Domainer's Gazette-Home

Let me first off say I love Domainer’s Magazine..

I’m no web designer, though, but I do know it’s wise to keep image files fairly light to speed page load times.

I just hit their site, and check out the size of this image on their homepage.. friggin 892K…almost 1MB..oye..

I feel sorry for all those poor souls on 28.8 modems out there…

I always enjoy hearing great business quotes and the poinpoint accuracy they deliver in just a few short sentences. I ran across these two browsing through Fortune magazine recently, and thought I’d share here..

The first was from an extensive article about Exxon, and the money-making machine that they are. The quote was:

“Exxon Mobil is not a fun place to work”, says one industry analyst. “They’re not in the fun business. They’re in the profit business.”

i-love-it. A true ‘take no s*’ business quote. Reminds me of a sign my brother used to hang in his flooring supply business saying “No Refunds - We Ain’t Sears’. Classic.

The second came from Brad Anderson, CEO of Best Buy, in a Q&A session:

What’s the best advice you can give to someone who aspires to be an entrepreneur? –Paul Zdechlik, Edina, Minn.

Find an unmet customer need and make it your passion to profitably satisfy it.

I don’t think I’ve ever read a more succinct way to describe how to be your own boss…

so, what’s your favorite business quote?

for anyone interested (doubtful I’ll be able to buy it), rubberneck.com is going up for auction today at snapnames. If you toss it into your account today, you should be able to access the live auction, which’ll allow you to bid on it, or - in my case - sit back and watch as a spectator.. They’ll close the door today for entrants into the auction, so hurry up - the auction will complete in 3 days.. My guess for final sale price? $35K..

Adam Viener has a great domaining post over at revenews.com, where he breaks down an IM conversation he’s having during the middle of a live domain auction. It’s a very cool glimpse into what goes through a domainers head as we approach/research/and bid on domain names. The IM dialog also captures the - at times - frenetic bidding decisions that are made in the trenches..

Check out the post here

I cover this domaining angle with a few of my well established websites, but was asleep at the wheel on this instance..

I had the chance to register domainergazette.com when I built this site (without the ’s’). Looks like someone already scooped it up when they read this blog.

Funny though, as this site is about domaining, and someone else was savvy enough to realize I failed to register this variation.

eh, live and learn. It’s not like this blog is gonna start paying my mortgage someday…

here’s a CPA company that blindly emailed me in regards to establishing a partnership deal..

I love the fact that, instead of schmoozing me to reply and go over possible deals, they immediately put me to work filling out this long checklist of site statistics, as if I have something to prove to them.

I guess beggars can be choosers.

Peter,

I am part of the Interactive team here at Datamark and your below emailed has been forwarded to me for review for Corinthian. I am one of the New Vendor Planners and am interested in gathering more information from you about your site/network so that we can understand whether your company will provide a good opportunity for us to work with. Datamark does represent many schools of all different sizes and specialties across the board, both online and campus based. We would like to determine if you would be a good fit for Corinthian or any one of the other schools that we represent.

If you will please answer these questions about what your capabilities are, we will be then be able to move forward to a possible phone conference and testing. But I do need these stock questions answered so I can enter your information into our database.

Please answer the following questions:

1. What is the name of your site and parent company?

2. What are some of the sites our schools would be advertised on? (I do need specific examples.)

3. How long has your site/s been live?

4. How many unique visitors visit your site/s per month?

5. How do you generate traffic to your site/s?

6. What demographic is your audience?

7. How many schools currently advertise on your site/s?

8. What kind of lead volume can you generate per month?

9. Do you have the capability of geo targeting in the US ?

10. Do you have the capability of geo targeting in Canada ?

11. Do you have the ability to target lead volume by market in the US and Canada ?

12. Do you do Graduate, Masters or PHD programs?

13. Can you link your creative out to a schools creative?

14. What is your average CPL?

15. Do you have the capability to form post?

16. If your site is subscription based what is the time commitment?

17. What is your typical timeframe for creative production?

I appreciate you taking your time to provide us with this information and we will be in touch shortly to discuss further details.

Thank you,

Rachel Marenburg / Interactive Media Planner

Datamark