Online, reputation is key. It steers your impact.

It is impossible to monitor every venue showcasing public opinion and reviews. However, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your very own and unique onlinline identity with as many social and media sites and internet forums as you are able to manage, at least the important ones in your niche.

Just as you can yourself, anyone can register any name at a social or media site and, hence, pretend to be you. Else, they just tie up your identity, so you can't.

If you think it just take too much time to go around and establish your own unique online identity, consider the time ait will take to get the confusion straightened out.

Think about the added bonus in terms of refferals you'll get by your efforts of claiming your online idenity; many of the social and media sites allow links in their profiles, and media sites with your videos really can drive traffic.

Take initiative and register your online name on as many social and media sites as you can.

Be yourself!

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