A quick thanks for this and the other replies - really helpful.
Cheers, James
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This might help narrow down its availability in places and generate some new places to look.
Might also want to secure the .net .co.uk etc too to avoid any squatters.
http://namechk.com/
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Sent: 08 August 2011 10:42
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Subject: Social media and other third party services 'must haves' to launch new brand
Hi all
Apologies for hijacking the list for what is in effect a personal rather than professional question, but I thought the discussion would be interesting to the list anyway.
My wife and her sister have a great idea for a new educational product that they want to launch as a charity fund-raising project. It has a very distinctive name/brand, but the question is ...
Aside from the obvious web domain, Twitter account and Facebook page, what are the essential places that they need to 'secure' an account using that brand name?
We have registered www.[brandname].com and .org
We have created twitter.com/[brandname]
We have created a Facebook page and will create facebook.com/[brandname] (once we get the required 25 Likes!)
We will probably also do a YouTube account/channel
But what other channels/services would anyone suggest as must haves? I appreciate that it does depend on the product and any particular needs, but at this stage and in this forum I'm just intrigued as to what people regard as the key generic ones.
Thanks, James
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