discuss Dan / Epik / Afternic Sales Landers

GoldenApple said:

Hi everyone,

I'm having a hard time deciding which sales lander to use for my domains.

From the 3 landers below which one do you think performs best and why?

Thanks

DAN

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Afternic/GoDaddy

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Epik

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ramkumaritrvs said:

watch the traffic

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elmoney said:

you can to upload your own images for each domain.

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Josytal said:

So uploaded images will sell your domains?!
VIP indeed!

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Josytal said:

So uploaded images will sell your domains?!
VIP indeed!

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xynames said:

Your traffic will not vary no matter what style of landing pages you use

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• Afternic/GoDaddy stress talking or emailing a broker. They have 24hr coverage, someone to answer the phone, and probably help close a lot of sales through that expertise that an inexperienced investor without marketing skills might lose. I personally hate not being given the price when I am buying something, so wonder at their strategy of requiring an interaction just to get a price, but clearly they are big and smart and have evidence to support that approach. Other than the absence of a price, the lander looks fine to me, and the GoDaddy badge helps obviously.
• DAN. To me their landers while possibly slightly bland to some do engender trust. They just to me look professional and elegant. They also allow you to easily add descriptions for each domain name if you like. They have payment plans for names valued $495 and up as well as a rental option. I think those help close some sales. DAN landers are super easy to set up and protect us from making bad lander design choices.
• Epik I love the visual look of their landers, whether you use their images or add your own. You can cleanly offer Buy-It-Now, Make Offer, and start a Payment Plan. I also love that their landers are in fact tiny websites and you can add lots of text if you want, images, links, etc. It can be argued that you can get some names to search rank. Probably to a slight degree - I have a few that I see are Alexa 5M but none that I know of Alexa 1M. A Google search with my term plus word domain name will show some DAN listings on page one so not sure the difference is that much. The Epik ones, when you do get an inquiry, provide you with name, email, phone as well as IP address, whereas DAN provide you essentially with just initials and the offer information.

• NoDynadot Not as much choice in design (3 essentially) but their landers are not bad and when sales do happen their commissions are very reasonable. I think there is an additional fee for withdrawing funds (might be wrong - the few small sales I did there I just used money to register or renew domains). You can without cost (other than sales commission) start an auction or do a fixed price sale.
• NameSilo Not many people talk about their landers, but I love the look (I use number 3, but they have five choices). To me they are elegant. Good commission rate. They allow you to offer payment plans.
• Sedo You now have choices with just landers or with parking. They are of course a major long-term aftermarket, like Afternic. Their landers allow you to show the price directly. They too have a series of agents. A wide variety of images for the traditional landers, or clean simplistic in the new ones.
• Efty So you need a membership past the trial period, and you will handle your own negotiations, but not otherwise pay commissions except those associated with the payment/escrow. They offer tons of choices in customization of landers. If you plan to never have your own website their marketplace feature (you use one of your domain names, or now a subdomain) to set up what is essentially your domain portfolio website without any programming or website development.

Gube said:

Just to bounce on the Epik lander subject
You also can set a custom description right under the make an offer/bin boxes at the top
This is a great place to write some facts on the domain, why buying this particular name will profit the customer's business, and anything else.. plus it will help to rank it better in search results

And at the bottom, you also can hide some parts of the lander as you like :
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Intelliname said:

I've tested all variations extensively across hundreds of thousands of domain names, and have found that in tangent with Epik landers, listing names at Make Offer with no minimum is by far the best solution for most portfolio owners. The reality is the less resistance and funnels you have for reaching prospects, the more opportunities you can seed in both the short and long term. You can never predict when a $100 offer becomes a six figure sale either, as it is human nature to start low and want to negotiate. The more leads you generate, the wider the net for discovery and relationship development that can lead to unexpected unicorn sales. The best practice for me personally is one that adapts pricing for unique names based on the customer, sharing names at lower prices to plant mustard seeds with great ideas, and helping larger organizations get fair value while still ensuring opportunities for larger payouts are always present.

BIN Example:
www.autocharged.com

Make Offer Example:
www.ninja.com

Lease Example (Great for Real Estate):
www.coronadelmarhomes.com

For those unaware, Epik now has a division that creates SSL landers for any of our customers with investment portfolios that want it. Whether that be 500 names or 25k. This means we take the time to not only create individual SSL-driven website landers, but we seed each one with keywords from the root URL in the title, description, and meta positions. Our service team has the staffing and resources to use tools internally to build out complete portfolios within a matter of a day or two, and then customize them with great images and added keyword relativity to refine lead stimulation. It is the single smartest path I believe a domain investor can take, plus our sales team is world class and multilingual to help pull down big deals when needed. If you routinely buy and sell domain names, we are happy to personally assist with building out all your landing pages to ensure 2021 offers maximum lead generation advantages. Depending on the theme of your root URLs, some incredible things can happen when they are indexed appropriately so that individuals already with a vested interest in the subject come across them. The long-tail keyword strings are limitless and unpredictable.

From my own experience (multiple personal closes even last week and team has a high number of 6 to 7 figure closes already for 2021), Epik's landers drive 3x to 5x more leads than other solutions I've experimented with. That is before factoring in access to their sales team for negotiations, built-in escrow services, being able to tap into the crypto experience for parallel economies, and Rob's experience in shooting for the moon post real discovery and research for buyers. There are few companies where domain owners can ask a CEO to help close a life-changing deal.

Whether you are at Epik or not, normally within 24-48 hours we can have the most aggressive campaigns with standalone sites for indexing and related themes setup, then help to navigate more sales and refinement to match your strategies. Lots of fun, and if you want an assessment of what is possible, just email portfolios to [email protected] and ask for a priority assessment. We are always very happy to help anyone in our path.

Have a great day dreaming, domaining and make a difference! Happy #InternationalWomensDay.

RD

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