Q&A: Is It Time to Change Your Instagram Handle? | Minisode #6
Full-Time Influencer Podcast
Tina Lee
5 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
If you've been thinking about changing your Instagram handle, then this episode is for you. Today, I’m going to share with you my experience with changing my own Instagram handle, the reason behind this change, and the things that you should consider if you decide to change yours as well.
Welcome to the Full-Time Influencer Podcast. I'm your host Tina Lee (@tinalee) I'm sharing some of my expertise and industry information, to help you decode social media, and create content that helps aspiring creatives like you become full-time influencers so you can also do what you love for a living!
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Timestamps:
(1:01) How I came up with Leather and Lace as my brand name
(5:08) Pros and cons of using your name as your Instagram handle
(7:24) Things to consider before changing your handle
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| 0:00.0 | If you're just going to use your name as your handle and not use any kind of branded name, |
| 0:04.9 | I still think that it won't deter any of your growth and it would still be a pretty good route |
| 0:10.3 | to take because then you can keep the same handle for many, many years, even if your niche changes. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to the full-time influencer podcast. I'm your host Tina Lee and I'll be sharing industry knowledge and social media tips through weekly interviews with established creators and Q&A sessions. |
| 0:27.6 | Our goal is to help you decode social media, become a full-time influencer, and do what you love for a living. |
| 0:33.6 | Let's dive in! |
| 0:35.6 | You may have noticed recently that I changed my handle name from |
| 0:38.7 | of leather and lace to Tina Lee. And I got a lot of questions in my DMs about why I changed |
| 0:45.2 | my handle. So in this episode, I'll answer that question, why I changed my IG handle. So I first |
| 0:53.3 | got the of leather and lace Instagram handle in late 2016 after I started a blog |
| 0:58.7 | and purchased the domain name of Leather and Lace. |
| 1:01.3 | The name came about because I was a fashion designer working in New York City at the time. |
| 1:06.7 | And Leather and Lace were my two favorite materials. |
| 1:09.9 | Those were the days of blog names that were like a word puns, |
| 1:14.2 | play with words. |
| 1:15.4 | And I think I got the idea from another blog I saw somewhere |
| 1:18.7 | that was along the lines of silk and something. |
| 1:23.1 | I don't quite remember, but they were two words |
| 1:25.1 | that had the started with the same letter. |
| 1:27.4 | And remember when |
| 1:28.6 | Victoria McGrath was known for her blog name in the fro, when Ami's song was Song of Style, when |
| 1:35.1 | Jenny Chippoletti was Margot and me, and also Leonie, honey, I don't know if that's how you pronounce |
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