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Renaming Your Business? Here’s the Low-Down on Emotive Naming

Renaming Your Business? Here’s the Low-Down on Emotive Naming

The first time a shopping buddy suggested I visit Pottery Barn, I declined – imagining a rustic space filled with hippies and rust-colored earthenware. Why would my friend recommend such a place? I wondered. Pottery Barn – as if! Pottery Barn is lucky. It succeeded with a name that’s disconnected from both the functional and emotional truths of its brand. The experience of the brand – beautiful stores, upscale products – dominates brand perceptions. Nobody even thinks about the name bespeaking a cow shed with a kiln in the corner. For companies considering a name change today, few, if any,...
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