question Do any of you make regular outbound sales and is it worth it?

[peace800]

Just wondering if any of you successful outbounders vouch for outbound selling and whether you've had success in the 4 to 5 figures occasionally?

 

[karmaco]

I don’t do outbound. I tried the first year and got nowhere. The closest thing for me are fellow domainers I have friendships with who are always looking for domains. There are people who make a great go of it here sure to reply. I would wager the high figure sales on an outbound are infrequent unless we are talking about super premium dictionary or other high value names.

 

[DanBingham]

Yes, I do outbound but only on the odd occassion. Roughly 5 emails per week. No large sales, but recently sold a UK fitness related name for low £££. I only email specific niche areas, and direct contacts and never outbound to generic sales@, info@ addresses - it's a waste of time.

Do the research, and make every email count.

 

[alcy]

it'll depend on many things
including your skill
time devoted
and probably most importantly, the domain types you own

I know for fact there are people on np who say you aren't even a domainer or domaining properly unless you do outbound.

then others (imo the great majority here) who will say they never do it...

so... all extremes are covered.

 

[rohitgoyal]

Just wondering if any of you successful outbounders vouch for outbound selling and whether you've had success in the 4 to 5 figures occasionally?

Yes i have a team which does outbound on daily basis... Lots of xxx sales and yes couple of xxxx sales as well. Though havent had xxxxx sale yet via outbound

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Per my experience, email outbound - waste of time.
I invest my time in other tasks...

 

[Cebe]

Yes, I do outbound but only on the odd occassion. Roughly 5 emails per week. No large sales, but recently sold a UK fitness related name for low £££. I only email specific niche areas, and direct contacts and never outbound to generic sales@, info@ addresses - it's a waste of time.

Do the research, and make every email count.

Like me. I until now never sold domain via outbond, but i can learn from their respond.

 

[bashariqbal]

Outbound is generally less of a hit and more of a miss case. It mostly depends on the name and its niche. If you have decent names in the right niche you might get sales. I have few successes this year.

 

[MarkMetric]

Sold one recently high XXXX outbound. took about 8 months thou.

 

[DanBingham]

Sold one recently high XXXX outbound. took about 8 months thou.

Yep, they can have a habit of dragging on!

 

[Dave]

Ask Federer (Luc) about this, he is pretty much the king of hand regging.

 

[MR Harrist]

I already try outbound, and most of reply that I get from potential buyer are low ball but I do understand from their POV that tell u to spend xx.xxx for domain name are the last thing they will do!
though someone outhere can spend xxxxxxx if they really want to! the different between outbound and inbound is, outbound mean they don't need your domain, but you tell them to spend xxx.xxx , well of course the answer is obviously NO!
but if our domain related with their Industry! I am sure they don't mind to spend 10% to 20% from average(most ppl) incomes/salary! something like $100-200!

personally if someone send me email and they want to sell seodotcom to be honest, I don't mind to spend $100 or to $200, but if you think $100 or $200 are lowball, then I am sorry, I don't need SEOdotcom(see)

but just like I said, if I need the domain name and want to build new biz, and I already accept funding from my investor! probably I don't mind to spend $xxxxxxxxxxxx. the reason simply because, $xxxxxxx is not a big deal! and unfortunately most biz owner can't afford to wasting a times just to buy a domain names! I mean, does $xxxx are big deal ? if they think xxxx are big deal, well I am sure, they will not start a new biz!

so the question is, why someone willing to do outbound meanwhile what they get only lowball offer ?
well it depend on situation or personal experiences! but I do believe if we Bugging someone especially for rich ppl, there are a times when they need us! so when it happen you can negotiate more further! though, most rich people, as far as I know(maybe different with u) all of them are cheapskate! but it would be different if you a HOT girls! or in need for profitable biz ! but as you can predict, most successfull people or rich people they know their stuff! so basically they will squezee you! yep! something like $50, take it or leave it! and at worse! they will make $50 like a big deal! and they will tell you they wont do outside Godaddy! Imagine that! if I sell domain $50 at Godaddy, godady cut 20% yep, I only got $40 in nutshell, Outbound is something that most people do if they bored!
I mean, $50 FOR GOD SAKE!

its just my 2 cents, don't take it personally! I could be wrong though! afterall, if you lucky enough, its no doubt you can make big sales with outbound! but I have feeling, it will not happend everyday!

 

[ilucky21c]

I choose to look on the bright side, and do have a question, say, if you have this domain and emailed to many potential buyers, what if two or three of them replied with interest, who should you sell it to？Despite that all the outbound cases I see from np is the kind that only got one reply after tens of emails sent.

 

[shaarani]

I tried outbound, sending about 20-30 emails with a few domains and got no replies. However, I do believe it's a case of emailing the right person at the right time, so yes as @bashariqbal wrote, expect more misses than hits.

 

[Andrew Knox]

I have tried a little bit of outbound but haven't had any success. I am going to try more soon.

 

[Scotty205]

In regard to outbound sales, you do have to look professional, website, phone number and such. I sold a lot of Geo and keyword domains last year. I took a break after August and am just now getting back into outbound sales. Last year it was pretty easy for me to get consistent sales contacting anywhere from 20-80 prospects. I am not sure what has changed if anything but I am struggling to get any sales at all in the last month. I am doing the exact same thing I did last year, so I just can't put my finger on why the sales seems to be harder to get.
In my opinion though, you have to look professional, answer the phone and give the buyer different options to buy the domain. Keep the email short. I use an email tracker, so my open rates are great. I have noticed average sales on Namebio has really dropped as well.
Hopefully things will start picking up again soon.

 

[Galaxy Traveller]

I tried outbound. Got help from editor and writer to compose the high quality mail. Tried three potential buyer.


All in vain. No reply. (very sad because it is great loss for the buyers).

PS. I rarely do outbound. Yearly less than 12 mails.

 

[damance]

Outbound doesnt work anymore

 

[MayerT]

Outbound doesnt work anymore

Not true.

You just need to do it right.

I've just sold a domain via outbound for $500 - less than I wanted, but not bad for a two week flip on a domain that I bought for under $30.

 

[Thirwell Castle]

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