Today is all about domaining off the cuff.
We cover the principals of domaining and the cold hard fact that you need to be in this game for the long haul.
No overnight success here, but HideTheSausage.com did sell for $350
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Mike Mann and the cycles of success
Domenic has been involved in many online business ventures over the years and was (and now is again) the owner of www.MP3.com.au and has a very interesting story based around that domain which he talks about in the podcast.
It was refreshing to speak with someone in the Australian business community that has such a strong understanding of the value of generic keyword domain names and is do great things with them.
I hope you enjoy the podcast.
Content is the new black
In light of recent Google changes, quality content is now crucial to building a successful brand online.
Quality podcasting however is still an option, but we’re working on it.
This episode is all about content. Where to get it and how to leverage it.
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It really is a no brainer
There’s a lot to talk about this week. Better.com is for sale on flippa, lots of domain news, and Ed shares his “no brainer tip!”
This one is full of analogies, from baseball to drumming of course, as we continue our theme of finding great domain name opportunities.
Lots of news too…
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Today is all about looking for opportunity, everywhere and we mean everywhere!
Yes, even the yellow pages!
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Danny and Ed go back to basics today and talk about how anyone can make this domaining thing work, even a couple of drummers, as long as you follow a few basic rules.
Ed and Danny talk about domain conferences and how the best stuff happens at the bar.
If handled the right way, you can approach anyone in the domain industry and get them to help you, but there is a right way to do it.
Danny has some tips on how to successfully approach buying domains and Ed shares a huge marketplace that most “domainers” haven’t even thought of.
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Experts Academy – Brendon Burchard
This is a shout out to my mate Morgan Linton from MorganLinton.com
Morgan is one of the most prolific bloggers in the domain space and his blog/s are always great to read and very very informative.
Like myself, Morgan is a lover of WordPress and its power & ease of use. I have close to 100 sites being developed in WordPress at the moment, this scale of development was cost prohibitive even less than ten years ago. Back then before WordPress or other Open Source Content Management Systems became the norm, you had to get pretty much everything done by a web developer which limited most people from developing larger number of websites.
Great job Morgan!
Cheers
Ed
Maple Ridge (near Vancouver, BC, Canada) based Left of the Dot Media has just launched a new marketing site entitled “All I Can Afford is this Shitty Domain” in order to raise awareness for their new product, which the company calls “marketing names”, basically subdomains based on premium domains. The company was launched with excellent feedback at Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in Vancouver mid-last year.
After their recent announcement that Xavier Buck and Slavik Viner were appointed to the company’s Board of Directors, the company had published a video (embedded below) explaining the concept of marketing names for small business owners. The new site now features a second video meant to entertain and get people interested in the concept.
Marketing Names – by Left Of The Dot from leftofthedot on Vimeo.
Names currently managed by the company include:
Two new sites are slated for launch in December of this year:
Co-founder John Lyotier told DNN about the new campaign: “With everyone all concerned about the new TLD process and the opposition to ICANN’s plan for new domains centered around .Generic or .Brand, especially from CRIDO (Coalition for Responsible Intenet Domain Oversight), we thought this would be a fun way to show small businesses that a new alternative is already here.”
Due to my involvement in the company I may be a little biased when it comes to expectations regarding success. What do you think of the concept? Let us know in the comments?
Disclaimer: The author, Frank Michlick, is adviser to Left of the Dot Media, holds options in the company and has helped built their team and technical platform.
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