Have you been busy creating some personal buzz lately? Monitor how often your name is being Googled or Yahoo’ed. Create your own Google Trends. You can easily determine how often people were searching for you (or a username you use), by checking the amount of impressions your ad received. It has to be said that, unlike in real life, having a weird name pays off when you use this strategy. Can you imagine dozens of people with really uncommon names like this? If your name is Mike Johnson, it’s harder to determine if people are looking for you or for that other Mike.

If you don’t want to invest in tracking yourself (which I can’t imagine), you can also let others do it for you. Did you know that there are two services (I know of) that place ads to a page you create for free? I haven’t tested them out, but I’m pretty sure they can be useful to some.

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I know Wiep is only a four letter word, but I can imagine that it’s quite hard to pronounce it if you don’t know how. The Dutch language can be a bitch.
Wiep is pronounced as ‘cheap’, but without the ch. Now mix the ‘eap’ with a combination of a V and a W (like some sort of Russian V). That’s it. V/W-eap.

Do you want to know how not to pronounce my name? There are 7 ways after the jump.

Because it still can be difficult to pronounce (it actually is really easy, but I don’t want to make you feel bad if you still can’t do it correctly), so here are 7 ways of not to pronounce my name correctly.

I’m not from Tzadjikistan, you know?

I don’t want to get associated with a sweeping motion.

Building a brand gets rid of lots of these.

Not even close.

I do get these a lot, though.

I wish.

Imagine your girlfriend’s seven foot ex-husband saying this…

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