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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. And what about picking a name that’s available as a domain? Or company names – why is it 37signals? ;-). Apr 27 2010.

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Crowdsourcing Your Product Name

Software By Rob

Product naming is hard. Too many factors come into play when looking for a name and it’s almost impossible to decide on the right name once you’ve stared at the same list for a week straight. The Approach A while back Patrick contacted a handful of Academy members and asked for opinions on potential product names.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Latin name. 3- Combined names of our products components. 4- Part of my name and who we are. Photo Credit: Jerèll Klaver.

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How to Make Product Pages That Sell

Up and Running

Writing a good product description so that a search engine can find it is a subset of a larger discipline called search engine optimization, or SEO. SEO is a set of practices that help search engines classify your site so your audience can find your website. That helps search engines identify the product properly. An SEO caveat.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1-Conveyed an idea based on a product. We came up with our product name before our company name. Our product is Sgt.

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Oracles iPhone moment

deal architect

During his OOW keynote last night, Larry Ellison invoked the iPhone to make fun of his own product naming prowess. In doing so he announced to the audience what I was thinking throughout his speech. Game Changer. The in-memory switch. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and customer discovery findings. The same was true for the Product Marketing group. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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