First Month I Have Not Bought A Domain Name For Investment
Well, the month is not over but I realized something, this is the first month in as long as I can remember that I have not bought one domain name for pure investment purposes. BUT, I have bought as many names as ever this month but mainly for development purposes.
I knew at some point this would happen, my focus on growing the business would cause a period of time to happen that switched my focus to pure development rather than investment. Now, that does not mean I am not still buying domain names for investment, just means this is the first time I have went a whole month without doing so.
That also means that I think my shift to quality over quantity purchasing is complete, I still have many names that I am letting drop as I clean out purchases from years ago to then the herd a bit.
The cause of this shift has been a surprisingly busy December. Everyone told me to expect December to be our worst month, that when selling to small businesses that December is the month to dread because in many cases you may be competing for dollars that could be going to Christmas presents for the owners' children.
We planned for this ahead of time and created packages that met our customers needs and may of helped us have one of our top months so far. Great!
This has obviously made me blog less in the past couple weeks, but for good reason, the focus has been on the business side, as much as I actually love to blog and build my domain investments at the same time it is good to focus my time on the larger business at hand.
Have a great weekend!
Bruce, as you are obviously aware, a good healthy business model is constantly evolving, and you are just more proof of that. Way to go man!
Any idea what’s been causing the major drop in traffic for Missouri.me last 2 months?
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/missouri.me/
July: 3,690 visits
August: 4,038 visits
September: 6,641 visits
October: 3,478 visits
November: 2,799 visits
@Jim – Thanks!!!
@Jacob – First off good try, but if you have not learned by now not to trust compete stats I am sorry. Admittedly some of the active marketing dropped for us in the winter months our traffic has not dropped during this time.
In fact just today I sat with a customer and went over specific city traffic, all I can say is compete and Alexa both do not show the real story, and the results we have had prove that.
I do not expect you to believe me because you obviously have an agenda but to be honest I do not really care.
What I can say is that I watch traffic very closely for ifones.com, Brucemarler.com, and missouri.me and my alexa shows the best for BruceMarler.com yet ifones.com and Missouri.me both get much higher traffic than this blog. Can I explain it, no, do I care, no.
Good try……
Bruce, there’s no agenda – it was a simple question. I don’t suppose you are going to share the traffic stats. As Rick Swartz says, the numbers don’t lie.
@Jacob – I use to agree with that statement, then I went from engineering to sales about 10 years ago and learned how to use even good data against my competitors
And knowing what the Compete data says compared to reality (and Alexa data for that matter) numbers do lie…..
So, even if we are happy with what the actual traffic is (which we are), even if we had 5 visitors a day we would be happy as long as they were the RIGHT 5 visitors for our customers to get the value they need. Now, obviously we have way more than 5 visitors, but what matters is that we have had results. And that happens by attracting the right visitors.
I really do not like to be sarcastic in my replies like I was in the first one, but as you can imagine I know that some people have no interest in seeing a .ME development be successful so, well, I tend to feel like most naysayers have an agenda.
It may not seem like it but actually negative comments typically give me the best chance to voice what I want. One of the posts I was contemplating doing was iFones.com compared to BruceMarler.com traffic compared to what Alexa and Compete are saying. You may be shocked to know how off the numbers can be. I know this blog actually is pretty much right inline on Alexa but in reality iFones.com does much better than this site but shows up worse in Alexa stats.
Thanks!
Alexa is a joke. Easily manipulated by having all your friends and employees download the Alexa toolbar.
Compete is a very gross approximation that give inaccurate results for sites below 10,000 uniques a month. I have sites that show going from 2,500 users a month to zero users the next month to 1,400 users the third month…..it is wrong.