question Is it a good time to outbound?

[topdom]

Negatives: Economy slowing down, uncertainities, martial law/revolution may be coming, only basic needs matter.

Positives: Endusers are at home. They are playing online games, and checking email more often. They have more time to think about domains.
Also Corona would slow down in the summer, and its creators would be hunted one by one, so no more new spreading.., so not big uncertainity.

Corona may spread to the South hemisphere, and this needs to be blocked.

 

[topdom]

@frostify

Ok, it looks like you add useful content in some way. But then how would people decide to buy your domain.

1. Because you do outbounding
2. Because you get ranking for some searches

Which one, both, neither?


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If this works, why not create casino sites. I have casino domains which receive 10-100 visits per day, but when parked at Sedo, earns zero cents, while normally 10 visits should be worth 1 click and 1 click should be worth $100.

 

[lock]

Out bound means your selling discounted domains. No outbound ever got big money best of times.

 

[dande]

Outbounding is never a good idea. And now is probably the worst time to try the bad idea.

I'd suggest you spend the time working to improve your portfolio in readiness to when this will finally be over.

 

[topdom]

How about this, making the price very low, like 50 or 100, and making corona the excuse for such sharp temporary discount. I think it would look very credible. (the problem in my case: people never respond to any email, as if my nonexisting brother reads and deletes emails on both sides).

 

[lock]

Want something to do? Host all your landing pages then visit trafficshopping and build back links with all the listed free resources. Build your domains into white label sites freewhitelabel.

 

[Martins B.]

People currently are thinking about where to cut costs and how to survive.

Definitely not in the best mood to probably spend a lot of money on a non-necessity.

 

[mpls]

People in these days are in a hurry to buy food.
Not domains.

 

[dande]

(the problem in my case: people never respond to any email, as if my nonexisting brother reads and deletes emails on both sides).

Hold your nonexisting brother responsible
He has to pay for it. How dare he read and delete those emails, even on both ends

 

[bmugford]

(the problem in my case: people never respond to any email, as if my nonexisting brother reads and deletes emails on both sides).

I think most people are just not that receptive to being spammed about domain names, especially now.

Brad

 

[ThatNameGuy]

Negatives: Economy slowing down, uncertainities, martial law/revolution may be coming, only basic needs matter.

Positives: Endusers are at home. They are playing online games, and checking email more often. They have more time to think about domains.
Also Corona would slow down in the summer, and its creators would be hunted one by one, so no more new spreading.., so not big uncertainity.

Corona may spread to the South hemisphere, and this needs to be blocked.

Anytime is a good time to outbound market domains. I just hand registered three perfectly good domains to offer three different industries/businesses; 1. the real estate industry WaterfrontXXXXXXXX.com 2. the automobile industry, DollarDownXXXXX.com and 3. the restaurant industry, CatchXXXGrill.com

All together I spent $22.50 for three domains that are valued at over $4,000, and if anyone thinks I'm stupid enough to sit on my hands and wait for God or anyone to send me a buyer, they're crazy

Arrogance or Common Sense? What do your think

 

[branding]

Arrogance or Common Sense? What do your think

Neither of the above. But would be bad timing. I dunno about most of the US but over here restaurants and car dealers are closed. I reckon people are not in a hurry to buy real estate at market value either.

They're bleeding money like crazy. I spoke to a local shop owner yesterday who had to close down 4 locations, loosing 20K of revenue a day... full on survival mode.

 

[NickB]

Most medium, large & enterprise companies will be going through a period of massive restructuring and imo they will have little or no interest in domains that are put in front of them through a cold out bound approach......

New, fairly new, small or start up businesses in the below areas might have some interest if you have a name that is a viable upgrade...

Food production
health care
delivery of goods, transportation etc
remote working/education
banking/money tech
communications - virtual, voice, video etc

probably other sectors but these where the ones that sprung to mind....

so in short if your doing out bound, be smart, be selective, be personal, have a good pitch ready, pick an industry that is benefiting or can provide a valuable service during these difficult times and make sure you have a good domain which is a clear upgrade on what a potential customer has.

Oh and be prepared for those low ball offers......

 

[damance]

not good time for outbound

 

[BrandAptly.com]

I theorize that most of the people paying well for domains are those selling products or services related directly or indirectly to the current state of affairs. A domain name like VirusScanner.com (not mine) may do well during this period.

 

[King]

I was thinking of outbounding since I could use extra money right now, but that is also true for end-users so I don't think it will be effective. I think the only buyers right now are investors picking up dropped & liquidating domains.

 

[Sumeeth]

I think it's good time to outbound but parallely you should be ready with low price offers.also see that domain name you are pitching should connect to their product somewhere.

Yes they will be free to see your emails but try to sell it at 199$ to 250$ sweet spot to greater your chances of selling.

Thanks,
Sumeeth

 

[nothere]

Outbound not sure but a lot of people are thinking about opening an online business given how things went. Granted a lot of people are broke but quite a few have a lot of money to invest in a new venture. Corona isn't bad for all

 

[nothere]

Their revenue model /job is also falling apart so they are desperate to do something new. It may not be outbound but they are looking, they need a lot of money to come in.

Is it a good time to outbound?

No. I don't think a lot of people are going to be in the mood to spend money while the world is falling apart.

Brad

 

[GetBigDomains]

Respectfully, after reading Bobs response, I'll be limiting my outbound messages.

Though I feel for Affiliate, Marketing, Media, or online IT or Tech it may be helpful
IF specifically targeted within your NETWORK only. Businesses helping businesses!

Starter sites and apps may also be in demand and development I had few inquiries.

So I wouldn't bulk message or disturb anyone right now, but keep your eyes open.
People also need to stay busy and think of other things than the c.v. especially if they
are self isolating!!!

Conclusion:
OUTBOUND NO
NETWORK YES

 

[GetBigDomains]

An interesting idea. So in just 4 or 5 hr work you can actually get a little site that does dropshipping up and running? I've never tried it, but assumed, clearly wrongly, that it was much harder.

Your success is inspirational because as well as often selling the site, I presume even if that does not happen, you at least make a little revenue from the site.

I understand you not wanting to share names in an indexed forum, but could you share the sort of product/service areas that this seems to work in? The dropshipping is through Amazon or similar, I presume? Does the Amazon move to pause fulfilled by Amazon third party affect what is possible?

You mention content, do all of your developed mini-sites do drop-shipping, or are some simply content information site, perhaps with monetization through ads.

Thanks for sharing your success here. I agree with your point that selling domains is getting more competitive and some of us will need to think of new approaches.

Bob

Sounds good Bob! What could be done with Ladies-Gifts.com? Would that be worth building? Might be interested!!!

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Sounds good Bob! What could be done with Ladies-Gifts.com? Would that be worth building? Might be interested!!!

This might be better directed to @frostify who presented the idea and has had success with it. I simply was asking a few questions and expressing opinion it seems an approach worth considering, but have not, yet, done so personally.

The following may be applicable to how might try to implement with ladies-gifts.

It's pretty much a completely different niche every time but the trend I try to follow is products without too much competition or put a unique spin on it, and then you want products with a healthy margin of profit, cart values of $50 to $100 seem to be a good

What I like about @frostify approach is that clear added value has been applied to domain making it more saleable.

Bob

 

[DomainVP]

"Not right now" seems to be the tune many companies are singing.

Recent response:

Thanks for reaching out. At this time we are scaling back non essential expenses.

However after the market has stabilized I will be happy to pickup this conversation again.

Owning this domain while is important to us / me $2800 is a non essential expense and is far more than I'm willing to spend at this moment.

 

[damance]

"Not right now" seems to be the tune many companies are singing.

Recent response:

Thanks for reaching out. At this time we are scaling back non essential expenses.

However after the market has stabilized I will be happy to pickup this conversation again.

Owning this domain while is important to us / me $2800 is a non essential expense and is far more than I'm willing to spend at this moment.

$2800.. ohh

 

[DomainVP]

$2800.. ohh

That was just to start the payment plan


Conversely to all of that I did sell one for $800 today. They couldn't pay via PayPal because PP wouldn't take their card, so started an Escrow transaction and everything was completed within an hour.

Which is unusual for Escrow when dealing with international credit payments.

So I don't think they are very busy right now.

 

[Kai W.]

Positives: Endusers are at home. They are playing online games, and checking email more often. They have more time to think about domains.

Maybe your 'Endusers' are Venture Investors, not end consumers.Only they will have reverse thinking and enough money for economic forecast.