[ad_1] From Ford Motor Company to eBay and Uber, naming strategies have certainly changed over the past 100 years, according to Bolanile Maté of Be Better Paris. In this video, the marketing expert talks about the evolution of how business owners pick names. She says that at the turn of the century, there really …

[ad_1] As any entrepreneur can attest, there is a lot to do when starting your own business. It’s easy to make mistakes in the early days but you can avoid some of them if you know what they are. Many start-up entrepreneurs fall into these all-too-common traps, which can bog …

[ad_1] If Donald J. Trump still carried the family moniker of Drumpf, do you think he’d emblazon it atop his hotels? Do you think that more than 60 percent of primary voters in his home state of New York would have chosen him?  Related: Get Over the Business-Naming Hump With These 5 Strategies As …

[ad_1] If you need a crucial reminder that your business’s name is something you should obsess over, take a close look at the Antonin Scalia School of Law. If you’re like me, you’re probably already chuckling. Yes, the acronym for the school is ASSoL, or ASSLaw. Hilarious. I bet the …

[ad_1] The name of my business changed this month. It wasn’t my idea. A company five states away, with a similar name, decided that their customers might be confused by my business. We both have brick-and-mortar businesses that perform anti-aging treatments, and we both serve a mostly local clientele. The …

[ad_1] Do you lust after products with a great-sounding name? So does marketing expert Salma Jafri.  “What’s in a name?” she says in this video. “It’s a huge part of your branding.” The name of your brand will determine how someone feels about whatever you are trying to sell — …

[ad_1] HR professionals are the glue that holds a company together, but the term “human resources” doesn’t necessarily scream excitement to the everyday person. In fact, to some it feels outdated. Related: 8 Business Name Mistakes That Investors Hate to See A lot of times, employees aren’t even exactly sure what the …

[ad_1] Google wasn’t always “Google.” It once went by the name “BackRub.” Best Buy went by the name, “Sound of Music.” Related: 7 Tips for Naming (or Re-Naming) Your Company Whether the original name wasn’t a fit, was too long or simply not good enough, there are a number of reasons why a business name …

[ad_1] Take a look at the two shapes below. One of them is a kiki, whereas the other is a malouma. Can you decide which is which? If you described the shape on the left as the kiki and the shape on the right as the malouma, you’re in the …

[ad_1] He makes music, TV shows, runs companies and spearheads philanthropic initiatives. The only thing that Nick Cannon doesn’t seem to do is sleep. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead!” a very busy Cannon told Entrepreneur when he swung by the Entrepreneur offices to talk about his new single “Hold On” (click to listen …