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how to come up with a good etsy shop
name and if you're already watching this
i just want to congratulate on you for
taking that first step because this is
actually super exciting times and i'm so
happy for you and as someone that has
opened up multiple shops in the past i
just want to share with you some
personal tips that i use when thinking
about how to choose a good etsy shop
name i'll share with you 10 tips and at
the end of the video i'll give you a
couple extra bonus ones as well so you
want to make sure you stay to the very
end
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all right so number one is to brainstorm
relatable words for me personally i like
to just do it right on my iphone in the
notes and just put up any kind of words
i can think of that i feel like it's
relatable to my niche or some type of
meaning that i want to portray my
branding a couple ways of doing that is
to by obviously researching the category
you can look at your competition and
just brainstorm anything that comes to
you at the end of the day you can kind
of mix and match different words to
create different combinations and that's
usually how i come up with the names for
my shops all right so number two is to
avoid using hard to spell names
sometimes you just want to make it easy
for customers to remember your name and
to be able to type it out if they're
like oh you know what i really like this
store i didn't save it but i want to
find it because i think i remember where
it's being like this so you definitely
just want to make it easier for anyone
to want to search you and just to make
it memorable something that i can easily
pronounce alright so number three is
don't pick a name that is limiting for
your niche for example one of the shops
i created in the past i was doing art
prints and at the end of the show name i
said r prince but as my shop grew i want
to expand into different categories but
it was just harder because the name
itself said had our prints in it it was
very good for the technician i wanted to
do which i can talk later in my bonus
videos on why that could be good for you
to add those words but if you have an
idea of how you want to expand your
brand in the future then you might want
to keep it less specific all right so
number four is to do a quick online
search on a name that you might want to
do sometimes you just want to get a good
idea on what's online and what's on etsy
specifically just to see if you're doing
something that's very similar to a
competitor and i'm not saying that this
is a make or break or anything but you
just want to have an idea so in case you
want to be more unique then you would
want to know that all right so number
five is to purchase the domain name and
to be honest this one is kind of
optional you don't really need to start
this at the beginning but in case you
feel like you have an idea of how this
is going to turn out and you feel like
you snatch a name that is very popular
and the domain is free anyways then you
might want to buy that and they're
usually pretty cheap pretty affordable
i'm not saying that you have to do this
but in case you want to expand
alzheimer's c in the future then you
might want to purchase that domain name
all right so number six is to keep it
short and simple usually you would like
to keep it between two to four syllables
sometimes there's exceptions on why you
won't go more but usually you don't want
to keep it too lengthy and this actually
brings me to the next tip number seven
is to say it out loud see if it sounds
weird sometimes certain combinations or
some words just doesn't sound right when
you say it so you want to make sure that
it kind of flows nicely something that
you can get familiar saying it and this
actually also leads to number eight
which is getting feedback let's say
you've gone through all different steps
especially number one we've created a
list you have a combination of different
names you want to use the best thing you
can do is ask for feedback right not
just for etsy names but just in general
asking for feedback is always important
you can start with friends and family
see what they think which one they like
more and you'll be surprised sometimes
on what people like okay so number nine
is to just marinate on it right now
let's say yeah it's a present family you
got these names now and the best thing i
would say is just to wait on it you
definitely have a lot more you need to
work on within your shop anyways to
create products maybe pictures that you
do have time to think about it and
sometimes the initial ideas you might
have for me personally i always think oh
yeah i got the perfect one and after a
while i started to realize you know what
as i'm developing the brand the visuals
i think another name actually works
better so i always find that very
interesting is that i think a lot of
people jumped the gun on just
actually starting the shop getting the
gmail getting everything set up and at
the end realizing you know what i kind
of probably should have went for
different names so this is an important
one is to just marinate on it because
things change as you start developing
your shop and this brings me to number
10 is to make sure that you're actually
happy with it right regardless of
feedback from friends and family or it
works for online what's short and simple
what's hard to spell what is not right
at the end of date i want to make sure
that you're got a name that you actually
like that you're actually proud of and
hopefully actually means something to
you right and now let's move on to the
bonus tips and those ones i'm going to
do on the computer so we're going to
switch to screen and go from there hi
guys welcome back so for tip number
eleven i wanna show you some sites that
i personally use to help me brainstorm
some ideas help me start generating some
combinations for different words i'll
have them link in the description but
one of them is just by shopify but let's
see this is a great one to use for some
reason i've been
thinking about the word sky quite a bit
lately so let's say if you that's like
the keyword that you want to use so
let's go with sky
and let's see what comes up amigo sky
very cool blackwell's guide just random
things this one does a good job at just
finding
the word you want to use
and just creating combinations
but another one that i like to use quite
a bit is this
one called nameless as again i will put
it in the description below
but this one actually uses the same word
but it can generate other words not just
using the word sky and you can do
different settings all right you can go
how crazy it is let's go hi just see
what happens
and let's see
one thing that's cool about this one is
that they actually show you different
branding ideas like color palettes and
different font styles
like let's say we did skyrate but
there's bright star right doesn't have
the worst guy solar wind i mean i don't
know if these fly yours but
maybe you want high five i don't know
maybe you want this
word this
abstract word even though one of the
tips i did say
avoid ones like this bird bill maybe you
want to do that okay so the last tip
this one's actually pretty important
that you you will want to know
or be mindful right and this is that
your shop name itself actually plays a
role into
seo
okay so i'm gonna give you an example
all right so right here
let's say you got fine art here in the
name the keywords someone searched fine
art this actually plays a role into seo
because you have it in the name right
and i know in one of the tips i said
before how you might not want to limit
yourself in terms of your your niche
right so there is a way maybe you do
want to do this if you know for sure
that's the niche you want to do you
don't do anything else then you want you
might want to put something like that in
your shop name just to help with seo but
like i said this is not a huge
deal like you don't have to do it oh my
i do this for seo like it's
it plays a role but how big of a role
does it play so someone keep in mind
that it does hold a bit but you don't
have to do that not all my shops have
uh specific keywords or targeted
keywords for the shop that i was doing
but i just wanted to let you know about
this one because it is uh good to know
and i think that's it that's it for this
video hopefully you learned something
hopefully you got some ideas on what
steps to take in terms of creating a
etsy shop name and best of luck to you
and starting this new journey is super
cool very excited for you i always
remember these times when i'm starting
something new and like you know you've
got adrenaline pumping you just can't
stop thinking about anything else you
just want to build this shop and name
sometimes like get stuck and you're like
oh my god i don't know what to do and
you know stuff like this helps and after
doing multiple shops these are what i
follow these are the tips that i use to
create a name and let me know if you
have any questions super excited for you
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thank you so much for watching see you
next time bye
