Help me name my unique on-line business

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m working on launching an online business. Let me give you a rundown of the service I’m offering, and give you some potential names, and get your thoughts:

The service is basically around “giving a voice to your memories” and there are two related services;

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[li] A personal, audio journal.[/li]The idea is that people who don’t otherwise keep a diary or journal, but want to record their thoughts and memories would pay a monthly subscription fee and be given a toll-free number to call whenever they wanted ( e.g. during a daily commute) and record their thoughts, or recount an event that just happened, or have their kids or family talk into the phone. They could download the journal entries into iTunes and burn their own CD’s or I could mail them a CD on a regular basis. Either way, the CD would contain the spoken date and time stamps of the recordings and the recordings themselves. Possibly in the future I could send the audio files to a transcription service, and the subscriber would be given a booklet of what they had spoken.
[li] A shared, social, audio message.[/li]The second idea is very similar to the first, but has a community of people contributing and is geared towards events (weddings, anniversaries, graduations, reunions). The invitees to a wedding, or people receiving a birth announcement, or attendees to a reunion, would be sent a toll free number in the invitation to the event. The invitation would ask them (even if they can’t attend the actual event) to call the number and offer well wishes to the bride and groom (for a wedding), give their favorite story about a classmate, etc. (as an audio yearbook for a graduation or reunion) and the Audio CD would be a permanent memento of what people said at the time. This could also be used for teacher’s presents (the class would record something), school sports teams, well-wishes for people sick in the hospital, recorded advice for mothers-to-be (presented at a baby shower) etc.

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For both services, (similar to voicemail) the person leaving the message could re-record the message if they didn’t like it. Also, the audio recordings would be accessible via a web site and the recordings could be listened to via their computer. As mentioned previously, I would supply a password-protected URL (really an RSS feed URL) that could be put into iTunes, and the messages could be downloaded to an iPod at any time (I thought that was less applicable for the journal product, but it might be neat for a bride and groom to be given an iPod with all their well wishes as they leave for their honeymoon).

I’ve figured out the technical pieces, and will shortly have someone start on the web site design and logo. The names I’ve considered (which would also be the domain name) are:

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[li]JournalPhone[/li][li]TelephoneMemories[/li][li]TeleStory[/li][li]InMyWords[/li][li]LifeOnRecord[/li][/list]

Which one would you vote for, or are there other names that you think connote a good brand, get to the essence of the service, and are easy to remember?

Thanks.

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Of all of your options, I like TeleStory.

Your services sound somewhat similar to YackPack.

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Thanks for the comment on TeleStory, but unfortunately I need to remove TeleStory and InMyWords from consideration as they are taken as .COM domains. I had previously reserved JournalPhone and TelephoneMemories, and LifeOnRecord is available. Other ideas?

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I don’t like “JournalPhone” because of the “Phone”… people could be calling on VOIP, right?

Is VoiceJournal available? LifeOnRecord sounds good too.

A possible problem re the transcripts: languages. You may get people speaking anything.

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How about VoxBlog, VoxLife, iVox, or Memory Voice?

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The word “Vox” seems a bit techie and a lot of people don’t know it means voice so I’d ideally like to stay away from it. Unfortunately, VoiceJournal is taken.

Someone else suggested “Memories On the Go”. So the candidates so far are:

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[li]LifeOnRecord[/li][li]JournalPhone[/li][li]Memories on the go[/li][li]Telephone Memories[/li][li]LifeOnRecord[/li][/ul]
Which one do you like best, or can you think of others? Thanks.

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might be a bit high on the vocabulary scale, how about

http://www.esoliloquy.com/

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A bit or a warning. When you are ready to register a domain name, use a reputable domain registrar, and do not check the potential domain name more than once. There are quite a few domain registrars out there tied into domain squatter sites and when you run a query against a potential domain name, that possibility is automatically flagged. If you still are not sure and run the domain name check again, you stand a good chance of losing the name because the domain squatter site automatically registers the name before you do.

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I think a name with the word ‘voice’ in it would be best. Voices Carry or something like that.

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eMe.
It short and easy to remember.

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(checks date of original thread)

Well, after 6 years… it would be interesting to know if “LifeonRecord” ever actually came to life.

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I’m sure you would…but I’m also sure the OP is thinking about his own business instead of promoting yours.

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Shit-caught by a zombie.

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Perhaps you’d like to record your zombie frustrations on my new service – Zombie See, Zombie Say

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It did:

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zombie or no

i’d go with Interslice.

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Hi - I’m the original OP who started this thread over six years ago.

I did indeed go with LifeOnRecord. Things are going well, and I’ve asked the Dope a handful of questions since. Thanks again to the community for your continued input and support.

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My first thought was “Voices from the Grave” but, then, I thought, nah.