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Naming Your Product: Creative Brainstorming Prompts
Participants in my product development seminar recently asked me for a brainstorming session to help them come up with creative names for information product packages – multiformat products and services that might include a manual, CDs, coaching or consulting and other items. Here are the questions I posed for this group, along with some examples illustrating product names that were developed from each idea.
1. What is the result your customers want?
* Lose Weight Before Bikini Season
* Finish Your First Marathon
* The Fame & Fortune Program
* Double Your Donor Base
2. Who are your customers?
* Fun Fundraising for Museums
* The Shy Person’s Guide to Networking
* Wanna Change the World? Social Entrepreneurship 101
* Self-Defense for Wimpy Women
3. What is the problem you solve?
* Coach Kids’ Soccer Even If You Never Played Yourself
* Kicking Procrastination Out of Your Life
* The “Home Depot’s Coming to Town” Survival Guide for Hardware Stores
* Home Study Challenges Solved
4. What do happy customers say?
* “We Built a House Ourselves!” The 10-Month Action Plan
* The “I Used to Be Fat” Course
* The People-Recognize-Me-Everywhere Publicity Program
* The “I’m Safe and I’m Strong” Self-Defense Method
5. What does your product particularly have or not have?
* The Lose Weight Eating Chocolate Plan
* The Earth-Friendly Lawn Care Guide
* The No-Discipline Method of Kicking Procrastination
* No-Rules Parenting
* Nonviolent Self-Defense
6. What’s the customer’s fondest fantasy?
* Getting Through Your Teen’s Years Still Sane
* The Tonight Show, Here You Come!
* Build a Four-Generation Family Business Dynasty
* Multi-millionaire by Your Tenth College Reunion
Take a look at the words and ideas generated from each brainstorming prompt, then combine, recombine and tweak them further, looking for an appealing succession of words that clicks with you and has great potential to do so as well with customers.
As with all brainstorming, be sure to suspend judgments while generating ideas – as many as you can.
Good luck with your product naming!
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