Blog Naming -- Give Your Blog a "Reasonable Name"

Give your blog a reasonable name. Although avant-garde names are popular now, they are not appropriate for most business blogs. Actually your blog doesn’t even need a name; you can just use your name or organization's name in the header of the blog.

Hopefully your blog will be a successful and longterm endeavor. Choose a name that will be "reasonable" in the long run.

Cute, trendy or off-the-wall names might just seem absurd or unprofessional in a year or less.

I've talked people out of the following names for professional blogs!

• Skanky Bitch Chronicles - for a life coach's blog
• I, Negro - an Afro-American blogging on marketing
• He's Dead Jim - a mortician blogging on, yes, choosing a funeral home, funeral services, and prepaid funeral plans
• White Supremacist Nosepicker - a sales trainers blog (says he just liked the name for its absurdity)

Hey folks, I'm all for strange, bizarre, unique, etc. where at least slightly appropriate, and a far out blog name CAN work for a business blog sometimes, but were the people above thinking? Hmmmm, maybe, maybe not . . . .

Pick a blog name that won't seem as inappropriate as that dumb ass tattoo you got when 17 years old and drunk!

Comments

[The Hairy Beast]

Well, Ted not everybody has the foresight we do.

[Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business]

True Hairy One, how true.

You could have picked an inappropriate name, but Hairy Beast is perfect for your blog as a showcase for your writing as a humorist -- and sometimes bizarrist.

And of course anything with "blogging" in the title will seem downright silly and anachronistic in a few years too.

[Mordechai (Morty) Schiller]

Hey, Ted...

I was going to name my blog "Wordsmith" but got scared off by an attack on the phrase in Word-Detective.com. So I opted for a name my son gave me when he was five. He had seen one too many Westerns. (My fault!) He decided I need a Cowboy name. I said "How about 'Word Writer?'"
He said no, that's an Indian name. And he changed it to Wordrider....

Adios, Kemo Sabe!

[Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business]

Hmmm,"Word Writer" - Indian :)
I like Wordrider, but "Word Slinger" has a nice Western ring too Morty!

[Katie Konrath]

When I started my blog, I kept trying to brainstorm "creative" names--and kept coming up with things that were either too obscure or too silly to use.

Then, a lightbulb went off in my head. A couple years ago, when I was doing an entrepreneurship class in college, I bought www.getfreshminds.com to use as a mock website for my class project. My business was a creative thinking company, and I was saving the domain name for that.

It finally dawned on me that I didn't have to think of a new name because I already had the perfect one for my dream company--with a marketing plan and everything. And I hadn't even realized it. Sheesh.

Sometimes it's not about thinking of the perfect name, it's about remembering the great ideas you've already had!

[Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business]

Katie,
That's a great story -- thanks for sharing it!

[Katie Konrath]

Glad to share. Now if I only hadn't also decided to have my logo tattooed on my shoulder one night when I was drinking... Does make it easier to remember though! ;-)

Just kidding!

[Leon]

How true. I love "He's dead Jim" and "I, Negro."

[Michael from Pro Blog Design]

Great post. Naming certainly isn't my strong point. I went through 3 different names, before arriving on the simple "Pro Blog Design" for my blog. :)

[Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business]

Hi Leon,
Yes, those are my two favorites too, although totally inappropriate for their proposed uses.

Michael,
Naming isn't my string point either, but I'm pretty good at avoiding inappropriate names :)