Hello guys, welcome to this video we're going to talk about selecting the right username, or as it's called Instagram handle. So you will have a handle which you can take in pictures and captions and comments with the F symbol. So I am in my LFC gadgets account and the name of the account. The username of the account is LFC gadgets. And if I want to take LFC gadgets, I let me go to my here in the profile. If you click on the third tab here, it's like a tech symbol.

You click here you will see photos of you here are the photos that LFC gadgets LFC gadgets have been tagged. So if I go to this picture, I click on it, it will appear all the people who has been tagged all the comments that has been tagged on This picture, so you can see LFC gadgets, it's right there. And if I go here, and I click you will see that these two guys tag me on this picture too. Okay. Now if you want to change your username, don't worry if you messed it up. If you don't like it, you can change it as many times as you want as long as the name is available.

So let me show you how you can change it just go into your profile and under the following, click the tab Edit Profile. Okay, the first line is actually the title of your account or the name of your account. In in this case the name is Liverpool FC gadgets why NWA I'm going to explain it in a later video why I put here long title. Basically, there are keywords. And the second line is LFC gadgets. Now, I just want to give you a few pointers on how to select your handle.

So for this account, it was fairly simple because I had a website that title was left to get gadgets for short LFC gadgets. So that's how I went with it. I kept it simple. And this is what I recommend. Keep it simple. So the use the kiss method, keep it simple, stupid.

Why? Because if you want to put it on a business card, you can just write it in one line. You don't have to use any lines or quotation marks or whatever you just put at LFC gadgets and you're done. Also, if you're telling somebody to follow you on Instagram, you It's easier to say like, follow me on Instagram. My name is Eduardo Pinta. Nothing fancy, simple.

Let me switch to digital lifestyle. Because I had trouble with this account when I was setting up the username because I wanted to be Digital Lifestyle. Because the name of my website is Digi lifestyle club. My Snapchat is Digi lifestyle and I want Instagram to be Digital Lifestyle. Now the only problem is I'm going to show you if I'm trying to save. So you type in your username and you just hit done at the top right corner.

And Instagram will tell me sorry that username is taken. So that's why I separated dg and lifestyle ended up with an underscore. So the second point that I want to talk about is if your initial username is taken, try to separate it or Just separate it with a.or an underscore, or with something really simple. Now, let me show you my personal account, which is fritzing B, I wanted to keep this one simple as well, I wanted to be only at fritzi. The problem is the same, the user name is taken. So I took my family name, which is bada bash, so I end, edit, be there, and it looked like it seemed kind of weird.

So I wanted to emphasize that it's fritzie B. So I added two E's at the end, and that's how I came up with it really simple. Okay. So keep it simple, if not, try to avoid dots, underscores hyphens quotation marks, but if you need to use them, if you run out of these ideas to N all the combinations with dots and hyphens And underscores are taken, I suggest you go with your location your geographical location. So maybe you are in the fitness industry in USA. So I'm going to go to search here and type in fitness.

Fitness USA is going to show me the top people or takes and if you can, you can see it this account is really small account. It's fairly complicated because it has an underscore and the number in it. So don't add number. Let me see fitness USA. This is fairly complicated as well. So made for fitness.

This is actually a pretty good name made for fitness. So use geographical location. That's what I'm trying to say here. If not, if you're a business, you have a website, just use the domain name of your website. If that is occupied, just use the whole, the whole name of your domain like, if your website is Eduardo pizza.com. Try try the username eldorado.com if Eldorado pizza is taken, just use eldorado.com.

If that is taken to then you can do like if you're based in I don't know, in London, or Mexico or whatever you just put and Rado pizza Mexico or Eldorado pizza, London just to keep it simple. Okay, if that doesn't work, and the domain doesn't work, you can include your industry or niche. So if you're in the food industry, you Include your specialty like, add Rado pizza as I told you, and Rado, tacos or Eldorado, whatever, you get the idea. If that doesn't work, either and all the combinations are out, try to use prefixes just like the Eldorado pizza, or de Dorado tacos. You get the idea. Or if you're a personal brand you want to brand awareness you want to promote your personal brand.

I'm going to show you what actually Jamie Foxx is doing. So Jamie Foxx, he uses. I am Jamie Foxx. If you go to his profile you will see on Snapchat is I am Jamie Foxx on Facebook. He's Jamie Foxx on Twitter. He's at I am Jamie Foxx on Instagram is the same as on Twitter.

I am Jamie Fox. So you can try That or if you if you want you can try that for a company as well. We are Eldorado pizza. I'm sorry that I came up with this other other pizza but that was the first thing on my mind and it's fairly simple for you to understand in which direction to go. Okay. So thank you for listening.

I hope you will find the right handle the the simplest handle so your account will be reached. We will talk about the bio description, some keywords and other stuff in the next video. Thank you