Have you been drinking? No one listens to me

I love your words “It is geo and describes exactly what I do”

You get it !!!

Thanks for the kind words. Development is the way to go – its the only way to ultimately get it … hard work but it pays off and one good developed domain is many times worth much more than 500 parked any day (excluding the names Frank and Kevin have of course lol)

If you can incorporate that domain into your “real” job it will provide huge dividends. I see it happen every day – problem lies that many domainers do not have a “real” job so its impossible to incorporate the domain into some kind of immediately tangible benefit.

ex. NewYorkLawyers.com, MiamiDoctor.com – take a profession and a domain, SEO right (that’s the challenge) and you have a lead machine for yourself.

Good luck with everything!!

Need any SEO help just drop me a line

Alan

To learn. When you were posting at Bido.com I found your comments to be far more insightful that the others. So, I followed you here.

I used to own 400 – 500 domains and would sell a few every so often, but I have since switched to development mode. Now, I owe a hundred or so domains that I have only partially developed. I think development is really the direction of the future and since I am a Internet marketer/developer by profession I have no excuse to miss mark on this opportunity. Admittedly, I was a lazy domainer.

Recently, I purchased a domain from buydomains with the intention of development. It is geo and describes exactly what I do and should have decent monthly traffic. If it goes well, I may leave the domaining field entirely, but any success I may have will be because of buying a nice domain and developing it out.

Thanks for the great posts. I find them to be more of business mind-set posts rather than only targeted to domainers.

Thanks for the note – just a couple comments on your quote

“As long as you’re making a living you are doing something right. If things are getting tough, I think anyone could spend a week looking for an end-user sale and get it, could spend some time researching development and do it, but really it’s not for everyone”

I commend anyone for making a living in this industry but doing right for the MOMENT is not really doing it right. Its one of the reasons why domainers are commonly called lazy domainers. In theory, sure anybody should be able to find an enduser within a week however its like saying anybody can sell a car in a week if times get tough. Theory is not practical in this industry since many times you have to educate the end user about the product itself (cars sell themselves to a certain point). Many have no idea what to say or understand the dynamics of price points for end users, nor have an iota of an idea that many valuation points domainers use (such as age etc) have ZERO influence on most end users.

Selling to endusers is an art much like selling any product but very few can become great in a week.

Plus as an investor its your job to understand all the potential customers for your product and not just people who do the same thing you do. Do I think its for everyone .. no .. but thats the difference between a simple investor and a businessman.

As I’ve said before – many domainers are investors and NOT businessmen or even true salespeople .. although I believe many more could be if they only looked outside the industry more.

Thanks again for the comments.

I would not suggest every investor to try to sell the hell out of all their names or develop everyone because it’s not best for all. Some will buy a domain today and sell it for 100 times more tomorrow without ever spending a second thinking of the domain, so development or pitching would be a waste of resources. Plus people are working with all different budgets which effects their strategy.

As long as you’re making a living you are doing something right. If things are getting tough, I think anyone could spend a week looking for an end-user sale and get it, could spend some time researching development and do it, but really it’s not for everyone.

Where is the thumbs up rating thingy?

I wrote an article not so long ago about the art of domain sales……… It’s really not rocket science, but you do have to actually WORK. Lots of work but it is worth it.

Waiting and hoping for things to happen on their own, well, it doesn’t work like that… People need to get aggressive and go where the real money is.

Either sell or develop.

Parking is so boring and out of style this days, I mean.. Come on!!

We are in 2009

Ths issue is that most people still dont get it but I have seen things change recently and Im 100% sure that NOT selling to domainers is the way forward we need to educate the endusers and sell to them.

Yes big domainer sales are nice but they are few and far between.

Posts like these are very encouraging. Keep them coming!

Like allways:

Direct, sharp but so true!

Very Nice Point, we have to stuck on end user not on Domainers.

Thanks for nice tip, you rock man.