One thing we try to drive home with our clients is the importance of selecting social media usernames or vanity URLs that are identical or as consistent as possible. If someone finds you on Facebook under ‘Brand XYZ Inc.’, it stands to reason they should be able to find you on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, and any other social media platform under the same name, right? Not under ‘XYZ Brand’, ‘Brand Inc.’, ‘Brand XYZ’ or any other permutations of your brand name. So what is a person to do? Check each social media channel for username availability before choosing one? Not necessary!
We’d like to introduce you to a very simple but infinitely helpful online tool called NameChk. Simply type in your desired username or vanity URL into the form field, and NameChk will quickly check that username availability against 159 different social media platforms they recognize. You can also filter the list down to their most popular networking sites, if 159 is too overwhelming.
For example, below is a screenshot of a search for available accounts under “october17media”. As you can see, some are already taken (by us!):
Now doesn’t that make your life easier? Instead of checking each social networking website individually, you can have definitive answers all in one place! There are plenty of helpful social media tools like NameChk that save you time when creating and managing your brand’s social media marketing. Do you have any recommendations for tools you use?
