How important is your personal brand? Do you own your name as a domain name? Regardless of whether you work for someone or own your own business in this day and age everyone should own their name as a domain name. Why? Because you never know if someday you may want to have your own website, blog, or on-line forum.
It is so incredibly easy and inexpensive to do this. You can purchase your domain name (ex: https://www.wendiblum.com or http://www.wellnesswithwendi.com) as your full name, profession, or hobby at Go Daddy for less than $10 a year- so why wouldn’t you? You can use the Go Daddy link on this post (banner above) to check to see if your name is available.
Recently, I was working with a physician who had his company name listed as his website but never checked to see if his actual name was available. He assumed at this point that someone else had to already own it and guess what…it was still available and he purchased it. When people are looking someone up they are going to search through google using that person’s actual name.
So as I write this post today, I encourage anyone who does not already own their name or future possible business names to grab it now before it is too late. (better safe than sorry)
Have a fabulous week!
Wendi