Internet Real Estate the Domain Name November 27, 2007
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Internet real estate or should we just call it a dotcom for short, It is a multi million dollar business. Why is buying and selling of dotcoms became so popular in the past few years? Well tell you the truth it has been a very popular business for almost a decade. Is the dotcom business really truly worth millions? Yes it is, take for example Kevin Ham, according to an article in Business 2.0 Magazine. Kevin Ham has built a $300 million dollar web empire. A very interesting read I Might add you can get the full article at this link right here
I have ventured out into the dotcom world in the last couple years and I thought I would share some things with everyone that is or might be venturing out into internet real estate. I myself pretty much do my buying myself I do not a have an office full of thinkers and buyers. You are thinking an office full of thinkers? Yes I said it, because I do not have a bunch of guys thinking of dotcom names or how many ways they can twist four letters in to not taken dotcoms yet. I also do not have an office full of buyers either, Buyer are the people that sit and buy up dotcoms as they one either expire or two the come up for sale via auction. I pretty much do it myself I play both thinker and buyer. I prefer the buyer over the thinker; I enjoy the rat race of watching multiple screens and multiple computers. I can say I also get the thrill of researching and putting work into finding not only dotcoms I might want for my personal portfolio but also for my buy sell portfolio. I would say my favorite part is finding the right aftermarket dotcom as it may be from SEDO or EBay. Now the thinker part I also play as well, making and finding dotcoms does not always come easy. As you think of a good name you also must go out and make sure that someone else has not already grabbed your next great idea. Then of course there are the names that are out there that you have researched that you just might have to have so then you have to put them on back order. Depending on your income and expensive will depend on where you can go in the internet real estate market. There are all kinds of ways you can get dotcoms. You make them and buy them yourself, Just need to find a place that you want to buy them. Today there are gods so many places on the internet that sell dotcoms. I prefer and use Gizmo’s Domains, I also like Go Daddy and I have used 1&1 before as well. If you want to buy them from an auction there are several places out there that offer auctions. I have used EBay, Domain Name Aftermarket.com, SEDO and there are tons more. You can also Back Order a domain name if you know it is expiring soon. Trust me when I tell you though you are not always guaranteed to get that domain name. I tell people all the time what I do in my spare time and they look at me funny and say well what are you going to do with all those domains? Well you can always make money from them if you are not selling them, you can park them you can make them into an Ad Sense site, and there are all kinds of ways to make money off a dotcom. You are truly buying a piece of the internet; it is like owning a piece of real estate. You can buy, hold, sell and even just keep and make money with them. So back to my original question is it a multi million dollar business? Yes it is and truly can be. I have my good fortune in the internet real estate business, I have bought and sold and I have bought to keep for personal sites as well. I have bought several and different types of the dot industry. I hope that if you’re venturing into the internet real estate that you see your fortune can be what you make it to be as it is a booming business that is far from ending anytime soon.
How To Increase Sales During The Holiday Season November 13, 2007
Posted by gizmosdomains in sales.Tags: christmas, discounts, holidays, sales
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Holidays bring out the free-spending qualities in most people. Smart entrepreneurs need to take advantage of the season to reap maximum in sales at their sites or blogs.
Offer An Attractive Discount
Because the holidays are a peak shopping period, seasoned shoppers will expect to encounter discounts during this time. So why not go ahead and offer just that? If your discount is a genuine discount, word-of-mouth will travel fast and you will be surprised at the sort of volumes that you are capable of attracting.
Special Package Deals
You can do even better and combine several products or services into one special package selling at a very special price. This means the total sales price should be lower than if the client were to shop for each item separately. The advantage of this selling strategy is that you can take advantage of it to get rid of slow-moving items.
A Free Bonus Can Really Do It
Offer a free bonus or gift with every purchase made at your store during this festive season. The gift need not cost you much, in fact the less it costs the better. All you need to do is make sure that your free gift has a high-perceived value to your clients and customers. Actually, you will require more creativity than money for this one.
Express Delivery Without The Cost
Nothing turns on clients like quick delivery of the items or products that they have purchased. If you offer fast free delivery, then the chances are high that you will attract lots of new customers and clients.
Buy now and pay later
This is yet another attractive offer that takes care of the worry many shoppers have about spending too much money during the holiday season. You will make many sales that would have otherwise not made. You can give them the option of being billed later or billing their credit card later.
Conclusion
Always take full advantage of the holiday season to generate lots of extra sales for your website and online business. You will find that any effort you put in is swiftly rewarded with sales that you would have otherwise missed.
Get started hosting a website November 13, 2007
Posted by gizmosdomains in Getting Started.Tags: Gizmos, Hosting, Website
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Many offline businesses do not realize the impact that a website for their business can have to their bottom line and profitability.
They fail to realize how much the world has changed and how people have migrated in such large numbers to the World Wide Web. Let us look at one simple example. I recently arrived at a new remote town where I had never been to before. Guess where I went to look for services in town, from restaurants to a reasonably priced budget hotel?
So for starters, if you do not have a website that you are working seriously on or if you do not have a website at all for your business, you are already losing a lot of potential revenue and clients.
There are many other opportunities that a website will create literally overnight for your brick-and-mortar enterprise. However one of the most important is the fact that with a website you will be able to create numerous niches in the market that you can seriously gun for in terms of business. All you have to do is to create content that is geared towards that market. That content will attract prospects for that particular niche and it will then be very easy for you to refer them to your business pr product.
For example, if you are currently selling shoes that are designed for people with back problems and those are the only clients that you are attracting yet the shoes can also be used for treks and other strenuous physical activity, a simple article highlighting this will instantly start creating prospects. And this will happen without you having to commit a huge advertising budget to get those clients.
Getting a website for your brick-and-mortar business can earn you lots of extra revenue and profits. With affordable web hosting prices, there is no reason you should delay in getting started with your website.
