10,000 Business Name Ideas At Your Fingertips
You can either find or invent good company names.
Business naming can be arduous and frustrating, but there’s a way to generate literally hundreds of name candidates in a short while.
Several hundred company naming ideas from New Jersey alone
Get a good Atlas. There are thousands of place names listed in the index of your atlas. Just scan the lists. The are Anglo-Saxon, American Indian, nostalgic, patriotic and quirky candidates galore.
You’ll likely find a slew of corporate names that might set just the right mood and convey the appropriate image for your business.
I’ll sometimes use an Atlas just to get the creative juices flowing. I might find a dozen or so candidates from, say Vermont which can be used “as is” or combined with other word roots, prefixes or suffixes (i.e. combining Alpha with the last syllable of Piedmont = Alphamont).
The founder of Haverhills mail-order business confessed that he adapted his business name just this way. He knew nothing of Haverhill, MA. He just liked the sound of it. It’s been a successful catalog company since the mid-1960′s.
When you use a world Atlas, or an historic Atlas, the candidates just multiply.
As an added incentive, you might find a great place to visit once your company starts generating cash flow.
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