Protect Your Brand Name Across Social Networks

Most social media sites require their users to create a profile name and profile page. Brand names are extremely important in securing and since most social media profiles have good visibility in Google, it is extremely important to be proactive and secure your brand name now. Why? Because if you don’t your competition or an affiliate marketer will go out and register your brand name across social media platforms and rank for YOUR company in Google. On top of that, they can use that profile, in your brand name, to build relationships with your customer base, and market your competition to that base or even destroy your reputation amongst your target market.

Just imagine how destructive  it would be for a large brand not to own thier own profile name. Especially if it had thousands of followers and wrote something misleading about company operations.

There is a tool you can use called: Knowem.com. They search across 100’s of social media sites to check if your username is available. If it’s available, be proactive and REGISTER IT NOW!

One thing that is great about Knowem.com is that if your brand name is taken on a social media site, the service will let you know so that you can request from the sites that control of your brand name be taken from the username squatter and handed over to your company. Most social media sites, will be accomodating in taking care of this for you, because they do not want brands being misrepresented inside their network.

Protecting your brand across social media sites in the form of profiles is a an ever growing issue among companies, take control of it now so you don’t have problems in the future.