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Selling domains can be a lucrative business, but it can also be time-consuming and require a lot of effort to find the right buyers. Fortunately, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have made it easier to sell domains quickly and efficiently.
Use AI-powered domain valuation tools: One of the most significant challenges in selling domains is determining their value. While you can use traditional valuation methods like comparable sales and market demand, AI-powered tools can provide more accurate and faster assessments. These tools use machine learning algorithms to analyze vast amounts of data, such as keyword popularity, search volume, and historical sales data, to determine a domain’s value. By using these tools, you can quickly and easily price your domains accurately and competitively, making them more attractive to potential buyers.
Implement AI chatbots for customer support: Customer support is another essential aspect of selling domains. Potential buyers may have questions about the domain’s history, its potential uses, and other factors that can influence their decision to buy. AI-powered chatbots can help you provide instant customer support and answer common queries quickly. You can use chatbots to provide 24/7 customer service, improving your customer engagement and increasing the chances of making a sale.
Use AI to identify potential buyers: Identifying potential buyers is another significant challenge in selling domains. AI-powered tools can help you analyze website traffic data to identify businesses or individuals who may be interested in your domain. By using data such as website visitors’ demographics, interests, and search behavior, you can create targeted marketing campaigns that increase your chances of selling the domain quickly.
Leverage AI for personalized marketing: Personalized marketing is crucial in today’s digital landscape. AI-powered tools can help you create personalized marketing campaigns that target specific buyers based on their interests, search history, and browsing behavior. By using personalized marketing, you can increase your chances of selling the domain quickly and at a higher price.
Use AI to optimize your domain landing pages: Your domain’s landing page is critical in convincing potential buyers to make an offer. AI-powered tools can help you optimize your landing pages by analyzing user behavior and making data-driven recommendations. You can use AI to improve your landing page’s design, content, and user experience, making it more attractive and persuasive to potential buyers.
Conclusion
AI technology can help you sell domains more effectively and efficiently. By leveraging AI-powered domain valuation tools, chatbots for customer support, identifying potential buyers, personalized marketing, and optimizing landing pages, you can increase your chances of selling your domains quickly and at a higher price. While AI technology can’t guarantee a sale, it can help you streamline the process and make it more productive.
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Should Domain Brokers Charge An Upfront Fee For Marketing & Advertising?
Domain brokers are professionals who specialize in buying and selling internet domain names on behalf of clients. They act as intermediaries between buyers and sellers and are responsible for facilitating the transaction. One of the most common practices among domain brokers is charging an upfront fee for marketing and advertising a domain name. However, the question arises, should domain brokers charge an upfront fee for marketing and advertising? In this article, we will explore this question in detail and weigh the pros and cons of charging an upfront fee for marketing and advertising.
Pros of charging an upfront fee for marketing and advertising:
Provides assurance to the seller: Charging an upfront fee provides assurance to the seller that the broker is serious about selling the domain name. It also shows that the broker is committed to spending time and resources on marketing and advertising the domain name, which can help to attract potential buyers.
Covers the cost of marketing and advertising: Marketing and advertising a domain name can be costly, especially if the broker is using paid advertising methods such as Google AdWords or Facebook Ads. Charging an upfront fee helps to cover these costs and ensures that the broker can continue to market and advertise the domain name until it is sold.
Filters out non-serious clients: Charging an upfront fee can also help to filter out non-serious clients who are not committed to selling their domain name. This can save the broker time and resources that would have otherwise been wasted on clients who are not serious about selling.
Cons of charging an upfront fee for marketing and advertising:
Risk of not selling the domain name: There is always a risk that the domain name may not sell, even after the broker has spent time and resources on marketing and advertising. In this case, the seller may feel that they have paid an upfront fee for nothing, which can lead to dissatisfaction, although this can work both ways because the broker still has to pay for hosting, marketing, and advertising. Therefore it is imperative to set out a disclaimer and emphasis that hosting, advertising, and marketing come with additional fees.
Potential conflict of interest: Charging an upfront fee can create a potential conflict of interest between the broker and the seller. If the broker is paid upfront, they may be less motivated to sell the domain name quickly and at the best possible price, as they have already been paid.
Lack of transparency: Some brokers may charge an upfront fee without providing transparency on how the fee will be used or what specific marketing and advertising efforts will be undertaken. This can lead to mistrust between the broker and the seller.
Conclusion:
Whether domain brokers should charge an upfront fee for marketing and advertising is a complex issue and boils down to the discretion of the broker. If it costs the broker money to advertise using PPC or Banner Ads, it only makes sense to charge for the service.
There is no guarantee a domain name will sell so for a domain seller to expect the domain broker to work for them for nothing and spend money out of their pocket paying for advertising does not make sense.
A domain broker that spends most of his/her time brokering a domain name on a domain name that was registered for $10 should have a bigger commission than 15%. Just because the domain seller has registered the domain name they should not expect someone to work for free and reward them a small commission if the domain sells and that’s a big “IF”.
Giving a domain broker a higher commission without paying any upfront fees as an incentive to work harder is offensive to the broker that is spending their time and money marketing a domain that may never sell.
It is not the broker’s fault if your domain does not sell. Brokers do not have superpowers, they can not force someone to buy your domain names and they do not have a little black book of investors ready and waiting to buy domain names. Your domain depends on if your domain has value and if it is in demand. Businesses usually become creative if their first choice of the domain name has gone, as was the case with me not being able to acquire www.renata.com so I settled for www.irenata.com
There are two ways the broker may try to sell your domain (1) they list your domain on their site similar to a marketplace and set and forget or (2) they perform SEO, market, write content and advertise the domain name so it gets seen by a targeted audience. With all the best efforts no one can make someone buy your domain if your domain has no value. Simply giving a domain to a domain broker and saying “here you go”without giving a pitch about why you think your domain is worth the money you are asking for is like handing over a brick to a broker and expecting them to know what you envisage the brick could become.
Domain sellers need to send a pitch to the domain broker so that the broker knows why the domain is worth the asking price. It could be that the domain has history, or equity and is getting traffic. Domain Brokers are not mind readers.
Beauty Consultants of High-End Beauty Brands, Car Show Room Sales Staff, and Real Estate Agents all get a base wage plus a commission on top if they sell, so it should also apply to Domain Brokers.
A domain broker who runs their own business has to pay hosting fees, marketing, and advertising fees and may even hire content writers. A domain broker will also network with his or her connectionsand the costs should not come out of domain brokers’ pockets, furthermore, no one works for free in this world and gets a reward if they manage to sell. Imagine if the domain never sells, you have theoretically got someone to work for you for nothing, as well as use up advertising space which costs money.
A domain broker has overheads to pay for and if they are paying for hosting, advertising, and marketing it drains their cash flow.
While charging an upfront fee provides assurance to the seller, covers the cost of marketing and advertising, and filters out non-serious clients, it also comes with the risk of not selling the domain name, a potential conflict of interest, and a lack of transparency.
Ultimately, the decision to charge an upfront fee should be based on the specific circumstances of each transaction and the relationship between the broker and the seller.
As a general rule, domain brokers should strive for transparency and clear communication with their clients to ensure that both parties are satisfied with the transaction.
Domain Brokers should always have a contract in place between the seller and the broker. If you sell your domain names on marketplaces they have their own terms and conditions and they usually charge for brokering. It is one thing to list a domain and set and forget and it is another when it comes to brokering.
How To Monetise Your Domain Name Or Your Business.
Domain Name / Website Optimisation.
So you have a domain name and you have listed it on marketplaces and nothing is working. You have emailed prospective buyers, you have networked and even advertised, and nada…
But what if I showed you a way to make money from your domain whilst you waited to get a sale.
This strategy can be implemented in any niche.
It does not have to be domain names it could be any industry. You could simply be a startup waiting for a new client and you are wondering what to do next to get some money coming in. Your business could be slow and you are now researching what to do next to pay off your loans and credit cards and possibly even worried about the price hikes of petrol, gas, electricity, and food.
Here are the strategies you can use after I reveal what I do to make money whilst you sleep.
The secret is cookies (not the edible kind) and here I will explain my method. As you may know, I have many websites and am implementing this across my SEO Link Wheel, but one website will do.
Firstly you need to have a decent amount of people that you can network with. Building an email list takes time. If you have many followers on your Facebook Page you could start there but I would try to exhaust all avenues.
Don’t worry if you don’t have a large following, you may be generating a lot of traffic each month to your website so you could integrate banner ads on your homepage and in the footer of your site.
You can also explore classified ads and PPC advertising. If you need some help with this just send us an email at hello@cymrumarketing.com
Now my sites are targeted at business owners and I do try and write content regularly to boost my traffic. However, in one of my niches (Domain Sales and Acquisitions), some of the domains on my books owned by domain investors are not high quality do not have equity, and may get traffic but no sales. What I try and do in these cases is write articles about the keywords in the domains, but that does not really help to bring food to the table. Hence I have devised a strategy to not only optimize (SEO) my articles but add High Ticket Affiliate Links. Why waste your time with low-cost commissions when you get to earn big bucks for the same amount of time and effort.
Now what I am about to share with you, you can integrate into your email signatures, autoresponders, using an affiliate link, or add custom HTML code banner ads to your websites, social media pages, and articles.
About BullionVault.
About BullionVault.
Affiliate Partner.
The affiliate partner I have chosen not only will help people to save money but if they want to make money on a side hustle or boost their income, you could be a referrer and help them whilst also making a commission. It is no good to advertise to people that may not be interested in your affiliate program. you need to target people and perhaps encourage them to invest in Gold Bullion and tell them by signing up they get free silver bullion. Who doesn’t want something for nothing?
Signing Up – You get a Gift.
What is even more exciting is by using the following referral linkyou will get:
1/8 oz (4g) of silver bullion.
€1 and $1 and £1. However if you register from Japan you will get ¥100 instead of the £1.
You may use them and immediately sell and buy silver on the BullionVault dashboard. If you use the order skilfully you can accumulate a growing balance, by putting some money aside each month or by earning commissions.
You’ll find you can use several of the vaults and all the currencies. You’ll be trading live and just like any normal BullionVault account, only smaller, without risk.
BullionVault’s Referral Programme.
BullionVault is one of the most trusted businesses on the web. You can participate and earn a no-nonsense 25% share of our gross commission (including mark-up and mark-down) by introducing gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and BullionVault.com to your friends or your own website’s visitors. It takes two minutes to set up and continues earning you respectable money for years.
When new customers are referred by you …
You get a full 25% share of commissions (including mark-up and mark-down)
You get further 6.25% share of commission (including mark-up and mark-down) on further new accounts referred in by those you introduced
You continue to generate commission income at the same rate on repeat business for a full 2 years from account creation – and many BullionVault customers deal repeatedly.
Your BullionVault account receives your commission instantly, with no complexities or delays.
To help you benefit we provide you with …
a simple link which you can share with your friends or put anywhere on your social media page or website.
banners, charts and widgets to embed on your site.
an on-line statement with line by line credits for your commission earnings.
How much can you earn?
By composing an email and sending it to his registered members our very first referrer earned $2,500 in his firstmonth as a referrer.Bullion Vault has referrers from across the world generating revenue from the program. This is because thousands of astute people in this world are either wanting to make investments or make a lot of money from affiliate marketing.
There are also a lot of wealthy people turning to gold, silver, platinum, and palladium – and to BullionVault – as a response to currency expansion running out of control. They are looking for a product you can now introduce them to.
Testimonials.
“If there is an easier route to purchasing bullion I have not found it.” TH
“Love the service and the site. Actually, your whole business model is a good one and like many excellent ideas are simple and just leaves me wondering why it hasn’t been done before.” RK
“It’s an absolutely incredibly good service/website, from everything to presentation, ease of use and security its very clear and a pleasure to use.” BR
How it works.
Becoming an affiliate is simple. First go to www.bullionvault.com and Register, so that you have a BullionVault account. Please note that you will need to validate your BullionVault account to withdraw any proceeds.
Your referral link to BullionVault then takes the form:
Please remember to change MYUSERNAME to the BullionVault username you chose when registering.
You may notice that the URL string returned by clicking on the referral link is long. Please be reassured that your referral details will be captured in our database.
Please note that the above referral URL structure is the only way referrers can link to BullionVault. If you use any other URL structure then you will not receive any commission.
If you are looking to refer only one or two friends, another way we can record your referrals is on the BullionVault registration page in our marketing drop-down called “How did you first find BullionVault?”
In the drop-down is a field called “Referred by” which allows your friend to enter your BullionVault username (GOLDENDOMAIN) in the “Please enter the username” box.
If you have any questions or would like more information regarding the BullionVault Referral Programme or any other marketing query please contact us athello@cymrumarketing.com
Example: Banner advert
If you would like to add a banner to your website, the html code you need to use is:
Please remember again to change MYUSERNAME to the BullionVault username you chose when registering.
You can choose an alternative banner image from their banner catalogue.
Ways to refer.
Use your referral links and banners on your site, blogs, emails, message boards, personal social media pages, etc.
NB: If you use email please refrain from spamming.
You can also display the latest gold or silver buy and sell prices via our live price widgets. There are 4 banner sizes to choose from and you can include your referral id in the code.
You may also like to consider embedding BullionVault’s customizable gold and silver price chart on your website. You have two versions to choose from and both allow you to include your referral id in the code.
If you have any questions or would like more information regarding the BullionVault Referral Programme or any other marketing query please contact us at hello@cymrumarketing.com
Tracking your earnings.
You can track your referral program earnings online, by logging in and selecting HISTORY > REFERRALS.
From there you’ll see how many new accounts you’ve referred and how many of those have been funded. As soon as your first referred customer makes a deposit, you’ll see a breakdown of how much business you’ve generated and how much commission you’ve earned so far.
Commission shares are passed to you the instant your referred customers trade, so you’ll also see your earnings reflected in your account balance and online statement. Please note that you will need to validate your BullionVault account to withdraw any proceeds.
Terms and Conditions.
Referal commission relates to vaulted traded gold, silver, platinum and palladium products only. Coin and bar sales are excluded from referral commission.
You are entitled to receive commission at the stated rates (25% of BullionVault’s gross commission including mark-up and mark-down) where you are responsible for introducing a BullionVault customer via an appropriate link – according to the procedures of the referral program.
You are entitled to receive commission at the stated rates (6.25% of BullionVault’s gross commission including mark-up and mark-down) where a newBullionVault customer was referred by someone you referred – according to the procedures of the programme.
You will generate commission share for a period of 2 years. The two-year period will start on the account creation date of the referred customer.
You understand that a prospective user coming to BullionVault via your referral link may not register an account during that visit. In order to track these prospects, BullionVault will seek to place a 2-month cookie on their computer system, identifying you as the referrer.
You understand that this can only happen where (i) the prospect chooses to accept our cookies and cookie policy (ii) it is allowed by their browser settings, and (iii) no pre-existing equivalent cookie referencing another referrer would be replaced.
You accept that the existence of a pre-existing cookie will cause that referrer to benefit by commission sharing instead of you. You acknowledge that you understand that sometimes you will benefit from this policy – where you are in fact the first referrer – and sometimes you will lose out – where you are a second or subsequent referrer.
You acknowledge that the expiry of the cookie on a referred customer’s machine within two months of the referral during which time the prospect has neither registered nor visited the BullionVault site causes the cookie containing your referrer id to be expunged.
You acknowledge that housekeeping utilities in use by the visitor may cause the cookie to be expunged before the time period is up, and that in this event BullionVault is not expected to identify you as the first referrer.
Only referrers using the prescribed referral URL structure as detailed above will generate commission. Any referrer linking to BullionVault using an incorrect URL structure after 31st March 2015 will have their commission halted and account frozen until they switch to the prescribed referral URL.
Existing BullionVault customers whose details are already held on the BullionVault database will not be included in the commission share if they open a new account via your referral links.
You acknowledge that while your account will be credited immediately when you start earning commissions you will need to validate your BullionVault account in line with existing BullionVault customer terms and conditions.
If you have not validated your account within 8 weeks of starting to earn commissions we will begin charging you a late validation penalty fee of $30 per month until your account is validated.
If you have not validated your account within 1 year of the date you started to earn commission, we reserve the right to reclaim any referral commission.
You accept that we will charge your account a wire or equivalent banking fee when you withdraw your commissions to your validated bank account.
You will not refer your own accounts or those of your spouse. You understand that where doubt exists BullionVault may prevent withdrawal of referral earnings until a reasonable number of accounts have been referred and funded.
All material offered for your use remains copyright of BullionVault/Galmarley Ltd. By reproducing it in any way — whether by email, website, print or any other medium, and including substantive amendments — you hereby agree to use this material solely for promoting BullionVault alone.
Your websites will not contain any material which is defamatory, violent, pornographic, unlawful, threatening, obscene or racially, ethnically, or otherwise discriminatory or in breach of any third-party rights and shall not link to any such material. Infringement will result in the loss of all referral income.
You will at all times conduct yourself with all due skill, care and diligence, including Good Industry Practice, and in accordance with your own established procedures and all applicable laws, enactments, orders, regulations and other similar instrument.
BullionVault will not tolerate any abuse in its name of international “anti-spam” regulations. Infringement will result in the loss of all referral income, howsoever generated. In promoting BullionVault by email, you hereby accept liability for ensuring your lists are up-to-date, “opt in” only, and fully compliant with your local data protection legislation.
You will not register any domain names or register keywords, search terms or other identifiers for use in any search engine, social media network, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service or include meta tag keywords on their website that incorporate terms which are identical to, similar to or could be reasonably confused with BullionVault services and/or Website, trademarks (or other trademarks owned by BullionVault) and you will at all times comply with such guidelines for the use of BullionVault’s services and website and trademarks as may be issued from time to time. You may be contacted by BullionVault to change the referral tracking links you are using and associated html code. You will have 45 days to action this request. If any of the above actions are undertaken we will halt your commission and freeze your account.
If your BullionVault account is closed you will cease to earn any referral commission from the users you have referred that are linked to your account.
These are BullionVault’s Referral Programme Terms and Conditions as of 22nd May 2019. These terms and conditions are subject to change with 30 days notice to active referrers.
Germ Awarenesswww.germawareness.co.uk Domain Name For Sale.
With the new Covid-19 variant ‘Omicron’ announcements from Boris Johnson yesterday declaring an emergency booster rollout, it is only fitting to teach the population about germ awareness and cross-contamination.
The Prime Minister said that the country is facing an emergency in its battle with the new variant, adding that no one should be in any doubt that a tidal wave of Omicron is coming and two doses do not afford enough protection. He warned: “Do not make the mistake of thinking Omicron can’t hurt you; can’t make you and your loved ones seriously ill.
Considering some people are complacent about germs, what I mean by this is young people in general who have no regard for authority, will do as they please and their way of thinking is rules can be broken.
In fact, I know that lateral tests are sent via text message from the NHS, so what is stopping a young person from copying and pasting the text, changing the Name and DOB of the Recipient they are Forwarding the message on to (their friend who has not has a test done and who has not been vaccinated) for the recipient to change the name of their contact to NHS?
If the government thinks this is not going on, then they are very naive.
The nightclub doormen check the phones but do they go as far as checking the contact name has not been purposely changed to look like it was the NHS that sent the text? I highly doubt it, that is why we are in the mess now.
The consequences of people’s actions cause a domino effect and in turn catastrophic events.
What the Government & NHS should do when sending out text messages is have a photo document rather than text that cannot be edited. They should also get doormen of nightclubs and venues to cross-reference lateral flow tests and passports on the NHS app using a tablet on entry to verify the person using a unique number or barcode. The Government should also impose hefty fines for anyone attempting to scam them.
How about lockdowns? I have heard on the grapevine and written about it before when we had the first lockdown, young people turn their phones and smart TVs off and party like there is no tomorrow. The pen pushers in Government need to get their act together and have their ears down to the ground to see exactly what is going on.
If the new variant is spiraling out of control, I have one question,if everyone was careful, to begin with, washed their hands, maintained social distancing, not had any Christmas Parties during Lockdown, how come we are on an imminent ‘Tidal Wave’ where the Covid alert level has been raised from 3 to 4 due to the rapid spread of cases?
With the new variant ‘Omnicron’, on our doorstep, this domain name www.germawareness.co.uk is an excellent opportunity to teach how germs are spread.
It could also have an eCommerce shop selling PPE and antibacterial products and a community forum. This domain could also act as a platform to teach children about germs.
Obviously, there will always be people that think that rules do not apply to them and will be complacent about the virus and no amount of media amplification will change their way of thinking, however, the government needs to watch the young people and what they are doing and keep their ears at ground level.
Furthermore, a Covid passport covers you for 3 weeks but what if you do not know you are a carrier, how is the passport supposed to protect the population?
I should be the next prime minister, move over BJ.
A (.co.uk) is the preferred choice of domain name extension for the British public.
**This domain is currently pointing to a Germ Awareness Category I have on this site.
(This domain is already generating traffic and is on the first page of Google for the search terms ‘Germ Awareness’, so I have started the ball rolling.
This domain name is generating traffic.
(This offer is just for a domain name it is all inclusive web development, marketing SEO and banner advertising. We will also accept monthly payment plan of £850 per month on a 12 month rolling contract. Including an eCommerce Gateway, based on a signed contract).
Bio-warfare is coming lets start being prepared!
Please contact us using the form below:
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I had written about this case on my other Domain Brokering site many months ago and the problems arising from using offshore website designers, that basically cybersquatting the domain name which eventually getting it suspended by the City of London Police and Nominet.
However, it was an enormous task to delete all the breadcrumbs and carbon footprint this domain had incurred over the years that showed the domain in a bad light. The backlinks have been updated although we were not able to successfully catch them all, hopefully now business will pick up seeing we have now acquired the domain name and is in safe hands.
Jeff is now really pleased that the domain name has been successfully registered and is pointing to his business.
Jeff also asked us to put a review on his website which can be located towards the bottom of his website www.firstphaseelectricalwales.co.uk
UK Website Designers built two sites for Jeff both exact match searchable keywords domain names www.electricianswales.co.uk and www.pattestingwales.co.ukwhilst his original branded domain had been compromised and was waiting to be recovered. It took over a year to finally get the domain back to its rightful owner.
Contracts.
The problem with website designers is unless a client has a contract stating the domain names that have been registered on the client’s behalf which will be released on termination of the agreement the business owner could get unstuck getting their domain names back as in the case of Jeff and his previous website designers.
Jeff is fortunate to have such a contract with “UK Website Designers” as we do not do business without signed agreements.
We have learned by our mistakes, the hard way over the years that not having contracts can become messy and as with one passport photographer in particular located in Cardiff who got “UK Website Designers” to build him 3 websites and he then started having financial problems paying, yet he had full control of the hosting and domain names.
Without a signed agreement it was difficult to prove what he had agreed to and that is when we decided that we would never get unstuck like that again.
All businesses should have contracts for the services they offer and anyone that just wants a gentlemen’s handshake should be avoided. A person who refuses to sign a contract obviously has ulterior motives.
Supporting Your Local Business.
Electrician In Wales.
If you are in South Wales UK and are reading this please support your local business and share this article with your connections as Jeff has lost a lot of business because of these people in India.
If you have any electrical work that needs doing-especially coming up to the holiday season with Halloween and Christmas lights and rewiring hots spots for kitchen Appliances or Landlord Property Safety checks and Commercial Properties Jeff is the man to call.
Here is a chance to secure your .FLIGHTS .TRAVEL domains and secure one of the best EDM’s on the market to develop a global OTA’c and enter the $800B OTA market. Perfect for an OTA or Hotel Group * $150,000 for Bundle: • Book-flights-hotels-cars.com • Book-flights-hotels-cars.net • Book-flights-hotels-cars.online Perfect for an Airline or OTA *$250,000 for Bundle: • BookFirstClass.Flights • BookBusinessClass.Flights Perfect for an Airline & Global Destination Agency *$500,000 for Bundle: • BookAirTicket.Travel • BookDestination.Travel • BookDestinations.Travel T&CS: The sale will be done via www.Escrow.com – Buyer to pay transfer fee. Why should your airline purchase these .FLIGHTS .TRAVEL and EDM – Exact Domain Match or Domain Hacks? 1-EMIRATES.FLIGHTS have secured their .FLIGHTS so should you. 2-HOME.LOANS was sold for $500,000 last jan 2018 – This is what their CEO had to say https://domainnamewire.com/2018/01/23/entrepreneurpays- 500000-acquire-home-loans-domain-name 3-These EDM’s – Exact Domains Match which your online market share. Not to secure it, develop it and have them rank on all the Search Engines with back links to your OTA will be unwise. 4- Enter the $800B OTA market this 2020 https:// travelwirenews.com/data-rich-startups-bite-into-800b-online-travelmarket- 1317596/
Domain Name Owners That Do Not Take Your Advice and Do Not Appreciate Your Hard Work.
Domain NameTime Wasters.
So many phrases come to mind with my post today like:
Do Not Shoot The Sheriff.
Do Not Keep All Your Eggs In One Basket.
Do Not Pull The Rug From Under Someone’s Feet.
Stop tyre Kicking.
Don’t Burn Your Bridges.
Take A Leaf Out Of My Book.
This is not the first time this has happened to me so I am not going to vent my anger at any one particular person, but I can see history repeating itself and I have to decide how I am going to counteract.
I won’t go into who the people are in question or even name them for legal reasons but they will know who they are simply by remembering certain things I have done for them.
The first was a person who has no digital footprint at all on the internet (that should be a red flag in itself) who asked me to find him a buyer for some art pieces and them some gold sellers selling Gold Dore in exchange for a commission (I did do my due diligence by going to companies house to find out if he was legit or not). I worked my butt off finding these people and he ended up saying he was not going to use any of them, (my gut feeling is he did use them but because there were so many leads that I gave him, it was difficult to pinpoint who he used in the end, but I reckon he had no intention on paying me). So I thought to myself never again and I would insist on a fee upfront before I commenced doing any work in future for anyone. I should have taken a leaf out my book because I did not do this.
Moving swiftly on, a couple of weeks ago I made an advertising campaign for a small business again I did not charge them but they turned around and said they did not want me to market their business any longer, (shoot yourself it the foot why don’t you….them not me). Considering I was willing to invest my time marketing this hair and beauty salon you would think they would have appreciated what I had already done for them including designing a logo, giving them a landing page which I have since taken down and created a video animation (for free) and all they needed to do was sit down (virtually) with me to discuss a long term strategy. They had no website and simply do not want my free service. Good Luck to them, considering they obviously know something I do not not regarding marketing and are simply relying on facebook to get business.
Now to the present day. Although I had been asked by another broker I am working with to help find a buyer for a domain name over 2 weeks ago and we agreed between us to split the commission for the sale of this one particular domain name that I made a video of a drone on, I simply had not had the time to start outbound marketing until yesterday. I had written a post about the the topic and the domain previously but had not done any outbound marketing until now, in which I already had one interested party.
So you would think the owner of the domain would use his common sense and be gratuful that I had started to spend some time and resources trying to find him a buyer and what does he do?, he only comes back and emails the broker I am working with that he no longer wants us to broker his domain name as he has got another broker. Where is the sense in that?, if someone has already started the work at least give them a chance to see if it has worked. I now will go back to the interested party and will have to say the owner of the domain is no longer using our services. To be honest I think the owner had no intention on paying any broker and will claim that the interested party has messaged him directly. It does not take much to find out who the interested party is and contact them omitting getting the broker involved.
I am not mad that another broker has got the assignment, I actually feel sorry for him or her as they will have to start from scratch. If I was selling a high ticket premium domain name I would want to get as many people involved and agree to split the commission equally between all of them. This would encourage all the brokers to work just as hard and the one that was slacking I would have some sort of clause. There are many ways you can prove you are doing the work, by carbon copying emails with the potential buyer with all the other brokers and the owner of the domain name. Also links to articles and posts you have made on blogs, social media pages and groups.
Hence for all NEW CLIENTS that are NOT on my books I will be asking a set up fee of £99.99 plus my commission rate of 15% on the successful sale of the domain or business, via escrow, just to start marketing. This also applies to people who want more exposure to their business via marketing and advertising campaigns.
“It is not worth my time to work hard and not get paid”.
(Or to be told my services are no longer required after I have put in all the effort and all the hard work and given the person free advertising & exposure).
Advertising Space Costs Money!
You would not go to a marketing agency and say I will pay you a commission once you get me some leads, so you should not expect a domain broker to do the same.
A domain broker is essentially a digital marketer and may also have connections to people in your industry/niche. For me personally I am connected to some very influential people and have an extensive network of connections on LinkedIn.
For the domain owners that waste your time, if they do not take your valuable advice how to improve the presentation of your domain name, then you are already on a loosing battle.
When a a domain owner asks a broker to find him a buyer and disregards all the work you have doneto date and all the contacts you have made then at the end of the day he has disrespected you as a professional and you should sever ties immediately.
Some people are tyre kickers they have no intention of buying or selling and simply want to window shopand like to procrastinate. From looking at this particular domain name I was marketing yesterday, presentation counts and I have taken the liberty of doing a ‘SEO Audit Report’ and it does not look very good. This SEO Audit Report does reflect or make the domain worth anything close to the owners asking price of £35m. I should have done the SEO Report sooner but in a way I am glad I did not because I have met his type before and he would never have taken my advice, hence he obviously feels he does not need our help….
I will be “keeping tabs and my ears to the ground” and looking out for any news about this particular domain name in future.
To the Owner of the “Said” Domain Name, Good Luck in Selling the Domain Name, is all I can say……
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These domains are from my own private portfolio and I am able to build a website.
If you are interested in website design and development, seo and marketing I can include the domains in the quote for the website package. This will be on a monthly basis with a minimum contract term.
This is a great opportunity for a startups or even an established business to acquire the exact match searchable keyword phrase.
With some SEO you will have secured your global positioning on a domain name that you alone will own and your competitors wishing why they had not acquired it when they had the chance.
Once the domain is gone it is gone for good unless you want to spend big bucks trying to acquire it from a company that may not be that willing to sell.
Do not lose the opportunity of getting a domain name that even Elon Musk would go green with envy to have and before you say anything, I will be reaching out to him.
I also have www.aiinventions.comwww.aimobilerobots.com and www.aismartbot.com for sale, although they are not included in this listing I but may include them providing the price is right for the initial offer.
I am open to negotiations.
To Make An Offer or Discusss Website Design, Please Use The Form Below:
.CO domain extension on my mind. I wrote an article about a while back on my other blog about .co.domain names and what they mean for companies wishing to adopt the extension if their dot com is not available.
Now here me out not only do I build websites I also manage PPC advertising and if a client that came to me with a .co domain extension yet was based in the UK I would not advise him to do any PPC advertising for the domain. The reason why and I have dot com domain names aswell as .co.uk I am based in Cardiff UK and have found no matter how hard you try to set ones setting for GEO targeting with the dot com domain names I get a tonne of traffic from the USA. But imagine if I was the client and wanted only traffic from the UK but got traffic from the USA or Colombia as in the .co domain extension before you know it all my budget would be eaten up and I would not be happy with the web designer steering me in the wrong direction.
People are like sheep, a person who has no knowledge of SEO tells a couple of people on the internet that a dot co domain name extension is an accronym of dot com or the word ‘company’ and before long the misinformed information has spread like wild fire with people buying .co domain names without realising the repercussions this would have on their traffic or once they consider pay per click advertising what that would mean to their advertising budgets if they were targeting traffic for their own location.
With that said I do not believe owning a dot co domain name would be beneficial to any company other than businesses in Colombia and it would damage my reputation trying to market this domain extension to anyone other than to the country it is assigned to. Don’t get me wrong I fell into the trap and soon wised up.
Further reading the entity of the following website seems not to have any knowledge of SEO because if he/she had they would be ranking on the first page of Google for the following search terms: Domain Management, Domain Registrars, Registrars, whois, which says they are biased, as they could be the owners of the domain extension: https://www.go.co/about/faq/ Its a bit of a conincidence that there are no names mentioned for me personally to ask them to prove where the traffic was coming from. I would want hard evidence and may just register a domain name and and add analytics just to prove a point.
Here is an example of a UK based website with a dot com domain name setting their GEO targeting for UK only and you can see by the chart that there are other countries, with USA being no 2 on the leaderboard, which if this company was paying for PPC their budgets would be swollen up by other countries visitors.
It is my job to guide companies in the right direction and reading on the internet mileading information and steering companies in the wrong direction is downright shameful.
Overstock.com bought overstock.co this could have been to stop cyber squatters cloning their site and not to help them with their SEO. The same with hyphen domain many companies may buy up hyphen domains to stop cyber criminals.
The following links are another reason why not to use a .co domain extension unless you are from Colombia:
When we think of Mayfair we envisage an upmarket afluent district in the West End of London with Luxury Real Estate Georgian Townhouses, Exclusive Hotels, and Gourmet Restaurants. With world-famous retailers on the doorstep, including bespoke tailors on Savile Row and designer fashions such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton and on Bond Street boasting high end diamond jewellers, such as De-beers, Aspreys, Tiffanys & Co, Graffs to name a few. Shoppers can also head to high-end Burlington Arcade and Shepherd Market, a cluster of independent boutiques and traditional pubs. Mayfair is a world tourist attraction offering modern art galleries that line Cork Street. Mayfair is classed as one the highest class famous districts in London and also world renowed.
The history of the area was originally part of the manor of Eia and remained largely rural until the early 18th century. An annual “May Fair” that took place from 1686 to 1764 in what is now Shepherd Market made Mayfair attraction. However in later years that followed, the fair became increasingly downmarket and unpleasant, and it became a public nuisance.
Towards the end of the 18th century, most of Mayfair was surrounded by luxury housing. Even after the decline of the British aristocracy in the early 20th century led to the area becoming more commercialised, with many houses converted into offices for corporate headquarters and various embassies.
Mayfair retains its high-end residential property, upmarket shops and restaurants, and luxury hotels along Piccadilly and Park Lane. Its prestigious status has been commemorated by being the most expensive property square on the London Monopoly board.
Knowing the background of Mayfair and having the opportunity to acquire a prestigious name, the possibilities are endless of what you could do with this domain name. Imagine being in control of all the luxury real estate, hospitality, retail and tourism sectors in Mayfair. Imagine being the owner of the only real estate domain in the world that people would spend millions.
Simply offering advertising space on this domain name based on the advertising structure of www.ukbusinessbanking.co.uk all it takes is just over 300 businesses to make £1m turnover, imagine all the businesses, hotels, restaurants and retailers that would be jumping at the chance to be featured on a website named www.mayfair.com
The lucky owner could turn the site into a directory similar to www.hotels.com
Having a directory similar to www.ukbusinessbanking.co.uk you could potenially control the monopoly board.
Final Notes.
The domain does have a reserve price and I am working with another broker (Michael Dooner) to try and find a buyer.
If you are interested in acquiring this domain name please use the form below to make an offer.
***I am happy to offer additional services like website design, seo and marketing at an additional charge. You may wish to discuss this with the owner of the domain who may appoint someone of their choosing to develop the website for you.
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