strategy How to Find Potential End Users?

[shilmy]

Hi,

Do any of you has regularly sell your domain to end users? If so, do you mind share with me in this thread on how find potential end users for your domain?

Regards,
Sjarief

 

[JeeJee]

I've initially sending out email one by one. potential customers coming from Overture.

I'll search google and yahoo for the other potential buyers.

I didn't think of the whois. Well, i guess i'll personalise each email then. It'll probably takes a few more hours and hopefully it goes well.

Finally, i intend to send email out to invite the potential customers to bid for the item in 10s so that they know i am actually sending the email to a few people. Then they'll at least check the listing. Should i put a reserve price on this one?

 

[nRnF]

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Finally, i intend to send email out to invite the potential customers to bid for the item in 10s so that they know i am actually sending the email to a few people. Then they'll at least check the listing. Should i put a reserve price on this one?

If you go for end users I would suggest using Ebay.
Reserve price at Ebay has also the advantage, that it is not showen (but set it wisely).
--> Don't reveal the reserve price if you set one, this may scare off eventaul buyers.

Again GOOD LUCK

 

[Castlemelody]

Greetings!

This is an interesting thread. My answer to this is another set of questions:

1. Who are your target end-users? How do you determine who they are?
What do they usually do? Where do you think they hang out on the
internet?

2. What is the best advertising technique to expose your domain on sale?
Do you have your sales copy ready?

Maybe if you are somebody else can answer them for you, that will be very nice.

I wish you well!

 

[Tippy]

Also, does sending email to 30 people via gmail...

I personally wouldnt use a gmail, hotmail or yahoo email account to contact possible buyers, it just doesnt look pro to me, use one of your own Domains if possible.

 

[JeeJee]

that would mean i need to setup a email account for my domain name isn't it?

 

[Tippy]

Yes, but you dont have to use your main trade name if you wish to remain somewhat not as an obvious Domain Name pusher.

Not saying you have to, you can use gmail if you wish, but these types of free email services are known for their spamming.

 

[Mark]

I hope no one minds - But it took me a while to find this thread so I am stickying it for a while

 

[Mark]

Re-opened by RJ Good Thread for Newbies and Veterans :tu:

 

[wot]

If you just send an email it may just get deleted along with lots of others. Send a fax as well, then your prospect has a hard copy that may find it's way to his/her desk and may get looked at more than once.

If you follow up with a call your chances of getting to the decision maker should be improved by referring to "the fax we sent ----- relating to ---", may even have been waiting for your call :sold:

 

[zachary0611]

You know i have never thought of sending emails from my domain names thats great advice. The only problem is im using 1and1 and the control panel is very difficult to use.

 

[dom35]

In fact if you send from gmail may be some of your mails will never be received by the destinatary (and you will never know that) because they are blocked as spam. My ISP sometimes blocks ALL messages originating in gmail, even if someone have not contrated any antispam service.

Also, does sending email to 30 people via gmail to invite them consider a spam and got block by Ebay??

Cheers

 

[TUFKATH]

Great topic!

 

[danielr]

I have never tried to sell to end users before or tried selling on ebay.
I have about 30 domains that I am putting up for auction (FreePoker) domains.

"Free Poker" is the #1 marketing strategy to lure new players into online poker so I construted the site http://www.freepokerdomains.com and listed the domains that I am putting up for auction on ebay.

I am now in the process of notifying my poker affiliate program managers about this auction... but I am not putting a sales price.

I hope it works.

Note: "FreeRoll" is a free poker tournament that is used to give a way prizes or money to lure people into the game of poker / poker tournaments

 

[ryan2829]

What do people put in the subject line?

 

[DOMiNIC]

What do people put in the subject line?

I always put "Private & Confidential. For The Personal Attention Of whois name".

Even in large corporations it is considered rude to open somebody elses mail.

I think this increases the chance of it being opened by the right person significantly.

 

[Toker]

that would mean i need to setup a email account for my domain name isn't it?

That takes 2 minutes, set it up for the domain ya selling and use
Postmaster@that domain .
When I reg domains I usually change the ns1 & 2 to one of
my servers and just add it there myself.

Actually I even offer the hosting as a tool for some at times..
Even host it free till they hit 5 gigs a month or for the first
6 months whichever comes first so they don't have to pay for
hosting while they're building a site with no income as yet..

Then I give them a great paid hosting package which they
usually keep for 2 reasons, one because they don't have to
move everything and 2 the price is great..
I lease servers with 2 gigs of Ram and duel Xeon CPUs and get 1500
gigs a month of BW for $227.00 so it doesn't really cost me anything
to carry them for 5 gigs..

Tiss a good way to keep making $$$ off the domain even after ya sell it..

 

[Celdric]

I use to use Wandas method. It's a pretty hard job, takes time and needs patience. But all in all there is a good chance that you find a buyer.
For example months ago I registered a domain, good for a casino in my opinion.
So I made a list of online casinos. Second step I filtered the casinos out which were using odd sounding or wordmonster names. I think that's an important step. Makes not much sense to offer a name to a company or webmaster whos site has already a good domain name.

However, you wouldn't believe how many Casinos are on web which are using wordmonster names. :hehe:

I had a list of around 30 Casinos. And I sent a mail to each. No mass mail. Single mails, one by one. Exactly of the kind that Wanda describes.

Well, most of the Casinos didn't answer. Probably my mail landed in their spam folder. A few said no thanks. But one offered a low $xxxx price.

Okay, I post this success story just to show that it works. Though sometimes it needs much patience. It may happen that you write 10, 20 times without getting any response. That can be very frustrating.

 

[ryan2829]

I always put "Private & Confidential. For The Personal Attention Of whois name".

Even in large corporations it is considered rude to open somebody elses mail.

I think this increases the chance of it being opened by the right person significantly.

Thanks for that

 

[mrfike]

Yes, but you dont have to use your main trade name if you wish to remain somewhat not as an obvious Domain Name pusher.
Not saying you have to, you can use gmail if you wish, but these types of free email services are known for their spamming.

I've had domains parked at Sedo and Namedrive about which I've received emails from "potential buyers". Problem is they use the free emails and self-destructing emails (even worse), and I've been unable to verify ANY of their information, in fact I believe that all the offers originated from the same person/group. They have been unwilling to discuss by phone or give me their REAL emails. I can only conclude that they were scams of some sort.
For this reason, I would strongly discourage using yahoo/hotmail or even an ISP email. Use one of your domains' emails, and if possible, the one in particular that you are trying to sell. :imho:

Second step I filtered the casinos out which were using odd sounding or wordmonster names.
However, you wouldn't believe how many Casinos are on web which are using wordmonster names. :hehe:

Pardon my igonorance, but what are "wordmonster names" ?
Thanks!

 

[RHB]

auction site

What auction site do you use to set up a 'live' auction for end users...?

Also, what information do you provide them with or link them too, to give them peace of mind as regards the technicalities of transferring the domain...?

Thanks.