If you spend more than you make with your domain names, you’re doing it wrong. This category helps you figure out how best to monetize your domain name portfolio, whether it be parking, lead generation, ecommerce, blogging or some other form of full website development.
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Mike Thomas builds websites on exact-match .com/.net/.org domain names and makes a nice living earning revenue from Google AdSense, selling websites, and making commissions on products through affiliate links of the products he uses.
And in a refreshing twist, the details involved in exactly how he does all of this are revealed in this interview and on his website.
Michael Cyger October 15, 2012
Campbell spent $28,000 to buy the single-word, premium domain name Posse.com for her fledgling business idea and expressed no regret over the decision.
That’s understandable: After purchasing the domain name, Campbell was able to raise more than $3 million in multiple rounds to fund her startup. Find out how this premium, brandable domain name helped.
Michael Cyger September 17, 2012
The Internet abounds with offers for a free credit score – as long as you remember to cancel the automatic membership and charge to your credit card charge within two weeks.
Enter a new player in the industry offering unlimited credit scores, the ability to track your credit over time, and resources that will help you improve your score too – all without any fees. Coupled with these offerings is an affiliate system that affiliate marketers and publishers will want to take note of.
Michael Cyger September 3, 2012
Andrew Schrage could have continued working 40 hours per week at the hedge fund that employed him after college and made a nice living doing so. Instead, he took control of his destiny and began working with a friend a few hours a night on a website that teaches personal finance.
Learn how the purchase of MoneyCrashers.com with about 10,000 monthly readers for a nominal financial amount grew over four years to what it is today – a site that serves 800,000 monthly readers and provides an income that rivals the founder’s prior salary at a hedge fund.
Michael Cyger August 27, 2012
We all know that Andrew Rosener, a former fishmonger, is one of the leading domain name brokers in the industry. But did you also know he is a developer?
Learn how Andrew acquired the domain name Spearfishing.com, how much he paid, how he built the website, how he is marketing and promoting it, and what his plans are for monetizing the community he’s passionate about.
Michael Cyger August 20, 2012
Learn how Perry Rosenbloom set up affiliate websites that generate a healthy five-figure income (soon to be six-figures) on topics he loves — and with domain names you can register today.
It didn’t happen overnight. It took consistent, hard work for a few years, but now his passive income affords him the flexibility to travel with his school-teacher wife during summers.
Michael Cyger July 16, 2012
What lead generation companies buy customer leads if I develop my generic, exact match domain name? This articles answers that question by providing a list of lead generation companies that currently own and operate lead generation websites.
Trev Alex June 20, 2012
How do you build a successful lead generation business to help the growing aging population in the United States?
Chris Rodde shares how he and his two co-founders, Jay Goldstein and Tom Blumer – who were all well versed in lead generation – took an idea and built it into a business that now generates millions in revenue.
In this interview, Rodde answers questions about building a senior-care lead generation business that can be applied to any other niche or market, including:
* How they verified the need for this lead generation business
* How they convinced 2,300 senior living communities to back them
* How to set a price per lead, how much per lead is generated, and how the quality of leads is preserved
Michael Cyger June 11, 2012
When Richard Kershaw and Stephen Pavlovich bought the Wish.co.uk domain name in a Sedo auction for around $12,000, they knew it would be critical to the growth of their “day experience” e-commerce business (think Groupon without the expiration issue). In a mere 12 weeks, they had purchased the domain, developed a website, signed their first supplier and sold their first product.
Little did they know the domain name would allow them to “punch above their weight” and take on the big-box e-tailers, while still being small, nimble and flexible via a part-time contract staff. Press coverage of Wish.co.uk belies its size too, thanks in part to the company’s domain name and the PR agency it hired.
Michael Cyger May 21, 2012
Developing websites is no easy task. But when you do it for every one of your 9,500 domain names, you start to get a system down.
In fact, David Wieland built his own system – named Prebuilt.com – from the ground up so he could be more efficient in website development. Now he’s offering his system to other domain investors too.
Michael Cyger May 14, 2012