When Should I Use A Pen Name?

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Pat Flynn

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

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Jason, who asks about protecting his online identity. What should he do to protect his identity? When should he use a pen name? Jason’s site is http://debtdeparture.com/. In this episode, I talk about my niche website Security Guard Training (http://www.securityguardtraininghq.com/) and why I used a pen name. Share your experience using a pen name with #AskPat378. Do you have a question about protecting your online identity? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	Ask Pat.
0:04.0	Ask Pat.com.
0:07.0	What's up, everybody?
0:11.0	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 378 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.0	All right, here's today's question from Jason.
0:19.0	Hey Pat.
0:20.0	This is Jason from Debt Departure.com.
0:22.6	I've been binge listening to the show for several days, and I came across an episode
0:26.2	where you mentioned using the pen name Pete.
0:28.9	How important is it to protect your real identity online?
0:32.4	Thanks, Pat.
0:33.6	If that's even your real name.
0:37.2	It is my real name. although a lot of people in
0:41.4	college called me flat pin that was my nickname for a while flatpin instead of patflin you can call me
0:46.4	either one uh but that is my my real name and i do use that on smart passive income dot com you can also
0:51.6	see it on green exam academy dot com and also on food trucker.com.
0:55.7	I did not use, and this kind of goes along with yesterday's question, if you heard it, where I talked
1:00.2	about security guard training HQ. On security guard training HQ.com, which was a niche site that I built
1:05.6	in 2010 that's been up and running ever since and doing very well. You can check out more information
1:09.6	about that at niche sitedual.com.
1:12.4	But when I chose to create that site, I also chose to use a pen name, a guy named Pete Chamberlain.
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