Meet Nina Beckhardt: The CEO of The Naming Group
Precious Lijoka
SAAS/B2B Copywriter (I help C-suite Executives & SAAS/B2B brands to build a powerful online authority and sell their stories through SEO-Optimized Content, Social Media Management, Sales Copy, & Web Copies) | Author
“When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable”- Meg Whitman.
It's that time of the week again to celebrate a woman of great impact, a woman who is and has been worthy of emulation, and also, serves as a source of inspiration to others.
Nina Beckhardt is the woman for this week, she is a woman of great achievements, great leadership skills, and a woman with a strong passion for what she does.
Her brand has partnered with a lot of other known brands, in which they were able to efficiently deliver what they do.
She is a known leader in the B2B space, having over 15 years of experience as the founder and president of one of the most-ranked global naming agencies in the world, she deserves a great accolade.
In this article, you'll get to know more about Nina Beckhardt, her educational background, her mission, vision, hobbies and what her brand, The Naming Group does as a B2B company.
Who Is Nina Beckhardt?
Nina Beckhardt is the founder and the current president of The Naming Group company. After she studied at the George Washington University, Parsons School of Design, and the University of Westminster, she worked as the senior brand strategy consultant at Cosma Schema, Director of Strategy, senior brand consultant at Project X Partners and president at Namebase Brands.
All of the experience gathered from working in these different companies, she put together and the result came out as the known global naming agency of today; The Naming Group company.
She likes to connect with people, make art, be outdoors and eat good food, one can simply put that those are Nina’s hobbies. She's a woman who looks for time to relax even amidst a lot of duties.
She is also the co-founder of the Arts of Freelance, she helps creatives accelerate their careers, offers consulting services to small firms and most importantly, improves the branding, messaging and communication strategies of companies.
The inspiration that birthed The Naming Group came from Nina noticing that most brand owners fail to see how important it is for them to pay attention to the naming aspect of their business.
Her belief is also that one should innovatively name a brand, for this would go a long way in building and establishing a strong reputation for that brand.
Nina is obsessed with words, brands and people. Her vast knowledge of Latin, Spanish and Sound symbolism helps brands translate big pictures into bigger ones.
Of her many achievements, her company has led to the naming of Chevrolet for their domestic vehicles, technologies and programs, Reebok, Sony and Puma.
Her beliefs and traditions do not align with the screwy way other companies go with the naming of brands for their customers.
With this, she created a Namescape School of Thought and focused her brand on spreading the gospel of proper naming.
On different platforms like CNN, Forbes, and the Economist, Nina has been quoted as a naming expert.
The Naming Group
The Naming Group is a global naming agency that is based in Los Angeles that partners with leading brands to create for them a game-changing naming system.
Hope you know if your products’ name resonates with your target audience, and mindset, and distinguishes them from competitors, there's a higher likelihood of your brand being above the rest.
Apart from this, it also helps in defining the overarching brand.
At the naming group, they help brands solve complex naming problems, by either creating individual names or developing naming guidelines.
The first thing they do as a naming brand is Netscape development, followed by proper name development and lastly, research and advising.
Namescape development at the naming group involves the naming architecture and guideline partnership of a brand.
While name development has to do with renaming, company naming, product and service naming etc.
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Last but not least which is research and advising, involves consumer research, visual design integration, and name auditing.
The Naming Group team is made up of the best. They have picked from different areas, infusing all of these together to have the best in the naming strategy, and linguistic analysis, all to push the naming industry.
As a brand, they have a relationship with companies in over 150 countries with a lot of global product names under their belt.
Their Philosophy: Develop naming strategies that strengthen our client's brands.
Due to their deep understanding of the impact of a great name for a brand, knowing how it curated the first impression of a brand to a visitor or even an existing customer.
They make sure the names of their clients’ brands have clarity, brand strength, and consumer enthusiasm.
Benefits of a Great Brand Name
To establish a strong identity and reputation for your business, a good brand name is as important as every other aspect of that business. Now that you know what The Naming Group does as a B2B company, let's explore the benefits of a good name for brands. They are:
Brand Recognition:
A brand that is well-known due to its name and great services doesn't require much pitching compared to one that is struggling with sticking to a name.
For the former, there's already a lot of trust and credibility from customers than just trying to win them over.
Builds Familiarity/Loyalty:
According to a survey, 57% of consumers are willing to spend more on brands that they're loyal to.
Having a unique name for your brand helps to greatly complement the quality of products and services that you offer.
Places You Ahead of Your Competitors:
A customer who is familiar with your brand and is also aware of the quality of the products you sell or services you render will not be easily swayed by whatever happens in the market.
You have a higher advantage over your competitors in that their brand names are just there, with little or no effort.
An increase in revenue or leads is one of the major goals of every business owner. Having a strong name can make this happen faster, in the sense that brand recognition is all that is needed to make every other thing begin to fall into place.
Conclusion
This article has carefully detailed information about our woman of the week, Nina Beckhardt. This has clearly shown that women are and will continue to do wonders in the tech space and the B2B world in general.
And also, the future of the naming group, her company in the B2B sector is greatly dependent on its ability to adapt to new trends and a lot of technological innovations that keep sprouting by the day in its service offerings.
If they continue to provide value in the increasingly complex and competitive field of brand naming and strategy, the naming group will be more deeply rooted in the B2B industry.
Thank you for reading!
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Women are really making wave in the tech industry. Nina Beckhardt is an inspiration. Nice write up, Precious Lijoka.