Today, we have a consultation from an artist who makes clothes. He started selling on minne in 2014 and has been active without clarifying the brand name... Please see the description below for the full question and related videos. ▼ Japan's largest handmade and handcrafted mail order site "minne" by GMO Pepabo https://bit.ly/36CV14z ▼ For those who want to sell handmade works online https://bit.ly/36D5z3R "Good Morning! minne LAB" is an official live broadcast delivered by minne to artists who are working on manufacturing. Only the question corner is extracted from the contents of the distribution on the minne LAB instagram account and archived and distributed on YouTube. / minne_lab If you want to see the whole distribution, please take a look at the Instagram live♪ We distribute mainly every Monday and Thursday. ◆Please also watch this together with today's video◆ Japan Patent Office If it's your first time, read this - The ABCs of Trademark Filing - https://www.jpo.go.jp/system/basic/tr... Posted on 1/6 Part 3: "There were a lot of artists with the same trade name...! Should I change my trade name? Or not?" • Question 3: "There were a lot of artists with the same trade name...! Should I change my trade name? Or not?" Hand... ▼Minne's official book, "Minne teaches you the basics of selling" The 4th edition has been reprinted! https://amzn.to/2NxTNd9 * * Part 28: Anonymous artist I'm currently working as a freelance pattern maker, taking on commissioned work, and creating and selling my own work in my spare time. I chose over 300,000 yen per month, hoping to be able to make a living from just selling my work if possible. I'd like to ask about the trade name. I registered with minne in 2014, when I was searching the internet wondering if it was possible to make something and sell it, and I found out that there was a service like that! I registered with the feeling of giving it a try to see what it was like and whether it would sell. I didn't have a trade name, artist name, or shop name, so I just registered my name as an account name. However, when I actually started selling, I thought that it would be better to have tags on the clothes (so that customers could tell where they bought them), or to have the name of the shop, which would make it easier for viewers to understand, more memorable, and make the shop look more proper, so I thought it was about time to think about a shop name. However, when I started thinking about it, I couldn't decide on a name, so I've been thinking about it on and off for over a year. I read a lot of sites about how to think about shop names (various patterns of thinking). It's just my own opinion, but I realized that I'm not good at being too particular or putting too much thought into it. So I thought I would simply start with my name, but if it sounds too much like a person's name (it doesn't feel strange if it's a famous designer), it might seem too assertive, or amateurish (like an SNS account name), and so on. Then, as I thought from the beginning, the name doesn't matter, it's the content that matters! (As long as the work is good!) Or maybe it would be easier to understand if I had a catchy name, and so on and so forth... In any case, I think it's best to choose something that suits you, but I would like to ask what kind of impression it gives if my first name is included in the shop name, and whether it's okay. By the way, I'm thinking of naming it like this for now, and then changing the name when it becomes more popular, but I would like to ask you as a starting point for now. Sorry for the long message. I would like to hear such a story if I have the opportunity. * * "Good morning! minne LAB" is always looking for artists' concerns. Questions can be submitted anonymously. ▼Click here for the question form: https://bit.ly/3bDCtOy ▼Details of this project: We will answer the concerns of artists on the official Instagram Live of "minne LAB" https://note.minne.com/n/nc0402a39dcf5 On Twitter, with the hashtags "Oha Lab" and "Learning with minne", various artists have posted their impressions of the video and records of trial and error after watching the video, so please take a look. * * "I can't take good photos" "I'm worried about setting prices" ... To solve the problems of handmade artists, minne has prepared a reading content called "minne Study Notebook". ▼minne Study Notebook https://note.minne.com/m/mc1379d2d49ba ▼"minne Teaches You the Basics of Selling" written by Mao Wada, an advisor for minne's artist activities, has been very well received since its release in April 2019, and it has been decided to reprint it for the fourth time in March 2020! You can purchase it at bookstores nationwide and on Amazon. https://amzn.to/2NxTNd9 ●minne LAB twitter: /minne_lab ●minne LAB Instagram: /minne_lab ●Artist activity advisor Wada's twitter: /ma0_k