hewlett packard name development presentation

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Overview At Brand Acumen, name creation is our formof artistic expression.

We redefine the fundamentals of using art and language as a guide to developing profound brand identities.

Bill Smith, CEO1200+ Names800 Clients27 Countries Bill Smith was previously the founder and CEO of

Addison Whitney, which today is one of the leading brand consulting firms in the world.

Beginning in 1991 under Bill’s guidance, Addison Whitney worked with over 800 clients in 27 countries.

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Our Success: Name Creations

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Brand: Pavilion Brand: Viagra

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Our Success: Name Creations

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Brand: Escalade Brand: Profile

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Xbox – Microsoft

Our Success: Case Study

Creating a brand name for a revolutionary video game console

Microsoft asked us to develop a name that would resonate with gamers around the world and compete against other major industry players such as Sony, Nintendo, and Sega.

From our conversations with Microsoft, this new gaming console was expected to communicate the following attributes to the target audience:

Respondents quickly connected with Xbox, noting that it was ‘easy to say,’ ‘cool,’ and different from other console names.

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Brand name finalists

We conducted QualiQuantitative Interviews with 200 male respondents (ages 8 to 28) to test the 12 brand name

candidates.

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Ground-breaking

Adventurous Immersive entertainment Redefine gaming

Addictive Edgy Intuitive

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Our linguistic experts employ theoretical approaches to model brand language in a way that clarifies intuitions about core meanings and explains our creativity behind words without confusion.

As the most integral part of our process, we screen name candidates for legal defensibility and cross-linguistic viability alongside creative generation

Brand Acumen uses a tri-fold approach to creating brand names

Brand Name Development Process

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Landscape Analysis & Review

PHASE 1 PHASE 2

Name Development Market Research Validation

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Project Kickoff Competitive ReviewNaming Strategy

PHASE 1Landscape Analysis & Review

Identify and understand existing name strategy,

positioning, market research, potential for growth.

Analyze how competing brands are presented, viewed, named, and accepted in the

target market.

Uncover insights and define objectives with key

project stakeholders.

Our team will ask a battery of questions in order to understand:

What types of messages should the brand portray to existing and

future customers?

Who do you currently consider to be your customer base? The

future customer base?

What type of name do you believe would have the greatest impact

(i.e., descriptive, “made-up,” non-English, and/or a real word)?

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Naming Brief Final Candidate ListName Creation

PHASE 2Name Development

Identify the framework for developing the brand name

candidates, based on the insights from the naming strategy.

Analyze the name candidates with regard to structural analysis, trademark, domain, and common law availability and harvest a short

list of ten to twelve final candidates.

Uncover naming candidates through three separate

iterations of deep source mining and ideation exercises.

A proper name and brand strategy hinges upon discovering the authentic essence and purpose of the brand across all of its receptions—its brand ethos.

Name development will be performed through an iterative process. The first iteration will contain thirty to thirty-five brand name candidates. Our creative team will present each name and identify patterns of words or styles upon which to expand.

We will continue to develop lists of potential brand names until we generate a finalized candidate list of ten to twelve mutually agreed-upon brand names to take into Phase 3.

Our Approach Creative Process

Using a combination of deep inquiry pursuits and ideation exercises, we seed and harvest a short list of name candidates that express the brand’s ethos across a comprehensive range of associations, connotations and evocations, in line with the conceptual target we have established.

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Recruitment QualiQuant Interviews ScoreCard Analysis

PHASE 3Market Research Validation

Identify a sample of 200 key users and

construct a project specific questionnaire.

Uncover user insight on each name candidate by

probing participants during one-on-one interviews.

Provide a quantitative “score” for each of the created brand names.

PHASE 3Market Research Validation

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Scriptability

AuralComprehensibility

Visual AestheticsSyllabic Balance

Phonetic Viability

Evocative Semantics

Durability & Longevity

Ease of Pronunciation

Quantitative Score/100

Gender PropertiesPhonemic Simplicity

Brevin Destive Quotra

ScoreCard Categories

Scriptability

Visual Aesthetics

Phonetic Viability

Aural Comprehensibility

Syllabic Balance

Evocative Semantics


Ease of Pronunciation

Gender Properties

Phonemic Simplicity

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PHASE 3EXAMPLE SCORECARD ANALYSIS

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AccuBrand™ ReportWe analyze our data and present our final recommen-dation in the AccuBrand™ Report, a stacked ranking of the name candidates, from most to least viable.

The AccuBrand™ Report serves as our final client deliverable. This report includes our name recommendation supported by our QualiQuant Market Research data and our ScoreCard Analysis.

The AccuBrand™ Report also includes a stack ranking of all market validated names from most to least viable. All final recommended names in the AccuBrand™ Report are available for client to trademark.

Phonetic ViabilityPhonetic Viability

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Intuitive to spell based on pronunciation

(with slight chance of interpreting “i” as

“e”) and poses little conflict as how to

pronounce based on orthography.


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Closed Syllable coda connotes strong

foundation with potential for

technological extensions. Surprisingly

unique in direct space.

Name Refers to BeverageDifficulty to Pronounce

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Responses 26 11 38 13 20 6 0 0 1 5

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Difficulty to Pronounce Calibrium

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Name Refers to a Medical Device Company Interview Breakdown

Loyal Consumers

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Testimonial“Since 1995 Bill Smith has done a significant amount of our brand marketing on an outsourced basis. Everything from developing new products, to developing go-to-market strategies, to preparing our annual marketing plan. I would have no hesitation in recommending Bill to any food and beverage company that needs marketing support of any kind.”

Mary Minnick* Chief Marketing Officer Coca-Cola *Listed on Forbes Top 100 Most Powerful Women

Contact Us

Address:

Website:

Bill Smith - Chief Executive Officer Email: [email protected] Phone: 704.906.3402

Spring Place6 St. John's StreetNew York, NY 10013

www.brandacumenstudios.com

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