question Selling to End Users - What are your best tips?

bhartzer · Jul 20, 2018

I've been selling domains directly to end users via outreach for a while now. Usually, I have the best luck when I search Google for the keyword and contact end users/potential buyers directly, either through the contact form on their website or by emailing them. Fastest I've sold a domain this way was within 1/2 an hour, with about a dozen emails/contact forms filled out.

I personally like short, to the point emails:

Subject: KeywordDomain.com
I'm selling the domain name KeywordDomain.com. I was going to use it for a project, but no longer need the domain name. Would you be interested in acquiring it?

What's your best tip for selling to end users?

How is the best way to scale this?

What if you have 350 domains to sell this way?

GoKaizen · Jul 20, 2018

My tip, Do NOT write reports on how awesome new gTLDs are when trying to sell .com domains.

Premiums · Jul 20, 2018

Secret..

bhartzer · Jul 20, 2018

You just won't let that go, will ya?

Premiums · Jul 20, 2018

i have sold new gTLD domain investing.media to an owner of investingnews.com $XXX
sold Buy.loans to home.loans owner

FYI investingnews.com was sold for 19,000 USD in 2015-06-30 Uniregistry

sold guru.pub to a .com owner
sold tens of new gtls to end users low $xxx mid $xxx

Rich · Jul 21, 2018

Hands down best thread I ever read. Www.namepros.com/threads/how-to-find-potential-end-users.68798/

urljunky · Jul 21, 2018

Linkden

Addison · Jul 21, 2018

bhartzer said:
I personally like short, to the point emails

Me too, but if you're going to do this on a large scale, you have to stop using the "it was for a project" pitch. It'll come back to bite you when someone realizes you say that about 300+ domains.

Rich said:
Hands down best thread I ever read. Www.namepros.com/threads/how-to-find-potential-end-users.68798/

And...

bhartzer said:
What's your best tip for selling to end users?

bhartzer said:
How is the best way to scale this?

To scale, don't sell (persuade to recognize the value of) but make sales (close deals). Pour all your effort into buying valuable domains that end-users want so they come to you. That scales. Outbound does not (today).

bhartzer said:
What if you have 350 domains to sell this way?

Let the buyers come to you, and buy better domains if they don't.

"If you buy it (and it is good), they will come."

OmarVG · Jul 21, 2018

bhartzer said:
What's your best tip for selling to end users?
Stick to your High Asking Price, no discounts, no special offers, because if you give weak desperate signals to the end user, they will use that against you and will give you a low ball purchase offer. Don't give the impression that you are desperate to sell your domain, let them know you can keep the domain for many years until you get the highest purchase offer for your domain name.

How is the best way to scale this?
Again, there is NO Rush to sell all your domains! Calm down, this domaining Business requires many years to get BIG Sales!! Don't try to scale this in one year, because you will fail at it.

What if you have 350 domains to sell this way?

That requires tons of Patience, Time, Effort and Money to pay the renewals. Be ready to wait like 10 years more or less, but it wont happen in shot period of time.

Domaining is not for desperate people, set your mindset for patience, sit, relax and wait. Big Sales will come when the time is right...

bidigitals · Oct 8, 2019

Adam27 said:
My tip, Do NOT write reports on how awesome new gTLDs are when trying to sell .com domains.

Why would that be true? Even w our considerable # of one-word .com's (OneWordSites.com, etc.), those who cannot or will not invest more for a great .com can slide to, eg: 14k.work, OneWord.work, and others, to nail a ONE-WORD domain for themselves at 97 or 98% less than the .com... although in 2019, all are treated equally by google, et alia, when properly designed, and blessed with at least a few decent backlinks.

Intention of this reply is to both ask opinion, and express ideas for other domainists.

MTB · Oct 8, 2019

@bidigitals I would always look for an alternative SLD than an inferior TLD

MTB · Oct 8, 2019

OmarVG said:
That requires tons of Patience, Time, Effort and Money to pay the renewals. Be ready to wait like 10 years more or less, but it wont happen in shot period of time.

Domaining is not for desperate people, set your mindset for patience, sit, relax and wait. Big Sales will come when the time is right...

Agree with patience. Better to register 10 good domains for 10 years than 100 bad ones for 1 year. It's also a great negotiation tactic to tell the buyer you've secured a 10 year registration (this basically tells them you view the domain as valuable and are in no rush to sell).

bidigitals · Oct 9, 2019

Very much agree w/ @MTB on both counts: Quality supercedes quantity (learned that hard way, heheheh), and, without a doubt, when we tell people "It's renewed until 2025," (or beyond), it gives the buyer more reason to agree that domain is valuable.

That said, we only do it w one-worders, regardless of tld. Not for nothng, some words just slide into non .com's easily, because the .com went for millions, such as baccarat.work, slots.work, roulette.work. No clue what we'll sell them for because it seems the wisest thing to do is wait several years before even offering it: W/ a million people going online for the first time each week, another few years will surely develop the markets even more, no?

wizard · Oct 9, 2019

If your marketing domains don't expert big money its very time consuming and you can waste alot of time for $50 offers best hold quality domains and let them contact you

MTB · Oct 9, 2019

@bidigitals Where did you get the data a million people a week go online for the first time? I would like to delve further into those stats, by location and demographics. With more data we can make better-informed decisions.

With 5-10 year domain registrations I 'tend' to keep to the following rules:

.com
Less than 10 characters in SLD
No hyphens or numbers
High-value keyword (I check PPC)
Long-term global industry (food, tourism, sport, etc)
Generic (so not trademarked)

bidigitals · Oct 9, 2019

Rich said:
Hands down best thread I ever read. Www.namepros.com/threads/how-to-find-potential-end-users.68798/

... and loving your avatar hole cards!

bidigitals · Oct 10, 2019

MTB said:
@bidigitals Where did you get the data a million people a week go online for the first time? I would like to delve further into those stats

https://wearesocial.com/blog/2019/01/digital-2019-global-internet-use-accelerates
and the UN breaks it down a bit more, geo, etc., at
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1027991

Fascinating. 8 billion people in the world, half have never been online.
Not long ago, also saw a citation to the effect that more than 3 of 10 humans alive today have never seen a telephone. Wow.

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