How Can I Protect My Turf? Know'em!

KnowEm checks the availability of your brand name, user name or vanity URL on 120 popular Social Media websites.  If you're planning to launch a major online lobbying campaign, you should not only protect your brand on every major site, but also secure it so competitors and enemies can't falsely represent you.

This is an easy to use website where they do all the tedious work of signing up for all these sites for only $64.95.  How do they do it?  By hand!

In between 1 and 5 business days, KnowEm will manually go to each of the 120 sites and enter your information - secure your user name and use the password you provide.

According to KnowEm, they:

 "could have automated this system and published it a while ago but that would be a violation of the terms for the majority of these sites. We didn't want to go that route so we actually recruited a great team to complete the signups."

Once the signup is complete, your data is erased unless you want to sign up for the subscription service for new sites that are added to the list.  If you forget your password, just go to the site and ask for a password reset.

I haven't tried the service myself, but it looks like a great way to save a lot of time if you're trying to protect your name across the social web as you jumpstart your advocacy campaign.