How to Choose a Bio Link Username
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Your username is the entire address people have to remember: viewb.io and then that name. It shows up in your bio, on a card, and in the sentence you say at the end of a video. A clever spelling that you have to spell twice is a worse name than a plain one.
Claim it early. Usernames are unique, and the obvious version of your name is the one someone else will take if you wait.
Rules that keep it sayable
Use the name people already call you, or the business name on the sign. Prefer short. Avoid numbers and extra punctuation unless they are already part of the brand. If you would not read it aloud on a story, do not put it in the URL.
Check it in lowercase. Bio links are typed that way. A name that depends on capitals will be typed wrong.
Personal name or business name
If you are the brand, use your name. If the shop is the brand, use the shop. Do not glue them together into a URL nobody can guess. You can put the other name in the page headline.
One Viewb account holds one profile. A personal page and a studio page should be two usernames, not one page trying to be both.
Claim it, then use it everywhere
After the name is yours, put it in Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, the email signature, and the QR code before you design anything else. A perfect page that is still on the old URL does not help.
You can reorder links later. You cannot easily reprint a username. Choose the boring, memorable one.