How To Stay Alive: The Challenges of Brick and Mortar in an Online World

Mar 09 2014

Because we buy and sell domains each day, most of us are more familiar with Internet based business than most people. But there is a daily transformation and battle to stay alive for the small local ...

Mark Cuban Answers a Few Questions about Business, Life, and Sharktank

Dec 26 2012

Mark Cuban was on Reddit the other day taking questions and amongst all the typical Reddit chit chat and comments was some great stuff. I thought it would be nice to have all the questions organized ...

Your Social Media Account Is Now Your Resume

Jan 26 2012

Ay yie yie. Here we go again. I’ve well documentated the fact that I’m not on social media. I joined Facebook once and found myself avoiding people I didn’t want to talk to more than I ...

Here’s What Advertising Worked for Me This Year in My Brick and Mortar Marketing

Dec 16 2011

It’s one of the toughest things you do when you have a retail business. Deciding where to spend your advertising dollars. You can throw tens of thousands of dollars at many different outlets all ...

Support Small Business: 10 Ways You Can Really Help Your Local Vendors

Nov 26 2011

Morgan had a great post today that inspired my article today. As a small business owner I am always trying to get customers to shop locally. The people employed are your neighbors and the more ...

You Like Investing in Domains, How About Patents? Fruit Label Made of Organic Soap

Oct 27 2011

If you’re like me you are always looking to make good investments. Domains, websites, anything. I came across this yesterday and I thought it was brilliant. Scott Amron invented the fruit label ...

Perusal Point #1: Where are the Compete Stats?

Sep 09 2011

Whatever your ritual of research, if you’re perusing the domain drop lists this week and are a user of DropDay.com, you may have noticed a lack of Compete Traffic stats. Any ideas? Most of my ...

How Do You Get Your Employees to Care? Here Are A Few Ideas

Aug 15 2011

It’s one of the most difficult things a business owner deals with. How do you get your employees to care about the company as much as you? First of all they won’t, they aren’t the ...

How Do YOU Value a Domain? Here’s How I Do It

May 06 2011

Valuing a stock is simple. Valuing a car. Piece of cake. They have metrics, formulas, and thousands of identical items selling every day to help establish the value. Every single domain in the world is ...

From Celebrity Tweet Prices to CNN.com Ad Rates: Let’s See What $100,000 Gets You in Advertising

May 02 2011

So you want to promote a brand and have $100,000. A hundred grand seems like a lot of money but you want to reach a national, even global market. Let’s take a look at how you can spend it and ...

RunningShoes.com Proves Yet Again, There is Huge Value In the First Page of Google

Apr 22 2011

Seven hundred thousand dollars is a heck a lot of money. For that kind of money you can build quite a business on an $8 domain name. The buyers of the domain Cat5 were buying more than a domain name. ...

Here’s A Look At My “Other” Job

Mar 30 2011

I find it comical that people will criticize the fact that I don’t make a living through domain investing. Despite the fact I still put in a good 20-40 hours a week at this thing, people are ...

Gone In Three Seconds: All Your Effort Is Wasted If You Have a Bad Host

Mar 27 2011

You spend weeks, months trying to set up the perfect website. The landing page is the stickiest you’ve ever seen and the beauty of the design brings tears of joy to everyone in the company. And ...

It’s Official: Governer Quinn Signs Illinois Internet Tax Bill and Amazon Cancels My Affiliate Program

Mar 10 2011

It’s done. Pat Quinn of Illinois, just signed a bill forcing companies like Amazon and Overstock to collect 6.25% tax on their sales from affiliates, or anyone who has a presence in the state of ...

Alex Rampell States It Best: If You Want to Compete Online You Better Do the Following

Feb 14 2011

Alex Rampell wrote a story yesterday on TechCrunch that said exactly what I’ve always thought in the article “Say Goodbye to the Long Tail Of Product Sellers: At Least on the Internet” ...