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Hi All,

A lot of people struggle with outbound or complain about having no sales via inbound or marketplace. Well domaining is not a get rich scheme and it takes lots of time , hard-work , capital and luck to succeed in the same.

Though everyone would love to have xxxxx sales however you cant have such big ticket sales without pouring thousands of dollars and wait for long time for the right end users to approach you. This post is for the beginner who wish to have regular xxx or low xxxx sales and keep their domaining journey going on.

3 words Geo/keyword domains has very low chances of getting sold via landing page or marketplace even if you hold them for years. Such domains can be sold via outbound easily however you have to follow the practice properly.

There are number of steps and factors in the same. I will try to list few of them here for your understanding.

Let me first share the basic..

1. Outbound is a volume game. It may happen that you wont receive any response for your first 20 domains and than your 21st domain may get sold.

2. Price is big factor . $200-$499 is a sweet spot for normal geo domains.

3. Searches and cpc matters in case of Geo/keyword domains and its easier to sell domains with good metrics.

4. Follow up matters a lot as it hardly happens that you would sell domain in your first mail itself.

5. Certain niche sells faster than other niches. Location and country matters a lot as well.

6. One need to have lots of patience and a proper schedule to succeed in outbound.

Now back to the outbound process:-

1. Find leads:- There are basically 5 ways to find lead for your domain.

a) Google.com :- You can find the list of existing companies which are presently ranking for your keyword.You can use semrush.com to get first 100 result of google.com if you wish to avoid manual work.

b) Google map/yellow-pages:- You would find names and details of the companies which are registered for that keyword in that region. For geo domains , google map works better than google.com. There are automated tools which can fetch the google map results .

c) ZFbot.com/Domainiq.com :- Both these tools provide you list of the domain which are related to your domain or have same keyword like yours.

d) Socal media:- LinkedIn etc can be great source for finding potential end user for your domain.

e) Advertisers:- It makes sense to contact the advertisers who are advertising for the keyword of your domain. You can find the list of the same from semrush.com.

2. Finding email id:- There are 3 ways to find email id for the leads you have collected from above sources.

a) Whois.com/whoxy.com :- After gdpr whois is no more openly available however you still find email ids in 20-30% cases as compared to earlier days as few registrars still shows whois detail. Whoxy.com is a portal from where you can fetch whois details in bulk.

b) Hunter.io/adapt.io :- Such paid tools are great way to find email id of potential leads. However be aware that even though they are paid tools but still email id accuracy would be 60-70% only.

c) Website:- Lastly you may directly visit the website and collect email id from there.

3. Sending mails:- This is a tricky step as it is very difficult to send mails these days. Free email id provider like gmail , yahoo etc have strict spam policy and most of your mail would land in the spam folder. Now you have 2 options:-

a) Free email providers:- You can create multiple email ids with free email providers like gmail , yahoo, outlook etc.

b) Logicboxes panel based registrar:- There are some registrar which uses logic-box panel and they provide 2 free email id along with every domain. You would have to set up email id there and use their server to send mail. It works like charm as i have tried Bigrock.com and nettigritty.com.

c) Own server:- You can set up your own smtp server and purchase multiple ip for sending mails. It is a complicated and expensive way so wont be suggested in the initial days.

4. Pricing & follow up:-

a) Pricing:-
Pricing plays a very big role especially in case of geo domains and 3 words emd domains. If you price them in $200-500 range than you can easily sell them. If it was a hand registered domain or purchased from go-daddy closeout than its a great roi.

b) Followup :- Now follow up can further be divided into 2 parts:-

1. Initial mail:- Suppose you collected 50 leads of end users for a particular domain and you sent mail to them. You may have received 1-2 response and no response from other leads. You can send a follow up mail after 2-3 weeks as its highly possible that many of them may have missed your initial mail or were out of office. Though never send more than 2 follow ups or else you would be spamming in general. Further be very careful not to send mail again to the same person who has already responded "No".

2. Price inquiry:- You have sent 50 mails and have received 3-4 price inquiry. You have sent them the details regarding the domain as well as your asking price. You should follow up every week or 2 regarding their interest. Under normal circumstances it takes 4-5 follow ups to finally sell a domain. It would hardly happen than you send them price and they immediately closed the deal.

5. Closing the deal:- You again have 3 options in this.

a) Paypal:- You can send a paypal invoice to the client and they can make the payment via them. I personally transfer the domain first and than ask for payment. It has never happened with me that client didn't make payment though their were delays in couple of cases. When you first transfer the domain and than ask for payment than it create trust factor in the eyes of end-users and deal closes faster. This works best in case of xxx deals as your risk factor is low.

b) Escrow :- You can create escrow account and ask the client to complete the transaction via that. Be aware that creating account at escrow is a tedious process and many times deal gets cancelled as end users do not want to take so much of headache. Escrow is recommended in case of xxxx and xxxxx deals and not at all recommended for xxx deals.

c) Marketplace:- If your domain is registered with Godaddy than you can ask the client to directly purchase from there or via landing pages like undeveloped.com. It works very well as these marketplace have high trust factor among the general public.


Some personal suggestions based on my experience of outbound.

1. Registrar:- If your domain is with Godaddy than it is easier to sell them . Godaddy is world's largest registrar and due to their massive advertising campaign everyone is aware about them. Most of the end user have account with godaddy or they dont mind opening account at Godaddy. If your domain is with any other registrar tha always do outbound after 60 days transfer lock is over.

2. Response time:- xxx purchases are normally spontaneous decision and end users immediately pay the same. If you receive a offer or end user agrees to your price than try to close the deal instantly. If you delay than their is high possibility that end user may change their mind or look for alternative options.

3. Related domains:- If you have a singular version than always purchase plural version as well if available. Further in case of Geo domain if you are marketing .com domain than always acquire cctld version of the same to be on safe side.

4. Calling :- If you receive a price inquiry than always try to call up the client as the possibility of leads getting closed increases manifold in case of calls rather than on mail.

5. Promo offer:- If you are into hand registered game than keep a keen eye on promo offers offered by various registrar. If you can grab promo offers for .com at $3-4 range than its always a winning game.

6. Expireddomains.net:- Thousands of domains expire on daily basis and you can find lots of decent domains in daily drop list which can easily be sold in xxx range via outbound.

Last but not the least , there is a very thin line between marketing and spamming and majority of newbies dont understand the difference. Outbound is great to have regular sales and to keep the cash register rolling but most of the time we end up doing spamming. Even though i am into outbound but i am strictly against spamming.
 
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I receive pm mentioning that they did outbound and why the hell end users is not replying , now common what the fu*ck do you expect me to reply to such pm?
End-users is not your employee , they would reply or not reply as per their wish..

Its even hilarious when people message me that can I suggest them domains which they should hand register and sell instantly for 100x... Seriously man , i just get speechless....

lol

you started it :)

imo….
 
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lol

you started it :)

imo….

Ha ha ha agreed i am at fault here. I just to wanted to share and help other newbies so that they dont waste money and time like i have done in my initial days..
 
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Ha ha ha agreed i am at fault here. I just to wanted to share and help other newbies so that they dont waste money and time like i have done in my initial days..

You did a great job sharing all this. I'm sure it helped a lot of newbies and not only newbies.

Don't mind a few retarded gremlins here and there :)
 
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But seriously why should a lead open an email for 19 times without replying or going ahead to make the purchase.

How soon can one follow up on such lead if there is no response? I have one that opened the mail 12 times within two days from different devices. Although the price is not quoted in the mail but there is a for sale lander on the domain with price.

Well we have to understand one simple difference between outnound and inbound. In outbound we are approaching customer and pitching our service so they are at liberty to react or respond as per their wish. Its only the end user who knows whats their in his mind for opening mail multiple times and still not responding.
 
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You did a great job sharing all this. I'm sure it helped a lot of newbies and not only newbies.

Don't mind a few retarded gremlins here and there :)

Thanks but due to such retards , even genuine people are unknowingly ignored. Further its always a give and take relationship so if someone wants something than they should offer something in return.. It can be friendship , money or anything else they are good at. I have knowledge of outbound but i am bad in seo or development which other person can be good at and can offer... But majority of guys want free lunch which is dissapointing
 
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But seriously why should a lead open an email for 19 times without replying or going ahead to make the purchase.

How soon can one follow up on such lead if there is no response? I have one that opened the mail 12 times within two days from different devices. Although the price is not quoted in the mail but there is a for sale lander on the domain with price.

I don't think it's the person opening the email 19 times, it is probably a software problem. I can't remember the name at this second, but I installed one of the most popular free Read Receipt programs into my gmail account and it behaved the same way even though I was not opening the email. I found out because I use gmail to take notes, jot down ideas, reminders, tasks, etc, when I'm on the road. Instead of using a pen and paper, I just send myself an email with the note, idea, whatever. When I installed that read receipt program, it would send me lots of read receipts, even when I was not opening the email at the time. Not 19, but a lot and not every time but frequently.

If it has only happened once, maybe the person's baby was playing with his phone?
 
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Great post @ rohit ..really learnt alot thanks
 
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Hello @rohitgoyal ,

How many initial emails do you send to on average per domain?

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I don't think it's the person opening the email 19 times, it is probably a software problem. I can't remember the name at this second, but I installed one of the most popular free Read Receipt programs into my gmail account and it behaved the same way even though I was not opening the email. I found out because I use gmail to take notes, jot down ideas, reminders, tasks, etc, when I'm on the road. Instead of using a pen and paper, I just send myself an email with the note, idea, whatever. When I installed that read receipt program, it would send me lots of read receipts, even when I was not opening the email at the time. Not 19, but a lot and not every time but frequently.

If it has only happened once, maybe the person's baby was playing with his phone?

WhY you are saying maybe true but it's not the case all the time.

See in case of outbound you are approaching the buyer who may not be aware about the availability of the domain or may not be much aware aboit domain aftermarket or may not be aware about thethe benefit to their business. Further there are multiple people involved in a singel company and they share or discuss with themu before taking a decision even if its only $200-300 so they open up mail number of times. Many a times end user may just be curious or confused after receiving your mail so they check it multiple times..

As per my personal experience.. if a mail is opened multiple times than normally you would receive a response even if its a no
 
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Many thanks for indian SEO webdesign spammers, that our outbound emails are get into in spam at potential buyers. I also receiving a spam emails in my inbox from indian Seo webdesigners every day.
 
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Many thanks for indian SEO webdesign spammers, that our outbound emails are get into in spam at potential buyers. I also receiving a spam emails in my inbox from indian Seo webdesigners every day.

Well I don't deny that couple of companies from india are purely into samming but spammers are everywhere... I receive spam mails from US based companies on daily basis for Seo and web development..
 
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Well I don't deny that couple of companies from india are purely into samming but spammers are everywhere... I receive spam mails from US based companies on daily basis for Seo and web development..
Yeah, except those are, for the most part, companies based in India purpoting to be US-based. Ditto re all those English sounding names of people sending that spam. John Kelly is in fact Rakesh Batra or something like that. At least that's what I infer from their very pronounced accents on the phone, supposedly calling from Pasadena, California :ROFL::ROFL:
 
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Yeah, except those are, for the most part, companies based in India purpoting to be US-based. Ditto re all those English sounding names of people sending that spam. John Kelly is in fact Rakesh Batra or something like that. At least that's what I infer from their very pronounced accents on the phone, supposedly calling from Pasadena, California :ROFL::ROFL:

Most of the genuine and authentic companies based in US keep their back office or marketing setup in India which is a well known fact...

Having said that there are plenty of individuals and companies based in US and Europe who are also into spamming..

In nutshell spammers are everywhere though maybe high or low based on paricular demographic...
 
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Most of the genuine and authentic companies based in US keep their back office or marketing setup in India which is a well known fact...
Sure, except those jobs are, again for the most part, outsourced to independent Indian companies, not own branches of those US clients :xf.wink:
Having said that there are plenty of individuals and companies based in US and Europe who are also into spamming..
In nutshell spammers are everywhere though maybe high or low based on paricular demographic...
True enough.
 
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Very useful article. Thanks rohit sir
 
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I have emailed over 10 companies regarding my domains that they should be very interested in.

Didn't get any answer from anyone yet ( it's been a week )

what am I doing wrong?

I just email the mail I can find and this what I send -

Title - XXXXXX.com Domain is Available

Text -

Hey,

I own the domain XXXXXXX.com and I decided to sell it, came across your company and thought maybe you would want to purchase it.

Let me know if you are interested.

Thanks,

Yair.
 
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I have emailed over 10 companies regarding my domains that they should be very interested in.

Didn't get any answer from anyone yet ( it's been a week )

what am I doing wrong?

I just email the mail I can find and this what I send -

Title - XXXXXX.com Domain is Available

Text -

Hey,

I own the domain XXXXXXX.com and I decided to sell it, came across your company and thought maybe you would want to purchase it.

Let me know if you are interested.

Thanks,

Yair.


Pray to God , thats all you can do....
 
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Sorry, frankly, don't know where to start and how to put it so that you wouldn't be offended. Hence the :facepalm:

I just started with domaining.

Instead of coming with that atitude of "I'm the best, you're a joke" you can help me and give me directions & tips.

Thanks for nothing babe.
 
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