The Targeted Traffic site is done nicely. You have voiceover, you have images, information, and information capturing (lead gen form). One thing I find hilarious though is a picture of DomainTools/Domain Roundtable Jay Westerdal. The picture is on the rotation on front page as of this moment. What ...

There are numerous private deals going on every year, many in the seven figure range and some even at the eight figures range. Here is one which went under the radar, until now. Via Network World: .. because of my firsthand knowledge regarding the Holiday Inn domain name fiasco. George Yerich Sr. -...

Via Digg’s blog: DiggBar from Kevin Rose on Vimeo. I believe the more users interact and familiarize with the address bar the more they will come back to it when they need something else. Have a great day, Sahar ...

(image source) ———————————————————————————– - EDITED - Results are in: Recall Media Group, parent company of Bido, founders and emp...

(image source) Reading this morning about Monster Venture Partners closing doors, it brought back recent thoughts I was going over and yet to write about. I visited our office yesterday, said hi to all, spent few hours with our teams going over stuff, the usual. I asked a little about revenues, pro...

(image source) I wrote yesterday about a new bido program that reward early bids with 2% cashback offering. Not long after posted, Jeff Hawkins replied: I’m kinda curious about how that will work out. It’s seems a good idea. I see pre-bidders figuring that two percent into their estimate then b...

(image source) A little unusual kind of post from me but.. let’s roll with it. Via TechCrunch: Home-Account, a recently launched mortgage search and counseling service, has secured $1 million in seed and angel funding. The largest investor is Charles River Ventures, which gave the startup $30...

A new program from Bido that is being rolled out today. For buyers, get 2% Cashback of an auction’s final price if your Pre-Bid* wins the auction. The concept here is to get better bids early on, rather than in the last few minutes. For our users as well as for sellers, we believe it makes for a ...

Donna Mahony sent me this link to Flickr page. If the Sanctuary interest you and you plan to attend/participate in the first Bido charity auction this April 1st, it is well worth checking out. Cheers Sahar ...

(Image source) Unless you join in you will never understand how much satisfying it is to work on this project. Not only for the great cause but also because we get to unite and do something together, literally move a mountain that each of us on his own cannot move, but together, it’s simple, ...

(image source: Flickr) A little busy with a bunch of stuff this morning so will keep this one short. 1. If you have not yet seen our first Bido charity auction page, to benefit the Hacienda de los Milagros (animal sanctuary and rescue center), see the following links: A Charity Auction: Bido To Th...

Sometime next week we will be announcing the date for our first charity auction on Bido. It is something we had in mind for a while but now that the opportunity has presented itself, we couldn’t say no. An old friend of mine, Donna Mahony (who also happen to run DomainBoardroom, a private dom...

The Bido Chatroom was *happening* today. Here’s a short transcript from the room. [13:00] Jarred: So Randy, how did you get into Domaining? [13:01] synergydomains: We can blame that on Vern Jurovich [13:01] synergydomains: I met him around a year ago, when he was selling his house [13:01] J...

I will be out most of the day but thought to drop you this note before I leave here. FRIDAY, March 20th, 1PM-2PM (during auction): Randy Charach, internet marketer, domainer will be available to answer your questions in the Bido Chatroom. Randy is both an Internet marketing expert and an insightful...

(image source) Last few days I’m reading on various domain related sites that the domain market seems to be strong. Just minutes ago Rick Schwartz announced a 3 million dollars + % deal is in the works for Candy.com, Ron Jackson of DNJournal followed quickly: ..the fear factor is starting to ...

(Image source: Flickr) We all want to do better at what we do. In the domain channel, we all want to make more, sell more. Most of us by now want end users to get it, Madison Avenue to get it, Google to get it, Yahoo to get it. We want SMB to get it. Heck, if it was within our power, we would want ...

(image source) For those who get their domain name on Bido, following is a short list about best practices, stuff we highly recommend you do as your domain name is being marketed by us and watched by the whole community. 1. There’s never enough publicity Exposure is key to building pressure. ...

(image source) Few domain related observations from Puerto Rico. 1. English words or Spanish words + .com work well. ClasificadosOnline.com is a big advertiser on the island (too bad for them Chris Chena owns Clasificados.com). AutoExpreso.com, a government site, is also visible all around the isla...

Michelle and I just got back from a wekeend in Puerto Rico. At arrival it wasn’t fun to find out that Spirit Air sent my bag to Chicago instead. Our trip mostly consisted of various beaches, Snuba, driving around the countryside, and enjoying the area which we stayed at - Old San Juan. To fri...

(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI, part VII are here Sahar has been writing a lot lately on accurate pricing. The question is why? Because there is no liquidity in the domain name market mostly in part due to inaccurately priced domain names and no real valuation me...

(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI are here They are waiting to join in, but will we help them, or just wait for them to figure it out on their own, if they ever? As with most liquid markets, casual end users come from time to time, but they are not the market. Marke...

(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V are here Nobody wants to be a sucker. With auctions, the results of accurate pricing is a bidding war. Bidding war allows spectators to get in the game, assuring them that value exists in the marketplace, not just with one party, but with ma...

part I, part II, part III, part IV are here You know that you have priced accurately when there’s a bidding war happening. Pricing accurately does not occur when one bid happens to buy at the reserve price. This isn’t an auction at all, it’s a sale. In most industries, in order to...

part I, part II, part III are here Let’s look at what a professional trader looks like. As I know a couple I will try my best to give you an idea here. So who is the professional trader and how does he think? The professional trader is not attached to the deal. He buys because there’s a...

(Image source) (For those who come late, part I and part II are here) When trying to liquidate via an auction offering, for optimal results, who should you price your items for? Liquidation isn’t about finding end users, it is about moving inventory, preferably quick. End users are hard to f...