Thanks To The Castello Brothers For A Great Weekend in LA

I wanted to type a quick public thank you to David and Michael Castello who showed me a great weekend in LA this past weekend. Between great sushi at SushiRoku, cigars at the Buena Vista Cigar Club in Beverly Hills, or great wine and food at Si Laa Thai, they made sure that my time there was great. For my readers that are from...

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ScienceFiction.com Launches and a Few Other Things

Merry Christmas to my readers and friends, sitting here on Christmas Eve while my kiddos play with all of their new toys (and my daughter takes over my new iPad) I thought I would post a few thoughts from events this past week. First off congrats to my good friend and fellow blogger Patrick Ruddell for his launch of...

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You Just Lost Affiliate Revenue!

After spending the past few years working on various ways of monetizing product domain names through either Smartname.com ecomm sites, Adsense, or affiliate programs I decided it was time to try some larger dollar affiliate programs. The one issue with product domains is that it takes quite a bit of product being sold to add up to...

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Sometimes It Is Just For Fun Version 2

Last week Morgan from Domainvestors.tv and I did a coordinated post for FUN just being goofballs and taking 5 made up things you did not know about us and making a post from it. We knew the posts were not serious commentary but thought why not? Blogging does not always have to be serious opinion and news or indepth technical detail. We knew most people could care less but sometimes things are just for fun. Well, it seems a few people do not appreciate the fact that these are blogs and we are not pretending to always be the most serious of news sources. Other people do that great, this is a blog and at times the posts may be off topic or even just for fun or a laugh (DomainGang.com understands this and people with any sort of sense of humor should get this). If you expect serious posts day in and day out then I may disappoint at times, I do my fair share of serious posts but I also do not take myself so seriously that I cannot have some fun on this blog here and there. Loosen up people. I read comments on another site specifically pointing out the posts we did and also received one email pointing out the lack of relevance. I am sure that it must be really offensive to some people when others have a sense of humor and they do not, but most people I know like a little fun in their reading here and there. I am not Domain Gang but do think it is possible to have a serious blog mixed with fun. To those that do not appreciate a little looseness I say: Smile people, don't take yourself so seriously life is much more fun that way.

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Affiliate Convention Day One Closes With Great Keynote By Danny Sullivan

What a great day, met a ton of very interesting people and picked up some VERY interesting tips from some of the top affiliate marketing people on the web as well as SEO company leaders and experts. Got to meet the Thought Convergence team (caught Ammar Kubba at sign in by luck). Very small domainer showing at the conference but I would encourage anyone that is looking to build the monetization side of their business to attend one of these in the future. Even if you are an expert at traffic monetization you will find useful tips and the networking was great. A few notes before we head out for dinner, these are all comments and thoughts put out by leaders in the industry (all paraphrased and not exact quotes, it is my fault if something is lost in translation), much of this is info we know all ready but it is always good to repeat so we do not forget what is happening:

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