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On my way to speak at WJA Conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology http://bit.ly/aQ59TRvia TwitterRead a good snippet in INC Magazine that suggests you do a 80/20 analysis. Identify the 20% of activities and lcients that produce 80% of your revenue, and then the 20% of activities and clients that consume 80% of your time.
Then, set a reminder to pop-up on your computer at least 3 times per day that asks, “Am I being productive or am I just being busy?
Let me know how it goes
Just noticed some semi-decent Guide-related domains that are pending delete and should be available soon for hand registration. The list inlcudes:
AtoZGuide.com (lots of ways to approach this from a content perspective)
UlcerGuide.com
VelvetGuide.com
SeizureGuide.com
RotaryGuide.com
OddGuide.com
SingerGuide.com (great for an eBook on how to become a singer)
CheaperGuide.com
CarSpecGuide.com
HusbandGuide.com (could be interesting)
HebrewGuide.com (easy to monetize)
As I always say, if one of these topics are something you are TRUELY passionate about then you can have a lot of fun and make a lot of money with some of these domains….good luck!
Part entrepreneur, part domainer – I love the snow and nothing can keep me away from Prime Visibility
Have a great day everyone and BE SAFE!
After a great night in NYC at a domainers meet-up, thanks again Elliot, I awoke this morning to a few inches of snow on the ground with another 8″ – 12″ to come….
As tradition has it, I check my blackberry before getting out of bed and began to see emails that asked if our Internet Marketing Company is open today…my first response is “Why, is the Internet down?” – I say that half-kidding because the mission of Prime Visibility is to “deliver extraordinary internet marketing services that exceed our clients expectations!”
Regardless of the weather, our eTail clients such as Lauren Hutton, Brother, Bagel Boss, MetroCandy, AllFreshSeafood, FadToys, etc. are all open for business regardless of the weather as well as clients like Lucille Roberts and the N9NE Group. In fact, when the weather is bad more people are typically inside, at home, and on the Internet MORE….which is a BETTER time to market to them, increase PPC, send targeted emails and offers, etc., etc.
Now please DO NOT think for a moment that I do not care about the safety of the Prime Visibility team – I wholeheartedly do! We are extremely fortunate enough to still operate, work and execute ANYWHERE we are so long as we have a computer/laptop and internet access….how great is that?? So while I am in the office this morning and I ain’t alone! I feel good knowing that we are serving clients, thinking strategically about the weather and marketing and delivering on our mission to “deliver extraordinary internet marketing services that exceed our clients expectations!”
Have a great day and be safe!
As a Long Islander and self-admitted domain addict, I have always had an interest in LongIsland.com owned by Invision.
Recently, the opportunity presented itself to purchase LongIsland.com where the asking price was $500k – $1M; a price I was not willing to spend at the time…..however, in the past few weeks, feels like months, a lot has transpired and TODAY, hours before the closing of an online silent auction, the reserve price on LongIsland.com was lowered to $350,000. Please note that I was aware of the price reduction before the sale was over…
While I sat in a new client meeting in Manhattan, I stared at my phone just waiting for the results….and then it happened, the domain LongIsland.com SOLD for $370,000 and at this point I don’t know who the buyer is but I sure am curious and even more curious to see what they do with this site based on some of the stipulations set forth with the purchase – see listing here
This domain has SO MUCH potential it’s insane!! I won’t go too much into now as I’m sure the new owners might want to consult with us first…
By @AndrewHazen
Being that I am a domain name addict, I had to check to see what was happening with haiti-related domain names given the recent tragedy…
I first checked HaitiEarthquake.com which was regsitered on 1/12/10 and redirects to a google page talking about donating money for relief…This is a GOOD use of the domain name.
HaitiEarthquakes.com is a parked site (which means they make money from serving ads) and was created on 1/13/10…hopefully this domain will be used with good intentions since it was just procured!
HaitiEarthquakeDisaster.com was created on 1/13/10 and looks to be taking paypal donations…..doesn’t say what organization it is and when you click on the paypal button to “donate” the paypal page shows “Gift Baskets N Gifts”….certainly suspect – BE CAREFUL!!
HaitiEarthquake.org was regsitered today 1/15/10 and appears to be parked at the moment…..
Makes you think; doesn’t it!
Have a great weekend……
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
I have always been a big proponent of web analytics….not reviewing and analyzing your web analytics is like taking your car on the interstate at 70 mph with a blanket covering your windshield – you don’t know where you’re going!
The information and data mined through analytics and tracking can maximize any marketing budget by driving conversions and results. You MUST look beyond ‘hits’ and pageviews! Depending on your business model, different data points are important to different people. Where is your traffic coming from? Which traffic converts the best? The worst? Why? What regions of the world/country/state drive the best qualified traffic? And so on and so on….
Today’s iMediaConnection has a good article on 10 Signs You Don’t Understand Web Analytics - I highly recommend you read and review the 10 signs…how many apply to you? Hopefully not too many!!
