What Are Good Small Business Names?

Are you planning to start your own business? Along with a good product or service, a carefully researched business and marketing plan, there's that little matter of a name for your business. Whether you're starting a store front downtown or a web presence, or both, small business names matter!

Let's say you're looking through the phone book for a good bakery for a special birthday cake. You see that both 'Jane's Cakes' and 'Heaven in a Cake' advertise birthday cakes as a specialty. Which one will you call first?

Small business names may require much more thought than you'd supposed, for a couple of reasons. Depending on your type of business, you may find it advantageous to your bottom line to project an image of a larger, established business. Small business names are still business names, when all is said and done. On the net, it's sometimes hard to tell who's a new Mom and Pop operation and who's an established, solid business with many employees. Buyers tend to find the established, solid looking business more credible than one that appears unprofessional or too 'cutesy'.

Good Business Name Is Good Branding

Your prospective customer is searching the net for companies who sell chocolates. Let's say the first entry is 'Godiva', the second is 'Jimmy's Homemade Chocolates' and the third (yours) is 'Chocolate to Die For'. Everyone knows Godiva and also knows their pricing as well. So Godiva may get the first click from well-heeled customers. However, 'Chocolate to Die For' is enticing enough to warrant a click from that same prospective chocolate buyer. It's a good bet that 'Jimmy's Homemade Chocolates' would come in last in click throughs, only because his name, in a field of two small business names, gives the impression of a one man operation with a name lacking in imagination. In the case of chocolates, small business names should ideally, make the prospective customer's mouth water. You can't make a sale unless you get the buyer to your site.

Get Opinions Before Selecting Your Business Name

When contemplating small business names best suited to your business, it's a good idea to make an ongoing list of possibilities as the names occur to you.

Pass your compiled list of possible small business names by family and friends to get their input. You may find it interesting and enlightening to hear their opinions and comments. You may find that women and men differ on what they find appealing. If your target market consists mostly of women, you may want to give more weight to their responses.

So, the task of choosing a name for your business must be addressed before you can even choose your domain name or get a business license and bank account. If you're in the planning stage now, it's the best time to get started with a variety of small business names from which to make your final decision. What's in a name? A great deal,in this case.

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