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| perfect business opportunity online and now you | | | | name you want and see if it's still available. Here you |
| want to start branding yourself so you can promote | | | | will be given some other suggestions if your first |
| YOU Inc and your new business. | | | | choice is already gone. I don't recommend you go |
| I am writing this article because this is exactly what | | | | with most of these suggestions as they would most |
| happened to me. Pressed with the question of how I | | | | likely not be great choices for branding your business. |
| will brand myself when my domain name is already | | | | If you are desperate to have your particular domain |
| taken. That's when I decided on the brand name | | | | name you can always look up the who is for that |
| Whois. | | | | domain and approach the owner and ask them if |
| Branding YOU Inc. Branding myself online and having | | | | they are prepared to sell. Quite often you will find |
| my own domain was important for my business | | | | that the domain name is being parked or no longer |
| growth. When I attempted to register it was already | | | | used and this is a way for the owner to make |
| owned by another Sandy Moore, my identity was | | | | money from selling it to whoever wants it. |
| gone, Oh NO! How was I ever going to rank on | | | | I can't emphasise enough the importance of using |
| Google out of about 1,150,000 results for Sandy | | | | your own name to brand yourself online. After all, it is |
| Moore? Of course I would love to be ranked on | | | | common knowledge that people join people and not |
| page 1 of Google and that's exactly where I am | | | | businesses. By using your own name to brand |
| headed. However, considering I have only ever used | | | | yourself people will get to know you and trust you |
| free methods to advertise my brand I've had good | | | | and therefore will want to know more about you. |
| success. | | | | Firstly through social networking, email marketing, |
| Find a Domain Name | | | | your blog site and all the articles you write about |
| First find yourself a domain registrar, there are many | | | | your business or interests. |