This post was inspired and sponsored by Domain.ME, the provider of the personal domains that end in .ME. As a company, they aim to promote thought leadership to the tech world. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
When you started blogging, you probably just did one thing. For me, I owned one URL (this one!) and just wrote here.
Soon I started branching out. I write for other sites, I started other websites that weren’t necessarily blogs, I speak at events, I helped run a few conferences, I run a community, and I consult with brands. Friends who were “just” bloggers are now also creating courses, products, and books.
We aren’t :shudder: Mommy Bloggers, we are business owners, and there can be a hundred different parts to our companies.
The problem is, can you represent that on your main site? On every site? Very often it’s not a good fit to sell your book about finance on your blog about toys. You might not want to talk about your SEO services on your recipe blog.
Consolidate ME
Still, you need somewhere that rounds up everything you do. Professional networking sites limit how you present yourself, especially if you are a creator. 500 characters of text may not give you an opportunity to shine.
When you do a hundred different things as part of your hustle, a content hub can help you showcase the one thing they all have in common: you!
Pull together your hundred digital destinations: your blogs, social media accounts, media kits, and business ventures to live all in one place.
Right now I’m working with Domain.ME to build a content hub on AnneJParris.ME. This site will highlight all my different ventures in one place. It’s like pulling together all my “About Me” pages in a way that shows the full picture of my personal brand.
Brand ME
Now I’ll have a platform to collect my work in a way that makes sense. I plan on keeping the site updated with my social media accounts, places I’m published beyond my blog, speaking events, and brand partnerships. I’ll have one site address on my business cards to give potential clients the full picture of what I’ve done and what I have to offer.
Reputation ManageMEnt
I’m using my name as the URL for my content hub as a way to help people find me and the best of what I have to offer. Eventually when my name is searched for online, I want my hub site to show up first. Now I have a showstopping website that reflects of the best of me and can act as a portal for my products and services. As my digital footprint grows, I can curate the very best in a place that gets seen.
Track Wins for ME
Working from home can be thankless. There’s no company retreat, unless taking my laptop to a coffee shop counts. Every day it’s just me in yoga pants and a Star Wars t-shirt tapping away while my Pomeranian barks at squirrels. The solo grind to wear you down. Updating my hub site will give me a place to track and celebrate my achievements and completed projects. If I need a pick-me-up, checking my hub site will remind me why I do what I do.
Why .ME?
A Domain.ME hub can be an essential tool for a multi-faceted influencer like today’s blogger. I’m using a .ME domain name as a fun and memorable way to highlight my personal brand.
laptopFor you, it can be a way to find new customers and readers while building your name recognition. You can be you, and not the blogonym you picked before you knew the direction your online business would take you.
Domain.ME is a domain name provider that allows anyone to create a unique, safe identity online with a domain ending in .ME. I’m using my name, but you can certainly use anything that best reflects you and what you do.
Learn more about creating your own online hub by clicking the Domain.ME logo below. 
That is pretty awesome. I wish this had been around when I was first starting out. It would have made things so much easier for me.
I think even now it would be a huge asset for you, considering all you do. You are a busy woman!
I need to look into this. My current site is already well established, but it never hurts to find new ways to get my name out there. A ME domain seems like it could do that and do it well.
Yes, for you and Audrey it could be a way to showcase what you do together and also highlight your individual projects, house your media kit, sizzle reels, etc.
This is definitely something to think about. I love anything that makes my life easier.
Especially when you do a couple of different things. We all have a lot of irons in the fire now.
It makes sense to consolidate all of your info to one site! That way you will have a home base that you can direct people to so they can see all your domains, work, etc.
That’s it exactly! And I think it looks so much more special than sending someone to a resume site that’s mostly plain text.
I like your ideas! I can definitely see a unique domain being a good idea. It would be cool to have a website for effective branding.
This looks like a great option. I haven’t met a single blogger who just blogs. There are always more things they pursue.
Right? And it gives you a place where it make sense to mix your chocolate with your peanut butter.
Having a main site does make a lot of sense. It’s definitely something to think about especially if you’ve been on the blogging scene, doing different things for a long time.
I agree that keeping everything under one main site really makes things so much easier! I also cringe at “mommy blogger”. Really, who is just a mommy blogger these days? Online presence is so much more than writing about what you did with Little Timmy today.
I call it the “M” word.
This makes me think of a blogger whose profile says her niche is ‘me.’ 🙂 I like the ideas of making everything in one unique place.
This is awesome news. I manage and maintain several blogs across various niches and this domain.me would be very helpful. I’m checking this out. Thanks!
This sounds like a great option if you want to put up another blog. Would love to explore on this! Checking it out! Thank you for sharing!
Domain.ME sounds like it could be great for me. I will have to check it out.
I’ve heard a lot of good thing about Domain.Me sounds great! Will try it when I publish new blog.
Thank you for introducing me to a means to get myself and blogs organized and get my message seen.
I have heard good things about .ME options.
I like the way it gives us bloggers expansions on our work possibilities.
I am certainly a blogger who does it all and is everywhere virtually. I do love the .me idea. I do own a personal bit.ly that is JaredAmy.co, but .me is pretty cool too!
I’m stretched pretty thin. Reminding myself it’s ok to not do 100 different things in a day is helpful. Having it spelled out for me helps too. Sounds like I need to focus on .me.
I have to look into this- I’ve been hearing great things about this. Now may be the time!
Great posts… informative and I learned a lot.