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Rory, the page looks great. One change or possibility I do see though is an actual lander for the names/brands your selling. If I type in MonsterBeards.com, I don't want to let at a main page, I want a lander to purchase or inquire about MonsterBeards.

It looks great & very professional - just did a quick look around, so didn't try anything that would be "user experience" - just look, impression and feel.

The only thing that would stop me is I cant find out anything "real" about the business/you. Your about me doesn't let ME (being the potential customer) find out who you are and will I give you my payment info? or even a real email address? Also, check your privacy,terms, etc... I won't go further here- PM if you want more info - doesn't need to be on the record and it's no big deal. But, does lead to and confirm my point above.

I wouldn't - but I also work in the virtual payments world and everything is a fraud warning to me. hahah

But - easy, established, verifiable trust is #1 to making sales. That is the biggest value you can get from the markets - if you prefer to be a bit more anonymous.

But, it looks really nicely put together - awesome initial impression.

Lee Latner said:

Rory, the page looks great. One change or possibility I do see though is an actual lander for the names/brands your selling. If I type in MonsterBeards.com, I don't want to let at a main page, I want a lander to purchase or inquire about MonsterBeards.

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Thanks!
Something likes this?: HERE
I'll have to forward them one by one.
I guess I thought since the name forwards there, someone would naturally hit contact.

DnameAgame said:

It looks great & very professional - just did a quick look around, so didn't try anything that would be "user experience" - just look, impression and feel.

The only thing that would stop me is I cant find out anything "real" about the business/you. Your about me doesn't let ME (being the potential customer) find out who you are and will I give you my payment info? or even a real email address? Also, check your privacy,terms, etc... I won't go further here- PM if you want more info - doesn't need to be on the record and it's no big deal. But, does lead to and confirm my point above.

I wouldn't - but I also work in the virtual payments world and everything is a fraud warning to me. hahah

But - easy, established, verifiable trust is #1 to making sales. That is the biggest value you can get from the markets - if you prefer to be a bit more anonymous.

But, it looks really nicely put together - awesome initial impression.

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Great feedback... I'll PM You. thnx

Rory Ivey said:

Thanks!
Something likes this?: HERE
I'll have to forward them one by one.
I guess I thought since the name forwards there, someone would naturally hit contact.

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That link goes to a "Unable to connect" message.

Lee Latner said:

That link goes to a "Unable to connect" message.

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Try it again...I had screwed up the nameservers by accident. Here:

Build your own reputation by riding another marketplace brand, you could ride with afternic and undeveloped at the same time while slowly built your own domain portfolio and sales testimonial.
Use the very same logo/avatar, put a link on your website showing your afternic and undeveloped page.

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Rory it looks great

I like the design.

The first 2 things I would change would be........
1) Lose the line with the domain extensions, it doesn't add any value
2) Showcase the best 3 or 4 domains (above the fold)

All feedback above is relevant, would second those.

1.Front page - it is not bad but there is no accent on anything, lots of colours, images, messages - it takes time to figure out what is the main focus (and I am landing there with the idea to look, so for someone just browsing is easy to drop it). See (very, very rough) idea on how it would look cleaner, I think it's much stronger as a message and as getting across what the site is about.

see the original here


and lighter version


(and like @Asfas1000 said, could even drop the extensions visuals altogether).

2. You are probably aware the blog is not on, so that being active would help. Or just comment out that link until you have the blog sorted, no need to lead people to something that is not there.

3. How it works is clean visually but doesn't really inform me/the user how it really works *for me* - it explains how you come up with ideas and then brand names for them but doesn't talk about what does that have to do with me - how do *I* benefit from that? Can I buy the name? What do I get with it? What is the process of buying it? Do you help me after I buy it with realising that idea? Do I have to use if for the idea you came up with or can I do something totally different with it? On the About us you say same "Using each of these hand-picked brand and product names as a foundation, our company develops them into functional, sustainable businesses that make a difference." - so I buy the domain and work with you on developing the idea? What do you get form it? etc etc.

Would fix it, then bring it above the "concept to reality" and put a link to it in the menu, it is something people need to know and gives them peace of mind knowing things are simple.

4. The About us, as already mentioned here, is neither here nor there - if it is going to be impersonal then just say something in the lines of "Gotbrands is a service that solves XYZ", if it is going to be a personal story of how you came up with it and why and what it does - then make it personal, mention names and background. Now it is in-between.

5. Remove the pagination on Explore brands - should show only when there are pages, this way it is misleading.

Hope that helps

Tatiana Bonneau said:

All feedback above is relevant, would second those.

1.Front page - it is not bad but there is no accent on anything, lots of colours, images, messages - it takes time to figure out what is the main focus (and I am landing there with the idea to look, so for someone just browsing is easy to drop it). See (very, very rough) idea on how it would look cleaner, I think it's much stronger as a message and as getting across what the site is about.

see the original here

and lighter version

(and like @Asfas1000 said, could even drop the extensions visuals altogether).

2. You are probably aware the blog is not on, so that being active would help. Or just comment out that link until you have the blog sorted, no need to lead people to something that is not there.

3. How it works is clean visually but doesn't really inform me/the user how it really works *for me* - it explains how you come up with ideas and then brand names for them but doesn't talk about what does that have to do with me - how do *I* benefit from that? Can I buy the name? What do I get with it? What is the process of buying it? Do you help me after I buy it with realising that idea? Do I have to use if for the idea you came up with or can I do something totally different with it? On the About us you say same "Using each of these hand-picked brand and product names as a foundation, our company develops them into functional, sustainable businesses that make a difference." - so I buy the domain and work with you on developing the idea? What do you get form it? etc etc.

Would fix it, then bring it above the "concept to reality" and put a link to it in the menu, it is something people need to know and gives them peace of mind knowing things are simple.

4. The About us, as already mentioned here, is neither here nor there - if it is going to be impersonal then just say something in the lines of "Gotbrands is a service that solves XYZ", if it is going to be a personal story of how you came up with it and why and what it does - then make it personal, mention names and background. Now it is in-between.

5. Remove the pagination on Explore brands - should show only when there are pages, this way it is misleading.
Extensions: another thing i can remove by myself. But i may be able to delete the idividual images from within the cpanel.

Hope that helps

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Wow, thanks...super detailed and helpful feedback!

I have to hire a developer to do these changes as I don't code myself. So this may take some time to make changes. I'll forward my names somewhere else like Uniregistry for now. This is a drawback of not using wordpress.

1. I love the example you gave with the simple background. I really appreciate that. I am able to change that image background myself from the cpanel manager area. I'll give that a try.
2. Blog: I was trying to use wordpress for the blog portion only, using a sub domain. This would require more designing to make sure it looks just like the current php site/script. Do you know if a blog addon could simply be added to my site? that would take out the complications and i would be able to do everything in one place. Also, I don't know how to remove the blog tab.
3. You posed some very important points: I have to answer those questions clearly. I didn't want to make it personal really...I just planned on getting an LLC and make it a business.
4. About Us: this has been truly hard for me. One I can't design the page myself to make it neat and add images etc. Also, I don't know how to word it perfectly. But I will do my best to word it more clearly. I feel a FAQ page would be handy to also answer questions: Can I buy a domain name? etc
5. What is pagination? lol I heard the term before and maybe have a vague concept of it from my time on wordpress. I probably will need a developer for that too.

Will have to raise some capital to get most of these done. Or pay someone with solid domains/trade lol. I would love to see this website flourish.

Even the title font you use is better: what font is that?

Again, such great advice!!!
Exactly what I needed.

Rory Ivey said:

Wow, thanks...super detailed and helpful feedback!

I have to hire a developer to do these changes as I don't code myself. So this may take some time to make changes. I'll forward my names somewhere else like Uniregistry for now. This is a drawback of not using wordpress.

1. I love the example you gave with the simple background. I really appreciate that. I am able to change that image background myself from the cpanel manager area. I'll give that a try.
2. Blog: I was trying to use wordpress for the blog portion only, using a sub domain. This would require more designing to make sure it looks just like the current php site/script. Do you know if a blog addon could simply be added to my site? that would take out the complications and i would be able to do everything in one place. Also, I don't know how to remove the blog tab.
3. You posed some very important points: I have to answer those questions clearly. I didn't want to make it personal really...I just planned on getting an LLC and make it a business.
4. About Us: this has been truly hard for me. One I can't design the page myself to make it neat and add images etc. Also, I don't know how to word it perfectly. But I will do my best to word it more clearly. I feel a FAQ page would be handy to also answer questions: Can I buy a domain name? etc
5. What is pagination? lol I heard the term before and maybe have a vague concept of it from my time on wordpress. I probably will need a developer for that too.

Will have to raise some capital to get most of these done. Or pay someone with solid domains/trade lol. I would love to see this website flourish.

Even the title font you use is better: what font is that?

Again, such great advice!!!
Exactly what I needed.

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Hah The font is Oswald.

Talk to me about developers Better get a good one or don't get one at all (so go for solution that doesn't require any). I can't tell you how many times I've had to pick up bad code (and usually it is after people spend their budget on it) to save a project/idea and as much as I love helping entrepreneurs I had to stop as it is simply not viable. Not many developers pick up other's code either because you have no idea what you are dealing with and even the simplest thing can turn into a nightmare, break, take ages etc etc. Wordpress is great if used as is, if you start modifying things it's a monster of its own, then you have updates, theme compatibility with those, support, disappearing theme developers/support etc etc. So short term, low budget solution or blog - totally. Long term, project that needs to expand and develop - no. Plus it is huge (though hosting nowadays is not that expensive so it's more me being old and grumpy about taking more space than one should). On your points:

1. Looks better now with the image so cool, cleaner already.

2. Don't know what your site is built on but should be able to just comment out the link from the menu. Don't know about a plugin for a blog, there are many but depends on what the site is built with. You could use Medium, just blog there and put a link to your blog on the site - then you get the extra exposure from Medium from anyone searching for topics relevant to you (and if you blog about startups, branding, business etc that's pretty cool and trendy). See some good reasoning for why use Medium here.

3 and 4. FAQ is a good solution just add that with relevant questions, at least FAQs are not demanding visually Re. copywriting - talk to me about copywriters) have similar views as with developers - get good or avoid writing altogether.

5. lol it is the numbers/links showing at the bottom of the page indicating how many pages there are. In your case goes to 200 when there is actually one page so it's misleading. Same as the blog link should be able to comment it out if you have access to the code.

In general - do what you can do well, even if it takes longer. Going for the cheap always turns expensive (even more so if you count your own time put into it), you have got the site looking professional so far so I'd say fix up what you can and then improve as you go but with quality. So if your monthly budget for that site is $X and is not enough for the improvements you want then do them in 3-5 whatever months but well. Plus good percentage of that budget should be on marketing it cose as good as it is still needs to be marketed.

Hope that helps!