Naming a business

Today I and one of the software engineers in my company Usman (who posts at the tmmsoftware.blogspot, some serious technical stuff there, a must read for techies) went to a restaurant and passed a small book stall by the name of "goli kitab" ( bullet book). Seriously there are no two different things then a book and a bullet.. i could not see any connection.. It was the same as naming a baby "man eater" or "blood sucker". when i asked the owner of the stall of all names why did he name his book stall "goli" he gave me a long reply which included alot of mumbling but finally he stated that it seemed cool. This may sound layman but please when opening a new business dont keep names that have nothing to do with your business.. bullets and books just dont go together unless you only deal with books relating to bullets which is highly unlikely.. naming your business is a very essential step in setting up a successful business.. the name must emphasize some point.. it must have some meaning.. "Student Biryani" (biryani is a rice dish by the way very famous in sub continent) no doubt has tasty food but it also has a name which entices customers to come have food that would be relatively easy on the pockets because students are basically always broke..had they named their restaurant "bullet restaurant" i doubt many people would have gone there for the fear of getting served bullets.. The right name can make your company the talk of the town; the wrong one can send it to the gallows.. Remeber if the name communicates with the customer it makes your job easy because you wont have to explain yourself.

An example of excellent online marketing

The other day i read an article about Mozilla firefox. Their marketing campaign was just excellent. The reason I am writing about this is that every one can do what they did. The firefox people decided to put on their thinking caps and asked all their users to send a testimonial as to why they like their browser. Now who wouldn't want to be in a ad? they got 10000 of responses of which the their judges picked the best of the lot. Now this campaign was not very expensive. Every Tom Dick and Harry can do it. It also doesn't require lots of work. You are getting some one else to do it all for you. All you do is judge the videos. It may not have to be videos, it can also be text, depending on what you want for your website. Any ways its no wonder they were voted among the top brand names a a couple of years ago ( don't know the recent results). Kudos to them.
On a serious note testimonials can do wonders but try not to over do it. Don't blame me if you make a fluke Bill Gates testimonial about your tissue brand saying that they are best to wipe your tears. Do be a bit realistic.
Will post again soon if i come across something interesting. bye all