If you want to check for yourself, go on LinkedIn and type in your company name and see how many of your people are already on there.
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You bravely give your company your name, going all-in, knowing that your reputation will rise and fall with the choices you make for the business.
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It can be hard to shut off the overwhelming negativity the internet spews forth, especially when it has your name or the name of your company in it.
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When naming your company, consider the limitations the name may put on your options as a company, and as an entrepreneur and individual.
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You simply send the company your name and address and it will cross-reference your details with its database.
Looking to have your company's name on jerseys in the Premier League?
Your most active customers determine the value of the brand not only for themselves, but they also have a strong voice in determining the value that others see in your company, your products and your name.
Put an end-date on your current position on LinkedIn, and drop the company name from your blogger profile.
In any of these cases your progeny might need to sell the company, and your name on it may shackle them in negotiations.
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Have you done everything you can do to protect your name and your company or product names?
The Reputation Institute asked more than 30, 000 consumers from 25 countries to name a company in your country that you believe to be very socially responsible.
Having a well-known and respected company name near the top of your resume does wonders when looking for your next internship or full-time job.
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Get your name to the right people in your company.
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Square believes the future of payments isn't swiping a card but merely giving a cashier your name, which is stored within the company's database and linked to a credit card.
Yet Priceline.com , best known as the name-your-own-price booking company with the goofy William Shatner ads, is defying the trend.
My recommendation is to start your company with a free or very low-cost domain name, with a strong preference for dot-com.
That means that the domain name will grow in value as it works for your company.
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Both sites also make it easy to narrow your search using refinements, or filters, that include title, company name and location.
Does your marketing department tightly control what products can carry the company's brand name?
Be sure to build a name containing several keywords related to the products or services your company offers.
You can initially advertise the availability of IPv6 at a special test domain name for your Web server, say www.v6.company.example.
Most marketing experts believe that it takes between 5-10 separate instances of exposure to your brand name and image before prospective customers feel comfortable making a purchase decision with your company.
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Hoffman helped build Priceline.com, the name-your-own-price travel site, part of tech holding company Walker Digital, and later headed up other Walker business units, including Priceline YardSale, which applied the auction model to selling everything from toys to refrigerators.
Your name is up for grabs on Google ads and some businesses like people-search company Intelius are taking advantage of it, as I noted last week.
You can search it to see whether your doctor is receiving drug company money to give speeches and talks to other doctors that help promote brand-name drugs.
The company says quite plainly in a letter sent to cardmembers that it plans to sell or share your name, address, phone number, purchase history, information from surveys, data from your credit report, and unspecified "noncredit information available from public sources" to its affiliates, licensees, subsidiaries, and outside bidders.
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