The Right Tools & Mindset For Success
Twitter is an important tool in building your brand so it makes sense to optimize your Twitter handle. You should work to make sure your handle is as easy to read as possible. Here’s one small change you can make to your Twitter handle that will improve your Twitter brand.
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I broke up with Facebook this week. We might get back together but for now we’re not talking. Our relationship has been on the rocks for awhile anyway. Maybe you can relate to the ups and downs she’s put me through.
Can’t beat the price
Facebook is free because they want my data. I know that they see everything I write, picture I post, post I “like” and frankly I don’t care. They use that data for all kind of stuff (especially advertising). I’d rather see an add for an Apple product b/c Facebook figured out I’m a Mac fanboy than an ad for Farmville because I happen to be on the internet. They can have my data in exchange for using the service. They could do a better job with privacy settings but overall Facebook uses what I give them and what I give them is up to me. For my data they give me connections with pretty much every person from my past (except for one who has totally disappeared off the map).
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I haven’t been writing at all lately.
I don’t apologize for that and I don’t have any excuses, just a really good reason.
I’ve been creating something that has taken a lot of my time and it will be on sale in about a week.
It’ll be worth the wait.
Thanks for your patience.
I’ve purchased this the last few years. They just introduced the Spring 2012 list for MacLegion (affiliate).
Owning your own domain is important in building your brand and Platform. As sharing has increased in importance over the last few years through services like Facebook and Twitter having a custom URL to share you information has also become helpful. The limited number of characters allowed by Twitter make services like bit.ly, goo.gl popular to save precious characters.
CAUTION: This is complicated stuff for some people so I take zero responsibility if you mess something up on your domain. Use a domain that you use for nothing else.
UPDATE: One user had their URL updated and functioning in 20 minutes today. Mine took over 24 hours. So be patient and let me know if you get it to work!
You can now create your own custom short URL to extend your branding throughout your own site and social media reach. One ALTERNATIVE to this process is to use a subdomain to your domain if it’s short enough. My friend Cliff Ravenscraft uses l.gspn.tv for his vanity URL which works well because his gspn.tv URL is so short. I created atraub.us to use as my vanity URL. Here’s an example of what a Twitter message could look like with three different URLs and how many characters each one totals.
No custom URL – How to fix your nag of a wife – http://www.takepermission.com/babh-podcast/how-to-fix-your-nagging-wife-babh-016/ – (114)
Bit.ly custom URL – How to fix your nag of a wife – http://bit.ly/xLgHsx – (52)
Self-hosted custom URL – How to fix your nag of a wife – http://atraub.us/yoKmZX – (55)
The last link starting with http://www.atraub.us was created with the following tools.
