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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Book: The Future of Social Commerce - Now for 99 cents! (by @baekdal) #opinion

Book: The Future of Social Commerce - Now for 99 cents! (by @baekdal) #opinion: "Regular readers will know that I do not like the 99 cent price. I have written several articles about it, including the popular "The Myth of the 99 Cent Book." In it I explain how the math just doesn't add up, and how the authors are shooting themselves in the foot.

So why am I suddenly doing exactly the one thing that I telling everyone not to do? Well ...It's a test.

Many have sent me stories about authors selling their book for 99 cents. Amanda Hocking is just one but there are many others. And each story is even more fantastic than the other. One story I received last night told of an author selling her book first at $9.99, and got almost no sale. Change it 99 cents and sold 3,000 in no time at all.

What people have been telling me is, "you don't know until you tried!"

Fair enough. I'm game. Let's try it."

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Social Advertising Where You and I Both Matter

Social Advertising Where You and I Both Matter: "Social Advertising.org is a website that is being developed to help expand the influence of other independent web developers. We hope to increase the awareness of this ever expanding niche, and help build the recognition for some of the quality contributions of the newly emerging websites and their diverse goals.
The Web World is today’s brave new world of media,"

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People Of Earth: Prepare For Economic Disaster

People Of Earth: Prepare For Economic Disaster: "The price of just about every major agricultural commodity has been absolutely soaring during the past year....

*The price of corn has doubled over the last six months.

*The price of wheat has more than doubled over the past year.

*The price of soybeans is up about 50% since last June.

*The price of cotton has more than doubled over the past year.

*The commodity price of orange juice has doubled since 2009.

*The price of sugar is the highest it has been in 30 years.

Unfortunately, the production of food in most countries around the world is very highly dependent on oil, so as oil goes up in price this is going to make the food crisis even worse.

Hold on to your hats folks."

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Late-2000s financial crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Late-2000s financial crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "many causes for the financial crisis have been suggested, with varying weight assigned by experts,[9] the United States Senate issuing the Levin–Coburn Report found "that the crisis was not a natural disaster, but the result of high risk, complex financial products; undisclosed conflicts of interest; and the failure of regulators, the credit rating agencies, and the market itself to rein in the excesses of Wall Street."[10]
Critics argued that credit rating agencies and investors failed to accurately price the risk involved with mortgage-related financial products, and that governments did not adjust their regulatory practices to address 21st-century financial markets.[11] The 1999 repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933"

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Late-2000s financial crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Late-2000s financial crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "many causes for the financial crisis have been suggested, with varying weight assigned by experts,[9] the United States Senate issuing the Levin–Coburn Report found "that the crisis was not a natural disaster, but the result of high risk, complex financial products; undisclosed conflicts of interest; and the failure of regulators, the credit rating agencies, and the market itself to rein in the excesses of Wall Street."[10]
Critics argued that credit rating agencies and investors failed to accurately price the risk involved with mortgage-related financial products, and that governments did not adjust their regulatory practices to address 21st-century financial markets.[11] The 1999 repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933"

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Some Domains I Own, and Would Sell, For the Right Price.

I read somewhere around the middle of peak domain buying days, I had read that one should not really get too attached to their domains. I suppose that my current issue might well be that even though I have gotten pretty good at developing websites fairly quickly, it really is true that every new website becomes some sort of commitment and/or obligation. Likewise buying domains is like acquiring dependents. Domains need to be cared for, utilized, nurtured. If you let them sort of just sit on some list somewhere, they sort of get old, or stale, so to speak.

That being said, and since I am so anti; giving away a huge sum of money as a commission, I thought I might just publicize a few domains, and the appraisal they have gotten:


TheHost.us
$1.9K USD
63.8M
49.4K
$1.73 USD

WordWorld.org
$1.8K USD
1.7M

If someone is interested in this domain, you need to act very very quickly! I happen to believe it is worth far more than $1,800. I honestly am not even sure if I would part with it for even 20 or 40 times its current appraised value.Yet if you have the kind of money I am trying to talk about here, I would definitely want hear from you.
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0
33.1K
$0.43 USD

wordsearch.us
word search
$1.6K USD
3.5M
9 Ads
0 Alexa
1.5K WTC Word Tracker Score
53.5K OVT
0 PR (Google Page Rank)
201.3K
$0.43 USD

SmallBizLoans.net
$1.5K USD

I am not in the loan business, yet if you are, or want to be, then you might want to be the proud owner of this domain. True it is a .net (not a dot.com) yet .net is big enough for Verizon and OptOnline.net. Also sure we do have an abbreviation (as opposed to having to spell out the word business in a longer URL) yet that is some of the charm behind this domain. I suppose I would be really happy to get 20 times it appraised value (who wouldn't be) but if your not wanting to spend that kind of money on this domain, then well since it is a .net lets talk!


Hyiplistings.com
$830 USD
44.1K
11
213
70
$0.05 USD

If you like the penny stock biz, well then this is the domain for you. Since I really do not understand the penny business so well, well I could try to come down from my usually 20 times appraisal price. If you had around $12,750 to spend on this domain, well then write me a check today!


ListYourSite.org
$820 USD
16.8M
$1.40 USD

If you really want this domain, and .org domains are even more "respected" these days as credible domains (because they do not "imply" that the whole world is "just" about money -even though these days so many people "suspect" that statement is becoming more true. Well I like this domain a lot and I have a dozens of great ideas for it.

Maybe you have a better idea for; ListYourSite.org and maybe have a little more money to actually develop it (or keep and aggressively remarket it)   Now I know that getting $80,000 for domains these days is harder than it used to be. Somehow though one still has got to believe that in the right market place this domain could net $25,000. Plenty of Web Masters need to keep finding ways to build up traffic for their websites. The keys is how you firmly utilize the .org TLD. Some people stray away from the over-all pushiness of the dot.com way.

If I was asking $50k I would understand you might think twice yet if you have a plan to execute this internet service product, which is so hot right now, then you need to get in touch with me before I rethink my bottom line offer of the 25K. Buy it quickly because I believe I might immediately come to regret parting with this domain at all.


Stephen C. Sanders
Owns above domains, has many others. Seeks serious domain buyers in the 5k-50k range.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Icravefreebies.com Site Info

Icravefreebies.com Site Info: "Summary for icravefreebies.com
Icravefreebies.com's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 99,456. It has been online for more than five years. This site has a relatively good traffic rank in the cities of Coimbatore (#297), Nagpur (#3,717), and Phoenix (#3,720). Visitors to Icravefreebies.com view 2.4 unique pages each day on average. Compared with the overall internet population, the site's users are disproportionately female, and they are disproportionately people browsing from home who have incomes between $30,000 and $60,000 and have more children"

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Thedailyreviewer.com Site Info

Thedailyreviewer.com Site Info: "Statistics Summary for thedailyreviewer.com
Thedailyreviewer.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 57,450. The site has a relatively good traffic rank in the cities of Kharkov (#3,066) and Los Angeles #28,177....

..., and the time spent in a typical visit to the site is approximately two minutes, with 58 seconds spent on each pageview. Thedailyreviewer.com has a bounce rate of roughly 70% (i.e., 70% of visits consist of only one pageview).

We estimate that 40% of visitors to the site come from the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 38,416."

Israel-catalog.com Site Info

Israel-catalog.com Site Info: "Statistics Summary for israel-catalog.com
Israel-catalog.com is ranked #946,644 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings, and the site has been online since 2001. The site has a bounce rate of about 52% (i.e., 52% of visits consist of only one pageview). Visitors to it spend about 48 seconds on each pageview and a total of four minutes on the site during each visit. Search engines refer roughly 27% of visits to Israel-catalog.com"

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

If Your IN The NYC Area And You Like $$$ or?

Treehugger.com Site Info

Treehugger.com Site Info: "Blog dedicated to the green lifestyle. News, reviews, and links.

Statistics Summary for treehugger.com
Treehugger.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 3,469. It has been online for more than nine years. The site belongs to the “Weblogs” category of sites. Visitors to Treehugger.com spend about 53 seconds on each pageview and a total of two minutes on the site during each visit. Search engines refer approximately 20% of visits to this site"

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Israel-catalog.com Site Info

Israel-catalog.com Site Info: "Statistics Summary for israel-catalog.com
Israel-catalog.com is ranked #990,546 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings, and the site has been online since 2001. The site has a bounce rate of about 53% (i.e., 53% of visits consist of only one pageview). Visitors to it spend about 45 seconds on each pageview and a total of four minutes on the site during each visit. Search engines refer roughly 31% of visits to Israel-catalog.com"

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Social Networking Sites

Social Networking Sites: " qzone 0 10 http://qzone.qq.com/ 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
8 ravelry 6 5603 http://www.ravelry.c 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
9 renren 0 88 http://renren.com/ 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
10 researchgate 7 16845 http://researchgate. 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
11 reverbnation 6 1665 http://www.reverbnat 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
12 ryze 7 37760 http://www.ryze.com/ 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
13 sciencestage 5 108499 http://sciencestage. 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
14 scispace 6 19968592 http://scispace.net/ 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
15 sharethemusic 4 721549 http://www.sharethem 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
16 shelfari 0 27903 http://www.shelfari. 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
17 skyrock 6 456 http://skyrock.com/ 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
18 socialvibe 7 92985 http://www.socialvib 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
19 sonico 0 1645 http://www.sonico.co 0 0 01:39 pm GMT Report issue
20 stickam 6 6162 http://www.stickam.c 0 0 01:39 pm GM"

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

IP Daily.biz

IP Daily.biz: "fixtheworld.us us english Society 10500000 2520 29838196 29778036 [fix the world] low 0.05 325 0
peoplepix.us us english Society — People 63600 52000 23353780 21982677 [people pix] low 0.05 57 0
frumads.net net english Food — Alcohol 0 6 23395180 22030918 [f rum ads] low 0.05 0 0
sanweb.biz biz english Internet — Websites 36700 4800 23160044 21676368 [san web] low 0 0 0
greatwebsites.us us Unknown Internet — Websites 440000 10200 19419236 17941836 [great websites] low 1.7 6750 3625
freefind.us us Unknown Internet — Search 2750000 2750000 19418496 17941096 [freefind] medium 0.9 325 262
buy-my-domain.biz biz Unknown Shopping 670000 71000 18587092 21718598 [buy my domain] low 0.05 57 34
writersnetwork.info info english Art — Writing 182000 3790 15456267 13917355 [writers network] low 1.17 900 737"

Todaysclouds.blogspot.com Site Info

Todaysclouds.blogspot.com Site Info: "TodaysClouds.com 


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They just kind of float in, and float by. Call it technical or beautiful or just whatever you want it to be.

Statistics Summary for todaysclouds.blogspot.com
There are 1,378,842 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Todaysclouds.blogspot.com. The site is based in the US. This site belongs to the “Blogger” category. The site's visitors view 2.9 unique pages each day on average. Todaysclouds.blogspot.com is relatively popular among users in the city of New York (where it is ranked #35,953)."

Monday, October 10, 2011

Ipdailybiz.blogspot.com Site Info

Ipdailybiz.blogspot.com Site Info: "IP Daily.biz 


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IP Daily.biz- daily blogging about whats the buzz in the web world. social media, intellectual property, website development, and up and coming ideas.

Statistics Summary for ipdailybiz.blogspot.com
There are 1,015,472 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Ipdailybiz.blogspot.com. The site is located in the US. Almost all visitors to the site come from the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 187,108. Visitors to Ipdailybiz.blogspot.com view 4.1 unique pages each day on average. The site's content places it in the “Blogger” category of websites."

[UPDATE] New Banner Plane Buzzes Wall Street, This Time With Rhyme! : Gothamist

[UPDATE] New Banner Plane Buzzes Wall Street, This Time With Rhyme! : Gothamist: "The latest hot trend in aviation appears to be hiring pilots to fly by Wall Street with economy-related messages. On Tuesday afternoon a St. Louis investment banker and single mom hired a small plane to fly by the Financial District with a banner that read, "THANKS FOR THE DOWNGRADE. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED." Today another plane follows in her flight path, with a more opaque message: "Downgrade hurts but USD no Ruble. Always be Frugal." "

Pixelresort.com | Design By Michael Flarup

Pixelresort.com | Design By Michael Flarup: "As we slide into a new decade what better time is there to take stock of your career and set some goals for the coming year? Here’s a few of my New Year’s Resolutions. I feel they might be quite universal for many graphic designers out there."

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Sunday, October 9, 2011

How To Value Generic Domain Names - with Andrew Rosener

How To Value Generic Domain Names - with Andrew Rosener: "Over 1 million members rely on DomainTools to protect and grow the value of their web sites, their domain names and their intellectual property on a daily basis.
David E. Weslow, Attorney at Law – provides legal representation for clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 500 companies in relation to domain name transactions and disputes, trademark and copyright claims, and web hosting and content liability issues. A former software and web developer, he regularly assists clients with cutting-edge issues involving law and technology."

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Invent-a-venture.blogspot.com Site Info

Invent-a-venture.blogspot.com Site Info: "Invent-A-Venture 


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Part of an innovative program to provide "pre-launch" services for domains which are being rated prior to funding and subsequent development.

Statistics Summary for invent-a-venture.blogspot.com
Invent-a-venture.blogspot.com is ranked #1,723,940 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Almost all visitors to it come from the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 287,819, and the site is located in the US. Invent-a-venture.blogspot.com has a relatively good traffic rank in the city of New York (#30,520). The site is in the “Blogger” category"

Thursday, October 6, 2011

The SEO Engine | Software Technology | Transparent Search Engine

The SEO Engine | Software Technology | Transparent Search Engine: "88% of online search dollars are spent on paid results, even though 85% of searchers click on organic results.

— Vanessa Fox, "Marketing in the Age of Google", May 3, 2010"

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Certified Companies - SEO Engine

Certified Companies - SEO Engine: "Be Found Online Pat Garlock pat@befoundonline.com 877-55-FOUND (36863)
Quenzel & Associates Colleen Quenzel seoengine@quenzel.com 239.226.0040
Incutio Ltd Andy Piggott info@incutio.com 01978 661666
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