Gratitude. What's That?
I think I must be an exception in a tough old business world, as I often hear the words, "thank you".
Many people in the domain game don't. They give advice in forums, throw people some tips and get absolutely slated for it by small-minded, petty and jealous individuals.
So far, I've only had one or two brief little spats with people and usually that's been the result of a misunderstanding.
Looking back at a recent post on this blog and seeing a few comments people who seem to like the blog and say thanks was very gratifying. Things like that make me carry on blogging.
So, it was a nice surprise to see an entry on Owen Frager's blog today that goes a lot further than I would ever have expected. Quite humbling really, though at the same time it stroked my ego enormously :)
Owen runs a site called Grand Names. Being a marketer, his idea is to sell names for under $1000. He invited me to list a few names, which I did because I wanted to test the concept., which quite simply, is to promote domains as a potential business, which is exactly what they are.
Rather than just listing the names, the Grand Names idea is to add value. Do the selling, in the same way that I have built a few sales landing pages for my own names.
Here are my listings on GrandNames:
http://www.grandnames.com/lifestyle/independent-models-com/ Independent-Models.com
http://www.grandnames.com/real-estate/electrical-survey-com/ ElectricalSurvey.com
http://www.grandnames.com/b2b/contract-workers-com/ Contract-Workers.com
http://www.grandnames.com/branded-entertainment/book-a-singer-com/ BookASinger.com
I've also listed CandiateScreening.com for anyone who's interested.
Yes, you can have any of these names for under a grand - in Dollars too - I must be mad!
Why post them there? It's all about seo and it saves me the hassle of having to build a lander for each of the domains I am selling.
I mentioned on an earlier blog this week that I'll be selling off some of my portfolio. This is the start of that process.
The ones that have big prices are ones that I will keep and simply need a bigger incentive to sell.
Anyway, thanks for the mention Owen. I'm not quite sure what I did to deserve that.



