WEBVTT 00:00.170 --> 00:04.040 Now, I want to show you, when you're in your TikTok and you see I'm just starting out, when you click 00:04.040 --> 00:09.770 on me and you click on the red button in the middle edit profile, it's going to take you to your profile. 00:09.770 --> 00:15.260 And in the very first thing after you set up your account, you want to set up your screen name. 00:15.260 --> 00:17.450 The screen name should be a couple of things. 00:17.450 --> 00:18.860 It should be short. 00:18.890 --> 00:19.850 Mine is not short. 00:19.850 --> 00:22.040 I'll explain that why I'm doing that in a second. 00:22.040 --> 00:24.230 But yours should be relatively short. 00:24.230 --> 00:31.490 Easy to spell, easy to say, easy to remember or catchy or funny or on brand. 00:31.700 --> 00:34.880 Okay, so if your music you see mine is Alex Genadinik music. 00:34.880 --> 00:39.980 If you're humor, it should be comedy or something that people will know immediately from your account 00:39.980 --> 00:43.790 that, hey, you're serious about pursuing that thing that you're on brand about. 00:43.790 --> 00:46.490 If you don't have a brand, if there is no theme, leave the theme out. 00:46.490 --> 00:47.690 But short and catchy. 00:47.720 --> 00:49.790 Now why is mine so long? 00:49.820 --> 00:53.810 Alex Genadinik music and my last name is impossible to spell. 00:53.810 --> 00:57.650 The reason it's like that is that my name? 00:57.650 --> 00:58.760 Alex Genadinik. 00:58.820 --> 01:03.300 You know I'm not so known, but it is relatively known. 01:03.300 --> 01:05.820 I have a large profile online. 01:05.820 --> 01:12.240 I have millions of people who know this name and I have a big YouTube following and Udemy following 01:12.240 --> 01:13.110 and so on and so on. 01:13.110 --> 01:18.990 So actually the most recognized thing about personally me is my name. 01:18.990 --> 01:23.850 So that's why when people look me up, they will look me up, especially by my name, because my name 01:23.850 --> 01:28.740 I've been building an online profile for like the last ten years and even though my last name is so 01:28.740 --> 01:32.160 brutal, a lot of people have gotten used to that last name and they know it. 01:32.160 --> 01:35.700 So that's my screen name. 01:35.700 --> 01:37.590 And now you know how to set up your. 01:37.590 --> 01:44.070 Just a reminder, the guideline for you is as many of these as possible accomplish them in your screen 01:44.070 --> 01:51.720 name short on brand catchy, funny, easy to spell, easy to say, easy to remember. 01:51.720 --> 01:56.280 Because sure, a lot of people are going to click on it, so there's no need for them to spell it. 01:56.280 --> 01:59.760 But sometimes you will tell people, Hey guys, follow me on Tick Tock. 01:59.760 --> 02:00.790 I'm ABC now. 02:00.800 --> 02:03.080 If you're ABC, nobody will forget that. 02:03.080 --> 02:09.110 But if you're a long like ABC one, two, three, X, y, z, okay, then people will have a harder 02:09.110 --> 02:10.700 time remembering that. 02:10.700 --> 02:15.920 So in your case, you would just change yours when you set it up, it will let you edit it. 02:15.950 --> 02:20.570 You see in very small text here you can change your username only once every 30 days. 02:20.570 --> 02:24.890 So think very hard about it because you're not going to be able to change it for a while. 02:24.890 --> 02:31.730 And then when you make it posted here and you'll have your screen name, which is one of the very important 02:31.730 --> 02:35.600 things because then once you have your screen name, you can start promoting your account elsewhere 02:35.630 --> 02:37.880 on other social medias, on other platforms. 02:37.880 --> 02:39.200 So that's your screen name. 02:39.200 --> 02:41.870 It's the first thing you set up after you create your account.