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AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

What If I Picked The Wrong Name For My Website Or Podcast?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

April from DIY Nuru (http://diynuru.com/) wants to know if she should change her website and podcast name. I’d like your opinion—tell us what you think April should do using #AskPat216. I tell my story of what happened to my “In the LEED” website and how to do a permanent 301 redirect. Do you have a question about naming a website or product? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

AskPat.

0:04.0

AskPat.com

0:07.0

What's up everybody, Pat Flynn here, and welcome to episode 216 of Ask Pat.

0:14.0

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:16.0

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. And before we get to today's question from April, I do want to thank today's sponsor,

0:24.9

which is freshbooks.com, the super easy to use cloud accounting solution that's going to help you

0:30.1

keep track of all of your business finances, money coming in, money going out, invoicing.

0:36.1

They have an award-winning mobile app, actually, that'll

0:38.8

help you keep track on the go. And you know what? 2015 is right around the corner. You're going to want

0:43.1

to make it easy for you come tax time. So do yourself a favor and check out FreshBooks. You can get it

0:48.1

for free, a free trial. Check it out at getfreshbooks.com and enter Ask Pat in the How Did You Hear About Us section again for a free

0:55.8

trial. Now, let's get to today's question from April.

1:00.6

Hi, Pat. I want to start by thanking you so much for keeping it classy. I know you're a public

1:06.3

figure now and the keyboard trolls and their comments have been rolling in, I'm sure, but still,

1:11.4

you've kept it positive and you've presented the facts and you've set the standard really high,

1:16.0

set the bar high for the rest of the podcasters like myself. So I really appreciate that,

1:20.5

and I know it's hard. So my question is, I've listened to all your podcasts about naming your

1:25.2

blog and your podcast, and I thought I did the right thing, came up with something unique that people would understand, I thought. I came up with

1:31.9

DIY Nuru, a play on Guru, and some people aren't getting it. Also, I thought I vetted it

1:39.6

on Google, and the receptionist at work came and said that it actually means something kind of

1:44.2

naughty, although it's not very popular.

1:46.9

I really don't want to give it up.

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