I'm looking for a professional sounding business name.?

Question

I am becoming a Notary, going into Jewerly bead making, and selling on e-bay. I just retired from 25 years in fundraising and I want to do so much. I thought that I would use "my first, last name, Enterprises". I was told that it wasn't professional sounding. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks

Answer 1

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!

Answer 2

Professional Sounding Business Names

Answer 3

One thing I considered when I created my business was how it relates to the vendors I use. I included the word "marketing" into the name. Reason is, when dealing with printers, media, producers etc, they will give discounts (many times quite substantial) to a company if it is a "marketing" or advertising company because they figure they will get future business based on the assumption that you represent many other potential clients. Just be sure to ask for the profesisonal courtesy discount. It has literally saved me over 100k over the last 5 years.

Answer 4

What does a 'cupboard business' do?

Answer 5

A name to represent the main part of the business would be good. Once you have that, check whether it is still available as a dot.com name so you can have that as a domain name (and an email address. Business.name (at) hotmail.com is very unprofessional). Check that at Godaddy.com.

Answer 6

How about Signed, Cut and Delivered. Signed for notary, cut for the jewelry and delivered for ebay.

Answer 7

look up the word jewerly in a diferent language, pick from one and add your name

Answer 8

I can certainly help you put together a marketing package. Please email me directly and we can talk about it.

Answer 9

Buzzybeads
Be you beads / b u beads / b.u. beads
Now Jewellery

Answer 10

say i dono, howabout FamilYJuwelS