Keith Goodrum

[Edit - I've been doing some research because of a twitter reply by Harris Fellman about this tip. From what I can find it does look like that Mike Filsaime 1st came up with this tip.

It looks like Mike started doing this in October, and has been posting his url http://TwitterMike.com regularly. The past month I'd noticed several people doing this, decided to give it a whirl & write about it here.]

Here is a tip to easily & quickly promote your twitter profile in all your marketing material.

Step 1

Go to your favorite domain register and get the domain name http://www.twitter(your name).com. In my case I was lucky enough to get http://www.twitterkeith.com.

The key is to get your twitter user name, or if it works a shorter version. So, for example my twitter user name is KeithGoodrum. I decided to see if I could get twitter Keith instead of twitter Keith Goodrum. I really thought it would be gone because there are several twitters named Keith & figured someone would have grabbed it by now.

Step 2

Go into your webhost and redirect your twitter(your name) to your twitter profile. For example: http://www.twitterkeith.com redirects to http://twitter.com/KeithGoodrum.

Step 3

Now you can start using your new URL to promote your twitter profile. You can add it to your other social media profiles like: Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Your favorite forum profile pages… The list is almost endless.

The new URL looks cleaner, and is catchier than a regular twitter profile. So, go out and grab your name before it’s gone.

It’s easy… I found a site called Ping.fm.

Ping.fm let’s you update 21 different social network site at once. Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, FriendFeed, Mashable, LinkedIn, Pownce, Plurk… are just a few of the sites supported. It’s easy to setup & start sending updates.

I like their description from their about page…

Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don’t have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it.

The idea came about when making some posts to Twitter and Tumblr. The idea of posting the exact same information in two places seemed a bit tedious, so Ping.fm was born.

I really like the control you have over which sites you can send your updates. When you setup each account you are given the option to include the site in any of three categories: Micro-blogs, Statuses or Blogs. You can pick one or all three, your choice.

When you send an update just pick which category from the drop down box & send. If you want it to go to all three the choice as default, then send.

It’s pretty cool. I’ve been using it the past week from my desktop, laptop & cell phone without any problems.

Right now it’s in beta & you can only get in with an invite.

Well, never fear… Keith is here with an invite for you. Today the invite code is “pingscompany”. They have been changing the code every few days, so if this one doesn’t work I’ll up date the code in the comment section below.

Happy Pinging!

08/04/2008 Update… the new beta code is “pingitlikeitshot”