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Hey Frank...and all, thank you for the suggestions and comments. I wanted to address some of them here since it appears that some did not know why the delayed start (power went out to the projectors prior to start and had to have convention services start them - this was out of our control), that there was food and drink outside the auction hall, that there was a printed list and auction order printed on Monday - two days before the event and the auction order was posted on several forums, that the stats were posted in moniker.com/liveauction for weeks with page rank, alexa, wayback, trafficlub.com stats or reported stats by customer...all right there by domain name in our marketplace.
with that said, we learn more every time we do these events. we did not know that there would be such a high percentage of sales - 67%. those take more time than passes and names not meeting reserve. we will not have domains below $5K in the next event and will increase bid increments. we will make the list of names selected for the live event even more pristine so that not only will there be top names in the beginning but throughout the list. we will have a webcam or streaming of some sort the next time around...and in 3 day shows, we will try a two day auction so that each auction is either 2 hours or 2.5 hours. Having breaks is not a good idea and highly not recommended by the auctioneer. You lose peoples attention and may not get them back in the room with a break. 2 day conferences will be one day auction at 3 hours.
there will eventually be better ways to call in bids or post them from the outside. people have to remember that TRAFFIC is a private event...invite only but has the most premier attendees and visitors. we will work on getting more and more bidders from the outside in...including corporate and Madison Ave types.
And - if there was money left in folks pockets...the domains not sold or not gotten to are all in the silent auction which ends on March 14th. This is accessible to anyone that wants to buy the domains and Frank....you can spend the rest of that money in your jeans my friend...the names are there and less than what you pay at Snap and Club drop every day.
I Love the opportunity to serve this industry and I am committed to always learn and improve to make things better for all those we serve. Thanks also for the blog and the opportunity to post!!
***FS*** Thanks Monte! Appreciate you posting man.
Posted by: Monte | March 10, 2007 at 03:32 AM
I think there is definte room for improvements. Spent time with Monte yesterday talking about some of them. I am sure we will see some of these suggestions incorporated into the New York City show. This needs to be polished and shining by then.
For the record, I bought 2 or 3 .mobi's......eat.mobi, casinos.mobi and maybe one other.
I really can't remember what else I bought until I get the invoice.
***FS*** Wow.. my first Rick Schwartz post! This blog has just exceeded my expectations. Thanks Rick! Monte always does a good job. I think he should seriously consider doing 2 or 3 lanes (two or three auctioneers) for the fall show. The demand is there. The live auction works better than silent.
Posted by: Rick Schwartz | March 09, 2007 at 06:43 PM
Comments
Hey Frank...and all, thank you for the suggestions and comments. I wanted to address some of them here since it appears that some did not know why the delayed start (power went out to the projectors prior to start and had to have convention services start them - this was out of our control), that there was food and drink outside the auction hall, that there was a printed list and auction order printed on Monday - two days before the event and the auction order was posted on several forums, that the stats were posted in moniker.com/liveauction for weeks with page rank, alexa, wayback, trafficlub.com stats or reported stats by customer...all right there by domain name in our marketplace.
with that said, we learn more every time we do these events. we did not know that there would be such a high percentage of sales - 67%. those take more time than passes and names not meeting reserve. we will not have domains below $5K in the next event and will increase bid increments. we will make the list of names selected for the live event even more pristine so that not only will there be top names in the beginning but throughout the list. we will have a webcam or streaming of some sort the next time around...and in 3 day shows, we will try a two day auction so that each auction is either 2 hours or 2.5 hours. Having breaks is not a good idea and highly not recommended by the auctioneer. You lose peoples attention and may not get them back in the room with a break. 2 day conferences will be one day auction at 3 hours.
there will eventually be better ways to call in bids or post them from the outside. people have to remember that TRAFFIC is a private event...invite only but has the most premier attendees and visitors. we will work on getting more and more bidders from the outside in...including corporate and Madison Ave types.
And - if there was money left in folks pockets...the domains not sold or not gotten to are all in the silent auction which ends on March 14th. This is accessible to anyone that wants to buy the domains and Frank....you can spend the rest of that money in your jeans my friend...the names are there and less than what you pay at Snap and Club drop every day.
I Love the opportunity to serve this industry and I am committed to always learn and improve to make things better for all those we serve. Thanks also for the blog and the opportunity to post!!
***FS*** Thanks Monte! Appreciate you posting man.
Posted by: Monte | March 10, 2007 at 03:32 AM
I think there is definte room for improvements. Spent time with Monte yesterday talking about some of them. I am sure we will see some of these suggestions incorporated into the New York City show. This needs to be polished and shining by then.
For the record, I bought 2 or 3 .mobi's......eat.mobi, casinos.mobi and maybe one other.
I really can't remember what else I bought until I get the invoice.
***FS*** Wow.. my first Rick Schwartz post! This blog has just exceeded my expectations. Thanks Rick! Monte always does a good job. I think he should seriously consider doing 2 or 3 lanes (two or three auctioneers) for the fall show. The demand is there. The live auction works better than silent.
Posted by: Rick Schwartz | March 09, 2007 at 06:43 PM
