How To Pick Your Domain Name

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🗓️ 3 May 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

If you are truly serious about becoming a speaker there are twothings I recommend you have: a web site of your very own andownership of your name as a domain. For example I have The SpeakerLab as well as Grant Baldwin.com.

On episode 59 of The Speaker Lab I explain why I have bothsites, and why owning the domain of your own name is so important.I also share why you'll want to create a separate web site ifyou're going to have other speakers present your materials in thefuture, and how this is similar to a franchise model.

Whether your choose to have just your personal name as your website or branch out with a program, both a domain and a site arecritical to being seen as an expert on your topic, and to gettinghired to speak. So listen in to episode 59 to hear all of that andso much more on today's edition of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW

Do you want a potential client to hire you or yourprogram?
Why do I have both The Speaker Lab and GrantBaldwin.com?
Should you secure your own name as a web site?
What you should do if your name has already been claimedonline.
Where do I recommend purchasing domains?
My top five recommendations on what to do if your name is hard tospell.
What suffixes should you buy - .com, .net, etc.?
Why do you need hosting and what is my recommended resource forit?
And much, much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
0:03.7	Well, of course you are.
0:04.4	Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website.
0:27.2	This training is free.
0:28.1	It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you.
0:32.5	All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked.
0:36.3	That's all one word.
0:37.2	Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked
0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:48.9	What is up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to
0:53.0	have you here with us today. Hope we're doing well. We are into the month of May. Now, if you were just joining us, you were just tuning in. Maybe you've caught us in the past month, as you may know, in the month of April, we did 30 days of podcasting, 30 episodes and 30 days. And we had a lot of great episodes. If you haven't already, definitely go back, listen to those, subscribe to the show as well. But man, we packed in a lot of great stuff. So if you're just joining us, welcome. I'm really, really glad you're here. We typically do episodes twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays where we are teaching you all about the art and business of speaking. So we do a lot of listener interview or listener questions. We do a lot of just discussion and teaching and training. We do a lot of interviews as well. And so today we are going to be doing a listener Q&A. So this is a question that we've had come in a little bit from time to time talking all about websites. And this is a question we get a lot about websites and so we get into this in other episodes
1:44.6	as well but we're going to go into this a little bit more in depth here about getting especially
1:49.2	the domain do you need to use the dot com or the dot net or what if your name isn't available and
1:54.1	you know some of those different nuances of getting the domain name for your speaking business and how
1:59.8	critically important that is. So again,
2:02.3	we're going to get into that today. But before we do, let me quickly remind you. We do
2:06.3	free workshops every single week teaching you all about the business of speaking, how to get
2:11.3	started, how to find speaking engagements, how to book speaking engagements, how much to charge
2:15.3	all of that. So if you would like to join us on an upcoming workshop, you definitely want to stop by free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. Definitely check that out, my friend. We would love, love, love to have you join us on an upcoming workshop. And again, totally free. We want to teach you all about the art and business of speaking.
2:35.7	All right.
2:35.9	So again, let's get into it today.
2:37.2	Today we're going to be talking about your website, domain name,
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