I'm about launching a motivational membership site dealing with how to achieve your goals.
I'm a medical doctor in a developing country.
I really value my anonymity because I like to be quiet and relatively unknown (core introvert and by default not active on most social media), and also for professional reasons cos I want it to be that when my name is searched online, its professional articles and research papers that come up and not my business side.
But I also have a product you want to bring to the world, a motivational self development product, and I want it to be completely separate from my medical doctor identity for professional reasons mentioned above.
Is it okay to develop a full persona, alias/pen name, social media profiles to respond to peoples comments and enquiries and co.
Is it actually illegal if I do not defraud anyone, or is there anything actually wrong with the above (apart from breaching the T&Cs of some of the social media sites that forbid 2 profiles for one person, though I'm aware a lot of people have multiple profiles on same sites both for personal social reasons and business reasons, especially in IM/online marketing).
The other alternative I've considered, is to launch as a mystery persona eg launch as "Dr X"..., or "Dr Who", (sort of like the author "V" of the Mafia Manager, for want of a better example, lol).
That way I don't have to use any fictitious pen name, but at the same time won't have to use my own real name.
But I don't know how the reception to an obviously mystery persona will be in the personal development niche.
I'm interested in hearing what Fastlaners, with their wealth of experience, think about it.
I'm a medical doctor in a developing country.
I really value my anonymity because I like to be quiet and relatively unknown (core introvert and by default not active on most social media), and also for professional reasons cos I want it to be that when my name is searched online, its professional articles and research papers that come up and not my business side.
But I also have a product you want to bring to the world, a motivational self development product, and I want it to be completely separate from my medical doctor identity for professional reasons mentioned above.
Is it okay to develop a full persona, alias/pen name, social media profiles to respond to peoples comments and enquiries and co.
Is it actually illegal if I do not defraud anyone, or is there anything actually wrong with the above (apart from breaching the T&Cs of some of the social media sites that forbid 2 profiles for one person, though I'm aware a lot of people have multiple profiles on same sites both for personal social reasons and business reasons, especially in IM/online marketing).
The other alternative I've considered, is to launch as a mystery persona eg launch as "Dr X"..., or "Dr Who", (sort of like the author "V" of the Mafia Manager, for want of a better example, lol).
That way I don't have to use any fictitious pen name, but at the same time won't have to use my own real name.
But I don't know how the reception to an obviously mystery persona will be in the personal development niche.
I'm interested in hearing what Fastlaners, with their wealth of experience, think about it.
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