My Social Media Revision at Age 55

Starting fresh after a several years on the sideline

Photo by moren hsu on Unsplash

Thank you for reading my debut post to Medium.

Inside the symbolic lockers above are ideas for my editorial calendar.

Or, err … that’s how it looked until late Saturday evening. Before a simple Google search returned alarming information.

My plan as of 36 hours ago included launching a drop-shipping store via my website. Not to mention creating a presence on Etsy and using the top drop-shipping companies. In fact, the ever-positive New Zealander, Sarah Chrisp almost had me. She offers a free week of access to her eComm course for $1. On the eighth day, the rate increases to $67 per month.

But as you know, “There’s always a bigger fish.”

And after six years of using my site, the Google search of adopted user name revealed a store on Etsy. A store with a history of more than 17,000 sales. The store owner began trademarking their name in 2012. I came up with mine while driving to Southern Methodist University circa 2014–15.

The difference in our two names? They use the -al suffix to end their first name. My second name has the -ist suffix. How Google missed that for six years is baffling. But opening a store with the old domain?