Here's another reason to use your real name...

by Loren Woirhaye

Posted: 14 years ago 7 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I was reading a blog and I wanted to refer to a Warrior who
writes about a topic.

I did some Google searches, but the guy has a hard-to-remember
"handle" he goes by here.

All I can remember for sure is the guy has the word "Warrior" with
some other letters and numbers. Cool guy, but his forum name
is hard-to-remember Goobbledigook to me.

I gave up after trying to google him a few times. Time, after all,
is money.

If you do use a "handle" don't put numbers and nonsense
letters in it. People like me won't be able to find you.

#real #reason

E. Brian Rose 14 years ago

Is "Loren Woirhaye" easy to remember?
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- Loren Woirhaye 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose
  
  Is "Loren Woirhaye" easy to remember?
  
  Yeah, you've got me there, but I'm the only one and I think you
  may be missing the point - enough people search for me by name
  that the branding is effective. My own name's spelling definitely
  won't stick in your brain, but my correct name will come up on
  Google for many, many mis-spellings, so you could type
  "lorin woihaye" into Google, for example, and you'd find
  me instantly.
  
  The point is the usage is consistent and the name is humanized
  and authorial, not abstracted like a "gamer" pseudonym - it doesn't
  matter if you like being anonymous and hard to locate, but if you've
  got goods and services for sale you'll be advised to make yourself
  consistently findable.
  
  I'm not using a "handle" and signing my posts with another name.
  But in any case, if I want to find a Warriorforum user I'll type something
  like:
  
  "warriorforum loren"
  
  and this is what you would find:
  
  warriorforum loren - Google Search
  
  In any case, I'm findable, "WarriorX030X" is not.
  
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Lloyd Buchinski 14 years ago

Yep they are a peeve for me too. A password type of user name, deliberately hard to crack? That's just not gonna impress the women (or whatever). John McCabe put it pretty well. "A user name that looks like someone dropped a sandwich on the keyboard." (approximate quote, just from memory)

Of course the one I'm stuck with is pretty close to that too. I'm still trying to work out how to pronounce it...
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- Tyson Faulkner 14 years ago
  
  I think one of the best things about using your real name is that it's consistent. If you start making up user names for the different places you frequent, no one will get to know who you are, let alone remember your name or how to get ahold of you. (Or reference you, in this case)
  
  Using your real name in everything means you'll always be called by the same name and have a better chance of it sticking in other's heads.
  
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  CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Tyson Faulkner
  
  I think one of the best things about using your real name is that it's consistent.
  
  The key isn't so much to use your real name, but to use one that's easy to remember.
  
  I find Loren Woirhaye easy to remember because it's distinctive, but a lot of people would disagree with the "easy to remember" part.
  
  One of the alter egos I'm planning to fire up - specifically tailored for the dating niche - is Jack Brown. The key to making your alter ego work is to treat it like a character in a movie, or a play, or an RPG. (Yes, I am a D&D geek.) It's not enough to say:
  
  "The person who wrote this book is named Jack Brown."
  
  You have to know who Jack Brown is. You have to know that Jack Brown is from Oklahoma, but moved to northern Texas in his late teens, and learned very quickly how to be appreciated by those notoriously independent and discriminating Texas women - without the benefit of growing up around them.
  
  You have to know that Jack Brown is a big fan of the roaring '20s, particularly the big-band swing music popular at the time, and comes off as a throwback to the days between WWI and WWII - pinstripe suits and wing-tip shoes, and who's your daddy, baby?
  
  You have to know how he grew up, and what he wanted, and where he tried and failed, and a lot of that has to be thinly-veiled tales of your own youth and your own dreams and your own failures. He has to be a skeleton of yourself, pulled from your own life, but fleshed with fantasy and fiction.
  
  There has to be enough truth inside the fantasy to make it ring true. You know what I mean?
  
  And buried underneath all of that will be this post, and some few people will come across it and wonder if it really is the same Jack Brown... or just a coincidence.
  
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ACarpentieri 14 years ago

Thanks for posting this. I wasn't sure what username to use for this forum when I joined and I agree with what you said... Although it may be hard to remember someone's name initially, once someone sees it in many places it would be easier to recognize I think.
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multistreams 14 years ago

The Verifiable Truth?... or not... ;-)
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