Michael Berkens doesn’t always seek out the “Best Name” for acquisition. Sometimes, the “Second-Best Name” makes an ideal target for registration or acquisition. Listen as the veteran domainer, blogger, owner of Worldwide Media Inc., and MostWantedDomains.com discusses his strategies for creating a recession-busting, bottom-line building enterprise and recent sales to end users. The non-practicing tax [...]
MANN: SMART BRANDING, PASSION & CHARITY CREATE DOMAIN SUCCESS Serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Mike Mann was smitten with domaining when he sold a $50-a-year domain – Menus.com – for $25,000. Mann went on to found BuyDomains.com and Phone.com, author the influential book Make Millions and Make Change!, create Internet business incubator, WashingtonVC, and launch Grassroots.org [...]
Rob Grant walked away from a dream job on Madison Avenue to New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Problem was, he had no job waiting for him. “We happened to get lucky because we hit that market just as the Adirondacks were starting to be rediscovered,” Grant said. From there, skill, moxie and fortitude took over. As [...]
Print travel guide publisher Skip Hoagland had a vision when he spent $10,000 on MyrtleBeach.com back in the 1990s: To put his magazines out of business. Today, Hoagland is an Internet geo kingpin who follows four simple rules: Work hard, stick to .com, partner with and reward the best designers, developers and business managers out [...]
TinBu is an interactive content and online advertising company that is quickly becoming the go to provider for domainers looking to monetize their web site traffic. Regardless of what phase a domainer is in with a particular URL, TinBu is in a position to add value with free interactive content with built in revenue generation [...]
DASH & TREND-SPOTTING BREED ONLINE SUCCESS David Carter’s story has been told in the national press and he shares graciously his strategies on his popular blog. Said David; “Well the thing is, I was in business when I started – I ran an IT Recruitment business, but hated it, so I began investing in names [...]
BERKOWITZ: STATE YOUR AUTHORITY IN THE DOMAIN WORLD Find your passion. Be the authority. Build your brand. For Jay Berkowitz, founder of Internet marketing firm, TenGoldenRules.com, those are intangibles that define successful from floundering net-preneurs. Berkowitz, a veteran of such online firms as eDiets and a host of successful client ebusinesses, brings online marketing savvy [...]
CASTELLOS MAP PATH TO GEODOMAIN & DEVELOPMENT FUTURE Michael and David Castello have a simple solution to domain success – and it isn’t pay per click or parked pages. It’s monetization and development. The brothers – co-founders and principals with Castello Cities Internet Network Inc., discussed their perspectives on geodomains (they launched and lead the [...]
RECESSIONS MEAN OPPORTUNITIES IN NEW, UNTAPPED MARKETS Recessions create opportunities for the small guy or gal with big dreams. Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds Ph.D., hit success merchandizing one of his first domains – AmericanFlags.com – in the aftermath of 9-11. His advice to finding success in today’s volatile market: Go where those in need are looking [...]
RISK, ADDICTION & SUCCESS, KESMODEL CHRONICLES DOMAINING Wall Street Journal reporter David Kesmodel knew little about domaining when a colleague showed him an article on the $1 million sale of Fish.com. From there, Kesmodel became intrigued about the “risk-takers, entrepreneurial-types, people who spent hours analyzing potential purchases” in this fledgling industry. After a year off [...]
