How Naming Force Works

Names

If you need a name for a new business, product, or website, you can submit a naming contest (a crowdsourcing naming contest) on Naming Force. Our namers, who are creative members of the public (crowdsourcing), will submit name suggestions on your contest page. As a client, you can submit names on your own naming contest if you are interested in seeing what the public thinks of these names, or if you simply want to start the creative process for people viewing your naming contest. You will pay for the contest award, which is paid to the namer who submitted the name you choose, up-front along with our fee for hosting the contest.

Feedback for Namers

Clients can provide feedback to namers in multiple ways. Clients can rank the entire list of names as Hot/Warm/Cold, with specific comments, to give general feedback on the direction that the namers are going with the names. Clients can also "Like" specific names to both mark the name for later evaluation as well as give the namers an idea of what types of names you are having an interest in. Users can submit questions to clients via the website. If a question is submitted you will receive an email allowing you to respond. Responses are posted to the contest page and can be seen by all namers.

Votes

Toward the end of your contest consider having friends vote for their favorite names on the contest page. Votes can be recorded on the contest page itself, just click the vote link under the vote count for the desired name. Names with the highest votes show towards the top. Your friends, colleagues, and even the general public can then vote on the submitted names.

Contests

A contest is active on Naming Force for 15 days. When the contest is over we will ask you to choose a winning name. We do not force clients to choose a name in this time period, but the naming contest is taken off the public list after 15 days. If you do not find a winning name you can request a refund (see FAQ for details). If you did find a winning name, and chose it on your client dashboard, Naming Force will handle the award payment to the individual.

You can earn cold hard cash by submitting names on Naming Force. Awards are offerered on every naming contest on Naming Force. All you have to do is submit a name that a client chooses to collect your award. We also have consolation cash prizes when a client doesn't find a suitable name from the submissions. You can submit as many names as you want on as many listings as you want. Naming Force makes payments to individuals via PayPal only. You will need a PayPal account in order to receive payments from Naming Force. For tax simplicity we require all namers who wish to be paid to be U.S. citizens 18 or older. Users must fill out a W9 tax form in order to receive a payment. When a user's name is chosen we will send you the appropriate form to fill out and tell you where to send it. Once it is completed and approved you will be able to request payment for your winning name.