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Hello guys...

Over the last 2 months, I have been receiving a lot of messages from the newbies.
They tend to post their names in the appraisal section and when I appraise them saying that you could do outbound, use LinkedIn for leads, or submit it to brandBucket, I get a PM from them asking what is BB, outbound and so on.

I almost never tell them what it is! I tell them to read and research here on NamePros!

My thinking is, they learn the best when they learn it themselves! Otherwise, if they are not ready to explore the business themselves backed by strong research, there is a very high chance that they would be expecting a very high return in very short span of time which won't work!

Tell me your point of view and if you think I am wrong!
Do you help?
 
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Help, period.
 
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I try to help if the questions are good and well thought out. Also with domain appraising. Not that I'm an expert, just want to help people not waste their money and provide an opinion.

I'm not answering stuff like "what as domain?" and "how mike quik sael???"
 
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Do you help?
Depends on how much I had to drink.

But really, if they act lazy then no. Also, the ones who on their first visit put up 25+ domains for appraisal, all at once, usually go on my ignore list.

But I think most of us can sense when someone is sincere and wants to learn, so yeah, those I offer my help for what it's worth.
 
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During a long period of my domaining life, I have helped a lot of newbies, up to a point that it had got in the way of my own domaining. With a couple of them I had spent more than 50 back and forth PMs. I have limited this a lot now and prefer to be completely focused own my on work, only answering a question here and there when possible or responding to those that I have known through NamePros for a long time.
 
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To a limited extent, yes, will make obvious helpful suggestions to a new member.

The helpful suggestions tend to be - search out and throughly read - posts relating to their particular areas of domain interests, and post topic specific questions in same areas.

Try to provide a new member with the foundation that one must become " self-sufficient " in domain decision making.

On occasion try to answer newbie questions based my personal experiences ( usually costly to me learning lessons) to perhaps spare 'em the same type results.

Also, I believe as I am really a GUEST of the NamePros Forum and as I use the Forum for my personal benefit, extending a bit of helpful hospitality to a new NP member is my way of
" giving back " to the Forum.
 
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Also, I believe as I am really a GUEST of the NamePros Forum and as I use the Forum for my personal benefit, extending a bit of helpful hospitality to a new NP member is my way of
" giving back " to the Forum.

never underestimate the power of 'traffic' .. you bring 'traffic' to the site just by visiting the site, so , in a way, you help even when the only thing you do is reading the posts.
 
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I do help but increasingly try to do so in a way to encourage them to do their own analysis. Ie rather than offer opinion I will suggest articles they should read and with one name tell them how I would start an analysis.

Bob
 
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Yes, but not for free, I actually have a service just for this :xf.grin:
 
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I usually like to help them, but it can take some time until I answer :) But I try to process all questions/PMs/emails/phone calls/ in some timely manner.
 
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I try to answer questions, but the majority of the questions I get is like:

“Bro, I have glutenfreecar.com and I can not sell it. Why?”

When I suggest that this name makes very little sense, many do not want to accept it. It’s almost like I insulted them.

I think many newbies think domaining is about buying random hand regs and then just sit down, waiting for the cash. When I say that I work full time with this, sitting hours trying to analyze data and then search, search and search again, some of them seem to think I’m a full-blown nutcase.

However, other guys are more willing listen. Two years ago I started to give feedback to a guy and now he is doing great on his own.
 
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Hello guys...

Over the last 2 months, I have been receiving a lot of messages from the newbies.
They tend to post their names in the appraisal section and when I appraise them saying that you could do outbound, use LinkedIn for leads, or submit it to brandBucket, I get a PM from them asking what is BB, outbound and so on.

I almost never tell them what it is! I tell them to read and research here on NamePros!

My thinking is, they learn the best when they learn it themselves! Otherwise, if they are not ready to explore the business themselves backed by strong research, there is a very high chance that they would be expecting a very high return in very short span of time which won't work!

Tell me your point of view and if you think I am wrong!
Do you help?

As per my personal experience in namepros and outside, there are 3 answers to your question.

1. Each one of us were newbie at some given point of them and majority of us are still newbie as we learn something or other every day. When I started I made a lot of mistakes and wasted hell lots of time and frankly speaking there was no one to help me out. Just based on my personal experience I did try to help as many as I can . Funny part is that there are many people whom I contacted in my initial days but they never helped and now the same set of people approach me to help them out. Karma is a bitch

2. Well everything is give and take, be it professional or personal life. If someone is expecting to recieve something than should be willing to give something in return as well. It can be monetary , friendship or just a thanks. Problem arises when you help but do not even recieve acknowledgement in return. I am not at all a expert but I have helped and guided hell lots of guys in this forum and outside but haven't recieved anything in return barring few . There are many who maybe newbie in domaining but they must be good in something else. They themselves should offer that when asking for your help which rarely happens.

3. It takes hell lots of time when you volunteer and try to help others which actually impact your own work. You answer one query and than you are bombarded with multiple queries and so called newbies feel that it's your moral responsibility to spoon feed them and continue answering their query. Helping and spoon speeding are 2 different things and it's very important to draw a line.
 
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If someone asked what an acronym is, it's silly to not tell someone who asks. I personally try to not even use acronyms in my posts.

But telling someone how to outbound, that's impossible to do without spending a lot of time.
 
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Always help. Most questions are similar. We all started at the beginning. God knows I made a ton of classic domaining mistakes.
 
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The best help for most frequently asked questions would be to direct them to a pinned thread or to search for it themselves. It gets tiresome seeing the same things asked over and over. Management pinned Rohit thread and I believe there are some other instructional threads that should be pinned where we could post the link.

Now a more intricate question gets a larger response but the basics I don’t bother anymore. I agree one should learn early on to be a self starter or you have no chance in this field.
 
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Arpit why not just refer them to your thousand and one “What if ?” NamePros threads?
 
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Arpit why not just refer them to your thousand and one “What if ?” NamePros threads?

Is that a Sarcasm? If it is, I think you can contribute better or not at all!!
I have made a thread where people can share the threads they find useful, for the newbies and those are interested in learning!

If not, ignore the message!
 
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