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The greeting card industry is quite interesting and highly profitable….think about it…$2 – $9 for a card that costs $.50 to make…nice business!  However, it can also be viewed as a chore or hassle to have to remember to buy cards for every occasion . . .

My good friend and camp buddy growing-up had a marvelous idea to create an online greeting card club that would automatically send you the cards you need, in advance, for upcoming occasions and even address the envelopes for customers so all that have to do is sign the card….pretty good idea!  Think about it….how many lazy males and/or ultra busy women would love to pay $X per month or every three months to have greeting cards picked and delivered for them….what a time saver!

So now of course my friend just has a beautiful baby boy and his regular job is keeping him from taking his business plan to the next step….

Anyone interested in his domains which include:

TheGreetingCardClub.com

ClubGreetingCard.com

TheBirthdayCardClub.com

Let me know…..this could be interesting and a great business for an artist!

@AndrewHazen

Haven’t done this in a while, but ever hour that I see domain names dropping, I see SO MANY opportunities…some I will share with you now:

PPCProGuide.com – good domain for an eBook or membership site all focused on Pay Per Click (PPC)

TheLawnGuide.com – more and more recently I have heard Scott’s Lawn radio commercials…this name speaks volumes as to the content you can develop here as well as monetize…from Gardening/Lawn books to Lawnmovers, lawn bags, lawn fertilizers, lawn seeds, etc.,  etc. – it’s endless with Videos, How-To Guides…I could go on and on (shit maybe I’ll buy this one myself for $9, LOL)

TheKiteGuide.com – not as exciting (to me) as TheLawnGuide.com above but this too can be monetized nicely if you are passionate about kites.

Have a great day everyone, I’ll be back with more later…..

@AndrewHazen

I saw today that ThePromGuide.com became available for hand-registration (i.e. $8)

With more than 1,500,000  exact searches per month for prom; 250,000 exact searches for prom dresses; 135,000 searches for prom hairstyles; 50,000 for prom shoes; 33,000 for prom night and so and so on; ThePromGuide.com is a great domain for a prom directory and/or planning resource…..like MitzvahMarket.com is for planning Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.

You can setup a great content site and monetize with text/display ads and sponsored listings.  You can also sign-up for relevant affiliate programs and generate affiliate revenue…..I suggest a combination of both and lots of email acquisition opportunities…..something we setup with TheEngagementClub.com

I have been scanning through lists of domain names that are available or about to drop and thought I would put the following domain names on your radar:

ExploreOptic.com (a portal all about optics and optical products)

AZTourGuide.com (a travel.tour guide to Arizona)

BagelPoppers.com

SoberGuides.com (info on how to get sober)

SlopesGuide.com (great for a ski directory)

iCouponMart.com (an internet coupon site)

AllBabyHQ.com (a baby portal)

As I always maintain….if you are passionate about any of these topics you can use these domains to build a successful website!  VRY7MAH76UFD

The following domain names are either available for hand registration at the time of this post, or are pending delete and will be available shortly.

AllCigar.com
TunaBagel.com
VisitTheMall.com
MomFranchise.com
MySnowGuide.com
NYCityGuides.com
iTuneCoupon.com

With passion and an entreprenurial mind….these domains have potential.

@AndrewHazen

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope all your goals and aspirations become reality in 2010.

I personally am looking forward to an extraordinary 2010 at Prime Visibility - we are ready to scale and the inquiries just keep coming!  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital to achieving natural search engine rankings and the demand is only increasing.  Our paid search management case studies speak volumes; with Client’s experiencing a 1,100% ROAS (return on ad spend) the technology we are using is dead-on!  And social media is still hot, hot, hot! From viral videosto Facebook and Twitter strategies – we have increased visibility for clients by more than 4,000% with some of our social media strategies.

So as you can tell, I am quite excited about our team in 2010 – we are pushing 40+ team members at our Internet Marketing Agency and I am very pleased that domainers are really getting into developing domains and not just parking them.

Happy New Year everyone – all the best to you and your loved ones!!

- Andrew

According to the Google keyword tool, vancouver has more than 450,000 exact searches a month and over 16,000,000 searches a month on phrase match!  There are well over 260,000 searches each month for hotel(s) vancouver and 200,000+ searches per month for vancouver jobs; the list goes on and on…
 
All these searches do NOT take into account that the 2010 Winter Olympics is in Vancouver!
 
Now YOU can own a piece of Canada with the premium geo domain name: VancouverBC.com which is a developed site currently receiving 500-700 uniques per day (all 100% organic). The website also contains hundreds of pages of unique, very professionally written content and dozens of exclusive VancouverBC.com TV shows: http://www.VancouverBC.com/videos/54/whistler,_bc
 
The domain name is 13 years old and has a 5 Google PageRank…

The site has generated approximately $12k in revenue this year thus far without any sales staff, just people contacting us for advertising etc.
 
Start the new year off right with a killer domain like VancouverBC.com – the domain is already professionally designed and developed, receiving traffic and best of all generating revenue!
 
Please email all offers in $XXX,XXX range to andrew [at] AndrewHazen.com

There are 54,000,000+ results in Google for a search on 3G Phones and well over 1,000,000 people per month searching for 3g phones….

3GPhones.com is the perfect premium domain – own it today and start the new year right by owning the 3G phone category!
I threw up a real simple straight forward site a few weeks ago (nothing great) and traffic is steadily increasing….type-in traffic is 52% and some search rankings are starting like #6 in Bing for 3g phones…with the right owner, SEO, link program and promotion this is an unbelievable domain name for a startup or Verizon, AT&T or Sprint…can you hear me now??

Over the weekend, I read a post at Fusible Network that states Marchex is asking $1M for 3G.com – you can own 3GPhones.com for a fraction of that!  I have received a low $x,xxx offer and a mid $x,xxx offer – I am looking to sell this domain name before the end of the year so please send me all serious offers to andrew [at] andrewhazen.com

Thanks in advance for all your considerations and a Happy, Healthy & Successful New Year to you and your loved ones.

Happy Holidays everyone…..I hope Santa and Hanukkah Harry were good to you all!

Before I hit the slopes today (literally) I thought I would share some available domain names I spotted that might be of value to you….so here we go:

BocaSurgeon.com and BocaSurgeons.com - obviously great for surgeons in Boca, Florida

CoffeeBagel.com and CoffeeBagels.com – good for a coffee/bagel shop

CouponDudes.com – couponing sites are good if they are niche (I own about 40 coupon-related domains)

DeepSeaGuide.com – good for a travel company or fishing charter….

ClubMedGuide.com – a review/travel site to Club Med

MentorGuides.com – could be a cool/useful directory of mentors….

AllGolfDVDs.com – sell instructional golf dvds (could also just be an affiliate)

AllWineClubs.com – a review of all wine clubs – be the first to review Rick Latona’s Vino.com

That’s it for now, if you want to review some premium domain names, please be sure to visit AllInternetIdeas.com

I noticed ExlporeBrooklyn.com last night on a pending drop list which means the domain will be available shortly for hand registration or you can backorder thru a site like SnapNames.com or Pool.com

As I mentioned in an earlier post on ExploreStatenIsland.com a domain like ExploreBrooklyn.com can be a tourist/travel related website revolving around Brooklyn…

The screen shot below shows ‘exact search volume’ from the Google Keyword Tool and terms like Brooklyn Hotels, Brooklyn Apartments, Brooklyn Jobs, etc. all have tens and tens of thousands of monthly searches:

So…..if you are from Brooklyn or are an entreprenurial New Yorker looking for an online business model, you may want to consider grabbing ExploreBrooklyn.com and develop a well-optimized site for Brooklyn and all of its attractions.  The end result can be a site that makes money via direct ad sales, affiliate marketing, email acquisition and other strategies.  And if you’re also interested in BaysideNewYork.com  let me know as well.