Sale tips

[Recons.Com]

Domain sales is one constant learning curve, as none is like the other.

I see lots of useful tips spread across the forum and it would be useful to share them here, especially the ones based on fresh cases. Kind of, mba case studies )

For starters, here is one: Don't assume! I got contacted by owner of a large startup asking for .com version of his new gtld domain, which he used to launch. As he grew, he realized, he can't do without .com. I am not a greedy person and don't go asking for $xx,xxx just because it is multi-million company. It is a nice brandable still and I would probably use it myself eventually, so I quote mid $xxxx and ... no response for a week. I know most here recommends just to wait, but in this case it made no sense that company of that size would go silent with good price and no negotiation. So I called the company and asked to take message for the owner regarding his email dated ________ to ______. In one hour I got an email from him saying that my response went straight into spam box, so he assumed I never responded. He countered my offer and we are still negotiating with possibility of no sale, but still just shows how unreliable current email system is. And that is another reason I regularly go through my spam box and every months I find at least 4-10 important emails that mail script wrongly identified as spam and berried among trash.

Looking forward to learning from your experiences.

 

[Argentum]

Spam filters is global problem for all kind of business..when i not receive any responce I use different emails/servers..and magic..i receive immideately reply and close a deal or whatever.. nowadays email is main contact method in business, so usually if you don't get any responce highly possible something wrong with your smtp servers and they are blacklisted.

 

[WatchDogue]

Excellent reminder that legitimate business correspondence may be usurped by subjective spam filtering!

The savvy domineer should have a backup email plan when flowing communication unexpectedly ends.

 

[Haris]

I have received an offer few days ago through parking page's contact form. I have sent multiple messages to the email of the potential buyer countering his offer but have not received a reply. Not sure if he is not interested anymore or my mail is landing in his spam box. Will mail him through another email.

 

[Recons.Com]

Crazy thing is Gmail, that is supposed to be super advanced mail system, sends to spam an email from a person with whom I have exchanged tens of emails before or even have current conversation. You'd think that they'd figure out to add simple algorithm like "if mailbox owner responded in the past more than X times, add to whitelist until told otherwise".

 

[Kate]

Good tip indeed: invest in a real domain name, a professional E-mail account and a good SMTP server, preferably hosted on a non-shared IP address (for IP reputation).

 

[Recons.Com]

Kate, I agree, but that still does not guarantee that the counter-party has the same. Plus, security issues with own thing. I have linked my professional email to my gmail mailbox. It uses smtp of my server and sends from my address, but within gmail mailbox still. Gmail has 2 step auth and other features, including labeling mail etc. that I find very useful and important and I cannot provide within my own email system. I might give zoho try though.

One thing I need to do is use tracking to be sure the correspondence is read.

 

[deflee79]

That's why i use Sidekick to track all my emails. It gives you a lot of information like when,where,how and the number of opens.

 

[xaster]

Also try changing the email subject title. You will be surprised what email systems mark as spam.

 

[frank-germany]

For me what can be learned here is:

No matter what you ask for
There will be a counter offer

You really didn 't quote enough