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> Hi Boyd,
> I delved into my Don Alm file, and pulled
> out the following info. Hope that's what
> you're looking for :)
> God bless.
> Brent Whinfield

> 2 Ways To Make SERIOUS Money with Domain
> Names

> Posted by Don Alm on Fri, Apr 13, 2001, 2:44
> pm.

> Choose a Niche Market (Florists)
> Create a Domain Name for that market
> (AtlantaFlorists.com or AtlantaFlorist.com)
> Create a Website for that Domain Name
> and either
> 1) sell Links on the Site to many who
> already have a site
> example: www.AtlantaFlorists.com (like a
> Directory of Florists
> in Atlanta) Help those with existing sites
> get more traffic.
> (You can get $185 to $295 a year for each
> Link)
> 2) sell the site (including the Domain) to
> ONE business
> ex: www.AtlantaFlorist.com (You could get
> $1000 to $2000
> initial and $1000/yr forever as a yearly
> "hosting fee")

> I've done both of the above AND...I just got
> an email from a guy
> who owns a HUGE site called "World
> Profit".

> Dr Jeffrey Lant is now having his team if
> techies create websites
> for Domains and is "selling"
> (actually renting) the sites INCLUDING
> the Domain Names for $2500 first year and
> $1000 every year
> thereafter. And his names are, in MY
> opinion...crapola.

> Here's part of the email he sends out;
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++
> YOUR PROFESSIONALLY DESIGNED WEBSITE IS
> READY FOR YOU TO MOVE INTO
> NOW. Get it at
> http://www.trafficcenter.com/properties
> WORLDPROFIT AND ONLY WORLDPROFIT IS CHANGING
> THE WAY THE
> INTERNET WORKS. We’ve done it before and
> we’re doing it again,
> leading the way w/ what people worldwide
> want.

> Check out the e-inventory at
> http://www.trafficcenter.com/properties Now
> for the first time EVER on the ‘net, you can
> move into a
> professionally designed website WITHIN 24
> HOURS! NO WAITING!

> Select the property you like. It’s just like
> selecting a house in
> the real world, only in the real world you
> can’t move in in a day!

> Select from either the de luxe ULTIMATE HOME
> HOME BUSINESS PACKAGES
> or the economy BUSINESS STARTER PACKAGES.

> Each "pre-built" is UNIQUE! WHEN
> IT’S GONE IT’S GONE, SO MAKE
> YOUR SELECTION TODAY!
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++

> He has sold about 15 websites the last week
> at $2500 a whack. Click
> the Link below and check it out.

> I am NOT connected with World Profit in ANY
> way. Just thought I'd
> show you that someone else, besides me, has
> found a way to do make
> money selling websites and Domain Names.

> Come up with a GOOD Domain Name for a Niche
> Market...create a
> decent (doesn't have to be great) site for
> it...then send
> postcards to some of those in the Niche
> saying,

> "I've Created a WebSite for YOU! This
> site is for sale and ready
> to move into TODAY! First one who orders
> it...gets it! Go Up and
> Take a Look at www.AtlantaFlorist.com
> "

> This REALLY gets the ol' greed glands
> workin'. Depending on how
> competitive the Niche is...it could take an
> hour to a couple days
> to sell the site.

> Give it a try. You COULD have 100 people
> paying YOU $500 to$1000
> a year...forever.

> Don Alm

>
> -------------------------------------------------

> No! No! No!
> Get your mind OFF the
> "Internet-Marketing-Home-Business-Wealth-Money".com
> area!

> THIS market has been over-saturated with
> every kind of cocamamie "technique,
> method, domain name, keyword domain, keyword
> STUFFED domain...etc!

> Get your mind into the REAL world of local
> business people who won't buy the
> hype of "Internet Wealth Building
> Techniques" or any other poppy-****
> "money-
> making seeker", which includes over 90%
> of the "Biz-Op" and
> "Newbie" crowd have
> come to look for.

> Look for markets of ACTUAL business people
> looking to seriously make some
> money with their websites.

> Staying with "photography.com" as
> an example; It doesn't bother me that
> someone
> else has that name locked up...MORE power to
> them that they got it before I
> did! BUT...does this MINOR item prevent
> people like ME from pursuing this
> "Making Money with Keywords) thing from
> happening?

> No way, Jose!

> SO WHAT that that Domain is taken...use a
> little brain power to say to yourself
> ..."Hey self! Is their a Domain Name
> out there that I could lock up that would
> HELP photograhers get MORE biz?

> Now, granted, I would develope a website for
> THIS Keyword Domain...and I would
> also tell my potential buyers (Leasees. I
> never "sell" sites but prefer to
> get
> a "Set-Up Fee" and a Monthly
> amount per year...which, if they pay yearly
> in
> advance for, they can save 1-month payment)
> ....that THEY would also have to advertise
> THIS "Keyword Domain" to their
> Niche Market.

> For example...(Understand, I am NOT charging
> you a penny to pick-MY-brain...
> but I am feeling especially benevolent this
> eve due to some good fortune coming
> my way because of a "good deed" I
> did a month ago. It's called "What Goes
> Around-Comes Around"...or...do UNTO
> others as YOU would like to did UNTO!)

> Watch THIS...see how MY brain works;
> Take our present subject of
> "Photography".
> Put YOURSELF into the shoes of someone in
> YOUR area...looking for a
> "Photographer" (Maybe for an
> upcoming wedding...or a retirement party or
> bar
> mitzfah...business function or whatever)

> WHAT are the WORDS they would type into a
> search engine OR, as is now true in
> 15% or the "OnLine
> Searchers"...they are typin what
> they're looking for
> DIRECTLY into the "Location Bar"
> at the top of their browser...to SAVE TIME!
> ...and, guess what....they've found that,
> MOST of the time, by typing into
> the Location Bar they CAN find sites that
> give them the info they want WITHOUT
> ALL THE CLICKING HASSLE they have to go thru
> to get info from their favorite
> search engine!!!

> Lets say someone in your area wants to find
> a wedding photographer;
> They'd type in the words (either in the
> Location Bar OR a search engine)...
> ROSEBURGPHOTOGRAPHERS.COM...or
> PHOTOGRAPHERSROSEBURG.COM

> Now Ken...IF you are still following me on
> this...you will see WHAT I have
> just done!

> YOU...and I can't blame you for it...it was
> what MOST salespeople I have ever
> known made a HUGE mistake doing...which is
> to THINK TOO BIG, FIRST! You look
> for the BIG BONANZA, instead of thinking
> "let's go small until proven, THEN
> we can blast-off and go for the WORLD!"
> Your "Greed Glands" get a pumping
> where you can't think straight.

> It never ceased to amaze me as to how
> salesmen, even after I warned them NOT
> TO...would always go out and try and get the
> LARGEST accounts they could find
> ....the CHAIN of 200 stores...the guy who
> owned 7 dealerships...etc....when I
> told them specifically NOT TO! I told them
> to get some confidence built-up in
> themselves by getting some individual, small
> accounts FIRST!

> And...sure enough...the ones who went after
> the BIG accounts (where it would
> take MONTHS of contacting and being filtered
> to office after offce and still
> NO deal)...got disenchanted and were forced
> to leave...whereas the ones who
> got first one small account...then
> another...etc...and AFTER they got some
> experience and confidence under their
> belts...gave the BIG accounts a shot
> (part-time because they KNEW WHERE their
> bread was buttered)....did, in fact,
> LAND the BIG accounts.

> But they had their PRIORITIES straight.

> So...my round about way of giving YOU (and
> maybe some others) insight into
> this "Keyword Domain" discussion
> is to "take-a-chance"!...(Hey!
> LIFE is FULL
> of chances)...go up to www.000domains.com
> (The registrants I use) and for
> $13.50 (which is good for a year)...register
> "www.yourtownphotographers.com"

> Now...with an HTML Editor (I still use
> FrontPage98) create a HomePage,
> with descriptive boxes next to each...a
> total of 12 Photos.
> maybe a photo of your Town...under
> "www.yourtownphotographers.com" at
> the top.

> Underneath the Heading place a TABLE with
> spaces for SIX Columns across and
> FOUR Rows down.

> Now...in the 1st space (top left of the
> Table) place the words, "YOUR Photo
> Here".
> In the box to the right, next to it, put the
> words, "Brief Description of
> your biz HERE".
> Doing this you will wind up with 3 Photos
> across and 4 photos down with

> NOW...underneath each Photo type the words,
> "Click On Photos To Visit
> WebSites!"

> NOW...create a Link off this Home Page that
> says, "SAMPLE Photographer
> WebSite"!...and create a Sample WebSite
> for a local photographer...which
> includes a Home Page with Photographers
> Photo...some copy using their USP
> (Unique-Selling Proposition...WHY people
> should contact THEM rather than
> anyone else)...put in a few links to some of
> their Sample Photos and....

> (THIS is HOW you make money
> MARKETING)....watch this!

> Once you understand the POWER of this (it
> deals with PURE EGO and CURIOSITY)
> .....you can name your ticket!

> You send local Photographers a LARGE
> POSTCARD (8 1/2 X 5 1/2) which says....
> "I HAVE CREATED A WEBSITE FOR YOU! It
> is located on the Internet at:
> WWW.YOURTOWNPHOTOGRAPHERS.COM"
> ...If YOU would like to get more
> business...please click up there...NOW!

> So...guess what happens? They click on.
> (Those that don't give a hoot about
> the Internet or who have all the biz they
> can handle...may not check it out
> ...BUT, that is doubtful)
> So...overwhelming CURIOSITY will FORCE them
> to LOOK!

> When they do... and they see the
> "Sample Home Page" you've created
> for them
> where all they have to do is give you copy
> and a few photos (for which you
> can charge $495 set-up and AT LEAST $50/mo
> or $550 if paid in advance)...for
> their Site PLUS...they get a
> "Photo-Listing" on the MAIN PAGE
> with a LINK to
> their Home Page (which is a subfolder off
> the main Domain...
>
> www.yourtownphotographers.com/jonesphotography
> )
> AND...(here's where you use the "Law of
> Scarcity")...you are ONLY ACCEPTING
> TWELVE Local Photographers to participate!

> Now.....It's getting late and I'm pooped
> after a day of "Antiquing with my
> wife" (We went to the annual Coburg,
> Oregon Antique Show...where over 300
> antique dealers had booths to show an approx
> 20,000 people)

> So...I HOPE...I've given you some insight
> into "HOW to play this Keyword
> Domain Name" thing. Understand...you
> DON'T have to use
> "photographers"...you
> can use ANY category of biz....to appeal to
> their GREED GLANDS...AND...
> CURIOSITY!...and the LAW of SCARCITY!...to
> provide a nice income for yourself.

> I HOPE this dissertation has helped and I'm
> sorry I can't take the time now
> to answer questions on this or elucidate any
> further....just KNOW...deep
> inside yourself that:
> 1) There IS a market for "Keyword"
> Domain Names and
> 2) YOU...after some study and research CAN
> put together a "package" that
> WILL make money for YOU and HELP those who
> pay you for this service...a
> TOTAL...WIN-WIN deal!

> Thanks for reading.....I'm goin ta beddy by