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How to Name your Promotional Products

Written by David Dawson on . Posted in Product Tutorials

whats-in-a-nameWhen naming your products you really want to come up with a unique name.

Try not to cross contaminate data in with the product title. i.e. “Red Paneled Umbrella 1.5m Width”

The data such as product colours and sizes should be in separate fields.  

If you keep everything separate then your client will have the option of combing them together at a later date.


I recently had to process data from a large supplier that simply did not use product titles. I ended up generating them from a list of UK country names and the product short description.

Why do my product names have to be unique?

  • So you have 2 methods for searching for it. (name + SKU)
  • So that URL’s and website pages are more unique
  • So that it ties the product to your company
  • To build brand awareness. (Think of something like the “Smart Pad” from Adpads)
 
Points to note
  • Don’t use special characters in the titles such as commas, full stops, speech marks, hyphens, tildes © ® TM’s and anything else that may cause problems to the various systems they will be used in. (they look messy, are of no value and break things such as URLs)
  • Think about your product titles and make them unique from your competitors (is “jumbo calculator” all that unique? or would “Aukland Jumbo Calculator” be more unique?)
  • DO NOT CROSS CONTAMINATE DATA! (let your clients combine themselves, if they wish)
    i.e. “Red Paneled Umbrella 1.5m Width” = bad

Print and Branding Specs Column Headers

 Position Title Width Height Print Note Method Unit of Measure
print_pos_1  print_pos_1_w  print_pos_1_h  print_pos_1_note print_pos_1_m print_pos_1_um
print_pos_2  print_pos_2_w  print_pos_2_h  print_pos_2_note print_pos_2_m print_pos_2_um
print_pos_3  print_pos_3_w  print_pos_3_h  print_pos_3_note print_pos_3_m print_pos_3_um
print_pos_4  print_pos_4_w  print_pos_4_h  print_pos_4_note print_pos_4_m print_pos_4_um
print_pos_5  print_pos_5_w  print_pos_5_h  print_pos_5_note print_pos_5_m print_pos_5_um

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