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What Happened To WeddingFlorist.com?

May 14, 2012

As many of you know I held an exciting contest on my blog to buy a domain name for $1,200 from one of my readers. With over 120 comments this post caught a lot of attention and had some great names submitted to it. I spent the weekend crunching the numbers and picking a domain [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day and Hello From Sonoma’s Wine Country

May 13, 2012

Well I decided to cancel Small Business Sunday today because this day should be about one thing and one thing only, Mom! Right now we are nestled in the woods in a beautiful house getting ready for a day of wine tasting with my Mom. After that we’ll be coming back to the house where [...]

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Weekend Musings

May 12, 2012

Wow – what a week! A lot has happened this week and a lot is happening this weekend, in fact right now I’m sitting on a plane cruising along at 35,000 feet. This week has been exciting with some major appraiso announcements on the horizon, one nice five-figure sale, and two end-user sales that look [...]

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Three Ways To Help Your Site Rank Better In A Post-Penguin World

May 11, 2012

Like it or not, Panda came and changed the face of search forever. Now Penguin has come and it looks like once again, the search world may never be the same. While many people are frustrated with Google as their sites dipped in the rankings, many others are looking for the opportunities ahead now that [...]

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My Picks For The Sedo .ME Auction Starting May 24th

May 10, 2012

For those keeping score, .ME has been having one heck of a 2012 with strong support from major startups and big sales happening every single week. One of the areas where .ME has really shined is mobile where app developers are seeing .ME as a great extension to build their brands on. Given that mobile [...]

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How To Lose A Potential End-User Sale

May 10, 2012

I had an interesting experience this week that I wanted to share with all of you. It’s a great lesson in Business 101 as well as a good example of how to screw-up your chances of making a sale to an end user. It all comes down to the fact that at the end of [...]

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The Second Edition of Domain Monetization 101 Is Here!

May 9, 2012

I am excited to announce that the second edition of my free guide, Domain Monetization 101 has arrived hot off the press! Actually, there is no press since it’s an eBook but let’s just pretend that it is! While this is the second edition of the guide almost the entire book has been re-written so [...]

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Trying A New WordPress Hosting Solution – WPEngine Review: Part One

May 8, 2012

Out of the sites we have developed roughly a quarter now run on WordPress and about eight of those are very important to us. We’ve tried a variety of solutions for managing these sites and keeping up with all the myriad of updates WordPress needs from plugins, to themes, to the entire platform. Right now [...]

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Winner Announced! Find Out What Domain I’m Buying For $1,200

May 8, 2012

Last week I tried something new, it was a simple idea, write a post asking for readers to submit domains that met a specific criteria. I had no idea if the concept would work or not but as always I thought, “let’s give it a shot!” 118 Comments later it now holds the record for [...]

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Guess What Domain I’m Buying For $1,200

May 7, 2012

Phew! Well it’s taken a lot more time than I thought to go through all the submissions for my offer to buy a domain from a reader for $1,200. I’m about three quarters of the way through and already have a few good candidates. Along with evaluating the domains that met the criteria, I have [...]

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