{"id":180,"date":"2007-05-27T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officeondemand.ca\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2009-10-27T07:54:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T12:54:18","slug":"whats-in-a-name-how-much-does-it-affect-your-marketing-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/branding\/whats-in-a-name-how-much-does-it-affect-your-marketing-success\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s In a Name? How much does it affect your marketing success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How important are your product names to the success of your marketing?<\/p>\n<p>Back in March after a ski trip, my son returned to college leaving his ski boots in our poolroom, that wasn&#8217;t the problem, the problem was they were highly odoriferous if you know what I mean. Other than dipping them in Clorox I wasn&#8217;t sure how to kill the smell.<\/p>\n<p>With a short web search and I found the perfect product. It was marketed under the name, &#8220;Stinky Feet&#8221;, which got my attention and I whipped out my credit card and bought it. Amazingly enough the stuff worked, at least after a few applications.<\/p>\n<p>How important is the name of your product or service to the success of your small business marketing?<\/p>\n<p>Product names like Stinky Feet or Mold Away or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfsstore.com\/howtosell.html\">Eliminating Obstacles to Sales<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfsstore.com\/websales.html\">Creating Web Sites That Sell<\/a> let your prospects know what they&#8217;re for or do immediately. That&#8217;s a good thing if you want the sale.<\/p>\n<p>Want to get the attention of your prospects and attract buyers with your marketing? Does the name of your product or services contain a description of the problem or the solution?<\/p>\n<p>If they do, they&#8217;re much easier to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Know of other great product names or ideas? Submit them here by leaving a comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Charlie<br \/>\nFor Marketing Ideas That Work<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/216a550d-ba95-4629-b1e8-a65d8aa9cf1c\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=216a550d-ba95-4629-b1e8-a65d8aa9cf1c\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How important are your product names to the success of your marketing? Back in March after a ski trip, my son returned to college leaving his ski boots in our poolroom, that wasn&#8217;t the problem, the problem was they were highly odoriferous if you know what I mean. Other than dipping them in Clorox I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[375,386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}