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As you build your business you want to be sure to be in control of your business name. Trademark and secure that .com as well as all the other domain names available to control your brand name. When purchasing your first domain name you may not be sure of what domain extension to use and what are the benefits to each. A top level domain is important for a new website and those niche extensions can help you to find the right client base.
When buying a domain name for a new business many people like to look at the traffic the name is already getting. This is not an indication of how successful your online business will be. It’s true that the perfect keyword domain like Blogger.com will get get more automatic traffic because it is the simplest domain but anything past that number one keyword domain is not ideal for business naming. The domain becomes just a description of your business rather than a business brand.
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There are clear benefits to snatching up the perfect keyword domain name. It is nice to have a domain that explains what your start up does. However, as the hope of any business is to expand and grow - picking a specific keyword domain can put your business in a box that is hard to climb out of. Thus stunting your business growth by forcing you to rebrand or spend marketing efforts on redefining what your business does under your original keyword name.
In this guest post Emily Brackett of Visible Logic Inc. tells how a logo will help brand your new business.
Congratulations, you’ve decided to start a new business or launch a new product. You’ve worked hard to develop a name for your new venture, and now it’s time for your logo to work for you by strengthening name recognition and being memorable.
Your name, your domain name and your logo all should work in conjunction with one another to build upon the strengths of each.
First of all, your name should be available at the .com domain level. You are short changing yourself if your potential clients cannot easily find you at the web address where they expect you to be. Once you've got a name that's available and works with the product or service you're offering, the next step is to develop a logo.
Adding to the list of great business names hatched from BrandBucket is Blogio.com. Blogio is run by three guys in New York City who created the service from the need to adapt Public Relations to a new media phenomenon like bloggers. Blogio provides a new financial model that allows marketers access to bloggers while supporting the blogging movement in general rather than relying on advertisements for economic support.
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