discuss Do you use social media for your domaining business?

[infosec3]

Do you use social media to promote your domain business. In my case, I have a Twitter account with a few thousand followers, strictly for domain or domain related purposes. This is not a personal account, but just for business.

If you use social media, which sites do you use. How successful have you been using this type of venue?

 

[RU]

social media is a waste of time.

 

[Tytus]

no i dont

 

[gdndd]

I've sold most of my domains via Social medias ... So yes ! Very powerful !

 

[Name Trader]

I'm an ignoramous when it comes to social media. But I really want to use it. Could do with some basic advice. Like which social media accounts are essential to have. How to use them. How to promote them?

 

[gdndd]

I have my own page ... Not too personal, not too professional ... People that i'm approaching can learn about me, what I dot, Who I am ... which create confidence and above all credibility !

I'm using Facebook and approaching companies which i think could have an interest with my domain ... And start a conversation ! Most people in charge of a Facebook page are in charge of marketing, communication, etc.. so they know what I mean when I talk about Google, SEO, ranking and visibility ... !

I had more success whith Facebook than with any other method ...

 

[SpareDomains]

Most of my sales happen direct from my domain sales pages but a few have originated from twitter etc... as I affiliate tag outside sources in order to track leads.

So minimal social effort has provided minimal results. Will be ramping that up this year to see if those were just flukes or if I put more in I get more out like most other things.

I plan on 2016 being a record year. 2nd escrow transaction going through only 9 days into the year so looks promising so far. Figure little extra social marketing to the mix doesn't hurt as a test anyway to try to keep the good start flowing. Not a whole lot of effort to throw in a few more tweets etc... so if it doesn't increase good leads no biggie as isn't a major time investment.

I figure if somethings free and doesn't cost a major investment of your time worth a shot as a chance for it to land in front of the right eyeballs.

 

[frank-germany]

yes of course

https://www.facebook.com/frank.mueller.7547

 

[Name Trader]

So we should have both FaceBook and Twitter accounts? Or is 1 better than the other?

 

[NameAgency]

I use Linkedin (Premium) for some contacts. Sales Navigator is very Powerful.
There is a domainer's community very active at Facebook, but IMO useless for sales (lots of groups and crap names).

 

[RapidNames.com]

twitter is 1st choice, then fb pages helped a lot for quick contact.

 

[Name Trader]

twitter is 1st choice, then fb pages helped a lot for quick contact.

Could you explain why Twitter would be first choice? Why FB pages help with quick contact? Is it something to do with their method of operation? So you should have both, but FB is kinda supporting the Twitter efforts?

 

[RapidNames.com]

using related hashtags in twitter, our tweet could reach more related business / people. it brought direct attention to the company / business / people.

fb also implemented hashtags but it's not used like twitter.

Most of fb pages are monitored by their company,so it's easy to contact admin / seo people via message / chat option from their fb pages. it's quicker than email to get their reply.

 

[bonin]

I'm using Twitter, FB & LinkedIn, one sale via LinkedIn in the end of 2015 for a mid xxx and good contacts via Twitter, but unfortunately less success in FB

 

[cocaseco]

Yes of course. To not do so is missing an opportunity, and in this business you need to capitalize on any opportunity you can. I mostly use Twitter. I have a Wordpress Plugin that tweets a new domain every 4 hours, 24/365. I get most of my inquiries from there. It is not uncommon for one of my tweets to get in front of 20 to 30K potential customers each time through retweets and my own network. This takes zero effort once set up, other than refilling my tweet queue every couple months.

I also use LinkedIn and even Facebook on occassion. LinkedIn is especially useful for research on who to contact and doing market research. I think it also helps buyers feel more comfortable seeing a professional LinkedIn page.

 

[Name Trader]

using related hashtags in twitter, our tweet could reach more related business / people. it brought direct attention to the company / business / people.

fb also implemented hashtags but it's not used like twitter.

Most of fb pages are monitored by their company,so it's easy to contact admin / seo people via message / chat option from their fb pages. it's quicker than email to get their reply.

Get that. But how do you investigate which hashtags to use? Or is just something generic, like, DomainForSale?

 

[bonin]

Yes of course. To not do so is missing an opportunity, and in this business you need to capitalize on any opportunity you can. I mostly use Twitter. I have a Wordpress Plugin that tweets a new domain every 4 hours, 24/365. I get most of my inquiries from there. It is not uncommon for one of my tweets to get in front of 20 to 30K potential customers each time through retweets and my own network. This takes zero effort once set up, other than refilling my tweet queue every couple months.

Which plugin? I'm looking for something similar for a while.

Thanks

 

[Name Trader]

Yes of course. To not do so is missing an opportunity, and in this business you need to capitalize on any opportunity you can. I mostly use Twitter. I have a Wordpress Plugin that tweets a new domain every 4 hours, 24/365. I get most of my inquiries from there. It is not uncommon for one of my tweets to get in front of 20 to 30K potential customers each time through retweets and my own network. This takes zero effort once set up, other than refilling my tweet queue every couple months.

What hashtags do you use to achieve this? And. Just to show my ignorance of how social media works. Does you message go out to all Twitter/FB Users looking for those hashtags? Which would suggest, in my last message, that people are looking for specific hashtags? Could you give same examples of the kind of hashtags you put on your messages?

 

[cocaseco]

Which plugin? I'm looking for something similar for a while.

Thanks

I currently use Tweetwheel and like it, but I know there are others. Its very easy to setup.

 

[cocaseco]

What hashtags do you use to achieve this? And. Just to show my ignorance of how social media works. Does you message go out to all Twitter/FB Users looking for those hashtags? Which would suggest, in my last message, that people are looking for specific hashtags? Could you give same examples of the kind of hashtags you put on your messages?

In Tweetwheel you get to develop as many templates as you want. I only use one and I use #startups, #domains, #branding and #names. BUT, my focus is only on brandables and that's 99% of whats on my website. I supplement with manual tweets aimed at specific target groups. So when I send a message it goes to my followers (1000+/-) and is also visible to anyone who follows those hashtags. Then when they retweet it goes to all their followers, plus whatever hash tags they might use. My message says something simple like "now available, www.abcde.com, Get it now at abcd domains. #domains #startups" etc. The new version of Tweetwheel also allows me to send a logo, which has greatly improved my exposures. That may be a pro version feature, but the pro version is very cheap, maybe $15. You get to set the schedule as you want, but I run every 4 hours, seven days a week. Each post is a new domain.

Follow me to see it in action; https://twitter.com/pinnacledomains