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Identify a Strategy Before You Buy Your Domain

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With affordable pricing and innumerable options, it can be easy to want to buy every new .TLD out there. But do you know what you will do with them? Having a plan for your domain is important, because it allows your to get the best value and ensure a return on your domains, whether that’s traffic and a thriving online business, or a great sale price for your domain. Read on for tips on developing the best strategy to use to buy your domain.

How Popular is the Domain

When you’re looking to buy a domain, do research into the popularity of that domain. As new TLDs become available, some are gaining more interest than others. Like many things in life, the more popular a domain is the more likely you will be able to sell it in the future or increase the value of it. TLDs can be fun and unique but if you’re interested in getting value or selling in the future, research which are the most popular new TLDs. Industry, length of TLD and marketing will affect how popular a new GTLD is. Do your research before buying.

What is Your Sale Price

If you’re buying TLDs to sell down the line, you should have a sale price in mind. This sale price is what you would accept for your domain. This will help you understand what if a good value for you for a domain. What is the right price for someone else, may not be what is right for you. Is your sale price way above the current cost of the domain now? Understand that you may have to hold on to the domain for a period of time before you can earn that price. Is your sale price close to what you’re paying for it today? You can expect to get that sale price soon with the right marketing moves.

Who Would Use the Domain

A domain that is important to you, may not be important to someone else. Consider the market for the domain you’re buying. if you want to eventually sell your domain, versatility is your friend. Consider more generic domain names that refer to industries rather than to proper names. Ask people in your industry what type of domain name they would be interested in, this will give you an idea of the market for the domain you just purchased if you decide to sell.

How Long Will You Own the Domain

Knowing when you want to sell a domain is an important factor to consider before purchasing. If you want to sell your domain right away, why are you buying it? The longer you are able to hold onto a domain, the more likely you will get the sale price you want for it when you do decide to sell. A domain is an investment and if you can let your investment mature or wait until others are interested, you stand to have a much better financial return.

With the low cost of TLDs it’s easy to want to buy them all. You can buy as many domains as you want, just consider how you will use them before your buy. Smart domain buying is better for your business and ensure better returns in the future.

 

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An Introduction to Affiliate Marketing with DCC

Introduction to Affiliate Marketing

 

As a member of Domain Cost Club, you can take part in the affiliate program offered by the club. Are you new to affiliate marketing or unsure what it is?

Affiliate marketing is a marketing program where members, like DCC members, are rewarded for each referral who becomes a member. Affiliate marketing makes sense for many people because it’s a way to get paid for something you already do. When you like a product or service, you tell your friends, right? With affiliate marketing you get rewarded for those friends, or referrals, who decide to use that recommended product or service. Want to know how the affiliate program works for DCC? Below is our introduction to affiliate marketing for complete beginners and affiliate veterans who are simply new to DCC!

Referrals

As we said above, referrals are those people that you recommend DCC to, who then become members. To be counted as a referral, these people must sign up for a new membership. So how do you get credit for a referral? When you sign up with DCC, DCC will generate a page just like www.domaincostclub.com except it is your referal page. When you link to your referral page, people can sign up for the same DCC products you did, but now give you credit for the sign up.

Your Network

As you refer more people to DCC and they refer people, this begins to build your network. With affiliate marketing, you earn referral income from people you’ve directly referred as well as people they have referred. To imagine how this works, think of how people are connected to a network, you know someone directly, and they know someone, who knows two people, who knows more people. You’re not directly connected to those people that are on the far edge of your network, but you are connected through your own connections. How does this apply to earning commissions with DCC? It simply means that DCC rewards you for the people you share DCC with and then keeps rewarding you as the network of people you have referred continues to build out, even when you’re not directly referring anyone.

Matrix

The word matrix may sound a little overwhelming, but it’s actually a simple complex that helps to explain how your network makes you money.  A matrix is a way to organize those referrals we talked about so that everyone earns the most money possible. DCC uses a 4 x 7  matrix, with 7 being the number of levels in the network.  That means you will receive a commission for your referrals, their referrals, and theirs all the way down through 7 levels. These levels of people are often referred to as your downline.

So where does the 4 come in? Everyone’s first level is made up of 4 people, once you hit that 4, the next person spills down onto the next level, building your downline. The best part of spillover is that this means people will spill onto your downline as the person who referred you fills up their first line. That’s even more referral income, this time coming from the person who referred you!

Payouts

Payouts are the monthly or semimonthly way DCC gets you the commissions you earned off of your referrals and network. If you’re a club member, you can have your commissions paid out monthly. As a Lifetime Charter Member, your commissions can get paid more frequently at a semi-monthly plan.

Bonuses

On top of your commissions, you also have the chance to earn bonuses. For each person you refer, you not only earn commision but you earn a one time referral bounty. Learn about current bonuses here: https://www.domaincostclub.com/affiliates.dhtml

Affiliate marketing is an easy way to earn extra income for something you’re already doing. Decide if you want to be an affiliate and begin building extra income right away.

 

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Time Management Tips for Working from Home

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Working from home is an amazing opportunity, but it can come with some obstacles. It’s not always easy to find time to work when you don’t keep normal hours, and sometimes your home is just too relaxing to do want to get any work done. We’ve got a few tips for working from home that will help you manage your time and make the most of the freedom.

Identify Your Most Productive Times

Now that you set your schedule, it’s time to find out what works best for you. Are you a morning person or a night owl? What does your day look like before you add work? Where can you fit in a few hours to get down to building your business? These are great questions to ask yourself. Working from home can mean working completely independently, or working with other people’s schedules. Identify the time that works best for you to get work done each day and stick with it while being mindful of anyone you do business with. Late night hours might be great for you, but if you’ve got to make phone calls to customers and clients, this wont work for them.

Share Your Schedule

Now that you’ve identified your schedule, share it. Many people who work from home have families to take care of and relationships to be considerate of. It’s up to you to let these people know your work from home schedule so they can respect it. This allows you for more uninterrupted time as people will know to leave you to your work during your set times. It’s also a good idea to share your schedule with any clients or customers you work with regularly. This way customers can know when to contact you and you can be sure that your personal time will stay just that.

Leave Your House

If you’ve worked from home before, you know that sometimes there’s just no getting work done in your house. Whether is distractions or your attitude, sometimes the best way to be productive is to get out of the house and into a new environment. Find a coffee shop that you like that isn’t too busy when you need to get work done. Many restaurants also offer free wifi, or better yet, check out the local public library. Most offer wifi with easy access and you’re almost always guaranteed a quiet spot to get work done.

Give 100%

As we talked about above, many people work from home to better accommodate family and relationships, which is a great idea. However, it’s important to dedicate your full attention to one thing at a time. When it’s time to get your work done, make sure it has all of your focus–no running loads of laundry or chatting with your kids when it’s time to do work. This ensures your get your work done and that you have the time to give your all to your family when your work day is done.

Working from home is a great opportunity, but also comes with lots of responsibility. Learn how to better manage your time and watch your business flourish.

 

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Domain Cost Club Affiliate Benefits, Simply

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Domain Cost Club is a wholesale domain purchasing service. It works just like places like Costco and Sam’s Club. You pay a membership fee for access to wholesale–which often means heavily discounted–prices. This is probably the best benefit of DCC, but there’s also many others. Think of how half the fun of going to Costco is the friendly staff and free samples. DCC may not have free samples of cake to share with its members, but the other benefits are pretty good. Read on to learn more about the Domain Cost Club affiliate benefits.

Access

With DCC you get easy access to many gTLDs in one place. There’s no need to hunt down the registrar specific to each to gTLD, you can buy many different gTLDs through DCC all at once. Just browse through the domain extensions offered, type in what you want and add it your cart. Add the next gTLD and you’re ready to check out.

Commissions

As DCC is a membership club, we want to reward you for your loyalty. With each new member you refer to DCC, you’ll earn what we call a bounty. These bounties range from $20 to $200 dollars. So be sure to send interested friends to your direct referral page to learn more about becoming a member with DCC.

Network Building

We invite members to take extra advantage of the DCC membership by building their own network of fellow members. This way you can create a sort of waterfall effect with all the new members that you refer to DCC. You will not only receive commissions for your direct referrals, but also for their referrals and so on through seven levels. A bonus of this is that you can earn commissions each time one of your referrals renews. Sharing DCC and creating members for life continues to pay off for you and your referrals.

Priority Notifications

gTLDs are exciting in that there’s always new ones becoming available for purchase. Do you want to know in advance when the next new gTLD is coming out? That’s just one of the examples of priority notifications DCC offers its members. As a member you’ll also be the first to know about pricing specials, bonuses, and new offerings. This gives you the chances to build your domain portfolio at the price while taking advantage of fun bonuses and new commissions along the way. This feature is available with charter membership.

House Spillover

Not everyone interested in DCC finds out about it through a friend of referral. Some people find out about DCC through search engines, other websites, or word of mouth. Those potential new members don’t have someone to show them the benefits of DCC–as a member you can get the chance to do this. Any interested parties, or spillover, are shared among members, giving you the chance to make a new contact and earn some commissions at the same time. This feature is available with charter membership.

Lifetime Charter Member

For a limited time, DCC offers lifetime charter membership. At the one time payment of $499, your pricing for life costs the same as it would if you paid for just 5 years. Aside from this huge discount, charter members can get semi-monthly commission payouts and giftable memberships.

 

DCC has many benefits for members. Which one works best for you? Learn more about DCC here and get started today.

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Social Media

How to Use Twitter for Your Business

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You may be wondering how to use Twitter for your business to actually see some measurable ROI. Well, Twitter is a great tool for business, but how you use it personally and how you use it for business should differ. Read on for the best ways to drive traffic and business using Twitter.

Your Profile

Like profiles for many online sites, think keywords. With just 160 characters, slightly longer than a tweet, your profile should be a place for keywords about your business, not your whole mission statement. What industry are you in? What do you specialize in? Include this information in your short profile to ensure your profile comes up in searches. There’s no need to include hashtags in your profile (though many people do) Twitter will identify the keywords in your profile, hashtag or not. Also important for keyword searches is your Twitter handle. Your handle is simply your username on Twitter. Twitter looks for keywords in usernames as well, so your username has an impact on who finds you or doesn’t.

Who You Follow

Follow people related to your business for two reasons. Reason number one, people may often click to see who you follow to learn more about you. If you follow a ton of random handles, it may be hard for people to figure out what you’re allow about. So follow a curated list of people related to your business. This curated list is reason number two why people you follow is important. Twitter is great in that easily allows you to share content from others in the form of a retweet. In a business account, you want what you share to be relevant your business So if you’re following the right curated list, you’ll see tweets related to your business and allow for a simple retweet related to your industry, no extra searching required.

What You Share

Separating personal views and business ideas on Twitter can be difficult. Unlike Facebook where you can use your personal profile to manage a professional page, Twitter doesn’t have that option. So be careful what you share. Consider having a personal Twitter and a business Twitter. Keep opinions and thoughts on your personal  account and news, links and relevant information on your business account.

Looking the Part

Have a logo? You should! Your logo is a great choice for a Twitter profile photo, this lets people know more about your business and shows you off as a legitimate business. If you don’t have a logo, consider a photo of yourself and share your role with the business in your profile so people can easily connect you and the business when they visit your profile. As for cover photos, use something relevant to your business and make sure it isn’t blurry. Twitter prefers large, high resolution photos for cover photos, so find one that fits and check it before saving.

Getting Statistics

Twitter offers two ways to get analytics. Want to know how  tweet is performing? Simply click on the graph icon below it to see impressions and engagement on the tweet. To see how your account is doing over time and learn more about your followers, visit analytics.Twitter.com.

 

 

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4 Habits of Successful Marketers

Habits of Successful Marketers

 

If you’re trying to connect with many potential customers at once, you’re participating in a form of marketing. There’s no need to get overwhelmed by the word “marketing” or “marketer,” it’s actually a part of business that comes naturally to most people. Getting the word out about your business is marketing. But of course, not all marketing is successful. Below are four habits of successful marketers which will help you take the next step from getting the word out about your business to actually marketing your business successfully.

They Understand Their Audience

Top marketers understand their audience and who they are. Who is your audience? Your audience is anyone you’re trying to promote your business or services to. It may be easy to say you’re trying to promote to anyone and everyone because you want you business to grow, but this type of unfocused promotion is not helpful. Really think about who would benefit most from your business and services and who would be most likely to buy in. This is your audience. Now that you know your audience, it’s much easier to promote to them. Tailor your message to these people, craft your brand in a way that would appeal to most to them, ask them how they feel about your product. Your understanding of your audience helps guide your marketing and your business.

They Speak Simply

Much of marketing is communications. It’s emails, newsletters, the text on your website. With all these words floating around promoting your business, it’s important to keep them simple. Explain your business simply, do not try to build it up or mislead your customers. Keep your sentences short and to the point. Top marketers don’t use flowery languages to try to get you to buy their product, they get to the point of what they have to offer and let the customer decide. Try to do the same with your business.

They Get to the Point

Slightly different than speaking simply is getting to the point. Why are you sending an email, sharing a Facebook post of writing a blog update? Share the point of this new information with your audience right away. Are you launching a new product, have a new team member or slashing prices? Get to the point of the information you’re sharing in the first sentence if possible. This way customers don’t get lost in meandering paragraph of text only to miss the point of your piece.

They Respect Your Time

Top marketers respect your time–they know everyone is busy. These marketers share only what is relevant and what will be helpful for you. Their emails are short, their updates share key points and they respect that you have a job to do too. This is especially true if you’re an affiliate marketer. Chances are that most of the people you’re working with have very busy schedules and just do marketing on the side, try to respect their time by keep updates quick, and to the point and allowing them the freedom to do work when best fits their schedule.

Successful marketers usually have a natural inkling, but most skills are learned and practiced. Try simplifying your approach and just working on the four skills above. As you get more comfortable, try out new tactics!

 

 

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Which Social Media Sites Should You Be Marketing On?

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Social media is great for marketing your business or building your network. But with so many options, it’s hard to know which site you should be utilizing for your marketing efforts. Different social sites speak to different audiences, in different ways, and what works for one social media site may not work for another.  

So, which social media sites should YOU be marketing on? We break them down for you below.

Facebook

Facebook was originally a friendship based networking site. When Facebook was launched over 10 years ago, it was service to connect college students. Now it’s open to anyone in the world and has over 1 billion users. While Facebook is still friendship based, it is increasingly business friendly. One big reason to be on Facebook is the sheer number of users. Most people you know or want to connect with are already on Facebook. While promoting your business on Facebook can sometimes be tricky (people can easily hide what they don’t want to see) the sheer number of people on the network make it a smart choice to do some marketing.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn was built for business, advancing in your career, and making business connections. Because of these reasons, it makes sense for you to market and build your network on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a fast growing social media network, but still has far fewer users than Facebook. Also users do not log in to LinkedIn or access their page as frequently as they visit Facebook. Use LinkedIn to build a strong network, but know your marketing may not be seen by as many people as content on Facebook will be.

Twitter

Twitter has nearly 300 million monthly users and the best part is that you don’t have to be friends with them or have an established connection for them to see your marketing content. Thanks to the 140 character limit and a fast moving feed, Twitter takes minimal time investment. Twitter is a great place to market your business and test strategies. One tip: Do research into the right hashtags to make sure your content is seen by the most people.

Instagram

If your business is photo-friendly, Instagram is a great choice. This increasingly popular network relies on hashtags just like Twitter in order for users to find content. Photo-friendly businesses like hair salons, doggie daycare, or travel services thrive on Instagram. If your company isn’t photo-friendly try to get creative in your use of Instagram. Motivational quotes over a fun background are often popular on Instagram and can relate to many business areas. Think of ways they can apply to you.

Google+

You may have heard that Google+ is dead, and that may be partially true. But thanks to the popularity and dominance of the Google search engine, it’s still important for your business to be on Google+. To market on Google+, make sure your page has all the important business information like address, hours, and even some photos. Direct your customers to leave reviews on Google+ as well. This way, when someone searches for your business or a business service like yours, your results will be favored by Google and appear higher up on the search results.

 

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How to Follow up with Leads After the Business Card Exchange

How to Follow up with leads

 

So you’ve gone to a networking event and connected with a few people. Good job! But what do you do next? Read on to find out how to follow up with leads and the dos and don’ts of maintaining and building connections after that first exchange.

Don’t immediately ask for a favor.

Networking is important because often those connections you make can be a benefit to you at some point. However, theses connections are in fact relationships and require a two way effort to thrive. That means you don’t just make a connection to get something, you need to give a little too. Asking for a favor or what your new connection can do for you right away is a bad choice and can result in you fracturing your new relationship.

Do check in.

After your first meeting, consider sending a short note or email to your new connection and mention how great it was to meet them as well as some of the things you talked about. Ask your connection about their business and how things are going for them. This reminds your connection of who you are and lets them know that you’re not just looking for a favor.

Don’t ask first.

So you’ve sent your note and heard back from your connection, is it OK to ask for a favor now? If you can hold off asking for something do so. See how you can help your connection first. Try to reach out to your connection several times and develop the relationship before you ask for something. Better yet, build your connection before you need something, that way you build meaningful relationships and when you do need a favor you’ll feel more comfortable asking and your connection will be more likely to assist you.

Do ask what you can do.

It’s never too early to ask what you can do for a new connection or offer ways to help them. As you reach out regularly offer your connection some sort of help. This can be as simple as a link to a news article you found helpful or letting them know of some new opportunities in their field. The more you help your connection, the more likely they will help you.

Don’t look for better connections.

Networking is called so because you are building a network of people, not a connection with just one. With some networking, the person who can help you most in your business may not be your new connection, but one of their connections. Don’t make the mistake of asking a new connection for an introduction right away. This may make your new connection feel uncomfortable and be difficult for them as they don’t know you well just yet.

Do expand connections in a logical way.

As you establish relationships with your new connection, the introductions will come. As you get to know people in your network, they may think to themselves that they know someone who might be good for you to meet. Let connections develop and work on them and you will see be given the chance to expand your network even more.

 

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5 Email Marketing Content Ideas for Domains

Email Marketing Content Ideas

 

Email marketing is a great way to connect with your customers and potential customers. Done right, email marketing can be cost effective and reach the right people. Email marketing is also a great tool for the domain world. By communicating with your customers and potential customers through email, you’ve already got one piece of the puzzle figured out–your potential clients are already online and connected. Below we share some tips for email marketing for the domain world, but before you read on, remember the double opt-in requirement for sending marketing emails. People you send this type of email to must agree to receive them using a double opt-in system. This means they submit their email address first to receive them, and then using a confirmation link or manually responding to an email you send, they confirm that they do, in fact, want to receive emails. Not adhering to these rules can get your emails quickly marked as spam, and make your email marketing campaign a waste of time.

An important part of any marketing campaign is good content. But what makes good content for the domain world? Read on for some email marketing content ideas for domains.

News

DCC offers many new gTLDs. These gTLDs are released at different times and often have special pricing associated with their release. Use your emails to tell people about these new releases, as well as what domains will be released soon. DCC offers news of these releases and a quick internet search can give you an idea of more domains that will be available for purchase soon.

Pricing

A big question any one has before buying  a product, and in this case a domain, is, how much does it cost? Your first inkling may be to hold back pricing information on the domains in your portfolio until a customer becomes serious, but this can turn people off. DCC offers up-front at-cost pricing on there website, which drives interest and lets people know more about the industry they may be joining. Consider taking this same approach with your emails. Highlight the prices of your domains or those offered through DCC, including specials, inexpensive domains, and popular domains.

Ideas

gTLDs give you a lot of room for branding and creative use. Get people interested in fun gTLDs by offering them ideas on how to use them. Even better, tailor your email information on domains based on what you know about people. Know an accountant? Email them about the pricing of .accountant. Know someone in digital marketing? Why not tell them about .digital or .social? Share ideas to get others interested.

Your Experience

How did you get into domain sales? What have you learned along the way? Take the time to tell others about your experience and tricks of the trade. This makes domaining seems less intimidating and lets others know that you’re available for support.

Encouragement

Every now and then, consider sending a note to encourage others in their business or domain sales. These emails can be a simple as a powerful quote, or a note from you, sharing your recent successes and how others can achieve the same.

 

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5 Added Benefits of Being an Affiliate for Domain Cost Club

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Domain Cost Club offers great at-cost pricing for Top Level Domains (TLDs) including classics, like .com, country code TLDs (ccTLDs) and new generic TLDs (gTLDs). All DCC members get to take advantage of this at-cost pricing along with at-cost renewals, replicated sites, and the ability to easily invite your friends to learn more, among other included services. Beyond these personal benefits of being a member, here are a few more benefits of being an affiliate for DCC that you and all other members and “domainers” will get.

1. News of TLD Releases

gTLDs have been gradually released by ICANN, the governing body of the domain industry, since 2008. New are still being released and are released at different set dates. Often times, these new TLDs have special pricing associated with their release. With so many new TLDs being released, it can be hard to keep track of what to wait for next unless you have a reliable news source. Look no further than DCC for your news of TLD releases. Simply navigate to https://www.domaincostclub.com/tlds.dhtml to see what domains are avaialble and what is coming up next, as well as pricing. Anyone has access to this page, so if you know someone interested in getting started with exciting new TLDs, this is a powerful page to share.

2. Domain Transfers

Even if you weren’t lucky enough to originally purchase your domain through DCC, you can still transfer it to DCC for no additional cost. DCC offers all members at-cost transfers with no markup on renewals, unlike other registrars. When it’s time to renew, take advantage of DCC pricing, or get started with an entirely new domain for a great price.

3. Bounties

If someone you tell about DCC decides to become a member, you get what DCC calls a bounty, also known as a commission. Bounties are one-time commissions that reward you each time someone you know signs up to become a member with DCC. Bounties reward you for sharing your smart choice to join DCC with others.

4. Lifetime Membership

Those interested in signing on to be a DCC member can choose from two membership options, the annual Club Membership for $99 per year or the Lifetime Charter Membership for a one-time payment of $499, no need to ever renew again. Both memberships allow you to enjoy at-cost pricing and earn commissions, but anyone seriously interested in buying a selling domains benefits most from the Lifetime Charter Membership. The Charter Membership makes sense if you’re interested in investing seriously in domains, or if you want increased benefits from your membership like semi-monthly bounty payouts and giftable memberships. Charter members also enjoy other unique benefits and will continue to do so for the length of their membership (which is a lifetime!)

5. Wide Opportunity

DCC’s wide selection of TLDs means huge opportunity and flexibility. Try purchasing bundles of cheaper domains or invest in higher market priced domains. The range of pricing and branding options available with DCC’s TLDs provide a wide opportunity for you to invest and have fun!

 

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