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		<title>By: Nathon Hay</title>
		<link>http://brandingwire.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/a-brandingwire-shift/#comment-556</link>
		<dc:creator>Nathon Hay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have spoken with Martin Jelsema of TheBrandingBlog, and he has encouraged me to submit my idea as a challenge for BrandingWire.

Please consider me for a public BrandingWire challenge. 

I&#039;m looking for a business name, tagline, and logo.

Here is my &quot;backgrounder&quot;, or naming brief:

DESCRIPTION
I will offer bookkeeping services to online retailers.

UNIQUENESS
My niche is online retailers.
I offer relief for the e-tailer by removing the burden of financial anxiety.
I can increase cash flow to the e-tailer by managing their money.

TARGET MARKET
Online retailers/ e-tailers/ ecommerce store owners
Sole proprieters
Running their own independent sites - not on eBay, Amazon, or Squidoo for example
Both startups and established businesses

MARKET SEGMENTS
Startup e-tailers
Established e-tailers    
Sole proprieters
&quot;S&quot; Corporations
LLCs

MAJOR GOAL
Fifteen clients at $30 per hour averaging 8 hours per month per client, equals $3,600 gross earnings. First, this will allow me to work from home. Second, this will allow for a 30 hour work week, which will leave me the time I need to get my own online retail store up and running.

BRAND OWNER
I am married for 8 years, no children, and ambitiously desire to leave my current job as a computer drafter at an engineering firm to run my own online retail store. In order to start my store off on the right foot and guarantee (as best one can) success, I am detouring into bookkeeping for other online retailers. My plan is to learn the business from them, inside and out, by managing their finances. Over the next two weeks (June 28-July 9, 2008) I will be taking a crash course in bookkeeping for small businesses. By August 1st I plan to have three clients, and add one new client per week until I have 15 total clients. So, by Thanksgiving week I will have 15 clients and will be able to leave my job in time for Christmas.

CONSIDERED BUSINESS NAMES
Ebundance
Abundance Bookkeeping
Flowbundance
Probundance
Accounts Doable
Special Ledger
Accounting Assets
Essets

CONSIDERED TAGLINES
*note: online retailer, e-tailer, and ecommerce store owner may be interchanged
Accounting for the online retailer
Carrying the online retailer&#039;s accounting burden
Relief from accounting
Relief for the online retailer
Relax, I&#039;m your CFO.
Relax, I&#039;m your bookkeeper
Profit and growth specialist for online retailers
I wear the accounting hat.
Relax. I know what to do.
You make the money. I&#039;ll track it.
I&#039;ll do the &quot;gross&quot; work. (Accounts Doable)
Doing the &quot;gross&quot; work for the online retailer (Accounts Doable)
Making a statement for online retailers
Knowing what to do for the online retailer (Accounts Doable)
Ecommerce profit through bookkeeping
Profit through bookkeeping for online retailers
Anxiety management for online retailers
Helping online retailers plan and manage cash flow (Martin&#039;s idea)
Helping online retailers manage their cash flow so they can survive the first five years (Martin&#039;s idea)
You have more than you know

LOGO IDEAS
Pinecone (you have more than you know)
Iceberg, showing above and below waterline (you have more than you know)
Bean or Jelly Bean (I&#039;m a &quot;bean counter&quot;)
Hat (as in, I wear the accounting hat)
Coin (not really a coin, but a reference to a coin shape)
Pill (like a two color capsule, for getting rid of anxiety)

COLOR IDEAS
Deloitte blue
Green to match that blue


Thank you!
Nathon</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have spoken with Martin Jelsema of TheBrandingBlog, and he has encouraged me to submit my idea as a challenge for BrandingWire.</p>
<p>Please consider me for a public BrandingWire challenge. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking for a business name, tagline, and logo.</p>
<p>Here is my &#8220;backgrounder&#8221;, or naming brief:</p>
<p>DESCRIPTION<br />
I will offer bookkeeping services to online retailers.</p>
<p>UNIQUENESS<br />
My niche is online retailers.<br />
I offer relief for the e-tailer by removing the burden of financial anxiety.<br />
I can increase cash flow to the e-tailer by managing their money.</p>
<p>TARGET MARKET<br />
Online retailers/ e-tailers/ ecommerce store owners<br />
Sole proprieters<br />
Running their own independent sites &#8211; not on eBay, Amazon, or Squidoo for example<br />
Both startups and established businesses</p>
<p>MARKET SEGMENTS<br />
Startup e-tailers<br />
Established e-tailers<br />
Sole proprieters<br />
&#8220;S&#8221; Corporations<br />
LLCs</p>
<p>MAJOR GOAL<br />
Fifteen clients at $30 per hour averaging 8 hours per month per client, equals $3,600 gross earnings. First, this will allow me to work from home. Second, this will allow for a 30 hour work week, which will leave me the time I need to get my own online retail store up and running.</p>
<p>BRAND OWNER<br />
I am married for 8 years, no children, and ambitiously desire to leave my current job as a computer drafter at an engineering firm to run my own online retail store. In order to start my store off on the right foot and guarantee (as best one can) success, I am detouring into bookkeeping for other online retailers. My plan is to learn the business from them, inside and out, by managing their finances. Over the next two weeks (June 28-July 9, 2008) I will be taking a crash course in bookkeeping for small businesses. By August 1st I plan to have three clients, and add one new client per week until I have 15 total clients. So, by Thanksgiving week I will have 15 clients and will be able to leave my job in time for Christmas.</p>
<p>CONSIDERED BUSINESS NAMES<br />
Ebundance<br />
Abundance Bookkeeping<br />
Flowbundance<br />
Probundance<br />
Accounts Doable<br />
Special Ledger<br />
Accounting Assets<br />
Essets</p>
<p>CONSIDERED TAGLINES<br />
*note: online retailer, e-tailer, and ecommerce store owner may be interchanged<br />
Accounting for the online retailer<br />
Carrying the online retailer&#8217;s accounting burden<br />
Relief from accounting<br />
Relief for the online retailer<br />
Relax, I&#8217;m your CFO.<br />
Relax, I&#8217;m your bookkeeper<br />
Profit and growth specialist for online retailers<br />
I wear the accounting hat.<br />
Relax. I know what to do.<br />
You make the money. I&#8217;ll track it.<br />
I&#8217;ll do the &#8220;gross&#8221; work. (Accounts Doable)<br />
Doing the &#8220;gross&#8221; work for the online retailer (Accounts Doable)<br />
Making a statement for online retailers<br />
Knowing what to do for the online retailer (Accounts Doable)<br />
Ecommerce profit through bookkeeping<br />
Profit through bookkeeping for online retailers<br />
Anxiety management for online retailers<br />
Helping online retailers plan and manage cash flow (Martin&#8217;s idea)<br />
Helping online retailers manage their cash flow so they can survive the first five years (Martin&#8217;s idea)<br />
You have more than you know</p>
<p>LOGO IDEAS<br />
Pinecone (you have more than you know)<br />
Iceberg, showing above and below waterline (you have more than you know)<br />
Bean or Jelly Bean (I&#8217;m a &#8220;bean counter&#8221;)<br />
Hat (as in, I wear the accounting hat)<br />
Coin (not really a coin, but a reference to a coin shape)<br />
Pill (like a two color capsule, for getting rid of anxiety)</p>
<p>COLOR IDEAS<br />
Deloitte blue<br />
Green to match that blue</p>
<p>Thank you!<br />
Nathon</p>
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		<title>By: Nathon Hay</title>
		<link>http://brandingwire.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/a-brandingwire-shift/#comment-555</link>
		<dc:creator>Nathon Hay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Martin from TheBrandingBlog and I just had a delightful conversation about a company name and tagline ideas for my startup. I will provide bookkeeping services to online retailers (aka. e-tailers or ecommerce store owners).

I want to have my ideas evaluated by the specialists at BrandingWire. Martin has already started me in the right direction. 

Shall I upload a naming brief? Is there a particular format for a naming brief you would like me to use?

Thank you,
Nathon</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Martin from TheBrandingBlog and I just had a delightful conversation about a company name and tagline ideas for my startup. I will provide bookkeeping services to online retailers (aka. e-tailers or ecommerce store owners).</p>
<p>I want to have my ideas evaluated by the specialists at BrandingWire. Martin has already started me in the right direction. </p>
<p>Shall I upload a naming brief? Is there a particular format for a naming brief you would like me to use?</p>
<p>Thank you,<br />
Nathon</p>
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		<title>By: Customers Rock!</title>
		<link>http://brandingwire.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/a-brandingwire-shift/#comment-314</link>
		<dc:creator>Customers Rock!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;BrandingWire Gets an&#160;Overhaul&lt;/strong&gt;

 Many of you know that I have been part of an ongoing team of bloggers who writes monthly for BrandingWire.  Below is the list of posts I have contributed to this effort to date:
Growing the Business: Coffee House Blues about branding a small coffee ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>BrandingWire Gets an&nbsp;Overhaul</strong></p>
<p> Many of you know that I have been part of an ongoing team of bloggers who writes monthly for BrandingWire.  Below is the list of posts I have contributed to this effort to date:<br />
Growing the Business: Coffee House Blues about branding a small coffee &#8230;</p>
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		<link>http://brandingwire.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/a-brandingwire-shift/#comment-306</link>
		<dc:creator>So&#8230;What&#8217;s New with BrandingWire? &#171; StickyFigure</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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