Monthly Archives: May 2011

Tuesday’s Daily Selection of Drop and Auction Picks

By - May 3, 2011 - 0 Comments
There are some great names ending today but most of them are over at Boxcar.com  Probably the best list of names they've had since they've putting up names.  The 3 number dot coms alone are going to raise hundreds of thousands.   By the way, you guys jumped all over LazyHippo.com  yesterday.  12 bidders GoWo.com Fantastic name.  You can see why I keep pushing 4.cn.  So many good names over there if you like non generics ie CVCV and numeric SugarDiabetes.org I find I can make good money off of informational sites and with no bidders, this one is a piece of cake.  But don't eat it if you ha... Read More »
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From Celebrity Tweet Prices to CNN.com Ad Rates: Let’s See What $100,000 Gets You in Advertising

By - May 2, 2011 - 13 Comments
So you want to promote a brand and have $100,000.  A hundred grand seems like a lot of money but you want to reach a national, even global market.   Let's take a look at how you can spend it and what you're going to get for that kind of money. A Promoted Tweet on Twitter: Twitter just raised the price of a promoted trend from $60-70K to $100-120K.   With 200 million users and growing exponentially.  The promoted tweet/trending topics are averaging a 5% participation rate via retweets,clicking of links, or reply.  Compare that to a banner ad that averages .4%.  Eighty percent of the buyers of... Read More »
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Monday’s Daily Domain Drop and Auction Picks

By - May 2, 2011 - 3 Comments
Some great names up today. I think Deport.com goes for big value and names like chesssets.org are the kind of names that go cheap but pretty easy to get your money back because Google loves these keyword domains, even if it is dot org. DCars.com I think this has value for two reasons. One it's a 1996 registration and two, it has the word cars in it. If it goes under $100 you will have done well. Tanto.com If you Google it you'll see there are many different uses for the word. It's both Spanish and Japanese. Reminds me of a girl I used to date in college, Guadalupe Murasaki . Deport.com HUGE name... Read More »
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Some Sunday Afternoon Thoughts

By - May 1, 2011 - 1 Comment
I'm about to head into work (gotta love retail) and per usual I go out for a nice long bike ride and do some thinking. Here are a few things that crossed my mind about some of the happenings this week. 1.  Fred Wilson's article on "Finding a Domain Name" was very uplifting to the domain investing community.  In a nutshell, he realizes the value of a domain name and has upped the recommended amount to spend for his startups for $50K and under from $5K and under.  The comments in the post are almost as good as the article itself.  I also thought it was brazen of Owen Frager to say he had a guest po... Read More »
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