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What's the best way to get at least $100 offers on your domains @ marketplaces to get the ball rolling?

Ideas wanted. Thanks.
 
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I understand that he delegates, but I think he is really good at running the whole machine, agree the team helps

Agreed. Delegation is a good thing and obviously he is running it well.
 
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I buy .com domains that I believe a business would pay at least 1k+ for.
I list them all on my own site, sedo, afternic, uniregistry etc...
Most offers/sales since 2003 have happened from my own site as that's where the parking page sales link leads them to.
Combo of good quality domains and patience leads to high sales.
Emailing people shows your ready to sell and they weren't out looking for your domain so they generally will only buy if the price is cheap. Focusing on building the best portfolio you can, getting it listed in multiple venues and letting the offers flow in naturally puts those offers into it's already confirmed they want the domain now it's just up to negotiations to see if you have the "right" buyer on the line.
I've turned a $50 initial offer into $7500 before and I've ignored $50-$500+ offers as well as my starting point is generally high xxx as if I don't think a domain is worth at least 1k to a business I try not to own it. By the leads coming direct I obtain name, phone, email, ip etc... so little more info to decide if I counter or ignore low offers based on who the buyer is.
I buy from domainers but I never sell to them unless they pull out end user money.
Hoping for low offers to push things to auction generally won't pan out well unless your happy with xx-xxx as the odds of 2+ end users noticing the domain auction in the limited time frame would be rare and auctions only work if multiple parties are fighting for it.
I've waited years to turn $8 acquisitions into 1-10k+ but with each year only costing another $8 I can do that as a 3 year old domain $25 selling for $6500 is better than a 1 year old domain $8 selling for $100. You need good quality domains, distribution, valuation skills, negotiation skills and patience. Junk should be sold cheap or liquidated, there should be no rush on gems as the offer flow will continue on those.
 
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We as a COLLECTIVE should make $100 offers on our friends and neighbors domains on NP not for the purpose of Shill bidding but for the purpose of maybe taking the chance to Grab a domain maybe worth $xxxx or $xx,xxx in the future for only $100 (if no other bids).

I'm sure you will agree the more domain sales the better it is for all Domainers as a whole.
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Riiiiiiiiight. But isn't it something that has been tried before ?
Let me give you a tour down the memory lane :)
PushToAuction.com Helps Get Domains on Sedo™ Auction
 
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What's the best way to get at least $100 offers on your domains @ marketplaces to get the ball rolling?

Ideas wanted. Thanks.
A better question would have been best way to get a deal going with a $100 incoming offer, was looking forward to reading the thread, oh well..
 
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A better question would have been best way to get a deal going with a $100 incoming offer, was looking forward to reading the thread, oh well..

We can "expand" this thread to accommodate your question which i think is...

"What's the best way to get a deal going with a $100 incoming offer?"

anyone here want to answer? feel free i won't mind. Thanks.
 
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Riiiiiiiiight. But isn't it something that has been tried before ?
Let me give you a tour down the memory lane :)
PushToAuction.com Helps Get Domains on Sedo™ Auction

wow! thanks for that memory lane! and pushtoauction is now being sold for $5000? what happened to it? sounded like a great idea?!?!

so why didn't it work? that thread got over 8K views and 150 replies so definitely interest on it. Am I being naive to think that domainers don't want to help each other out with $100 offers on domains they might be interested in owning? i mean I know domains on NP get sold way lower and everyone on here is looking for a "steal" but is $100 too steep for most domainers to invest in a domain? I mean what if it was VR360.com?

or let's say one of my domains.

AmericanBiometric.com

AmericanBiometrics.com (Mike Mann's) has a sticker price of $9888.

So AmericanBiometric.com would not be worth at least $100 to a domainer on NP?

Obviously I wouldn't let it go for a $100. but if some NPer decided to make a $100 bid. Surely I'd push it to free auction and roll the dice.

I know that I'd get more if I sold to the right enduser. But who has time for that? I like to be proactive and do something besides outbounds. I rather sell to resellers and get a decent profit that wait for that Whale.

but at the same time. if I push a $100 bid to auction. i can use that auction as a "high pressure moment" to motivate a potential enduser to make a bid and send them emails about the auction.

I've tracked most of my outbounds and many never get opened. WASTE OF TIME. I'm convinced Auctions are the best option to have constant monthly sales.

Outbounds and auctions are both a crap shoot but only auctions have an end result either Bad or Good. it's a result.

Outbounds are a question mark (?)

IMO
 
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wow! thanks for that memory lane! and pushtoauction is now being sold for $5000? what happened to it? sounded like a great idea?!?!

so why didn't it work?
I have an idea but why not let the creator answer :)
@Michael
 
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Hah, that brought back memories. It worked really well for a while and helped start a ton of auctions. Then Sedo increased their minimum commission to $60 and people didn't want to risk pushing to auction for $69, so I shut it down and eventually sold the domain to Francois. This was also at a time when the only way to start an auction at Sedo was to have an offer (excluding events like GreatDomains) but now you can just pay (although it is expensive).
 
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I've tracked most of my outbounds and many never get opened. WASTE OF TIME. I'm convinced Auctions are the best option to have constant monthly sales.

Since you have essentially dismissed outbound marketing as a viable way to sell your domains I'm curious to see samples of what you have tried. Would you be willing to share a couple of domains you tried outbound marketing for and a couple of emails you sent out?

I know this is a bit off topic so feel free to PM me if you prefer.
 
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First off thanks for the input.

Second. Wow! First person I've heard say that emd's essentially suck.

See that's confusing.

Especially when you read online about big corps owning tens of thousands of emd domains like Amazon and Johnson and Johnson and Microsoft does.

Also if you ask 100 domainers about end vs brandables most would choose emd hand over fist as a better investment.

Brandables = sounds great but only one in a million buyer
Emd = sounds good too but not as cool but many potential buyers.

Plus emd's are great for SEO purposes so I've read. Unless that has changed recently?

The business model of buying domains, take out "true" premiums, brandbucket is not true premiums.

Stove - com true "premium" name ... $50k minimum, if one of my clients owned that name.

Two word domains that people want to buy, for a company name people will pay $2k to $20k for, fairly easily and about 100 times per month with a portfolio of 50k domains.

What does microsoft really do with those EMD domains? Redirect to a product page...whoopie, great business model to sell to them...

Would you really call your company name something like:
"best fitness programs"

Really?? #19 search term in volume ... HORRIBLE Business name... if anyone thinks that would be there business name ... we will see them doing a Chapter 7 very soon.

Now if someone can "market" that name to sell ("bestfitnessprograms dot com") with so called stuff from ClickBank, that is called a affiliate program or indirect MLM type of mess, using search engines to drive traffic to a squeeze page etc BLAH BLAH BLAH ... if that is your business model my advise does NOT apply to you.

FitnessWeb.com is a great TRUE business name...NOT a million $ domain, <KEYWORD>Web.com sell everyday on expired markets for $30 to $200 and can sell for 2k to 20k maybe more.

example: BanWeb.com sold for $100 on gdaddy and RapidWeb.com got sold on FLIPPA for $6k...
used namebio to find my example quickly...so should you use namebio. :)

That is what I am trying to explain ... if you need more help let me know :)
 
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We can "expand" this thread to accommodate your question which i think is...

"What's the best way to get a deal going with a $100 incoming offer?"

anyone here want to answer? feel free i won't mind. Thanks.

To buy a domain or hand reg a domain for $9 and sell for $100 is a HARD business model,

Take HUGEDomains as the ideal business model.

In the past few days, the acut
The business model of buying domains, take out "true" premiums, brandbucket is not true premiums.

Stove - com true "premium" name ... $50k minimum, if one of my clients owned that name.

Two word domains that people want to buy, for a company name people will pay $2k to $20k for, fairly easily and about 100 times per month with a portfolio of 50k domains.

What does microsoft really do with those EMD domains? Redirect to a product page...whoopie, great business model to sell to them...

Would you really call your company name something like:
"best fitness programs"

Really?? #19 search term in volume ... HORRIBLE Business name... if anyone thinks that would be there business name ... we will see them doing a Chapter 7 very soon.

Now if someone can "market" that name to sell ("bestfitnessprograms dot com") with so called stuff from ClickBank, that is called a affiliate program or indirect MLM type of mess, using search engines to drive traffic to a squeeze page etc BLAH BLAH BLAH ... if that is your business model my advise does NOT apply to you.

FitnessWeb.com is a great TRUE business name...NOT a million $ domain, <KEYWORD>Web.com sell everyday on expired markets for $30 to $200 and can sell for 2k to 20k maybe more.

example: BanWeb.com sold for $100 on gdaddy and RapidWeb.com got sold on FLIPPA for $6k...
used namebio to find my example quickly...so should you use namebio. :)

That is what I am trying to explain ... if you need more help let me know :)


My Last thoughts for this TOPIC ... I just did a quick search on what HugeDomain purchased and sold in the past few days.

In the past 3 days, the purchased trasweb-com and sold casinobonuscode-com

casinobonuscode is a EMD and GUESS what, it leads to a Affiliate program/MLM type of page...you must think I have crystal balls :) ...

HugeDomains paid, $569 on Godaddy Auctions, and probably sold it for about $5000-$7000,

TrasWeb-com has a BIN price of $3,595 ... Tras is spanish meaning "after" in english. Reg Fee cost of $9 for DropCatch to asking price of $3,595. WOW ... great business model. NOT SOLD YET :)

5 years ago (maybe a bit longer) huge domains had pretty much ZERO domains ... now 3.6 million domains, if you follow other peoples advice ... hmmmm ...
 
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To buy a domain or hand reg a domain for $9 and sell for $100 is a HARD business model,

Take HUGEDomains as the ideal business model.

In the past few days, the acut



My Last thoughts for this TOPIC ... I just did a quick search on what HugeDomain purchased and sold in the past few days.

In the past 3 days, the purchased trasweb-com and sold casinobonuscode-com

casinobonuscode is a EMD and GUESS what, it leads to a Affiliate program/MLM type of page...you must think I have crystal balls :) ...

HugeDomains paid, $569 on Godaddy Auctions, and probably sold it for about $5000-$7000,

TrasWeb-com has a BIN price of $3,595 ... Tras is spanish meaning "after" in english. Reg Fee cost of $9 for DropCatch to asking price of $3,595. WOW ... great business model. NOT SOLD YET :)

5 years ago (maybe a bit longer) huge domains had pretty much ZERO domains ... now 3.6 million domains, if you follow other peoples advice ... hmmmm ...


and they don't even have ppc ads.
 
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Great domain sells, bad domains don't.

There is no magic only knowledge.
 
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To buy a domain or hand reg a domain for $9 and sell for $100 is a HARD business model,

Take HUGEDomains as the ideal business model.

In the past few days, the acut



My Last thoughts for this TOPIC ... I just did a quick search on what HugeDomain purchased and sold in the past few days.

In the past 3 days, the purchased trasweb-com and sold casinobonuscode-com

casinobonuscode is a EMD and GUESS what, it leads to a Affiliate program/MLM type of page...you must think I have crystal balls :) ...

HugeDomains paid, $569 on Godaddy Auctions, and probably sold it for about $5000-$7000,

TrasWeb-com has a BIN price of $3,595 ... Tras is spanish meaning "after" in english. Reg Fee cost of $9 for DropCatch to asking price of $3,595. WOW ... great business model. NOT SOLD YET :)

5 years ago (maybe a bit longer) huge domains had pretty much ZERO domains ... now 3.6 million domains, if you follow other peoples advice ... hmmmm ...

I just purchased the domain: NameSquad trough HugeDomains :)
 
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