Suddenly some explosively positive and futuristically
pragmatic policies about the Internet and global e-commerce are creating
amazing galaxies of business naming. With already 1.7 billion online users and
1 billion more on its way the new business naming capabilities befitting
advance and intricate platforms of global cyber branding provide mega
opportunities. Depending on types and styles of businesses, for a fraction of
cost, several dozens of multiple websites in multilingual formats with right
type of domain names skating worldwide can easily catapult sales many folds and
increase visibility to brand new stratosphere.
Firstly in a major move, the floodgates are now open to
create foreign language domain names while so many highly populated countries
are lined to create their own colorful and dynamic galaxies of business names.
Chinese, Arabic and Cyrillic domain names will become very popular and pushing
away English as the only language of domains and cyber-space. A smart business
strategy would be to fully comprehend and understand the nature of these
dramatic changes on the global scene and immediately start an action plan
around it.
Secondly, only those business names that can orbit freely
would be fine as tens of millions other with nomenclature problems will come
crashing down on top of each other causing serious damage to their business
models and totally wasting their advertising and marketing without getting any
value or desired attention in the marketplace.
Here are the five critical issues for the CEOs of any size
or type of organization around the world.
Nomenclature 101: how is your current corporate name identity is structured, how
does it this name play into various sub-products services and divisions? Is it
unique and one-of-a-kind or highly diluted surrounded by identical and similar
names, How much does it change its personality in translation and foreign
connotations. Would it survive in this new global arena? What are the best
options available today?
Multilingualization 101: what would be the direct benefits of creating
multilingual name identities to capture additional exposure in the expanding
e-commerce markets? What would be the best model to apply? How to position your
existing current names and what sub-cyber-extensions should be created to
maximize marketing and advertising dollars. What are the greater economies of
scale in savings and additional market share?
Domainization 101: how powerful is your current domain name system? What is the
value and how can you fortify it with additional support and what are the
options available to play parallel to advance platforms and newly announced
policies for the global markets. What type of domain nomenclature will
dramatically increase your ecommerce presence for minimal costs?
Minimalization 101: how many unnecessary overheads with layers of excessive
branding and packaging that are being wasted and how to converge via aggressive
digitalization to make the operation highly streamlined, dramatically
economical and focused on key global target markets? How to minimize costs, in
reaching for different type of targeted and diverse global markets.
In order to
achieve superior performance the following are the prerequisites:
Appoint a Director of Internal Naming, this person would be
committed with the daily routines of monitoring of all the names of the
enterprise and deal with hundreds of other issues and opportunities that are
floating around so as to acquire and tabulate comprehensive information for the
management with solid recommendations. This person has to be an open-mined,
objective fact finder analyst and does not necessarily have to be an
advertising-branding-executive or neither a linguist. This dedicated
person would be willing to deal with the complexity of the major global markets
with open-mindedness towards various cyber tsunamis approaching where some will
bring great opportunities and some requiring immediate barricades.
The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers,
ICANN has so many new great offerings and the complexity demands dedicated
efforts to minimize huge losses currently taking place where massive marketing
campaigns are not producing sales. The new gTLD and TLD programs alone are
extraordinary moves as they create revolutionary tools for the right marketing
combinations. In return cyber branding and all digital platforms are
normally the cheapest but also the most futuristic and simplistic way for
market expansion. This is a specialized field and requires deeper understanding
just like when Internet started overnight eBay, Netscape, Amazon, eTrade and
thousands of others ideas erupted on the global stage.