Searching for a name for your coaching center? Here's a sneak peek into some tips & tricks to help you choose a name that resonates with your learners
A Walkthrough to find the right name for your coaching center
Are you thinking, what name to give for your coaching center?
You probably realize that a name could be a make-or-break deal for your online academy. Therefore, in this blog post, I will help you come up with a name for your academy in just a few easy steps. Watch the full video or read the steps below.
The purpose of your coaching center’s name must be to tell your students what you teach and what they can expect from it. So, keep it simple and clear. Let it convey what you are trying to achieve.
A perfect attractive name should be between 12 -15 characters.
To give you some examples, here are the coaching center names of our customers:
If you have established yourself as a popular educator, subject matter expert, or author, considering having your name as your institute name makes sense.
Looking at our own customer data over the last 5 years, customers with good quality content and market demand succeeded in their space irrespective of their name. So, don’t worry too much over a name.
Another good approach to find a popular name for your coaching center is use the popular students search queries in Google.
Why? Because, this has two significant advantages for you:
Let us look at 2 ways you can use to find out, what students are searching for.
You can watch the full video here or read these steps.
For this purpose, I am assuming that you want to teach biology to students from Class XI and XII. Let us look at what students will search on Google.
Usually, a student will be looking to study or learn some topic in biology. So, now you can give learn biology on Google and see what you get. Below are the search results you get :
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You can note down the words that you feel are relevant to you. I have pointed out down the below three terms in an Excel sheet.
Now type learn biology, give a space and press alphabets a to z and note down the results for each alphabet. (eg: learn biology a; learn biology b; learn biology f etc.)
Try to come up with a list of 10-20 search terms relevant to what you want to teach. It will usually take you anywhere from 20-30 minutes.
Below are my list of words:
If you find this tough, you can follow method 2.
Go to www.neilpatel.com/ubersuggest and give learn biology with the location as India or your preferred target location. Click search
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Go to Keyword Ideas, and click on Export to download all the keywords. You can then select 10-20 relevant search terms from this list of keywords
From your keyword search in google, you can find how your students want to learn biology. For eg, your students are looking for below
Mix and match the search query (learn biology) and the pattern(fast, easy, etc) to come up with your academy name. You can even use Hindi words if your students are from that geography.
The idea is to come up with a name that lets your student know what they are going to get
Pick a name that feels right to you and your audience. Post that, share the new name with your friends, and see if they can identify what you will be teaching.
Based on my findings, I may select: JustPassBio, JetSetBio, BioSeekho, Biologyhacks
To make your naming process a lot fast, use business name generator software.
Just take any search query. For eg: I have taken learn Biology fast. Click Generate.
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On the next page, tick the Industry Filter as Education
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Pick your academy name from any of these keyword ideas.
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Click the start button to save the names you like.
From these suggestions, I can choose something like AnBiology Learn, Biology Findtion, etc.
The last step is to check the availability of your name in GoDaddy. If it is available, purchase your domain name.
Most of the time you can get a very good domain name if you consider .in or .co.in.
Lastly, if you have a course/mock test and want to teach online, you can sign up for a free 14-day trial.
Are you stuck on the phase of deciding a name for your course? In this article we break down the elements that you need to name your course.
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