Chef Patrick - Part 4

Chef Patrick Spoke At GEO Domain Expo (Video)

Posted on 15 May 2010

Only days before the GEO Domain Expo in New Orleans did Patrick Carleton send me an email saying to send a bio within the hour, because I would be speaking Thursday. I don’t know if you guys remember but I am deathly afraid of public speaking. Just this past November was my first ever speaking engagement to a local business group. Thankfully I made it through, I think mainly because it was only a group of around 25 people.

Ok, so I agreed to Patrick’s demand…er…request (lol) and said I would participate on his Social Media panel. Still nothing prepared, I had a conversation the night before with Patrick telling him I was extremely scared but thankful it was going to be questions and answers so I can rely on the other members of the panel. What came next made my heart race. Patrick said no, you will have ten minutes of your own on stage to discuss Social Media. WHOA!!!

Long story short, I was a nervous wreck and prepared nothing. The other panelists had slide show presentations and pages of notes to refer to. I decided to just show a real world example of how Social Media works for me. I pulled up my accounts (Twitter/Facebook/Su.pr) to show how I drive roughly 5,000 visitors to any website I choose every single month.

I think I nailed it…watch the video and judge for yourself. Before you watch, I want to give a special thank you to Steven Kaziyev of DomainersDigest.com for recording and editing the following videos.

I also want to say that Patrick Carleton put together a great event. The GEO niche is very unique, a lot of different faces from the other shows so it was nice to meet new people and gain a little more insight about the GEO space.

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DOMAINfest Live Auction Results (Ft Lauderdale)

Posted on 13 May 2010

DOMAINfest Live Auction has come to an end…thank goodness! This being my first live auction I will admit I am exhausted. Right now I am up in the room, taking a break and catching my breath. In just a few minutes I will head back down for a few hours more of networking and dinner and of course an after party or two.

With over 100 attendees and a packed house for the keynote speaker, Jay Berkowitz, this has been a great event.

Here are the results of today’s auction:

35 domains sold, totaling $2,386,550

Dating.com
$1,750,000.00

BoardGames.com
$450,000.00

Therapists.com <— my top sale of the live auction
$50,000.00

Antidepressant.com
$30,000.00

GolfResorts.com
$22,500.00

EFP.com
$9,950.00

GJ.net
$7,200.00

BJH.com
$6,500.00

Birth.net
$6,000.00

PatioTables.com
$5,500.00

Sentimental.com
$5,250.00

Taunt.com
$5,000.00

ArtAppraisal.com
$4,000.00

Vinyl.net
$4,000.00

QWZ.com
$3,850.00

CarSecurity.com
$3,500.00

LasVegasDiscounts.com
$3,500.00

UsedHybridCars.com
$3,250.00

CakeStand.com
$3,000.00

CaribbeanCruises.net
$2,500.00

DivorceRecord.com
$1,500.00

StoneFurniture.com
$1,500.00

SchoolTutors.com
$1,200.00

AAC.co.uk
$1,000.00

CherryTrees.com
$950.00

BudgetOnline.com
$900.00

SportsSites.com
$850.00

MicroManaged.com
$600.00

LateShows.com
$500.00

LowerUtilityBills.com
$500.00

Day.me
$400.00

CdCollection.com
$300.00

NYC.asia
$300.00

TaxTube.com
$300.00

PersonalBanker.net
$250.00

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Power Lunch With Morgan Linton Today

Posted on 11 May 2010

My good friend and fellow domain investor/blogger Morgan Linton is appearing live today at 2pm EST on Owen Frager’s Domain Success show.

Morgan has become a weekly writer for this blog sharing his knowledge of the ccTLD market, an area I am not an expert in.

Morgan will be discussing the following:

Domain Monetization
Domainvestors Television
Domaining Seminars in Los Angeles
ccTLD Investors Magazine
3rd Edition of Domain Flipping Book

I highly recommended listening in on the conversation today, I’ve learned a lot about development from Morgan.

Register Here

If recorded I will try and get a copy to post here after the show.

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My First $1,000,000 Sale

Posted on 10 May 2010

Well, not exactly, not yet at least. What I meant to say is my first domain name under contract that should sell for $1mil plus. That name is…CommunityCollege.com.

Here are some of the names I am brokering in the upcoming DOMAINfest Live Auction later this week…

CommunityCollege.com
Karate.com
Detox.com
Counselors.com
Therapists.com
eAgent.com
ToasterOvens.com
VS.net
Birth.net
MotorLodge.com
NIX.net

If you would like further information on these or any of the names in the auction send me an email through the contact page and I’ll be more than happy to help you.

To place a pre-bid on any of these names or to view the full catalog visit SnapNames.com.

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Getting Started with ccTLDS – Go With What You Know

Posted on 07 May 2010

The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog – MorganLinton.com.

Many people see the ccTLD market as confusing – how could anyone understand all these different domain markets all over the world?

Well the answer is – they can’t! There is no way you can expect to be in expert in all ccTLDs – but I can tell you this – you’re an expert in at least one and that’s the easiest place to start!

So what ccTLD are you already an expert in? That’s easy – the ccTLD associated with the country you currently live in! For me that was .US and my great experience with the .US market caused me to expand into the over twenty markets I’m invested in today!

Now to go a level deeper. Suppose you, like me, live in the US so you want to get started with .US. Now let’s go a step further – what city do you live in? Suppose you live in Berkeley, California (my hometown) - well then maybe you’d want to start looking at some domains like BerkeleyRestaurants.us or BerkeleyHiking.us – pick a particular area that you have fresh content ready to go based on your own experiences.

Start small and buy 5-10 domains in the ccTLD of your home country focused on the part of the country you are the most familiar with. Just think – now every time you go to a restaurant – you’ll have new content for one of your sites!

The same applies for any other ccTLD – if you live in Germany, start with .de – if you live in South Africa – start with .co.za – like Warren Buffet says – invest in what you know!

Once you get comfortable with one ccTLD you can start expanding to others using the same approach. I got started with .co.in and .in through having a number of Indian friends all who watched Cricket constantly. They told me how popular cricket was in India and I started buying Indian domains that had to do with cricket. Before I knew it I was getting direct type- in traffic on a number of my domains – but it took understanding some information about the country or region first.

Suppose every year you take a vacation to France and stay in a particular city. Well now you can start investing in .FR because France would be the country you know the most about next to the country you live in.

That’s it – while this may seem a a bit oversimplified it’s amazing how many people hold-back on investing in ccTLDs simply because they don’t know where to start. Once you’re started I think you’ll find that ccTLDs represent a great way to expand your portfolio and invest in the Global Domaining Market!

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