Comments on: DOMAINS SET THE COURSE OF YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS SUCCESS http://www.successclick.com/domains-set-the-course-of-your-online-business-success_2008_05_26/ Successful Domain Management™ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:26:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kelly Lieberman http://www.successclick.com/domains-set-the-course-of-your-online-business-success_2008_05_26/comment-page-1/#comment-599 Kelly Lieberman Mon, 26 May 2008 15:07:44 +0000 http://www.successclick.com/domains-set-the-course-of-your-online-business-success_2008_05_26/#comment-599 Excellent post. I think that even alot of web development companies are steering their clients to basic SEO and SEM -leaving out the whole issue of domain assets- because they don't have any idea how they are going to get their chunk of that pie or how they will monetize it initially. They know how much money they can bring in selling SEO which is a continuous monthly income stream. What would happen if their client bought farmsilo.com and had 500 interested eyeballs coming in a day that they had nothing to do with the SEO? Do they fear losing their income stream?? Of course, if they think of the big picture they would see that they would be selling more server space, designing more websites,hosting more accounts adding additional bells and whistles too help the client handle the huge influx of orders.. but I am not sure anyone is "thinking". I agree that it is to our advantage to educate every end user about domains, let's also educate all those middle-men between us and them! There are alot of local networking meetings, Chamber of Commerce events, tradeshows,and the like that are always in need of speakers. I think that we should start volunteering to speak at the events that might make sense in our communities. I have already talked to a few business writers for some local business magazines about domains and I am waiting to hear back from them. Good luck to everyone on their efforts. It will take all of us doing our share. ++++STEPHEN DOUGLAS SEZ+++++ Excellent ideas, Kelly. I think volunteering to speak at local business meetings, contacting industry periodicals and offering to write a free article on domain value to a business (also could be looked at as "promotional speaking" for your business too!) are great ideas. Additionally, I suggest everyone get google news alerts on "domain name", "website marketing" and "marketing news" to see all the articles coming out, and spend a half our each day sending in comments to the articles, or talking on their forums. If we domainers branch out into the business sector, starting with the marketing industry, and discuss the incredible advantages of domains to a business presence online, the amount of people being educated about domains could increase exponentially. Good comment, thanks! Excellent post. I think that even alot of web development companies are steering their clients to basic SEO and SEM -leaving out the whole issue of domain assets- because they don’t have any idea how they are going to get their chunk of that pie or how they will monetize it initially.

They know how much money they can bring in selling SEO which is a continuous monthly income stream. What would happen if their client bought farmsilo.com and had 500 interested eyeballs coming in a day that they had nothing to do with the SEO? Do they fear losing their income stream??

Of course, if they think of the big picture they would see that they would be selling more server space, designing more websites,hosting more accounts adding additional bells and whistles too help the client handle the huge influx of orders.. but I am not sure anyone is “thinking”.
I agree that it is to our advantage to educate every end user about domains, let’s also educate all those middle-men between us and them!

There are alot of local networking meetings, Chamber of Commerce events, tradeshows,and the like that are always in need of speakers. I think that we should start volunteering to speak at the events that might make sense in our communities. I have already talked to a few business writers for some local business magazines about domains and I am waiting to hear back from them.

Good luck to everyone on their efforts. It will take all of us doing our share.

++++STEPHEN DOUGLAS SEZ+++++

Excellent ideas, Kelly. I think volunteering to speak at local business meetings, contacting industry periodicals and offering to write a free article on domain value to a business (also could be looked at as “promotional speaking” for your business too!) are great ideas. Additionally, I suggest everyone get google news alerts on “domain name”, “website marketing” and “marketing news” to see all the articles coming out, and spend a half our each day sending in comments to the articles, or talking on their forums. If we domainers branch out into the business sector, starting with the marketing industry, and discuss the incredible advantages of domains to a business presence online, the amount of people being educated about domains could increase exponentially. Good comment, thanks!

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