Hi there. I promote my companies services via magazines and in my call to action I send customers to specific pages on my website. The thread is often times very long and I just don't see someone sitting there carefully typing the thread into their browser. I know there are designer link services such as bitly and many others that shorten links, but is there a service that will keep the link active forever or until I bring it down and that will allow me to brand the link with my company name? Something specifically created for the offline world? Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated. Thx!
You can simply buy another .com or .net domain and use standard PHP redirect, since link shorteners are nothing but link redirectors themselves. For example, it can be as simple as yourdomain .com/service1.php - it's short, it can be easily typed in the browser and can be memorized without much effort as well.