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Personal Branding: Is Your Online Brand Protected?
Take the most recent tom-foolery by David Lewis buying Jeff Molander.com as a perfect example of why you should be concerned about your personal brand online. Is your personal brand protected? Let’s run a test on ReveNews authors to see who has thier own domain name.
Available duanekuroda.com
jamiebirch.com
jeffdoak.com
olaedvardsson.com
scottjangro.com
shmulytennenhaus.comNot Available
adamviener.com
benflux.com
benpadnos.com
bethkirsch.com
billflitter.com
bradwaller.com
brianclark.com
brookschaaf.com
chrisboyd.com
chriscriswell.com
chrismalta.com
chrissanderson.com
colinmcdougall.com
connieberg.com
danleeds.com
davidandrews.com
davidlewis.com
declandunn.com
henrycopeland.com
jeffmolander.com
jeremypalmer.com
jimkukral.com
jimmydaniels.com
joelcomm.com
jonathanmiller.com
larryadams.com
mikemurray.com
peterfigueredo.com
petersampson.com
rickramos.com
scottpolk.com
seancrotty.com
timstorm.com
vinnylingham.com
wayneporter.com
Personal branding goes far, far beyond having your own domain name. Of course, there are always other people in the world who have your same name, so perhaps you can’t get your domain name. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to control what people see about you when they search for you.
For example, I have a friend who has recently been trying to reduce his association with a former company. Every time someone searches for his name, the former company listing would appear most often, and now it is in position to hurt him possibly. The first question I asked him was, “Do you own yourname.com? And if not, why?”
Every public internet professional (and I could argue non Internet people too) needs to have a home to hang their hat on, online. Consider it a one-stop shop for your personal brand… a safe haven for your changing career/life. Do you think you’ll be in the same job forever? Not likely. Do you think you’re ever going to change your name into symbol like Prince? Not likely either.
Lastly, have you thought about the future? For me, I have children, and I’ve already gone ahead and registered thier .com names to give to them if they need them in the future.
Don’t let this happen to you.
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“Available duanekuroda.com jamiebirch.com jeffdoak.com olaedvardsson.com scottjangro.com shmulytennenhaus.com”
Yep, you should buy your name. As far as Scott, I think he should buy scottjangro but keep using jangro.com. I think it’s a cool name, easy to remember and brand.
I have a couple of nephews, 1 and 3 yrs. old and I bought them domains with their name
and they’ll get them when they’re older.
yeah, I’ve had jangro.com forever and consider that my personal brand. Most people just call me “jangro” anyway.
Never worried about getting scottjangro.com, until the recent invasion of the the point-making body snatchers, and now the spotlight. What’s one more domain…
oh yeah, one more thing…
Darn you AGAIN, David Lewis!
Thanks to Bill Clinton back in ‘99…
A person’s legal name is covered in Part (b) of
http://vincenti.com/html/cybersquatting.html
TripleJangro.com is available. Hmmmm, tempting.
Ya, I have all three of my kids names, just in case.
IhateWaynePorter.com is also available, never would’ve guessed that.
Which gives me an idea….
For a publisher David Lewis seems to have quite the knack at brand building. Look at what he did for “triple jangro” which to the affiliate marketing world might be up there with “bling bling” (now just “bling” it seems) in the world of Hip Hop. And now look at Jeff Molander.
Hmmm, affiliates helping with branding…now there is a thought.
Please get I Hate Wayne Porter and revive my tee-shirt sales.
My only hatred is for the BCS. I own ihatebcs.com and ih8bcs.com. The site is down but T-shirts are still available.