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FUTURE TREND DOMAIN-SELLING STRATEGIES – The New Media Domains

Hi Gang,

For everyone submitting FT domains for the Future Trend Domain Auction™, please remember this auction is not only about 3D/HOLO domains. The auction also covers energy, cellphone, lifestyle, and other new technologies you believe might become popular trends “in the future,” near or far.

Additionally, the Future Trend Domain Auction™  is not meant for any FT domain investor looking for a “killing” right away on the sale of their domains. Unless you own a one word lockdown premium .com, you’re probably not going to sell a domain and retire next door to some sanctimonious Florida chest-beater.  It’s a new frontier, and we’re testing the interest, not only within the domaining industry (as a strategic OOTB and even low-priced aftermarket purchase for future upward value), but also in the New Media marketing sector, outside the domain industry.

That latter part is extremely hard, as every domain auction company has discovered. Significant education is needed for the players in the New Media marketing sector, and all of us involved in promoting future trend domains need to give more information outside our circle other than a quick offhand comment on domain blogs. We need to push into New Media marketing forums, tech marketing news sites, and new tech company providing prodservs that advertisers turn to in order to get that “sudden burst”of marketing advantage ahead of their competitors online. For those of you really wanting to see a massive change in corporate buyers attitudes towards these domains, would you invest $200 for a PRwire announcing the sale of your domains, also promoting the genre of your domains?

Sure, you can leave it all up to SuccessClick and Moniker to try to reach all the potential buyers, and you’d think Moniker would do all that for their 15% commission. Your domains are so great, they’re lucky they have them to sell, right?

Wrong. Domains, good and bad, still need massive promotion.

We’re now at this crossroad where a common interest, ultimately augmented by thousands of comments on blog articles, can seriously galvanize a large group of domainers to work more at pushing their domains and their genre to potential buyers, instead of posting quick comments on blogs stating how lucky they are to have “nabbed” a certain domain. Think your domains are valuable and the next “big thing”? Then prove it. Get involved with the Future Trend Domain Auction™ by signing up on every marketing website and making your sales pitch. Over 150 people have submitted domains in this auction.  Imagine that amount of feedback daily flooding the comment section of top marketing websites for the next 30 days.  Imagine.

This means everyone who is informed that one or more of their domains are accepted into the Future Trend Domain Auction™ will be required to put a bit of their gray muscle to work in order to educate the market and participate in this auction. We aren’t just “throwing domains into the wind” and hoping they do a Forrest Gump feather-float while pretty music is playing in the background.  It means, everyone who has been posting on Successclick and our friend Michael “Embee” Berkens’ award-winning blog article at http://www.thedomains.com regarding their wonderful domain finds, can instead push this information outward - cool future trend news, questions, answers, commentary and more — direct all your energy now to describing YOUR domains that have been accepted into the Future Trend Domain Auction™ to every relevant marketing and news location online.

There will be more articles forthcoming here, but before I end this one – a revealing tip for selling your FT domains:

1) Don’t price your reserves at mid to high five figures, or anywhere in the six figures, YET.  So submit domains you’d like to see pay off nicely with a good profit because you sold the domain at a very low reserve. If you want to make a FT domain pay off BEFORE the FUTURE, you’ll have to settle for much less than it will be worth five years from now. If that doesn’t make you feel good, then do NOT put those domains in the auction.

2) Continuing the “reserve price” strategy, I’ve seen how both the Successclick team and the SnapMon team selecting AMAZING FT domains with NO RESERVES. The domainers submitting domains as “sacrifice” investments by selecting “no reserve” are putting up their domains to see how the market reacts. It could bite them in the butt, but on the other hand, a domain bought at $10 could be offered for “no reserve”, and bring in $10,000.  Or $250.

Either way, lower reserves in this auction…

1) defines the direction of value for the domain name subject matter
2) reveals the overlying new strategy of buying FT domains on an educated gamble that the domain will be a major winner.
3) exposeswho your demographic is by the bids and purchases of the domains’ relevance to prodservs. You can find this out even with purchases by other domainers (who obviously did their homework).

So look at this first Future Trend Domain Auction™ as a “loss/leader” kind of auction, where you price out some great domains very low, and then watch the buyers and their money.

In other words, if you don’t think you can come up with another fantastic FT domain, then do NOT put your domains in this auction. Wait it out. However, if you feel this is your genre, and it excites you to do research on discovering new prodservs that “may” emerge as “FUTURE TRENDS”… then throw some of your domains, like chum, into the “Auction Sea” and watch which “fish” come in to swallow them up. Bingo… you’ve identified the buying pattern, at least for now!

The Future Trend Domain Auction™ is not for the faint of heart, it’s for winners.

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