This week’s Marketing Minute is about picking a domain name. Yes, I’ve written about this before, but I like this podcast a lot. Check it out:
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Here are some quick and dirty guidelines for picking out a domain name. This is part of a chapter in my upcoming booklet about setting up your website. Without further ado:
1. Do not pick a name with hyphens, underscores or dashes.
People don’t know the difference between them. Furthermore, imagine you’re in the elevator with someone, trying to tell someone your url (aka domain name) and you have to say “double u, double u, double u, dot the, hyphen, coffee, hyphen, guy, dot com.” Chances are really good that the …

Have you ever wondered how to take your long facebook url and turn it into something short and easy to remember?
With the advent of custom urls this little trick may prove moot, but here it is anyway.
Actually, this little trick could still come in handy if you’re trying to brand your homepage as the hub for everything, related to you/your brand/ your business so read on.
If you do not have a custom url for your facebook profile, or you have a facebook fanpage with less than 25 members, then you …

I’ve never been one to give much thought to the significance of knowing internet lingo. To me, it’s second nature. I just know what T1, DHCP, TCP/IP and Domain name are. I very quickly picked up on the meaning of other terms like “retweet,” “pinged” and “facebooked” among others. I know these terms because I am a part of the internet social media tribe. As a member I know the lingo.
Since I know the lingo, other members of the tribe recognize me as a member.
Simply put, knowing the lingo means …

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about picking a domain name. I talked about how important it is to pick a good domain name, but I’m afraid I gave no real guidelines for how to pick a domain name.
I came across a website that conveniently lists 12 different tools that you can use for picking a good domain name. So I wanted to reference the site here.
Here are six of the 12 sites that are referenced in the original article:

Domainr: helps you find top-level domains. The dot …

Here are the 5 steps that you need to accomplish or complete to become a blogger.  It’s not nearly as complicated as it looks, but here’s the short, short version:
1. Get a domain name
a. Technically, you don’t need a domain name, but having one can help enhance the online status of your company.
b. Domain names are cheap, there’s no real reason not to get one. A domain will cost you between $10- $15. The price varies depending on where you buy the domain name.
c. Where do I buy a domain …