Online Reputation Management: Tip #217

June 2, 2008 by James
Filed under: Internet Marketing, Rants and Raves 

reputation managementJust kidding about #217, but here’s a tip you should take seriously.

Create a shortlist of all the major (and minor) social media sites. Then surf over to them and make sure your name, brand name — and any other important “names” you want protected — are registered and signed up.

You need to make that preemptive strike — take your names before some outsider decides to take them for a ride and damages your reputation…

“But Where Do I Begin?”

Remember to include YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Tumblr, Twitter, and so on. And if you haven’t registered your own dot-coms then tut-tut, shame on you.

Drop what ever you are doing, rush over to GoDaddy.com (or your preferred registrar) and get busy. Then when you are done with that, get busy with those social site registrations too.

It only takes a few minutes each and a few bucks for domain registrations, but it’ll save you thousands and serious headaches if someone beats you to it.

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One Response to “Online Reputation Management: Tip #217”

  1. Rose on June 11th, 2008 8:06 pm

    I know too well the damage someone can do using my name. Good advice. You should join bloggertalk.net

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