If you’re not already doing so, it’s important that you have a process to alert you when your name, brand, or company is being mentioned on the Internet.  I use “Google Alerts.” It’s a free service where you use keywords to alert you when your name, brand, or company is being used online.  For instance, I am alerted daily on keywords “Dan Weedin” and “Toro Consulting.”   I also keyword my brand, “Insurance Go2Guy.”  Here are a few reasons why:

  1. You may have been mentioned in an interview and didn’t know it.
  2. Someone may be using your intellectual property – with or without permission!
  3. Someone may be saying something good or bad about you.
  4. Someone may be giving you attribution.

In addition, if you’ve got a name that might be commonly misspelled, alert yourself to that.  I was given this tip by my web designer, Jenn Putnam. Jenn’s advice paid off last week.  I was interviewed recently by a freelance journalist on renters insurance for business.  I never heard back until I noticed it on Google Alerts.  He had inadvertently misspelled my last name – Weeden.  Because I used “Dan Weeden” as a keyword it picked it up and I learned I was quoted in an article that appeared in the American Express OPEN Forum for Business Owners.  Read the Article Here

Bottom line – make sure you know where you show up on the Internet.

Cheers,

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