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So basically you're paying $10/month for hosting; in which you may already have, for a WordPress template that links to an Escrow service for domain names that you own in which you could create a new post/page for on your own installation of WordPress? 
And $10/mo is $120 for the year, so essentially, you're paying nearly 4 times what a theme without branding like this would cost?
Some details I'd like to point out, if they're not obvious enough:
There are templates created that are for sale less than this. In addition to that, the ecourse training can be found on this forum with research.
This is a "cheap" way out of a cPanel 1 click WordPress install, theme upload, configuration and then "Create Post" from there on out. Unless you have 1000 domains and want to "bulk create" posts. However, that is possible to do with a template and basic PHP/MySQL knowledge.
On their page they advertise this:
No More HTML coding - Really? You never put a single line of HTML in your design?
No More spreadsheets - Really? You should always keep spreadsheets, improve on your skills as this is the fundamentals of accounting (be it inventory or money)
No More missed inquiries - Really? When did you ever miss one? Are they going to call you on vacation?
No More Hosting - Really? They going to host your other websites too?
No More Commissions - Really? This must answer one bullet I pointed out. Buyer pays fees, but you don't get commission on the Agreed deal, do you?
Quit taking the easy way out, design a nice site on your own using a domaining template someone has already created (can't recall who...) and let that be the foundation of your learning to create minisites in order to rank for long tail [keywords], thus receiving a greater passive income.
And $10/mo is $120 for the year, so essentially, you're paying nearly 4 times what a theme without branding like this would cost?
Some details I'd like to point out, if they're not obvious enough:
- You are giving them back link juice with branding (at the very bottom) with a link that is not "nofollow".
- Advertising eNom and not getting your affiliate link served when someone wants to register a new domain.
- Automatically being endorsed by "domaining.com". Don't see the endorsement, nor do I see domaining.com linking to you. What is the true benefit of that?
- Your site is utilizing a mailto: link to contact you, which is surely going to be scraped, leading to you spammed.
- There is a mailing list, but are these your dedicated subscribers or are they being shared with the parent host to "spam" as well? ("These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.", who is 'us'? Is it 3dprinting or nameinvestors?)
- You have a Page Speed of 45 mobile / 51 desktop, indicating to Google that there may be a poor user experience.
- Quite possibly using an affiliate link with Agreed where the buyer (or seller) pays fees, but is it yours? Do you benefit from a transaction in reduced commission? Who is getting the money?
- When a user signs up, do they "sign up" to everyone using the nameinvestors platform? Could this quite possibly make others peak around different storefronts?
There are templates created that are for sale less than this. In addition to that, the ecourse training can be found on this forum with research.
This is a "cheap" way out of a cPanel 1 click WordPress install, theme upload, configuration and then "Create Post" from there on out. Unless you have 1000 domains and want to "bulk create" posts. However, that is possible to do with a template and basic PHP/MySQL knowledge.
On their page they advertise this:
No More HTML coding - Really? You never put a single line of HTML in your design?
No More spreadsheets - Really? You should always keep spreadsheets, improve on your skills as this is the fundamentals of accounting (be it inventory or money)
No More missed inquiries - Really? When did you ever miss one? Are they going to call you on vacation?
No More Hosting - Really? They going to host your other websites too?
No More Commissions - Really? This must answer one bullet I pointed out. Buyer pays fees, but you don't get commission on the Agreed deal, do you?
Quit taking the easy way out, design a nice site on your own using a domaining template someone has already created (can't recall who...) and let that be the foundation of your learning to create minisites in order to rank for long tail [keywords], thus receiving a greater passive income.
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For a mere 4 months of payment, you can install Domanja (not the best portfolio script out there, but the easiest to work with as it's a theme for WordPress) on your own installation. Build outward from there slowly and learn HTML/CSS while you progress in the industry or you will be lost.
Ask yourself, do you want the money or give someone money to host WordPress for you and give you 10 free lessons that you can learn by reading forums?
Education is power, and these forums are full of it. Years of it.
If setting up a portfolio is so hard, just use Sedo marketplace then. You're only hurting yourself by using the same name servers as hundreds of other people with "spammy" sites as they are all domaining ecommerce storefronts, look the same, etc. but just selling a different "product". Do you think your store is going to rank above all others?
Well, if you answered yes to the question above and don't care about where your money is going and what it's actually getting you (is your money working for you or are you working for your money), you shouldn't be in this industry.
Domaining is more complex than just buying and selling domain names. Surely those 10 free lessons taught you that, while cross-selling you other products, ultimately making you a big loser in the end.
There's parking and development as well. When you don't have time to shuffle all of your sites around, you're losing money. If you think a simple $10/mo store will help you make a sale, you're only putting $10 into someone else's pocket as you're most likely not going to get a sale listing it on their platform, if you can't get one on Sedo, other marketplaces or even this forum.
Ten bucks can buy you a couple domains a month (with coupons, or one without). Use your $10 wisely, buy the $40 theme and setup your own hosted storefront. After you break even in 4 months using a theme, that is.
Hosting your own store puts you in control of what links go where, list domains you don't even own to go through your Sedo affiliate link and make commission off the sale(s) and even implement a search box for domains to register if they can't find one they don't like on your page, getting you commission when someone registers a new name (or a Sedo search for an even higher commission).
I will put $40 on the table right now and bet that you will gain more organic traffic if you setup your own storefront with this script or even list your names one by one using the pre-built WordPress Twenty Fourteen theme with detailed listings that Domanja does (see samples). At least there will be transparency as you can see exactly how many people went to each page, collect your own leads (where are the rest of the emails going I wonder?), etc.
Escrow is going to be hell no matter how you look at it with pushes and verification. I bet they're not pushing to Agreed for you, so you're doing some work. Push it to Agreed or Escrow.com yourself.
It's just as simple as forwarding your pages now.
Ante up $40 now and learn more over 4 months than you ever thought imaginable; most likely making your first sale. Or sit, wait and keep dishing out the tenner till you get a sale. I'm sure at that point, the $120 may be nothing (unless your names are pigeon wank and won't sell no matter where they're listed).
This was fairly long so I'll end with this:
1) If your domains are junk, they're going to end up costing you (you will never sell them)
2) If you can't sell a domain on Sedo, other aftermarkets or even this forum, that gives you an indication this will not help you
3) You can pay $40 for your own theme and make money off it through various methods other than selling a domain. To name a few: Adsense, registrar affiliates, commission from selling other peoples' domains listed on Sedo, etc.
4) Tell me in 4 months what progress you've made spending $40 for the same thing you can do on your own without someone to hold your hand.
5) If you want someone to hold your hand, I'll install WordPress and give you a tutorial how to make a post for $10. (Not really, I'm not that cheap)
Good luck trying to make a sale on a "new" platform!
Really, you just got sold.
Ask yourself, do you want the money or give someone money to host WordPress for you and give you 10 free lessons that you can learn by reading forums?
Education is power, and these forums are full of it. Years of it.
If setting up a portfolio is so hard, just use Sedo marketplace then. You're only hurting yourself by using the same name servers as hundreds of other people with "spammy" sites as they are all domaining ecommerce storefronts, look the same, etc. but just selling a different "product". Do you think your store is going to rank above all others?
Well, if you answered yes to the question above and don't care about where your money is going and what it's actually getting you (is your money working for you or are you working for your money), you shouldn't be in this industry.
Domaining is more complex than just buying and selling domain names. Surely those 10 free lessons taught you that, while cross-selling you other products, ultimately making you a big loser in the end.
There's parking and development as well. When you don't have time to shuffle all of your sites around, you're losing money. If you think a simple $10/mo store will help you make a sale, you're only putting $10 into someone else's pocket as you're most likely not going to get a sale listing it on their platform, if you can't get one on Sedo, other marketplaces or even this forum.
Ten bucks can buy you a couple domains a month (with coupons, or one without). Use your $10 wisely, buy the $40 theme and setup your own hosted storefront. After you break even in 4 months using a theme, that is.
Hosting your own store puts you in control of what links go where, list domains you don't even own to go through your Sedo affiliate link and make commission off the sale(s) and even implement a search box for domains to register if they can't find one they don't like on your page, getting you commission when someone registers a new name (or a Sedo search for an even higher commission).
I will put $40 on the table right now and bet that you will gain more organic traffic if you setup your own storefront with this script or even list your names one by one using the pre-built WordPress Twenty Fourteen theme with detailed listings that Domanja does (see samples). At least there will be transparency as you can see exactly how many people went to each page, collect your own leads (where are the rest of the emails going I wonder?), etc.
Escrow is going to be hell no matter how you look at it with pushes and verification. I bet they're not pushing to Agreed for you, so you're doing some work. Push it to Agreed or Escrow.com yourself.
It's just as simple as forwarding your pages now.
Ante up $40 now and learn more over 4 months than you ever thought imaginable; most likely making your first sale. Or sit, wait and keep dishing out the tenner till you get a sale. I'm sure at that point, the $120 may be nothing (unless your names are pigeon wank and won't sell no matter where they're listed).
This was fairly long so I'll end with this:
1) If your domains are junk, they're going to end up costing you (you will never sell them)
2) If you can't sell a domain on Sedo, other aftermarkets or even this forum, that gives you an indication this will not help you
3) You can pay $40 for your own theme and make money off it through various methods other than selling a domain. To name a few: Adsense, registrar affiliates, commission from selling other peoples' domains listed on Sedo, etc.
4) Tell me in 4 months what progress you've made spending $40 for the same thing you can do on your own without someone to hold your hand.
5) If you want someone to hold your hand, I'll install WordPress and give you a tutorial how to make a post for $10. (Not really, I'm not that cheap)
Good luck trying to make a sale on a "new" platform!
Really, you just got sold.
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@David Walker, we appreciate you taking the time to review our product, feedback is the only way we can improve our offering, so thank you. If you are comfortable to share it here, I’d really be interested to take a look at what you have done with wordpress and domainja as it looks interesting!
In response to your comments, we also subscribe to the theory that “time is money”, so your quote is the essence of why we built nameinvestors:
"If you want someone to hold your hand, I'll install Wordpress and give you a tutorial how to make a post for $10. (Not really, Im not that cheap)"
Our value proposition is to save costs, save time, improve professionalism and ultimately achieve a better ROI, and this has already resonated with a number of successful domainers who have transitioned from their wordpress website to our platform including www.showcasemanager.com which was built in less than 2 minutes.
Why have they done that? Its because even though they may have PHP/SQL/Design skills, they will certainly spend more than "20 minutes" developing, managing and maintaining their domain shop. So they understand that they can leverage our tech dept for $99 yr/$9.99 mth with hosting!!
They email us, we fix it, they request it, we build it.
Point in case, if you revisit the link you provided earlier, you will see the results have already improved
Page Speed of 70 mobile / 87 desktop - our users have benefited from this improvement whilst they were busy doing other more interesting things than website optimization.
"Quit taking the easy way out" is the exact opposite of our vision, we actually want our users to make the "smart" decision to "make their lives easier" so they can spend more time doing more profitable or enjoyable activities. Poor quality domains don't sell, we all agree with that, and our platform makes no claims to the contrary.
We have a 7 day FREE trial if you would actually like to experience the benefits and efficiency of the platform, we welcome you to do so and provide us some informed feedback about how we can build in more value. We have an exciting development path ahead including an affiliate network, registrar reseller services and a blog, all of which we see as driving additional revenue and sales for our users.
Best wishes
In response to your comments, we also subscribe to the theory that “time is money”, so your quote is the essence of why we built nameinvestors:
"If you want someone to hold your hand, I'll install Wordpress and give you a tutorial how to make a post for $10. (Not really, Im not that cheap)"
Our value proposition is to save costs, save time, improve professionalism and ultimately achieve a better ROI, and this has already resonated with a number of successful domainers who have transitioned from their wordpress website to our platform including www.showcasemanager.com which was built in less than 2 minutes.
Why have they done that? Its because even though they may have PHP/SQL/Design skills, they will certainly spend more than "20 minutes" developing, managing and maintaining their domain shop. So they understand that they can leverage our tech dept for $99 yr/$9.99 mth with hosting!!
They email us, we fix it, they request it, we build it.
Point in case, if you revisit the link you provided earlier, you will see the results have already improved
Page Speed of 70 mobile / 87 desktop - our users have benefited from this improvement whilst they were busy doing other more interesting things than website optimization.
"Quit taking the easy way out" is the exact opposite of our vision, we actually want our users to make the "smart" decision to "make their lives easier" so they can spend more time doing more profitable or enjoyable activities. Poor quality domains don't sell, we all agree with that, and our platform makes no claims to the contrary.
We have a 7 day FREE trial if you would actually like to experience the benefits and efficiency of the platform, we welcome you to do so and provide us some informed feedback about how we can build in more value. We have an exciting development path ahead including an affiliate network, registrar reseller services and a blog, all of which we see as driving additional revenue and sales for our users.
Best wishes
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@Troy Rushton
Can you make a way for us to upload logos for each domain name that shows on the main page under premium domain or on the sale page you see after you click on a name? The images on the main page would all be the same size etc..See attached file:
I think this would improve sales and make each site more personable..
Also...forgot my last question...
Can you make a way for us to upload logos for each domain name that shows on the main page under premium domain or on the sale page you see after you click on a name? The images on the main page would all be the same size etc..See attached file:
I think this would improve sales and make each site more personable..
Also...forgot my last question...
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