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Depressed101:
which one is that one again, abeg anything paying is worth learning. Lemme PM you

I once announced i was hired by a company for domain review.
We are still working together, progressed from review to other works.

$500
Handreg
Inbound.
Hold time : 5days
Thanks to Iykepromotions and everyone who contribute to the thread.

1st mine
2nd SH Owned

zanebaddo:
Bros congrats oo

Have some questions for you...

1. Do you include US number in your email as part of your signature?

2. If you do, do End users ask you to call them or they call you

3. Do you handreg or get names from expireddomains?

4. do you make use of custom email address?

1. Yes
2. One called me once. Then some few call me to render their own services, u know, all those type of mtn Airtel calls.
3. Both. But most are handreg

Depressed101:
to be honest with you. I don't know how that guy scrapes emails and charge #300. Bros who see truth make im talk. That guy is under pricing his service. And there is no way he can gain it. He doesn't know it, so we have to tell him. Na you wey dey vex be bad belle because you nor want make another person chop.

I've been scraping emails for people here for the past 1wk, and i always warn that i dont charge below 1k..

Me too i dey charge oyinbl people $20 and above and they pay up. Abeg make una nor dey celebrate mediocrity, we all came here to learn and be successful, nobody be suffer head.


Ah bros you reason the suffer head na, person scrape email wey you take get ROI of more than 100% and all you can think of is accept to pay #300 ah make your conscience judge una. I dey see 17 people wey like your post. Na wa sha..
Udo nu...

Congrats to the July sales team. Ikhalyfah you be winch sha. I bet you sit with your computer all day.

Thanks.
I don't use computer for domaining. Only to play game or watch film (now dat sch is closed).
Then i recently started using it for my review job.

Ibrixy:
Hello,
I have a domain name i want to register,
"city+criminal attorney, 100k+ population, I've checked wayback history, all okay.. (previously parked at huge Domains).
Then i checked the plural form (city+criminal attorneys) and discovered that the plural form is being used as spam (redirected to an unrelated website).

Please BOSSES in the house, will this in any way affect the singular form of the domain?

Has anyone sold a "city+criminal attorney" before?

Which is better, attorney or attorneys?

cc: iKhalyfah

Attorneys are most used fir directory. So if u wish to sell to an attorney direct, go for singular

Avast:
Ikhalyfah

Indianapolis immigration lawyer
Hialeah Divorce Attorney



Send outbound tire, no response

Good domains, don't relent.
Goodluck

Josmila:
Congrats ikhalyfah. If you don't mind, can you share your follow up strategy?

August will be better for us all..

Using the Iykepromotions popular follow up later. I follow up by replying the initial email. And i use same letter for 1st ,2nd .... nth follow up, only with reduced price

thorrvik55:
Were the sales from ur this month acquisition?

4 are

Josmila:
Congrats ikhalyfah. If you don't mind, can you share your follow up strategy?

August will be better for us all..

Thanks. More sales to us all

Update for July 2020

July 2020
*First 18 days of july, no sales
*On 19th July, I had my first sale of the month
*I sold a total of 10 domains in july (9 at Dan, 1 at Epik), some of which are; Burbank/limo/usines, New//portBea//chLim//ousines, Ventura/limou/sine/service. Etc

*Revenue $1599
*Total acquisition: 17 (5 brandables, 12 geos)
*Got 15 names accepted at SH in july
*Started submitting to BB (their long review shaa)

UPDATED GEO SUMMARY
*sale tru rate: can't start calculating again but it's more or less like the one below (43%)

TOTAL (Geo+Brandable+EMD) SUMMARY
* SaleThrough Rate: 35%
* Total domains purchased (excluding SH owned): 163
* Total domain sold: 57
* Total revenue AFTER COMMISSION: Over $7.5k

Other infos:
*My most sold geo service is still Attorney related (sold 2 more in july)
* My most sold cities is in the state of California (sold 4 more cities in the stay in July)
*My highest single sale is stilk $650
*My lowest single sale is still $50
*You may ask more summarized info, and I'll answer if I can.

Looking forward to my 2nd year in this wonderful Business.
Thanks to Iykepromotions, thanks to everyone who contribute to this thread. For those not contributing, it's not late to start
More sales to us all!

ikhalyfah:
As I clock one year in domaining by the end of this month, here is my journey so far

This will be discussed in a pattern used by Beckplanet for his 2019 journey verdict.

My post may not be insightful, due to the fact that u can't use one sample to analyze a whole GEO niche, However, I know I'm only one of the few people that keep record of their inventory, and I know if anybody has a record, he/she will follow feat so as to have a larger sample for this analysis.

NOTE: otherwise stated, every info is regarding Geos.
That being said, I'll start;

July 2019;
*25th July 2019 i stumbled upon this thread.
*28th july, i made my first purchase of HostelPrice.com using GD promo
* I made a total 1 acquisition in July
*And of course, NO SALE

August 2019
* Made a total 8 acquisitions, mostly from promo. As per say i be student, na my pocket money i de use, so it's only promo i can afford.
* One of the names is Vegas Autoshop in king, that nearly became my 1st sale, but didn't happen cos i called buyer with naija number
* My first sale came last week of August, Cbdlegalfirm, @125$. Lol, some of us can remember the controversy around the name.
*That was my only sale in August.

September 2019
* Made 14 acquisitions.
* Got my 1st ever SH- owned name accepted (Jixya//com) on 30th sept.
* Had 2 sales in last week of the month.
* On of which sold under 2hours. Na dat one shock me pass shaa.

October 2019
* 1st October, took the traditional Iykepromotions WA tutorial.
* NO SALE in October despite 17 acquisitions.

November 2019
* Consider it my ground breaking month
* Made 12 acquisitions
* Made 6 sales
* Total earning of around $800-900 (don't have exact record of that)

December 2019
* The blessings in November continued
* Made 14 acquisitions
* Made 5 sales
* Total earnings $600-700

January 2020
*My best month in terms of number of domains sold
* Made 14 acquisitions
* Had 12 sales

February 2020
* A little decline in number of sales, made 2 sales
* But also huge decline in number of acquisitions, made only 4 acquisition
*Used the silent moment to study squadhelp and brandables

March 2020
* made 9 acquisition
* Had 3 sales
* Revenue of around $600-700
* It has been generally silent month
*Resume submitting to squadhelp on 31st march. Prior to that, had only 2 names at squadhelp.

April 2020
* Used most of the time building SH portfolio
* Got Over 30names accepted in April
* Made revenue of about $500-600
* Made 11 acquisitions

May 2020
* First 3 weeks was silent, but took the time to continue my SH journey
* Last week of May was a banger, made 9 sales in the last 7 days of May
* Revenue $1100+
* Made 12 acquisitions
* I was hired by a company to do name review, so far I've reviewed over 1Million names for them. This is actually one of the best things to happen in my first year.
*Continued my SH journey

June 2020
*But made 9 sales.
* Total revenue of about $2000+
*My best month in terms of revenue
*Sold Qu..iet..Fix last night for $650
* At start of April 2020 i had 2 names at SH, At end of June 2020, i have 76 names at SH (6mine).

July 2020
SEE ABOVE FOR UPDATE

BRANDABLE INFO SUMMARY
*Decided to start investing heavenly on brandables at Mid May. But this was after taking February, march and April to study.
*I have made 4 brandable sales.
*Still building my SH portfolio, building afternic portfolio with rejected SH names i find fit, and will explore BB in the nearest future, God's willing.

GEO SUMMARY
*SALE THROUGH RATE: 43%

You may ask for more summary and I'll add here.

TOTAL (Geo+Brandable+EMD) SUMMARY
* SaleThrough Rate: 32%
* Total domains purchased (excluding SH owned): 146
* Total domain sold: 47
* Total revenue AFTER COMMISSION: Over $6,000

Note: since I'll be 1 year officially on 28July, I may come to edit this when the time comes.

Other infos:
*My most sold geo service is Attorney related
* My most sold cities is in the state of California
*My highest single sale is $650
*My lowest single sale is $50
*You may ask more summarized info, and I'll answer if I can

Regards.
Gratitude to Allah.
Appreciation to everybody here!

Isaacbaye3:
boss ikhalyfah,I will like to look through your rejected names if it is ok by you

Ok sir. But probably after i filter out wat i intend to register. Don't know when will that be exactly. But I'll try to remember your request when I do

doncafu:
Bosses in the house, Kindly help me reason this matter oo..

I submitted a name on squadhelp and it was accepted after spending 3 days in review.

I got an email notification on the 4th day telling me to approve the name which I did then a pop up message came up which says "it seems our agents are finding it difficult to register this name"

Well, i searched and found out the name was available and I register it immediately.

My question is that, can I resubmit it as my own domain?

Try submitting again, if it doesn't work contact support.


Let me get you into a little secret; somethings you don't have to wait for answers, by some trial and error u will eventually get it

Regards

DeNoble001:
Lol...
I get name of 19 july among them

Me too 19th july

priceaction:
i have this name i want to reg, this is the past metrics... help me check am city population na over 1.5million but less than 30 websites dealing in that service....

last dropped was 2013 according to wayback
but that 1st pics change dey decieve me , i no get them well...
Las las.... na grace be priority
na mr ikhalyfah and geo gurus say make we dey do this oo

I check this factors only if I'm fully satisfied with the city, keyword and endusers.
I don't count this as a decider (especially the 1st pic), i just count it as a secondary research (which could help me fall in love with the geo even more).

Nice! Let's keep this thread going.

Along the way, even when my intention is to let SH have majority of my names, but there are names that we strongly believe will be accepted, but we let them have it anyways, and later be thinking why didn't i register this name. Lol, mine is
N/O//BLE/SC//OUT//
Mehn I like that name.

We move!

crudedude:
Omoh no be small thing to do this for each and every lead but its a winning system

No b small

Mine.
This is the 3rd acceptance by External team, that were rejected by internal team.
Shey them want make i say them no strict, lol.

thorrvik55:
You've never had a case of sending more than once to a particular end user?

By mistake, yes. But not often really

thorrvik55:
Google maps/Bing/Google all repeat some businesses so how do u ensure u don't send more than once to a particular end user?

I normally copy and paste the mails then use Excel to remove duplicates b4 sending

If i use bing, i don't use Google, vice versa

Edited. All gone

crudedude:
Imagine name that SH rejected. Can I run a few names through you? all SH rejects.

Alright

crudedude:
I recently read your post about manually sending emails due to better open/response rate. How do you manually do follow ups + sending fresh outbound emails for multiple domains at a time?

Hello, I follow up by replying the initial email I sent.
When I want to send fresh Outbound, i do just like i did for the first time.
Manually go google and open their sites to send

Wambah:
Boss.
Is external team like a feature that's enabled with higher ranked creatives? Or you just request. Can you explain what it entails, if you may?

They are a team that review "your registered names".
While SH internal team review unregistered names.

I think by default external team review ur registered names, u don't have to request. If they don't, u can contact support to enable it

Mine.
Few months back SH rejected it, yesterday external review team accepted it

priceaction:
I strongly believe that grace is a factor in this business.

Congratulations. anybody wey no believe in grace is not enjoying this business at all

ElonMosque:
Lol I'm working on my emotions. I had two $500 offers last week, till today no payment.

It ain't cool! But God will do it for us!

thorrvik55:
100%.. I once had three offers for three different names same day and they all failed to pay up. They stopped replying my follow up mails. When I got the offers, in my mind, worst case scenario at least one would sell but it was not to be as they were not my buyers...

Not every offer leads to sale in domaining. Having that at the back of ones head really helps

That's why I've learned never to attach emotions to offers until i see payment received.

Someone ask what I did when I started to eventually start getting sales. When I started I knew what I wanted so I reached out for it!. Here is some list;

No.6 I value very much!
I can say things that help me and kept me going are;.
First of all, Prayer prayer prayer and prayer!

1. Passion: when i started, not only for the money but i also had the passion for it. Since my childhood i had passion in computer stuffs, so domaining is part of my skills now as a passion.

2. Patience: imaging selling 10 domains in 1month and the next 2 months not selling? So u must be patient to keep going.

3. Follow up: don't relent on following up, but do it wisely so it won't be spam, maybe twice every month (depending on how many domains u have to Outbound).

4. Reduce price: i don't hesitate reducing price to Outbound, selling 7$ domain for 150$ is definitely good, especially when converted to naira. I don't get greedy really. If i "need" a sale, i let domain go for 100-150 . Sometimes i let them go for that amount just to maintain flow and confidence/morale. I usually get lot of sales if i price it so (100-150-250), which will definitely compensate for waiting for that 500-400 that may never come (may never come in the sense that u can contact 100 users, no response, so u have no choice than reduce price).

5. Taking risk: when i started, it was with my pocket money, i didn't mind buying from promo and reducing my expenses and all. Now it has definitely paid off. Up till now i risk buying.

6. Buying only geo i "fall in love" with: that will give me more zeal to keep following up until sold. I currently have names i never "fell in love" with, so i see it as a Burden to follow up for them.

7. Always have a mentor in this business that u can run to, when u have an issue (especially private issue) you want help with. But please do that smartly, do not bombard them since they may have their own activities going on. Always do your assignment before contacting them.


There may be more, but i can stop here.

Regards

alawi5k:
Start from page 1 to 1000

Don't i need the remaining 775

ikhalyfah:
Pls can I receive the domain sell letter.
Thou I'm few years late but I'd still appreciate it
iKhalyfah@gmail.com

Looks like it's never late to start
In fact the time we started is just the beginning

Cof1ex:
OK, thanks

Another thing is that don't listen to those that will say, bring ur money and go and chill, they will multiply for u.
Chill for waht? Is money made that way?
Even dangote no de chill till today.

I can see one red poster in page 2, kilenge abi wetin dem call dia sef