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Product Naming: Are these good software names: Logixess Or Logixeed? A software used in industry to monitor and control field equipment (based on logic). It's B2B
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Steven Mason, Branding, Naming, Patent Broker, Negotiation answered:

No. They are difficult to spell, challenging to pronounce and violate a wealth of basic linguistic principles. But don't believe me: You can prove this to yourself.

Give the names, written down, and nothing else, to 10 people who don't know you. Ask them to pronounce them.

Next, pronounce the names for 10 other people and ask them to spell it. Both tests will fail.

Furthermore, they are neither memorable nor evocative.

You're falling prey to the Latinate myth: if I create a name using etymologies or metonyms, and glom them together, I will have a great name. But you won't. You'll have a glommed-together name instead that does not evoke the meaning of any of the etymological roots or metonyms! Sometimes 1+1 = 0.

For details on the linguistic and branding criteria, read my LinkedIn post "Names That Got Game: 4 Steps To A Killer Name & Getting Buy-In" at:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/names-got-game-4-steps-picking-killer-name-getting-buy-in-mason?trk=prof-post

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Best of luck,
Steven

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