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What do you the majority of your domaining work from? Your phone, ipad, laptop or desktop? I used to be mostly on a desktop but got a bit bored being stuck in one place for a long period of time. I now use an ipad much more so I can be more mobile but its no where near as efficient. On the desktop I would have multiple windows open for different tools and bounce around depending on what I needed at the moment. You can't work like that on an ipad. I do find that my workflow has gone way down on an ipad but my sanity is better not being stuck in front of a desk when doing research.

How do you do domaining?
 
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50% Desktop
30% Laptop
10% Mobile
10% Tab
 
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Laptop for the serious stuff, mobile for mostly the lurking like am doing now!
 
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The vast majority of my domaining ( reading & re-reading / research / sales planning / NP Forum ) is done from the comfort of a great desk chair in front of a desktop computer on a large file filled desk strategically located between a TV, refrigerator, and microwave.

Additional domaining is done from a laptop ( name purchases, website design and general correspondence) as necessary.

When driving and going places an iPad is always a traveling companion.
 
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The vast majority of my domaining ( reading & re-reading / research / sales planning / NP Forum ) is done from the comfort of a great desk chair in front of a desktop computer on a large file filled desk strategically located between a TV, refrigerator, and microwave.

Additional domaining is done from a laptop ( name purchases, website design and general correspondence) as necessary.

When driving and going places an iPad is always a traveling companion.
iPads.Way too much of a.learning curve for this old gray beard need a 8 year old.around to help me lol

True learning experience.Did.have one..gave it too a 8 year old
 
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iPads.Way too much of a.learning curve for this old gray beard need a 8 year old.around to help me lol

True learning experience.Did.have one..gave it too a 8 year old

Ipads are nice. Great for videos. Easy to learn, I am old too. Lol.

High res screen, but worst part is one finger typing, simply horrible for typing though. So mostly use iMac for serious non browsing like auctions, drop lists, web work, emails, etc. the ipad does not function well for input, only browsing imo.
 
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Microsoft Surface Go (best with an attachable keyboard) and a Google Pixel 3 XL. Log into Chrome browser on both using the same gmail account and you're all synched.
 
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iPads.Way too much of a.learning curve for this old gray beard need a 8 year old.around to help me lol

True learning experience.Did.have one..gave it too a 8 year old

No doubt you made an 8 year happy with your generous gift!

Being of " many years " myself it has become difficult to keep up with all of the new devices and their respective nuances and intricacies.

Fortunately my wife is 10 Xs smarter than her husband!
 
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Doing my daily lists I absolutely have to be at home on my dual screen desktop with my excel files with all my complex formulas and macros. I already spend a ton of time each day on everything .. it scares me to think how much longer it would take if I wasn't on my PC!

When my mom was recovering from her operation last year I'd often try using her single screen desktop and almost threw it out the window a few times because it was so much less efficient.

For auctions I also try to be on the desktop as well .. but if I'm at work or out walking Steamie, then I'll bid on my phone.
 
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50% - Laptop (connected to a TV for additional viewing space)
30% - Desktop (when more power/speed is needed for certain tasks)
15% - Android phone (time using 2FA apps adds up...)
5% - iPad (usually just testing out landing pages)
 
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80% desktop
20% iPad

Do almost all writing, spreadsheets, web, NameBio, etc on desktop.
Use iPad a lot on NPs and for Twitter and general browsing.

Bob

Ps This mobile thing people talk about - I presume that is the little scooters we seniors zip about on? You run into people when you do domaining with mobile! :xf.grin:
 
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60% - Tab (droplists/purchasing/record keeping etc)
40% - Phone (forums/social media etc)
 
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I would say the device is not that important and depends more on the particular tasks you need to do for that day. What becomes an issue as with any job where you are your own boss is the time management and efficiency - if you have nobody to tell you what to do you can easily find yourself under or overworking and both are not good for your health and business. So my advice would be put some schedule in place, even if you don't stick to it 100% of the time but have it anyway and allow yourself some flexibility. And the space matters too, you can be at home but have an office space, you just can't be in the right headspace laying on a sofa or in bed, it won't work long term. Work can and should be a pleasure but it does still take discipline and the right attitude and if you are not careful that can all go down the drain very quickly without some order in place. Also some sort of self accounting, again when you don't have to respond to anyone it's easy to forget or think keeping track of the time you spend on different activities is not important. Another huge mistake, it is pretty much all that's important. So do note everything you do, how much time do you spend on it, what are the results, how can you improve it etc. (that applies to any industry really, keeping track of data and one would think it's the most logical thing to do but it is amazing how often it is overlooked). In my first web development company over a decade ago we ran for an year without looking at results at all, we had business coming in so thought all is good then I sat and put together all the data, what time it took to get each project in, how much it took to complete etc and I remember that meeting where we all sat to discuss the results and I asked everyone to guess what the most profitable project was. All suggestions were projets over $10k. Truth was it was a site for $500. It took literally one call and a few mails to close and a day to complete. The big projects were actually over delivered (if that's a word - we did way too much over the top to please and impress people in the end the profit was not matching all the work done). Had we not looked at data we would've continued that way till we run ourselves to the ground. So that is even easier to overlook when you are on your own - how much time do you put in research? Where? Which of your activities is bringing best results is it optimising landing pages, is it sourcing good domains to buy, is it outreach, is it listing your domains on market places? Which market places? etc etc.
 
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I separate work from other things. I am against to work anytime and everywhere I go. Being more mobile isn't a good thing.


Also, always needing computer data, keeping past work records on computer to take decisions is not good. It will make brain lazy. After a while brain can not take simple decisions. For instance, if you always use calculator, after a while you can't calculate 125x8 without a calculator. Such a thing will slow down you while the expected benefit of a calculator is opposite. Computer is just an advanced calculator. Don't use computer frequently to do the things which you can do without computer.
 
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