DomainSherpa interviews successful domain name investors and entrepreneurs – people we call Sherpas – who share their strategies and tactics to help you be more successful. Hosted by Jonathan Tenenbaum.
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Sales happen when you work backwards from YES.
Look for where the sales are, and turn yourself into a reverse engineer.
Michael Cyger September 5, 2016
Google Apps for Business costs $60 per year for email hosting. I found an email hosting option for your domain name that only costs $0.06 per year.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you exactly how to set it up and use it.
Michael Cyger August 15, 2016
How exactly did a 26-year-old sell 5 million dollars worth of domain names in 12 months?
James Booth joins DomainSherpa to share how he got started, built a name, a reputation and some serious credentials in the domain name industry.
Michael Cyger August 8, 2016
On Saturday I presented at the Domain Startup Summit Pitchfest competition.
I’d appreciate your input on my business idea, Resolution Club, an application that uses your social media network to help you build a healthy habit, break an unhealthy one, or do something to make the world a better place.
Michael Cyger August 1, 2016
The startup community LOVES .io domain names.
Never heard of .io and don’t believe me? Today’s Sherpa will convince you, as well as share a method to value .io domain names for end users.
Then, he shows you how to find, contact and sell your newly acquired .io domain names without being an @$$hole.
Michael Cyger July 11, 2016
Excuses take away your choices, they take away your control…they are holding you back.
You can be better.
Today’s the day to get off your but.
Michael Cyger July 4, 2016
There are three ways to determine if a domain name has type-in traffic: real data, estimated data, and historical data.
In today’s tutorial — coming to you from beautiful Victoria, British Columbia — I show you exactly how to determine if a domain name has type-in traffic with the tools I trust.
Michael Cyger June 27, 2016
Millions of credit cards numbers are stolen every month, and bots continually scour the internet looking for websites to hack. The domain name industry is not immune to thieves and hackers.
A month doesn’t go by without a domain name being identified as stolen and the registrant frantically trying to stop it from changing registrars and leaving the country.
In this interview, David Weslow describes the three steps you can take to recover your domain name before it’s too late.
He also discusses the six steps you need to take to prevent a domain name theft from occurring in the first place.
Michael Cyger June 6, 2016
DNSeattle took place on Thursday, May 12, 2016 at GoDaddy’s headquarters in Kirkland, Washington, just North of Seattle — and raised more than $5,000 to help find a cure for cancer!
More than 90 attendees met, networked and learned about domain name liquidity during this live panel session with Jeffrey Emerick (individual investor, Brand Bucket Ambassador), Dave Evanson (Sedo) and Joe Styler (GoDaddy).
NamesCon wrote up a fantastic summary of the event, and is offering $299 NamesCon tickets ($300 off!) to DNSeattle attendees for their January 2017 event using the DNS299 coupon code. Get it now — see you there!
Also, our event photo album is live at DNSeattle.com. (Thanks Shari Bradbury!)
And, special thanks to the Zandibot, Ali Zandi, for his mad skillz adjusting the audio of today’s show.
Michael Cyger May 16, 2016
John Colascione registered his first geographic domain name – LongIslandExchange.com – for only registration fee (about $10), and after years of hard work discovered the best way to make money in his specific geographic region.
With the success of that business model, he parlayed his readership and revenue into an ownership stake in LongIsland.com and now serves more than one million readers per month across his Long Island Media network. And in 2016, they’re on track to generate $1.5 million in revenue.
In this interview, we discuss his business model, how he structures advertising packages and his sales force, how he uses social media to his advantage, and advice he has for other geographic publishers.