You do not need to
be a naming expert. Over the past decade of working with thousands of
different companies, we've found that the proven
process that we use can work for anybody no matter
what your skill level. As long as you understand English and can follow
a simple process, you're going to be as good
as anybody in the world. Including me at developing
super memorable brand names. Myself and my team at Clement
Townhouse, Brandon Agency, have helped thousands of
companies and start ups to find the perfect
name for their company. And I've also been extremely
lucky to teach the artist strategic branding to over 20,000 students through
my online school, the Lancaster Academy
of Design and Brand. And everything that I've
learned over the past decade of helping start ups and companies find the perfect
name for their business, I'm going to teach you
in this very course, My name is Scott
Lancaster and this is my brand name
creation masterclass.
2. Six Boxes Every Great Brand Name Ticks: So what is the secret to
finding the perfect brand name? Well, if I tell you you'll need to promise never to tell anyone, especially your dog, they'll see anything for a tasty treat. Now, if we look at some of the best brand names out there, you'll see they all take these
six very important boxes. First, you'll find all the
names are super memorable. Secondly, you'll
see that they have a little bit of
mystery about them. To spark our curiosity net, you can usually
connect the name to something visual fairly easily. All grame should also link to the brand's long
term strategy. You'll find good names also roll off the
tongue fairly easily. And last but not
least, all brand names need to be trademarkable. Now we'll dive into each of these points much deeper
within the master class. But I want you to be able to recognize a great name
when you see one. So if you end up creating a brand name which
takes these six boxes, then you should
probably go and buy yourself a celebratory cookie. And also send me a
handwritten letter via courier pigeon telling me
how incredible you are. That way, your letter and the pigeon will
definitely not reach me, and I can keep my self esteem
fairly safe and undamaged. But before we try to find
a perfect brand name, we first need to understand the three name types that we
can use to help us find it. And we're going to do that
in a round three to one.
3. The 3 Types of Brand Names: Now, brand naming can feel like this unlimited world
of opportunity. But there are
actually three types of brand names out
there in the world. Descriptive, abstract,
and suggestive. And the thing is, each
of these types of names are ideal for
certain situations. They also work in real
life situations too. Like, for example, when my wife asks me to
wash the dishes, I use the suggestive approach. And I say I will suggest that
I wash the dishes later. Whereas, if she asked me
what I want for dinner, I use a more
descriptive approach. And I say I will describe exactly what I want for dinner because I know what
I want to eat. See, well there's
so much already. So to summarize, each
brand name type, descriptive names are a
little bit like a brochure. They simply describe
exactly what your business product, service, or idea does or is a little like American
Airlines, for example. Everything making sense so far? Good. Let's continue. Suggestive names are a
little like a curtain. They're more mysterious
and they give you a little keep behind what
the brand does or can offer. And abstract brand names are kind of like an
empty coffee cup. They kind of look cool
and they're nice, but they don't really
have any meaning yet. But you can add meaning
to them over time. Now this all seems
very simple and it is. But refrain from taking
a well earned nap just yet because we're just about to get into the
interesting stuff. Now the great thing about brand naming that I love is
the fact that you can mix and match these
different name types to create new approaches. For example, you can have
a more suggestive name, which is a little
bit more abstract. But you can also have
a suggestive name which is a little bit
more descriptive. And it all depends on
the personal situation of your brand or business and what you're
trying to achieve. And when we get to
the process stage a little bit later on
in the master class, I'm going to show you how to
effortlessly and instantly highlight which approaches
are going to be best for your
particular situation. And as I said before, these three name types can also help you in real
life situations too. Like for example, where my wife tries to show me who's boss. And I obviously just show 2 seconds a speaker of
the devil two sets. Hello. Hey honey, how are you? Good, good, thank you.
I'm just recording a lesson for the brand name
creation master class. Yeah, the dishes. I suggest I do the
dishes a little bit later. Well, done now. Right now. Okay. Okay. Yeah,
I'll do them right away. Yeah, I'll just finish
this lesson, okay? Okay, Baby, love you. Hello? Hello, ba. Anyway, I have
some dishes to do, but I will see you in the next lesson of
the master class, which is where things get super interesting unless
my wife kills me, which you know, put
out, hopefully not. But let's see.
4. How to Create Super Memorable Brand Names: Okay, the dishes are done. But now it's time for a
quick science lesson. And we'll keep this super simple and quick,
so do not worry. Now, think about the word
beach for 5 seconds and 54321. Okay, Perfect. Now think about another word which is
related to the word beach. Now write it down.
Get it as a tattoo on your finger because
it doesn't matter. I'm willing to bet
this here pencil, that the word that you were
thinking of is in this list. Now whether or not your word was in that list isn't
really important. What is important is that all of the words
that I'd assured you were related to the word beach in some
way, shape, or fall. And we can use this
approach to help us develop really
memorable brand names. The reason for this is
there are essentially two reasons why we
remember a brand name. The first is through
repetitive advertising and seeing the name over
and over and over again. And the second is if we can
associate the name with something that is already existing in our
long term memory. You see all of our
long term memories are stored in this little part of the brain called
the hippo cameras, which is dead in the
center and looks a little bit like a
sea horse's tail. Now, when I asked
you to think about the word beach a
little while ago, the new run in your hippocampus, which is like a little bubble, came to the frontal
cortex of your brain, which is essentially the part
of your brain or the front which manages everything
that you do, see and think. And our brains are
super clever and efficient because when you
thought about the word beach, the little bubble in
your long term memory, which understands what
the word beach means, also brought forward to
your frontal cortex, the other words, and the other associations that you relate to the word beach too. And this is why you see different brands connect
themselves to specific words. For example, the Mcdonalds brand connects itself to
the word happiness, whereas Nike connects
itself to the word winning. And Starbucks likes to connect itself with words like
service and tax evasion. You see, it's all the
battle for readers stay within the customer's
long term memory. Brands use this approach
with their marketing all the time to connect
with customers better. And this is one of the biggest
mistakes made and one of the biggest opportunities missed when people try to
create brand names. And I'm going to
share a couple of really quick tips with you in the next lesson to make
sure you don't make any mistakes throughout
the process. See you soon.
5. Common Naming Mistakes: Now if you know me, you know
I'm a huge fan of coffee. And I'm also a fan of knowing exactly what
you're doing throughout the brand naming
process to make sure you don't do any
stupid mistakes. Now, starting to try and find a brand name without knowing
what you're doing is kind of like diving into a sea full of sharks without
knowing how to swim. It's just not going to end well. And it all starts
with the danger of overthinking because
we could take any name on the planet and we could find something
negative about it. For example, Amazon is one of the most dangerous
rainforests in the world. Nike is named after the
Greek goddess of Victory, which would mean that we are actually targeting
women as opposed to men. Obviously, Apple has absolutely nothing to
do with computers. Now, we could go on and on, but what I'm trying to say is there is not a single
name out there on the planet that has absolutely zero negative
connotations connected to it. And if you're really looking forward to trying to
find one of those names, then good luck to you
because they do not exist. Now within this master
class, as promised, I'm going to show you
how you can find a clean.com domain for any brand name
that you come up with. But one thing I need you to
keep in mind is it's not always ideal to have
the clean.com domain. And by clean, I simply mean the brand name alone
with.com Afterwards, many studies have proven
over the years that there is absolutely zero
correlation between the domain used on
your website and the conversion rate
your website achieves. This basically means that
adding a simple little word to your domain will not impact
your brand sales whatsoever. And the last mistake that a lot of people make when
trying to find the perfect brand name is
they don't follow a process. Now the only reason
why I like to share my process and help
people just like you, to find the perfect brand name for your company
is so that you can understand and have
a structured process to help guide you
throughout the journey. Finding the perfect brand name takes a little bit of patience, but you have to
trust the process. And you have to understand that by following a
step by step process, you're going to give yourself
a much better chance of finding the name
that's truly great. And to make sure that
you have the patience necessary to really
create great brand names, we need to make
sure that you're in the right state of mind, which is exactly what
we'll be covering in the very next lesson.
I'll see you see.
6. The Brand Naming Mindset: Now, you've probably
heard the story of the turtle and the hare and
what that story represents. Now, in any situation, the secret to success is to take things slow and
steady with care. What if as a snake,
what do you mean? I mean, if there's a
snake, shouldn't you run? Okay, So any situation apart from being
attacked by a snake. So what about a bear?
Like a really big one. Okay? This has to stop. It actually took me quite
a few years to truly understand the meaning behind
going slow, to go fast. And it's more so the
case when you're thinking strategically
about things or thinking long term. And there are typically two ways to find a brand name, right? You can either just dive
in and just hope for the best and hope something
falls in your lap. But that might seem
faster in the short term, but it actually ends up
taking you a lot longer. Now, the second approach is for you to follow
the process that I'm going to share with you
straight after this lesson. And I honestly support any approach that
you want to take. But the first approach
will often lead to a lot of frustration and
a lot of wasted time. The second option,
which is our process, which I'm going to share
with you very soon, is the only one that can
truly guarantee success. And all you need to do is just keep an open mind
and just follow the process as we work through the remaining lessons
of the master class. And if you need any help or support throughout the process, please let me know
and I will fly directly out to you
and give you a hook. Or if gin is inquire your thing, we can just get started with the process
which is starting in the very next lesson.
So you're seeing it.
7. Step One - Finding Core Ideas: Now your brand's core message, or the unique value
your brand can provide, is always where we need to start when developing a
grid brand name. This message or unique
selling point is what we want customers to think when they think
about your company. And Apple is actually a
really great example of this. For example, most
technology companies either want to be
more efficient, faster, stronger, more
technological, or better value. But it doesn't really matter because the target audience that Apple wants to sell to
appreciate how Apple thinks. So as a persona, they actually think that
they think different. So you can see why
the Apple brand is so desirable to a
certain type of person. Now one thing you
might be wondering is, what has Apple got to do with
computing or technology? Apple seems like one of the worst brand
names in the world, but it worked for Apple because they've been
around for so long. And back in the day when
they first started, they were actually
called Apple computers. However, over time, they've
obviously grown their brand and people knew what Apple
did and who they were. Therefore, they eventually
dropped computers from their name and were
known solely as Apple. To call your name something that abstract in this day and
age is very risky and it will take a lot of advertising
spend to actually get across what you guys do and
why you can help people. And as I showed you before, there are only two simple ways to have your brand
name be remembered. The first is a lot
less expensive, and it simply means
connecting your brand name to a pre existing long term
memory the customer has. And the second approach is spend a heap of money on
advertising and repeatedly drive form what your company is and how you can help people and as I'm assuming you don't have the marketing
budget to do option two. Let's focus on the
first approach now, in order for you to
find your core message, you simply have to answer
these three questions. Firstly, what do you do better than anyone else in your market? Second, why would a customer choose you or every
other competitor? And lastly, what positive impact does your brand want
to leave on the world? Write down as many words as you can and we're
going to do this with a real life client
that I'm working with right now to show
you how I do it. So the client that
I've been hired to help is a cyber
insurance company that helps corporate clients secure their internal networks
and keep their data safe. This is a brand new start up, so we're starting from scratch. And I asked the clients to
answer these three questions, and these are the words that we came up with throughout
the brainstorming session. As you can see, the brand's
unique selling point is their ability to foresee future threats
before anyone else. They are therefore
more secure and safe, which inspires trust and
makes them more reliable, which is one of the main reasons why a customer
would choose them. And lastly, the positive impact that they want to have
on the world is they want to give the
clients that they work with complete
peace of mind, that their networks and
their data are safe so they can focus on doing what
they do best as a business. Now we have a list of words
and phrases that we can use to create a great brand name
later on in the process. Let's imagine for a second
that the brand naming process is like painting
a masterpiece apart from, it's nothing like
painting a masterpiece, but let's just pretend it is. At this point, we have the message that we
want to communicate. And that's like knowing
what we want to paint. In this case, let's imagine we want to paint a dinosaur egg. But now it's time to decide what color we want the
dinosaur egg to be. By this, I mean what type of brand name do we want to create? And we're going to cover that
in the very next lesson.
8. Step Two - Confirming Name DNA: Now, deciding the brand
name type that you go for can feel a little
daunting at first, but please do not worry. The worst thing that can happen is that you choose
the wrong one, and nobody understands
your brand name, and then your business
feels miserably. But that's why we're here to make sure that doesn't happen. Now if we cast our minds
back to the previous lesson, we'll remember the three
different types of brand names, but which one is right for you? Now, finding the approaches that is going to be best
for you is going to be down to the message that
you want to communicate your industry and the
objective for your brand name. Now that can seem like a lot to process and it kind of is, But there's a way that
I can literally give you the exact brand
name type that is going to be perfect for your
particular situation in less than 30 seconds. 292-82-7206 Let's get started. So descriptive brand names are usually best for
B to B companies that want to come
across as super professional, credible,
and trustworthy. This is when a company wants to see exactly what they do just to seem safe and to tell people exactly how
they can help them. Now, suggestive
names are actually the most popular choice when
it comes to brand naming, simply because they have an
element of mystery and they can spark curiosity
within the customer, which ultimately makes
the names more memorable. They can be used for any type of brand name in any
type of industry, apart from if you want to seem super serious and
super corporate. Now, if you do
still want to have a slightly corporate
and serious brand name, but you still want to be
a little bit suggestive, then you could read it
back a little bit and go for a suggestive,
descriptive approach. And that we'll ultimately give you the best of both worlds. And you can kind of
play around with the percentages of
suggestiveness to directness. And ultimately come up with your own formula to find
the right balance for you. For example, if you want your brand name to be
a little bit more on the creative side and a little bit more kind of playful, then you would have a
more suggestive approach as opposed to the
descriptive factor. And if you wanted to seem more
professional and credible, you would maybe have
around 20% suggestive to around 80% descriptive. Getting this balance fight
and playing around with both to see what works for you
is going to be key to you. Finding a name that
fits your company best. If your target
audience are quite serious and very level headed, then a descriptive approach
is going to be best for you. But if your target
audience is more kind of down to earth and a little
bit more approachable, then you might want to go for
a more suggestive approach. Which leaves the charming and much loved abstract name type. So abstract names are great
for three main reasons. One, when you're going to sell a wide range of
different products. Two, when you are struggling
with trademark issues. And three, when you want
to clean.com domain. The reason I
mentioned what you're selling is you never won your brand name to restrict what you can sell as a
product or service. So you need to think about this for the lifetime of the brand, not just what you're
selling right now. For example, Apple can sell pretty much anything it
wants because it hasn't limited itself from a naming
and communication standpoint to only selling computers
and technology. Duncan Donuts, however, probably couldn't start selling
computers tomorrow. And in fact, this was one
of the main reasons why Dunkin Donuts changed
its name at Duncan in 2018 because it wanted
to start offering a wider product range of
coffee and other snacks. And because abstract brand names are usually very unique
and distinctive, because they're not similar to anything else that's
currently out there, it makes them easier to protect from a
trademarking standpoint. This can be super useful
within particular categories, which are very
competitive in regards to trademarking due to
low barriers to entry. If you're wondering
which trademark classes are more competitive
than others, I'm going to show you a
little bit later on on the course when we get to
the trademarking lesson. So we'll cover all
of that later. Do not worry, mixing an
abstract approach with a suggestive approach
can actually be a really great recipe for success for so many
different companies, especially style Ups and
technology companies. The reason being is that having the suggestive
elements can really give you a little bit
of meaning in the name. And they can also really
communicate something meaningful to your brand
and what you offer. And on the other hand,
the abstract approach gives you a little bit
of protectability. And also gives you lots
of creative freedom to get a really
great.com domain. Not to mention that
abstract names generally have a much better
mouth feel and three to one perfect timing to start selecting the name type for our cybersecurity company. Now after thinking about it, I know that I don't want
a descriptive name. Because I want the name
to feel a little bit more modern,
approachable, and techy. And having a more descriptive
name would just make me look super corporate
or super professional. And then on the other
end of the spectrum, I also don't want
the name to be too abstract because I
want the name to have a little bit of
meaning in connection to what the company does
and what they can offer. See, the objective for me is to find a brand name which can connect instantly with
the target audience that they're trying to attract. And if I can do that,
it's going to help them sell more
services more quickly, and it's also going to help them generate more
revenue and profits. So after discarding descriptive
names and abstract names, I'm kind of left with
everything in between. So suggestive names and then suggestive names with a little bit of an abstract feel. And also suggestive names which are a little bit more on
the descriptive side. So I'm feeling pretty confident about this and I think we should lock those in and move on to the next step of the process. So I will see you in
the very next lesson.
9. Step Three - Brand Name Creation: So in this lesson, we're going to explore
all the ways that you can develop super memorable
and creative brand names. And there are actually two ways that you can learn
these methods. The first is to spend
many years studying subjects such as the
science of tonality, the history of language, and merging everything
together with theory into a hell
of a lot of coffee. Or you can just
basically watch us two minute video and start making creative brand
names instantly. And so, as time
is very precious, here are the eight
different ways that you can create
incredible brand names. Let's get the most boring
method out the way. First, acronyms. So acronyms are essentially initials that stand
for a name which is much longer like IBM stands for International
Business Machines, and LG stands for look, giraffe. I think we can all agree this is pretty straightforward.
So let's move on. Now, let's talk about
inventive mash ups. A great example of this
is Microsoft basically merging microcomputers with software and
putting it together. Now please be aware that when you're trying to
mash two words together, sometimes they just don't fit. So keep that in mind. Moving on swiftly
to evocative names. So an evocative name is
something like Nike, where we essentially try
and evoke some sort of sense of meaning or feeling
within the customer. So Nike is essentially inspired by the Greek
Goddess of Victory, which links to everything
that Nike does. It's a really great
way to communicate a core message in a
suggestive but indirect way. And this approach
can really help to create that eureka moment, which can make your brand
name more memorable. This leads us nicely
on to foreign words. Now. The main languages
that work best for foreign inspired words
are languages like Latin, Greek, German,
Italian, and French. Simply look for different words
that are relevant to what your brand is trying to do and what your
value proposition is. And then look for
alternatives in different foreign languages to see if anything cool comes up. For example, I looked at
the Latin word for growth, which is cresco, which sounds
super techy, super cool. And that could work really
well for a tech company that wants to work with clients
to help grow their business. Another great method is to connect your brand to an object or thing which already holds very well known
characteristics. For example, if you are the
fastest of what you do, then maybe look at some of the fastest animals
in the world. Or the fastest
birds, for example, so that you can start to
connect your brand to something which is already
associated with speed. A really great example of this
as a brand name is Amazon. Who connected themselves to the longest and biggest
river in the world. As they wanted to be the biggest e commerce platform
in the world. They also wanted to have
an aspect of power in the name because obviously the Amazon river is going
to be really powerful. So they are essentially
communicating that they are a powerhouse in the
e commerce space. Word b***ding is
another amazing way to create super memorable
brand names, also known as the
portmanteau method. You can see this used in
names such as Netflix, where they basically
merge Flick with Internet to bring it together and
create one single name. Now, alternative
spelling is one of my favorite approaches when it comes to brand naming and it can actually be used with some
of the other methods in the list to really
get creative options. Now remember that
alternative spelling can be used in regards
to trademarking to really help in that
particular area and also to help you get
a clean.com domain. But we'll cover domains a little bit later
on in the course. Just keep this in
mind if you are really set on having
a clean.com domain, because alternative spelling is going to be your best
friend in that department. Examples of popular names that use the
alternative spelling approach are names like
Lift and Crispy Cream. Both are super
memorable, super catchy, and they're more
distinctive because of the unique spelling
that they use. Finally, we have made up words which are kind of
like unicorns to go. They're a little bit
magical. You don't see them very often and
they're kind of rare. But a great example
of this is Google. This is an example of a
really smart rebrand, because the company
was actually called Back Rub back in 1996. Oh, how different the
world would have been. So now you understand
the eight different ways that you can create brand names. Now it's time to
start experimenting and writing down your ideas. I did the exact same process for the cybersecurity
company that I've been developing with
you in this course. And what I'm going to
do is I'm going to take a little bit of time
to choose the top three and then take that forward to the next
stage in the process. The first idea I
really was foresight. Using the alternative spelling
approach to highlight their ability to foresee cyber threats
before anyone else. The next name that I
really was, Specter, again using the alternative
approach to suggest that the cyber company is so
good at protecting clients. Hackers fear that the name also just sounds
really cool, right? And the last name that
I decided to take forward at the next
stage is for way, this name uses the word matching approach to bring together
the words fought, suggesting protection
and security and we're suggesting a new way to protect
your computer networks. I've also added a
quick bonus session after this lesson
to show you how to use Chat GBT to come up with incredible
brand name ideas. And by the way, I
know how hard it can be to actually find
the perfect brand name. And I'm really trying to
help you as much as I can. I hope you find this process
and this course valuable. And if you do, then please
leave a review on this course so we can help more
people to find the perfect brand
name, just like you. Anyway, thank you so
much for your time and I will see you
in the next session.
10. Work with me - Naming a Landscaping Brand - Bonus Lessons: Hey, so welcome to this
Work With Me session. So if you've never did a
Work With Me session before, basically it's you
actually see how I work through the process
of developing a brand name. And if you've never took any
of my other courses before, then you'll probably see that we take things
a little bit slower. I basically process my
thoughts in real time. And none of this is scripted. None of this is going
to be, you know, kind of crazy edited, and I'm going to
make some mistakes. But that's the beauty
of these lessons. And I've really found that a lot of the students that have taken these lessons really value them because it helps you
to kind of see me, you know, either develop a
brand name or design a logo, or develop a brand strategy
from scratch in real time. The exact same process is what you're doing right
now, most likely. Obviously, I've been doing brand naming and
brand development for the last decade now. And if you can pick
up a few things in the way that I
kind of think about things, then that is, no doubt, going to help you
to maybe approach certain situations in
a slightly better way or by thinking a little
bit differently. So with that said, let's dive right in. In this session, we are going
to develop brand names. Four actual company. This is a real
client called Brian. Him and his dad have a
land scaping business which has been going
for a long time. They finally would like
to change the brand name. This can be for a number
of different reasons. With Brian, I think
it's just the case that he is going to be taking over
the business from his dad. He wants to put his
own spin on things, but it can be many
different reasons. But for this particular case, we have been given a brief
which is the following. So basically the name has to be protected in trademark
Class 44 in the US. So this is basically
agriculture, you know, landscaping
services, that sort of thing. The primary target audience
is people who want to have beautiful gardens and who really pride themselves on, you know, the gardens
in their home. They want to show neighbors
that they take care of their home and that
they are proud people. Okay. The third thing is we
did have a meeting with Brian and he likes names which are 75% suggestive and 25% abstract. So what that basically means is if you've took the lessons before in this course,
suggestive means, it's a little bit more obvious what the name means or
what it's suggesting in regards to the
message abstract is a lot more secretive and it's a little bit
more mysterious. This is the balance that we're going to be looking to achieve. We're going to see
how things go. I'm literally doing
things from scratch. So I'm literally
starting this at the exact same time that
you are watching it. So let's see how things go then. Let me just put my
little head over there. Okay. Fourth is
the branch should, does a range of landscaping
and garden related services. So it doesn't just
do landscaping, gardening, tree treatment,
all that sort of stuff. The brand is hoping to have an extension for that Dominame, we'll come to a little bit, Lex, it's going to come
in really useful. And then also the
client would like to have a 68th letter word. So they want 68 characters in the brand name itself, okay? So now we know roughly
what we want to achieve. How are we going to achieve it? Okay? What is the
process to doing that? So the first step that I
always find super useful, and usually we take around six to seven days
to develop a brand name. But I'm going to try and do this in a really short
period of time. I'm going to go to Chat GBT. Now, Chat GBT is terrible for brand naming, like
absolutely terrible. And the reason it's terrible is it has very little creativity. Unless you give really
high quality prompts where you're basically just
telling them the name. Anyway, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to use check GBT for brand
naming because there's so many factors
that go into brand naming, which you're going to see in this particular video and
also throughout the course. But how are we going to
start to what I want? I want words as
many as possible. Excuse my spelling If
I get anything wrong, by the way, related
to gardening, landscaping, and trees, and
anything to that nature. Okay. Then they're
going to give me some words basically, Okay? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Okay. They're still going. Okay. So I've got 60
words that I've got. Okay? I've got a
lot of words here. Okay? We're not going
to go through them all, but I'm going to show you how I started to pick these
apart and start to choose certain words out of the 70 odd words that we have here,
80 words altogether. So let me just take
a quick sip of tea. Okay, what we're looking for here is we're looking for
words that stand out, that is short, and that
can be related indirectly, or even sometimes directly
to gardening or landscaping. Okay, let's do this
together, okay. Now we also want to make
sure that what I'm looking for need to relate the
landscaping and gardening. But it also needs to sound, but it needs to roll
off the tongue nicely. It also needs to connect with gardening and landscaping
in a positive way. For example, the word soil. When you think about
the word soil, is it relevant to your
landscaping and gardening? 100% is something that
gives me a positive idea, like the image in my head. When I think about soil, it's like muddy, damp, brown. Not very appealing. Is this going to make a
great appealing brand name? Probably not. Right? Gardens too obvious. That's super descriptive.
Garden soil. No plants, it's too direct. Vegetable compost. See, So at the moment, we're not looking to
reinvent the wheel here, but I like the word seed. The word seed is kind
of the sound of it. It's quite nice. It's relatable to the message that we're
trying to communicate. Pruning, like weeding,
it's not positive, right? Bed, bed, bed, good. Now, with bed, obviously you
have a flower bed, right? A bed is also obviously
more predominantly related to sleep and other,
other aspects, right? Although the word bed is
associated with gardening. When I say the word bed to you, it doesn't instantly go
to gardening, right, Unless it's in a
gardening context. If I'd said the word Bedford
for example, Bedford. You wouldn't instantly
relate that to gardening. You would probably relate it to mattresses or
something like that. Okay. And I've just made
that name off the spot. I don't know if it exists but I was just giving an example. Okay. Trout? No, no, no, no land. I mean, land lands not
bad. Lands not bad. I'm going to take
bet out actually because that was a bad idea. Land. So I'm just
collecting words. I'm just collecting the words
that I like the most. Okay. Okay. This over lawn law, I'm probably not going to use, that's a little bit too direct, but I'm going to put it
down anyway just to see. Bush. Bush. Bush is good. Uh, blah, blah, blah, bah arbitorium. What is this? Let me just check
this out because I've got no idea what
that word means. I think it's said one of those. Wow. What, what does that mean? A biological garden
devoted to trees. Okay. Okay. And what
does this mean? A shady garden with sides and a roof formed by trees or
climbing plants, tree. That's super cool, right? That is super cool. Okay. Right now we're going to get deeper
into things, right? Because we're not just talking
about naming your name and your logo and everything else
have to fit together, okay? So what do I mean by that? I mean, you know, for example, let me just give
you what's a good example. Actually, the Apple logo, the word app, the Apple name, and the Apple logo
goes together. If there were two
pieces of a jigsaw, they would go together. They would fit together.
Let me give you another example which is
a little bit less direct. What's another good example? Another example might
be Amazon for example, the name itself is
quite abstract. The Amazon of having
everything from ear to Z being like the world's biggest
bookstore at the time and now obviously the world's
biggest e commerce marketplace. But if we look at
the actual logo, the logo itself, the smile, which is customer satisfaction, and obviously making
customers happy, which is super important. But then also it has to Z. It's the most beautifully thought out and most
beautifully executed logos on the planet,
the Amazon logo. And it's just mind blowing that somebody took the time to create something so
beautiful like this. The reason I'm talking
about logos right now is you might think
that your brand name is separate to your logo. But it isn't it the need to dance together
effortlessly like this. So everything feels together and makes sense, you
know, much like. The Nike logo. Right.
So the Nike logo, the word Nike, means, well, it's inspired by the
Greek Goddess of Victory. Nike. Right. And obviously, Nike's entire u
brand positioning is all about having a will and mentality and having
determination. So that is why the
logo, the name, and the overall brand
message all dance together. They all have one common
thread between all of them. And that is the
beauty of branding, finding that common thread, and that's what we're
looking for throughout the naming process because if we can find that common thread, then everything else
pulls together. We can start to fit everything
else around that thread. If that makes sense,
let's dive back in to other words, green, green. Stephanie there. I actually
really like arbor. I really like arbor because, and the reason that I
mentioned that before is that you can kind of see how the logo is
going to come to life. This ship, this like
ship of this arbor. I didn't even know
what an arbor was before I did this exercise. This shape that is traditionally associated
with an arbor. If I'm even pronouncing
that correctly, this shape is
extremely distinctive. You can create a beautiful logo. Let me just look at Logos. Arbor logo. Okay. So no one's even doing it. Okay. So that's even better. So you can literally
take like this shape here and create a
really beautiful logo, which can just be
super distinctive. To set this brand apart, it could be super,
super impressive. And that's what comes down
to the visual expression of the name when we're
actually say for example, we arbor and arbor
and cool, right? That sounds like, that sounds like a brilliant
name, by the way. I love that name.
Arbor and cool. Okay. So for example, when
we've got Arbor and Co, and if we're thinking about a brand logo to actually
kind of partner with that particular name and ultimately express
the brand visually, Visual expression, it's literally there on
a plate for us. You know, this is
literally like, you can't ask for
a better example of visual expression
just really being there. Just to take us an opportunity, I actually really
like that name. I'm want to add it to the
list. I need a check. Obviously domains and obviously
trademarks and stuff, which we can do a
little bit later. That's a cracky name
and it rolls off the tongue nicely.
It's distinctive. At least I think
it's distinctive. We'll do the checks
a little bit later, but this is a really,
really good start. Patio deck, deck kind of. But I'm going to make two list. I'm going to make
the list at the top and the list at the bottom because Okay. Okay. Pond. No rock, rock, rock kind of, although it doesn't
really fill me with, it's related to garden
but it's it's not like it's it sounds cold, hard. It doesn't really give me, you know, fill me with a
warm feeling, you know. It doesn't really say. A family ran landscaping business,
if that makes sense. Okay. Lawn, Puna Edge. What is tree trunk bark? No. As soon as I said bark, it just made me think of dogs, Ranch, root, root, evergreen,
evergreens. Definitely. Although I think that names
going to probably be taken. Son, son, son, son. Okay. Okay. Okay. So we've got a
couple of names here already that are standing out. We've got one name which is
actually in the presentation, which we're going to
do some checks on. Let's create a few more because I think there's
going to be a few more. And then I'll start doing
checks with you and then we can finish things off. Give me a words, four to five letters related
to gardening or landscaping. So I want to keep
the words fairly short because we've only got
68 letters to play with. Okay, Now we're talking.
Now we are talking. So we've got rose,
we've got a bush, We've already got leaf root, yard, yard, park, park, land. We've already got
land. Okay, moss. All right. Okay. What else? There were a couple of directions
that we thought about. If you've taken obviously the lessons before in regards
to setting directions, the directions that we set with Brian were Heritage
and making your marks. So let's have a
look at Heritage. Do the same with Heritage past. Try line, time, site, kill. What does hair mean?
What does ha mean? It's kind of like the hair
to a thrown right hat to a throne hallo, habloom, Bloom,
bloom, someone's. Okay. So it's kind
of getting to, you know, connecting to
death and stuff like that. A person iterating, continuing the legacy
of a predecessor. Bloom. Hablo ha blooms, he bloom because hair loom is kind of like heirloom, a valuable object that is like, this is why I love the brand
naming process, right? So the entire business
that we're actually naming is predicated around a father who built the business
over two decades ago. And then he is passing
it on to his son who's looking to actually
rename the business. Right. And kind of
refresh things because obviously the business has
been around for over 20 years. So, you know, I'm not
saying that this is a name that we should
present to him, but, you know, Bloom
Bloom or something. I don't like it as a name, but I'm going to put it
as an additional name just because it's cool. Like it just sounds it just sounds like it just sounds good. Bloom. That's that's
spelling it wrong way as well, Bloom. Bloom and could you could maybe do that,
I suppose, right? Bloom and Co That's
an opportunity. Okay. We're probably
not going to use that, but let's just leave that
there as an example, okay? Give me different types
of trees like I'm just literally thinking about
everything that I can in regards to trees, grass, plants. You know something that if I
say the word maple to you, you could think about
syrup, for example. But you could also think
about oak tree, right? And if you can marry the word maple with the
picture of a tree, then you're going to see it in that context,
if that makes sense. It's like the color red, right? If you see if I took two images, one of which was, let
me just show you, actually I'll just show
you what I mean by this, because context is king Love
in an image, red, right? So you've literally
got red here, okay? This red in this particular
context means love. And then, you know, Google fake blood, right? Then we look at this type of context and it's completely
different, right? So colors and words are quite similar in that sense where it depends on the context
of it being used. Okay. That's something that's really important
to keep in mind. That's actually why when
we do the actual names, we put it on a context
card like this to show the person that it is relevant to that
particular context. Otherwise, it's more difficult
to make that connection. Because when someone comes to a client's website, for example, they're going to be seeing
it on your website with imagery which is relevant to the service that
you're providing. That's something that's really
important to keep in mind. Oaks, really good.
Birch is super nice. Sounds high end as well. Sad Elm, willow, Willow, willow. Okay. We've got a couple now. We've got a couple
of good ideas. So let's say goodbye
to chat GBT. Goodbye. Chat GBT.
Let's get some tea. That was a poem very, very off the cuff
poem, but never mind. Let's create some brand names
from these words alone. Obviously, this is a seven
to six year process, so don't expect to come up with brand
names like super, super quick like this. But take some time.
Take your time. And don't rush things, because that's when you can
potentially get into rushing. And that's obviously
not a good thing. We've got Arbor and co,
we can take that out. Let's look at some other
words that we have here. I like park and then let's
look at some of the words. Oak Park. Oak Park, Birch Park. Birch Birch Park. Is that that's slightly
more, less, right? I can put this in. I
can put this in here. Birch Park, Birch Park, Burch Park Arts. There we go. Burch, Birch Park. Burch. Maybe we do
something with Burch? Burch. Ah, is anything
birchalk or No. Uh, Birchwe Birchwe. That sounds pretty good, right? And it's under, it's
between the 67 letters, 60 ear ladders, sorry. Uh, some of this yard. Rose, Evergreen, Green. Land. Ok. Oak green, Oak green. Okcreen. Oakland, Oakland. Oakland. Oakland. So maybe these are all tree
related, right? Maple way, Maple,
Maple way, Maple way. That's not good. Maple Maple. It's hard when the layer is
kind of five layers and then you've only got three
layers left to play with super, super,
super difficult. Okay, but let's but let's take a step back for a second
and we'll basically fill in these sections here for Okay, because obviously I'm
going to take a lot of time to go through all
these different names and get a ton of different words, but let's just
take everything at the moment that we have and look for things like domains
like SEO, things like this. Okay. We're just going to check. Okay, we've got this co, okay, so I think they
do wedding dresses, so there's an actual business
called Arbor and Core here. I do wedding dresses. Okay. Yeah. And they've got
a little bit of a following. We've also got interior
design firm I think. Yeah, wedding and bridesmaid
shop. And then a cake. I think it's a wedding cake, so it might be the same
business. Okay, interesting. Okay, so from an SEO standpoint, we'd probably say it's, it's, there's nothing in
the gardening space, but there is something in, you know, kind a
different arena, right? So what we can say is, although there's no SEO, it's almost definitely not going to have anything in
regards to trademarking. So let's go to the trademark search and it's
Class 44, if you remember. Experts and cool. So we'll just check all of them, our team, so it
doesn't look like even that company's
trademarked anything unless they haven't done it in
the US, which is good. Let's look at that Arbor. Arba built protein and
enzyme discovery research. Is there anything here that
is related to landscaping? That's what I want to know.
I'm going to take all them. I'm just going to look at Class 44 Arbonomicsmis Arm escape. This is being canceled, so I want to check this out. Work. Tree planting service, Arbor Arbor Works, that's
red chested arbor metrics. When we're looking at the different trademark
applications, we do have a couple
of brands ultimately, that have successful
trademark applications with the word arbor
in the actual name. Which is good and bad
at the same time. Because it basically
tells us that this word isn't the
predominant word. Basically, it isn't the word that the trademark attorney
is looking at and saying, okay, this is the
standout feature of this particular name, which is good for
us because that means that we can
basically add something to arbor or do something
creative with it to keep the meaning of the name connecting to garden
and landscaping. But also make sure that it's going to fly through
the trademarking process. The thing about
Arbor, and obviously we checked out the
SEO on the name and there was already a company in a completely different industry that was actually
using the name. I don't know if we can actually that as low SEO competition,
that's medium risk. I think in regards to
SEO strength, right, Because it is going
to allow us to be the top fourth landscaping
and for gardening, but we're going to have to battle with that other company for that real estate
at the top of Google, I'll probably put
this at a medium in regards to SEO competition. In regards to trademark risk, again, there's nothing that's
actually seeing Arbor. And the Arbor and Co company is not trademarked in the US because we've
just checked it. However, the trademark risk is that is distinctive enough
as opposed to accents, as opposed to masters, as opposed to omics, as opposed to aesthetics, as opposed to omics. Again, so they basically
trademarked the same one twice. One is a word, ones
like the actual name, and then one actual visual mark. That's the difference
between the two. I'm not sure if this is going
to be distinctive enough. I would probably mark
this as a medium risk. But another name which
I actually came up with that when I recorded the first time was by now Arba Way rolls off
the tongue really nicely. Sounds really good. It's within the eight letter limit
which we said originally. I also came up with Arbor Wells. Arbor Win and Arbor Joy. Just try to keep things to eight letters just to give us
a little bit of play with. But I think Arbor Way may actually be a better
option for this client. Simply because when
I do this and I take Arba Way and put it here, or let's just change
this actually, because otherwise it's
going to change the format. The name still looks
good, it's eight letters. So I'll just give
them a couple of other options below as well. But when we do that, it
makes this one full word. So it's going to
help us to basically get a better result when
it comes to trademarking. In regards to risk, we
are basically saying, okay, it's going
to be lower risk when it comes to trademarking. Also, in regards
to SEO strength, if we actually go to
Google, Google.com Way. Okay, so Way is a four
lane divided parkway, two residential streets in American neighborhood in
Boston, Massachusetts. So there's no brands
called B Way basically, and also the Domain. The last time I
checked was available, but it was a little
bit expensive. So it's $10,000 which is it's a lot of money
you could easily get. You can easily make that you just add landscaping
and that's going to give us it $20 or $0.19 But if you want to actually buy the
clean.com to bean, it's only $10,000 which
is a lot of money. But for a business that's
been around for a long time, it may not be as much money. The good thing about this is this may be bad news
for some people. I would see this
as brilliant news. And the reason
being is this tells me that nobody else is
called Arbor and it also tells me that I can buy this later on down the line
where my business is more successful so that nobody else is going to be buying
that particular name, hopefully in the meantime, if that makes sense, I think I'm going to
go with Arbor Way. But ultimately that is the process and how I
approach brand naming. Overall, I gather as many words as possible and
look at a couple of different ideas and then pick
out the words which I think are going to be giving me
the mouth feel that I like. That's another great
thing as well. Mouthfeel, I think
Mouthfeel wise, it's a really,
really strong name, so I'd just say that kind of rolls out the tongue
quite nicely. Seo strength. It's kind of, it's still not perfect
because we kind of have, you know, something
there already. But it's a lot better than Arbor Way and Core because it's not an
actual brand, right? In regards to name type, it is a little bit
more abstract. It's kind of suggestive, but it's also a little bit more abstract because to be honest, a lot of people are not going to know what Arbor actually is. So that's kind of got one
way but also bad another. And then in regards to
message directness, it is a little bit indirect. So this is a little
bit of a dark horse, with the client saying that
they are wanted more of a suggestive name and
less of an abstract name. I think that this is
probably going to be a little bit too
abstract for them. I think they need something
which is a little bit more in your face and a
little bit more direct, like true green or
perfect cut for example, which is obviously very directly related to the service
of landscaping. But it's a really great
start and I'm really excited to develop
the rest of the names for this particular client. And I will continue to add you real life client examples as time goes on so that
you can obviously, you know, work through
those with me and yeah, I hope you enjoy the process. Please let me know if you
need any additional support or anything. I'm
always here to help. Please pop me a message
and I look forward to chat with some of
you guys too, ****.
11. Creating Amazing Names Using Chat GPT: How do I stop my wife
ordering too much food when we eat out?
Completely useless. Well chat BT cannot help me save money while
staying out with my wife. But it can help us come up
with incredible brand names. So why chat GBT definitely can't give you
incredible brand names. It can certainly help
you create them. So here are just a couple
of ways that I use chat GBT to help me create incredible
brand names for my clients. The first way I use it is
to find associated words. For example, I use
chat GBT to give me other words related to singing into the
future or prediction. Then I asked chat GBT to help me find other
words for Fes. And that's where I stumbled
across foresights. After playing around with
spelling a little bit and doing a little bit
of work on the name, we end up coming
up with foresight, which is actually one of
the strongest contenders in the process at the moment. And just a little bit of
additional bonus advice, you can actually set
different criteria when searching for new words. So for example,
you could see it, I only want words which are four to five letters long
if you want a short name. And you can also see it, I want the new word to start with S because you
want to merge it with another word which you already
have in your released on which ends with S. So it
can go together seamlessly. Another great tip that I
use ChagBT for is research. For example, I had a client
from UK very recently who ultimately wanted to communicate to the
message of strategy, or optimal strategy
within their brand name. Now, because the actual
company was British, I wanted to link it to something related to English history. So, I basically asked ChagBT to give me different
periods and moments in British history which were connected to the use of
an optimal strategy. And most importantly, where the optimal strategy helped the person who used it succeed. Chagbt gave me lots of great options in a really
nice, organized manner, which helped me to
navigate and create new names based around the words and the
ideas that it gave me. It actually brought up the
story of World War Two, where Alan Turning
ended up cracking the Enigma code of the
Germans to help win the war. That ultimately helped us
stumble across the name Enigma. And then we ended up going
forward from there to create some incredible options for
our client which they loved. You can also ask Chat GBT to give you different
variations of spelling, which is going to be
super useful when it comes to searching
for domains. Because what you can
do is you can ask for different spelling variations
that roll off the tongue, the exact same as
the original word, but they can be a little bit
different in grass spelling, which is going to
give you a wider range of opportunity when it comes to securing your
domain and trademarking. For example, I use
this for foresight and with five different
variations of spelling, which are all
incredible options. Now you can just use Google
to do all of these jobs. But the thing that
I've found that is really useful with Chat GBT, at least at the
moment, is it is far more organized in how it
presents its information. So it helps you to
actually organize that information far more
effectively and far faster. So you can save more time and
effort over the long run. And now because you're a
chat GBT naming expert, if I does try to
take over the world, we can just join forces with them and spend the
rest of our days on a golden beach getting
certain Jos by a robot.
12. Creating Names That Rank #1 On Google: So at this stage, you
probably have a couple of brand names that have a
great amount of potential. But now we're going
to find out which brand names are going
to rank easiest. On the first page of Google, people are going to be googling
for your brand name to try and find you and try
to visit your website. So we need to
understand which names have the most potential when it comes to rising to the top
ranks of Google search. And the best way to
do that is guess it. Get on Google and see what pops up when we Google
your brand name. Now if you're met with a really
long string of results in multiple pages and lots of
similar names and words, that it could take a while for that particular name
to rank highly. Now, this does not
mean that you cannot rank it or it will
not rank on Google. But what it does mean is
you may need to invest a little bit more energy than
usual to get it up there. But on the other
hand, if your name is more distinctive and unique, then you'll find that
there are not as many search terms
that are similar. And this means that it's
going to rank far easier. In simple terms, the more creative and different
your brand name is, the easier it's going
to rank on Google. And the faster it's going
to be found on page one. Now your name isn't just
going to rank by itself. You need to also
invest in back links and building authority
within your website. And also creating valuable
content on your website so people spend more
time on your web pages. But that is a topic for an
entirely different course. So do some googling and
see what comes up and make the best decision based on your own
personal judgment. Also, feel free to
reach out if you need any additional
advice or support. I'm more than happy to help. But once we've checked Google, the next step is to see if your name can be
trademarked successfully. And that is exactly
what we'll be doing in the next lesson.
I'll see you soon.
13. How To Do Worldwide Trademark Checks: So now we've done
our Google searches and we still have a couple
of names to play with. The next step is
to see which names we can actually legally use. And if you read the
title to this lesson, then you know way here to drink coffee and check trademarks. So the fastest way to check
trademarks worldwide is to go to this website and
search for your brand name. You can also find the link to
this particular web page on a useful resource that I've
connected to this lesson. The resource also goes through the different
trademark classes, so you can find out which one is going to be relevant
to your business, so you know which ones to
protect your trademark within. Now all you need to
do is make sure that there are no exact results or similar results in your
particular category and trademark class
for your search term. Make sure you check for
spelling variations too, because this is something
that a lot of people miss. For example, if I check
for the name that we currently have in
player foresight, I also need to check for other
spellings like this one, this one and this one. If we don't do this now, it could potentially
lead to issues later on down the line and
potentially a lawsuit. And obviously we don't
want that to happen. We want to make sure that as soon as we have a brand name, we get everything double
checked so we can move forward with complete
peace of mind. That's why I always suggest to every single one of
my clients to get an attorney within the
particular country that they wanted to protect
the trademark within. To just get a second
opinion and make sure that the trademark is all
clear and ready to go. You can get an attorney in
pretty much any country for $50-100 on platforms
such as fiber. But just use your best
judgment and make sure you do your checks before to make sure you're
not wasting money. But once you've done
your trademark checks, the next step is to find your new.com domain. I'll
see you very soon.
14. Get a DOT-COM Domain for any Brand Name: Now if you've tried to find
a clean.com domain for $20 these days you'll see
there rarer than $120 Ferrari. But if you didn't get
that joke basically, they're pretty hard to come by. But there are some
really great tricks that we use sometimes if we are really struggling to find a great domain for
our brand name. Now the first step is to add a relevant word to the domain. For example, the domain
Love Well isn't available, but the Domain
Love Well store is available and it's available
for just $20 You can also just add an S to the end
of Love Well to make Love Wells.com which also sounds pretty good and it's
a great option. Another way is to look at
different spelling variations. It can go back to
the chat GBT lesson where I show you how to go through different variations
of spelling and using it as a tool to find
different options. If you do stumble across
a domain which you like, and it isn't actually in use, but it's not available, you can always pay Go
Daddy a small fee. I think it's around $70 roughly, to actually get in touch with the owner and try and
buy it on your behalf. You can check who is.com where you can basically
find out how long the domain is being owned by the owner and also how
long it's been inactive. This will give you an idea
if the owner is likely to want to sell the domain
and also at what price. A really great tool I use is
the Go Daddy Domain Value, A tool which you can find by googling that exact
term on Google. This will give you
an estimate as to how much the domain
is actually worth. However, if you go to the
seller and they ask for more, they are well within
their right to do so. To be honest, they
usually do ask for a lot more than the average
price of the domain. Negotiate with them over
the long term and try to bring the domain
value down over time. Because ultimately
the name is just going to be there
collecting dust anyway. So stand strong
and hopefully you can get the demand for
a reasonable price. So now we know your name
can be trademarked. It can rank easily on Google, and you also have
your.com domain in place. The next step is to set
up your business e mails. And that's exactly what we'll be doing in the next lesson.
15. Setting Up Branded Emails: Now there are so many ways to set up business e mails online, but I always use
Google's G Suite. The reason I always do
is because it's cheap, it's easy to manage,
and it's just awesome. And how to set it up is
also super simple too. Please keep in mind
you do need your domain to be secured
before you set this up, just to make things
nice and easy. Okay, so the first
step to setting up your branded E mails is to go to Google and just typing
mail business suite. Once you type this
in and press search, you should come to something looks a
little bit like this. This may be different depending on which
country you're in. But if you click this and it looks a little bit like this, then we are off to a good start. Now the next step is to
basically click Get Started. Once you click Get Started, you'll be asked some
similar questions to this. Now please keep in mind that
depending on your country, it may be slightly
different, okay? So they may come in a
slightly different order. This is just Google testing for different countries
because they think that people from different
countries will work in slightly different ways. Please keep that in mind. Let's just put your brand
limited then just put just you. Then obviously type in whichever region you are currently in. Then in regards to
the first name, I will put Scott Lancaster, my current E mail address. This e mail address is the E mail that they're
going to send you, maybe a recovery E mail if you get locked out
or locked out. Scott Lancaster at
Gmail.com.com Next. Now, when you come to this page, you're going to
have two choices. One is that you actually buy
a domain through Google. The second is if you
already have your domain, you can actually use it through Google and connect
it through Go Daddy, or wherever you actually
bought the domain from, Go Daddy is usually
the best option. I'm going to just
click this and what's the business domain name is not the e mail address,
This is the domain name, let's say.com Okay, so
let's just take this, sorry, Brand.com This is the domain for my
actual business. Perfect, so just showing me, e mails will be sent to B.com will not be affected
until you set up an e mail. Okay, so in regards to this, it's just asking
me I want to buy this e mail at this
domain instead. No, I already have it. Next we'll send you
occasional e mails. No thanks, no thanks. Use your name to tag in
Us name, for example. Mostly you use things
like either support or obviously if it was
my personal E mail within the business, then Scott, well I usually do is when I'm
just starting a business, I just usually put support or hello or maybe admin if
it's my online university. When I first started
that, I just put admin and then I
basically had admin at L 0 D B for Lancaster
Academy of Design and Brand. And then just basically
put a password. Yeah. Perfect. Then obviously you can
check the password and check your case and
everything. Click this. Okay. Okay. Then what it's
going to do is it's going to bring you to page much like this where
it's basically going to give you
different plans. Now, I'm currently in
Thailand right now. This is in Thai bat, so this is around $10 or
something something like that, maybe $7 something crazy. There are two different
ways to do it. It actually makes
a lot more sense to go for the flexible plan. Choose the flexible plan, this is going to give you
everything that you need. It's no long term commitment. You can cancel down
grade at any time. And it really gives you everything that you
need to really start setting up your
business and getting your business e mail in check. You can also try it for
14 days, absolutely free. Yeah, this really sets
you up really well. And then once you click going to ask you for
your card details, which obviously I can't show you because that's something that's going to be very
personal to you. And there you have it, a fully branded e mail ready to go, so you can look
super professional. Incredible. From year one, having a business
e mail just makes your brand look super legit. And another thing which
is super important to build trust is to have
social media handles, which will be securing in the very next lesson.
See you soon.
16. Getting Social Media Handles: Now securing social media
handles can seem super easy. But it can get a little bit tricky because they're
ultimately free. So people tend to just secure them and then
forget about them, and then we can't get
them for our own brands. Now the most important thing
that we need to remember in regards to social
media handles is that as long as they are relevant and also consistent
across all platforms, it doesn't matter if
we add a word or two. For example, if you're
based in the UK, you could potentially
have your brand name and then as your social
media handle, as long as everything
is consistent, customers are going
to know that it's you and that's the
most important thing. So make sure we use the exact same approach as
the Demin lesson, where we add a relevant
word to your social media handle or some other
little key or element. That's the most important thing. Consistency, Don't
worry too much about anything else.
That is the key.
17. Brand Naming Project Time: So now we know your name
can be trademarked. You've got your social
media handles your domain, your business e mail set up. We also know that your name
can rank easily on Google. That should be you all set. And I truly hope that
you found this process and this course super
impactful when it comes to helping you develop
better brand names for both your own companies
and potentially helping others to
create brand names. To our Lancaster Academy
of Design and Brand. We really want to make
sure that we are providing the best possible education in the world of design and
strategic branding. And there is nothing
more fulfilling to me than actually seeing
the incredible names, the incredible work that
our students are doing. So what I would really love is if you can use
the template that is connected to this
lesson and share your ideas and names with us. I really want to see the
amazing brand names that you've created using this
processing course. And once you've
arranged it, just share it as a project on this course. This is going to
allow me to give you a valuable feedback and also
give you a little bit of guidance in regards
to other brand names that you could
potentially explore. I use the exact template to
showcase the name for sides, which I also ended up
creating a logo for. And you can follow the exact
processor steps that I used to create this
incredible logo for Foreside by taking our abstract
logo mastery course, which is now available
on the platform. Just go to our
profile and you'll see it there. So what
are you waiting for? Create your project,
and I cannot wait to see your
incredible ideas. Thank you so much for letting us guide you through this
process and I will hopefully see you soon in a
future course. Thank you.