by admin on January 27, 2011
A peek into the future at what this year’s GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial will look like I LOVE to make predictions. I also love to be right about them, which of course doesn’t always happen. Really the point is in conducting the mental exercise in trying to read the future. That’s what we do, after [...]
by DomainAnimal on August 22, 2010
My girlfriend is currently studying to apply for Pharmacy School this year. Among her short list of schools is the University of Texas in Austin, where we live and where she’d most like to attend. She’s going through the general application process now which requires for her, among other things, to submit a copy of [...]
Today I stumbled on what I feel is one of the smartest domain sales landing pages that I have seen, possibly ever. Not only does it do an outstanding job of explaining the benefits of owning the domain, (it cites market statistics and revenue projections, and includes quotes from research firms and even Warren Buffet) [...]
by DomainAnimal on May 18, 2010
Over the preceding weeks I’ve been more or less in the tank, and have finally emerged with new direction. You may notice that the site has been completely redesigned and rebranded. (I was just having too many recurrent problems on the old platform, but anticipate smooth sailing from here on out.) Additionally, I’ve just completed [...]
by DomainAnimal on March 3, 2010
I talked in my last post about how I’d been working on the sale of a developed domain with traffic by targeting Google Adwords advertisers. Today I wanted to share the early results of another approach that I used this week to try to generate a sale for another (different) developed site of mine. Owen [...]
by DomainAnimal on February 27, 2010
… You can’t make ‘em drink. Following is how I arrived at this somewhat painful aphorism earlier in the week … I decided I would try to sell one of my developed websites. The site receives around 200 visitors per month. This is not a huge amount of traffic, but its for a fairly niche [...]
by DomainAnimal on February 15, 2010
Here is a consolidated recap of the 2010 Domainer Mardi Gras panel sessions according to the strongest points I took away from each of the speakers. I highly recommend reviewing the speakers bio page to familiarize yourself with everyone on the panels. These are people at the forefront of our industry and they have a [...]
by DomainAnimal on January 25, 2010
Jamie Zoch has just written an interesting post on his blog with advice and some helpful pointers on submitting domain names to auctions. I wanted to expand on the section he wrote on auction promotion. I think Jamie is very on target with what he says here: “Many sellers assume that your domain name submitted [...]