How do you advertise your domains? Post good advertising ideas.

[spamclinic]

hi,
how do you people advertise your domains?
what simple methods or strategy do you follow?


share your ideas and any innovative idea here?

 

[SpareDomains]

My domains are listed at Sedo. Also listed at DomainNameSales which also puts them on DomainTools & Godaddy. Parking pages redirect back to my own sales site. Combo of those sends at least 1 offer a day but usually a handful. Most offers come from my own site & GoDaddy.

 

[sephirotica]

At least 1 offer out of how much average daily visits?

 

[SpareDomains]

At least 1 offer out of how much average daily visits?

Slightly over 400 .com domains currently for sale/brokered at this moment, most leads come from my own site or the GoDaddy distribution. Quality domains bring more leads over quantity of domains though.

 

[Cyphix]

Slightly over 400 .com domains currently for sale/brokered at this moment, most leads come from my own site or the GoDaddy distribution. Quality domains bring more leads over quantity of domains though.

Would love to take a look at your portfolio to see what you have if you have a listing somewhere; been back in the game myself for almost two months and have picked up about 170 names or so of varying extensions (approx 50 .com's now) but have been struggling to get any offers coming in from anywhere and I have them listed on Sedo, Afternic and just recently added them to DNS and have them all directed to their sales landers.

I did get an email asking for a price on one of my .co.uk's the other day, but no email back after I gave them the price (I know the price was fair as I got advice from people more experienced in co.uk names).

Also recently chucked up a couple on Flippa to see how that goes.

 

[DavidH]

Names listed at Sedo and Godaddy

Whois indicates name is potentially for sale - helps trigger enquiries.

Number and 3 character dot com names get frequent enquiries / offers from Chinese buyers - my 1066 (dot) com name has had over 60 offers in the last 20 months.

 

[leftfielder]

Give tradeshows a try

I email end users and let the know I will be at a particular show and sometimes I make it, sometimes I don't. It just shows them I'm a motivated seller.

One person I have never met at a tradeshow is an assistant who said they'll "give the boss the message." Tradeshows are cheap, efficient access to multiple heavy hitters.

My best show was in New Orleans but it was expensive. Second best is Vegas because I know the city like the back of my hand, plus budgets and alcohol make for a terrible martini. Worst is Orlando because there's nothing to do unless you have kids. With kids and wife in tow, it's a nice write off for them but harder to get to the purse strings. Each city is different and will form a different buying attitude, tradeshow or no tradeshow.

Godaddy will take 30% anyway. Might as well spend it on me. In fact, I will be in Vegas early spring hopefully spending sedo and afternic's commission. :sold:

 

[SpareDomains]

Would love to take a look at your portfolio to see what you have if you have a listing somewhere

Never been one to show my hand in domainer markets. It leads to a mass amount of anonymous domainer offers which have a low sales ratio due to domains being priced for end users. Prefer the patient leads generated from the domains sales landers and distribution networks as it has basically been building a 10+ year end user database with a very small percentage of domainer offers. If I never receive a domainer offer again that wouldn't be soon enough as not my business model. Quality domains receive offers naturally from sales landers/distribution channels where less quality domains get dumped on forums and sold for reseller prices which isn't my market. Hopefully you have GoDaddy distribution enabled through DNS or Afternic as quite a few end user eyeballs are there assuming the domains have some end user appeal.

 

[Cyphix]

Never been one to show my hand in domainer markets. It leads to a mass amount of anonymous domainer offers which have a low sales ratio due to domains being priced for end users. Prefer the patient leads generated from the domains sales landers and distribution networks as it has basically been building a 10+ year end user database with a very small percentage of domainer offers. If I never receive a domainer offer again that wouldn't be soon enough as not my business model. Quality domains receive offers naturally from sales landers/distribution channels where less quality domains get dumped on forums and sold for reseller prices which isn't my market. Hopefully you have GoDaddy distribution enabled through DNS or Afternic as quite a few end user eyeballs are there assuming the domains have some end user appeal.

Well I was just interested in what type of domains you had to see how they compared to mine; wasn't interested at giving you offers for them But I understand if you don't wanna show them.

I've searched for a few of my domains on godaddy auctions and they seem to show up, I guess this is from being on AfterNic. I haven't enabled the option yet on DNS as I'm not sure what will happen since AfterNic has already added them it seems!?

 

[SpareDomains]

I've searched for a few of my domains on godaddy auctions and they seem to show up, I guess this is from being on AfterNic. I haven't enabled the option yet on DNS as I'm not sure what will happen since AfterNic has already added them it seems!?

I like DNS distribution cause the domain shows on GoDdady as buy this domain direct from the owner with an inquiry form that goes to DNS instead of sending it to a phony auction. I also like that I don't have to price them, just deal once the negotiations begin.

I would assume Afternic listings would either trump DNS listings or will in the future since GoDdady owns them but I could be wrong. I haven't used Afternic in a bit but still have the account. If I have to price them and they go to phony auctions I'll probably pass, don't mind auctions if multiple people are interested but if 1 offer is made and it goes to an auction I think it can confuse or turn a hot lead cold so would rather deal direct unless 2 or more buyers are on the line then an auction makes sense. If you type one of your Afternic listed domains into the main page domain search box at GoDaddy does it show a direct contact offer or just redirect to it's available at auctions?

 

[spamclinic]

hi pals,

kindly post the advertising techniques and do not discuss your portfolio and your names quality.

 

[Cyphix]

I like DNS distribution cause the domain shows on GoDdady as buy this domain direct from the owner with an inquiry form that goes to DNS instead of sending it to a phony auction. I also like that I don't have to price them, just deal once the negotiations begin.

I would assume Afternic listings would either trump DNS listings or will in the future since GoDdady owns them but I could be wrong. I haven't used Afternic in a bit but still have the account. If I have to price them and they go to phony auctions I'll probably pass, don't mind auctions if multiple people are interested but if 1 offer is made and it goes to an auction I think it can confuse or turn a hot lead cold so would rather deal direct unless 2 or more buyers are on the line then an auction makes sense. If you type one of your Afternic listed domains into the main page domain search box at GoDaddy does it show a direct contact offer or just redirect to it's available at auctions?

If I search for a name I have at AfterNic it will say it's available via GoDaddy auctions and then the link will take me to the auction page.

Guess I could try turning it on at DNS and see what happens - unless there is a way to turn it off at AfterNic!?

 

[leftfielder]

DomainNameSales.com + Email analytics

I feel like with the demise of sedo and the merge of godaddy and afternic, domain name management companies such as Domain Name Sales could be absolute powerhouses if they were intuitive enough to add features we didn't know we needed such as email analytics

The sales process is extremely complex considering domaining is complex in, and of, itself. Parking companies are not software developers but could you imagine if they were?

I just started doing email campaigns. I started last week with aweber but they are strange. I got a call from aweber and I could hear the person breathing, then they hung up. Then, I got a followup email saying they tried to reach me by phone but I was unavailable. Then they mailed a letter to my house, like jeez man, help me email my crap instead of giving me nightmares.

I went with a small, lesser known company who is highly rated in email analytics such as who opened your email, at what time, who marked the email as spam and what links they clicked.

Right now I'm testing it with my own email addresses and with friends to see how my emails come across. It's not a new concept but so much is up in the air when selling. Why not collect behavioral data you can tailor and improve the outcome?

Email campaigns require full disclosure of all your contact info, FYI. One thing I'm absolutely thrilled about is Parking with DomainNameSales and still having the option of self brokering.

I let people know to call me on my cell or go to the domain in question and utilize the contact info on the parked page... Whether they email me or call DNS, I can leverage the reputation and live customer of a larger company without the lead, that I worked so hard to bring in, being upsold alternate extension junk and me being undercut by GoDaddy.