Feel free to link, most are interested in how others develop their domains.

Hi David, welcome to DN Trade

You say you're working 80 hour weeks, most of which is spent selling to end users. Just wondering what your average day consists of? Is it mostly searching for potential leads on Google and then contacting them with an 'introduction' email letting them know why the domain is valuable to them and how much you'd be willing to let it go for etc?

How much do you use the phone, and how much is exclusively email?

70% of my day/week would consist of visiting prospect websites and contacting them by email to try and sell a domain that would benefit their company. Thankfully I don't have to find end users as I use a software script that automatically provides me with all I need. It does cost me a few hundred US$ a day but well worth it. The remaining 30% of my time is spent chasing up payments, backordering domains, etc.

I also have a team of staff in India that spend 20-30 hours per day doing a lot of grunt work for me like visiting websites and compiling the email addresses for me to save me time as I'd otherwise never get through it all.

I rarely use the phone. I would contact probably 10,000 companies a week and maybe call a company every 2 weeks or so. I'm not very good on the phone and have had great success by email so am happy to continue doing this.

Thanks for the response, contacting 10,000 companies a week is pretty damn impressive!

How much do you 'customize' each email? For example, would you send something detailed, or just a simple/generic notification?

I have a script which I use and customise a few things. It may only be a couple or quite a bit depending on the domain/prospect, etc. Eg. if the prospect I'm emailing owns pieshop.net and I'm selling pieshop.com the email would be a bit different then when I'm emailing the owner of fredspieshop.com

Welcome to the forum, David!

Sounds like you really know what you're doing & I hope we can all learn from you. Most of us on this forum are mainly involved with .au and because the aftermarket is still in its infancy we're all very much learning how best to sell... esp in volume.

Very impressive stuff - well done & I hope you can have as much success in .au as you've obviously had elsewhere (gTLDs I guess)

Cheers

David

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Thanks David. I love what you've done with NetFleet, great aftermarket site. I have already made an offer on a domain but am shattered I missed out on seeing mowing.com.au as it went for a steal IMO and I definitely would've paid more.

Gday david from another David (Was BFT on Namepros)
I am on russell island just of the coast from the bayside area
Also have a small interest in Minisites (After all I do own Minisite.com.au) and AUssie Names