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AwesomeDuru:
Good evening everyone, I'm happy to report my first 4 figure sale since I started domaining.

Raw//Wheels//dotcom
S.P: $2800
Dan
HT: 1month+

Special thanks to big bosses Jovialjov, Slimjosh43, Treasure28, Chinesegirl, Butzritchy and everyone else too numerous to mention.

Big thanks to boss Iykepromotions for this thread.

Congrats to me and more sales to us all!

Awesome himself. Congrats! Just seeing this report. Massive!

Where una dey find these biggy biggy sales la.

elyte89:
I would av said I made a total sale of $550 in July but out of d three accepted offer on dan of $200,$250 and $100..only d $100 customer has paid,d others have refused to pay...

Well I hope dey pay sha....but its over two weeks now..I don taya

The rate at which some buyers back out after expressing interest these days is concerning.

I wonder if anyone has experienced what I am passing through with my Afternic account at the moment. I wish to know how it went.

I tried logging in yesterday with my correct details but I was locked out for about eight hours for trying multiple times. Yet, I tried just once.

Now, I reset my password today. I saw a message again that I have been locked out for multiple failed attempts after using my new password. This time the lockout is to last about 11 hours.

Anyone has an idea of what is going on, please? I have been communicating with support but nothing encouraging yet.

Quietmover:
At the bolded .

But fortunately am also one of the grace crew .. You don use style yab me. God sorry Grace will forgive you.


But on a serious note, I don't think we play down on the aspect of hard work in this business and consistent reading even tho we belief in grace.

I mean, I must confess. Some sales I had made was out of the ordinary.

Remember the lock down time, I needed sales. Just after praying and believing. The next 2days I made a $699 sale.

Na that moni no make me send Nigeria gov that time

Whether or not the palliative.. I didn't care

But work and reading is not negotiable and I don't think we speak down on that.

This.

It's not an argument. Forget about all the learning, hard work, sleepless nights, and smartness. If Baba God no say "Yes," OYO is your case.

Some of us are not necessarily saying those other factors can be overlooked - they are typically indispensable. They are just not everything.

A person will never understand this if they have never experienced long spells of no sales despite having those other factors well covered.

Votumejero:
Yes I have made sales with my my personal picture on my profile. I don't think the buyers on sh can view sellers profile.

Thanks, boss.

I asked that question because I saw somewhere on the site where they stated something about how uploading a pic can increase trust. I was like, um...

Liftkid:
Sewing//and//craftclub//com

Wow, man! Congrats! So you finally sold this cash cow. I sure say e go hard you to forget this domain.

For people who know, does specifying categories for listed names make any difference on Afternic?

Also, for people who have sold names on SquadHelp, did you upload your personal picture on your profile?

Thanks.

Awoleesu:
Access bank as usual...
The scammers' financial institution!

Why do the unorthodox businessmen prefer Access, GTB, Fidelity, FCMB?

Hardly hear of them using Union, UBA, Zenith, First Bank...

Only Goodness knows.

I currently only use GTB of the lot and I am having a rethink right now. I think too much fraud may be going on there.

This time last week I'd have probably call them the best bank in Nigeria. But not anymore. How do you restrict a person's account without a convincing reason or how to remove such a restriction?

Nigeria just taya pesin.

tranxo:
Too late. They will rather listen to those that tell them to read just pages 1 - 50, than those that insist EVERY page here is important.

Domaining is like public transport. We all may be in the same bus, but the journey/destination is not the same.

The favicon for the first result, though. It looks like DAN's but seems domain points to Epik. Just thinking.

slimjosh43:
Allandutch there is no rule per se, you can use mgt, Mgmt, or management. But always follow the rule: shorter and more precise a domain is, the higher your chances of selling it.

U1 when they say the service matters, you need to know how much your enduser charges for a service e.g you would not set a pet grooming domain for 799 imho it makes no sense to me since the service ranges from $5 to 100 depending on the activities to be performed on the pet.
However, I don't mind charging a lawyer, realtor, insurance broker 799 because dey can afford it as they charge high for their service, same goes for doctors, dentist e.t.c

Marketing Agencies are stingy marketers so most times you see sales of 100 to say 250, same goes to locksmith, plumbing, sign company e.t.c

So study your target market and price at the sweet spot that they wouldn't think twice before dey hit BIN.

I'm a learner sha... Wait for the Bosses #wemove

Thanks, sire! This is helpful.

I have read some pieces/posts in which we (the amateurs) we're advised to price domains according to the price of services involved.

Anybody that does that should please help. How do you price domains based on service pricing? Do you divide or multiply? I'm a little confused.

Abeg help.

allandutch:
Thanks man.

Have you tried streak? It has good mail tracking on web. I downloaded the app but I deleted it. I don't understand how the app is even supposed to work.

I used the desktop version in the past but not anymore. I found GMass somewhat easier to use because of follow-ups, although I use it less these days due to cost.

allandutch:
Did you pay for the email tracking feature? The boomerang i downloaded doesn't have email tracking.

No, I didn't pay. Just look for the pin icon with a + sign at the bottom right of your screen when composing an email. Tap on it and select read receipt before sending.

But the question is whether the tracking is worthwhile given my earlier reported observation.

For a long time, I have read reviews and seen people on this thread making reference to Boomerang. So I decided to give the Android app a try finally to see if it'd get me better results.

However, I have yet to see what I have been missing in the tool. I thought I would use it for email tracking but that's off - I get multiple read notifications for emails that didn't even get delivered!

I think the app also lacks Rich Text Formatting as we have it in Gmail. I couldn't bold text if I wanted to.

Could someone please give me ideas on how to leverage on this app? I think I may be missing something. Thanks.

Let's just say you are looking for a way to lose 300k in two weeks or even in just a day.

You will be lucky to find anything legit that would pay 10k on that sum in two weeks. Just saying.

Sapiosexuality:
Might? Are you sure you are mentally ready?

As in ehn. I tried it once but I soon lost interest. It's hard for me to stay motivated since there wasn't really any immediate reward or challenge. I needed money more urgently.

AuntyAmope:
Good evening everyone.

Tried using the gblast extension to mass mail, it was unsuccessful. Kept saying "Sending in progress, 0 mail sent out of 200. 200 mails in queue". Waited for almost 30 mins or more sef still nothing. Though it worked perfectly fine the first time I used it.

Has anybody encountered such here? Thank you.

Tried it again with another domain. Still the same.

Cc ElonMosque U1 silverrock

Sorry, I have never used that tool.

codemaniacs:
sales report could also be fake...

Um, why?

AwesomeDuru:
Take your time to research the keyword and know how much your enduser makes before pricing your names.

It's what I do.

I also try as much as possible to run away from low budget niches and stingy cities.

Do your research, it's a thing.

I wish you luck trying to sell a HouseCleaning niche for $750+.

I'm not saying it's not possible, I'm just wishing you luck.

There are some cities I won't waste my time on even if you handed me the coolest keywords variations available on them.

When you know how much your enduser makes relatively, you'd have an idea of how much to price your names without pissing them off.

Also, if you don't ask for high figures, your names will never sell for high figures.

So choose your pain and drink its remedy in silence.

Thanks, Awesome. That was helpful.

Deji1510:
JUNE SALES

Durham // Wedding/ Officiant ------> $50
Sales Venue: Epik

Luxury // Apartments // Phoenix ---------> $250
Sales Venue: Dan

Luxury // Apartment // Phoenix ---------> $250
Sales Venue: Dan

Medi-Cal // Planning // Lawyer-----------> $100
Sales Venue: Dan

CPA // Jacksonville // FL --------------> $300
Sales Venue: Dan

Medi-Cal // Lawyer ----------------> $350
Sales Venue: Dan

Austin // Texas // Mover --------------> $500
Sales Venue: Dan

Phoenix// Metal// Recycling -------------> $100
Sales Venue: Dan

Live// Music// Miami --------------> $100
Sales Venue: Dan

All Glory be to God Almighty for these sales and I pray for an awesome July for each and everyone of us.

Glory to God indeed! I mean at a time when it seems no one wants to buy US Geo names, especially from Dan.

Congrats and more sales.

SKhanmi:
You're also seeing the difference.

1) Use the price history of previously similar sold names, afternic new beta version has that feature as a guide.

2) Buy Good names end users want, the type you would send only 1 outbound mail & no more. The type your gut immediately recognizes as a goldmine.

3) And the ability to confidently negotiate & reject prices even when you really need the cash.

And for some reason, buyers prefer to pay higher at Afternic.

Get number 2 right and you'll sell for more than $500 in a week. It's what everyone struggles with(finding great names)

Thanks for the tips, sire!

I have seen the notification on Afternic prompting me to try Beta 2.0 or something, but I just dey look away. Betas commonly have glitches from my experience.

I have some names (around a quarter of my portfolio) I have this extra positive feeling about and I am willing to renew. I'd also like to slam higher price tags on them and hope for the best, but I just didn't know how to fix the "right" prices.

I'll look into the Afternic suggestion in addition to Namebio and GoDaddy to see how I can go about arriving at prices.

slumbee:
June Sales

Atlanta/Hearing/Aids. king
$199
Dan
HT: 362 days

Cincinnati/Mattress/ . King
$199
Epik
HT:11 months

Sales have been really slow this year fam! As always we give thanks, Alhamdulilahi

In the words of Yogi Solanky, money is in the follow up.

Congrats, bro. These are interesting sales! Wish you more.

Could people who have sold Geo names for $500 and above please give me (us) a hint of how they set the original BIN? What influenced how you decided to set those prices?

Please help my ministry. These low prices don't seem to be making any difference.

It is interesting I still heard Mr Kelly's voice as recent as a month or two ago on a radio station in Lagos. He was apologising somewhat and asking people affected to get in touch that their operations have resumed.

I just noticed some Blue Sea Estates by one Matrix Homes. I wonder if there has been a name change.

crudedude:
think it's the latter

Thanks, sire. Do you just think the previous registration dates would be maintained or you're sure, please?

cdor777:
Sale Report
DentalImplantNetwork /// com
Inbound Sale via Afternic
Reg fee + 1 renewal

Congrats, bro!
One day I go get this kain sale in Jesus's name. Amen!

People, are backordered domains treated as fresh registrations or do they maintain previous registration dates?

UrVillagePpl:
Honestly the chances of selling a GEO for that price is pretty low. Only in rare occasions GEO sell for that price...
But it has paid off VERY few times for me

Nice.

UrVillagePpl:
Well, after the first outbound, I think I sent like 3 to 4 follow-ups... Within the space of 7-10 weeks or there about

It was really a long drought..

I usually make my first outbound price pretty high(600-750)
so it gives me more room for price reduction in the subsequent follow-ups

Ok, thanks.

On the bold, I briefly experimented with the same strategy once, but it didn't pay off. I think I may still try it again based on your tip.

UrVillagePpl:
Let me drop something here.

I feel like, drought season is almost inevitable in this domain hustle.
It's part of the game.

This is what I have been doing and so far it's being pretty productive.

N.B
I make use of email tracker to ascertain the number of times an end-user opened my mails. (Mailtrack.io)


After a series of outbounds and follow-ups, I then check to see how many times an end-user opened it.
For those once that opened it just once or twice, I ignore.
But others (3times and above)
I send them this


We're assuming you're interested but not okay with the former price. For the next 48hours,
We'll be accepting $**(this time your price is lesser than the recent one).
We await your response


Or you can as well use this.



What's stopping you?
Is it the price
What's your offer??
Let us know

I have made use of both and I recently registered 2 sales almost at once.

You can as well give it a try...
More sales to us
Good luck

Thanks, bro. This is quite helpful! More sales.

But could you tell how far apart from your first outbound emails that you sent such follow-ups?

fergusen:
A Funny Story

Let me just drop this sales report because of the story behind it.

So I gave a scrapper 4 domains to get end users for me. He came back and asked me to replace one of those domains because the tool he was using for the scrapping can't work for that particular domain's country.

I replaced it with the domain in the screenshot below. A geo I bought in 2019 (renewed 2020). Did several outbounds but didn't sell.

He sent the Enduser list for that particular domain, and the number of Endusers was less than 20 (after removing duplicates and all that).

I outbounded to more Endusers last year than the small list he was giving me. I even used FAX for outboud!

Anyway, because the list was small, I started with that.

And it sold that same day!

Maybe luck, providence, Grace, hardwork, whatever...

But the domain was quite good sha.
I even reduced the price to $199 at some point as I wanted to get rid of it.

Other info: Sold via the new GoDaddy ns5/ns6 Landers.

Screenshot below �

Congrats on this sale, bro. More sales.

It crossed my mind to ask: how did you or at what point did you go from $199 to $500? I'm trying to see if there's a tip I can use.

ElonMosque:
Try working on just names that endusers have shown some interest in, but with new leads. Try that slimjosh source of leads. @freshpresh92

Thanks, brova. You're one of those that skipped my mind to mention.