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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Get a Blue Checkmark on Social Media  | Ep. #700

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Careers, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In episode #700, Eric and Neil discuss the blue check mark and what it means. Tune in to hear how you can become a verified user on social media. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: How to Get a Blue Checkmark on Social Media [00:35] The blue check mark means that you are “verified”. [01:05] On Twitter, there is a form where you can submit your name and argue why you should be verified. [01:30] It’s a way for famous people to safeguard their reps and not be easily impersonated. [01:50] To be verified on YouTube, you need more than 100,000 subscribers. [02:05] Proving that there are impersonators is another easy way to get verified. [02:25] If you are running ads on Facebook, you can talk to the ads manager about getting verified. [03:13] Don’t pay people who claim they can help you get verified. They are scammers! [03:30] A blue check mark hasn’t gotten anything for Eric or Neil, so it may not be worth it. [04:09] That’s it for today! [04:12] Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special marketing tool giveaway! Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

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with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

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Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about how you can get the blue check mark on social media.

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So first and foremost, Neil, what is the blue checkmark?

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Whether you're on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, you see that blue checkmark that's like

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verified profile and everyone looks at it as like, oh my god if you got a verified profile

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your influencer you're amazing you're like someone who's supposed to be someone and

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everyone should pay attention to you right yeah and you know my friend Alex to compare it to the the infinity stones in the Avengers I haven't seen the movie I really want to see it but it's like collecting each one

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It can be like collecting Pokemon for example, but here's a simple way. Let's look at Twitter. Twitter is

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very relatively simple. You basically will basically will submit why they have

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like a form and I'm not sure if it's still alive today but they have a form

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where you can submit your name,

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