There is one thing that can overcome anything. Optimism.
— Andy Traub (@andytraub) February 22, 2012
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How to create vanity URLs for use in social media
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.andytraub.com/nag/ – (61)
Bit.ly custom URL – How to fix your nag of a wife – http://bit.ly/zRE6YM – (52)
Self-hosted custom URL – How to fix your nag of a wife – http://atraub.us/Aflf9x – (55)
The last link starting with http://www.atraub.us was created with the following tools.
It’s about $*%^ time I start writing about marriage
My favorite blogs discuss more than one topic.
They are a mix of encouragement, technology tips and insights, leadership and a strong leaning towards empowered thinking. Mitch Joel, Seth Godin and Michael Hyatt are three examples that come to mind. They write about a variety of topics because they are passionate about a variety of topics. It’s never good when you try to hold back your passions. When you hold your passions inside they’re tear you up from the inside out trying to escape. Your God given passions belong in the world and when you try to keep them inside they get pissed. They haunt you by causing internal turmoil.
Live off-line too
Remember to always have people in your life that you focus on more than your blog readers or customers.
I appreciate those who read this site, post comments and hire me to help get their message out through audio but no one is more important in my life than my family. That little boy just turned four. Today is his birthday party. He’s more important than any comment, tweet or mention. I’m not trying to look like a great dad, I’m just reminding you that your blog is not your life. Keep perspective. Live off-line too.
What I’m Shipping in February 2012
We often don’t realize everything we’re involved with until we lay it out in front of us so every month for your sake and mine I will be sharing a peak into the catalog of my projects.
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- Hosting five podcasts for authors.
- Hosting two shows for business owners.
- Hosting three of my own shows.
- Writing a book which you can read as it is compiled by visiting Long Forks Book in the page menu above.
- Recording live shows every week: Starting this Monday (February 20, 2012) I’ll be recording an episode of the Be A Better Husband Podcast live from 11am-Noon Central every week. You can see the full schedule of my live shows at http://www.TakePermission.com/live including interviews with Jon Acuff and Rory Vaden on March 5th. I hope you can join me for some live shows. You can see the live recording schedule by visting our live broadcast page.
If you’d like to talk about how I can help you create a podcast or audio product you can reach me by clicking here.
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