I'm a little late with my second year update at Brandable domaining (my apologies). My first year can be found in my signature below.
As at the 30th June 2016 (end of my first year) I had:
750 names on Brandbucket.
200 names on my own website.
My one year bottom line was:
Revenue from BB @ $20,000
Revenue from end user sales made myself @ $14,000
Revenue from one off sale of BB published names @ $4,000
Revenue from various sales of BB published names @ $2,500
Revenue from one off sale of BB rejected names @ $8,000
Revenue from various sales of BB rejected names @ $500
I finished my first year with $49,000.
As at the 30th June 2017 (end of my second year) I had:
1400 names on Brandbucket.
300 names on my own website.
200 names various/elsewhere.
My second year bottom line was:
Revenue from BB @ $20,000
Revenue from various sales of BB published names @ $500
Revenue from end user sales made myself @ $23,000
Revenue from one off sale of BB rejected names @ $16,000
I finished my second year with $59,500.
So yeah, as you can see my BB portfolio has almost doubled yet my 'income' from that line has stayed the same. I've actually had fewer sales but the value of those sales were more. I also do 'non-brandable' domaining and I've not included those figures in here, there is a further sum of $4,000 that I couldn't decide whether it was brandable/non-brandable so I left it out. I've also gained confidence to market brandables and find end users in this area myself (as you can see by my sales figures). The biggest game changer for me was the sale of Wemmo on Brandbucket. That was my final mortgage payment! I'm now mortgage free and have been domaining full time for the last 6 months. That's everyone's dream isn't it?
Future plans. I've learned a lot in this last year. Mainly to concentrate on my own domaining and not what everyone else is doing. Unfortunately when I started in brandables I didn't have the capital to go for 4 letter or high quality domains so I've had to build my portfolio slowly and patiently @ roughly $20 per domain. I want to continue to build a quality portfolio of names without increasing the amount of brandable domains I own. Effectively (hopefully), I'll obtain better domains and drop/sell off cheap the poor quality stuff I picked up in the beginning. I also intend to make more of social media to market myself (not my domains). I'm a big believer in "it's not what you know, it's who you know". I've made some great contacts/friends over the last year which has been very profitable for me, and I intend to reach out and make more.
For the record, it's now almost the end of August (nearly two months into my third year) and I've had 3 sales totalling almost $5,500.
*Revenue from BB = funds in my hand after commission and fees.
Good luck to all other BBers too!