The few below are some of the better deals on Bido right this moment. You snooze - and someone else wins.
Have a great weekend,
Sahar
“I’ve spent so much time, money and effort on my website and it isn’t doing anything for me. I need someone to show me, in a language I understand, how to fix and get the most out of my website.” An Australian Small Business Owner
Only half of Australian small businesses have a website and of those businesses that have a website, less than a quarter of them feel they use their website and the Internet well enough to get a real tangible dollar benefit from it.
Achieve More Online is part of the Federal Government’s $14M Small Business Online program. The program will help small businesses, particularly those in tourism and professional services – get online and achieve more.
You may already have a website and want it to work harder for you. Or you may be looking to go online for the first time. Whatever stage you are at, the Achieve More Online program has 7 small business specialists who will show you, in simple steps, how to improve your online presence to ultimately put more $$ in your bottom line.
1 day hands-on workshop, 12 locations across WA and NT
In just 1 day, you’ll learn the 8 fundamental building blocks of a successful online marketing and website strategy and have a complete action plan to help you put that knowledge to use.
The 7 small business owners and specialists in their field will show you how to use the Internet to promote your business and create a website that works to deliver real dollars to your bottom line.
From business planning through to optimising your site for search engines and simple online marketing tools, everything you need to know about developing a better online business will be delivered to you in an interactive workshop and 1-to-1 mentoring sessions where we will help you solve your business’ specific problems.
At the end of the 1 day workshop, you’ll understand the 8 building blocks of a well balanced, effective online marketing plan:
All it costs is just 1 day and $49
In just 1 day you will have a complete action plan to create or upgrade your small business website and all for only $49.
You’ll know the right steps involved, and you’ll have a smart detailed action plan to get you started. You can contact us for follow-up support if you need further help or guidance throughout the program.
Want more information or to register?
Workshops commence in June across several locations throughout metropolitan and country WA and the Northern Territory.
Visit our website www.businessbalance.com.au/sbo for more details and to register online or alternatively fill out the attached form and fax it back to us to secure your place.
If you have any questions please phone us on 1300 856 274.
We look forward to helping you get the most out of being online.
This is an Australian Government funded initiative under the Small Business Online program
A side note to our sellers: We have buyers wanting revenue producing domains. If you have any, even if low producers, list with Bido.
A side note to our buyers: A tough economy provides a great opportunity to buy great inventory at a fraction of what it used to go for. It happened in 2001, and it is happening again today.
Best,
Sahar
A federal judge dismissed a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Rosetta Stone Inc against Google back in July 2009, for selling keywords containing its trademark.
Rosetta complained that consumers who search for “Rosetta Stone” on Google could click on a “sponsored ad” and visit the site of “a software pirate that purports to be Rosetta, but in reality sells a sub-standard product.”
Rosetta, said it had hoped for a full jury trial, and may appeal to a higher court.
But for now Google has one yet another round in the many keyword trademark suits against it
In a scathing post on domain names as an investment written by Mark Jeftovic on Circle Id, said:
“This is the reality that domainers have to face: Most of the activity in the space that is considered “investing” isn’t.”
“”In the domainer space, it’s all about speculation. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But let’s call it for what it is.”"
“”I can’t bear to see the word “investing” misused any longer when used in the same sentence as “domains.”
As proof for this theory the author looks to Tucows selling its domains it acquired from its customers under YummyNames.com, the falling price of shares of Marchex, Dark Blue Sea and LiveCurrent and the Sex.com debacle, as indications that domains aren’t investments just “speculation”.
Mr. Jeftovic then goes on to call out Rick Schwartz; Used Airplanes, Inc (the buyer of flying.com) and Aron Meystedt at symbolics.com
Finally he goes on to say simply that “The smart money domainers are liquidating domains.”
“Founder and CEO of easyDNS.com, an outsourced DNS provider since 1998. Former Director to Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), 2002-2005. Guitarist & founder of The Parkdale Hookers, the open source punk rockers from hell.”
One man’s speculation is another man’s investment.
Where shares of Lehman Brothers that went from $70 a share to Zero an investment?
Are shares of Apple or Google anymore of an “investment” than a domain?
Shares of those companies pay no dividends.
You buy shares of stock from someone who is selling them believing that the shares will be worth more in 5 years, 5 months, 5 days or 5 hours from now depending on your trading strategy.
Mr. Jeftovic; Domains are traded in the same fashion, no?
You buy a domain for $1,000 because you believe it will be worth more in the future.
So if I understand Mr. Jeftovic is you buy stocks, gold, silver, art, real estate, vacant land, or anything else its an investment but when you it comes to domains its speculation?
If you want to prove domain names are a bad investment then you need to look at actual sales from a few years ago and then show me the same domains that sold for less.
Lot of them.
Then lets do it for real estate.
Then lets compare.
Lets do it for Shares of Google which are still well off their high of $740.
Lets do it for Citibank now sitting at $4 after being over $40.
Lets not forget about GM.
Yes those were fine investments.
Are the smart domainers liquidating domains?
Sure but we always have been.
But we also keep acquiring more domains than we “liquidate”.
That is how you make good investments.
VeriSign Inc. reported earnings after the markets closed.
VeriSign’s 1Q profit fell 21% from last year.
GAAP net income for the first quarter was $51.4 million or $0.28 per share, compared to $65.0 million or $0.34 per share for the year-ago quarter.
Revenue for the first quarter however rose 4% to $264.40 million from $253.56 million in the same quarter last year.
First quarter segment revenue for Internet Infrastructure and Identity Services, or the “core” businesses of Naming Services and Authentication Services, increased 4% to $263.49 million from $252.21 million a year earlier.
VeriSign added 8.1 million new domain name registrations, a record, in the first quarter.
However I’m nor sure how many following the stock picked up on VeriSign’s change of policy on March 18th in the treatment of .TV domains.
By dropping their renewal pricing on .TV domains, VeriSign added a hit to their 1Q gross numbers as domainers bought up .TV domains for the one time payments that had been up to that point renewable for a high annual fee.
This change of policy might hurt ongoing numbers in favor of an increased 1Q gross.
Moreover the question should be asked by the shareholder how many Millions did Verisign leave on the table when it decided to release all the .Tv domains on the open market as opposed to doing it by auctions?
As you know the Sedo.com .TV auction of registry owned domains generated $800K in sales.
What rescued business.tv from being sold for a fraction of the $100K auction price, by the registry on the .TV release? Only that Sedo had picked the domain for its auction prior to the release.
So what I’m saying is that had Verisign auctioned off the top 500 .tv domains instead of letting them be registered for just a few hundred to a few thousand dollars they would have added millions to their gross revenues.
Then again we still have d.tv and p.tv that the registry allowed to be hand registered for which they got $20 for.