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: 1. Right click on the link below 2. Select “Save As…” Download this podcast episode Social Bookmarking
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3 Quick Guidelines for Picking a Domain Name
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 [...]
Create a short facebook url
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 [...]
Social Media – Do You Know The Internet and Social Media Lingo?
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 [...]
Tools for picking a domain name
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 [...]

