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More Lead Generation in 2012

One of my major plans for 2012 is going to be to add a new type of monetization to my network of sites.  I have currently use adsense, various affiliate programs from sites like CJ.com and ShareASale.com, direct ad deals, and now I want to add more lead generation. I began to look for names that I thought would make solid lead sites last year, but I could never find the right programs. I just settled for adsense and affiliate programs on the sites and they still made money, but I always knew they could make more. I have found that lead programs on average pay out much more that simple adsense.

For my construction and service names I found a program which I am in the process of implementing on a few of my sites. On my rental names I found a private program that I added three days ago and from the early results it looks like it is going to take one name and double the income daily.

If you have a name in a certain space do what I did and search "the name buying leads" on Google and you will find sites that buy and sell leads in your market. Many of the sites only talk about selling leads to businesses, so just send them an email asking if they would like to buy leads and many of them will love to have more leads to sell.

Adding lead gen forms also does not mean you necessarily need to remove adsense and other offers.  On some sites you will be able to keep earning money from adsense while also earning from leads. You might want to test and see which one is going to make the most money per visitor for you. There are a few wordpress plugins that let you easily AB test themes. The more I read about lead generation the more I see it is so much about tweaking and testing every little thing.

My last adventure with leads is going to be to try and sell them directly. I have a local Florida domain name FloridaTunaFishing.com which should be easy to rank well for. Then after I collect the leads I am going to try and sell them to local fishing guides. I know at first I might have to give a few away, but I think that with some hard work the site could really take off and expand into a whole network.

A Great Holiday Season With Product Domains and Amazon Associates

For product domain owners like myself the holiday season is always a little extra special. With millions of people online searching for gifts I always see traffic and advertising revenue increase. With many of my outdoor's related domain this is always a nice boost in revenue during the winter months which are normally slower for the seasonal names.

I do not have too many names developed with the Amazon Associates affiliate program, most of mine are on eBay's EPN network but the few that I do always shine during the holidays. The reason is that with amazon's program when someone clicks on your link you get credit for whatever they buy for the next 24 hours. Normally the 24 hours is considered to be too short compared to other affiliate programs. With so many people shopping on amazon for holiday gifts it really works well. It is always fun to look and see what shows up on your commission reports that have nothing to do with your websites content. This year some of my favorites were;

HTC Droid

Book Titled Do It Yourself Hedge Funds

Caramel Cappuccino K-Cups

Bop It Extreme (Did not know they still sell these)

Z7 Women's Serenity Flat

I own no websites that have anything to do these products, but I still got credit for helping amazon sell them! In a more general note about product names I also saw earnings up on my product names monetized with adsense and epn. Even on my parked product names I saw a little more traffic.

If you have undeveloped product domains, my advice would be to start build them out now. This way you will be in perfect position by the time the season of giving rolls around next year.

What I Wish I Did in 2011

2011 was a great year for me, I have almost no complaints. I'm 19 years old and am enjoying every second of life. That being said there are always things that when we look back we wish we would have done so I am going to run through some of mine that relate to domain names for this last year.

1. Updated my Sites More

With college and running I neglected to keep adding articles and links which hurt my revenue. My sites survived but now instead of just doing a little work on a few sites over break I am going through each one and fixing them back up so that 2012 starts off great. Not updating some sites in 2011 cost me.

2. Stayed on top of the Drops. 

For a while I was able to keep looking at drops every night, but when choosing between looking at dropping domain names and college parties, I hope everyone would make the same choice I did and go out. Now with some new tools I am trying out I plan to get back into the action.

3. Dropped More Domains

While I think auto renew is a great way to make sure you do not ever forget a good name, some of the names I picked up in my middle school days domaining are frankly awful. I need to drop them but again things got in the way like homework and exams so I kept seeing emails from godaddy about charger to my credit card to renew worthless domains. The money could have been much better spent.

4. Add a For Sale Link to my Parked Names

This Year I finally moved all of my domain to a parking provider (DomainPower) before most of them were doing nothing. My names do not get much traffic, but they make a few bucks each month. The biggest thing I was able to do was add a banner on the top that says this domain is for sale. This increased sales and offers and led to my best month of the year in November. Make it easy for the buyers to contact you!

5.  Stay More Connected via Blog and Social Media

I really enjoy the domain community and by not blogging or checking into social media sites I felt out of the loop. I would check on Domaining.com every now and then but I was not as involved as I had been in the past. I missed the interaction and the fun that every day brings. So in 2012 I look to do more and carry on more conversations.

What did you not do in 2012 that you are going to do this year?

Holiday Updates

It is amazing to me that 2011 is already coming to an end. I have not blogged much in the last few months because of something called college which took up most of my time, but I just wanted to update some of my readers with what I have been working on. Just because I have not been blogging does not mean that I have not been buying, selling, and building out domain names!

In November I had two great flips on names that I purchased for low $xx and sold for over $1500 combined. This is what makes domaining great. I will share more details on this flip later.

I'm going to avoid the term "minisites" but my small websites have been doing great. During college they passively support me, I neglected them and missed updating a few which is what I will be spending my break working on. I am also building a few more out. I also plan on moving some of my larger sites to a new host.

WordPress Security is something that you need to stay on top of. Make sure you keep everything updated!

End Users - I stopped emailing and calling end users  earlier this year because of time, but I have picked up some names that scream out to end users. Morgan has given me the motivation to pick up the phone again!

My joke site about Kim Jong Un is still going strong and just hit over 3,000 likes on facebook!

Last of all college is amazing! It's nice to be home, but my first semester at school could not have been better! Running, friends, academics its all too good in Atlanta at Emory.

I am working on getting one more nice sale in before the year ends, fingers crossed

I hope all of your Holidays were great enjoy the rest of the year, but just letting you know there are some nice names dropping...

Now is a Great Time to Develop That Site

As the year comes to an end now is a great time to build out that site you have been planning on all year. Many people are off of work (or school in my case) and have a little extra time after the holiday parties and family members leave to sit down a get it done.

For me the hardest part about building out a site is sitting down to do it. Once I start building its easy and fun to develop sites. We all have that one name or those names we bought with the plan of building out and just never got around to it.

Take a name with potential add it to your hosting account and install wordpress and let it go. You never know what can happen, the name that I bought for $12 at a TDNAM turned in to a site that makes hundreds of dollars a month.

My goal before New Years is to build myself 5 new sites. I picked up a few names during the madness that is the freshman year of college and I just never had time to build them out until now. I have already finished half of the first site and a third of the second so I am on my way. They are not going to start as big sites, I make all of my sites small at first and then I see which ones do well and then add more content and time into those.

Then the rest of the sites I think I am going to build out are PatioMister.com, PostContructionCleaning.com, FloridaTunaFishing.com and NtpeExam.com and depending on time possibly more after the new years because I am off for a few more days.

Some people have said all year minisites are dead, but while I was in college I did almost no updating on mine and they were still able to provide me with a steady passive income week after week.

Happy Holidays!

 

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